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21) Gregory's Girl
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A new 2K restoration of the second feature from the director of Local Hero, Bill Forsyth. Sixteen year old Gregory is an awkward, gangly Scottish lad who is in the midst of the throngs of puberty. The object of his affection is Dorothy, despite or in part because she is a talented striker who took his place on the school's boys' football team, he now demoted to distracted goalkeeper. Gregory tries to insinuate himself as much as possible in her life...
22) Jasper Jones
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting and moving Australian coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishheart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1969, Charlie defeats the local racists,...
23) Ilo ilo
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], 2013.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.
24) Somers Town
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 8
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tomo, just turned sixteen, and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely dificult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive. He is not comfortable in his father's world. Both struggle to make sense of their new world, and a chance meeting in Somers Town, London leads the two...
25) Noise
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Noise: Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling. As the local community enfolds itself in a shroud of secrecy, borne from fear and an untrammeled mistrust of authority, the police remain desperate for witnesses. Graham McGahan, a young police constable suffering from a chronic hearing problem, is stationed at a police caravan near the crime scene. Living on the periphery of the investigation, McGahan crosses paths with the people affected...
26) Fraulein
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 8
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Fraulein is the story of two Balkan refugees. Reza owns a restaurant and has lived in Switzerland for 25 years. Ana is a Bosnian who breezes into Reza's life and injects both joy and discontent. Happiness describes a Polish American woman who buys a box of happiness in a store and cannot decide what to do with it.
27) Hospitalité
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
日本語
Description
Hospitalité: Mikio Kobayashi lives quietly with his wife, daughter, and divorced sister in downtown Tokyo, where xenophobic neighbors insist they attend community watch meetings, and the only recent excitement is the disappearance of a pet parrot. One day Kagawa appears, claiming to be the son of a financier who once helped Kobayashi's company. Kagawa soon ingratiates himself as a live-in employee and proceeds to comically turn the Kobayashi's monotonous...
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Bursting with idealism, Melanie Pröschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city; however, things don't go quite as she planned. She had hoped to be a 'fresh breeze' to the school, but her colleagues are annoyed by her new teaching methods. Not only that, Melanie hasn't one friend in her new town. Tr ying not to get discouraged, she attempts to form a relationship with her neighbor Tina. As Melanie's...
30) Anytown USA
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 12
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
"A funny and eye-opening look into a hard-fought mayoral race between a legally blind, blunt-speaking, conservative Republican incumbent, a retired Democrat brought back into the fray and a legally blind write-in candidate, in the small town of Bogota, New Jersey."--Container.
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Young Manuel lives with his hard-working farmer parents in the remote, mountainous region of the Colombian countryside. While the adults in their lives try to avoid both the armed military and the guerrilla rebels fighting each other in the area, Manuel and his friend Julián are obsessed with playing soccer any chance they get. Shortly after his birthday, the new ball Manuel received as a gift gets kicked off to a minefield, and he and his friends...
32) Glory: [Slava]
Series
Film Movement volume 15, film 8
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Bulgarian
Description
"Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of leva [Bulgarian currency] on the train tracks. He decides to turn the money over to the police, for which the state rewards him with a new wristwatch that soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, head of the PR department of the Ministry of Transport, loses Petrov's old watch, a family relic. Here starts his desperate struggle to recover both his old watch and his dignity."--Publisher's website....
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 7
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Norwegian
Description
A quirky romantic drama set in remote coastal Norway takes the viewer on a tumultuous ride through surfing aspirations, extreme weather and love. Three friends, a love triangle and the quest for the perfect wave.
34) Mother of mine
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 4
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Finnish
Description
When nine-year-old Eero's father is killed at the beginning of World War II his mother, broken by grief, is unable to care for him. She sends Eero out of Finland to live with a family in Sweden, away from the conflict. Feeling abandoned by his biological Finnish mother, he cannot quite attach to his Swedish surrogate mother. When the war ends, and he returns to his mother in Finland, his confusion intensifies.
Uncle: Biography of a humble man, retold...
35) Breathe
Series
Film Movement volume 14, film 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Charlie is seventeen and bored. Her estranged parents are too caught up in their own drama to pay her much attention. Enter Sarah, a confident and charismatic new transfer student who brings with her an alluring air of boldness and danger. The two form an instant connection, and through shared secrets, love interests and holiday getaways their relationship deepens to levels of unspoken intimacy.
36) Men at work
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 10
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen.
Language
Persian
Description
"A comedy about four old friends who, driving back from a failed ski trip, encounter a strange and enormous rock by the side of the road above a lake. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat and renewed hope."--Container.
37) Lake Tahoe
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
After crashing the family car teen-age Juan embarks on a one-day hourney to find help fixing it.
38) Hawaii, Oslo
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of desperate people whose paths cross on the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Frode and Milla have their first child, but learn he will not live long without an expensive operation they cannot afford. Bobbie-Pop is a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. Leon is an institutionalized mental patient, who hopes to keep a 10-year-old date on his birthday with his teenage sweetheart. Leon's brother, Trygve, gets...
39) The auction
Series
Film Movement volume 12, film 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A man of few words, Gaby manages his family's farm--Buchard & Sons--on his own, despite his advancing age. With no actual sons to speak of and his two grown daughters living far away in the big city, he spends his days tending to the animals and land that surround him, eschewing modern technology and most social interactions. When his eldest daughter, Marie, appears at the family homestead to share news that she's finally getting divorced and in desperate...
40) Troubled water
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 11
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Jan, recently released from prison after serving time for the murder of a child, has always maintained his innocence and is ready to put the past behind him. A gifted organist, he takes a job at an Oslo church under his middle name, Thomas. His talent and gentle manner quickly earn him the respect of his superiors, as well as the love of the pastor, Anna, and her little boy, Jens. But his past catches up with him when Agnes, a local teacher, comes...
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