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Publisher
Alliance Atlantis
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Salvatore, a successful film maker, receives news of the death of his old friend Alfredo, and returns to his village for the first time in 30 years. He recalls how, as a wide-eyed altar boy, he became friends with Alfredo, the projectionist at the parish cinema.
Series
Criterion collection volume 229
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Swedish
Description
An inside look at the events leading to the disintegration of what everyone considered to be a perfect marriage.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Lynn is the most meticulous chambermaid in her hotel, leaving no shelf undusted, no sheet untucked. Crippled by shyness, she rummages through guests' belongings and even hides under their beds, vicariously experiencing their conversations, meals and discreet interludes. After clandestinely observing an S&M session, Lynn discovers the phone number of the call girl, Chiara. Bold and unrestrained, Chiara soon draws Lynn out of her shell, opening her...
5) In the Fade
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Golden Globe® Winner for best foreign language film. Katja’s family is killed in a terrorist attack and her life falls apart. The killers are set free and Katja can do nothing else but seek justice.
6) Jaber
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
A peek into the creativity of Jaber al Mahjoub, a street artist, originally from Tunisia and now living in Paris, France. Encouraged at an early age by the French artist Jean Dubuffet, Jaber calls himself the “Happy Idiot,” obsessively making paintings, sculptures and songs that express the immediacy of life and experience. Jaber himself is Art Brut.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, THERE IS NO EVIL is an anthology film comprising four moral tales about men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice – to follow orders to enforce the death penalty, or resist and risk everything. Whatever they decide, it will directly or indirectly affect their lives, their relationships, and their consciences. Says director Mohammad Rasoulof: "As responsible citizens, do we have a choice when enforcing...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
日本語
Description
From visionary director Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Time of Eve) comes PATEMA INVERTED, a perspective-twisting sci-fi adventure about two kids separated by opposite gravities. Patema lives in an underground world of tunnels, the long-abandoned ruins of a giant industrial complex. Though she is a princess, she is held back by the rules imposed by the elders of her clan. One day when she is exploring in a forbidden zone, she is startled by a strange bat-like...
9) Wild Men
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Danish
Description
In a desperate attempt to cure his midlife crisis, MARTIN has fled his family to live high up in the Norwegian mountains. Hunting and gathering like his ancestors did thousands of years ago.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Swedish
Description
Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, the result of a Swedish studio’s invitation to her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an arrogant ex-revolutionist German intellectual exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s...
11) Rutas en febrero
Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Still mourning the death of her father, Sarah travels from Montreal to a sleepy village in rural Uruguay to visit her paternal grandmother, Magda. Over a decade ago, Sarah and her parents left Uruguay and never returned. But as soon as Sarah arrives, a quiet unease forms. Magda doesn’t understand why her son never returned to see her and must now live with the fact that he never will. The tension comes as a surprise to Sarah, who must face the distance...
13) The Green Years
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Never before released in the US, Paulo Rocha’s debut feature THE GREEN YEARS, gloriously shot in black and white, is an extraordinary and haunting coming-of-age tale. Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, the two begin a tentative romance until the realities of the outside world come crashing...
14) Pili
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
PILI lives in rural Tanzania, working the fields for less than {dollar}1 a day to feed her two children and struggling to manage her HIV-positive status in secret.
15) Inversion
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Persian
Description
Tehran's air pollution has reached maximum levels because of thermal inversion. Unmarried 30- something Niloofar lives with her aged mother, and stays busy with her alterations shop. When doctors insist that her mother must leave smoggy Tehran for her respiratory health, Niloofar’s brother and family elders decide that she must also move away to accompany her mother. Niloofar is torn between family loyalty and living her own life and pursuing a...
16) Magic Alps
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An Afghan refugee arriving in Italy to seek asylum brings the immigration system to a grinding halt when he includes his beloved goat in the application. Based on a true story.
17) Longing
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
עברית
Description
Ariel, a well-off, childless man gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely boy. The second thing will make Ariel explore the hidden aspects of parenthood and change his life forever. Nominated for multiple prizes and winner of Best Screenplay at the **Awards of the Israeli Film Academy.** Winner of...
18) Love Street
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Cuca’s cozy rural life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family. The young boy’s journey unfolds like a tapestry, the animation taking on greater complexity as his small world expands. Entering civilization, industrial landscapes are inhabited by animal-machines, with barrios of decoupage streets and shop windows, and flashing neon advertisements that illuminate the night. The story...
20) The Restless One
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Part one of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade tells of the restlessness that befell the country: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries, where people dream of mermaids and whales, and unemployment is spreading. In certain places, forests burn into the night despite the falling rain; men and...
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