New Yorker Video (Firm)
1) Voyages
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
From Poland to Paris to Tel Aviv, an intimate and personal story of the quests of three contemporary Jewish women whose lives and intertwining destinies create a moving and poignant story of survival.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Ariel is a young man who lives in a Jewish working-class section of Buenos Aires. Since his father went missing in the war, his mother Sonia and brother Joseph work in the shopping and business district. With no interest in school or work, Ariel just ends up hangin out. He finally gets motivated by the idea of moving to Poland, so asks his grandmother, an ex-girlfriend, and Rabbi Benderson for help.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
日本語
Description
Finding his wife in bed with another man, Takuro Yamashita murders her, serves an eight year prison sentence, and then moves to a small town to begin life anew as a barber. When he hires a young woman as his assistant, her past collides with his to the detriment of all.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Pascale lives with her adult twin sons in a renovated Belgian farmhouse. Each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. Both boys pursue their respective interests, but neither seems compelled to embrace adulthood or the responsibilities that come with it. Pascale falls in love again and dreams of a new life for herself and her lover. Her dream is to own a countryside B & B. But what would seemingly be a happy time...
7) Orfeu
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Portuguese
Description
In Carioca Hill, a dangerous slum in Rio de Janiro, Orfeu, a charismatic and beloved samba musician, leads his school each year in the Carnaval parade, refusing to abandon the slums where he was raised. When Orfeu falls in love with Euridice, an Indian girl visiting her aunt in Carioca Hill, he arouses the jealousy of his fiery mistress, forgotten lovers and childhood friend Lucinho, the community's brooding drug lord.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A snow lion is a mythic beast of Tibetan legend. As a protector of the nation, the snow lion is emblazoned on the Tibetan flag. Today the Tibetan flag is outlawed in its own homeland. Ten years in the making, filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are powerfully chronicled through riveting personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images...
9) Earth
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Hindi
Description
A romantic drama set in 1947 in Lahore before India and Pakistan became independent, where Hindu, Sikh, Parsee, and Muslim share a peaceful co-existence. Events are seen from the point of view of eight-year-old Lenny, a girl from an affluent Parsee family. Lenny's nanny, Shantya, is involved with the Muslim Masseur. When a train of Muslims arrives at the local depot and all the passengers are found murdered, the various sects turn against each other,...
10) Take my eyes
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
A terrified Pilar hastily flees from her husband Antonio's rage in the middle of the night with her young son as if her life depends on it. Reaching her sister Ana's house, Pilar breaks down in turmoil. Banging on Ana's front door is Pilar's husband, Antonio, who in a fit of rage screams for Pilar to return home. With Ana's support, Pilar is determined to save herself from Antonio's rage. Yet the very passionate Antonio is far from a one-dimensional...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Korean
Description
Two friends meet after being apart for years- one in the United States studying film, and the other a professor at a university. When they start talking they realize they both loved the same woman, and decide to go find her to see if any sparks fly.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
p2001
Language
Español
Description
An idealistic young Cuban Communist sours on the political conditions in his country and is willing to let his girlfriend and family go to take action.
Un hombre cubano joven idealista llega a un acuerdo con sus pasiones politica y romanticas en medio de las ruinas de la revolucion cubano.
13) La promesse
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1996
Language
Français
Description
The life of a fifteen-year old, raised by his father as a petty criminal, changes forever when he makes a promise to a dying man that comes into conflict with his loyalty to his father.
14) Lost in Beijing
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
An-kun works washing the windows of the capital city's skyscrapers while his wife Ping-guo earns a decent wage as a masseuse at a popular parlor. The parlor is owned by Dong, a rich middle-aged businessman who epitomizes China's new money-obsessed society. Their worlds collide after Dong awkwardly forces himself on a vulnerable Ping-guo, not realizing that An-kun, atop his perch outside the office window, is witnessing everything. Seeing this as a...
15) Life and debt
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
Jamaica became an independent country from Great Britain in 1962. It is the land of sea, sand and sun ... but it is also a prime example of the complexities of economic globalization on the world's developing countries. Effectively portrays the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of international lending agencies while driving home the devasting consequences of globalization.
16) Underground
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Serbian
Description
A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become suspicious, and break out of their underground "shelter"--Only...
17) Vodka lemon
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Armenian
Description
A small Armenian village faces tough times after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hamo is a widower with a small military pension and three useless sons. While making one of his daily visits to his wife's grave he meets Nina and the two begin to date.
Publisher
Office Kitano
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In the industrial city of Datong in Shanxi province, the most dramatic events in the lives of the post 1980 generation take place on TV. Xiao Ji and Bin Bin are jobless, best friends who spend their limitless free time hanging around a pool hall, tooling around on mopeds, and coveting the American dollars that will get them out of their rut. Xiao Ji is interested in Qiao Qiao, a traveling dancer shilling for Mongolian King Liquor, but she can't escape...
19) Belle toujours
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Thirty-eight years after their last encounter, Henri thinks he sees Severine. He blackmails her into seeing him by threatening to tell her dark secret, and slowly gets revenge on her. A sequel to the 1967 classic Belle de jour.