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1) Noise
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 4
Language
Thai
Description
Noise: Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling. As the local community enfolds itself in a shroud of secrecy, borne from fear and an untrammeled mistrust of authority, the police remain desperate for witnesses. Graham McGahan, a young police constable suffering from a chronic hearing problem, is stationed at a police caravan near the crime scene. Living on the periphery of the investigation, McGahan crosses paths with the people affected...
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 4
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of an Australian summer, we meet three sisters. Nina is widowed with two young children. Anna is an aspiring actress unhappily married to a filmmaker. Christine is a med student who has yet to fully come to terms with her sexuality. When their mother Susan's breast cancer returns, the family is faced with the reality of their last Christmas together. As each daughter confronts personal change and growth, Susan guides them by revealing...
3) Come undone
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 3
Language
Italiano
Description
Come undone: A married woman becomes involved in a heated affair with a married waiter, and as their neatly ordered world falls apart, they are faced with a life-changing choice which neither is entirely prepared to make.
12 years: For twelve years, she ignored sneers and mockery and stood up for her relationship. But that was probably a mistake.
4) Arranged
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 12
Language
English
Description
Arranged: Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. A young Orthodox woman, Rochel Meshenberg, is about to begin her first year as a special education teacher at the local public school. She is also about to begin the process of finding a husband via the time-tested method of using a "shadchen, " or matchmaker. As the school year gets underway, Rochel meets Nasira Khaldi, a Muslim woman of Syrian descent. Nasira is also a first-year teacher. The two young women - Rochel...
5) Storm
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 1
Language
English
Description
"Storm" : Hannah Maynard, prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, it looks like the case will unravel, but Hannah refuses to give in. Hoping to uncover new findings, she travels to the witness' burial in Sarajevo and meets...
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 12
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Alex and Alice are hosting a New Year's Eve party for their closest friends at a remote cabin in the mountains. The other couples arrive in various states of discord, and the tensions are compounded when Alice's friends bring along a surprise guest--the very young and beautiful Helena. Alex and Alice try to keep the evening from spiraling out of control, and their own marriage from coming apart.
7) Hospitalité
Series
Language
日本語
Description
Hospitalité : Mikio Kobayashi lives quietly with his wife, daughter, and divorced sister in downtown Tokyo, where xenophobic neighbors insist they attend community watch meetings, and the only recent excitement is the disappearance of a pet parrot. One day Kagawa appears, claiming to be the son of a financier who once helped Kobayashi's company. Kagawa soon ingratiates himself as a live-in employee and proceeds to comically turn the Kobayashi's monotonous...
9) Amour fou
Series
Film Movement volume 13, film 9
Language
Deutsch
Description
Forever under-appreciated and melancholy, Heinrich is a young poet in Romantic Era Berlin who determines his best way out of despair is to end it all, and he sets about finding a woman to join him in his predetermined departure. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, the well-off but unremarkable Henrietta, fascinated by Heinrich's controversial "The Marquise of O," finds his offer intriguing, if a bit strange.
Series
Language
Russian
Description
On a desolate island in the Arctic Circle, two men work at a small meteorological station, taking readings from their radioactive surroundings. One day while Sergei is out, inexperienced Pavel receives terrible news for Sergei from HQ. Intimidated, Pavel can't bring himself to disclose the information. When the truth is finally revealed, the consequences explode against a chilling backdrop of thick fog, sharp rocks, and the merciless Arctic Sea.
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 11
Language
Romanian
Description
Silviu has only two weeks left before his release from a hostile juvenile detention center. But when his mother, who abandoned him long ago, returns to take his younger brother away--a brother Silviu raised like a son--those two weeks become an eternity. While his outcries for help fall on deaf ears, he is introduced to a beautiful social worker that he can only dream of being close to. Faced with a slew of conflicting emotions and wild with desperation,...
12) Hello lonesome
Series
Language
English
Description
A story about people, actually, three stories about people. Regular people. They're all trying their best, just like the rest of us. There's a voiceover artist who lives and works in his underwear from his self-made mountain utopia. There's a sassy suburban widow in her seventies. There's an adorable young couple that meets on line and jumps right into a hot and heavy relationship despite some potential red flags.
13) Gang de qin
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 9
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"When Chen's estranged wife reappears asking for a divorce and custody of their daughter, the musician girl decides she will live with whoever can provide her with a piano. Chen's struggle thus begins. When efforts to borrow money and even steal a piano fail, Chen concocts a preposterous plan - he'll make a piano from scratch! He persuades a bunch of reluctant, but loyal, misfit friends to help him forge the instrument in a derelict factory from a...
14) The violin
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 2
Language
English
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 10, film 11
Language
Italiano
Description
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Venetian lagoon.
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 2
Language
Français
Description
"Adam, a former swimming champion in his sixties, is a pool attendant at a hotel in Chad. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel, leaving Adam humiliated and resentful. Meanwhile the country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government and the authorities demand the people contribute to the " war effort" with money or volunteers old enough to fight. Adam...
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 6
Language
Español
Description
While waiting for his estranged son's visit, eighty-year-old Antonio walks in his fields, reminiscing about his life.
20) Welcome
Series
Language
Français
Description
A 17-year-old Kurdish refugee has struggled his way in Europe in an attempt to unite with his girlfriend, who has emigrated to England. When he is stopped in France, he decides to swim the English Channel to complete his journey.
The Berlin Wall: 75-year-old man attempts to re-build the Berlin Wall.
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