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Tokyo Godfathers (2003)Tôkyô goddofâzâzu
In Tokyo, three homeless people's lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl in a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches, these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the mystery of the abandoned child and the fate of her parents. Along the way, encounters with seemingly unrelated events and people force them to confront their own haunted pasts, as they learn to face their future together. - Director:
- Satoshi Kon
- Cast:
- Tôru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto
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My Neighbours the Yamadas (1999)Hôhokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun
A stylistic departure for Studio Ghibli, with writer-director Isao Takahata using digital production to create the feel of a moving watercolour sketch, My Neighbours The Yamadas follows the exploits of the Yamada family. Takahata charts the day-to-day life of husband and wife Takashi and Matsuko who, along with their two children, their dog and Matsuko's live-in mother, navigate the pitfalls of modern life to often comic effect. - Director:
- Isao Takahata
- Cast:
- Hayato Isohata, Masako Araki, Naomi Uno
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It's summer 1994, an ex-mining village just outside Doncaster. Trevor (Tom Varey) sits at Decoy Ponds, hoping to catch a glimpse of Nessie, the carp of local legend. Misfit Pogo (Esme Creed-Miles) wanders around town with a cassette recorder, taping broken fragments of the world around her. Lovesick Malcolm (Angus Imrie) is trying to mend his broken heart, while best friends Shane (Gianluca Gallucci) and David (Ethan Wilkie) have nothing better to do. When rumours of giant carp sightings begin to swirl, this young community embark on a fishing expedition they will never forget. - Director:
- Bill Buckhurst
- Cast:
- Tom Varey, Esme Creed-Miles, Angus Imrie
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Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village. The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences. - Director:
- Mark Jenkin
- Cast:
- Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Simon Shepherd
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)Hotaru no haka
Set in Japan during World War II, the film focuses on Seita and his little sister Setsuko. After their mother is killed in an air raid, and with their father serving in the navy, they are forced to fight for survival in the devastated Japanese countryside. Food and shelter are scarce, and even their own relatives are too concerned with their own survival. All they have is each other and their belief that life must carry on. - Director:
- Isao Takahata
- Cast:
- Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi
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Crimson Gold (2003)Talaye sorkh
Beginning in extraordinary fashion with a hold up on a Tehran jewellery store that ends in tragedy, the film then backtracks to detail the events that drove an essentially ordinary, decent man to crime. Scripted by Abbas Kiarostami and based on a true story, the film guides us around Tehran, building into an engrossing and moving portrait of a man, Hussein (Hussein Emadeddin) feeling humiliated and essentially helpless in a world of social injustice, and a city split irrevocably between the privileged and the desperate. - Director:
- Jafar Panahi
- Cast:
- Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji
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They are both on the run: the man with the dog he is not allowed to own because the law deems it to be unclean, and the young woman who took part in an illicit party on the shores of the Caspian Sea. They barricade themselves in a secluded villa with curtained windows and eye each other suspiciously. Why has he shaved his head? How does she know he is being followed by the police? They are now prisoners in a house without a view in the midst of a hostile environment The voices of police can be heard in the distance, but so too can the calming sound of the sea. Are we looking at outlaws, or are the man and the young woman merely phantoms, figments of the imagination of a filmmaker who is no longer allowed to work? - Director:
- Jafar Panahi
- Cast:
- Kambuzia Partovi, Maryam Moqadam, Jafar Panahi
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The Circle (2000)Dayereh
Set over the course of a single day, Jafar Panahi's powerful film is an ensemble piece that tells the stark tales of several young Iranian women and the harsh society in which they live. Beginning with a childbirth, and the ensuing despair at the discovery that the baby is a girl, the film touches upon the myriad hardships endured by women living in Iran's male dominated world of bureaucracy, constant surveillance and age old inequalities. But even in the midst of this stifling environment, the spirit, strength and courage of the circle of women cannot be extinguished. - Director:
- Jafar Panahi
- Cast:
- Maryiam Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Mojgan Faramarzi
