Cypher
USA – 2002
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Cypher
An intriguing sci-fi mystery about a man
who suddenly finds himself deeply embroiled in the
fast-paced and dangerous world of corporate intrigue and
espionage.
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Mango Yellow
( Mango Sarisi)
( Amarelo Manga )
Brazil - 2002
Director: Claudio Assis
Mango
Yellow (
Mango Sarisi ) – ( Amarelo Manga )
Mango
Yellow
is a provocative tale of amorous meetings and
misunderstandings among low-rent losers, set in the
coastal town of Recife, Brazil. Like Characters out of
some Carnival hell , a macho butcher and his born-again
wife , a forlorn , young and beautiful barmaid , a
sinister sadist, and the gay cook of flophouse called
the
Hotel Texas
run in and out of each other’s lives..
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Maria
Romania 2003
Director:
Peter Calin Netzer
"Maria" is a film that presents a destiny! In a
desperate situation, a woman chooses prostitution as a
last-ditch solution to fend for her children. Beyond the
implications of this case real, the film also depicts
the struggle of transition. Ion Maria’s husband, Milco,
and Mala are characters who try to make a change in
their lives. In fact, for them this change means nothing
more than survival. Unemployed people, prostitutes who
try to accost truckers at road junctures, tenants of
flats who can no longer pay for their rent, two-bit
crooks, all live a chaotic, ruthless, most of the time
unfair life. Still, responsibility, friendship, and even
love are not absent from the picture. Yet none of the
characters can actually alter his destiny, except of
Maria. Moved by her plight, the authorities decide to
come to her assistance. But this is only a tiny flicker
of hope …
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Ring Of Fire
Lebanon
2004
Director:
Bahij Hojeij
In this universe, where every minute of life is a
miracle, “Shafic“remains disconnected and refuses to put
up with the surrounding elements. He totally rejects the
logic of war.
Disconnected, lost; he is in love with the student he
met in the janitor’s room under a flood of falling
bombs. Later, the girl he seeks remains missing until a
point where we ask ourselves whether she really exists.
If this is the case, she seems to be the sole pretext of
his quest for salvation.
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Love in Concrete
Venezuela 2003
Director: Franco de Pena
Caracas is a chaotic city, crammed with high concrete
buildings that hide the mountains. People are jammed
with traffic, and robbery and murder are common. Many
people living in poverty are in anguish and struggle for
money to survive. The country is played by the rising
crime rate and plundered by politicians. It is a
tropical version of the worst side of Los Angeles.
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Pupendo
Czec
2003
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Bedrich Mara, a sculptor, lives with his wife, Alena, a
potter, and thier two sons, Matej and Bobes, in a small
apartment on the Prague riverbank. For political
reasons, he was forced to leave his post as the head of
a studio at Prague’s Academy of Art several years
earlier. His work is banned from being exhibited and he
is deliberately overlooked in lucrative orders. His
fishing rod is his companion during his lonely moments
of contemplation…
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Guarded
Secrets
Hungary 2004
Director: Zsuzasa Boszormenyi
Imma Varro was eighteen years old when she left the
orphanage. All she knows about her past is that she was
abandoned at birth. She knows only a few sure, hard
facts about her life. She is pregnant; she has just
found her first decent opportunity in life, a job as a
cleaning woman. As this is the best deal of her life,
she decides to sell her unborn baby with the help of a
child- dealer. But who is she? Who was her mother? …
More to come…
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Under The Same Sky
Bulgaria 2003
Director: Krassimir Krumov
In a mountainous village, the 15-year-old Rufie lives
with her granny. Forced by the unemployment, her father
had gone to Turkey, but there has been no word of him
for the past three years. Even Rufie’s relatives start
that he has forgotten about her and will not come back.
She decides to cross the border to search for him.
Hairedin, Rufie’s father, is one day among a group of
refugees who are traveling to Bulgaria. In the night
they meet but do not recognize each other in the dark ….
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Morning
Raga
A Meeting of Worlds
India 2004
Director: Mahesh Dattani
The "dramatic personae" are people from a small village
in South India on a bus journey to the city. They are
full of varied aspirations, oblivious to the tragedy
that is about to befall them. An accident on the way
leaves many villagers coping with the loss of their
loved ones. It is the story of three such lives
inextricably linked by this tragedy and how they come to
terms with their loss by one strong uniting force-
music!
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The Miracle
( Il Miracolo )
Italy - 2003
Director: Edoardo Winspeare
One day, twelve year-old Tonino is hit by a car
whose driver, Cinzia, runs away in fright without trying
to help the injured child. Before he loses
consciousness, Tonino sees something that will change
his life. After being taken to the hospital, he comes
out of his coma, and, while wandering through the
hallways and rooms at night, he comes across a dying
man. The line on the patient’s electrocardiogram monitor
is flat. But when Tonino touches him, the man’s heart
starts beating normally once again. Is it a
miracle?
The Best Day Of My Life
(Il
Piu Bel Giorno Della Mia Vita)
Italy - 2002
Director: Cristina Comencini
Irene lives in an old house linked to memories from
the past. Her greatest regret is not having been able to
transmit her attachment to the house and concept of the
family to her three children. After losing her husband,
her oldest daughter, Sara, lives in absolute emotional
solitude. Her other daughter, Rita, has a beautiful
house, a husband and two children, but is having an
affair with Davide. Finally, there is Claudio, her son,
who is a lawyer and hides his homosexuality. The
combination of dissatisfaction and repressed desires
generates a continual state of tension. However, when a
mysterious man called Sandro turns up to disturb Sara’s
tranquil existence, and Luca’s arrival, forces Claudio
to make a choice, the emotional earthquake provoked by
these two events changes everyone’s lives.
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Saniye’s
Pleasure
(Saniyes
Lust)
Germany - 2003
Director: Subiye V. Gunar
Saniye’s
Pleasure (Saniyes Lust)
Saniye, a modern young woman of Turkish descent,
after her wedding, develops a strong desire to catch up
with her family’s expectations. She desperately wants to
become a mother.. It’s a film about love between Saniye
and Tom. Saniye believes that a marriage can only be
completed with a child..
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Down The
Colorful Hill
(W dol
Kolorowym Wzgorzem)
Poland -
2004
Director: Przemyslaw Wojcieszek
A story of a twenty- some year old man
who tries hard to start life after being released from
prison. He comes back to his native town with the hope
of restoring a relationship with his girlfriend. She,
however, is already married to his brother, who is just
about to sell their family house and she move to Warsaw.
This is an” unhappy-end” story, set deeply in the
reality of the provincial Poland.
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Big Fish
USA - 2004
Director: Tim Burton
Big Fish
A wonderful storyteller Edward Bloom
recounts tall tales of his wild worldly adventures. Told
through a series of vignettes, his stories involve a
witch, a giant, a haunted forest, and yes, a big fish. A
self-described small-town hero, Bloom explains how he
left home at 18 determined to experience anything and
everything life could dish out. Utterly unbelievable yet
magical and delightful, his stories just don’t translate
to his son Will who wants to know his dad’s “ true “
life story. But little by little – through increasingly
outlandish tales at which Will can not resist smirking –
the two begin to understand each other, and Bloom weaves
his stories into their genealogical fabric.
