RB Media
Series
Film Movement volume 13, year 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
As busy, working parents, Jackie and Mark haven't been intimate in quite some time. However, Jackie abruptly discovers that she is pregnant. She knows it's not her husband Mark's, but claims she hasn't been with anyone else either. The unnerving side effects of her pregnancy begin to affect her mental state, creating turmoil within the family that is only made worse by Mark's fury. SECOND COMING follows the close knit family over the course of a year...
2) The Iran job
Series
Film Movement volume Year 11, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
At the height of international tension between America and Iran, Kevin Sheppard, an African-American basketball player accepts an offer to play professional basketball in Iran. What begins as a desire to "explore the unknown" ends in an emotional roller-coaster as he forms an unlikely alliance with three young Iranian women against the backdrop of revolutionary social upheaval in Iran.
4) Min dît
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"Ten-year-old Gulistan and her brother Firat live in the heart of Turkish Kurdistan. Tragedy strikes when their parents are shot down by paramilitary gunmen before their very eyes. Traumatized and orphaned, Gulistan and Firat try to care for their infant sister, but their money soon runs out and they're forced onto the street. It is there that Gulistan meets the part-time escort Dilara. Accompanying her on a hotel call one day, Gulistan is shocked...
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Two teenagers from Rio de Janeiro pursue the dream of becoming professional ballet dancers.
"Lil' A" : 12-year-old Lil' A found dance to be the perfect antidote for the severe tics he suffered because of a nervous disorder. Now the tics have subsided and he has decided to become the best dancer and choregrapher in the whole world.
6) Jaffa
Publisher
RB Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Jaffa: Reuven's garage is a family business in Jaffa. Reuven's daughter Mali and son Meir also work there, as well as Toufik, a young Palestinian. Mali and Toufik have secretly been in love for years, and as they make their wedding arrangements, tension builds between Meir and Toufik.
Lost Paradise: A couple has an intimate encounter in a one star hotel. But a moment later, their idyll is shattered by intervening politics.
7) The auction
Series
Film Movement volume 12, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A man of few words, Gaby manages his family's farm--Buchard & Sons--on his own, despite his advancing age. With no actual sons to speak of and his two grown daughters living far away in the big city, he spends his days tending to the animals and land that surround him, eschewing modern technology and most social interactions. When his eldest daughter, Marie, appears at the family homestead to share news that she's finally getting divorced and in desperate...
8) Eldorado
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2009
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.
9) Madeinusa
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Description
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can't see what is happening....
11) Er di: Drifters
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Would-be immigrant Er Di is expelled from the United States for working illegally. The son he fathered in the U.S. comes to China but Er Di is barred from seeing him. At the same time, he becomes involved with a member of a touring Shanghai opera company and tries to resolve the conflicts between his past and future.
12) Ben X
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2008
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
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
The story of three soccer fans, who live in the farthest-flung corners of the planet but are determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final. A global comedy featuring a family of Mongolian nomads, a camel caravan of Tuareg in the Sahara, and a group of Indios in the Amazon.
Series
Film Movement volume 14, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Afghanistan 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antares and his men's determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
The way I spent the end of the world: Bucharest 1989, the last year of Ceaușescu's dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceaușescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania with...
Series
Film Movement volume 13, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, this film is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As she struggles...
17) Theeb: Wolf
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In 1916, while war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers' quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A collection of six short films from Australia, India, the United States, Japan, and Germany. In Inja, a South African landowner goes to great extremes to separate a Black boy and his puppy. Sangam features a conversation on a subway between an Indian who has just arrived in New York and a disillusioned Indian-American. Mt. Head is an animated fantasy about a man who eats some cherry seeds and ends up with a cherry tree growing out of his head. In...
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Collection of eight short films.
No bikini: A seven-year-old girl refuses to wear her bikini top at a summer camp.
Diamonds in a bucket: The sudden reappearance of his thirty-year-old daughter threatens an older man's relationship with a lonely codependent woman.
Aided migration: An animated story in which a nitrogen allergy threatens the long-awaited journey of a migratory bird.
The sickie: When an over-worked, under-appreciated office manager...