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Mikio Naruse – Bangiku AKA Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved…
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Hiroshi Okuhara – Hotel Iris (2021)
Quote: Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty…
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Peter Timm – Go Trabi Go (1991)
A quirky east German family embark on a voyage to Naples in their beloved Trabant, passing by various regions and…
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Heinz Emigholz – Slaughterhouses of Modernity (2022)
“Heinz Emigholz opens his latest, Slaughterhouses of Modernity, with a voice. This would have normally been shocking as Emigholz’s austere…
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Helmut Käutner – Bildnis einer Unbekannten AKA Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
Synopsis: Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on…
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Jaishankar Aryar – Shivamma (2022)
Shivamma (46) is a mid-day meal cook in a village government school and the sole breadwinner. Her family is in…
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Claire Laborey – Haruki Murakami, de Underground a 1Q84 AKA Haruki Murakami, From Underground to 1Q84 (2024)
How does a fiction writer turn to documentary essays to confront horror in times of emergency and shock? The Tokyo…
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Ruth Beckermann – Favoriten (2024)
Voice From BFI wrote: Favoriten: the classroom becomes a model for society in Ruth Beckermann’s compassionate documentary Austrian filmmaker Ruth…
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Cheh Chang – Du bei dao AKA One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous…
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