The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold’s personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond superstar Weng Weng.Read More »

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A primitive and epic film, “The Wild Frontier” tells how this new-born city in full growth, where nearly seventy-eight hundred people lived, was demolished by 50% in February 2016. How four thousand migrants expelled from the South zone tried to rise from the ashes in the North zone, until the government decided to wreck the entire zone in October 2016 and to scatter these eleven thousand residents to the four corners of France.Read More »

a gripping war drama

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When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people’s sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets a female first-fighter who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from Foreign legion and runs a defense line from a disco club, and goes through many other adventures only to end up in the endless backwaters of the Neretva river where war threats to arrive.Read More »

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A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital, and finds him in the form of a London policeman-boxer. She’s also interested in having a child.Read More »

A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Film. As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned to a girls’ boarding school in an old, isolated castle in Buckinghamshire. Wisely, she ran away at the age of 17, and years later took the opportunity for sweet revenge. In this dark and expressive film, Longinotto exposes the repressive school from the students’ perspective—as a kind of miniature state with bizarre rules, indigestible food and absurd punishments. One year after the release of the film, the boarding school was closed down. With PRIDE OF PLACE, Longinotto sets the tone for a long career of films in which individuals revolt against oppressive authorities and stifling traditions.Read More »

Anna Maria, a girl from a small provincial town, runs away with her boyfriend to Rome because her parents are opposed to their marriage and asks her brother Roberto for protection. At Rome Anna Maria gets acquainted with Diana, her brother’s complicated lover, full of impetus, rebellion and disorder, and Paolo, a friend Roberto shares not only the flat but also concerns and hopes with. The absolute freedom which the two friends use to live with leads Anna Maria to discover a new way to conceive human relationships, hence she decides to shrug her moral prejudiges offRead More »

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One of the many films that Camille Billops and James Hatch made centering on Billops’s family, SUZANNE, SUZANNE presents a devastating portrait of the artist’s niece, haunted by the abuse she suffered as a child and the passivity of the family members who allowed it to continue.

“…examines the potential for violence and abuse that underlies the carefully tended facade of middle-class respectability…”
– Valerie Smith, Professor of English, UCLARead More »

Anders Nilsson got his film education by working with the fine Swedish action director Mats Helge from the early eighties. After the Mats Helge years Anders made a trilogy of action films before moving on to make När mörkret faller. När mörkret faller got the Amnesty International prize in Berlin. The first time a non-documentary was awarded that prize. Read More »

When Maria meets Alex, a resident who is paraplegic, she goes through a transformational experience and they start an illicit relationship. Alex’s demands and humiliation test Maria to the breaking point as their love grows stronger.Read More »