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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...
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Danny has just moved into his 47th shared house, this time in Brisbane, and the flatmates have not improved. One lives in a closet, another in a tent in the living room and, before Danny takes off for shared house no. 48 in Melbourne, he will have endured satanic worshipers, skinheads and the perennially ubiquitous cane toad. No wonder he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Series
Film Movement volume Apr. 2003
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of struggling to overcome her self-destructive behavior, the youngest of three sisters, Agnes (Molly Parker), returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia determined to confront the past. Her arrival sets in motion a chain of events that allows a family of women to re-connect with the world and each other in their own ways.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 10
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Language
English
Description
A story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.
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.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 7
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy about the barriers facing lovers in the 21st century.
7) Witnesses
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 11
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The stories of the people in a small town in the Balkans confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities, focusing on the various character's viewpoints and the complexities of war and humanity.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 8
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent argument results in Antoine's death. After lying about his whereabouts, Lucie discovers that he had a secret life involving gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit. The body of Antoine disappears, other corpses appear, and, very quickly, the money becomes only the pretext of an alarming turn of events, in...
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
It's Steve's birthday, and things can't seem to get better. After receiving a much awaited promotion, Steve returns home expecting to find his wife Alexandra and his two children waiting to surprise him. Instead, he discovers an abandoned house and a mysterious video tape that he is forced to watch.
10) 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.
11) Campfire
Series
Film Movement volume year 3, film 10
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
עברית
Description
A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join the founding group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about their struggles with the acceptance committee and their living as an outcast in the settlement.
12) Le grand voyage
Series
Film Movement series. Year 3 volume film 6
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
"A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Rďa, a young man who lives in the south of France, finds himself obligated to drive his father to Mecca. The wide cultural and generational gap between the two is worsened by their lack of communication. Rďa finds it hard to accommodate his father, who demands respect for himself and his pilgrimage. From France, through Italy, Serbia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan to Saudi Arabia, the two embark on a road...
13) 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.
14) Be with me
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 9
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Be with me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope, tragedy and redemption. The protagonists in the movie are fictitious bar one -- Theresa Chan, a courageous deaf and blind woman whose life story inspired the film."--Container.
15) Familia
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 5
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Mimi, a divorced aerobics instructor who is up to her ears in debt, leaves Montreal with her restless 14-year-old daughter and moves in with her childhood friend.
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...
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 6
Pub. Date
[2006], 2004.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
Français
Description
The stern father of a Muslim family in France has his teenage son drive him to Mecca for the religious pilgrimage known as the hajj. The son, who is irreligious and has a non-Muslim girlfriend, doesn't relate to his traditionalist father, nor does the dad relate to his son -- a culture clash (and generational clash) that is the spine of their entire trip to Saudi Arabia.
18) 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.
19) 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...
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....
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