Slow Cinema Movies

Valentino wanders through the city like an apparition, ensnared in the liminal space between nostalgia and departure. His camera fragments reality...

A woman returning home after having a sour day decides to sleep.

Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike is Zefier's third film.

Jean Bonnard, clean-cut industrialist and the only son of a widow, goes to visit his mother in the small village where she lives. However, early in...

A seemingly mundane evening in suburbia is disrupted by an unforeseen event.

Anna is thinking of quitting sex work. She hears screaming from out the window.

Beyond the borders of the waking world lie strange dream-realms, where star forms transmit rainbows and aqueous flowers birth moon-pearls. Toby...

A lone man wanders through a silent, ruined world, searching the remnants of abandoned homes and forgotten places. When he arrives at a collapsed...

Haru, a bookstore clerk, talks to Yukiko pretending to ask for directions. Haru has detected deep sorrow on Yukiko's face. Meanwhile, Haru has been...

A vlogger's bid for virality leads her to experiment with a depression-inducing pill, all while she grapples with the aftermath of her fractured...

In a closed room, a man prepares for the arrival of an unknown figure who brings eternal rapture.

Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan, Garoto follows a young couple who find themselves in an enchanted place...

Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer's journey through the lives,...

Lola's Rainbow is a film about the mundanity of life. It's about feeling trapped in the everyday cycle of repetition. The rainbow is symbolic for...

A day home alone during the summer of my freshman year of college.

Once the beating heart of Beijing’s steel industry, Shougang was a leviathan forged from iron and fire. Its blast furnaces once echoed with...

On a voyage into the dark, we follow a man portraying an intens dialogue with the subconscious. A vignette into the process of looking inward,...

A young man looks for a way out

The main protagonists of this slow-paced film are abandoned or suspended spaces associated with the production, distribution, and viewing of cinema...