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Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 2
Publisher
Komplizen Film
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Bursting with idealism, Melanie Pröschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city; however, things don't go quite as she planned. She had hoped to be a 'fresh breeze' to the school, but her colleagues are annoyed by her new teaching methods. Not only that, Melanie hasn't one friend in her new town. Tr ying not to get discouraged, she attempts to form a relationship with her neighbor Tina. As Melanie's...
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The drama, unfolded around the filming activities on the campus of a university in Tokyo, presents the modern youth of Japan, their personal life and love.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Ivan, an unusually optimistic preacher, takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church to which he ministers. One of his helpers, Adam, is a vicious neo-Nazi serving community service time. Grasping the extent of Ivan's preternatutal determination to look on the bright side of everything, Adam decides to shake Ivan out of his rose-colored world.
24) Arranged
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"[C]enters on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages."--www.imdb.com
25) Fraulein
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Germanic
Description
Ana, a new employee in Reza's cafeteria, has high spirits that thaws Reza's joyless life in Zurich.
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
27) Mother of mine
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Finnish
Description
When nine-year-old Eero's father is killed at the beginning of World War II his mother, broken by grief, is unable to care for him. She sends Eero out of Finland to live with a family in Sweden, away from the conflict. Feeling abandoned by his biological Finnish mother, he cannot quite attach to his Swedish surrogate mother. When the war ends, and he returns to his mother in Finland, his confusion intensifies.
Uncle: Biography of a humble man, retold...
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Lost memory, Andreas wonders into a city. The people around him seems to have emotion problems, he tries to escape but finds no way out. Some beautiful music streams out from a crack Andrea and his friend found, but where does the music come from?
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Romanian
Description
The way I spent the end of the world: Bucharest 1989, the last year of Ceausescu's dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceau*sescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania with...
30) Viva Cuba
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet, " the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother a poor socialist proud of her family's social standing, places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between...
31) Ben X
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 9
Publisher
[Stella Artois]
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
Ben is different. His life is full of strange rituals and a mild form of autism prevents normal communications with others.
32) Choking man
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Choking man: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this intense blend of drama and magical realism from famed music video director Steve Barron.
The boy with no name: a traditional hand-drawn animation, which mixes the macabre and innocent to tell the story of a young boy who feels lost and alone in a world he doesn't belong in.
33) Days and clouds
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Well-to-do, sophisticated couple, Elsa and Michele, have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes her initial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful...
Series
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Based on the novel by Jorge Amado, This Brazilian comedy follows the strange events that befall Dona Flor after she is left a widow after the death of her wild, irresponsible husband. (He died after another wanton night of carousing). Attempting to marry more wisely the second time around, Dona Flor weds a stable, but boring, pharmacist who has no interest in sex. When she discovers that her new sex life is less than satisfying Dona Flor is visited...
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
36) Noise
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Noise: Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling. As the local community enfolds itself in a shroud of secrecy, borne from fear and an untrammeled mistrust of authority, the police remain desperate for witnesses. Graham McGahan, a young police constable suffering from a chronic hearing problem, is stationed at a police caravan near the crime scene. Living on the periphery of the investigation, McGahan crosses paths with the people affected...
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the...
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"It's 1988, and Melo, an Uruguayan town on the Brazilian border, awaits the visit of Pope John Paul II. 50,000 people are expected to attend, and the most humble locals believe that selling food and drink to the multitude will just about make them rich. Petty smuggler Beto thinks he has the best idea of all--he decides he will build a WC in front of his house and charge for its use. His efforts bring about unexpected consequences, and the final results...
39) The violin
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In rural Mexico, during the peasant revolts of the 1970s, Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand, they are simple country musicians, and on the other they actively support the peasant guerrilla movement against the oppressor government. When the army occupies the village, the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist,...
40) The trap
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ordinary man is forced to choose between life and death of his own child. The Trap is a film about post-Milosevic's Serbia, in which there is no more war, only a moral and existential desert. This is Serbia in transition, in which human life is worth little, and normal life remains almost unreachable.
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