1991-2000

“Mina Tannenbaum” follows the ups and downs of a long-term friendship between two Jewish French women.
Young Mina and Ethel meet at ballet class, and instantly take to each other. Through the years, they maintain their closeness, even when their paths diverge. Mina, thin and lovely, goes through a period of intense shyness and then tries to become a successful artist; the plumper Ethel, insecure and often ashamed of her body, struggles to get her career as a journalist off the ground.
Then a misunderstanding threatens the relationship… with potentially tragic results.Read More »

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For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, (played by José Afonso Pimentel) the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father (played by João Lagarto) is like a dream come true. It’s a time for them to become re-acquainted and it’s also a time for his first girlfriend and annoying questions to his father about love and sex.Read More »

An elderly woman living in Nagasaki, Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. They learn about the atomic bomb that fell in 1945, and how it killed their grandfather.Read More »

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Legendary animators Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata team up to create this nostalgic animated work aimed at adult women, based on a manga by Yuko Tone and Kei Okamoto. The film centers on Taeko, a 27-year-old office worker who is sick of her job and ready for a change. She suddenly recalls the year 1966, when she was young and full of hope. She ventures to rural Yamagata prefecture to visit her sister and her brother-in-law. There she helps with the family farm where they turn saffron flowers into pigment for lipstick. While there she meets a hunky young farmer who’s the cousin of her brother-in-law. She is immediately taken with his hard-working, salt-of-the-earth ways.Read More »

Reflecting on Mao’s famous saying “Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend,” Trinh T. Minh-ha’s SHOOT FOR THE CONTENTS—a title that alludes to a Chinese guessing game—is a unique excursion into the maze of allegorical naming and storytelling in China. The film ponders questions of power and change, politics and culture, as refracted by the Tiananmen Square massacre. It offers at the same time an inquiry into the creative process of filmmaking, intricately layering Chinese popular songs and classical music, the sayings of Mao and Confucius, women’s voices, and the words of artists, philosophers, and other cultural workers. The result is a meditative documentary that captures major shifts of interpretation in modern Chinese culture and politics.Read More »

Fort de données scientifiques irréfutables, Luc Moullet constate que Paris ne remplit plus son office de capitale. Il part donc pour Imphy, véritable centre de l’Hexagone.
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Depending on irrefutable scientific data, Luc Moullet notes that Paris does not fill any more to be the capital of France. He thus leaves for Imphy, true center of l’ Hexagon (France).Read More »

Imaginaria is a collection of computer animated short films produced by Miramar Images Inc. The original music was produced by the Austin, Texas, composer Gary Powell, featuring songs by Powell, a longtime producer of family music, and co-writer Chris Martin. Imaginaria was released in 1993, originally on Laserdisc and later on VHS. The films were featured in YTV’s Short Circutz.Read More »

A 60-year-old poet, an intellectual and lonely man, often spends his days with visits to the Maiden’s Tower. While visiting the rooms on one of these visits, he encounters the old lantern guard’s belongings. This story attracts much attention of the poet, especially the diary kept by the guard during his life is a mysterious memory book. As he reads the diary, the man, who discovers that the stories told in the diary are very similar to the story of the Maiden Tower legend Hera and Leandros, gets stuck between legends and facts over time. He downstairs neighbor Nesibey in the place of Hera in the legend, and the passion that grows between them is fed by this legend.Read More »

The film concerns Dr. Akagi, a doctor on an island in the Seto Inland Sea area during World War II. He runs into conflict with the military while trying to combat a hepatitis epidemic. Akagi earns the nickname “Dr. Liver” (カンゾー先生 Kanzō-sensei) because of his work, though the townsfolk use it as a humorous dig at his persistent diagnosis. Though the broad circumstance of Japan slowly losing the war is the setting, many of the interactions and situations tilt into humor, for instance; the very music used for the doctor running from patient to patient has an upbeat and light-hearted tone.Read More »