2001-2010

  • Ki-duk Kim – Shi gan AKA Time (2006)

    2001-2010AsianDramaKi-duk KimSouth Korea

    Consumed by jealousy, a woman takes an extreme step and undergoes surgery for a new face. Although her lover of 2 years misses her, he falls in love with the new face, not knowing it’s the same woman.Read More »

  • Pascal-Alex Vincent – Donne-moi la main AKA Give Me Your Hand (2008)

    2001-2010DramaFrancePascal-Alex Vincent

    Twin 18-year-olds hitchhike to their mother’s funeral in Spain. The journey changes their lives forever.Read More »

  • Volker Schlöndorff – Ulzhan (2007)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaKazakhstanVolker Schlöndorff

    Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn’t looking for fame or glory. He’s looking for a way to heal his wounded soul. He’s looking for love. Ulzhan felt it the first time she laid eyes on him.Read More »

  • Marek Koterski – Dzien Swira aka Day of the Wacko (2002)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaMarek KoterskiPoland

    Quote:
    24 hours in the bitter life of a frustrated divorced teacher who stays in the vicious circle of his numerous obsessions.

    Marta Jazowska for culture.pl wrote:
    Afilm portraying the painstaking life of a 44 year literature professor with obsessive-compulsive behaviour. Divorced, pedantic and frustrated his life consists of a series of rituals performed around the simplest every tasks. Capturing his unbearable stagnation and anger, the film is about isolation and lonelinessRead More »

  • Toshiaki Toyoda – Nain souruzu AKA 9 Souls (2003)

    2001-2010ArthouseAsianJapanToshiaki Toyoda

    Quote:
    Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Their plan is to find a stash of counterfeit money that a deranged cell mate told them about, divide it, then part ways. They make it to the site where the money is supposed to be hidden, and then one by one, each seeks out the place he wants to be, a version of home, somewhere to connect. Will it end well for any of them?Read More »

  • Ryuichi Hiroki – Vibrator (2003)

    2001-2010AsianDramaJapan

    Quote:
    The film’s main character Rei (Terashima Shinobu)is a freelance writer bombarded by the voices in her own head – her mother’s scolding, the gossip of friends at school, and the voice of her own unrequired desires. Losing sleep and developing eating disorders, and dependent on alcohol, Rei is on the brink of losing her mind.
    Then one night, when she stops by a convenience store to purchase alcohol, she meets a long distance trucker (Omori Nao), and everything changes. Mysteriously attracted to this stranger, and prodded by the voices in her head, she joins him in a journey she hopes will eventually be the key to her salvation.Read More »

  • Harutyun Khachatryan – Vaveragrogh AKA Documentarist (2003)

    2001-2010ArmeniaDocumentaryExperimentalHarutyun Khachatryan

    Originally, Documentarist was intended as a traditional documentary about a country that has to face challenging problems such as war, unemployment, extreme poverty, mass emigration, alcoholism and crime. Unfortunately, Harutyun Khachatryan did not raise enough state money in order to make the film he wanted to and therefore had to settle for a different project. Thus, he decided on a very unorthodox narrative strategy. By weaving together different styles, such as documentarist observation and docu-drama approach, he shed a new light on the complexities and challenges a director has to face in order to present a multifaceted picture of reality. Read More »

  • Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Passion (2008)

    2001-2010DramaJapanRyûsuke Hamaguchi

    A young couple announces their wedding at a party with friends. The reactions of the latter reveal hitherto unexpressed sentimental flaws within the group. The following days, the tension rises to the surface.Read More »

  • David Perlov – Yoman Meudkan 1990-1999 AKA Updated Diary 1990-1999 (2001) (DVD)

    Documentary2001-2010David PerlovIsrael

    In the 1990s David Perlov returned to the format of the filmed diaries he produced between 1973 and 1983, organized in a different way, closer to the cinematographic essay, and divided into three thematic chapters, “Sheltered Childhood”, “Routine and Rituals” and “Back to Brazil”. In the first, we follow the childhood of his grandchildren; in the second, the political routine of Israel, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the rise of Benjamin Netanyahu and various rituals that make up the country’s daily life; in the third, Perlov returns to Brazil, remaking, for the last time, his trips to Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte.Read More »

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