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Her father asks Chuyia: “Do you remember getting married?” She does not. He tells her that her husband has died, and she is a widow. She is 8 years old. Under traditional Hindu law, she will be a widow for the rest of her life. There are two alternatives: Marry her husband’s brother, or throw herself on his funeral pyre.Read More »
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Deepa Mehta – Water (2005)
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Héctor Gálvez – Paraíso AKA Paradise (2009)
2001-2010DramaHéctor GálvezPeruA group of friends in Peru walk across the sandy outskirts of Lima in order to pay their respects to a fallen gang member.Read More »
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Naomi Kawase – Nanayomachi AKA Nanayo (2008)
2001-2010ArthouseDramaJapanNaomi KawaseQuote:
Nanayo is the latest film from Naomi Kawase, the winner of the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with The Mourning Forest and BAFF 2003 with Shara. Making a change from Kawase’s former films, which are all set in her native Nara, Nanayo was shot in a poetic village in Thailand. The movie details the human drama that unfolds as different people of different nationalities happen to come together under one roof in a house in the middle of a forest. Lacking a common language, the art of traditional Thai massage becomes the tool they use to communicate. Read More » -
Richard Schenkman – The Man from Earth (2007)
2001-2010DramaRichard SchenkmanSci-FiUSAOn a cold night in a remote cabin, an uneventful, impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith, CSI Miami , Fight Club) becomes something extraordinary when he makes a prodigious announcement: He is an immortal who has migrated through 140 centuries of evolution and now must move on. Is Oldman truly Cro-Magnon or simply insane? Now one man will force five scholars to confront their own notions of history, religion, science and humanity, all reading to a final revelation that may shatter their world forever.Read More »
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Jan Svankmajer – Sílení AKA Lunacy (2005)
2001-2010ArthouseCzech RepublicHorrorJan SvankmajerA horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum – absolute freedom versus control and punishment – within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis’s estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He’s willing to enter a sanatorium because he believes he can rescue a young woman from there who has told him that the real director and staff of the clinic are locked in the basement. Jean conspires with her to set them free: the horrors have only begun.Read More »
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Billy Hin-Shing Tang – Woo dung saai yan si gin AKA Interactive Murders (2002)
2001-2010Billy Hin-Shing TangCrimeHong KongMysteryPop star Anna has been kidnapped. Kidnapper Jash uploads the video clip of Anna being tortured onto the internet, which instantly becomes the talk of Hong Kong. A week later, Jash contacts the police, asking not for a ransom but for retired police inspector Mo to be his police contact. Inspector Mo eventually discovers through a tabloid magazine that a self-proclaimed psychic named Shana had phoned a radio program on the day of the kidnapping to warn of the incident.Read More »
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Nariman Turebaev – Antiromantika (2001)
2001-2010KazakhstanNariman TurebaevShort FilmYoung man aged about twenty picks up a beautiful woman to love her for her money.
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Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Runaway (2001)
2001-2010DocumentaryIranKim LonginottoZiba Mir-HosseiniThis documentary follows the stories of five young girls who arrive at a refuge in Iran’s capital city Tehran, having run away from abusive or neglectful families.Read More »
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Juliusz Machulski – Ile wazy kon trojanski? AKA How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh? (2008)
2001-2010FantasyJuliusz MachulskiPolandRomanceQuote:
A happily-married woman wishes she had met her second husband earlier, so that she could avoid many mistakes of the past. When suddenly moved back in time to 1980s she realizes she has one goal: find her future love.Read More »