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Canadian filmmaker, Guy Maddin presents My Winnipeg, an irreverent, witty, personal and sometimes hilarious homage to the hometown he loves and loathes in equal measure. Described as a docu-fantasia, My Winnipeg merges re-enactments, archive, still photos and animation to recreate the filmmaker’s early years living with the dominant and fearsome Mrs Maddin , here played by the original femme fatale, Ann Savage, to his later attempts to leave the town that has cast its icy spell over him for his entire life. Commissioned by the Documentary channel in Canada the only stipulation he was given for making the film was that it had to be ‘enchanting’. Taking this as his starting point Guy started out on an odyssey that would lead him to the true meaning of home and locates for the viewer the magic spots that exist in Winnipeg; where pedestrians would rather use back lanes than front streets, where the homeless hide en masse on the rooftops of abandoned skyscrapers and where a strange civic law requires you to offer a room for a bight to any former owner or resident of tour current home. - Director:
- Guy Maddin
- Cast:
- Darcy Fehr, Ann Savage, Louis Negin
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The rusting relic of a failed 1950s development scheme, the Salton Sea is a barren California landscape often seen as a symbol of the failed American Dream. Rrst-time director Alma Har'el visits this poetically fruitful terrain and finds there a motley cast, including a bipolar seven-year-old, a lovelorn high school football star, and an octogenarian poet-prophet. Together they make up a triptych of manhood in its decisive moments, populating the Salton Sea's land of thwarted opportunity. True to her roots as a photographer, video artist, and music video director, Alma Har'el crafts an adamantly atypical and artistically innovative film. Bombay Beach is a dreamlike poem that sets these personal stories to a stylized melding of observational documentary and choreographed dance, to music specially composed for the film by Zach Condon of the band Beirut, and songs by Bob Dylan. - Director:
- Alma Har'el
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In this never-before-seen Director's Cut, the doors of the world's imagination are thrown wide open and the boys of South Park are transported to a magical realm in their greatest odyssey ever. Stan, Kyle, and Butters find themselves in Imagination Land just as terrorists launch an attack that unleashes all of mankind's most evil characters imaginable. With the world's imaginations spinning out of control, the government prepares to nuke Imagination Land to put an end to the chaos. Racing against time to prevent nuclear annihilation, the citizens of Imagination Land realize their only hope of salvation lies in the mind of the unlikeliest of heroes: Butters. Ignoring the impending apocalypse, Cartman goes all the way to the Supreme Court to get justice for his case of dry balls. - Director:
- Trey Parker
- Cast:
- Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Isaac Hayes
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12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)A fost sau n-a fost?
12:08pm on the 22 December 1989 was the exact time of Ceausescu's fall from power in Romania. Sixteen years on, a provincial TV talk show decides to commemorate the event by asking local heroes to reminisce about their own contributions to the revolution. But securing suitable guests proves an unexpected challenge and the producer is left with two less than ideal participants - a drink-addled history teacher and a retired and lonely sometime-Santa Claus grateful for the company. In the farcical show that follows, the men's fanciful boasts of rebellious glory are hilariously disputed by phone-ins from viewers who recall an altogether different version of events. With entertainingly wry humour, Corneliu Porumboiu's debut feature sharply satirises the short memories and inconsistencies of post-revolutionary Romania. - Director:
- Corneliu Porumboiu
- Cast:
- Aurelia Tocu, Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban
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Based on an extraordinary true story, "Pride" tells how a group of London-based gay and lesbian activists raised money to support the families of miners during the strike of 1984. Identifying a mining village in Wales, they set off to make their donation in person, and in so doing inspired "the Best British film in years". - Director:
- Matthew Warchus
- Cast:
- Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West
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Climates (2006)Iklimler
"Climates" is an existentialist epic that acutely observes a disintegrating relationship with an intense, unflinching eye over the course of three seasons. Acclaimed Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan writes, directs and stars along with his wife Ebru Ceylan as a couple in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them. Brilliantly acted and stunningly photographed, 'Climates' is moving, painfully honest and riveting cinema from a masterly director at the height of his powers. - Director:
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast:
- Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kesal
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Three Monkeys (2008)Üç maymun / 3 Monkeys
Eyup (Yavuz Bingöl) takes the blame for his politician boss, Servet (Ercan Kesal), after a hit and run accident. In return, he accepts a pay-off, believing it will make life for his wife Hacer (Hatice Aslan) and teenage son more secure. Wanting to help her son, Hacer approaches Servet for an advance, but soon gets involved with him. - Director:
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast:
- Yavuz Bingol, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar
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Winter Sleep (2014)Kis Uykusu
