A young girl grows up in a privileged household in India in the early 1960s. The sensitive child of a senior police official, Anjana forges a close bond with her parents’ servant, Shankar, who acts kindly toward her though he remains separated from his own daughter, who lives back in his village.Read More »
A research project on sexual response leads two doctors into an affair where their deepest passions and darkest fantasies are revealed.Read More »
Takeo is a university graduate who stumbles his way through the idiosyncrasies of Japan’s graduate recruitment market. Big and respectable corporations put him through the wringer, whilst smaller corporations try all manner of tricks and whiles to convince him to join. Mariko has always been there for him, as a friend, but when Takeo finds an ambitious girlfriend, she has to consider whether he is more than just a friend to her.Read More »
Biographical account of singer and composer Cornelis Vreeswijk including his breakthrough and his marital problems.Read More »
Cheriyachan, a landlord, feels threatened by industrialisation and leftist activities. But when he witnesses police atrocities on poor peasants, a feeling of guilt engulfs him and he feels responsible for the guilt of his entire class. He is last seen up a coconut tree trying to keep away from the police. The film is about a peasant’s movement against the feudal system.Read More »
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Despite a great effort, the professional development of Diego, Andres and Renee, university students, is affected due to a diversion of resources by the authorities.Read More »
Felix Zeiler doesn’t return after the end of World War II. His wife – alone with 2 little children – meets Hans and they are slowly getting closer.Read More »
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Three people board a Johannesburg-bound train. Strangers, each on their own mission with a simple task to complete and in search of family to help them. But when they are betrayed by the very people whose protection they sought, they find themselves trapped in the city, invisible and alone. Vaya interweaves three separate plots that intersect and intertwine in a gripping, deeply moving, and often funny narrative about struggling for survival and dignity in the city. In the first story, a rural man has been promised a job by his big-city cousin; his earnings will allow him to pay lobola back home, which will change his life forever. Read More »
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Gaile is a speech therapist who realises that, after a traumatising event in her life, she has lost the ability to have emotions. While she is preparing a video presentation, she notices that her emotions are indirectly starting to come back via the filmed picture ? especially aggressions. She decides to take on a daring experiment. She provokes extreme situations and hires a cameraman to film her. Through these shots, she is able to start a quest for her lost emotions: happiness, empathy, and hate. Her test arrangements get more dangerous, and the relationship to her cameraman, who has to implement her fantasies, begins to charge more and more sexually. A world of voyeurism, obsessions and perversion is revealed, and Gaile starts to ask herself how far she could go. A film about self-discovery and about the role of audiovisual media in our life. Don’t we do something similar as the emotional ‘collectress’ with our cellphone videos?Read More »