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Black Horse MemoriesAseke is a member of a group of young people on a mission to propagate Kurdish culture in Turkey, where doing so is prohibited by law. While taking part in this dangerous underground activity, Aseke meets her untimely death. In an...
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Go HomeA film about a woman who must struggle against the precariousness of her own memories. Nada, who lives in France, returns home to Lebanon. Her grandfather has been murdered by people in the village, and she thinks his body is buri...
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Radio SetThis film tells the story of Arunachalam, an old man alienated from his children. All his life, Arunachalam has worked in a cotton mill, and the only happiness he has is listening to music on a radio that was handed down to him by...
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West North WestWest North West depicts the story of young people who have lost a sense of direction in their lives. For them, “empathy” is more important than “understanding.” The film mostly revolves around a lesbian couple, Kei and Ai. Kei wor...
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Communication & LiesThis black and white film with a 4:3 aspect ratio unfolds following an abnormal couple. An eight-minute long take intro doesn’t show the main character’s face, but shows the other woman’s face, who keeps asking questions. One of t...
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ImmortalYoung Ebrahim lives with his grandfather Ayaz, a guilt-ridden old man, who suffers unbearably following the loss of his family in an accident. His remorse is not without reason; Ayaz was driving the bus on the way back home from a...
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Night and Fog in ZonaChinese director Wang Bing is well known for TieXiQu: West of the Tracks, his nine-hour documentary. Korean film critic Jung Sung-il is famous for long, prolix film reviews. So it is no surprise that this film’s intro?over four ho...
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Walnut TreeWalnut Tree is film about a wedding that introduces, with compassion, warmth, and laughter, the everyday lives of people living in a small village in Kazakhstan. The wedding ceremony is not at all a small or trivial event, but a f...