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Series
Film Movement series. Volume II volume film 8
Pub. Date
2000
Summary
After a violent marital argument resulting in Antoine's death, Lucy discovers his secret life of gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit.
Series
Film Movement volume 11, film 4
Pub. Date
c2003
Summary
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 series. Volume 11 volume film 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Summary
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village...
4) Witnesses
Series
Film Movement series Volume II volume film 11
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Summary
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 year 3, film 6
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
The stern father of a Muslim family in France has his teenage son drive him to Mecca for the religious pilgrimage known as the hajj. The son, who is irreligious and has a non-Muslim girlfriend, doesn't relate to his traditionalist father, nor does the dad relate to his son -- a culture clash (and generational clash) that is the spine of their entire trip to Saudi Arabia.
Series
Film Movement volume 0
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join the founding group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about their struggles with the acceptance committee and their living as an outcast in the settlement.
7) Aaltra
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 3
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in a farm tractor, leaving them both paralyzed, wheelchair-bound, and simmering with spite. But rather than feel sorry for themselves, the embittered paraplegics decide to seek revenge against the tractor's manufacturer. They take to the road, redirecting their frustrations with their plights towards the people they meet on the way to Helsinki.
8) Hawaii, Oslo
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
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's brother, Trygve, gets...
9) Men at work
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 10
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
"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.
10) Monster Thursday
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 7
Pub. Date
c2006
Summary
Three friends and one love triangle. All want to quest for the perfect wave and love.
11) A Simple curve
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 12
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Summary
"Caleb is a charming small-town entrepreneur determined to keep his woodworking shop afloat in spite of the relentless idealism of his business partner and father, aging hippie draft-dodger Jim. When wealthy American Matthew arrives, Caleb sees a chance to turn his fortunes around provided he can keep Jim distracted long enough. Juggling mounting debts, freeloading hippie houseguests, and a budding love life, Caleb strikes a secret deal with Matthew...
Series
Film Movement volume Year 4, film 8
Pub. Date
2006
Summary
The drama, unfolded around the filming activities on the campus of a university in Tokyo, presents the modern youth of Japan, their personal life and love.
13) Adam's apples
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Summary
Ivan, optimistic preacher, took in convicts to help around the remote rural church he ministers. One of his helps is a vicious neo-Nazi Adam. Grasping the extent of Ivan's preternatutal determination to look on the bright side of everything, Adam decides to shake Ivan out of his rose-colored world.
15) Madeinusa
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Summary
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can't see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse....
16) Choking man
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 6
Pub. Date
[2008]
Summary
Choking man: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this intense blend of drama and magical realism from famed music video director Steve Barron.
The boy with no name: a traditional hand-drawn animation, which mixes the macabre and innocent to tell the story of a young boy who feels lost and alone in a world he doesn't belong in.
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 11
Pub. Date
2008
Summary
"During a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, Tony, a Christian taxi-driver, brings Zeina, a Shiite woman from Beirut, to the heart of the conflict in the country's south. While they scour the rubble of local towns for Zeina's son, they discover that despite their very different backgrounds they have much in common. During their trip through the desolate countryside, the two travelers develop a deep bond as a response to the death surrounding...
18) XXY
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 5
Pub. Date
c2008
Summary
The dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call 'ambiguous genitalia, ' whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriaapolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice.
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 4
Pub. Date
2009. , c2008
Summary
"A gifted young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son."--Container.
20) Gigante
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 9
Pub. Date
[2009]
Summary
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.