2001-2010

  • Elia Suleiman – Yadon ilaheyya AKA Divine Intervention AKA Chronicle of Love and Pain (2002)

    2001-2010ArthouseComedyElia SuleimanIsrael

    Synopsis:
    Director Elia_Suleiman uses a mixture of romantic comedy and quirky humor to shed light on the problems of Palestinians in Yadon Ilaheyya (Divine Intervention). E.S. (Suleiman and his girlfriend Manal_Khader), because they live in separate cities, must meet near an Israeli checkpoint. The film is little more than a series of usually comic but occasionally poignant scenes in which Suleiman and others must confront any number of Israeli nemeses. Suleiman’s second film, Divine Interventions, was screened in competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
    — Perry Seibert, Rovi!–more–>

    Divine.Intervention.2002.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

    General
    Container: Matroska
    Runtime: 1 h 33 min
    Size: 2.29 GiB
    Video
    Codec: x264
    Resolution: 1024x554
    Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
    Frame rate: 24.000 fps
    Bit rate: 3 000 kb/s
    BPP: 0.220
    Audio
    #1: Arabic 5.1ch AC-3 @ 640 kb/s

    https://nitro.download/view/90E8DA32360F8C2/Divine.Intervention.2002.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

    Language(s):Arabic, Hebrew, English
    Subtitles:English

  • Lucrecia Martel – La Ciénaga AKA The Swamp (2001)

    2001-2010ArgentinaArthouseDramaLucrecia Martel

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    Synopsis
    The release of Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a dissolute bourgeois extended family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways that political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of extraordinary tactility, and one of the great contemporary film debuts.
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  • Vincent Lannoo – Strass (2001)

    2001-2010BelgiumDocumentaryDogma FilmsDramaVincent Lannoo

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    This is the DOGMA film number 20.
    An excellent film about dominating factors in theatre schools over innocent apprentice acting students. Their relations with teachers, directors, stress and competition in auditions, etc. A moving topic pseudo-document realistic film.
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  • Artan Minarolli – Gjallë AKA Alive! (2009)

    2001-2010AlbaniaArtan MinarolliDrama

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    Synopsis:
    In a country where tradition is constantly at war with modernity, Koll is a college student set on enjoying his youth to the fullest. When his father dies and he is forced to assume responsibility for an ancient crime, Koll is thrust into the gruesome, feudal heart of contemporary Albania…Read More »

  • Joseph Cedar – Medurat Hashevet AKA Campfire (2004)

    2001-2010DramaIsraelJoseph Cedar

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    Plot Outline: a story of one woman’s personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.Read More »

  • Adam Curtis – It Felt Like a Kiss (2009)

    2001-2010Adam CurtisDocumentaryExperimentalUnited Kingdom

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    from Wikipedia:
    It Felt Like a Kiss is an immersive theatre production, first performed between 2 and 19 July 2009 as part of the second Manchester International Festival, co-produced with the BBC.Themed on “how power really works in the world”, it is a collaboration between film-maker Adam Curtis and theatre company Punchdrunk, with original music composed by Damon Albarn and performed by the Kronos Quartet. The visitor is immersed in sets based on archive footage from Baghdad, 1963; New York, 1964; Moscow, 1959; in the Amygdala, 1959–1969; and Kinshasa, 1960. The title is taken from The Crystals’ 1962 song “He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)”, written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.Read More »

  • Maria João Ganga – Na Cidade Vazia AKA Hollow City (2004)

    2001-2010African CinemaAngolaDramaMaria João Ganga

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    Quote:
    N’Dala, one of the orphans from the 30-years war that devastated his country, is brought over to the capital of Angola by missionaries. He rather chooses to run away from the nun who cares for him, to throw himself into the delusion-stricken streets, which will take their toll on the boy’s childhood.
    His tragic past is crisscrossed with people. An older boy, Zé, sees the famous Pepetela’s character, the warrior-boy N’Gunga, in N’Dala. Zé tries to help him surviving in the city, but brings N’Dala into an unavoidable fate. By the sea, far from the general city’s ruin, lives an old fisherman who brings the boy many stories from the ocean. But continuously, N’Dala prefers to run… Survivors and outcasts amid the debris, Joka and Rosita will embrace N’Dala in their own world.Read More »

  • Lukas Moodysson – Lilja 4-ever (2002)

    2001-2010DramaLukas MoodyssonSweden

    Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.Read More »

  • Lukas Moodysson – Ett hål i mitt hjärta aka A hole In My Heart (2004)

    2001-2010ArthouseEroticaLukas MoodyssonSweden

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    Quote:
    A Hole in My Heart (Swedish: Ett hål i mitt hjärta) is a 2004 Swedish drama film written and directed by Lukas Moodysson, starring Thorsten Flinck, Sanna Bråding, Björn Almroth and Goran Marjanovic. The story revolves around a man who makes a pornographic film in his apartment with a friend and an attention-seeking starlet, while his teenage son stays in his room and listens to industrial rock.

    The film is notable for its explicit imagery, including close-ups of vaginal reconstruction surgery, an anal sex scene without the use of lubrication, a masturbation scene with a toothbrush, and an extended scene about the woman’s “smelly vagina”. Moodysson leaves the interpretation of the film to the viewer: “I have cooked you a delicious meal, but I’m not going to chew it for you.”Read More »

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