2000s

  • Matías Bize – En la cama aka In Bed (2005)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaMatías BizeSpain

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    A young man and woman have a sensual, one-night stand in a motel room where they confide in each other about their troubled lives.Read More »

  • Sergei Loznitsa – Northern Light AKA Lumière du Nord (2008)

    2001-2010DocumentaryRussiaSergei Loznitsa

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    A small village located on the shores of the White Sea, 2008. In Northern Russia.

    While winter has shrouded everything in the glacial night of the North, a few hours of light per day seep in on the eve of Easter in the village of Soumskiy Pozad, around a thousand kilometers to the north of Saint-Petersburg, in the province of Karelia. Connected to the rest of the country by a vague muddy road and a piece of railroad, the village experiences a suspended and mysterious time. The film is about the Russia of unending forests and potato fields. A few robust and intransigent people live peacefully, in no hurry by pressing needs. Two small girls have just been adopted by a family. The woman is sweet and soft-spoken, whereas the man is hot-tempered. It is Chekov’s Russia: still happy, yet torn apart, and cold.
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  • Christian Molina – Diario de una ninfómana aka Diary of a Sex Addict (2008)

    2001-2010Christian MolinaDramaEroticaSpain

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    A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl’s sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption

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    Val is an attractive, well educated and well off 28 year old. Whats more shes very sexually liberated and constantly on the hunt for new encounters to satisfy her endless sexual curiosity and desire. She sleeps with whoever she wants, whenever she wants to, ending up making sex into a lifestyle; a lifestyle that leads her to find both love and a career in prostitution. In both she experiences the extreme.Read More »

  • Astra Taylor – Zizek! (2005)

    USA2001-2010Astra TaylorDocumentaryPhilosophyPhilosophy on Screen

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    Slavoj Zizek is that rarity, an internationally famous philosopher, and one who has built a career out of telling his audience things they probably don’t want to hear. Embracing a world view that blends Marxism with the teachings of Jacques Lacan, Zizek’s work obsesses on how capitalism affects the way we think and function in our society, and how this is reflected in everything from pop psychology to plumbing. Zizek’s writings have won him a sizable following in the United States, and he’s been described as an “academic rock star” in Europe, where his lectures frequently attract sell-out crowds.Read More »

  • Siddharth Sinha – Udedh Bun AKA Un-Ravel (2008)

    2001-2010IndiaShort FilmSiddharth Sinha

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    Udedh Bun (English title: Unravel) is award winning short Bhojpuri film released in 2008 directed by Siddharth Sinha. The 21-minute diploma film by Siddharth Sinha, an Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune graduate, was selected for world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, [1], where it won the Silver Bear for Best Short Film at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival, first ever such award in the history of Bhojpuri cinema [2][3]. Later it won the National Film Award for Best Short fiction Film.[4][5].Read More »

  • Frank Mosvold – Summer Blues (2002)

    Drama2001-2010Frank MosvoldNorwayQueer Cinema(s)Short Film

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    A film about four teenagers, two boys and two girls, and their relationship. It is a story of love and friendship, of loss and discovery, of the transition from childhood to maturity.

    Mads and Kristian spend a summer weekend with their girlfriends at a summerhouse by the sea. When Mads and his girlfriend have a fight we find that Kristian may love someone else.Read More »

  • Jacques Audiard – De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté AKA The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)

    2001-2010CrimeDramaFranceJacques Audiard

    Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his father, who made his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, real estate deals. Tom is a pretty hard-boiled guy but also strangely considerate as far as his father is concerned. Somehow he appears to have arrived at a critical juncture in his life when a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist, like his mother. He senses that this might be his final opportunity to take back his life. His piano teacher is a Chinese piano virtuoso who has recently come to live in France. She doesn’t speak a lick of French so music becomes the only language they have in common. Before long, Jacques’ bid to be a better person means that he begins to yearn for true love. But, when he finally has the chance of winning his best friend’s wife, his passion only succeeds in scaring her. And then, one day, his dubious past comes to light…Read More »

  • Zacharias Kunuk – Atanarjuat AKA Fast Runner [+Extras] (2001)

    2001-2010CanadaDramaFantasyZacharias Kunuk

    Centuries ago, in what would become the Canadian Arctic, Atuat is promised to the malevolent Oki, son of the leader of their tribe. But Atuat loves the good-natured Atanarjuat, who ultimately finds a way to marry her. Oki’s sister, Puja also fancies Atanarjuat, and when she causes strife between him and his brother Amaqjuaq, Oki seizes the opportunity to wreak a terrible revenge on Atanarjuat.

    Apparently the first ever feature film to be made in the Inuktitut (Canadian Eskimo) language, this epic tale recounts the ancient Inuit legend of Atanarjuat.

    Set some thousand years ago in the settlement of Igloolik near the Arctic Circle, “Atanarjuat” relates how shamanic forces spark deep divisions within a community of nomadic Inuit.Read More »

  • Lisandro Alonso – Los muertos (2004)

    2001-2010ArgentinaArthouseDramaLisandro Alonso
    Los muertos (2004)

    Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. To get there, he must cross great distances in a small boat on the rivers, scoring deep into the jungle. Vargas is a quiet and self-contained man. He possesses the restraint of those living close to nature. A deep mystery surrounds him, the people he encounters and the places he goes through, all that taking in the unalterable world he finds almost unchanged after his long years of incarceration.Read More »

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