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Fresh AirMother and daughter Viola and Angela share a complicated relationship. Viola is still a beautiful woman. Angela is ashamed of Viola. Communication between them has become almost im...
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In Between DaysSo Yong Kim`s debut feature is an unflinchingly naturalistic and painfully realistic look at adolescent displacement, both physical and emotional. Aimie and her single mother are n...
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MartaMarta tells a story of wars happening on two fronts for three people ? the war of organized armies and the internal war with the self. Marek and his father live secluded lives in t...
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Paraguayan HammockIt is the middle of Paraguay’s Chaco War. The film begins with an extended shot of a couple hanging a hammock. Ramon and Candida wait patiently for rain, for cooler weather, and fo...
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PingpongPaul, 16 years old, spontaneously decides to visit his relatives, Anna and Stefan. Having recently lost his father, Paul is searching for an ideal world, and intrudes upon the seem...
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Poison FriendsEdouard, Eloi and Alexandre are graduate students and aspiring writers at the Sorbonne. The three meet fellow writer Andre in their class, and soon fall under his carefree spell. E...
World Cinema
Times And WindsIt is a movie about time. The rhythm of time is the rhythm of the movie. It is a movie about three children captured by the flow of time in a village stuck between earth and sea, r...
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AvidaAvida starts with a picador who ends up in a suicide attempt. This episode is followed by that of a deaf-mute and two drug addicts that try to kidnap a female millionaire`s dog, bu...
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The UntouchableOn her birthday, Jeanne, an actress, hears a secret from her mother about how she met her father on a trip to India, and that he is a Hindu Untouchable. Jeanne takes a role that sh...
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A,B,C...ManhattanThe letters of the title stand for the New York avenues that make up the city`s famous Alphabet City neighborhood ? home for drug addicts and angry young discontents. On these dila...