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Series
Film Movement volume year 2, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Kin, a young divorced mother raising her 12-year-old daughter, Mindy. When Mindy sets her sights on finding her mother a new boyfriend by using ancient Chinese magic, the results are unexpected, funny, and heart-warming.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy focusing on the residents of a tiny island town during the course of a strange twenty-four hours.
3) Be with me
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 9
Publisher
Zhao Wei Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Be with me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope, tragedy and redemption. The protagonists in the movie are fictitious bar one -- Theresa Chan, a courageous deaf and blind woman whose life story inspired the film."--Container.
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006], 2003.
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Tamil
Description
A little girl's search for her biological mother takes the family to strife-torn Sri Lanka.
Series
Film Movement volume year 4, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Czech
Description
A trio of friends residing in an urban Czech housing project finds that happiness can come from the place where you least expect it in this quirky and heartfelt drama. As the shadow of the country's largest chemical factory looms large over their bleak industrial suburb, Monika, Tonik, and Dasha hold out hope for a brighter future in another place. While supermarket employee Monika's dreams are built around the hope that she will someday venture to...
6) Arranged
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"[C]enters on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages."--www.imdb.com
7) Fraulein
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Germanic
Description
Ana, a new employee in Reza's cafeteria, has high spirits that thaws Reza's joyless life in Zurich.
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"It's 1988, and Melo, an Uruguayan town on the Brazilian border, awaits the visit of Pope John Paul II. 50,000 people are expected to attend, and the most humble locals believe that selling food and drink to the multitude will just about make them rich. Petty smuggler Beto thinks he has the best idea of all--he decides he will build a WC in front of his house and charge for its use. His efforts bring about unexpected consequences, and the final results...
9) Ben X
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
"As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games. Ben X is the character's name but spoken quickly in Dutch as benniks, meaning I am nothing." International Movie Data Base.
10) Days and clouds
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Well-to-do, sophisticated couple, Elsa and Michele, have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes her initial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful...
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed: driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the...
12) Noise
Series
Film Movement volume year 6, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Noise: Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling. As the local community enfolds itself in a shroud of secrecy, borne from fear and an untrammeled mistrust of authority, the police remain desperate for witnesses. Graham McGahan, a young police constable suffering from a chronic hearing problem, is stationed at a police caravan near the crime scene. Living on the periphery of the investigation, McGahan crosses paths with the people affected...
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 11
Publisher
RB Media
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
"During a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, Tony, a Christian taxi-driver, brings Zeina, a Shiite woman from Beirut, to the heart of the conflict in the country's south. While they scour the rubble of local towns for Zeina's son, they discover that despite their very different backgrounds they have much in common. During their trip through the desolate countryside, the two travelers develop a deep bond as a response to the death surrounding...
14) The violin
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
In rural Mexico, during the peasant revolts of the 1970s, Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand, they are simple country musicians, and on the other they actively support the peasant guerrilla movement against the oppressor government. When the army occupies the village, the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist,...
15) Eldorado
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When Yvan, a quick-tempered 40-year-old vintage car dealer, catches young burglar and ex-junkie Elie trying to rob him, Yvan becomes strangely attached to Elie and agrees to drive him home to his parents in his old Chevrolet, leading to a bizarre journey through Belgium for the two loners.
16) For my father
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
Tarek, a young Palestinian man blackmailed into a suicide mission in Tel Aviv, is given a second chance at life when the fuse on his expolsive vest fails to detonate.
17) Mine
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 12
Publisher
Filmmovement
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Documentary about the essential bond between humans and animals, set against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in modern U.S. history: Hurricane Katrina. This gripping, character-driven story follows New Orleans residents as they attempt the daunting task of trying to reunite with their pets who have been adopted by families all over the country, and chronicles the custody battles that arise when two families love the same pet. Who...
18) Somers Town
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (70 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tomo, just turned sixteen, and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely dificult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive. He is not comfortable in his father's world. Both struggle to make sense of their new world, and a chance meeting in Somers Town, London leads the two...
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Sid, the rebellious son of Kwan, a savage Hong Kong triad boss, escapes to Taiwan upon enraging his father's adversary, a powerful underground business leader. Hiding out in the mountains, Sid encounters a group of Zen drummers. Their mesmerizing art, rigorous training, and austere way of life pique the hostile urban young man's interest and he asks to join the group. Although Sid despises his father, he is turning out to be a younger version of him:...
20) 1981
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When his family moves into their new home, young Ricardo Trogi feels different from his classmates. He creates a new reality to avoid being discovered for what he really is. How long can the truth be denied?
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