Rangbhoomi follows the filmmaker as he attempts to trace Dadasaheb Phalke’s life in Varanasi, where Phalke withdrew, disillusioned with the world of cinema, and decided to take up theatre. During his life there, Phalke wrote a semi-autobiographical play titled Rangbhoomi, which forms the core of this film.Read More »
2010s
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Kamal Swaroop – Rangbhoomi (2013)
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Inés María Barrionuevo – Atlántida (2014)
Inés María Barrionuevo2011-2020ArgentinaDramaIn the summer of 1987 in a town in Córdoba, two teenage sisters, Elena and Lucia, are alone at home. The youngest is in a cast and annoyed with pleasure by her older sister, who thinks of how to get out of that town, to study and to live in a different way, beyond the small gossip of the village club, the bar of the town, the little clubs and the pool and who squeezed with whom. There are also the boys who live and work in the field, a young doctor, but much older than Elena, a connection between Lucia and a friend of her sister, some conflicts elsewhere. Sexual awakenings, annoyances, identities, searches, encounters, urgencies.Read More »
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Kamal Swaroop – Samudra Manthan AKA The Churning of the Ocean (2019)
2011-2020DocumentaryIndiaKamal SwaroopAt Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest congregation of religious pilgrims, a troupe of theatre actors stage a play based on the origin myth of Hinduism – the churning of the cosmic ocean. The legend tells of an epic battle between the gods and the demons for an elixir of immortality. The mela (or fair) is celebrated at the site where the elixir was believed to have fallen. Today, millions of Hindu pilgrims gather there to bathe in the holy river over a two-month period.Read More »
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Kazuya Shiraishi – Mesunekotachi AKA Dawn of the Felines (2017)
Kazuya Shiraishi2011-2020DramaJapanA story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.Read More »
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Eduardo Nunes – Sudoeste aka Southwest (2012)
Eduardo Nunes2011-2020BrazilDramaIn a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.Read More »
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Franck Ribière – La femme la plus assassinée du monde AKA The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)
2011-2020DramaFranceFranck RibièreMysteryPaula Maxa is the Parisian Grand Guignol Theatre’s leading lady, famous for being murdered on stage every day. But is there a link between the theatre and a series of gruesome real-life murders?Read More »
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Kenya Marquez – Asfixia (2019)
2011-2020DramaKenya MarquezMexicoAfter getting out of jail where she learned how to take care of the sick, Alma, an albino woman, decides to recover something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma is forced to take care of Clemente (a hypochondriac with an OCD to avoid a sudden death) at night. The relationship between them will transit from suspicion and fear to tenderness and love.Read More »
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Jan Balej – Mala z rybarny AKA Little From The Fish Shop (2015)
2011-2020AnimationCzech RepublicFantasyJan BalejDeep underneath the surface of the sea, accompanied by a fish orchestra, the voice of the ocean is telling a story about Little, the daughter of the Sea King. Forced to abandon the devastated, plundered waters of their home, the Sea King and his family ventured to live among humans. In a darkened fish shop in the heart of a harbor district, they now lead a tedious life. One day, the fish shop door flies open and in walks J. J. – a charming streetwise dandy. And this is where the plot thickens…Read More »
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Erol Mintas – Annemin sarkisi AKA Song of My Mother (2014)
Erol Mintas2011-2020DramaTurkeySynopsis
Nigar (Zübeyde Ronahi) is not accustomed to living in the big city of Istanbul and longs to return to her village in Southeastern Turkey from where she was supposedly forced to leave after the incidents of ethnic clashes in 90s. Her son Ali (Feyyaz Duman), on the other hand, has pretty much settled in the city and works ironically as a teacher of Turkish language as a Kurd. Will Nigar be able to convince Ali to take her back to their village?
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