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Jafar Panahi – Ayneh AKA The Mirror (1997)
Synopsis: A girl in traditional female clothing, with her arm in plaster, comes out of school one day and doesn’t find her mother meeting her. She decides to travel home herself though she doesn’t...
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Agnieszka Holland – Aktorzy prowincjonalni AKA Provincial Actors (1979)
Quote: Talented Polish director Agnieszka Holland who would be better known in later years because of her films like Europa, Europa (1991) or some of her American works like Washington Square (1997),...
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Bertrand Bonello – L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) aka House of...
The dawn of the XXth century: L’Apollonide, a house of tolerance, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the girls share their...
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Wayne Wang – While the Women Are Sleeping (2016)
Seduction, betrayal, murder, insomnia and apparitions are the elements at play in Wayne Wang’s tense and masterful version of the eponymous short story by Spanish writer Javier Marías, which takes a...
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Woody Allen – Café Society (2016)
In the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood, where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York, he is swept up in the...
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Gabriel Mascaro – Boi neon AKA Neon Bull (2015)
Iremar works at the “Vaquejadas”, a rodeo in the North East of Brazil where two men on horseback try bring down a bull by grabbing its tail. It’s dusty and back-breaking work, but Iremar is a natural...
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Toshiya Fujita – Shurayukihime aka Lady Snowblood (1973)
Quote: Out of all the films director Quentin Tarantino pays homage to in his interpretation of the revenge flick, “Kill Bill”, the 1973 classic film “Lady Snowblood” takes credit for probably being...
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Josef von Sternberg – Macao [+Extras] (1952)
Synopsis: A sultry night club singer, a man who has also traveled to many exotic ports and a salesman meet aboard ship on the 45-mile trip from Hong Kong to Macao. The singer is quickly hired by an...
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Tadeusz Konwicki – Salto (1965)
Quote: In this rich and subtle dream-play, a man arrives in a small country town and demands sanctuary from an unspecified threat. But who is he, why do people remember him differently, and can he...
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Constans AKA The Constant Factor (1980)
Quote: Apart from the conscience provoking “A Short Film About Killing” I have always found Western European audiences’ adulation of the Polish director, Krzysztof Kieslowski, rather excessive, all...
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Andrzej Wajda – Czlowiek z zelaza AKA Man of Iron (1981)
Quote: Wajda’s remarkable sequel to Man of Marble welds newsreel footage of the Solidarity strike to fiction in a strong investigative drama. A disillusioned, vodka-sodden radio producer is bundled...
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Anucha Boonyawatana – Onthakan AKA The Blue Hour (2015)
Quote: Tam, a timid loner, is bullied regularly by his fellow pupils at school. He is met with similar rejection and suspicion within the narrow confines of his parents’ dingy home, where his father...
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Srdjan Karanovic – Virdzina AKA Virgina (1991)
Synopsis: The story takes place in Yugoslavia at the end of the 19th century, in an isolated village near the Adriatic sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that...
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Roberto Rossellini – Dov’è la libertà…? AKA Where is Freedom? (1954)
Synopsis: A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocracy of his own relatives and decides to return...
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Lav Diaz – Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012)
Quote: With its depiction of cruelty and woe, Florentina Hubaldo, CTE is one of Diaz’s darkest films, the third of a trilogy about trauma and its aftermath (after Death in the Land of Encantos and...
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Aleksey Fedorchenko – Angely revolyutsii AKA Angels of Revolution (2014)
Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet...
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Robert Bresson – Pickpocket (1959)
Quote: Michel is an inscrutable young man – neatly dressed, mild mannered, intelligent – hardly the type whom one would suspect to be a pickpocket. And perhaps, that is reason that he does it. Robert...
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Jeppe Rønde – Bridgend (2015)
Sara and her dad Dave move to a small village, which is haunted by suicides among its young inhabitants. Sara falls dangerously in love with one of the teenagers, Jamie, while Dave, as the town’s new...
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Ian Samplin – Hunter (2013)
Quote: Two friends return to their apartment after a night out to find a stranger passed out on their stoop. Intrigued, they vie for his attention over the rest of the weekend....
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Yuxin Zhuang – Ai qing de ya chi AKA Teeth of Love (2007)
Synopsis: An experienced TV drama screenwriter and a professor at the Beijing Film Academy, Zhuang Yuxin makes his debut feature Love Teeth in 2006, winning much applause from critics. Praised as the...
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