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Series
Film Movement volume year 2, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Edition
Widescreen.
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.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
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.
3) Be with me
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 9
Publisher
Zhao Wei Films
Language
English
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.
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Language
Tamil
Description
A little girl's search for her biological mother takes the family to strife-torn Sri Lanka.
5) Arranged
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Description
"[C]enters on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages."--www.imdb.com
6) Fraulein
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Germanic
Description
Ana, a new employee in Reza's cafeteria, has high spirits that thaws Reza's joyless life in Zurich.
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
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...
8) Ben X
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Nederlands
Description
"As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games. Ben X is the character's name but spoken quickly in Dutch as benniks, meaning I am nothing." International Movie Data Base.
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Italiano
Description
Well-to-do, sophisticated couple, Elsa and Michele, have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes her initial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful...
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Français
Description
It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the...
11) Noise
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
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...
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 11
Publisher
RB Media
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...
13) The violin
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Español
Description
In rural Mexico, during the peasant revolts of the 1970s, Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand, they are simple country musicians, and on the other they actively support the peasant guerrilla movement against the oppressor government. When the army occupies the village, the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist,...
14) Eldorado
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Edition
Widescreen version.
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.
15) For my father
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
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 his expolsive vest fails to detonate.
16) Mine
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 12
Publisher
Filmmovement
Language
English
Description
"Documentary about the essential bond between humans and animals, set against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in modern U.S. history: Hurricane Katrina. This gripping, character-driven story follows New Orleans residents as they attempt the daunting task of trying to reunite with their pets who have been adopted by families all over the country, and chronicles the custody battles that arise when two families love the same pet. Who...
17) 1981
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Français
Description
When his family moves into their new home, young Ricardo Trogi feels different from his classmates. He creates a new reality to avoid being discovered for what he really is. How long can the truth be denied?
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Español
Description
Jorge has only a few weeks before his five-year-old son Natan leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef, and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan learns to live in harmony with life above and below the surface of the sea.
"Jorge, un hombre joven que es padre, y Natan, su hijo pequeño...
19) A call girl
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Slovenian
Description
A 23-year-old Slovenia girl moves to the capital from a small town. She lives and isolated life and works as a call girl until one of her clients, a foreign politician, dies of a heart attack. Pursued by both local pimps and cops, she seeks refuge in her old home town.
Honored: a unsent letter from her dead soldier husband in Iraq interrupted a young woman's isolation.
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Norwegian
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Erling is a rumored murderer and therefore sent to the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility. Once there he clashes with the island facility's governor who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment is the only way to turn these boys around. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling leads the boys in a violent uprising that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
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