Movies and TvShows featuring "epistolary" theme.

A writer in New York develops a close relationship with a bookseller in London through letters, sparking a lifelong friendship.

Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of langauge, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after first meeting, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship exploring the nature of skin, family, death, water, desire and, throughout, a powerful will to form. Akbari looks into the connection between her body and the political history of Iran, investigating the relationship between her own physical traumas and the collective political memory of her birthplace. As she undergoes surgeries on a body decimated by cancer, remembrance and reconstruction provide a framework for investigating how bodies are traumatised, censored and politicized, and yet ultimately remain a site of possibility.

News from Home is a documentary film that explores daily life in New York City through urban exploration and footage. It provides a glimpse into the mundane routines and experiences of its inhabitants, offering a feminist perspective on the city's street life, traffic, and subway cars. The film adopts an essay-film style and incorporates correspondence in the form of letters from home. With long tracking shots and a focus on the city's vanishing aspects, it captures the essence of New York City and its urban landscape.

A recent widow named Camille falls into a strange, long-distance courtship with a librarian named Delphine, her dead husband's first wife.

An epistolary feature film: a cinematic discourse between a British director Mark Cousins, and an Iranian actress and director Mania Akbari which extends the concept of "essay film" with startling confrontations in the arenas of cultural issues, gender politics and differing artistic sensibilities. A unique journey into the minds of two exceptional filmmakers which becomes a love affair on film.