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Bora the Gypsy is married to an older woman, and he falls in love with the younger Tissa, who is being offered in marriage by her father, to a young gypsy man. This marriage arrangement is according to custom. Tissa rejects her husband, claiming he is not able to consumate the marriage, and Bora joins her. They get a monk in the mountains to marry them. Unable to return to the Gypsy camp, Tissa tries to reach Belgrad on her own, but a couple of truck drivers rape her, and she does return in misery to her tribe. Meanwhile, Bora defends his honour the traditional way, in a knife duwl, and kills his opponent. Therefore he, too, must leave the tribe. And yet, we’ll find happy gypsies… Written by Artemis-9 Read More »

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Consistently voted as one of the greatest national films of all time by Iranian critics, Tranquility in the Presence of Others is an early film by Iranian auteur Naser Taghvai. A painfully honest portrayal of alcoholism and promiscuity and their effects on family relations, Tranquility hails from the deepest corners of Iranian society but delivers to a universal audience, exploring themes that remain relevant to this day.

In the film, a retired lieutenant who has recently married a much younger woman after the death of his wife returns from rural Iran to Tehran to live with his two daughters. The housemaid tries her best to hide from him the fact that his daughters live a life of decadence and promiscuity. Nevertheless, his uneasiness with their lifestyle leads him to alcohol and slowly drives him to insanity. Suicide attempts, unwanted pregnancies and marriages and tense relationships between family members create an environment far from the poetic Tranquility of the title.Read More »

Documentary film on the life and work of author W. Somerset Maugham. His life and work discussed by writers such as Armistead Maupin and Alexander McCall-Smith and experts such as Selina Hastings.

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For the first time the full story is told of one of literature’s most misunderstood and influential Gay writers – W. Somerset Maugham, author of Of Human Bondage, The Razor’s Edge, The Painted Veil, Rain & numerous other classic stories, plays and novels. Somerset Maugham broke all the rules of literature yet became the most successful writer of his age and the world’s first ‘millionaire author’. Today his books continue to be read by millions and Somerset Maugham is admired by countless best-selling authors. Includes interviews with Armistead Maupin, Alexander McCall Smith, Pico Iyer, Alan Furst, Selina Hastings, Ronald Harwood, Nicky Haslam, Camilla Chandon (Somerset Maugham’s Granddaughter), Nicolas Paravicini (Somerset Maugham’s Grandson) and many moreRead More »

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Eating, sleeping, and staying clean…Life’s most basic concerns. Yet they take on a transcendent quality in this visually delicious film, known in French as L’odeur de la Papaye Verte, and in Vietnamese as Mui Du Du Xanh. With only the barest minimum of dialogue, The Scent of Green Papaya tells the 1940’s story of a young orphan girl named Mui, who goes to work as a domestic servant in the troubled household of a Saigon merchant family. Under the mentorship of the family’s elderly housekeeper, Mui is a quick study in becoming adept at her daily duties, which she performs with diligence and grace. Early on, she learns that the family has lost a daughter named Tó, who would have been just about Mui’s age, and over time, the mother’s affection for her grows, and Mui becomes like a daughter herself.Read More »

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A young man who struggles through life by earning some money with his bicycle-taxi in Saigon establishes contact with a group of criminals. They introduce him to the mafia-world of drugs and crime.Read More »

Life and work of the painter TheophilosRead More »

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza’s parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don’t know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She’s also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.Read More »

Taken from IMDB:Uno is a story from inner-city Oslo about David, a twentyfive-year-old with few prospects for the future. His days are spent hanging around with petty criminals at an inner-city gym. Still, it’s better than home: His father is terminally ill, his brother is mentally handicapped, and he’s unable to connect with his mother.But then, as his father is on his deathbed, the gym is raided by the police. David chooses to betray his friends in the hope of reaching his father for a last farewell. But it’s too late. With his father dead and his mother grief-stricken, he’s also forced to take responsibility for his brother on top of fighting off his former underworld friends. The crisis makes David realize what’s truly important in his life: his family. He starts assuming responsibility for both his past and his future. By losing everything, David is given a chance to start over from scratch and rebuild his life.Read More »

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A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.Read More »