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Poster for Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Aurand’s signature diaristic form, roses in bloom, farm animals, Orkney landscapes, and scenes of the late filmmaker Margaret Tait having tea are rendered through expressive Bolex movements as well as the director’s active camera, and punctuated by abstract swaths of saturated and shifting colors. The film is an homage to Tait, whom Aurand visited in Orkney.

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Poster for No Return No Return

2012 · ★ 4.4 (5)

This film acts as a childhood memory, playful and full of discovery, transformation, tenderness and melancholy. It opens with a clear image: we see geometric shapes, accompanied by a pair of hands, probably feminine. The hands fold the paper. A torso dressed in a romantic yellow dress emerges halfway out of the blue water and moves gently back and forth. Suddenly, countless small yellow paper boats float around the figure.

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Poster for Stories Sarah Tells

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Tribute to director, screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley. A whimsical, playful film tells the story of the kinds of stories Polley tells, using humorous, simple line animation, the film comments on the messiness of life and art.

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Poster for Reden wir von Leben und Tod

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Vega

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The land gives. The land traps. The land calls. VEGA (*Spanish): flat, low and fertile land. VEGA: It is the fifth brightest star in the night sky, and the second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus.

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Poster for Saturnrania

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A feminist sci-fi adventure documentary following an experimental physicist on her quest to have a baby.

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Poster for Domino à l'Olympia

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Ardea

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two loners are running in the park, both are keeping their rhythm and tempo. Their ways are crossing and the run is becoming something more than the regular change of inhaling and exhaling. However, this run will leave one of them out of breath.

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Poster for The De Facto Martyr Suite

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ibn Kenyatta has been in prison since 1974. In 2019, he reflects on his refusal to appear before the New York State Board of Parole. The words resonate from his cell with images of the Great Migration. The invocation of a life before walls. The images' epistolary narrative takes us from Alabama, his birthplace, to the New York subway where he was arrested and beaten. Before arriving to Haiti's spiritual world, his words pass through cotton fields and factories. We encounter Bobby Seale in prison, a youth who embodies his African heritage during the Vietnam War, while his fathers are murdered in the United States.

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Poster for Swimming Pool

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Night lovestory of two outsiders, who meet in closed swimming pool in the middle of big city.

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Poster for Warm Objects

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Utilizing heat sensing imaging technology, scenes of everyday incidents of the city are transformed into glimpses of our world through an alien lens. Two insertions of on-screen text betray Ahwesh's ominous implications. The first is a meditation on Rudyard Kipling's oft-quoted "Truth is the first casualty of war," while the second takes the form of a hastily crafted e-mail, suggesting that its author has become withdrawn and pessimistic out of fear of some pending disaster. Originally made in response to the political climate of the Iraq War, Warm Objects remains a relevant portrait of the world in uncertain and paranoid times.

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Poster for Velório em Família

2009 · ★ 10.0 (1)

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Experimental documentary about a public park.

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Poster for The Good Daughter

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Good Daughter is a portrait of the fraught marriage between a Taiwanese man and his Vietnamese bride. Born out of a disabled man's wish to obey his mother and a woman's effort to help her family escape poverty, the marriage has produced two daughters and a complicated drama. The film takes us inside a household simmering with tensions.

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Poster for Wunderkammer

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A cabinet of curios to bewilder and befuddle even the freakiest of freaks.

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Poster for Vanishing Chinatown: The World of the May’s Photo Studio

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The May’s Photo Studio brings families together: in the past by splicing together family portraits in spite of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and in the present by reconnecting May’s granddaughter with her family’s legacy. These stunning photographs show San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early to mid-20th century, a vanishing “old Chinatown” vibrant with culture; an immigrant community becoming Americanized.

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Poster for Remembrance of József Romvári

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short portrait of Hungarian production designer József Romvári, made by his granddaughter. Included as a special bonus feature on the release of Mephisto, Confidence, and Colonel Redl, by director István Szabó through Kino Lorber.

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Poster for Summer with and without Grandpa

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 7-year-old girl doesn’t want to know what death is; she learns what kissing is instead. But it is impossible to replace a grandpa who passed away with any kind of kissing.

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1917 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An industrialist badly in need of money hopes to marry his daughter off to a rich suitor, but she only has eyes for her penniless childhood sweetheart.

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Poster for Sleep-Inn Beauty

1930 · ★ 0.0 (0)

a comedy situated around a bathing beauty contest

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