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Take Me Away
Prendini E Portami Via
Italy - 2003
Director: Tonino Zangardi
A dozen firemen are battling flames at the gipsy
camp tonight. Somebody set fire to a trailer and the
area is full of smoke. Frightened screams are echoing in
the distance. Two men are arrested in the middle of the
night, as we are told by a young voice off screen. “And
that is where our story begins…”
Six months ago, a thirteen–year old gipsy girl moved
into the nomad camp of a dull and ordinary suburb on the
outskirts of Rome .The locals have a hard time accepting
strangers and show little sympathy for the newcomers.
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Fatal Attraction
( Attraction Fatale)
( Dot The I ) - 2003
Director: Matthew Parkhill
Fiery Flamenco dancer Carmen is engaged
to wealthy, kind, but dull Barnaby, who wants only to
spoil her and protect her from her violent past in
Spain. On the night of her bachelorette party, she
encounters Kit, a sweet but reserved Brazilian actor who
awakens in her a mysterious passion …
Pharaoh
Faraonul / Faraon
Romania - 2004
Director: Sinisa
Dragin
Costache Nicolau is a seedy old beggar who wanders
around Bucharest. Once a day he eats at a charity
shelter and at night sleeps in a squalid apartment. He
is a former political prisoner who spent 40 years in
Siberia. A young TV reporter, interested in his story ,
would like to shoot a program about him. How did he
return home from exile? Why won’t he speak about his
family? Why do they call him the Pharaoh? The reporter
who seeks the answer to this question herself becomes
part of a documentary testimony about contemporary
Romania which is now passing through a process of social
transformation, “ It’s also a film about her, a fairly
normal and ordinary girl, and about her first taste of
discovery. Will she start looking at the world through
different eyes? “
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Sinisa Dragin:
-
Born in 1960 in
Kula
- Studied economics in Subotica , then
went on to Film Academy in Bucharest - Since 1992 he
has worked as a camera man for Reuters, shooting in
addition his own documentaries ( e.g.
The
Sorrow Of Black Gold, The
Rain,
Sun Is Shining Over Tichilesti
– awarded prizes at many festivals .
- His first television feature
Long Journey By train
won several awards such as Best Screenplay-Grand Prix-
at Geneva, the Special Jury Prize at Dijon, and the
Special Prize at the European Film Forum in Strasbourg
in 1998.
- The Success was followed by
Every Day God Kisses Us On The Mouth
2001; in 2002 the film was shown in the Horizons section
at Karlov Vary and won Best Director and the Special
Jury Prize at the Cairo IFF, among many others.
-
Pharaoh
is his latest feature .
Beyond The
Frontline
(Etulinjan
Edessa
)
Finland - 2004
Director: Ake Lindman
Beyond The Front Line
( Etulinjan Edessa )
The film’s story centers on Finland’s
Continuation War with the Soviet Union and especially
the experiences of Finland’s Swedish- speaking Infantry
Regiment 61 in Karelia during 1942-1944. In the spring
of 1942, a young Lieutenant named Harry Jarv is sent to
the front, at a time when the front was relatively
quiet. Jarv proves his skill at plans and executing
patrols and quickly earns the respect and trust of his
men. The new commander of the regiment, Lieutenant
Colonel Marttinen also notices Jarv’s skill and makes
him responsible for the execution of the whole
regiment’s patrols. Jarv and Marttinen become friends.
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Addiction
– When Nothing Is Enough
( Levottomat 3 – Kun
Mikaan Ei Riita )
Finland - 2004
Director: Minna Virtanen
Addiction – When
Nothing Is Enough ( Levottomat 3 – Kun Mikaan Ei Riita )
A story about a woman and her destructive
obsession.. Jonna is an ambitious businesswoman in her
thirties. On the surface, her life appears to be in
order: she is successful in her career at an advertising
agency, married to a nice and respected man with whom
she has two lovely children… Jonna is living a lie. She
is not at all satisfied with her marriage and she flings
herself into a maelstrom of casual sex and one-night
stands, all the time believing in an illusion of control
over the situation. She is quickly drawn into a cycle of
sexual addiction, with no way out.
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Mrs. De
?
( Madame De…)
France / Italy - 1953
Director: Max Ophuls
Mrs. De ? ( Madame De…)
Countess Louise De... sells her valuable earrings, a
gift from General André De…, her military officer
husband. But she tells him a different story, claiming
that she lost the earrings while attending the opera.
This story reaches the newspapers, whereupon the jeweler
who bought the earrings resells them to the General. The
husband chooses to say nothing and gives the baubles to
his mistress.
And God Created Woman
( Et Dieu Crea La femme)
France - 1956
Director: Roger Vadim
And God Created Women ( Et Dieu Crea La femme)
Sexy orphan Juliette marries Michel. Juliette,
however, is pursued by the wealthy Eric. She has an
affair with Antoine; Michel’s brother. Nonetheless,
Michel fights for Juliette and manages to lure her back.
It’s a simple story, but full of strength and energy.
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Singing Behind Screens
Cantando Dietro I Paraventi
Italy / UK / France - 2003
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Singing Behind Screens (Cantando Dietro I Paraventi)
A young and ingenious student finds himself in a
small, out of way theatre, where it is possible to buy
transgressions and sexual relations. From the stage the
Old Captain is telling the story of Ching and a pirate
during the period of the Chinese Empire. Ching was
married to a brave pirate who had been killed by
treachery even if he was co-operating with the Emperor.
The widow never accepted this outrage so decided to
become the most fearful pirate all over China.
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Replay
(La Repetition)
France / Canada – 2001
Director: Catherine Corsini
Replay ( La Repetition)
Nathalie and Louise are friends from
childhood. While studying drama at University, Louise
becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of
the male friends she has, she breaks up the friendship,
followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise marries,
but finds the time to see Nathalie who is an
accomplished actress by now. They fight through the
years. La Repetition following them as their friendship
comes together and breaks up frequently, while never
actually reaching anything that can be called a climax.
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His Secret Life
( Le Fati Ignoranti)
Italy / France - 2002
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
His Secret Life ( Le Fati Ignoranti)
Aid’s doctor Antonia’s husband is
killed in a car accident. She gets depressed until she
learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following
her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see her
husband’s lover, Michele, and finds a huge apartment
that he shares with gay and transgendered friends,
including a Turkish immigrant and a prostitute. Antonia
is reluctant to tell these people of her relationship
with the dead man, but needs prompting to move on to a
new phase of life.
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Three Colors: Blue
(Trois Couleurs: Bleu)
France / Poland / Switzerland / Uk - 1993
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colors: Blue is the first part of
Kieslowski’s trilogy on France’s national motto:
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Blue is the story of
Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed European
composer and a young daughter in a car accident. The
theme of the film - liberty - is manifested in Julie’s
attempt to start a new life free of personal
commitments, belongings, grief, and love. She intends to
commit suicide spiritually by withdrawing from the world
and live completely independently, anonymously and in
solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her
intentions, people from her former and present life
intrude with their own needs.
