2010s

  • Aleksei Balabanov – Kochegar aka A Stoker (2010)

    2001-2010Aleksei BalabanovCrimeDramaRussia

    The stoker is a veteran from the Afghanistan war, retired major and hero of the USSR who spends his life in a heating chamber writing a book and trowing coal on the fire. From time to time an old friend , veteran as well , pays him visits to throw in the fire something more than coal.The bales seem to be human bodies but the stoker doesn’t care because his friend tells him they were bad people.
    The stoker’s beautiful daughter which lives with him only visits her father to ask him for money. The only interested in his work are two little girls that ask him the most surprising questions.Read More »

  • Tariq Teguia – Thwara Zanj AKA Zanj Revolution AKA Revolution Zendj (2013) (HD)

    2011-2020AlgeriaDramaPoliticsTariq Teguia

    PLOT
    During the “Arab sprig” an Algerian journalist (Ibn Battutâ) researches the history of the Zanj revolution, from IX century. On his path he mets a young Palestinian student (Nahla).Read More »

  • David Zonana – Mano de obra (2019)

    2011-2020David ZonanaDramaMexico

    In the electric debut feature from David Zonana, a construction worker in Mexico City falls to his death tragically — and suspiciously — while on the job, prompting his brother and widow to seek justice on their own terms.
    On one level, Workforce is simply a story about building a house. But a deeper look reveals a whole economic system in microcosm. This sharply observed drama is quiet, precise, and crushingly effective.Read More »

  • Frank V. Ross – Audrey the Trainwreck (2010)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaFrank V. RossMumblecoreUSA

    The story of two people caught in the routines of work and circles of friends. The days begin with an alarm and ends with the fading sound of a television. Ron Hogan, a 28 year old ATM parts purchaser, and Stacy Ryan, a 27 year old, oddly charming courier, meet through a match making Internet service and go through the routine of falling for one another.Read More »

  • Davide Palella – Sirio (2019)

    2011-2020Davide PalellaItalyShort Film

    IMDB:
    A boy lives alone in the desert. He spends the day gathering firewood, waiting for an old man to provide him of the essentials to his survival.Read More »

  • Aida Begic – Djeca AKA Children of Sarajevo (2012)

    2011-2020Aida BegicBosnia HerzegovinaDrama

    Quote:
    Winner of the Un Certain Regard award at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, Aida Begic’s Children of Sarajevo (Djeca, 2012) is a tightly-focused drama, portraying life in contemporary Bosnia from the point of view of the war orphans now reaching maturity. Marija Pikic plays Rahima, a 23-year-old woman who, after a misspent youth, has found solace and direction in Islam, practising the Hajib and wearing a headscarf.Read More »

  • Cristian Mungiu – Dupa dealuri AKA Beyond the Hills (2012)

    2011-2020Cristian MungiuDramaRomania

    Quote:
    In an isolated Orthodox convent in Romania, Alina has just been reunited with Voichita after spending several years in Germany. The two young women have supported and loved each other since meeting as children in an orphanage.

    Alina wants Voichita to leave and return with her to Germany, but Voichita has found refuge in faith and a family in the nuns and their priest, and refuses. Alina cannot understand her friend’s choice. In her attempt to win back Voichita’s affection, she challenges the priest. She is taken to hospital and the people of the monastery start to suspect that she is possessed. —Wild BunchRead More »

  • Ulrich Seidl – Paradies: Hoffnung AKA Paradise: Hope (2013)

    2011-2020AustriaDramaUlrich Seidl

    Synopsis:
    The final installment in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, ‘Paradise: Hope’ tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (‘Paradise: Love’) and her aunt does missionary work (‘Paradise: Faith’), Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight adolescents. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor forty years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.Read More »

  • Frédéric Balekdjian – Mon père, Francis le Belge (2010)

    2001-2010CrimeDramaFranceFrédéric Balekdjian

    Francis Vanverberghe, aka “Francis le Belge”, was shot to death in September 2000 in a bar on the Champs Elysées. An old relic of the French Connection, his death sealed the faith of the french organized crime. He was a pimp, a drug smuggler and a multifaceted man risking his life and those of others every day, until the last day. Through his daugther’s eyes, this film reveals the man behind the myth. A female look into a world where women don’t belong…Read More »

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