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Poster for Mah-Jongg: The Tiles that Bind

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A light-hearted yet deeply moving portrait of the Asian- and Jewish-American women who play this centuries-old Chinese game, shedding light on the common and uncommon experiences of the players that simultaneously define and transcend cultural boundaries. Along the way, it proves again and again to be a bridge connecting seemingly unlike individuals, spanning generations, continents and cultures, and transcending classification as merely a game.

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Poster for Ophelia's Opera

2001 · ★ 6.0 (2)

An artist uses a spell to free herself from an abusive relationship in this experimental revenge tale told through rap, song, Shakespearean verse, sign language, and Jamaican patois.

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Poster for Les Travailleuses de la mer

1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

At the fishing port of Lorient in Brittany, nearly 800 women work, filleters by day, fish sorters by night. Some testify to the conditions in which they exercise their profession, conditions almost unchanged for fifty years: in the cold, humidity and ice, standing, carrying heavy loads, and always without status.

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Poster for EXILED Rohingya

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The silence behind the genocide of the Rohingyas in Burma.

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Poster for Good Bye, My Love, Good Bye!

2018 · ★ 10.0 (1)

The monologue of a grown-up woman, whose husband is leaving her for his young mistress. The viewer does not know until the final frames whether the heroine is actually speaking with her husband or simply rehearsing a future conversation, in which she thanks her husband for the time together, assures him that his decision is the right one, confirms his honest choice of heart, and remembers the touching moments of their past, releasing her husband and promising to cope with loneliness. And only the unexpected finale uncovers for the viewer the woman's true desire in this moment.

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Poster for The First Cut

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short fiction film about a decisive moment in the life and career of a young female surgeon. The operating theatre is ready, the lamps shine bright and the patient’s belly has been shaved and is ready to be operated on. The surgeon hesitates; the knife hovers above the skin. The moment brings back key scenes from her childhood that tell everything about her choice of profession and her hesitation to cut the patient’s skin.

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Poster for Three Lives

1971 · ★ 4.0 (7)

Photographed by an all-female crew and directed by the author of Sexual Politics, these are autobiographical interiews with three very different women who talk frankly about their lives, conflicts, and contrasting life styles.

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Poster for La Storia: il romanzo dello scandalo

2024 · ★ 7.5 (1)

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Amir is 28, gay and has just fled from Iran. Agnes is 101 and still too young for a retirement home - she thinks. The two move in together - and save each other's lives.

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Poster for Amor-Didas

2017 · ★ 5.8 (4)

Doña Mica owns a Tortería where she works to support her two young and beautiful daughters who live in the United States. Upon their return to Mexico, she decides to marry them to the best.

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Poster for Be Again

1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When it's sunset in Purgatory and dawn on the Ganges it's noon on the Irish Sea. Filmed on Killiney Hill outside Dublin with John Manning remembering Samuel Beckett. The text echoes the Purgatory.

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Poster for The Red Book

1994 · ★ 4.6 (10)

An elliptical, pictographic animated film that uses flat, painted figures and collage elements in both two and three dimensional settings to explore the realms of memory, language and identity from the point of view of a woman amnesiac.

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Poster for Catching Snowflakes On Her Tongue + Cute Little Drunk

2024 · ★ 5.7 (10)

Gelya is enjoying being young. Her elder sister Kristina is expecting a second child at the age of just 17, and people are predicting the same fate for 14-year-old Gelya. After going out for a walk with a boy who is besotted with her, she ends up getting drunk on strawberry beer and sitting on his lap while weeping over her own unrequited love. Gelya then returns home, just as her sister is discharged from the maternity hospital.

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Poster for Phantoms from the Depths

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Martinique, centuries of colonisation, slavery and migration have intermingled peoples from the four corners of the earth, making each one the son of all. Starting from a dialogue between the slaves thrown into the Atlantic during the slave trade and the migrants who are dying today in the Mediterranean, this film questions current identity-based divisions and shows us that another world is possible.

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Poster for Base Station

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Eden believes that her younger brother Hyun-ho is suffering from 'electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome' and flees to escape electromagnetic waves. However, even in the mountains, Hyun-ho's condition does not improve.

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Poster for Fuck That

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Béatrice Dalle, à prendre ou à laisser

2023 · ★ 7.1 (5)

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Poster for 26

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

As the song says: "I'm 26 years old but only 4 useful. I don't understand anything". 8 people read aloud private texts (sms, letters, emails) written or received by Daphné Hérétakis in the months leading up to her 26th birthday. The film proposes to take these texts out of the realm of intimacy and put them back into the public space and the collective nature of the film. The result is a romantic and absurd cadavre exquis, which addresses slightly depressed sensibilities.

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Poster for Re-Live: A Tale of an American Island Cheerleader

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rowena, a transgender actress returns to her home on Guam for her high school reunion’s “do-over week,” to live out a big regret… her childhood dream of becoming a cheerleader. But she must then confront a different kind of reunion, with her estranged family.

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1996 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A book ordered eight years ago and a sensitive short drama about the fate of an old friend.

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