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Iona takes her teenage son to the holy island where she was born so they can hide from a violent crime. As her son seeks forgiveness for what he has done Iona comes to terms with her loss of faith.
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The film tells the story of a recently unemployed factory worker in the city of Anyang in Henan province, who comes across an abandoned child. Discovering that the child belongs to a local prostitute and mobster, the poor worker agrees to take care of the baby. When the mobster discovers that he is dying of cancer, however, he attempts to take the child back, now his only heir.Read More »

In Police Department 1985 (1985), Heise observes the ins and outs of the Berlin People’s Police Department. Fassbinderesque mise-en-scènes of officers watching the USA v. GDR hockey game in a rec room adorned with gaudy floral wallpaper are contrasted with long tracking shots of Berlin-Mitte streets and the recordings of police statements: A woman describes her domestic abuse incident and a man, arrested for trespassing, explains that he just realized that these walls were meant to contain them, not to keep the “others” out.Read More »

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Reishu quits a job on a US military base; while mulling over his future he catches snakes, sticks numbers on ants and gets village girl Nabi pregnant. But then he is ‘hidden by God’ and in this enfeebled condition is savaged by a wild rainbow pig.Read More »

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Don McCullin is known the world over for his incredible work as a photojournalist. His powerful and moving photography of devastation and suffering in Cyprus, The Congo, Vietnam and many others have won him worldwide acclaim as one of the greatest ever.

And now, for those who don’t know about his life’s work, or really anybody who wants to see what being one of the most prolific (and perhaps most haunted) photojournalists of our time means, the documentary ‘McCullin’ is here to fill you in.Read More »

Four years after the original massacre, a professor researches the teenage killers’ personal lives for her dissertation on youth crimes. She soon discovers the teens friends and family members she interviews are being murdered days later, and she’s next on the new killers’ blood-soaked list.Read More »

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Spy spoof revolving around the unlikely alliance of three eccentric characters and their mission to uncover government foreign policy duplicity. Beautifully and humorously choreographed against London’s most famed locales. Produced in association with the British Film Institute and Channel Four Television.Read More »

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A successful businessman and his long-suffering chauffeur both die violently only twenty-four hours apart – the chauffeur gunned down by unknown assassins just after he discovers he has won a fortune on the national lottery, and the businessman by his unscrupulous business partner. Distant during their life, the two ghosts must work together to ensure that their families discover the real reasons for their deaths. But they can only observe, not involve themselves in what they see. The chauffeur is appalled to find that his girlfriend has a secret lover who is intent on stealing the lottery win from her, whilst the businessman is preoccupied with his son and bringing his partner to justice. If only the two dead men could find some way to communicate with the living…Read More »

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El perro negro takes a clichés braking view of the Spanish Civil War trough a mesmerizing found footage collage. The saga begins in 1929 with the talented amateur filmmaker, Joan Salvans, son of a wealthy Catalan industrialist, of Terrassa. The Salvans were the object of admiration as one of the most successful wool manufacturer of Catalonia, but also of hatred by the emerging anarchists and socialist trade unionists. On 24 July 1936, six days after the Civil War broke out; a militant anarchist group led by ‘Pedro el Cruel’ kills Joan Salvans, filmmaker, and his father Francesc Salvans.Read More »