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Endless Way
China
Director: Shen Wensheng
Though love stories are more or less alike, lovers
always are unique. So, is our story , where a young man
called Ah Ming loves a young woman called Ah Shui in a
remote, old and water - scarce village of West Hunan in
China. As the girl's father was accused by somehow being
responsible for the death of her lover's father, the
story turns to be dramatically romantic. The lover never
reaches , as the road is endless. This is of course the
tragic end of such a love as all the great romance
stories , whether, in life or in movies.
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In 1904, Russia is rocked by a series of cruel and cold
blooded murders. Prominent government and military
officials fall vicitim to terrorists
The Rider Named Death
Russia
2003
Director
: Karen Shakhnazarov
Karen Shakhnazarov
- Film director, scriptwriter and producer.
- In 1975, he graduated from the Film Directing
Department of Moscow State Institute of Cinematography
(Vigik, studio I, Talankin).
- Since 1976 he has been a film director in Mosifilm
Studios.
- From 1991 ttill now , he has been the chairman of
the" Courier "studios at Mosifilm Cinema Concern.
- Since 1998, he has been the General Director and
Chairman of Mosifilm Cinema Concen.
- Awards: People's Artist Award of the Russian
Federation (2002) Lenin Komsomol Award (1986) Vasiliev
Brothers State Award (1988) and Memeber of the European
Film Academy.
-His films are well known to both Russian and foreign
spectators and have received prizes at the world's
most prestigious film festivals and forums.
-His feature films are: "Kind- Hearted Ones" (1979)
"Jazz Men "(1983), "A Winter Night in Gagra" (1985),
"The Town of Zero" (1988), "Assassin of the Tsar"
(1991), " Dreams" (1993)"American Daughter" (1995)," The
Day of the Full Moon" (1998)," Poisons" or the World's
History of Poisoning (2001)
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The Magician
Mexico
2004
Director: Jaime Aparicio
Upon finding out he's suffering from a terminal disease,
Tadeo the street magician decides to settle matters from
the past. Felix, his assistant, is a blind man involved
in drug trafficking in the slums. When he thinks he has
paid his debts, Tadeo, with the help of Morgana - his
neighbour- performs one last magic act that will
transform the meaning of the final days of his life.
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Visitor
Bahrain
2003
Director: Bassam Al- Thawadi
Fatima, is a young woman who suffers from frequent
visual hallucinations, regarding a man . One day, this
mysterious man gives her a visit. After that, she feels
responsible to uncover these mysterious painful
visions, and their connection with the graves in the
city of "Aaly".
Not Me
Italy
2003
Director: Simona Izzo - Ricky Tognazzi
Brotherhood, love, passion, treason.. this is the life
for some people who prefer to take advantage of what
they've got . Whether they have it by birth or blood or
nature or kidness, is not important. Mercy is not a
game, it is a card, you can throw it away if you want to
win. So, play Flavio with his brother Franscesco, their
mistress Elisa and even with the mother of his children
Laura. But , a life like this will end in a way
equivalent to its deeds, indeed.
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The Black Room
Moroco
2004
Director: Hassan Benjellon
Kamal and Najat are two young people who are in love,
with a hopeful future in their jobs in the airport.
Suddenly, all their dreams turn upside down with the
fact that Kamal was a political activist during the
university' days , when he was a student . Although , he
no longer has any connections with his former comrades,
he refuses to mention their names or place, and bravely
accepts a harsh sentence for the old days.
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C'Era una Volta il West
Once Upon a Time in The West
Italy / USA
1968
Director : Sergio Leone
Brett McBain is preparing a welcoming feast for the
woman he married last month in New Orleans when he and
his three children are gunned down by desperadoes.
Frank, the most hardened villain, works for the railroad
that will pass through the land McBain's widow, Jill ,
has just inherited . Will auctioning off the land
quickly increase her odds of surviving ? Harmonica gets
the money for the high bid by turning in Cheyenne for
the $5,000 award . He gets the property and Jill too,
but seems more interested in settling an old score with
Frank than either the land or the lovely widow.
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L'Avventura
The Adventure
Italy/ France 1960
Director : Michelangelo Antonioni
A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to
a a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean.When
they are about to leave the island, they discover that
Anna, the main character up to this point, is missing .
Sandro , Anna's boyfriend, and Claudia, Anna's friend ,
try without success to find her. While looking for the
missing friend, Claudia and Sandro develop an attraction
for each other. When they get back to land, they
continue the search with no success. Sandro and Claudia
proceed to become lovers, and all but forget about the
missing Anna.
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"Bless The Woman"
Russia 2003
Director : Stanislav Govorukhin
Vera in her mid-thirties, follows her husband from one
garrison to another. In the hardest conditions she tries
to create an atmosphere of cosiness in her house and to
find happiness. The war is already inevitably
approaching, war destroyed everyday life and her
husband's life ruined by war. Vera finds happiness and
peace only after she returns to her beloved sea, in a
southern Russian city.
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"Bellissimia"
Luchino Visconti
Italy 1951
Film director Alessandro Blasetti is looking for a
little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers.
Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecitta,hoping she’ll
be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice
anything for little Maria, even if her husband would
prefer to save their severely limited money for thw
rent, instead of paying teachers, hairdressers or brides
for her illusions.
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"Roma Citta ‘ Aperta
Roberto Rossellini"
Italy 1945
Rome, 1944. Giorgio Manfredi, one of the leaders of the
Resistance, is tracked down by the Nazis. He goes to his
friend Francesco’s and asks Pina, Francesco’s fiancée.
For help, Pina must warm a priest, Don Pietro
Pellegirini, that Giorgio needs to leave the town as
soon as possible..
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"L’Onorevole Angelina"
Luigi Zampa
Italy 1947
A
rowdy woman is so forceful she outdoes her husband in a
loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people
entrance to a block pf new apartments, built after World
War Il. Without realizing it, she starts a people’s
movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns
to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is
still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get into a
hairpulling brawl with bramid for the affection of her
man.
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"Campodi Fiori”
Mario Bernard
Italy 1943
Reppino sells fish at the market in the
square,Campo di Fiori. Next to him Elide sells fruit and
is attracted to him but Peppino and his friend Aurelio,
called the Sheep, are macho and don’t want to hear about
getting married. So when Elsa stops by to buy a fish
from him Reppino is swept away and tries to win her over
in any way he can, and he winds up gambling, in prison
and then goes to see Elsa in jail, even playing daddy to
carletto, Elsa’s son. But just when his dreams seem to
be coming true, he realizes that what he had been
looking for, all along was much closer than he thought.
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Up Against Them All
Brazil 2004
Director: Roberto
Moreira
In a barren district on the outskirts of
ٍSao
Paulo, we find Teodoro and his teenage daughter,
Soninha, living with Claudia, Teodoro’s second wife. The
daily life of this low middle-class family, however, is
built upon lies. Behind a mask of religiosity, Teodoro
makes a living as a hired gun-man, beats his rebellious
daughter, Soninha, and has an affair with Terezinha, his
church going companion.
