2001-2010

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A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition.Read More »

A man asks a womanizer to court his eldest sister in hopes of fulfilling a family marriage tradition.Read More »

Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard’s visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis, is encouraged by her personal Brazilian maid Amélia to perform in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, she is forced to tolerate the company of Amélia’s exotic sisters.Read More »

Doppelgänger, Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Michio Hayasaki, a brilliant developer of medical instruments, is working on a robot chair, equipped with artificial limbs, for people who are completely paralysed. He feels he is being pressed by his employer Medical Cytech to come up with a successful design at short notice and he is in danger of burning out. Then, one evening, he thinks he sees his double. Hayasaki has the shock of his life: superstition suggests that meeting your double means you will soon die. But, after a confrontation with his maladjusted doppelgänger, it becomes clear that Hayasaki could take advantage of his violent tricks. The double reduces Hayasaki’s lab to rubble, clears another double out of the way, hires an assistant for Hayasaki and comes up with a new lab. But in the end, one of them will have to perish…Read More »

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It is difficult for me to articulate quite why it is that I adore Jacques Nolot’s Avant Que J’Oublie (2007), or Before I Forget as it is known to English speakers. Ostensibly your typical French drama about middle class angst, alienation and spiritual decay, the film deals with an ageing gay man who looks back over his life with considerable bitterness as he considers all the things he lost and all the things he failed to gain. However, while filled with negativity about his own past, the central character Pierre (played by Nolot) is gripped by terror when he thinks about the future as his health dwindles, his sex drive sputters and his days come to be consumed by talk of money, food and how he will most likely die alone. Read More »

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a new film about the birth of man from director Elias Merhige, video artist and composer David Wexler, composer Ben Gillespie, visual artist Ariana Tosatto, visual philosopher Leigh J. McCloskey, and psychophysicist Miguel P. Eckstein.Read More »

An examination of how the traditions of the Sami villagers in northern Sweden is confronted with modern day society.Read More »

Since women are banned from soccer matches, Iranian females masquerade as males so they can slip into Tehran’s stadium to see the game between Iran and Bahrain. The ones who are caught and arrested are taken to a holding area and guarded by soldiers. One sympathetic soldier agrees to watch the game through a peephole and recount the action to the impatient fans.Read More »

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Mariana, seventeen, is a high school student living on the outskirts of Lisbon. One day, she is caught in a desperate situation: having been raped by a drug addict, she later finds that she is pregnant.

Out of fear, shame or anger she decides to conceal it from everybody else – her parents, boyfriend, friends, the police and the court – and cope with it on her own.Read More »