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Edward Berger – Jack (2014)
Quote: Breakfast, younger brother fed and dressed, off to school, all in haste. Great responsibility for a ten year old, great fun in places too; later going playing in the park with mother and her...
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Leos Carax – Les amants du Pont-Neuf AKA The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Quote: Leos Carax’s story of two homeless bums and their relationship is built around these contradictions and tensions that make the film a struggle to grasp. It’s a warm, beautiful and intimate...
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Michael Haneke – Das Schloß AKA The Castle (1997)
Quote: It was just a matter of time before Michael Haneke and Franz Kafka crossed paths. The Castle, the Austrian filmmaker’s made-for-TV version of the Czech writer’s famous unfinished novel,...
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Marco Berger & Marcelo Mónaco – Tensión sexual, Volumen 1: Volátil AKA Sexual...
Quote: Have you ever met someone who made your body heat up, get a little nervous and sweaty, and made your crotch stir a bit? Sexual Tension: Volatile will reignite those lustful feelings as it...
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Obce cialo AKA Foreign Body (2014)
Synopsis: Angelo and Kasia met in Italy in a Focolari prayer group and were brought together by love and faith in God. Their relationship is interrupted by the young woman’s return to Poland and her...
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Otakar Vávra – Kladivo na carodejnice AKA Witches’ Hammer AKA Witchhammer (1970)
Synopsis: The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. She admits to the parish priest Schmidt that she intended to give it to the...
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Antoine Cuypers – Préjudice (2015)
Quote: During a family meal, Cedric, 32, learns that his sister is expecting a baby. While the news is met with sincere excitement by the whole family, for Cedric — who still lives with his parents –...
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Jules Herrmann – Liebmann (2016)
Quote: The teacher Antek Liebmann moves to the French countryside to leave his former life in Germany behind. He soon gets a job and finds himself in a new relationship. But the strange energy of a...
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Edwin Zbonek – Der Henker von London AKA The Mad Executioners (1963)
Synopsis: ‘A band of hooded men have formed a court and they are exacting justice upon the criminals who have escaped the reach of the law. The sentence they exact is death by hanging. Using the...
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Kirill Serebrennikov – Uchenik AKA Student (2016)
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him. The original Russian title...
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Serif Gören & Yilmaz Güney – Umut AKA Hope (1970)
Synopsis: In this bleak tragedy, a crude and illiterate man who drives a horse-drawn taxi survives his meager existence by hoping each day that this will be the day he wins the lottery. One day his...
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Zeki Ökten & Yilmaz Güney – Sürü AKA The Herd (1979)
Synopsis: Sürü portrays the lives of desperate Kurdish farmers in Turkey’s backward Southeast. An impoverished family, already suffering from the effects of a blood feud with a neighbouring clan, has...
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Colin Kennedy – Swung (2015)
Quote: David’s life is on the slide: he’s in the middle of a divorce, broke and ‘can’t get it up’. His girlfriend, Alice, is his rock, but the magazine she writes for is going down and the pressure is...
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David Verbeek – Full Contact (2015)
Quote: Full Contact is a contemporary tale of a man trying to find new purpose in life after accidentally bombing a school through a remotely operated drone plane. Ivan, operating the plane from a far...
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Gus Van Sant – Last Days (2005)
Synopsis Last Days is filmmaker Gus Van Sant’s fictional meditation on the inner turmoil that engulfs a brilliant, but troubled musician in the final hours of his life. Michael Pitt (The Dreamers,...
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Jaco Van Dormael – Toto le héros aka Toto The Hero (1991)
Synopsis: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred’s good fortune at being born into...
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Jan Troell – Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd AKA The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
Quote: Based on the novel by Per Olaf Sundman, Ingenjör Andrées Luftfärd (Flight of the Eagle) tells the real-life story of a Swedish engineer’s attempted expedition to the North Pole in a balloon....
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João Nuno Pinto – América (2010)
Quote: America a tragic story told in a burlesque and ironic way, within a love triangle. Liza, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a small-time crook who lives on scheming and...
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Lisa Aschan – Det vita folket (2015)
Variety wrote: Swedish director Lisa Aschan decided to follow up her critically acclaimed film “She Monkeys” with “White People,” which she describes as “a space odyssey inspired by ‘The Shining.’”...
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Veiko Õunpuu – Püha Tõnu kiusamine AKA The Temptation of St. Tony (2009)
Quote: There’s no better cinematic praise than to be evocative of Béla Tarr’s tour de force Werckmeister Harmonies. And The Temptation of St. Tony is just that. Veiko Õunpuu has weaved an existential...
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