The 2014 Cannes Palme d'Or winner from Nuri Bilge Ceylan is set in the hilly landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia. A former actor, Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), owns a small hotel cut into the hillside, which he runs with his younger wife Nihal (Melisa Sozen). He has also inherited local properties, but leaves the business of rent collection to his agent. When a local boy, resentful of his father's humiliation by Aydin's agent, throws a stone at a jeep whilst Aydin and his agent are driving in it, Aydin ducks out of any responsibility or involvement. As the film progresses, the cocoon in which this self-satisfied man has wrapped himself is gradually unravelled. In a series of magnificent set-pieces, Aydin is exposed in his encounters with his wife, sister, and the family of the stone-throwing boy. He is finally brought face-to-face with who he truly is. - Director:
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast:
- Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag
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Uzak (2002)Distant
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's critically acclaimed film tells the story of middle-aged photographer Mahmut, who is obliged to put up in his Istanbul apartment his unemployed young cousin Yusuf, who has left his home village in search of work. Haunted by the feeling that the gap between his life and his ideals is growing. Mahmut grows increasingly irritated by his provincial young relative's encroachment into his closed and colourless world. With great wit and subtlety, 'Uzak' explores the isolation of city life and features outstanding performances from Muzaffer Ozdemir as Mahmut and Mehmet Emin Toprak as Yusuf. Tragically, Toprak was killed in a car accident shortly after completion of filming; he posthumously won, jointly with Ozdemir, the Best Actor prize at Cannes in 2003. - Director:
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast:
- Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer
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"An Angel at My Table" is the internationally acclaimed second film by Oscar-winning director Jane Campion. It is an extraordinarily moving celebration of the life of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author, based on her autobiographical trilogy. The film follows Janet through her poor childhood in the depression and her growing fascination with literature; her painfully shy student days and subsequent treatment for misdiagnosed schizophrenia; and finally on her travels to Europe where she samples Bohemian life and achieves international success as a writer. - Director:
- Jane Campion
- Cast:
- Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson
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Summer Holiday (2008)Boogie
Life for Bogdan couldn't seem more blissful, with a vacation by the sea along with his gorgeous wife and adorable young son. He has grown up and the days of glorious drinking trips and sexual adventures are long gone... But when Bogdan unexpectedly runs into his best friends from high school, vivid memories immediately come flooding back. Suddenly, he hears the wild call of bachelor life. Torn between his family obligations and the lure of a fun night out with his old friends, Bogdan - or Boogie, as he was known back then- comes to a realisation. The gaps between his childhood pals have grown wider. Friendship, it seems, can no longer be based on common tastes in women, beer, or football teams. - Director:
- Radu Muntean
- Cast:
- Dragos Bucur, Anamaria Marinca, Mimi Branescu
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Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)Bai ri yan huo
Zhang Zili wasn't always a badly paid security guard. He was once one of the best detectives on the police force. That is until injuries sustained during an investigation into a gruesome and unsolved murder case forced him into early retirement. That was five years ago and the killings have started again. Determined to track down the killer, Zhang is drawn towards a mysterious woman seemingly connected to each victim. But nothing is what it appears to be... - Director:
- Yi'nan Diao
- Cast:
- Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang
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Tuesday, After Christmas (2010)Marti, dupa Craciun
A man finds himself in love with two women. Paul (Mimi Branescu) is successful and married to Adriana (Mirela Oprisor) but is having an affair with the younger Raluca (Maria Popistasu). In the days leading to Christmas, Paul decides he needs to choose between his two lives. Radu Muntean's frank, resonant and highly acclaimed film examines the emotional impact of adultery upon its three participants. - Director:
- Radu Muntean
- Cast:
- Dragos Bucur, Maria Popistasu, Mimi Branescu
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Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is a captivating and compelling road trip through contemporary Southern America, a marginalised world of unique and intense homemade culture. Singer Jim White takes his muscle car through a gritty terrain of churches, prisons, truck stops, biker bars and coal mines, where everybody has a story in some form, almost invariably of sudden death, sin or redemption - yet all transformed by the characteristic grim humour and natural eloquence of the Southern imagination. Along the way are roadside encounters with present-day musical mavericks including the Handsome Family, Johnny Dowd, David Eugene Edwards and David Johansen; old time banjo player Lee Sexton; Rockabilly and mountain Gospel churches - and novelist Harry Crews telling grisly stories down a dirt track. And all the while, a strange Southern Jesus looms in the background. - Director:
- Andrew Douglas
- Cast:
- Harry Crews, Johnny Dowd, David Eugene Edwards
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Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland shortly before and during the infamous 1981 IRA hunger strike led by Bobby Sands. With and epic eye for the detail, the film provides a timely exploration of the final act of desperation, when the human body is the last and ultimate resources for protest. - Director:
- Steve McQueen
- Cast:
- Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan
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