Description:The film is about friendship and incipient love between ten-form schoolchildren Ksenia and Boris. Rude and hypocritical interference of the people around, who saw platitide and even lechery in their feelings, spoilt their relationship, inflicted heavy spiritual trauma, destroyed their feeling, which could have grown into real big love.Read More »
Drama
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Yuli Raizman – A Esli Eto Lyubov? AKA But What If This Is Love? (1961)
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun – Un homme qui crie AKA A Screaming Man (2010)
Drama2001-2010African CinemaChadMahamat-Saleh HarounQuote:
Present-day Chad. Adam, sixty something, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N’Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels socially humiliated. The country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government. The authorities demand that the population contribute to the “war effort”, giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the assailants. The District Chief constantly harasses Adam for his contribution. But Adam is penniless; he only has his son…. Read More » -
Zülfü Livaneli – Veda (2010)
2001-2010DramaTurkeyZülfü LivaneliA friendship started in childhood in Selanico firstly turned into comrade in arms and then a half century brotherhood and fraternity following the same ideals until the death upon proclamation of the Republic. It was so immense brotherhood that when one passed away, the other heartedly wished the same.
The story of a generation challenging the death! The film is not merely about the life of Ataturk; instead, it is a torch enlightening a particular period and it is very humane in that it also analyzes the brotherhood, war, love and affection. “Veda” is the story of a brotherhood, portrayal of milestones in Ataturk’s life and the story of a commander commanding a generation that challenged the death to save the homeland. Salih Bozok, the number one witness of the time, narrates this story.
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Mark Sandrich – A Woman Rebels (1936)
1931-1940DramaMark SandrichRomanceUSAPlot: The story revolves around Pamela, as a woman in late-1800’s England who has no intention of marriage and wishes to be her own person. After a great deal of difficulty in finding a job, she finally lands a position at a “woman’s” magazine, which covered topics such as sewing and cooking. After the editor takes sick, she moves the magazine into discussing issues of gender equality, child labor, medical care, and finding a job. She then finds herself as the unexpected leader of a movement. After an unexpected event, she is also faced with raising a child without a father, which people at that time thought was scandalous. Written by Taed Nelson Read More »
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Agnès Varda – Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
1991-2000Agnès VardaArthouseDramaFrance

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Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy, who together and separately had been making films for 30 years, began a new one in April, 1990. It was about his childhood memories. If you have seen Demy’s “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” a musical set in a garage and featuring singing mechanics, you may have guessed that Demy grew up as the son of an auto mechanic. “Umbrellas” won all the awards – the prize at Cannes, the foreign language Oscar – and Demy made such others as “Lola” and “Donkey Skin,” often centering around the songs he remembered from his youth.Read More » -
Atif Yilmaz – Kadinin Adi Yok Aka The Woman Has No Name (1988)
1981-1990Atif YilmazDramaTurkeyA woman’s fight for her identity and freedom as a woman.
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Pascal Arnold & Jean-Marc Barr – Chroniques sexuelles d’une famille d’aujourd’hui AKA Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)
2011-2020DramaEroticaFrancePascal Arnold and Jean-Marc BarrAfter one of their sons gets caught filming himself masturbating in school, Claire, who never opened up the conversation of sex with her three children, decides to encourage them to explore their sexuality freely and openly.
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Ektoras Lygizos – Agna Niata AKA Pure Youth (2004)
Drama2001-2010Ektoras LygizosGreeceShort FilmA great Greek short with a shocking climax.
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Tunc Basaran – Ucurtmayi Vurmasinlar AKA Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite (1989)
1981-1990DramaTunc BasaranTurkey
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Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar (English title: Don’t Let Them Shoot the Kite) is a 1989 Turkish drama film directed by Tunç Başaran. It tells the story of political prisoners in Turkey from the eyes of a child. It is one of the most remembered works in its genre, along with pre-military coup pieces such as Maden.It won four Golden Orange awards: best film, best actress (Nur Sürer), best screenplay (Feride Çiçekoğlu) and best cinematography (Erdal Kahraman).Read More »






