1991-2000

The fishing boat Matthildur, comes to the small town where the 18-year-old Ingalo lives with her parents and younger brother. A brawl breaks out between the townspeople and the crew from Matthildur. As a consequence Ingalo leaves home.Read More »

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Kazimierz Kutz realized with great attention to details a pathetic fresco about those dramatic events. His film, of unquestionable artistic value, is also a tribute to the courage and determination of miners who did not hesitate to give their lives for the ideals of August Uprising. Katowice, the night of December 12-13, 1981. Military units occupy strategic points in the city. General Jaruzelski is about to announce martial law on television. A group of henchmen, breaking union security, drag the chairman of the works committee of the Solidarity trade union in the “Wujek” mine out of his apartment. The news of this quickly spreads to the miners. Initially surprised, they soon react with a spontaneous protest. On December 14th a strike breaks out in the plant. The workers demand the lifting of martial law and the release of the chairman. Negotiations with the authorities end in a fiasco. The army, ZOMO and the militia prepare to storm the mine.Read More »

Celebrated Thai director Nonzee Nimibutr’s takes an old Thai legend and turns it into a beautiful and haunting movie. Mak leaves for Bangkok and is seriously wounded in the Chiang Toong War. His wife, Nak, dies together with her stillborn child, but when Mak returns, they continue to live together.Read More »

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“Separation” is a tale of two… separations. First, that of Pierre and Anne. The first sign appears at the theater one evening, when she refuses to take his hand – but it’s only the first. Other signs follow, leading up to the confession : she loves another man. They talk it through and try to set things straight, to save a love which has shredded away over the years. They go through wobbly reconciliations, scenes and crises before they finally see that their affair is dead and now it’s time to turn to face the second separation – that of parents and child : Louis, aged 2. There is more wrenching, pain and resignation ahead, but the play is over and the curtain falls on a stage where nothing is left but the shadows of former happiness.Read More »

In The Life And Art Of Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, director Michael Trabitzsch boldly braids together the disparate strands of the Austrian Expressionist’s life and work–combining color with black and white photography, third person narration with first person confessions from Kirchner’s own notebooks, and an angular jazz score with the melodies of Kirchner’s day. “We claim as our own everyone who reproduces directly and without falsification whatever it is that drives him to create.” These words, carved into wood and hung in 1904 at the butcher shop group studio of Die Brucke (“the bridge”) by their author, Kirchner, were a credo that drove the artist and his work well beyond the life of the famed Dresden art collective. Read More »

Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.Read More »

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The film tells the story of a grounded American pilot during the Second World War who learns about the noble spirit of the Chinese poeple when he is rescued by the communist-led Chinese army after an emergency landing near the Great Wall. On the way to the Communist base, the pilot falls in love with a girl soldier whose lingering memory of being raped by the Japanese makes her a determined fighter. Half a century later, the American pilot returns to the Yellow River to pay his respects to the native people who rescued him.Read More »

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Four men (including a millionaire businessman trying to escape from the stress of his work) running a struggling sushi restaurant in Hong Kong follow a group of beauty-contest entrants to Thailand in the hopes of winning their hearts. The four misfits must convince the beauties of their worth as dates while fending off a gang of tough rivals. Will they succeed, or will they return home alone and broken-hearted?Read More »

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1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February IncidentRead More »