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Kyun Ho Gaya Na
India
2004
Director: Samir
Karnik
It is a simple story about love and life. But who said
that love and life are all that simple …??? Diya
Malhotra meets Arjun Khanna under unusual circumstances.
It proves to be a perfect beginning to a memorable
relationship. Once she arrives in Mumbai she realizes
that she will be staying in the same house as Arjun. The
ground is thus set for events that were always meant to
be. The friendship that develops between Diya and
Aarjun, spiced up with their opposing views on love and
marriage, form the heart of this film.
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Take Me Away
Italy
2004
Director:
Tonino Zangardi
A dozen firemen are battling flames at the gipsy camp
tonight. Somebody set fire to a trailer and the area is
full of smoke. Frightened screams echo in the distance.
Two men are arrested in the middle of the night, as we
are told by a young voice off screen. Six month ago, a
13-year old gipsy girl moved into nomads’ camp of a dull
and ordinary suburb on the outskirts of Rome … That’s
where our story begins…
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Ay
Juancito
Argentina 2003
Director: Hector
Olivera
Here is the rise and fall of Evita’s brother, a charming
social climber whose days of glory and crisis run side
by side with the rise and beginning of the fall of
President Peron. The fortunate brother-in-law is thus
transformed from being a traveling salesman into a man
of influence and the most sought- after bachelor in the
country.
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The Ivy
Mansion-Life
Turkey 2003
Director: Abdullah
Oguz
What will Bahar and Seymen face during their stay in the
U.S. for Bahar’s medical treatment ? Will the great love
of Seymen for Bahar be enough to save her life from the
serious illness? And the family in Cappadocia … Will
they get to know the good news they expect from US?
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A Passion Play
India 2003
Director:
Rituporno Ghosh
"A Passion Play" features a generation of men and women
who are struggling in the everyday level to bring about
change in their personal lives. They are trying to break
free from the straight-jacketed of way of life that no
longer suits them.
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Dad
Goes Nuts
Hungary
2003
Director:
Tamas Sas
Szaka and Barbi have just turned seventeen, an ideal age
to refuse everything associated with the words “you
can’t “. Over one summer they travel around- to Siofok,
Crete, Barcelona and Rome, despite all parental warning.
They are seemingly looking for love but there is more to
this trip. They are trying to find themselves. During
this search they tell a lot of lies, they chase after
romantic dramas and imaginary ideals of mankind, and
they seek to make their dreams come true.
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Memory Lane
)Le
Intermittenze Del Cuore(
Italy - 2003
Director: Fabio Carpi
Memory Lane (Le
Intermittenze Del Cuore)
Memory Lane is the story of an elderly Italian film
director commissioned by a French producer to make a
film to be entitled “Proust”. During the preliminary
preparations, which take him back and forth between
France and Italy, Proust’s great description of
involuntary memory becomes real for him as he starts
reliving key moments from his own past. In a series of
free associations (visual, tactile, acoustic) he
experiences breaking with a group of partisans fighting
the German occupation, falling repeatedly in love with
the same woman whom he fails to recognize after a long
separation, taking her to Switzerland for an abortion,
his relationship with his twenty-year old son who
mirrors back to him his own youth.
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Remember me
)Ricordati
Di Me(
Italy - 2003
Director: Gabriel Muccino
Remember Me (
Ricordati Di Me )
Giulia
and Carlo have two children, Valentina and Paolo. Both
have regrets. He would like to have been a famous writer
and she a well-known actress. But they settled for a
quiet family life. Their daughter Valentina is a
restless eighteen-year old, who wants to become a
showgirl. Her determination brings the dreams and
disappointments of the whole family to a head Giulia
throws herself, body and soul, into fringe theatre.
Carlo meets up with an old girlfriend, and finds love
and fresh confidence in himself. Valentina manages to
get into a quiz show, while Paolo, disappointed by a
girl he had faith in, continues to search for his own
identity. Finally, an outburst of real pain and
suffering makes everyone come to terms with the true
meaning of life.
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The Return
(Vozvraschenie)
Russia - 2003
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Return (
Vozvraschenie )
Director Andrey Zvyagintsev displays an
exquisite, instinctive affinity for the contours and
shifting hues, the murmurs and silences of the northern
lakes and forests. The landscape is another character in
the unfolding human drama, both mirroring the
individuals’ emotions and acting as an alien presence
whose otherness throws the human interactions into
relief.
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Maarek Hob
In The Battlefields
Dans Les Champs de
Bataille
France – Belgium –
Lebanon- 2004
Director:
Danielle Arbid
Maarek Hob
Beirut, 1983. Lina, a twelve-year old
girl, is unconcerned about the war. Her secret,
rebellious childhood centers around Siham, her aunt’s
maid. The little girl takes it upon herself to monitor
the eighteen-year old. She supervises Siham’s
clandestine dates and defends her interests. However,
Lina seems to be as invisible to the maid as she is to
her family, in particular her father, a destructive,
philandering gambler.
In a precious wartime daily existence where passion
and frustrations overshadow everything, Lina
inadvertently reaches into the adult world, unaware of
the existence of good or evil.
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Going Home
Heimkehr
Germany - 2003
Director:
Damir Lukacevic
Going Home / Heimkehr
Coming Home is an emotional and generation-spanning
film about a timeless topic. It is about people looking
for home – people that don’t feel at home anywhere;
about parents who have grown old and lost their
children, children who find new homes but do not forget
where they came from.. The return of their prodigal son
forces a Croatian guest-worker family to face their
painful past and deal with long-repressed feelings.
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The Missing
USA - 2003
Director: Ron Howard
The Missing
The story of Maggie Gilkeson, a young
woman raising her two daughters in an isolated and
lawless wilderness. When her oldest daughter is
kidnapped by a psychopathic killer with mystical powers,
Maggie is forced to re-unite with her long estranged
father to rescue her. The killer and his brutal cult of
desperados have kidnapped several other teenage girls,
leaving a trail of death and horror across the desolate
landscape of the American Southwest. Maggie and her
father are in a race against time to catch up with the
renegades before they cross the Mexican border and
disappear forever.
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Adaptation
USA – 2002
Director: Spike Jonze
Adaptation
Adaptation is the story of Charlie
Kaufman, a confused Los
Angeles screenwriter who is overwhelmed
by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration,
self-loathing and also by the screenwriting ambitions of
his free-loading twin brother Donald. As Kaufman
struggles to adapt “The Orchid Thief”, from a book by
Susan Orlean, we are also drawn into the stories of both
Orlean and her orchid-obsessed subject, John Laroche.
Their lives become strangely intertwined as each one’s
search for passion collides with the other’s.
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If By
Chance
Casomai)
Italy - 2002
Director: Alessandro d’ Alatri
If By Chance
(Casomai)
Tommaso and Stefania meet, fall in love,
get married and have a child. The couple are surrounded
by family, friends and acquaintances, who get involved
and give advice. However, this intense participation
starts to influence the pair’s sentimental life. When
problems at work, financial difficulties and sudden
social isolation take place. Stefania and Tomasso
gradually become a couple like many others. In other
words, they no longer fight, they cannot communicate.
