Manoli Despines Movies

The Giver Gives to Give is a black and white silent film starring a clown in search of a stage, an audience, a friend.

The surreal state of childhood perception is evoked in this 35mm portrait of a mischievous duo running amok in the Czech countryside.

A college student named Max recounts his childhood memories from the late 1990s, in which he becomes best friends with a boy named Arthur. As Max and...