Four Harlem friends – Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem – dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn’t willing to take no for answer in a game where everything’s for keeps.Read More »
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The film depicts the daily lives of people whose job is to chase away cormorants that eat fish from a fish farm near Donji Miholjac, Croatia. Cormorants are protected by law and their nesting grounds are located across the border, in Hungary, which gives the protagonists’ efforts a Sisyphean, absurdist feel.Read More »
Daan is the story of a young boy desperate to find work to help support his family and heroin addicted parents. Moving from employer to employer, Daan, aged only 9 and illiterate, faces an almost impossible task without an identity card. Part of the Iranian New Wave, Abolfazl Jalili’s use of non-actors gives the film the feeling of a documentary, as performers recreate lives so close to their own. From Don’s point of view, the world is a tough place, but his determination to make the most of his situation is heartwarming.Read More »
A magical fairy tale based on the Ossetian national epos that tells us about the rivalry of strength and art, ancient evil and kind magic, pride and anxious love. Two suitors vie for the hand of the king’s daughter: a famous warrior and a simple shepherd.Read More »
A perfect red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.Read More »
Set in the newly-pacified Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this film is about the return to civilian life of Cambodian soldiers. Initially following three such returnees, the plot narrows to focus on Savannah (Narith Roeun), one ex-soldier trying to make sense of his new situation. He finds a home with his uncle, and they are the only remaining survivors of his once-large family. Despite its attraction and ubiquity, he decides not to turn to a life of petty crime, and instead tries to make his way as a kickboxer. Along the way he meets Srey Poeuv (Chea Lyda Chan), a 19 year-old bargirl who dreams of being rich and is ashamed of her status, in a dancehall. Initially, she resists his advances, but is swayed by the strength of his devotion and perseverance. His is the story of a damaged country trying vigorously to renew itself.Read More »
Disgraced detective Tony fakes evidence in divorce cases, implicates wife in Stasio affair. Stasio and wife shot dead in hotel. Tony’s ex-partner Frank investigates, suspects inheritance-seeking mistress Angeline and inconsistent Tony.Read More »
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While ambushing a drug-dealer, Detective Eddie Boone (James Black) is injected in a fight against the dealer with a new drug called Ozone, which transforms the users in powerful zombies. His partner and friend Mike Weitz (Tom Hoover) is kidnapped by a group of Ozone addicted. Eddie tries to find Mike in the streets, fighting against the zombies and having several hallucinations due to the effect drug in his blood.Read More »
This 1998 documentary was the first feature by documentary filmmaker Sérgio Tréfaut, later to direct Fleurette, Lisboetas and Viagem a Portugal, and is a look at the Portuguese Revolution of 1974 and its follow-up period as seen by some the filmmakers and photographer that accompanied it in real time.
The film brings together period footage from many different sources and new interviews. Glauber Rocha, Robert Kramer, Thomas Harlan or Sebastião Salgado are some of those interviewed or that have contributed footage to the project.Read More »