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1) El Bola
Series
Film Movement volume year 1, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
Pablo (El Bola) is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and unforgiving environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he retreats from his classmates, engaging them only through a dangerous game.
El Bola es un chaval de 12 años que vive una atmósfera violenta y sórdida. Su situación familiar, que oculta avergonzado, le incapacita para relacionarse y comunicarse con otros chicos. La llegada de un nuevo compañero al colegio, con quien descubre...
Series
Film Movement volume 11, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Based on a true story. A man and his family on a journey 2000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycle in search for a good life.
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Danny has just moved into his 47th shared house, this time in Brisbane, and the flatmates have not improved. One lives in a closet, another in a tent in the living room and, before Danny takes off for shared house no. 48 in Melbourne, he will have endured satanic worshipers, skinheads and the perennially ubiquitous cane toad. No wonder he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Series
Film Movement series. 11 volume film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2004.
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.
5) Witnesses
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The stories of the people in a small town in the Balkans confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities, focusing on the various character's viewpoints and the complexities of war and humanity.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
It's Steve's birthday, and things can't seem to get better. After receiving a much awaited promotion, Steve returns home expecting to find his wife Alexandra and his two children waiting to surprise him. Instead, he discovers an abandoned house and a mysterious video tape that he is forced to watch.
8) Spare parts
Series
Film Movement volume year 3, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Slovenian
Description
Hard-drinking, chain-smoking Ludvik spends his nights smuggling illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. Together they cope with life in a rundown town, home to the only nuclear power plant in former Yugoslavia.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A comedy focusing on the residents of a tiny island town during the course of a strange twenty-four hours.
10) Be with me
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 9
Publisher
Zhao Wei Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
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.
11) Hawaii, Oslo
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of desperate people whose paths cross on the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Frode and Milla have their first child, but learn he will not live long without an expensive operation they cannot afford. Bobbie-Pop is a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. Leon is an institutionalized mental patient, who hopes to keep a 10-year-old date on his birthday with his teenage sweetheart. Leon
12) Men at work
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 10
Publisher
Aftab Negaran
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Persian
Description
"A comedy about four old friends who, driving back from a failed ski trip, encounter a strange and enormous rock by the side of the road above a lake. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat and renewed hope."--Container.
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Czech
Description
A trio of friends residing in an urban Czech housing project finds that happiness can come from the place where you least expect it in this quirky and heartfelt drama. As the shadow of the country's largest chemical factory looms large over their bleak industrial suburb, Monika, Tonik, and Dasha hold out hope for a brighter future in another place. While supermarket employee Monika's dreams are built around the hope that she will someday venture to...
14) Arranged
Publisher
Cicala Filmworks
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Arranged: Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. A young Orthodox woman, Rochel Meshenberg, is about to begin her first year as a special education teacher at the local public school. She is also about to begin the process of finding a husband via the time-tested method of using a "shadchen," or matchmaker. As the school year gets underway, Rochel meets Nasira Khaldi, a Muslim woman of Syrian descent. Nasira is also a first-year teacher. The two young women - Rochel...
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Swiss German
Description
"Ruža left Belgrade more than 25 years ago to seek a new life in Zurich. Now in her fifties, she has completely detached herself from the past. She owns a cafeteria and maintains an orderly, joyless existence. Mila, a waitress there, is a good-humored Croatian woman who also emigrated decades ago, but, unlike Ruža, she dreams of returning to a house on the Croatian coast. Both of them receive a jolt when Ana, a young, itinerant woman who has fled...
16) Dreams of dust
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Description
A Nigerien peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in northeastern Burkina Faso, Africa. He quickly finds out the gold rush ended twenty years before and the inhabitants of this wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit.
17) Mother of mine
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Finnish
Description
Uncle: Biography of a humble man, retold by an anonymous nephew, who strings together a collection of his uncle's passions, failings and beliefs.
When nine-year-old Eero's father is killed at the beginning of World War II his mother, broken by grief, is unable to care for him. She sends Eero out of Finland to live with a family in Sweden, away from the conflict. Feeling abandoned by his biological Finnish mother, he cannot quite attach to his Swedish...
18) Giorni e nuvole
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
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...
19) Gigante
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 9
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
A shy and lonely 35 year old security guard at a supermarket works the night shift monitoring the surveillance cameras. One night he discovers a 25 year old cleaning woman through one of the cameras and is immediatly attracted to her.
20) Lake Tahoe
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
After crashing the family car teen-age Juan embarks on a one-day journey to find help fixing it.
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