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Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 7
Publisher
Distributed by RB Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comedy drama about two parentally neglected teenagers, Placid Lake and Gemma, who find the courage to believe in themselves.
4) Men at work
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Men at work: 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.
Hold up: In this short film a robber is after more than money at a convenience store hold up.
5) Cannibal
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Formats
Description
Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, Spain. His life is a study in details, from the meticulous suits he creates for wealthy clients to the macabre murders he executes in the shadows. He performs these gruesome acts, including dining on the women he kills, without guilt or remorse. When Nina, a beautiful young immigrant from Romania, comes looking for her missing twin sister, she awakens in Carlos a kind of love he'd long since written...
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ivan, an unusually optimistic preacher, takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church to which he ministers. One of his helpers, Adam, is a vicious neo-Nazi serving community service time. 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.
7) Jaffa
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 6
Publisher
Filmmovement.com
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col., 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the heart of Jaffa, Reuven's garage is a family business. His daughter Mali and his son Meir, as well as Toufik, a young Palestinian, work there. No one suspects that Mali and Toufik have been in love for years. As the two lovers are secretly making their wedding arrangements, tension builds between Meir and Toufik"--imdb.com.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1981, a widowed mother and her daughters want to join a new religious settlement in the West Bank, but must meet the group's religious and ideological standards. When a daughter is accused of seducing some boys, she must weigh her allegiances.
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 8
Publisher
Distributed by RB Media
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102, 10 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ten-year-old Gulistan and her brother Firat live in the heart of Turkish Kurdistan. Tragedy strikes when their parents are shot down by paramilitary gunmen before their very eyes. Traumatized and orphaned, Gulistan and Firat try to care for their infant sister, but their money soon runs out and they're forced onto the street. It is there that Gulistan meets the part-time escort Dilara. Accompanying her on a hotel call one day, Gulistan is shocked...
10) Free men
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.
11) Mother of mine
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. 9-year-old Eero increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and not yet attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When Eero is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies.
12) Hospitalité
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
13) Aaltra
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 3
Publisher
Distributed by RB Media
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
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
14) Grigris
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite a paralyzed leg, Grigris, 25 year old, dreams of being a dancer. A challenge. But his dreams are dashed when his uncle falls critically ill. To save him, Grigris resolves to work for petrol traffickers.
15) Storm
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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 his...
16) Jasper Jones
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A riveting and moving Australian coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishheart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1969, Charlie defeats the local racists,...
17) Queen of hearts
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 11
Publisher
Distributed by RB Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82, 11 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thirty-something Adèle is devastated after a painful breakup. With no close friends or family, her distant cousin, Rachel, reluctantly takes her in and graciously attempts to salvage Adèle's personal and professional lives. Rachel finds her a job and suggests that Adèle sleep with other men to get over her heartbreak. Adèle bounces from one lover to the next in search of her perfect companion but can't escape the visage of her ex. Finally, she...
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