Film Movement (Firm)
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with...
62) Donbass
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Russian
Description
In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, mid-2010s: a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion. What is real and what is fake news?
63) 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.
64) 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.
65) Leaps of Faiths
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Love tests faith. Faith tests love. Interfaith marriage - how does that work? What about the in-laws? How to raise the kids? For 30 years, Catholics and Jews in Chicago have found that the answers don't have to be so hard - boundaries can be crossed - divisions healed. And the kids? We follow five who grew up learning both Judaism and Catholicism from 8th grade through high school, college and beyond. Their families imagined possibilities - and discovered...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This new documentary takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dalí and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. The film begins in 1929, a crucial year in Dalí's life and career, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and ends in 1989, the year of his passing. Dalí's geographies figure prominently in his fascinating story: Portlligat, the location of his only stable home-workshop; his hometown...
67) Coby
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a small town deep in the American Midwest, Suzanna begins a gender transition and becomes a boy: Coby. Coby's transformation deeply impacts the lives the lives of all who love him - and each member of this tight-knit family must confront their own preconceived notions of gender and sexuality. Combining excerpts from Coby's video dairy with candid, heartfelt interviews from his closet friends and family - COBY is an intimate and sensitive look at...
68) Shadowman
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
At once an engaging tale of the rise and fall of the former Lower East Side luminary Richard Hambleton, and a searing critique of the commerce-driven art world that discarded him when his work no longer conformed to the trends of the moment. SHADOWMAN opens viewers' eyes to Hambleton's work itself - which remains relatively unknown despite its link to contemporaries like Basquiat and descendants like Banksy, not to mention high profile late-career...
69) Free Men
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes (played by break-out star, Tahar Rahim) earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim Resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates. At the Mosque, Younes...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
עברית
Description
Can a leader succeed in influencing the world? Or is he a human being like anyone else, only a grain of sand tossed to the waves of history with no ability to affect it? Tolstoy pondered this question in War and Peace. 78-year-old Ehud Barak is the controversial former prime minister, decorated and criticized commander on the battlefield, and one of the leading figures of the Zionist movement. He is also the initiator of Israel's assassination plan...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Nederlands
Description
For 25 years, Michelin 3-star chef Sergio Herman has strived for perfection. Taking over his father's seafood resturaunt, Oud Sluis, in the northern Netherlands in 1990, the intense chef made it his life's mission to turn it into one of the premiere culinary establishments in Europe no matter the cost. Though successful in this pursuit, at the height of this career, Sergio decides to close the now-famous eatery. Despite outcry from the culinary community,...
72) Honorable Men
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
עברית
Description
Tells the story of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's unexpected rise to power and his dramatic fall from grace, from the highest office in the land to Ward 10 at Maasiyahu Prison. Set as a political thriller, it follows the incredible events that elevated him to power and set the stage for his epic fall, creating a portrait of a multifaceted man and providing a behind-the-scenes look at the mechanisms and machinations that control politics,...
73) La familia
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
A dramatic thriller about a father and son forced to flee the violence in Caracas, Venezuela.
74) Poppy field
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Romanian
Appears on list
Description
Planning to spend a romantic weekend with his long-distance boyfriend, Christi's tender reunion is cut short when he is called in to handle a crisis at work. Christi is a member of the Bucharest police force, and his unit is sent to quell a protest at a local movie theater, where a far-right group has interrupted the screening of a queer film. As tensions between the homophobic protesters and the audience mount, Christi, closeted to his fellow officers,...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
When handsome and charismatic Pablo arrives at his affluent family's house, everyone is eagerly awaiting his return. A seemingly exemplary pillar of Guatemala City's Evangelical Christian community, Pablo's announcement that he intends to leave his wife for another man sends shockwaves through the family. As Pablo tries to acclimate to his new life in the city's gay subculture, his ultra-religious family does everything in its power to get their prodigal...
76) Corpo celeste
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
Description
Grown up in Switzerland, Marta returned to Italy at age 13 and was sent to a preparatory classes for her confirmation. But the doctrine of Roman Catholicism offered little in terms of life lessons or consolation, she quickly saw through the hypocrisy of the priest and found a way to ascent into adulthood.
77) Freedom's Fury
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Hungary's 1956 Revolution was crushed by Soviet tanks and guns. Two weeks later at the Melbourne Olympics, the Hungarian and Soviet waterpolo teams would meet in a showdown that is know as "the Bloodiest Game in Olympic History."
78) Women Composers
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
When Leipzig pianist Kyra Steckeweh realised that her repertoire almost exclusively consisted of music composed by men, she began searching for pieces written by female composers. Her research in archives, libraries, and publishing houses quickly brought to light a variety of remarkable piano pieces that have been buried in history and rarely performed.. Steckeweh sees a lot of catching up to do, which is why the focus of her piano recitals and recordings...
79) Bending Steel
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An intimate documentary that examines the mental and physical battle of inspiring old-world strongman Chris Shoeck. Facing a lifetime of addiction and suffering, Shoeck channels this pain into the extraordinary feat of bending steel. In pursuit of a forgotten world, Schoeck lifts himself out of isolation and into the supportive community of performers who push the limits of strength. Exploring the interplay of mind and body, Shoeck's story provides...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From the Newark Rebellion of 1967 to current day, the city's narrative has been one of revolution with each generation picking up where the previous had left off. WHY IS WE AMERICANS? weighs in on Newark's struggle against oppression through the personal triumphs and tragedies of the Baraka family. Spanning decades of social activism, poetry, music, art, and politics, this kaleidoscopic family saga is framed by on-camera interviews with Ms. Lauryn...
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