They get on each others nerves without even knowing why.
However, all hope is not lost. Even love is silent,
which does not necessary mean that it is dead. Often it
has only been stifled, hidden under a thousand
difficulties that have nothing to do with love.
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Land Of Love
( Vieralla Maalla)
Director: Ilkka Vanne
Land Of
Love ( Vieralla Maalla)
Tuomas Linna is a post-graduate student
preparing his thesis on the attitudes towards foreigners
in Finland. To get first-hand experience he borrows the
identity of his foreign friend Omar Ghaala. Dressed up
as Omar, Tuomas meets Hanne, a woman teaching Finnish at
a language school for foreigners. They fall in love, but
Tuomas is troubled as he does not know how to reveal his
false identity to Hanne. He tries to impress Hanne as
himself, but everything goes horribly wrong and Hanne
ends up loathing the real Tuomas and loving Omar even
more passionately. Before Tuomas has the opportunity to
explain everything to Hanne, he is forced to take
responsibility for the messy relationships that his
friend, the real Omar, has left unresolved. When the
coil of misunderstandings and lies finally starts to
unravel, Hanne must decide whom it is that she really
loves.
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Pedal Car
)El
Coche De Pedales(
Spain-Portugal - 2003
Director: Ramon Barea
El Coche De Pedales)
Pedal Car)
During the Easter week of 1959, immersed
in the tragicomical social milieu of Franco’s Spain,
where the radio is still the center of the household,
and where the light bulbs continue to work with few
watts, the tale of the melodramatic account of the life
of a nine-year old boy: Pablito. Pablito wants dearly to
get a pedal-push car which he sees in a neighbourhood
shop. His family are lower middle-class, a bit down on
their luck – and they are suffering from a stressful
comparison with other relatives of the family who have
more bourgeois pretensions, better luck and some good
connections.
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The Devils
(Les
Diaboliques)
France -
1955
Director: Henri
Georges Clouzot
The Devils (Les
Diaboliques)
It’s the greatest
film that Alfred Hitchkock never made.. Les Diaboliques
is set in a provincial boarding school run by headmaster
Michel Dalasalle. A ruthless Lothario becomes the target
of a murder plot concocted by his long-suffering invalid
wife Christina, and the icy teacher and his latest
mistress. It’s a dark, dank thriller with a
much-imitated shock ending.
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Fragile
( Fragil)
Spain -
2004
Director:
Juanmo Bajo Ulloa
Fragile (
Fragil)
Venus
is a nine year old girl who lives alone with her father
in an isolated valley up north. She’s sweet, intelligent
and enchanting, although she has not exactly inherited
her late mother’s beauty. Her daily routine is a calm
and gentle one, helping her father in the tasks of
producing a delicious homemade honey. Every day she
awaits an affectionate gesture from her statuesque
father in vain. Fifteen years later Venus is still
awaiting the return of her true love. Then, unexpectedly
one morning her father appears, dead, in her bedroom.
Venus is finally able to abandon her home in search of
her first and only love.
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Mix
Hungary/ USA - 2004
Director: Steven Lovy
Mix
A
young Los Angeles club DJ, caught between the wishes of
his overbearing father and his dreams of musical
freedom, uncovers danger, music, a dark family secret
and the girl of his dreams, while navigating the sexy
and often dangerous streets of Budapest’s famous night
life.
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Amarcord
Italy / France 1973
Director : Federico Fellini
In this movie Fellini
portrays his home town of Rimini as he remembered it in
30s, during his younger days. Many bizarre but very warm
and human characters with their particular Mediterranean
humour make this movie the most popular of all Fellini's
works.
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The Dark Side of our
Inner Space
Germany2003
Director: Roland
Reber
Tanja, Jessie, Anna,
Marcus, and kay hear about a game that will take place
in a locked abandoned military base. It is a game
without any of the limits imposed by normal social
conventions. They apply. Once the "Great Game" begins,
they dragged into the dadrker recesses of their "inner
selves".
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Under The Tuscan Sun
US 2004
Director: Audrey
Wells
The
life of recently divorced San Francisco writer Frances
Mayes is about to take an unexpected but much needed
upturn. Trying to shake Frances out of her lethargy and
post-breakup funk, her friend Patti offers Frances a
gift that she hopes will do the trick: a ten day trip to
Tuscany, in the heart of Italy. And right there, under
the Tuscan sun, the unlikeliest thing happens: Frances
impulsively buys a run-down villa named "Brambasole" and
in doing so plunges herself into a brand new life.
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Place
Vendome
France -
1998
Director:
Nicole Garcia
Place Vendome
Place Vendome is one of the posh Paris
squares, where the jewelers’ district includes the firm
run by Vincent Malivert with his brother, Eric. Although
Vincent has a top reputation in the field, his British
colleagues suspect he fences stolen diamonds. Vincent’s
alcoholic wife Marianne, who goes to a classy clinic to
dry out, does not like the thought of signing papers to
transfer the firm’s name to other hands, a move that
will save the firm from bankruptcy. Thanks to Vincent,
she knows of some hidden diamonds, but others would also
like to locate the hidden pouch.
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Don’t Move
(Non Ti Muovere)
Italy / Spain / UK -
2004
Director: Sergio
Castellitto
Don’t Move (Non Ti
Muovere)
A
surgeon sees his daughter arriving at the hospital where
he works; she’s in a coma after a road accident. During
the long operation, Timoteo, confesses, in an imaginary
dialogue with his daughter, a painful secret: an
extramarital love story, strong and deep.
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Cattolica
German / Switzerland
- 2004
Director: Rudolph
Jula
Cattolica:
Stefan is
somebody who likes to enjoy all the pleasures in life;
he is curious, playful and rather ironic. If at all
possible, he avoids any effort and strain. He drinks a
lot, loves smoking and occasionally works at a trendy
club. One evening, Stefan spots a stranger sitting at
the bar, a man who is carefully checking him out.
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Sole
Sisters
( Filles
Uniques)
France -
2003
Director:
Pierre Jolivet
Sole
Sisters ( Filles Uniques)
Upper-class attorney Carole meets working-class Tina,
who has been arrested twice for shoplifting expensive
shoes. The two women start up an unlikely friendship
after Tina proves herself particularly valuable to a
certain case. Carole then takes her on board for another
case involving corrupt casino player Mermot.
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Story Of
Women
(Une
Affaire De Femmes)
France -
1988
Director: Claude
Chabrole
Story Of Women (Une
affaire De Femmes)
The time is
1941, and the place is a Nazi-occupied French town.
Struggling to survive Marie turns to illegally
terminating unwanted pregnancies for hefty fees. As her
income increases Marie moves her family from their grimy
surroundings to a posh apartment, sharing her digs with
her new friend, prostitute Lulu. Completely seduced by
her affluent lifestyle, Marie ignores her shell-shocked
husband Paul, preferring to dally with Nazi collaborator
Lucien. Things take a disastrous turn after one of
Marie’s customers dies, and her disgruntled husband
turns her over to the authorities.
