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Rebecca inherits her grandmother’s gothic mansion and celebrates by bringing her best friend and her boyfriend for a weekend. While exploring the crypts, they find an old dusty book, which gives a detailed description of a vampire’s life.Read More »
Song of Avignon captures the darkness of depression like few other films, translating the overwhelming paralysis to the visual medium. Featuring fleeting glimpses of people and places strung together with a poetic rhythm, the visions embedded within Song of Avignon are tinged with the melancholy that Mekas was struggling to process. It almost functions like a haunting death rattle, coming across as the confessional of a man on the precipice of suicide.Read More »
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A Latvian fairy tale about a homeless cat and his journey to the end of the world where he teaches a sad king to be happy again.Read More »
An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an empty theatre.Read More »
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The night Mari, a high school biology teacher, had a fight with her boyfriend Tamotsu, she took her dog for a walk along the Toyohira River to calm down. There, she meets a strangely dressed man who claims to be a samurai of the Tsugaru clan. Although Mari is surprised, she takes him home. His name is Koyata, and he was chased away by the Ainu during the Shakushain Rebellion that occurred in Hokkaido in the 10th year of the Kanbun era.He desperately wanted to return to his hometown, so on a full moon night in mid-autumn, he asked an old woman to cast a spell that would allow him to return for just one year. , tells Mari and her grandmother Sadako that she arrived in this era by mistake.Read More »
Confrontation between a young neo-Nazi and a Jewish doctor, 11 August 1999
Author: PM-19 from Eindhoven, Holland
A chilling, breathtaking, frightening film. A great psychological drama, about a young Swedish neo-nazi, who has been beaten up by other neo-nazis and hides from them in a train. In there, he catches the attention of an older Jewish doctor, Jacob, who notices that Soren ( the neo-nazi ) is injured and invites him to come to his practice to treat him. I found it so very touching that this Jewish man, with all his horrible memories( his entire family died in Auschwitz ), offers his help to this young man, even though he undoubtably must have noticed that it is a neo-nazi, with obviously the anti-Semetic ideas of this movement.Read More »
An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.Read More »
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The North General Hospital in the Tondo district of Manila was as busy as a battlefield. Hideyuki Harada, an intern on duty at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, worked without having time to breathe. It was six years ago that Harada decided to become a doctor. Harada, who worked at the Manila branch of a Japanese trading company, was supposed to marry a junior at the university, Masami, when she returned to Japan, but she told her that she was married to Harada’s best friend, Isomura, a sergeant at a large hospital.
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.Read More »