This film recounts Henri Verneuil’s relationship with his father who had brought his Armenian family to Marseille, France, in order to escape from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. The film’s principal cast includes Richard Berry, Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif. It was preceded by Mayrig, the first autobiographical movie of Henri Verneuil.Read More »
Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss
– basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths –
whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie,
are turned upside down by the arrival of her boyfriend-stealing half sister Mako Midori.Read More »
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Leaning into the Wind follows artist Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the world and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the landscape, cities and with his own body.Read More »
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War film about a raid on a prison in Leeuwarden in 1944.
On 8 December 1944, a number of Frisian resistance fighters raided a prison in Leeuwarden and, without loss of blood, freed dozens of prisoners, among them several leaders of the Leeuwarden resistance and a police inspector. For some of the prisoners, severely weakened by torture, the raid came just in time. “The Silent Raid” paints a sober and unromantic picture of this heroic deed.Read More »
“For months we experimented and represented ourselves, starting with simple walks in search of material for a thesis. How can we visually recreate a memory? We walked and filmed, photographed and painted, got to know each other and told our stories. An experience transformed into a story that speaks of a shared journey, made up of filming, changes of season, conversations about the moon, and exchanges of techniques.Read More »
During summer vacation on Long Island, three young people–a girl and two guys–become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio’s newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.Read More »
New York City, 1985. Prior Walter announces to his boyfriend Louis Ironson that he has been diagnosed with AIDS. Unable to cope with this, Louis leaves. This abandonment leaves Prior shattered. At the same time, Roy Cohn, a powerful lawyer and a right-wing political conservative is diagnosed with AIDS but demands that his doctor say that he has liver cancer as he does not want his homosexuality known in the circles he moves in.Read More »
Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune.Read More »
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Short hype film for the 1936 Olympics. Through dialogue-free montage we first travel around Germany, taking in the sights and getting plenty of Heimat vibes. Tradition and the contemporary go side-by-side: the sights and possibilities of the budding Reichsautobahn are evoked — Fanget an!, to quote the Führer.Read More »