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  • Bahrudin ‘Bato’ Cengic – Uloga moje porodice u svjetskoj revoluciji AKA The Role of My Family in the Revolution (1971)

    1971-1980ArthouseBahrudin 'Bato' CengicCultYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito
    Uloga moje porodice u svjetskoj revoluciji (1971)
    Uloga moje porodice u svjetskoj revoluciji (1971)

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    Screen adaptation of the popular novel of the same name by Bora Ćosić, published in 1969, for which he won the NIN Award for Novel of the Year in the same year. The film was screened at the Pula Film Festival and was later banned.

    An ironic and parodic view of the revolution, the war, the great historical events are described from the boy’s perspective. His story, abbreviated and simple, reveals all the absurdity and lies of the world “outside the family”. It is a story about the revolution that happened in 1945, together with the national liberation. With the National Revolution, there was a smaller one – a revolution within the family. The film tells what is left of one family that enters a revolution and what is left of a revolution that enters one family.Read More »

  • Valeriu Jereghi – Predchuvstviye AKA Foreboding (1992)

    Valeriu Jereghi1991-2000ArthouseRomania
    Predchuvstviye (1992)
    Predchuvstviye (1992)

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    In the story, a boy, a woman and a cow seem to be the only survivors of a global catastrophe, except for whoever is following them threateningly in a tank. Slowly they put together what they need to survive, and despite the difficulty of all this, it looks as though the human race may just manage a new beginning. This simple, darkly imaged story is told with a very minimal amount of dialog.Read More »

  • Masaki Iwana – Vermilion Souls (2007)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaJapanMasaki Iwana
    Vermilion Souls (2007)
    Vermilion Souls (2007)

    Set in Tokyo seven years after the end of WWII, this surreal story revolves around the dreams and realities of a young boy who strays into a strange mansion while out chasing fliers dropped by a small aeroplane. Confined inside are four adults suffering from an incurable disease (‘porphyria’, which the author avoids specifying by name in the screenplay) which prevents them from having exposure to the sun.Read More »

  • Nikos Kornilios – To athoo soma AKA Desert Sky (1997)

    1991-2000ArthouseGreeceNikos KorniliosSci-Fi
    To athoo soma (1997)
    To athoo soma (1997)

    Synopsis
    The few survivors of a deserted city, sometime in the near future, are left with no water or food but somehow manage to survive. In a hospital, a lonely scientist, Foteini, is helping a patient with amnesia to recover. She also meets an actor named Aias (Ajax) – who often visits his sick sister – and becomes romantically involved with him. Foteini is swept away by love; Aias, however, is unprepared for such strong emotions. Their separation brings Foteini to the house of the amnesiac, and he takes care of her, up to the moment that she discovers a photo of hers among his things. In the meantime, Aias brings his sister back home from the hospital. While it is getting darker, with clouds gathering in the sky, Foteini and Aias wander the city and meet in the rain.
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  • Bertrand Mandico – She Is Conann (2023) (HD)

    Bertrand Mandico2021-2030ArthouseFantasyFrance
    She Is Conann (2023)
    She Is Conann (2023)

    Traveling the abyss, the hellhound Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually put to death by his own future, through eras, myths and ages. From his childhood, a slave of Sanja and his barbarian horde, until his accession to the heights of cruelty at the gates of our world.Read More »

  • Zeki Demirkubuz – Bekleme odasi aka The Waiting Room (2004)

    Zeki Demirkubuz2001-2010ArthouseDramaTurkey
    Bekleme Odasi (2003)
    Bekleme Odasi (2003)

    Synopsis:
    Zeki Demirkubuz plays the lead character Ahmet who wants to make a film about Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’. He falls into a deep depression, loses interest in the film and life, pushes those who love him away and cannot complete the film.Read More »

  • Frieda Liappa – Mia zoi se thymamai na fevgeis (1977)

    Frieda Liappa1971-1980ArthouseDramaGreece
    Mia zoi se thymamai na fevgeis (1977)
    Mia zoi se thymamai na fevgeis (1977)

    “A love story, set in Athens of 1977, between a female, left-wing journalist and a stage actor who has abandoned the theatre. The film borrows its title from a hit by singer Mitropanos, “I remember you leaving, all my life”. Politics, the Left, artistic impasses of a creator, theatre, the relations between a man and a woman; with the man always abandoning the girl , as the title of the film (and the song) suggests.

    The director from Messina, depicts in detailed relief and sharply, a specific generation and a specific point in time: that of the regime change (metapolitefsi).”Read More »

  • Fernando Arrabal – Le cimetière des voitures AKA Car Cemetery (1983)

    France1981-1990ArthouseFernando Arrabal
    Le cimetière des voitures (1983)
    Le cimetière des voitures (1983)

    Quote:
    Based on Arrabal’s play of the same name, Car Cemetery is sort of an eighties punk rock version of the Christ story. We follow the life of a messianic figure from birth through to his death although instead of taking place in and around the Middle East it’s set in a post apocalyptic garbage dump full of rusty, broken down cars and it’s populated by various degenerates – pimps, prostitutes, and other nefarious types.Read More »

  • Otar Iosseliani – Et la lumière fut AKA And Then There Was Light (1989)

    Otar Iosseliani1981-1990ArthouseDramaFrance
    Et la lumière fut (1989)
    Et la lumière fut (1989)

    Events in an idyllic African village are shown in detail in the period just before logging trucks come in and cut down the forest around the villagers, forcing them to move into the wretched shantytowns that surround major cities throughout the undeveloped world. Despite the familiar premise, this surprisingly unsentimental film by Georgian director Otar Ioselliani has several things going for it, beginning with the cinematography and including the natural and unaffected (non-professional) performances of the villagers.Read More »

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