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41) In Syria
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Trapped inside her house in a city under siege, a mother of three turns her flat into a safe fortress for her family and neighbours in an attempt to protect them from the war outside.
42) Eldorado
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
When Yvan, a quick-tempered 40-year-old vintage car dealer, catches young burglar and ex-junkie Elie trying to rob him, Yvan becomes strangely attached to Elie and agrees to drive him home to his parents in his old Chevrolet, leading to a bizarre journey through Belgium for the two loners.
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 12
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
"It's 1988, and Melo, an Uruguayan town on the Brazilian border, awaits the visit of Pope John Paul II. 50,000 people are expected to attend, and the most humble locals believe that selling food and drink to the multitude will just about make them rich. Petty smuggler Beto thinks he has the best idea of all--he decides he will build a WC in front of his house and charge for its use. His efforts bring about unexpected consequences, and the final results...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Danish
Description
Teddy Bear: Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year old body builder, would like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a woman from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a visit to Pattaya as it seems love is easier to find there. Knowing his mother would never accept another woman in his life, he lies and tells her he is going to Germany for a competition. Pattaya...
45) Spare parts
Series
Film Movement volume year 3, film 11
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Slovenian
Description
Hard-drinking, chain-smoking Ludvik spends his nights smuggling illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. Together they cope with life in a rundown town, home to the only nuclear power plant in former Yugoslavia.
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Lost memory, Andreas wonders into a city. The people around him seems to have emotion problems, he tries to escape but finds no way out. Some beautiful music streams out from a crack Andrea and his friend found, but where does the music come from?
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 6
Pub. Date
[2006], 2003.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Tamil
Description
A little girl's search for her biological mother takes the family to strife-torn Sri Lanka.
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 8
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
日本語
Description
On the campus of a university in Tokyo, students are about to start shooting their movie The bored murderer. Everyone is in a rush to prepare for the shoot, but the lead actor drops out suddenly and the team is forced to search for a replacement. The film unfolds, using the production of the student film as a tool to examine the modern youth of Japan. Everything comes to a head in an unexpected and tumultuous climax. Short film: The Korean War, 1951....
49) A simple curve
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 12
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Caleb is a charming small-town entrepreneur determined to keep his woodworking shop afloat in spite of the relentless idealism of his business partner and father, aging hippie draft-dodger Jim. When wealthy American Matthew arrives, Caleb sees a chance to turn his fortunes around provided he can keep Jim distracted long enough. Juggling mounting debts, freeloading hippie houseguests, and a budding love life, Caleb strikes a sescret deal with Matthew...
50) The window
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 6
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
While waiting for his estranged son's visit, 80 year old Antonio walks in his fields, reminiscing about his life.
Seventy: talks about the loneliness that many elderly people experience nowadays.
51) Vasermil
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
עברית
Description
The film is named after the local football stadium located in the town of Be'er Sheva' in southern Israel. Vasermil tells the story of three teenagers of different ethnicities who live in the same tough neighborhood, growing up in an unforgiving environment, pinning their hopes on football as a way out. And in order to win, Shlomi, Adiel and Dima, each with their own set of adversities, will have to learn to play as a team and overcome their differences....
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Portuguese
Description
In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the white world. Upon discovering an abandoned house...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 7
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy about the barriers facing lovers in the 21st century.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], 2013.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In this madcap and lighthearted comedic romp, introverted optometrist Weichung begins to question his marriage with his wife Feng, upon learning of her desire to have another baby. At his sister's engagement party, Weichung bumps into an old friend, Stephen, a wedding photographer who, though also married, is living the high life of a younger, single gay man. When Stephen teases Weichung for his newly straightlaced lifestyle, dormant emotions are...
55) Buddy
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 9
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Norwegian
Description
"Kristoffer's love life is on the rocks. But what can you expect from a guy who likes to videotape himself and his friends pulling outrageous stunts? When Kristoffer's video diary winds up at a popular TV show, it's not just his love life that turns upside down. A vibrant young cast explores the true meaning of friendship and love in a heart-warming story about high jinks, crazy roommates and reality television"--Container.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 5
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A comedy drama about two parentally neglected teenagers, Placid Lake and Gemma, who find the courage to believe in themselves.
57) In love we trust
Series
Film Movement volume Year 7, film 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In order to save their daughter, who is suffering from cancer of the blood, a divorced couple must have another child. As both have remarried, they must put their current relationships in jeopardy to test their love and commitment to one another.
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 4
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Czech
Description
Petr travels from Prague. The "gifted young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son. When the teacher's ex-boyfriend comes to visit from the city, he quickly realizes that nobody in the village knows that the teacher is gay nand harbors a secret affection for the teenage boy."--Container. The companion movie, "Petr and Ben," is a "touchy...
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 7
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Romanian
Description
The way I spent the end of the world: Bucharest 1989, the last year of Ceaușescu's dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceaușescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania...
60) August the first
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The morning of Tunde's graduation party things have already begun to unravel. Tunde has managed to alienate his sister, Simisola. His older brother, Ade, persistently plagues him with criticism, and their mother has started drinking again. Unbeknownst to most, Tunde has orchestrated the return of his long estranged father, resurrecting unresolved family anguish against the backdrop of Tunde's celebration.
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