World Cinema
The Seagull’s LaughterIn 1953, Freya, an extremely beautiful Icelandic woman in her mid-20s, comes back from America. She married an American serviceman during the war and moved with him to the US, but now she is back, a widow. She settles down with he...
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Sleeping RoughSleeping Rough portrays the encounter of two “uprooted” people: Majok, a young Sudanese illegal immigrant and Jakob, an elderly reclusive veteran. Majok occasionally seeks contact with his fellow countrymen in a local center for a...
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Bear′s KissFourteen-year-old Lola and her mother are trapeze artists in a Russian circus. Lola loves the circus, and she loves Leo, a young brown bear her stepfather bought. One day, Lola’s mother vanishes, and from then on Lola has to fend ...
World Cinema
The Man without a PastThe Man Without a Past details the misadventures of tired-faced, middle-aged M (Markku Peltola), who, upon arriving in Helsinki, is brutally mugged, taken to hospital and proclaimed dead - but who just as suddenly sits up, strips ...
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Beneath CloudsIn a tiny desolate town in Australia, there is only one road in and out. A fair skinned, blue eyed teenage girl rejects her indigenous upbringing for that of her Irish father. She has developed a tough shell to survive the abusive...
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Grill PointThe place: the not exactly happening city of Frankfurt/Oder, East Germany; the people: two couples in their late thirties, set in their ways, going nowhere. Radio host Chris and his second wife Katrin don’t have much to say to eac...
World Cinema
Friday NightIt’s Friday evening and this is it: Laure has packed all her belongings because tomorrow she’s moving in with Francis. On this last evening, she leaves the empty apartment which she no longer really feels is hers to go have dinner...
World Cinema
The Man on the TrainIn a medium-sized town towards the end of the day, a train pulls in and a solitary figure gets out. His name is Milan, a man with a bag over one shoulder that is as worn and shabby as its owner. While looking for some fizzy aspiri...
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Bolivar Is MeIn a frenzy, actor Santiago Miranda storms out of the taping of the national soap opera, The Loves of the Liberator based on the life of the great South American hero, Simon Bolivar. What prompts Miranda’s fury is the script, whic...
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My First MiracleDuring a holiday on the North Sea coast, Dole meets Hermann and they become very close friends. But this is no ordinary friendship. Dole is an eleven-year-old girl and Hermann is a middle-aged man, married with children of his own...