“I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians.” These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.Read More »

Filipino director Vincent Sandoval follows his transgender drama Senorita with a story about nuns living in a remote convent during the Marcos yearsRead More »

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For some immigrants, the United States represented the promised Shangri-La. But in the 19th and early 20th centuries the reality was very different. Isabel Sandoval’s film looks at this historical moment.Read More »

Postmodernistic version of the grotesque and blasphemic novel The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by czech anarchistic and subjectiv-idealistic philosopher Ladislav Klima (1878-1928) transposed into reality of the Prague 1989. The visual look of the film is credited by painter Michael Rittstein, a representative of the Czech grotesque. The film instead of the Prince’s headquarters takes place on the television transmitter, the main role is played by Czech punk-rock star Vilem Cok. The film is full of blasphemy, allusions to pornography and aesthetics of decay and kitsch. For Jan Nemec meant the project return to the Czech film, but also in his time shocking failure – Czech society was not ready for such hyperbole.Read More »

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In a public housing suburbs, Pierre convinces himself that his wife loves him while the latter believes to be a great diva. For his part, Frank, rocker at heart, tries to flee as far as is possible this family decaying. Only Natalie, the youngest, seems to have his head on her shoulders.Read More »

Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.

For fans of Agostina Belli.Read More »

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At the age of 20, Patti Smith arrives in New York and upsets the codes of rock, poetry, and genre. She has become a living legend without ever leaving the sidelines. A poet, actress, and musician. Also militant. An artist with a thousand lives, now 74 years old. The documentary follows the course of Patti Smith’s life. Childhood first, and the artist who says: “I wanted to be someone special. I felt distant. Not just from other children, I felt far from the whole world. I spent my childhood in think I was an alien. ” Little Patti grew up in rural New Jersey and received a religious education from her Jehovah’s Witness mother. But Patti Smith leaves the movement, which does not suit her artistic inclinations.Read More »

The life of a conservative mayor of an Italian small town is upset by the alleged adultery committed by his wife with a famous local playboy.Read More »

Bali-Archipelago-thrills from director Guido Zurli who also gave us the urban cannibal
flick Lo Strangolatore di Vienna. In La Vergine di Bali, an English gentleman banker gets
fed up with the London city rat race and ventures to Bali to find the meaning of life.
Which, by the way seems to include severe alcoholism, brawls, harassing prostitutes,
playing with local kids on the beach and making disparaging comments to anyone trying
to talk to you.Read More »