1990s

Leonor, a widow in a small South American town, gives birth to Charlotte, a dwarf. The mother not only provides a rich childhood for her daughter, she erases any clues her daughter might see that would lead her to think she is different (mother burns books such as “Snow White” and destroys lawn statues of gnomes). In short, she doesn’t want to talk about it. The mother succeeds in creating a modern-day Rapunzel: Charlotte becomes an accomplished young woman who captures the heart of Ludovico. But then, the circus comes to town.Read More »

Love has left the marriage of Zandalee (Erika Anderson) and Thierry (Judge Reinhold) so Zandalee finds ecstacy in the arms of Johnny (Nicolas Cage), her husband’s boyhood friend. Once aroused, her longings cannot be satisfied until her obsessive need for passion overwhelms the three in a dark triangle of desire and death…Read More »

Set in a dreary urban landscape of Edmonton, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is a dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the ’90s. The film focuses on roommates David, a gay waiter who has has given up on his acting career, and Candy, a book reviewer who is also David’s ex-lover. David and Candy’s lives are entangled with those of David’s friends (a busboy, a psychic dominatrix, and a misogynistic civil-servant) and Candy’s dates (a male bartender and a lesbian schoolteacher). Meanwhile, a serial killer menaces the concrete and asphalt neighbourhood in which David and Candy live.Read More »

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The creators of the skateboarding magazine Big Brother go on an East Coast tour, and get into some pretty wild shenanigans.

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This is one of the most wild movies I think I’ve ever seen, there’s quite literally no way this would’ve gotten released today. Most of it is skateboarding videos and that’s fun but the rest is people doing stupid shit and it’s hilarious but so bad at the same time, it is quite literally a product of it’s timeRead More »

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The 1970s in the former Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe: The native people are rising up against their white suppressors. As the war reaches even the most distant villages, the two friends Florence and Nyasha join the fighters and assume new names – Flame and Liberty. But the war is not as easy as they thought.Read More »

Banned in India, following riots because of its lesbian theme.

In New Delhi Sita, a beautiful and intelligent young woman embarks on an arranged, loveless marriage to a faithless husband, Jatin. The extended family, owners of a video store, live together according to custom. Family tensions escalate. Radha, Sita’s sister-in-law, is unable to conceive; her disappointed husband Ashok (Sita’s husband’s brother) has taken a vow of celibacy, acquired a swami and is often gone. Eventually Jita and Radha develop a physical relationship which is far more emotionally sustaining than they have found with their husbands.Read More »

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The movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan.Read More »

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An expatriate with no aptitude on nothing except professional ruse and fraud returns to his native country decades later, only to find what he longs for has remained in days of yore. So he aims to reconstruct it by use of his sole aptitude.Read More »

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Balifilm was originally commissioned as a stage performance, created from diary images and sounds collected in 1990 and 1992 by Peter Mettler on the island of Bali. The soundtrack is a live recording of eight Gamelan musicians playing the bronze and wooden instruments of Indonesia during the projection of the film. Balifilm is a personal, lyrical observation and expression of the creative pulse of an extraordinary culture.Read More »