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Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98, 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Karen has left her slimy but successful husband Mario after ten years of marriage. She needs a fresh start to find out who she is and who she could be, despite her husband's proclamation that she can do absolutely nothing. She walks out into Bogotá with no job, no friends, and hardly any money, but catches a break when she meets a hairdresser named Patricia at a cheap flophouse. With her younger and seemingly stronger friend by her side, Karen takes...
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 8
Publisher
RB Media/Film Movement, cc2005
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
A father sets off from Moscow with his 11-year-old son for his sister's house in Koktebel by the Black Sea. With no money, nor means of transportation, they drift through the expansive and mesmeric landscapes at the mercy of chance. For the father, the journey is an attempt to restore self-respect and win back the trust of his son. For the boy, the mythic coastal town holds the key to a new life.
Series
Film Movement volume 1 ; film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 1 hr., 22 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
"While vacationing on the Greek "Isle of Love, " the repressed 30-year-old Stefania reluctantly plays chaperone to her precocious 15-year-old niece, Meggy. Unbeknownst to Stefania, Meggy plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over. Amidst a mélange of sun rash, broken diets, nervous girls, sleeping bags, orgasms, 80s music and a little ginger and cinnamon, the two women discover themselves and their sexuality"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The precarious romance between two people cast adrift in a lonely urban landscape. Antonio is a "fallen angel, " an ordinary man without direction or ambition. Maria is a single mother whose life is slipping out of her control. As Antonio is drawn deeper into her fragile situation, he discovers a sense of hope they both might not be ready for yet.
Series
Film Movement volume 2 ; film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village...
6) Raja
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Raja is a nineteen year old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman's complex relationship with local youth. Fred's attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation, are fractured by their gross disparity of income,...
Series
Film Movement series. Volume II volume film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
[Widescreen ver.].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Three women: a mother, her daughter, and a prostitute have been living in a hotel in the center of town amid creeping fundamentalism. Goucem, the daughter, has chosen a modern, emancipated life, spending steamy weekends in nightclubs. Fifi, her faithful friend, prostitutes herself under the thumb of a local protector. Papicha, the mother, eats pizzas in front of the television, torn between fear and nostalgia"--Container.
Series
The Film Movement series. Volume II volume film 11
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The stories of the people in a small town in the Balkans confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities, focusing on the various character's viewpoints and the complexities of war and humanity.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent marital argument ensues resulting in Antoine's death. After lying about Antoine's whereabouts, Lucie discovers his secret life of gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit. The body of Antoine disappears, other corpses appear, and the money, very quickly, becomes only the pretext of an alarming turn of events....
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom, is suddenly wooed by a man almost half her age, her electricity hits high-voltage. Yet it is Agata's joy and magnetism in the face of life in all its irony that eventually offers the eye of the storm.
Series
Film Movement volume III, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's Steve's birthday, and things can't seem to get better. After receiving a much awaited promotion, Steve returns home expecting to find his wife Alexandra and his two children waiting to surprise him. Instead, he discovers an abandoned house and a mysterious video tape that he is forced to watch.
13) Campfire
Series
Film Movement volume year 3, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join the founding group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about their struggles with the acceptance committee and their living as an outcast in the settlement.
14) Le grand voyage
Series
Film Movement series. Year 3 volume film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Réda, a young man who lives in the south of France, finds himself obligated to drive his father to Mecca. The wide cultural and generational gap between the two is worsened by their lack of communication. Réda finds it hard to accommodate his father, who demands respect for himself and his pilgrimage. From France, through Italy, Serbia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan to Saudi Arabia, the two embark on a road...
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in a farm tractor, leaving them both paralyzed, wheelchair-bound, and simmering with spite. But rather than feel sorry for themselves, the embittered paraplegics decide to seek revenge against the tractor's manufacturer. They take to the road, redirecting their frustrations with their plights towards the people they meet on the way to Helsinki.
16) Hawaii, Oslo
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of desperate people whose paths cross on the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Frode and Milla have their first child, but learn he will not live long without an expensive operation they cannot afford. Bobbie-Pop is a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. Leon is an institutionalized mental patient, who hopes to keep a 10-year-old date on his birthday with his teenage sweetheart. Leon
17) Men at work
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 10
Publisher
Aftab Negaran
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
"A comedy about four old friends who, driving back from a failed ski trip, encounter a strange and enormous rock by the side of the road above a lake. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat and renewed hope"--Container.
18) Monster Thursday
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
[Widescreen].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Three friends and one love triangle. All want to quest for the perfect wave and love.
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006], 2003.
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Tamil
Description
A little girl's search for her biological mother takes the family to strife-torn Sri Lanka.
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
A trio of friends residing in an urban Czech housing project finds that happiness can come from the place where you least expect it in this quirky and heartfelt drama. As the shadow of the country's largest chemical factory looms large over their bleak industrial suburb, Monika, Tonik, and Dasha hold out hope for a brighter future in another place. While supermarket employee Monika's dreams are built around the hope that she will someday venture to...
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