Storyline
On the night of her wedding, Justine is struggling to be happy even though it should be the happiest day of her life. It was an extravagant wedding paid for by her sister and brother-in-law who are trying to keep the bride and all the guests in-line. Meanwhile, Melancholia, a blue planet, is hurtling towards the Earth. Claire, Justine’s sister, is struggling to maintain composure with fear of the impending disaster.Read More »
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Lars von Trier – Melancholia [+Commentary] (2011)
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Pavel Arsyonov – Lilovyy shar AKA The Purple Ball (1987)
1981-1990FantasyPavel ArsyonovSci-FiUSSRPlot
Alisa Seleznyova and her father professor Seleznyov are traveling in space. They meet their old friend archaeologist Gromozeka, who’s just discovered a planet all inhabitants of which died. It became known that they discovered a virus of hostility, got infected and killed each other. Gromozeka also discovered that they had left the virus on Earth 26000 years ago, and the virus is about to become loose. The only chance to save the Earth is to travel 26000 years back in time – to the epoch when witches, dragons and magicians lived along with usual people.Read More » -
Kira Muratova – Chuvstvitelnyy militsioner AKA The Sentimental Policeman (1992)
1991-2000DramaKira MuratovaUkraineDescription:
An Odessa policeman discovers a baby abandoned in a cabbage patch. He takes the baby to an orphanage, but later he and his wife decide to try and adopt the little one. But they must go through a lot of difficulties…Read More » -
Gerardo Naranjo – Voy a explotar AKA I’m Gonna Explode (2008)
2001-2010DramaGerardo NaranjoMexicoQuote:
Tale of a young couple who throw caution to the wind and set out in search of their true fate. Román is the son of a contemptible, right-leaning congressman. Recently enrolled in a new high school, the rebellious teen clumsily attempts to hang himself on-stage at the big talent show. Maru is the sole member of the audience to applaud, earning both students a day of detention. After bonding during the course of their punishment, Román and Maru grab daddy’s gun, steal a Volkswagen, and hit the road bound for nowhere.Read More » -
Sergei Bodrov – Bear’s Kiss (2002)
2001-2010DramaFantasyGermanySergei BodrovA dramatic fantasy romance film directed by Sergei Bodrov.
A German, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, French, and Italian co-production, it tells the story of the circus girl Lola, who raises a bear from cubhood. When she discovers that the bear, named Misha, can transform into a young man, a secret romance between the two ensues. The film stars Rebecka Liljeberg (Fucking Amal) as Lola and Sergei Bodrov Jr. as Misha.Read More »
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Ana Lily Amirpour – Yo! My Saint (2018)
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Narimane Mari – Le fort des fous (2017)
2011-2020DocumentaryFranceNarimane MariIn three acts, we see re-enactments, improvisations and interviews performed and conducted with the inhabitants of Algiers, Kythira Island and Athens. A poetic voyage moving between past, present, and imagination, putting French colonialism and the grave consequences of a collective hubris in focus.Read More »
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Shelly Silver – Touch (2013)
2011-2020DocumentaryShelly SilverUSAVideo ArtA man returns, after fifty years, to Chinatown to care for his dying mother. He is a librarian, a re-cataloger, a gay man, a watcher, an impersonator. He passes his time collecting images that he puts before us – his witnesses and collaborators. Sitting in the dark, we share his cloak of invisibility, both a benefit and a curse.Read More »
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Susan Stein – Collected HD Works (1976-1989)
ExperimentalShort FilmSusan SteinUnited KingdomLooking outside and looking back in the same moment; the collision of memory and reluctance. In Returning Susan Stein achieves a simultaneous sense of identification and displacement by filming from the ‘inside out’ – a subjective camera places us inside a house, behind a door, peering through blinds – and from the ‘outside in’ through a voice-over whose broken streams of memory describes ‘her’: “Fragments – she arranged them as moments to be watched.” Filmed in black and white, it is though we were invited into the shadowy area of our own fragmentation, our own sense of stopping and starting.Read More »








