Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm)
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Danish
Description
Set to take up the mysteriously vacated job of town marshal, Robert quickly finds himself mixed up in a community governed by its own rules. Robert's big-city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or to understand the uncivilized behavior displayed by the townspeople: the sultry blond femme fatale, the ten-gallon hat and bolo-wearing town bully, and the sinister doctor with a penchant for maniacal cackling.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Finnish
Description
Young Pietari lives with his stern reindeer-herding father Rauno in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, an enormous excavation at a nearby mountain disturbs the locals and captures Pietari's curiosity. When Rauno's reindeer herd is mysteriously slain and the children in town go missing, Pietari realizes that the dig has unearthed the evil Santa Claus of local lore, who no one wants coming to town.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Growing up in a loving home, brothers, Peter and Matthew are crazy about each other, but also constantly at each other's throats. Displaying their individual idiosyncrasies, Peter is obsessed with the TV show Survivor, while younger brother Matthew struggles to overcome his intense fear of dogs, the brothers spend one formative summer in their suburban Maryland neighborhood. Ben Mullinkosson's revealing and endearing film is an affectionate portrait...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Swahili
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Description
In the Kenyan bush, a small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces mobilize to destroy his trade. When he propositions his younger cousin, a conflicted wildlife ranger who hasn't been paid in months, they both see a possible lifeline. The plummeting elephant population in Africa has captured the attention of the world, and as the government cracks down, both poachers and rangers face their own existential crises - what is the value of...
6) Santoalla
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Progressive Dutch couple Martin Verfondern and Margo Pool had only one dream, to live off the land, far from the constraints and complications of the city. But, when they arrive in the crumbling Spanish village of Santoalla, the foreigners challenge the traditions of the town2s sole remaining family, igniting a decade-long conflict that culminates in Martin's mysterious disappearance.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It revolves around the life of the great traditional Irish singer, Joe Heaney. The harsh Irish landscape combined with the myths, fables, and songs of his Connemara youth helped shape this fascinating character. Enigmatic and complex, Heaney's devotion to his art came at a huge personal cost. But by the time of his death in 1984, he was widely recognized as one of the most important figures in Irish traditional music, having won fans and admires from...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who are detained by Border Patrol and thrown into a shadowy for-profit detention center on purpose. Marco and Viri are members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, a group of radical DREAMers who are on a mission to stop unjust deportations. And the best places to stop deportations, they believe, is in detention. However, when Marco and Viri attempt a daring reverse "prison break,"...
10) Sirens
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Arabic
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Description
Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
11) Relaxer
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Doom and gloom are on the way. The Y2K apocalypse can't be stopped. Abbie's older brother Cam issues him the ultimate challenge before it goes down: beat the infamous level 256 in Pac-Man and no getting up from the couch until he does so. Abbie's survival story begins here; inside a rotting living room with no food or water, and a revolving door of numb-nut friends and acquaintances.
12) Kedi
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Türkçe
Description
Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, these animals live between two worlds, neither wild nor tame, and they bring joy and purpose to those people they choose to adopt. In Istanbul, cats are the mirrors to the people, allowing them to reflect on their lives...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
When four young orphans, Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi, and Takemura, first meet, their parents' bodies are being turned into dust. They are like zombies; devoid of all emotion. With no family, no future, no dreams, and no way to move forward, the young teens decide that the first level of this new existence involves salvaging a gaming console, an old electric bass, and a charred wok from their former homes, just enough to start a band, and then conquer the...
15) Cane River
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Written, produced, and directed by the late Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, this recently rediscovered landmark of American independent cinema is a charmingly laid-back, socially incisive love story set in the heart of Louisiana. It2s there that a forbidden romance between an aspiring writer and an ambitious, college-bound woman reveals the tensions between two black communities: the wealthy Creoles and...
16) Claydream
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Known as the "Father of Claymation," Will Vinton revolutionized the animation business during the 1980s and 90s, creating such iconic characters as the California Raisins and Domino's The Noid. But after thirty years of being the unheralded king of clay, Vinton's carefully sculpted American dream came crumbling down. Structured around interviews with this charismatic pioneer and his close collaborators, along with a treasure trove of clips of their...
17) Ms. Purple
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A poignant drama about sister and brother, Kasie and Carey, who were raised, and are now seemingly stuck in Koreatown. Abandoned by their mother and brought up by their father, the siblings continue to struggle with profound emotional wounds from the difficulty of the parental dynamic.
18) The wonders
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
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Description
It centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, who is struggling to find her footing in the world, and Rohrwacher conveys her adolescent sense of...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, internationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta examines Ingmar Bergman's life and work with a circle of his closest collaborators as well as a new generation of filmmakers. This documentary presents key components of his legacy, as it retraces themes that recurred in his life and art and takes us to the places that were central to Bergman's creative achievements.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio's award-winning documentary is an intimate portrait of the acclaimed North Carolina band The Avett Brothers, charting their decade-and-a-half rise while chronicling their collaboration with producer Rick Rubin on the multi-Grammy-nominated album "True Sadness", released on American Recordings/Republic Records.
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