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• Christopher KENNEALLY
• United States
• 2012
• 99min

Films were shot, edited and projected using photochemical film. But over the last two decades a digital process has emerged to challenge photochemical filmmaking. , p...

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• Arturo RIPSTEIN
• Mexico
• 1979
• 95min

A pickpocket who has been released from prison tries to start a new life but he cannot escape from the shadow of his past. While the main character is being haunted by his past and...

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• Arturo RIPSTEIN
• Mexico
• 1973
• 110min

Based on a gruesome true story which occurred at Mexico City in the 1950′s, the film unfolds the theme of restraint, utilizing various tools; the husband obsessing his wife′s past,...

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• Arturo RIPSTEIN
• Mexico
• 1986
• 130min

The film was honored by seven Mexico Academy Awards including the highest 'Ariel de Oro.' One day, a poor and handicapped man happens to be blessed by the changing fortune, and so,...

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• Arturo RIPSTEIN
• Mexico
• 1993
• 170min

Based on the novel of Naguib Mahfouz, the first Egyptian Novel Prize winner for Literature, the film depicts a middle-class family struggling against poverty after their father's d...

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• Sergei PARAJANOV
• Ukraina
• 1965
• 92min

Parajanov’s unique language becomes evident here. Vivid colors, cinematography of vertigo, and unconventional storytelling. But it still shows clearer plot and natural acting compa...

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• Sergei PARAJANOV
• Ukraina
• 1961
• 88min

Oksana leaves Ukrainian countryside and her fiance Anton to become an opera singer in the city. Soon the WWII broke out and while Oksana’s career took off, Anton becomes a war pris...

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• Sergei PARAJANOV
• Armenia
• 1968
• 79min

Blood-red pomegranates dripping on a white cloth, we hear a poignant monologue: “Life and soul are tortures to me.” Elaborate yet stationary images of suppressive religion and thea...

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• Sergei PARAJANOV,Dodo ABASHIDZE
• Georgia
• 1984
• 88min

Based on a Georgian folk tale of people building a fortress against the enemies, which collapses before completion. A message tells them a boy should be locked inside the wall aliv...

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• Sergei PARAJANOV,Dodo ABASHIDZE
• Georgia
• 1988
• 74min

A minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant’s daughter. He goes on a journey to marry her, promising to return in 1000 days after traveling to the end of the world. S...