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A teacher and opticians practice couple leads a peaceful life in a small town. Their life turned upside when Belle, a friend’s daughter found dead in her room. He becomes the prime suspect as the only one at home at the time.Read More »

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Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. According to the New Testament, the daughter of Herodias demanded and received the head of John the Baptist. This is a choreographed version of the play by Oscar Wilde.Read More »

Shipbuilder inexplicably shrinks, gets trapped in basement, few inches tall. Must fight for survival in now-hostile ordinary household environment. Sci-fi premise, no explanation given for shrinking phenomenon.Read More »

In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face. Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.Read More »

Family, religion, food, sex, death. All the obsessions of Yvan Lagrange in one film.Read More »

Alexander Calder’s fascination with the circus began in his mid-twenties, when he published illustrations in a New York journal of Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, for which he held a year’s pass. It was in Paris in 1927 that he created the miniature circus celebrated in this film – tiny wire performers, ingeniously articulated to walk tightropes, dance, lift weights, and engage in acrobatics in the ring. The Parisian avant-garde would gather in Calder’s studio to see the circus in operation. It was, as critic James Johnson Sweeney noted, `a laboratory in which some of the most original features of his later work were to be developed.’ This film exudes the great personal charm of Calder himself, moving and working the tiny players like a ringmaster, while his wife winds up the gramophone in the background. The Circus is now housed at the Whitney Museum in New York.Read More »

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A strong tale of racial integration, two different stories of young men who both are looking for a land to put their roots down.Read More »

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This film is dedicated to Mas-Félipe Delavouët, the poet discovered by Lawrence Durrell, who wrote 14,000 verses in Provençal over a period of thirty years, and who died on November 18, 1990. “The sky, history and Mediterranean and Provençal myths are the inexhaustable wellspring of this man rooted down there, near Salon-de-Provence” (J.-D. Pollet).Read More »

A documentary on the Iranian revolution from the point of view of Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab with Rafic Boustani. Filmed in 1980 during the early stages of post-revolution transition also captured in Kianoush Ayari’s Taze Nafas-ha, the film contains rare footage of many interesting and pertinent subjects: public rallies of the Mojahedin (before the organization was banned and when Masoud Rajavi was alive); the beginnings of the IRGC forces (when women participated); Khamenei; Kurdish fighters; Baluchs in the borderlands, and the remnants of Shahr-e No in the immediate aftermath of its destruction.
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