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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.
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 2, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, The Middle of the World is the story of a couple and their five children -- ages ranging from 6 months to 14 years old -- as they travel 3,200 km by bicycle to chase a dream. Romao, an illiterate and unemployed truck driver, and his wife Rose, leave the State of Paraiba in Brazil, and over the course of six months, travel across five states to reach Rio de Janeiro, in a quest for a job and a decent life.
4) Raja
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in comtemporary Marrakech, Raja explores the relationship between a wealthy middle aged Frenchman and a nineteen year old orphaned Moroccan girl. Disparities in race, economic status and language complicate the older man's pursuit of the younger girl.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 6
Publisher
RB Media
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A romantic comedy about the barriers facing lovers in the 21st century.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three very different women live together in a hotel in the heart of Algiers.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's Steve's birthday, and things can't seem to get better. After receiving a much awaited promotion, Steve returns home expecting to find his wife Alexandra and his two children waiting to surprise him. Instead, he discovers an abandoned house and a mysterious video tape that he is forced to watch.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Réda, a young man who lives in the south of France, finds himself obligated to drive his father to Mecca. The wide cultural and generational gap between the two is worsened by their lack of communication. Réda finds it hard to accommodate his father, who demands respect for himself and his pilgrimage. From France, through Italy, Serbia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan to Saudi Arabia, the two embark on a road...
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A darkly humorous search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Follow Danny throught a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia.
10) Wilby wonderful
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bittersweet comedy about the difference a day makes. The film centers on the residents of the tiny island town of Wilby over the course of twenty-four hours, on their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
11) 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
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A compilation of six original short films. Three of the selections - Inja, Das Rad, and Mt. Head - received Academy Award nominations. Includes the Sundance selection Sangam, and The First Three Lives of Stuart Hornsley and Deathdealer: A Documentary.
13) Be with me
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 9
Publisher
Film Movement [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Be With Me: A tapestry of stories woven around the themes of love, hope and destiny. The characters lead separate lives but are bound by one common desire - to be with their loved one. The protagonists in the movie are fictitious bar one - Theresa Chan, a courageous deaf and blind woman whose life story inspired the film.
Two cars, one night: In this little love story, three children in two cars wait for their parents one night outside a rural pub....
14) El bola
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pablo (El Bola) is a 12-year old boy raised in a violent and unforgiving environment. The arrival of a new boy a school, from whom he learns a new definition of friendship, leads to the discovery of a family where communication and love prevail over domination and violence. The film poignantly parallels the lives of a caring father unable to connect with his willful son, and that of distant Pablo (El Bola) and his abusive father who is incapable of...
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.
16) Carol's journey
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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 1, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After breaking up with her boyfriend, 30-year-old Stefania vacations on the Greek "Isle of Love", and reluctantly agrees to chaperone her precocious 15-year-old niece, Meggy. But Stefania doesn't know that Meggy plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over, and the guy she has her eye on is none other than Stefania's ex.
18) The great match
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three soccer fans, living in the farthest-flung corners of the planets: Mongolia, Niger and Brazil, are determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final.
19) Hawaii, Oslo
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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...
20) Madeinusa
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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 (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) 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....
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