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I threw up a metal ball again and again.
Tossing up a metal ball again and again along the river, in the streets, or on a train I shot this film frame by frame like an animation.
Here comes ‘a little planet’, like a Zen question asking you what it is that you see.Read More »
Juan and Carmen are a humble couple living in Madrid. She does the housework and he works as an electrician in a film studio. Their dreams of wellness come true when they win a contest sponsored by a soap brand.Read More »
A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of the celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.Read More »
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The young peasant, Petro, falls deeply in love with the daughter of his employer. Though she reciprocates his affection, her father staunchly opposes the idea of her marrying a simple laborer. Overwhelmed by grief, Petro seeks solace at a local tavern, where he encounters Basavriuk, a figure believed by many to be the devil himself. Basavriuk presents Petro with a chilling proposition, one that could enable him to win the girl he yearns for.Read More »
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A story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed, the mulattos. (Since the Spanish conquistadors killed off the Indian population in Cuba not long after they took over the island, there are no mestizos, or those of mixed-Indian blood in Cuba as in other Caribbean nations.) At any rate, the drama about the life and loves of Cecilia, a Cuban girl of mixed race takes place against the backdrop of graphically violent mistreatment of slaves and the rumors of a slave rebellion after the Cubans hear of slaves turning against their captors in Haiti. Raised by her mother and grandmother as a courtesan within the ruling white establishment, pale-skinned Cecilia soon catches the eye of estate owner’s son Leonardo.Read More »
A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls’ boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers — a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student — as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night.Read More »
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It seems too good to be true when young unemployed Yu Jiayin is introduced to a tutoring job by an old classmate. She and the father of the girl she tutors fall in love. He already has a wife, although she is ill and lives in the countryside away from him and their daughter. Jiayin’s father shows up, wanting money and making trouble.Read More »
“Palestine Vaincra (Palestine Will Win)” is regarded as the first French documentary film made in support of the Palestinian liberation movement. Shot in 1969 by Jean-Pierre OLIVIER de SARDAN in a student dorm, the film blends historical testimonies by Palestinians, photographs, stock footage, maps, and music. The documentary centers on the 1968 Battle of Karameh, while also tracing the complex story of the past five decades of Palestinian resistance against oppression and colonialism.Read More »
In 1975, the dynamics of a Swedish commune begin to change upon the arrival of a beaten wife and her two kids.Read More »