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For a soccer-mad young girl, a crucial world cup qualifying match for Iran's national football team at the Azadi stadium in Tehran is the game of her dreams. But with women banned from the country's football grounds, she and several other equally dedicated and rebellious girls have only one way of infiltrating the crowd...by disguising themselves as boys. But with sharp-eyed soldiers policing the event and obstacles such as the lack of women's bathrooms to overcome, the street-smart girls find they have to use their wits and every trick in the book to see the match. A hilarious and engaging comedy, 'Offside' entertainingly illustrates the fight for women's rights in Iran. - Director:
- Jafar Panahi
- Cast:
- Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi
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This Is Not a Film (2011)In film nist
This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi. While appealing his sentence - six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking - Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb and reflecting on the meaning of the art of filmmaking. - Director:
- Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- Cast:
- Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
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An epic musical on the pitfalls of love, fame and fortune from visionary filmmaker Leos Carax (Holy Motors), starring Adam Driver (Marriage Story) and Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose). The glamorous lives of a seemingly perfect celebrity couple - a provocative stand-up comedian and an internationally renowned opera singer - take an unexpected turn when their daughter Annette is born with a mysterious gift. An unabashedly unique and unforgettable spectacle, this Cannes Best Director prize winner co-stars Simon Helberg and features an original story and music by Sparks, one of pop's best-loved and most influential cult bands. - Director:
- Leos Carax
- Cast:
- Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg
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Wild Strawberries (1957)Smultronstället
Professor Isak Borg (Victor Sjostrom) travels with his daughter-in-law Marianne (Ingrid Thulin) to receive an honorary doctorate for his lifelong contribution to medicine. Soon his journey becomes one of introspection, as the people he meets - from a hitch-hiking girl to a quarrelling married couple - remind him of past relationships and cause him to contemplate his own failings. Victor Sjostrom, a celebrated film director in his own right, best know for his silent work including the Hollywood masterpiece The Wind, gives a remarkably moving performance as the aged academic. Bergman's smiles and tears on a summer's day make for his most overtly symbolic work, shifting skillfully between the past and the present, dream and reality. Filled with richly observed characters and a real feeling for the joys of nature and youth, 'Wild Strawberries' is one of Bergman's warmest and finest films. - Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast:
- Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
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Dr. Luther Brooks (Sidney Poitier) is assigned to treat two prisoners, the Biddle brothers, who were shot during an attempted robbery. Ray Biddle (Richard Widmark) refuses to be treated by the black doctor, and when his brother John dies under Luther's care, Ray becomes consumed with vengeance. His anger and hatred ignites racial tensions within the community, and events quickly spiral out of control. - Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast:
- Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally
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Crusading newspaper publisher Malt Drayton's (Spencer Tracy) liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey (Katharine Houghton), announces her engagement to John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), an internationally renowned African- American physician. While Matt's wife Christina (Katharine Hepburn) readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind. - Director:
- Stanley Kramer
- Cast:
- June Whitley Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier
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David Byrne's American Utopia (2020)American Utopia
'Do we get stupider as we grow up?' In his wildly popular Broadway show 'American Utopia', David Byrne reflects on human connections, life and how on earth we work through it. He joins the dots with his music and it all starts making sense. Spike Lee here transforms the production into immersive, dynamic cinema that radiates with astounding performances, inventive contemporary dance and political urgency. 'American Utopia' flows like an iridescent dream vision. Work by James Baldwin, Janelle Monáe and Kurt Schwitters is highlighted among exhilarating renditions of Byrne's solo work, as well as Talking Heads classics. According to the multi-hyphenate, we love looking at humans more than anything else. Anti-fascist and anti-racist, Byrne illuminates our responsibility to care for one another as he and his co-performers burn down the house. - Director:
- Spike Lee
- Cast:
- David Byrne, Jacqueline Acevedo, Gustavo Di Dalva
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