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Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 8
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Russian
Description
A father sets off from Moscow with his 11-year-old son for his sister's house in Koktebel by the Black Sea. With no money, nor means of transportation, they drift through the expansive and mesmeric landscapes at the mercy of chance. For the father, the journey is an attempt to restore self-respect and win back the trust of his son. For the boy, the mythic coastal town holds the key to a new life.
62) XXY
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 5
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
The dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call 'ambiguous genitalia, ' whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice.
63) Under the bombs
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 11
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Arabic
Description
"During a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, Tony, a Christian taxi-driver, brings Zeina, a Shiite woman from Beirut, to the heart of the conflict in the country's south. While they scour the rubble of local towns for Zeina's son, they discover that despite their very different backgrounds they have much in common. During their trip through the desolate countryside, the two travelers develop a deep bond as a response to the death surrounding...
64) Key of life
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
日本語
Description
A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house--only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 11
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Romanian
Description
Silviu has only two weeks left before his release from a hostile juvenile detention center. But when his mother, who abandoned him long ago, returns to take his younger brother away--a brother Silviu raised like a son--those two weeks become an eternity. While his outcries for help fall on deaf ears, he is introduced to a beautiful social worker that he can only dream of being close to. Faced with a slew of conflicting emotions and wild with desperation,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, this film is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As she struggles...
67) The drummer
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 7
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Sid, the rebellious son of Kwan, a savage Hong Kong triad boss, escapes to Taiwan upon enraging his father's adversary, a powerful underground business leader. Hiding out in the mountains, Sid encounters a group of Zen drummers. Their mesmerizing art, rigorous training, and austere way of life pique the hostile urban young man's interest and he asks to join the group. Although Sid despises his father, he is turning out to be a younger version of...
69) Free men
Series
Film Movement volume v 10, film 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.
71) The great match
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Kazakh
Description
Three soccer fans, living in the farthest-flung corners of the planets: Mongolia, Niger and Brazil, determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The story of Kin, a young divorced mother raising her 12-year-old daughter, Mindy. When Mindy sets her sights on finding her mother a new boyfriend by using ancient Chinese magic, the results are unexpected, funny, and heart-warming.
73) Choking man
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 6
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Choking man: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this intense blend of drama and magical realism from famed music video director Steve Barron.
The boy with no name: a traditional hand-drawn animation, which mixes the macabre and innocent to tell the story of a young boy who feels lost and alone in a world he doesn't belong in.
74) Munyurangabo
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 5
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Kinyarwanda
Description
Two young men from separate tribes--one, an orphan of the Rwandan genocide looking for revenge, and the other just returning home to his family--travel from Kigali to the countryside.
75) Wilby wonderful
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A comedy focusing on the residents of a tiny island town during the course of a strange twenty-four hours.
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 5
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
עברית
Description
The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble. He is separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter, and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing, the bakery is accused of indifference, and the HR Manager is sent to the victim's hometown in Romania to make amends. Far from home, on a mission to honor a woman he didn't even know but has somehow grown to admire,...
77) The island
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 6
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Russian
Description
A parable about faith and salvation, The island combines the realities of everyday Russian life with monastic ritual and routine.
78) Gigante
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 9
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
A shy and lonely 35 year old security guard at a supermarket works the night shift monitoring the surveillance cameras. One night he discovers a 25 year old cleaning woman through one of the cameras and is immediatly attracted to her.
79) For my father
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
עברית
Description
Tarek, a young Palestinian man blackmailed into a suicide mission in TEl Aviv, is given a second chance at life when the fuse on hisexpolsive vest fails to detonate.
80) Dreams of dust
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 9
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Mocktar, a Nigerien peasant, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. In Essakane, he quickly finds out, the gold rush ended twenty years before, and the inhabitants of this wasteland and strange timelessness manage to exist simply from force of habit. The beautiful Coumba, however, is still courageously struggling to raise her daughter after the death...
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