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Matterhorn
2013
Fred is 54 years old and lives alone. He rides around in the local bus, virtuously attending church and eating his green beans, meat and potatoes at 6 o`clock on the dot every day. One day, Theo wanders into Fred’s live and turns his well-organized routine upside down. With the special talent of...
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Qissa: The Ghost is a Lonely Traveller
2013
Umber Singh, a Sikh who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. After having only daughters, Umber dreams of having a male son. When Kanwar is born, he manages to make his dream come...
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Silent Ones
2013
Csilla, a young Eastern European woman, and Isti, her little brother, are travelling together without a clear destination, looking for a better life. One day, Csilla wakes up inside a crashed car, in the middle of nowhere, not knowing where Isti is. He has vanished, without a trace. Upset and...
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Solo
2013
Nelson has been playing trumpet at the Air Force band for more than 20 years. He feels discontented with his dead-end job. A music contest might be his chance to do things differently, but the Air Force selects him for an important mission. He is now forced to choose.
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The Deflowering of Eva Van End
2012
Etty, her husband Evert and their children Erwin, Manuel and Eva are a perfectly normal family, who over the years developed a slightly dysfunctional way of relating to one another. Then, all of a sudden, the incarnation of perfection enters their lives, embodied by the German exchange student...
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Dark Blood
2012
Boy, a young widower with Native American roots, lives in a desert contaminated by nuclear tests. In this desolate place, surrounded by katchina dolls which the indigenous population believes to possess magical powers, he awaits the end of the world. His refuge is suddenly invaded by Harry and...
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How to Describe a Cloud
2013
When Liling’s mother becomes blind, her daughter is lured back to the small island where she came from. By means of language, she tries to connect her mother with the world again. Also in the big city, where she has a strange friendship with an older artist, she becomes more aware of the value of...
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Jackie
2012
Twin sisters Sofie and Daan have been raised by their two fathers. When they receive an unexpected phone call from their - hitherto unknown - biological mother in the US, Jackie, they embark on an amazing adventure that alters their assumptions about everything that they once believed to be true....
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Hill Of Pleasures
2013
A documentary about the daily life in a community in Rio de Janeiro a year after the arrival of a Pacifying Police Unity. For four months, between April and July in 2012, the filmmaker and her crew kept up with the daily lives at Morro dos Prazeres, the slum in Santa Teresa that names the film....
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Heremias Book One: The Legend of The Lizard Princess
2006
A small group travels by caravan and cow along country roads. One of its members, the middle-aged man Heremias, suddenly decides that he wants to live on his own. The film then follows him as he attempts to begin a new life as a community of one, entering into dialogue both with his fellow men and...
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The Girl and Death
2012
Around the turn of the twentieth century, young Nicolai is travelling from Moscow to Paris to study medicine and learn to speak French. On the way, he stops at a hotel, also serving as a brothel and sanatorium, near Leipzig. There, he meets the beautiful courtesan Elise and falls deeply in love...
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The Aviatrix of Kazbek
2010
Marie is a girl who has a vivid imagination. On the flat island of Texel, in Netherlands, she dreams about mountains. She would rather do something with her life instead of marrying Paul. But being the only girl in a big and poor family during wartime, she doesn?t seem to have much of a choice. The...
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The Tango Singer
2009
Helena is a rising Tango talent who is deeply and madly in love. When she successfully auditions with her band for a residency in a prestigious theater in Buenos Aires, her career looks set to take off. But she is hit by tragedy: the man with whom she is in love will no longer love her back. For...
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The Cave
2001
Young Egon, age 14, and Axel, 15, met during an excursion to a cave in the countryside in Belgium. Alex is amoral and fascinates, but at the same time, repels Egon. Both are brought together, grateful for having met anyone of a nature as diverse. The influence Alex exerts over Egon grows in the...
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Sleeping Sickness
2011
Ebbo and Vera Velten have been living in Africa for a long time. Ebbo is managing a sleeping sickness program. His work is fulfilling. In contrast, Vera feels increasingly uncomfortable with her life in the expat community of Yaounde and the separation from her daughter Helen, 14, who is attending...
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The Smell of Paradise
2004
A journey through Islam, through visits to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Chechenia, and Qatar, in order to outline a picture of recent history subsequent to the September 11, 2001, attacks. An endeavor to shed light on the process that leads to as radical a choice as self-sacrifice on the part of young...
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The Stoneraft
2002
One day, after an earthquake that shook Europe unperceived by any seismograph, a crack appeared precisely on the borders between France and Spain. Gradually the rift grew deeper and separated all of the Iberian peninsula from the rest of the continent. Little by little, that giant portion of land...
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Hollands Licht
2003
A documentary on light in Holland. Is Dutch light unique or is this a myth? It is celebrated in works of art by painters such as Van Gogh, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Johannes Vermeer. During the nineteenth century, artists Manet, Liebermann, Whistler, Boudin, and Fromentin went to Holland to see the...
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The Mark of the Beast
1982
Filme baseado em fatos reais ocorridos no norte da Holanda, no fim dos anos 20, uma região marcada pela pobreza, atraso, superstição e violência. Nesse cenário, Yje Wijkstra é um homem de mais ou menos 30 anos, exímio caçador, que vive invadindo propriedades para caçar. Isso faz com que...
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The Muse
2007
John has moved to town in order to become a success as a writer and a lover. During the day he languishes in his unchallenging office job. He spends his evenings in his room or at the library. At night he roams the outer skirts of town, no big thrill ever coming his way, his half-hearted attempts...
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The Promised Land
2000
“Man found dead in apartment after one month.” This type of news that is so common in the newspapers was a source of inspiration to director John Appel in making The Promised Land, inspired on the sixth commandment: “Thou shalt not kill”. Instead of condemning someone or teaching a lesson...
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The Invisible Truth
2000
The ninth divine commandment (“Thou shalt not bear false witness”) is an indictment against falsehood, but how can one keep to truths and falsehoods if they are questioned daily through mass media? This is the bias taken by Pieter Fleury to broach the ninth commandment from the point of view of...
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Abel
1986
O diretor holandês Alex Van Warmerdam é também protagonista deste seu primeiro longa-metragem. Ele conta a história de Abel, um homem que aos 31 anos nem pensa em sair da casa dos pais, vivendo isolado do mundo exterior. É por meio de seus binóculos que Abel olha o lado de fora. Quando se...
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Altiplano
2009
War photographer Grace, devastated after a violent incident in Iraq, renounces her profession. Her Belgian husband, Max, is a cataract surgeon working at an eye clinic in the high Andes of Peru. Nearby, the villagers of Turubamba succumb to illnesses caused by a mercury spill from a local mine....