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It’s raining on a small bookstore located between tall buildings. The water is rising and a flood is threatening. The old bookseller in the bookstore tries to save his books. He gets help from an old woman who seems to have plans on how to escape the forces of the weather...

Carl’s life runs like clockwork: every day, he goes door-to-door delivering books to a handful of loyal customers. He knows their preferences and takes pride in selecting the perfect story for each of them. But his well-ordered life is turned upside down by a cheerful nine-year-old girl, Schascha, who decides to join him on his daily book round. Schascha’s unique outlook on life helps Carl to come out of his shell and realise that his customers are so much more than just that to him. But when Carl unexpectedly loses his job, this vibrant community starts to fall apart - and it will take the power of books and all Schascha’s determination to bring them back together again.

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Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.

After learning her boyfriend and colleague was already in a relationship and about to marry another colleague, Takako quits her job and falls into a slump. Her uncle, Satoru, offers her a job and room in his used bookstore in Jinbocho. Despite her initial lack of interest, Takako is slowly drawn into the world of books through contact with the customers who frequent the store.

Set in a late-night bookstore, the story centers on three distinct love stories through the lenses of problem teens, exploited employees, and online loans, blending an immersive imaginative world with down-to-earth realism.

Jung-woo is a part-timer at a bookstore. He has a crush on Seo-yeon who works with him. One day while preparing a book gift with her heart, Seo-yeon’s old lover appears in the bookstore.

Taoist Lu Shiyi took over the late night bookstore and found it difficult to manage. Modern people are keen on electronic books. Encountered a rogue Liu Ming and his gang have entanglements. Inadvertently released the book spirit in A Chinese Ghost Story, absorbing human essence and harming the world. Liu Ming took the opportunity of playing games to confuse Li Chenyu with his sister's beauty as an online dating photo and defrauded him of equipment. Li Chenyu is deeply involved, obsessed with Liu Ming's sister, Liu Ming is sucked by the old demon grandmother in the book, the ghost Xiaoqian is Li Chenyu's previous lover, Xiaoqian turns into Liu Ming's appearance, and the love for Li Chenyu increases, and Li Chenyu is deeply involved. G

After a few years spent in France and in the West Indies, Jamil comes home as a broken man. He arrives in a bookshop in the center of colonial Tunis for a temporary job as a clerk. He is attracted to Aicha, 15 years older woman and the mother of the book shop owner Tarak.

He sighed as the clock approached midnight. kstore" open 24 hours a day that encompasses time and space. The old man from the Bai bookstore, who spent a thousand years alone, gave each reader half a cup of "night milk" as usual on a stormy night. Lao Bai sighed, As the clock was about to strike midnight. He took a deep breath as he entered the underground library. All you could hear was the sad cry and the miserable laughter of the bookstore over his head ...

The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel is the most translated Equatoguinean writer, but he had to flee the country in 2011, after starting a hunger strike denouncing the crimes of the dictatorship. Since then, he has lived in Spain, feeling that, despite the risks, he must return and fight the monster with words.

In a mysterious 24-hour bookstore, a solitary manager who has lived for a thousand years follows a nightly ritual of offering visitors a half-glass of midnight milk.

Hidden away in a corner of Kamakura is an unassuming secondhand bookstore, the Biblia Antiquarian Bookshop. Shinokawa Shioriko, the owner of the shop, is an overly shy young and beautiful woman who doesn't fit the image of a used bookstore and often has trouble interacting with customers. While customer service isn't her strong point, she more than makes up for it in other ways. Using her exhaustive knowledge and unrivaled passion for literature, she unravels the secrets and mysteries of the antiquarian books that come into her shop.

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of InD Blue, InDPanda brings you the Film Festival Edition of “Poetries From the Bookstores: Season 3”. The documentary series Poetries from the Bookstores enters its third season, with director Hou Chi-jan carefully selecting forty bookstores nestled in cities, the countryside, and outlying islands. Each uniquely styled space is captured through film as poetry instead of words, reflecting how Taiwan's over 200 independent bookstores not only house books but also foster a rich tapestry of diverse relationships and cultures. (Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival)

Each bookstore forms its own poetic landscape: gentle hands restoring old books, a bookstore owner guiding customers on herbal hikes, an eco-activist protecting mountains through reading, and a woman from a fishing community preserving local memories. Director Hou Chi-jan captures these intimate narratives through lyrical imagery, portraying 15 independent Taiwanese bookstores and preserving fading stories and quiet cultural resilience.