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What Will Happen To
Us?
( Che Ne
Sara’ Di Noi?)
Italy - 2004
Director: Giovanni
Veronesi
What
Will Happen to Us?
( Che Ne Sara’ Di Noi?)
After
receiving the diploma, three young guys go on a trip to
Greece, where they realize how very ignorant they are
about life. They will discover solutions for life’s
dilemmas that differ from those presented by their
parents, perhaps unconsciously but more authentic.
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Love Returns
(L’ Amore Ritorna)
Italy - 2004
Director: Sergio
Rubini
Love Returns (L’
Amore Ritorna)
An actor-director,
now forty-years old and reached a certain fame, is
acting in one film and about to direct another. Suddenly
he feels sick on the set, and day by day he gets worse.
This makes him begin to think about his life: the past,
the purpose of his life, his love, his work and cinema.
At the end he will find the solution and where, upon he
make a comeback.
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Caterina In The Big
City
( Caterina Va In
Citta)
Italy - 2003
Director: Paolo Virzi
Caterina In The Big
City ( Caterina Va In Citta)
When her father
Giancarlo is transferred to Rome, Caterina, a 12-year
old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally
new world, an extremely politically divided environment.
And developing her friendship with the link represented
by Margerita and the right Daniela side of her class she
will lose herself, without knowing who really she is.
However, maybe Edward, the boy who lives in the facing
windows, can help her more that she imagines.
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The Grand
Maneuvers
(Les
Grandes Manoeuvres)
Italy /
France - 1955
Director:
Rene Clair
The Grand
Manoeuvres (Les Grandes Manoeuvres)
Les
Grandes Manoeuvres takes us convincingly back to France
of some hundred years ago to a town, which shows how its
prominent citizens live. In 1913, the dashing dragoon
officer Armand de la Verne wagers with his friends that
he can make the next woman who enters the room fall in
love with him. Marie-Loiuse Riviere is a divorced
Parisian running a ladies’ fashion shop. At last she
herself is seduced by officer Armand’s tireless efforts.
But at that very special moment their relationship takes
a turn for the worse.
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The Rest Of Nothing
Il Resto Di Niente
Italy - 1999
Director: Antonella
De Lillo
The Rest Of Nothing
(Il Resto Di Niente )
A meticulous report as well as stories
are the means through which Enzo Straiano, the author of
Il Resto Di Niente, keeps alive the memory of the
Neapolitan Revolution of 1799. The ideal of a new world,
of a more modern system of distribution of work and
wealth; the dream of a Republic based on a common
responsibility. Such a utopia seemed to become true
through the short-lived experience of the Neopolitan
Republic with Eleonora Pimental Fonseca, one of the
chief protagonists of that period.
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The Woman Next Door
(La Femme d’ a ‘
Cote’)
France - 1981
Director: Francois
Truffaut
The Woman Next Door
(La Femme d’ a ‘ Cote’)
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the
tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living
happily with his wife Arlette and their son Thomas. One
day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, move into
the next house. This is the accidental reunion between
Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair
years ago. Now the relationship revives!
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Suddenly, Paradise
( Il Paradiso All’
Improvviso)
Italy - 2003
Director: Leonardo
Pieraccioni
Suddenly, Paradise(
IlParadiso All’ Improvviso)
Lorenzo, owner of a special effects
business, is contacted by the gorgeous South American
Amaranta, to organize a party for her boyfriend who is
coming to Ischia to spend a week-end with her. But the
boyfriend does not arrive, and Lorenzo gets involved in
this lover’s week-end…
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Three Men And A Leg
( Tre Uomini E Una
Gamba)
Italy - 1997
Director: Aldo
Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti
Three Men And A Leg
(Tre Uomini E Una Gamba)
Three
friends leave Milan heading south. Two of them are
married to two sisters, the third one is going to marry
the third sister. The marriage is going to take place in
the Villa of their vulgar but very rich father- in- law.
They are also bringing him a work of modern art: a
wooden leg worth millions even if it does not look like
it. During the journey everything happens: the future
groom falls in love with another woman, the leg is lost
to team of Moroccoian football players and then given
back and a dog, belonging to the old man, is lost. The
father- in- law gets angrier and angrier and when they
get in front of the villa, he is waiting for them with a
shotgun in his hands…
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One Hundred Steps
I Cento Passi
Italy - 2000
Director: Marco
Tullio Giordana
One hundred steps was the distance
between the Impastatos’ house and the house of Tano
Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small
Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of
Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist who in the
last seventies (when almost nobody dared to speak about
Mafia, and several politicians maintained that Mafia did
not even exist) repeatedly denounced Badalamenti crimes
and the whole Mafia system using a small local radio
station, with the weapon of irony. In 1978 Peppino,
(thirty years old) was killed by an explosion. The
police archived the case as an accident or a suicide,
but his friends never accept this thesis. It is a true
story! More than twenty years after Peppino’s death, the
case has been re-opened.
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Dance of the Wind
(La Danse Du Vent)
Tunisia - 2003
Director: Taieb
Louhichi
Fifty year-old Youssef, a film master is
preparing to shoot a film. While on location in Southern
Tunisia, he meets a beautiful shepherdess. After his car
breaks down, he finds himself in the middle of nowhere.
Resigned to this fate, he builds a makeshift shelter and
goes on dreaming about his film. In the meantime, this
assistant and script girl is looking for him, leading
the viewers through various settings as they live scenes
simultaneously imagined by the director. Little by
little, he becomes lost in the madness of the desert.
His hallucinations give birth to strange creatures.
Suddenly he has realizes he has become his film’s main
protagonist.
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Looking For Freedom
Egypt - 2004
Director: Inas
ElDegheedi
Looking For Freedom
Three Arab girls immigrate to Paris seeking liberty.
Amal from Lebanon escapes from the war, Soad from
Morocco escapes from poverty, while the Egyptian Aida is
searching for her artistic ambition. But they realize
that liberty has no relation with the place, which is
inside each human being.
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The Prince (Le
Prince)
Tunisia – 2004
Director: Mohamed
Zran
( The Prince )
A realistic and
poetic comedy with the ambition of portraying social
relationships in contemporary Tunisia, albeit making
concessions. Entirely shot on location in Tunis as a
documentary, it tells of the adventures of an Utopian
flower seller Adel, who undertakes to seduce Donia, a
beautiful banker who is ten years his senior.
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Rewind
Korea - 2003
Director: Hak-Soon
Kim
Rewind
Rewind is the story of a man who opens a
video store after his divorce. While enjoying calm days
alone watching videos, he experiences two incidents
which disturb his peace: love letters from an unknown
woman, and a mistakenly returned “home video”. Both
intriguing events make him feel something is missing in
his life, which he has been trying to live on his own in
a sweet leisure, freed from daily cares. These events
slowly reawaken the passion he had once known but lost.
