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The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.Read More »

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Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow. The movie is unique and beautiful story about life, but at the same time, very hard and realistic movie about leukemia. Little a bit eccentric character of Kiyoko, acted by Yuko Tanaka is fantastic as such characters haven’t yet seen in Japanese screen since eighties. Read More »

In Turkey, more than a thousand people go missing “normally” every year and only half can be found. Some of these people go missing while in police custody.

Dedicated to his mother and to all mothers, writer-director Tayfun Pirselimoðlu’s fictional Hiçbiryerde follows a mother’s search for her missing son. When she is asked whether her son was involved in politics, Sükran answers, “Certainly not.” After losing her husband, a political prisoner, Sükran had determined to keep hold of her son, Veysel; but the boy, after all, was also his father’s son.Read More »

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A bitter-sweet sentimental comedy. The friendship between two girls. Marie is Swiss, Filipa is a Portuguese origin. One is an eternal student. The other is getting married. After Marie’s love affair breaks up, Filipa suggests they spend a month together in Portugal in her family. A place full of peace as well as personal and cultural conflicts, happiness as well as grief, and chance encounters. A time in their lives when they have to make a choice. Sometimes it makes them giddy.Read More »

On impulse, a young woman drives from Seoul to see her best friend, but also meets up with her older professor, and then a former lover. Drinks ensue, and surprises are revealed for all four characters. Hong packs a lot into a 31 minute film.Read More »

The story takes place in a beautiful pavilion in 1930’s Suzhou. Jade is a famous songstress courtesan, marrying into the noble house. She develops a dubious relationship with a female cousin of the family and also being admired secretly by her butler. LAN, the cousin, is a modern woman who wants to be independent and serves her country, but when she meets the charismatic Shing, an official from the North, all her plans go astray.

These two women’s love bears no fruit with their men and in the end they have only each other to lean on.Read More »

When a petty dispute over a lost sheep gets out of hand, a group of shepherds find their mountain idyll interrupted by the long arm of the law in Henrik Malyan’s cult Soviet satire, adapted from his own work by beloved Armenian author Hrant Matevosyan. Matevosyan’s comic pastorale, alternately absurdist and broad, is brought to life by an all-star cast, including Frunzik Mkrtchyan and Sos Sargsyan. Often cited as the greatest Armenian film ever made, We Are Our Mountains is both charming and cutting in its commentary on the relationship between centre and periphery, state and individual.Read More »

After the international firestorm of Last Tango in Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci went on to create one of the grandest and most legendary epics in modern cinema. A stunning five-hour saga following the intertwined fates of two childhood friends born on the same day in 1901 at opposite ends of the social scale through five decades of class struggle.Read More »

2000s. Anna is thirteen years old. For the first time, she stays at home alone under the supervision of her neighbor – punk Ars, with whom she has long been in love. Anya forces Ars to take her to his youth company with the mysterious name “Avako” in order to spend the whole night with them and finally get Ars’s attention.Read More »