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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Film Movement volume year 3, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom is suddenly wooed by a man almost half her age, her electricity hits high-voltage. Yet it is Agata's joy and magnetism in the face of life in all its irony that eventually offers the eye of the storm
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 8
Publisher
RB Media , c2005
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Russian
Description
A father sets off from Moscow with his 11-year-old son for his sister's house in Koktebel by the Black Sea. With no money, nor means of transportation, they drift through the expansive and mesmeric landscapes at the mercy of chance. For the father, the journey is an attempt to restore self-respect and win back the trusct of his son. For the boy, the mythic coastal town holds the key to a new life
4) Spare parts
Series
Film Movement volume year 3, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Slovenian
Description
Hard-drinking, chain-smoking Ludvik spends his nights smuggling illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. Together they cope with life in a rundown town, home to the only nuclear power plant in former Yugoslavia
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
©2008, [2005]
Language
Español
Description
In rural Mexico, during the peasant revolts of the 1970s, Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand, they are simple country musicians, and on the other they actively support the peasant guerrilla movement against the oppressor government. When the army occupies the village, the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist,...
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A comedy focusing on the residents of a tiny island town during the course of a strange twenty-four hours
7) Familia
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
Français
Description
Mimi, a divorced aerobics instructor who is up to her ears in debt, leaves Montreal with her restless 14-year-old daughter and moves in with her childhood friend
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
Kazakh
Description
Three soccer fans, living in the farthest-flung corners of the planets: Mongolia, Niger and Brazil, determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Danish
Description
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
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Romanian
Description
The way I spent the end of the world: Bucharest 1989, the last year of Ceaușescu's dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceaușescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania with...
11) Mother of mine
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Finnish
Description
When nine-year-old Eero's father is killed at the beginning of World War II his mother, broken by grief, is unable to care for him. She sends Eero out of Finland to live with a family in Sweden, away from the conflict. Feeling abandoned by his biological Finnish mother, he cannot quite attach to his Swedish surrogate mother. When the war ends, and he returns to his mother in Finland, his confusion intensifies
Uncle: Biography of a humble man, retold...
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 9
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
Français
Description
A Nigerian peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in northeast Burkina Faso, Africa. He quickly finds out the gold rush ended twenty years before and the inhabitants of this wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit
14) August the first
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
The morning of Tunde's graduation party things have already begun to unravel. Tunde has managed to alienate his sister, Simisola. His older brother, Ade, persistently plagues him with criticism, and their mother has started drinking again. Unbeknownst to most, Tunde has orchestrated the return of his long estranged father, resurrecting unresolved family anguish against the backdrop of Tunde's celebration
Series
Film Movement volume year 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...
16) XXY
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
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 Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice
17) Munyurangabo
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 5
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Kinyarwanda
Description
An orphan of the Rwandan genocide travels from Kigali to the countryside on a quest for justice
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Language
עברית
Description
Tarek, a young Palestinian man blackmailed into a suicide mission in Tel Aviv, is given a second chance at life when the fuse on his expolsive vest fails to detonate
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[c2009]
Language
Czech
Description
"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
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
While waiting for his estranged son's visit, eighty-year-old Antonio walks in his fields, reminiscing about his life
Seventy: talks about the loneliness that many elderly people experience nowadays
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