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Iva is a girl who receives a small digital video camera for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted by her new toy, the girl immediately starts taping everything around her, recording a series of events surrounding her birthday celebration on her first tape. These ninety minutes form the film What Iva Recorded on October 21st, 2003.Read More »
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Thirteen noted German filmmakers offer their impressions of the past, present and future of the land they call home in this anthology. Coordinated by Tom Tykwer, Deutschland 09, 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation is comprised of thirteen twelve-minute films, each from a different director and each focusing on an individual aspect of Germany’s political and social reality, spanning the six decades that encompassed World War II, the post-war “Economic Miracle,” the tumult of the 1960’s, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of the two Germanys, and the new era of reform that emerged in the 21st Century.Read More »
Clemens Brentano, an artist in his prime, no longer wants to be an artist. The poet and bon vivant goes to the bedside of the nun Anna Katharina Emmerich as a simple “scribe of God’s wonders” to write down her visions and views. Emmerich became famous for her stigmata of Christ, which appeared on her chest, forehead and hands. In order to receive comfort and encouragement, believers make pilgrimages to the sickbed of the weakened nun. Brentano places great hope in his encounter with her. But the meeting of the famous poet and the nun becomes a crossroads for both of them.Read More »
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Every year, Jason, Alex, and newly married Mark and Karen leave New York for a North Carolina beach house to reconnect and relax. But this year is different: Jason has been diagnosed with an aggressive terminal cancer, repurposing their trip as a meaningful—yet uncertain—farewell. Sharing laughter and camaraderie in even the most quotidian activities, the friends struggle to conceal their grief and use their disillusionment as an affirmative force. Some time later, as Mark and Karen prepare for the birth of their first child, memories of Jason seep into their new phase of life.Read More »
The wealthy Edward (Haywood) sparks to Anna (Mckenzie), the lead voice in a choir that’s raising money for an upcoming trip to China. He donates money to her choir, and she agrees to sit for him for a series of still-life drawings. As Anna is drawn more into Edward’s life, their relationship — quite platonic — nevertheless causes problems at home for Anna, who lives with David (Blabey), a frustrated artist.Read More »
The movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late ’60s and the early ’70s.Read More »
Hoshi no Koe ~The Voices of Distant Stars~, is an OVA that uses full 2D and 3D digital animation. It is a story of long distance love bridged by mail messages. Set in 2046, resulting from the discovery of the ruins of an alien civilization on Mars, man has made great leaps in technology and is planning to send an expedition into space in the following year. Nagamine Mikako and Terao Noboru are both junior high school students. While Noboru will be entering senior high next winter, Mikako is selected to join the space expedition.
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An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.Read More »
A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.Read More »