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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Rak ti Khon Kaen aka Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Storyline Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira,...
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Jakob Lass – Love Steaks (2013)
Quote: If Joaquin Phoenix met Carole Lombard in their twenties by the sea you would get the sizzle we feel in Jakob Lass’ Love Steaks. Clemens (Franz Rogowski) arrives as a trainee at a Northern...
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Josh Mond – James White (2015)
Quote: James, a twenty-something New Yorker, struggles to take control of his self-destructive behavior in the face of momentous family challenges....
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Benjamin Cleary – Stutterer (2015)
Synopsis: Greenwood has a truly debilitating stutter but we hear his inner thoughts through voiceover and his online conversations with his only friend and love of his life, Ellie. Outwardly a mute,...
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Mika Kaurismäki – The Girl King (2015)
An enigmatic young woman in conflict – torn between reason and passion; between her woman’s body and being raised as a prince; between the ancient and modern worlds and between the brilliance of her...
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Louis Feuillade – Vendémiaire (1918)
Movie serial “Vendemiaire” depicts a registering nationalist and regionalism concerns about the effects of the First World War. « Réalisé dans les derniers mois de la guerre (sa sortie eut lieu en...
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Elchin Musaoglu – Nabat (2014)
Nabat and her husband Iskender, an old and sick ex-forestry worker, live in a small isolated house far from the village. The war in Nagorno-Karabakh has been raging for some time and their son has...
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Sergei Solovyov – Chuzhaya belaya i ryaboy AKA The Stray White and the...
Quote: In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys...
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Claire Denis – Beau travail AKA Good Work (1999)
Quote: This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Africa....
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Alante Kavaite – Sangailes vasara AKA The Summer of Sangaile (2015)
17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds the...
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Pál Zolnay – Fotográfia AKA Photography (1973)
Quote: This strange Hungarian film is a cross between a “candid camera” documentary and a surreal fantasy. The film’s two actors impersonate traveling portrait photographers visiting a small Hungarian...
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Sergei Solovyov – Assa (1988)
Quote: The film is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician falls for mobster’s young mistress. The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot. “The...
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Atom Egoyan – Next of Kin (1984)
Quote: Marking Atom Egoyan’s first feature film, Next of Kin a visually assured, lucid, and thoughtful exposition on alienation, displacement, and the amorphous nature of home and family....
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Jean-Paul Civeyrac – Ni d’Ève, ni d’Adam AKA Neither Eve Nor Adam (1996)
Quote: Gabrielle is 14. She struggles to love Gilles but he ceaselessly wrecks his own life along with other people’s. He steals money from Gabrielle and humiliates her so much that she doesn’t want...
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Jean-Paul Civeyrac – Les solitaires AKA The Lonely (2000)
Quote: Civeyrac moved to making films in Digital Video in 1999, with Les Solitaires, a small, almost theatrical chamber piece that was well suited to the medium, making the use of one main location...
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Julien Duvivier – Panique (1947)
Summary Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground. The only witness was a...
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Amir Naderi – Manhattan by Numbers (1993)
In the course of a single day, George Murphy, a youngish out-of-work newspaper reporter, desperately crisscrosses Manhattan in a futile hunt for the $1,200 needed to pay the back rent on his...
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Robin Pront – D’Ardennen AKA The Ardennes (2015)
SYNOPSIS A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much...
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José Luis Guerín – La academia de las musas AKA The Academy of Muses (2015)
After his classes, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who mistrusted the academic project is plotting her husband. The teacher’s intention is to create a “school of the Muses” inspired by the...
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Lyne Charlebois – Borderline (2008)
An erotic drama about a woman facing her 30th birthday who looks back at her life growing-up with her grandmother, crazy mother and her over-indulgence with men, sex and alcohol. Borderline, a film...
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