2001-2010

  • Chris Eska – Noche de Agosto AKA August Evening (2007)

    2001-2010Chris EskaDramaUSA
    Noche de Agosto (2007)
    Noche de Agosto (2007)

    August Evening follows an aging undocumented farm worker named Jaime and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, as their lives are thrown into upheaval. Lupe is more of a daughter to Jaime than his own children, and the two try to stick together… but change is inevitable.Read More »

  • Dagur Kári – Voksne mennesker AKA Dark Horse (2005)

    2001-2010ComedyDagur KáriDenmarkDrama
    Voksne mennesker (2005)
    Voksne mennesker (2005)

    A young man spurs romance and helps his friend and himself go through times and struggles of their ordinary life in Denmark.Read More »

  • Eija-Liisa Ahtila – Rakkaus on aarre AKA Love is a treasure (2002)

    2001-2010Eija-Liisa AhtilaExperimentalFinlandVideo Art
    Rakkaus on aarre (2002)
    Rakkaus on aarre (2002)

    This is quite a rare stuff from Eija-Liisa Ahtila, a Finnish videoartist and photographer.
    The film tells five different stories about women who have developed psychoses.
    It consists of five episodes each telling the story of one woman. In the first a woman prefers to stay underneath her bed because of the imaginary killers hunting around her. In the second a teenage girl becomes the assistant of UFOs controlling sounds heard on earth. In the third episode a woman crawls over a bridge because things have become unstable due to the emergence of past events. The fourth part depicts how anger takes the form of a wind in a woman’s apartment. In the last episode a woman starts to hear the sounds of other places, and shuts out all images by covering the windows of her house so as to be able to be in the space where the sounds are.
    The script links the episodes together by using various spaces and surroundings, and through the treatment of images.Read More »

  • Philippe Le Guay – Les femmes du 6ème étage AKA The Women on the 6th Floor (2010)

    France2001-2010ComedyPhilippe Le Guay
    Les femmes du 6ème étage (2010)
    Les femmes du 6ème étage (2010)

    The year is 3084. Man has settled interplanetary space but space is still full of secrets. On a research mission to a newly discovered galaxy heads the most advanced spaceship, Delta, operated by an extremely powerful electronic brain. Project Delta was conceived in order to establish a dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist, Alma, is allowed to board the spaceship, she and the captain notice that the super-brain that controls the ship is acting autonomously. No one, however, counts on the fact that this artificial super intelligence will want to explore the area of human emotions and feelings. Eventually, they realize that the journalist’s beauty is the reason for the brain’s odd behavior. She has become its muse. The enamored machine becomes out of control and threatens all living things around them.Read More »

  • Henrik Ruben Genz – Frygtelig lykkelig AKA Terribly Happy (2008)

    Henrik Ruben Genz2001-2010DenmarkDrama
    Frygtelig lykkelig (2008)
    Frygtelig lykkelig (2008)

    Quote:
    Robert has a number of skeletons in his cupboard, which he is determined to bury. Although hardly his dream job, Robert sees the position of temporary village constable as a necessary stage on the road to rehabilitation. He just needs to do well and generally behave by the book. However, village life and the macabre provincial order turn out to be difficult to fit into Robert’s plans. Nothing is ever straightforward, and certainly not when you are way out in the countryside.Read More »

  • Lukas Moodysson – Mammoth (2009)

    Lukas Moodysson2001-2010DramaSweden
    Mammoth (2009)
    Mammoth (2009)

    While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the Philippines, the maid’s family struggles to deal with her absence.Read More »

  • Takeshi Kitano – Takeshis’ (2005)

    Takeshi Kitano2001-2010ComedyDramaJapan
    Takeshis' (2005)
    Takeshis’ (2005)

    A 2005 Japanese film directed, written, edited by, and starring Takeshi Kitano. It is the first film in Kitano’s surrealist autobiographical trilogy, being followed by Glory to the Filmmaker!, and Achilles and the Tortoise.

    PLOT: Beat Takeshi, a prominent actor, meets a lookalike named Kitano, who is a struggling actor, but after the meeting, Kitano’s dreams take a violent, surreal turn.Read More »

  • Hisaya Iwasa – Oro AKA Olo: The Boy from Tibet (2012)

    2001-2010DocumentaryHisaya IwasaJapan
    Olo The Boy from Tibet (2012)
    Olo The Boy from Tibet (2012)

    A 6-year-old Tibetan boy leaves his family and flees to a refugee camp in northern India.Read More »

  • Rachid Bouchareb – Little Senegal (2001)

    2001-2010DramaEpicFranceRachid Bouchareb
    Little Senegal (2001)
    Little Senegal (2001)

    Description
    An aging museum curator named Alloune (Sotigui Kouyaté) conducts walking tours of a historical internment and transfer port in Goree Island used during the slave trade, a vocation that often makes him a first-hand witness to the tourists’ emotionally wrenching experience. Haunted by recurring dreams of his ancestors, he becomes convinced that at the root of his unsettled conscience is their invocation for him to reconnect with the descendants of his tribal elders who were once taken from the village and sold into slavery in South Carolina. Embarking on a transcontinental journey that traces the route of a family sold into the slave trade from Senegal through a network of South Carolina plantations and eventually to their emancipation, Alloune’s research brings him to Harlem and the shared apartment of his newly immigrated nephew, Hassan (Karim Traoré) and his roommate Karim (Roschdy Zem) in search of a tribal relative named Ida Robinson (Sharon Hope), the determined and fiercely independent owner of a newspaper and sundry store. Read More »

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