Synopsis:
Halfway between documentary and fiction, ’Wesh wesh’ is a take on the everyday life of an immigrant family which is struggling to integrate into France or, rather into the ’Cite des Bosquets’ a low-income housing project in the Parisian suburbs. Like every district, it is a world of its own, with its rules and values. Mousse, the younger brother has understood how it works there. He has integrated a gang, and deals everyday with small time drug trafficking and protects his territory. On the other hand, his older brother who just came back after 2 years in prison, wants to start a normal life and integrate into society. He understands soon enough that it is hard to succeed behind the walls of ‘Les Bosquets’. He tries to find a job, with the help of his family. But without ID papers, and with the police after him, he is stuck in the neighborhood, spending time with the street kids. One day, he finds a fishing rod, and escapes from the city, going fishing in a lake, close to where he lives…Read More »
2000s
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Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche – Wesh wesh, qu’est-ce qui se passe? (2001)
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Zelimir Zilnik – Cosmo Girls (2000)
Documentary1991-2000HungaryShort FilmZelimir ZilnikThis is a series of portraits of women from different fields of work who find new occupations and ways to support their families in the transitional period. The following women give us their views of the relationship between men and women – a Chinese woman who owns a beauty salon and hairdresser’s studio; women who work for the first privately owned shoes factory; women who participate at the Erotic Fair in Budapest; a manager of an exclusive fish restaurant and successful business women.Read More »
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Gur Bentwich – Mashehu Totali AKA Total Love (2000)
1991-2000AdventureGur BentwichIsraelRomanceThree friends concoct the ultimate love drug, TLV, and fall in love with the same woman, Renana. Years later, Renana’s ex-lovers team up to rescue her from an Indian prison.Read More »
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Cynthia Wade – Freeheld (2007)
2001-2010Cynthia WadeDocumentaryQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmUSALieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner – Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their house. Laurel is told no; they are not husband and wife. After spending a lifetime fighting for justice for other people, Laurel – a veteran New Jersey detective – launches a final battle for justice. Knuckle-biting, dramatic Freeheld chronicles a dying policewoman’s bitter fight to provide for the love of her life.Read More »
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Eric Simonson – A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2005)
2001-2010DocumentaryEric SimonsonShort FilmUSAA biography of Poet Norman Corwin, and the events surrounding his powerful radio broadcast commemorating VE Day on May 8, 1945.Read More »
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Claude Miller – Un secret AKA A Secret (2007)
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Anne-Sophie Rouvillois – La proposition AKA The Proposal (2009)
2001-2010Anne-Sophie RouvilloisFranceRomanceShort FilmQuote:
This is therefore the latest film shot for the Rohmer Company, a short film of fifteen short minutes, relatively anecdotal in its development but which has at least the merit of reminding us how much Rohmer was the filmmaker of women, never ceasing to film them with grace and nuance. Here it is simply a cut-out, like the ten other shorts in this box set. Yet it is as if one feels a return of Reinette and Mirabelle, in their complicity as in their antagonism; a long introduction follows a discussion they hold on nudity, as a rampart or representation, sliding towards their vision of modesty and puritanism. Read More » -
Yoshimitsu Morita – Ashura no gotoku AKA Like Asura (2003)
2001-2010ComedyDramaJapanYoshimitsu MoritaThe ups and downs of the Takezawa family after one of the four daughters found out that their father had been in an unknown love affair.Read More »
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Takuya Fukushima – Our Brief Eternity (2009)
2001-2010DramaFantasyJapanTakuya FukushimaIn Tokyo, the new type of virus called Emanon has spread out. Once people infected by the virus, they lose their most important person’s memory. Teru, a guy who spends his life lazily, met his previous girlfriend Mio. But she has infected by the virus and forgot about him. Because of the virus, the world has plunged into confusion and it’s been growing as a global pandemic. In the meantime, Teru and Mio restarted their relationship but he also infected and lost the memory about Mio. Tokyo fall into a turmoil and shattered. Teru and Mio ended up in the countryside where they’ve been before.Read More »