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Identity
Kills
Germany - 2004
Director: Soeren
Voigt
Identity Kills:
Twenty-four-year old Karen is
increasingly losing her sense for reality. Almost
destroyed by the constant pressure of environmental
confirmation, she begins to defend herself in criminal
activities. Using different identities she gets over her
mental illness, becoming an imposter and finally a
killer.
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Warsaw
(Warszawa)
Poland - 2003
Director: Dariusz
Gajewski
Warsaw (Warszawa)
All the characters of this film come to
Warsaw from the provinces one winter day. They hope the
city will be where their dreams are going to come true.
Warsaw becomes their testing ground.. Klara and the
twenty-year old Pawel are looking for work. Wiktoria and
Andrzej in his mid thirties, meet on the way and
tentatively begin to believe they can make a couple.
Dad, fifty-something, has come here in search of his
daughter, who has been gone for three months without
leaving a word. In the evening, all these strangers come
together in a sense, through car accident. Then, they
part ways again.
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"Bless The Woman"
Russia 2003
Director : Stanislav
Govorukhin
Vera in her
mid-thirties, follows her husband from one garrison to
another. In the hardest conditions she tries to create
an atmosphere of cosiness in her house and to find
happiness. The war is already inevitably approaching,
war destroyed everyday life and her husband's life
ruined by war. Vera finds happiness and peace only after
she returns to her beloved sea, in a southern Russian
city.
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"Mamma Roma"
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1962
Mamma Roma is a
middle- aged Roman whore. After her pimp gets married,
she can quit the streets and get a job selling fruit.
All she wants is to provide her 16-year-old son, Ettore
with a decent home. But he resents her past and gets
involved with a group of hoodlums. He gets arrested
during a robbery. In the end , he dies in prison.
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"Bellissimia"
Luchino Visconti
Italy 1951
Film director
Alessandro Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his
new movie. Along with other mothers. Maddelena takes her
daughter to Cinecitta, hoping she'll be selected and
become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for
little Maria, even if her husband would prefer to save
their severely limited money for the rent, instead of
paying teachers, hairdressers or bribes for her
illusions.
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“Roma Citta ' Aperta"
Roberto Rossellini
Italy / 1945
Rome, 1944. Giorgio
Manfredi, one of the leaders of the Resistance, is
tracked down by the Nazis. He goes to his friend
Francesco's and asks Pina, Francesco's fiancée. for
help, Pina must warn a priest, Don Pietro Pellegrini,
that Giorgio needs to leave the town as soon as
possible...
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"L'Onorevole Angelina"
Luigi Zampa
Italy 1947
A rowdy woman is so
forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry
against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a
block pf new apartments, built after World War II.
Without realizing it, she starts a people's movement,
and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her
village a winner , an honourable MP. Yet, she is still
the same simple , fiery woman, able to get into a
hairpulling brawl with barmaid for the affection of her
man.
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Campo di' Fiori
Mario Bernard
Italy 1943
Peppino sells fish
at the market in the square, Campo di Fiori. Next to him
Elide sells fruit and is attracted to him, but Peppino
and his friend Aurelio, called the Sheep, are macho and
don't want to hear about getting married. So when Elsa
stops by to buy a fish from him Peppino is swept away
and tries to win her over in any way he can, and he
winds up gambling, in prison and then goes to see Elsa
in jail, even playing daddy to Carletto, Elsa's son. But
just when his dreams seem to be coming true, he realizes
that what he had been looking for, all along was much
closer than he thought.
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La Ciociara
"Two Women"
Italy/ France
1960
Director : Vittorio De Sica
Cesira and her
13-year old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied
bombing of Rome during the Second World War. They travel
to the village where Cesira was born. During their
journey and in the village, the mother does everything
to protect Rosetta. However, on one occasion, they both
are raped by soldiers, hiding in a church. This cruel
event is too much for the forever combative Cesira who
suffers a nervous breakdown. During their stay in the
village, a young intellectual, Michele, falls in love
with Cesira who does not know how to reply to the
advances of such a gentleman.
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Il Caso Mattei,
The Mattei Affair
Italy 1972
Director : Francesco Rosi
Enrico Mattei helped
change Italy's future, in World War II as
freedom-fighter against the Nazis. He later becomes an
investor in methane gas through a public company,
A.G.I.P., as the head of ENI, a state body formed for
the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962,
he died when his private airplane crashed, one minute
before it should have landed at Milan airport.
Officially, he died of a flight accident. Actually, many
journalists explored other plausible reasons for the
untimely landing of the small aircraft.
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Eroe dei nostri Tempi, un
"Hero of Our Times"
Italy 1955
Director : Mario Monicelli
Alberto Menichetti
lives with his aunt and an housekeeper, Clotilde. He has
a job in a firm , his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow
whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She
likes him but Alberto likes Marcella, who is under age
.He is awaiting her birthday to declare his love . His
natural tendency is to be fearful of everything and to
be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble.
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Divorzio all Italiana
Divorce - Italian Style
Italy
1961
Director : Pietro Germi
Baron
Fefé is a Sicilian nobleman bored by life and by his
wife Rosalia: he falls in love with his young and
beautiful cousin Angela, who spends summers in the same
palace. Since divorce is impossible in Italy in the
1960s, he decides to kill his wife , knowing that the
sentence will be very light if he can prove that he has
committed this murder for reasons of honour, for
example, if he were to find his wife together with
another man. Therefore, he starts looking for a lover
for Rosalia, using Carmelo Patané, a painter that she
knows well. A delightfully daring plan gives marriage a
surprise ending.
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Homecoming
(Heimkehrer)
( Povratnik)
Germany / Serbia - 2003
Director: Jovan Arsenic
Homecoming ( Heimkehrer) – (Povratnik)
After five
years, MarKo returns to his home village in a secluded
rural region in northern Serbia. He has come to see Anja
and ask her to forgive him. Marko is obsessed and
tormented by memories and we slowly find out the reason
for his long absence. He tries to establish a new trust
with Anja, but the atmosphere in the village is
unbearably tense. Very few people are pleased to see
him. He finds hostility at every turn, is threatened and
even attacked in an attempt to pressure him to leave.
But for Marko one thing is clear: he is not going to go
alone.
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Malefique
France 2002
Director: Eric Valette
This
is a claustrophobic tale of a prison cell where four
inmates must endure each - other until the discovery of
a long lost diary breaks the routine of the daily card
game. The writings of Danvers, a man who sat in the same
barred cell at the beginning of the twentieth century,
prick their curiosity, and with them , they trigger
tragic and horrifying results.
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Seaward Journey
Argentina / Uruguay 2003
2003
Director: Guillermo Casanova
On a Sunday morning
in 1963, at a bar in a settlement in Minas, in Uruguay,
a road cleaner Rattaplan, a gravedigger Quintanta, a
lottery salesman Siete y Tres Diez, and the dog catcher
aquino, are all waiting for Rodriguez who is going to
take them to see the ocean for the first time. El Vasco,
the foreman, is going with them, but against his will. A
newcomer from Montevideo, a well-dressed stranger, joins
the excursion at the last minute. During the trip, in
the heat of sun, in Rodriguez's old truck, little by
little, the six characters tell of their particular way
of life and talk about understanding the world and
people.