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Leonidas Koursoumis had worked diligently all his life in the publishing sector only to find himself unemployed and subsequently homeless a few years shy of retirement. Instead of leading him to despair, this misfortune armed him with courage and persistence, giving rise to a vision of a pioneering bookstore run by and for the homeless, which has been steadily gaining international recognition and respect. This is their story.

Made up of shantytowns and brick houses in the Yangpu District, Shanghai, the area of Dinghai Bridge hosts a busy community of workers and immigrants. Ming Zhao is one of the outsiders who chose to run a second-hand bookstore to make a living. He is affectionately known as ‘Mr. Zhao.’ However, with the decline of traditional bookstores, the disappearance of flea market culture, and the future demolition project of Dinghai Bridge, what will happen to Mr. Zhao’s journey?

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Max spends a year traveling around the world visiting beautiful, unique bookstores and speaking with experts about how to balance his content diet in order to read more.

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.

Bookstore owner Emma believes in fairy tales. Although she has yet to be swept away by prince charming, she sees real knight in shining armor potential with a new suitor, Landon. As Emma balances time with Landon and saving her bookstore with once irritating business consultant, Eric, however, she weighs storybook romance against genuine commitment. While she sorts out her feelings toward Landon and Eric, as well as toward love and romance, Emma begins to realize that fairytale endings aren't always by the book.

Young-ho doesn't have any dreams for his life. He has been studying for three years to enter a university. He decides to send a letter to his childhood friend So-yeon. But her younger sister So-hee receives the letter instead of her sick sister. So-hee writes back to Young-ho, pretending to be So-yeon. Meanwhile, So-hee takes care of her sick sister and also runs a secondhand bookstore with her mother.

In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a rich, successful architect and unhappily married to the beautiful but damaged Clara. His desire to be free of her feeds his obsession with Kimmel, a man suspected of brutally murdering his own wife. When Walter and Kimmel's lives become dangerously intertwined, a ruthless police detective becomes convinced he has found the murderer. But as the lines blur between innocence and intent, who, in fact, is the real killer?

This comical love story follows the story of A.J. Fikry, whose life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history and now his prized possession, a rare edition of Poe poems, has been stolen. He’s given up on people and even the books in his store offer another reminder that the world is changing too rapidly. But when a mysterious package arrives at the store, it gives Fikry the chance to make his life over and see things anew.

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A restless bookstore clerk in rural Idaho joins an underground art collective, forcing him to choose between his comfortable small-town roots and a daring creative path that could change everything.

Emma and Jesse are living the perfect life together, until Jesse disappears in a tragic helicopter crash on their first wedding anniversary. Four years later, Emma has found happiness again and is about to marry her best friend when Jesse resurfaces, turning her world upside down and leaving her torn between two great loves.

A young boy embarks on a quest to return a very important notebook after it was left at his grandmother's bookstore.

Readers across the world are in love with author Sally Carmichael's series of romance novels that chronicle the epic love story between a human girl and a merman. But no one knows that Sally Carmichael is really Simon Hayes, a bitter, serious novelist - and Simon would like to keep it that way. When he is forced to meet a movie star about the movie adaptation, his life of anonymity starts to crumble.

In the shadows of persecution in modern-day Iran, Layla, a determined young Bahá’í woman, and Sasan, a secular Muslim doctor, fall in love against all odds— risking imprisonment, betrayal, and heartbreak as they fight to define their truth in a society that forbids it.

It is autumn in New York. Mia, a daydreamer in her early 20s, finds herself drawn to a cozy bookstore by Anto, a whimsical bookshop clerk. Their warm and lighthearted encounter sparks an unexpected connection, prompting Mia to confront her feelings and uncertainties. Over the following weeks, she frequently passes by the bookstore, struggling with her newfound emotions. Eventually, Mia musters the courage to reconnect with Anto, setting the stage for their next chapter, together.

A brother/sister duo who run their eclectic bookstore on Cherokee street in St. Louis Mo.