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Essentially a drama about the lives of the Hungarian Hortobagy plains horsemen and peasants, with a slight fictional storyline to hang it all on. The coming of ‘machines’ threatens the way of life of these peoples, and most of them want no contact with tractors or even bicycles. But not everyone agrees.Read More »
Original Title in Japanese: パレスチナ1948 NAKBA
The year 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the foundation of Israel. It marks also the beginning of 60 years of the suffering for the Palestinian people. This tragedy is referred to as the “Nakba,” meaning catastrophe in Arabic.
Since 1948 at least 420 Palestinian villages have vanished. The photo journalist Ryuichi Hirokawa has filmed over 1,000 hours of footage and has taken thousands of photographs of the Palestinian people and their vanished villages. This film is a distillation of this footage.Read More »
A stripper/fortune teller uses a magical Haitian amulet to keep young, and in so doing forces others to kill for her.Read More »
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At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.Read More »
A Corsican shepherd refuses to sell his coastal land to criminals. After severely injuring a mobster’s son who tried to threaten him, he becomes the target of a ruthless manhunt.Read More »
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Six juvenile delinquents are subjected to a social experiment by the authorities, who place them in a home in the inner city of Stockholm. Krister is a naive young social worker who is assigned to observe their behaviour; he believes in the goodness of man and that everybody can change their ways. The overall supervisor and mind behind the experiment is a middle-aged man refered to as the Inspector. He represents the hypocracy of the system, and is also the one who eventually goes on to rape one of the boys.
The experiment is one of observation: the boys are free to go wherever they want and whenever they want as long as they reside in the home that was appointed to them by the authorities. As the days go by, we get to follow them into a life of cheap thrills and petty crimes. But what could have been the start of a friendship between them, soon enough escalates into anarchy and meaningless cruelty.Read More »
Set in County Cork,in 1920, the drama unfolds at Danielstown House, the home of Anglo-Irish aristocrats Sir Richard Naylor (Michael Gambon) and his wife, Lady Myra (Maggie Smith). As the war for Irish independence escalates around them, Sir Richard’s nineteen-year-old niece, Lois (Keeley Hawes), struggles with her longing for love and the yearning for freedom. She is being courted by a British Army captain (David Tennant) who is deeply in love with her. But when she discovers an old childhood friend who is now an Irish freedom fighter hiding on their estate, she becomes fascinated by the rebel he has become. It’s not long before the violent turmoil that has thus far remained at a safe distance threatens to transform all their lives forever.Read More »