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Torn
Poland 2003
Director: Jacek Filipiak
For his age, Mateusz
is an experienced child. He has been already through an
unsuccessful adoption in a foster family, a stay in an
orphanage, and a sentence to a youth – correctional
facility. He has already learned that it is the fittest
who survive. He knows that evil is often more attractive
then good. Nevertheless, he tries hard to find himself a
refuge in the middle of the hostile world, where he may
cherish the remnants of his childlike sensitivity.
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The
Cooler
U.S.A 2003
Director: Wayne Kramer
Bernie Lootz is a
walking, talking jinx. His luck ran out in Vegas before
he ever placed a bet, but a massive one time debt has
kept him trapped there until he can repay it. For years,
Bernie has worked for Shelly Kaplow, the tempestuous
owner of the Shangri-La Casino and his only friend. A
"cooler", Bernie's singular task and skill is allowing
his consistently, virulently miserable luck to rub off
on any gambler enjoying too hot a streak. All he needs
to do is stand near his targets and their fortune
changes instantly.
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Young Adam
UK 2003
Director: David Mackenzie
Joe, a rootless young
drifter, finds work on a barge traveling between Glasgow
and Edinburgh, owned by Les and his wife Ella. One
afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman
floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder? As the
police investigate and suspect is arrested, we discover
that Joe knows more than he is letting on. Gradually we
learn of Joe's past relationship with the dead woman.
Meanwhile an unspoken attraction develops between Joe
and Ella, heightening the claustrophobic tension in the
confined space of the barge.
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The Crime
Iran 2004
Director : Mohammad Ali Sajjadi
Hiding a
knife in his pocket, a law student Slavash goes to meet
a usurious antique seller who has asked for his sister's
hand. Torn apart by his difficulties and the dilemmas,
tormented Stavash kills the man in hysterical condition
and takes his money and precious things. But at the last
moment he confronts a girl in the scene of the crime.
Dazed and confused,he intends to kill the girl, but her
gazing eyes prevents him and Slavash escapes.
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Life is a Miracle
Zivot Je Cudo
Serbia-Montenegro – France 2004
Director : Emir Kusturica
LIFE IS A MIRACLE
/ ZIVOT JE CUDO
Bosnia, 1992. Luka, a Serbian engineer from Belgrade,
has installed himself in a village in the middle of
nowhere with his opera singer wife, Jadrankja, and their
son, Milos. Luka is preparing to build the railroad that
will transform the region into a tourist’s paradise.
Utterly engrossed in his work and blinded by natural
optimism, Luka remains deaf to the increasingly
persistent rumblings of war. When the conflict explodes,
Luka’s life is turned inside out. His wife Jardranka
disappears on the arm of a musician while his son Milos
is called to the front. Ever optimistic, he waits for
his family to return but. Jadranka doesn’t come back,
Milos is taken prisoner and the Serbian army appoints
Luka guardian of Sabaha, a Muslim hostage. Before long,
Luka has fallen in love with Sabaha but the young woman
is destined to be handed over in exchange for a Serbian
captive: his son Milos.
Valentin
El Sueno de Valentin
The Netherlands/Spain/Argentina/France 2003
Director : Alejandro Agresti
Valentin / El Sueno de Valentin
1960. Buenos Aires. Valentin, a nine
–year old boy lives with his grandmother. His mother
disappeared when he was three and his father is a good-
for nothing incapable of taking responsibilities.
Valentine’s simple life is dominated by two obsessions
to become an astronaut and for his father to take him to
be with his mother. But his father doesn’t want to dig
up the past and what’s more he constantly upsets his son
by introducing his horrible girlfriends until one day he
introduces Leticia.
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Summer Things
Embrassez Qui Vous Voudrez
France 2002
Director : Michel Blanc
Embrassez Qui Vous Voudrez / Summer Things
A
moving, sometimes hilarious film about a group of
characters who go on vacation together just to be
confronted with each other and their own lies toward
each other and themselves. A family that has lost both
their baby daughter and all their money keep pretending
their rich friends that they still live well. A
middle-aged couple separate for the first time for
vacation and both make new and surprising emotional
experiences. A notoriously jealous husband turns his
pretty wife's life into hell. A young mother searches
desperately for a new man in her life and finds a
dashingly handsome, but very suspicious guy. A young
employee goes to America with his boss's daughter whom
he loves, only to see himself ruthlessly let down by her
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Control Room
USA 2004
Director : Jehane Noujaim
CONTROL ROOM
Whilst
American television viewers could follow their army’s
triumphant campaign to bring freedom to Iraq,the
Quatar-based television channel Al-Jazeera, offered an
altogether different account of the war, that of
bloodshed,catastrophe,and the bombardment of civilians.
By assembling accounts from those working for
Al-Jazeera,CNN,NBC and even the communications service
for the North American army,the young Egyptian –
American journalist, Jehane Noujaim dissects the various
modes of news production,their ideological bias, and
their relationship to what is at stake politically and
economically.
Autumn (Yet) Strong Love
Jesenna(Zato) Slina Taska
Slovakia 2003
Director : Zita Furkova
Autumn (,yet) Strong Love
A simple
story about the complexity of a relationship between an
aging composer and a young poet. Every creator is, by
nature, an egoist. And love is one of the human egos!
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Jail Girl
Jawhara
Morocco 2004
Director :Saad Chraibi
JAWHARA / Jail Girl
Jawhara is
a young girl who was born from a rape and has spent six
years of her life growing up behind bars in the company
of her mother. With her innocent perspective, she views
the prison and recounts the story of her parents. Her
mother Safia, and her father, Said, a turbulent couple,
enthusiastic and idealistic, who were active with other
young people in a theatre groupe before being arrested
and jailed are they experiencing the torture and
humiliation of prison life. Her search for the truth
leads to a drama.
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You Are My Hero
Eres Mi Heroe
Spain 2003
Director : Antonio Cuadri
You Are My Hero / Eres Mi Heroe
It is
said that adolescence is an age of discovery, but for
most people it is a time of confusion: the future,
studies,sex, hormonal changes, the generation gap… And
so it is for Ramon, a boy of nearly thirteen in Seville
in 1976.
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Holes
USA – 2003
A gaggle of
young mecreants are forced to dig one hole each, every
day for the duration of their punishment. The idea is
that such excavation will help the young inmates build
up their characters and so reform them. Until one day
arrives Stanley Yehnats who is not guilty of the
misdemeanors he has been convicted of.
What Will Happen To Us
Che Ne Sara Di Noi
Italy 2004
Director : Giovanni Veronesi
What will Happen to us
Three
eighteen – year – olds friends just out of high school
go to a greek island following one of the boy’s older
girlfriend..
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Yotama Flies Away
Yotama Se Va Volando
Venezuela - 2003
Director : Luis Armando Roche
Cast : Beatriz Vazquez – Asdrubal Melendez
Yotama Flies Away
Life is short, life goes by .. death is
long,but love remains.
