A-Z Film Archive

  • Volver

    Raimunda (Penรฉlope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Dueรฑas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their father. A former neighbor from their hometown reports that she has seen the…

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  • Wadjda

    Wadjda

    An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school’s Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

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  • Waitingย 

    Employees at a Bennigan’s-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan’s), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they’ll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order and enthusiastic managers who want to build the perfect wait staff. Luckily, these employees have effective revenge tactics.

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  • Wakolda

    Wakolda

    Patagonia, 1960. A German physician meets an Argentinean family and follows them on the long desert road to Bariloche where Eva, Enzo and their three children are going to open a lodging house by the Nahuel Huapi lake. This model family reawakens his obsession with purity and perfection, in particular Lilith, a 12 year-old with…

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  • Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

    A newly unemployed salaryman meets a particularly sexual woman.

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  • We Areย Theย Best!

    We Areย Theย Best!

    Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band — despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

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  • We Have a Pope

    We Have a Pope

    The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope’s fear of his…

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  • West Beirut

    In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his…

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  • Whale Rider

    On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been…

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  • What We Doย inย Theย Shadows

    What We Doย inย Theย Shadows

    Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.

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