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Herbert J. Biberman – Salt of the Earth (1954)
Quote: Against the hard and gritty background of a mine workers’ strike in a New Mexican town – a background…
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999)
Quote: Nandini has to choose between Sameer, the man who taught her to fall in love; and Vanraj, the man…
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Hsiao-Ming Hsu – Qu nian dong tian AKA Heartbreak Island (1995)
Quote: A young woman named Lin-Lang has served a long jail term for terrorist actions against Taiwan’s rulmg KMT party.…
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Karim Aïnouz – Motel Destino (2024)
Quote: Dayana lives an abusive marriage with former police officer Elias, owner of Motel Destino. When 21-year-old Heraldo finds himself…
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Alexandre Astruc – Les mauvaises rencontres AKA Bad Liaisons (1955)
In his landmark 1948 essay Birth of a New Avant-Garde, filmmaker Alexandre Astruc advanced the notion of le caméra-stylo (camera…
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Aien kyo AKA The Straits of Love and Hate (1937)
A young country girl becomes pregnant, is spurned by her lover and takes up the life of an itinerant player.…
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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson – Los siete locos AKA The Seven Madmen (1973)
Quote: After committing a fraud in the company where he works, a man meets a strange character who will introduce…
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Lina Abascal & Alexandra Kern – Stud Country (2024)
At first glance, line dancing might appear to be an incongruous activity for members of the queer community, given that…
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Michal Englert & Malgorzata Szumowska – Kobieta z… AKA Woman of… (2023)
Set against the landscape of the Polish transformation from communism to capitalism, “Woman Of” spans 45 years of the life…
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