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Sweep It Up, Swig It Down. by Kroske, Gerd,film director.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1997.In October 1996, almost 10 years after meeting the three Leipzig street sweepers, director Gerd Kroske visited them again. In the meantime, they had given up their cleaning jobs and lost contact with each other. They struggle to get by, and their lives take place between their apartments, pubs and social welfare offices. Through parallel montage, the director brings his three protagonists together once again and establishes a connection between past and present through quotes from his 1990 documentary film Sweep It Up, exploring what happened to their fears and hopes. Part 2 of the long observation project known as the Sweep It Up trilogy.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; History, Modern.; German language.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; History.;
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Blond Tango. by Warneke, Lothar,film director.; Quintana-Contreras, Alejandro,actor.; Steyer, Christian,actor.; Meyer, Gerhard,actor.; Schall, Johanna,actor.; Düwel, Karin,actor.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Alejandro Quintana-Contreras, Christian Steyer, Gerhard Meyer, Johanna Schall, Karin DüwelOriginally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1986.Rogelio was forced into exile by the Chilean military Junta after being arrested and put into the Antofagasta prison camp. For five years, he has lived as a Chilean exile in the GDR, where he works as a lighting technician at a small local theater. Rogelio is lonely and isolated. He fantasizes about the opera singer Cornelia, and in his letters to his mother, he spins his dream into reality. He writes to her about his happy relationship and plans of marriage as if they were real. On the same day that Rogelio decides he cannot keep up the lie, he receives a letter from back home that turns his life upside down. The film is based on the 1983 novel by Chilean writer Omar Saavedra Santis (1944-2021), who spent many years in East German exile before he returned to Chile in 2009.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.;
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Mauvaise Graine. by Esway, Alexander,film director.; Wilder, Billy,film director.; Darrieux, Danielle,actor.; Mingand, Pierre,actor.; Flicker Alley (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Danielle Darrieux, Pierre MingandOriginally produced by Flicker Alley in 1934.Henri Pasquier (Pierre Mingand) is a rich playboy who enjoys careening around Paris in his shiny Buick. When his father forces him to sell the car, Henri suffers a class-related existential crisis, and falls in with a local car theft gang in an attempt to get his Buick back. In doing so, he not only learns about the underbelly of working for a living, but also falls for the sweetly seductive Jeannette (Danielle Darrieux).Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Motion Pictures.; Crime.; Motion pictures--France.; Motion pictures--Europe.;
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Marisa in the Woods. by Morales, Antonio,film director.; de, Aida,actor.; Mayordomo, Carmen,actor.; Bautista, Mauricio,actor.; Jordá, Patricia,actor.; Morales, Resu,actor.; Cobo, Yohana,actor.; Pragda (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Aida de la Cruz, Carmen Mayordomo, Mauricio Bautista, Patricia Jordá, Resu Morales, Yohana CoboOriginally produced by Pragda in 2017.Marisa feels that she is the supporting actress of her own life. She has no job, no projects, no prospects for the future. She looks away from her own life's downfall to become the rescuer of her best friend, who is immersed in a desperate crisis. When she tries to get help from other friends, she only finds more lives adrift. When unexpected news break the difficult balance of her life, Marisa can only find comfort in the city nightlife.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.;
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Window Boy Would Also Like To Have a Submarine. by Piperno, Alex,film director.; Quiroga, Daniel,actor.; Bortagaray, Inés,actor.; Tobol, Noli,actor.; Pragda (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Daniel Quiroga, Inés Bortagaray, Noli TobolOriginally produced by Pragda in 2020.On a cruise ship off the Patagonian coasts, a crewman discovers a magical portal leading into a woman's apartment. Simultaneously, villagers happen upon a frightening concrete hut near their settlement in the Philippines. Two stories are woven into a cinematographic labyrinth where people overlap and lose themselves. Somewhere between dark engine rooms and middle-class living rooms, between the sea and the jungle, individuals observe one another with curiosity, skepticism and anxiety.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Romance.; Science fiction.; Motion pictures--Latin America.; Fantasy films.;
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Nu Shu. by Yang, Yue-Qing,film director.; Women Make Movies (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 1999.In feudal China, women, usually with bound feet, were denied educational opportunities and condemned to social isolation. But in Jian-yong county in Hunan province, peasant women miraculously developed a separate written language, called Nu Shu, meaning "female writing." Believing women to be inferior, men disregarded this new script, and it remained unknown for centuries. It wasn't until the 1960s that Nu Shu caught the attention of Chinese authorities, who suspected that this peculiar writing was a secret code for international espionage. Today, interest in this secret script continues to grow, as evidenced by the wide critical acclaim of Lisa See's novel, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", about Nu Shu.NU SHU: A HIDDEN LANGUAGE OF WOMEN IN CHINA is a thoroughly engrossing documentary that revolves around the filmmaker's discovery of eighty-six-year-old Huan-yi Yang, the only living resident of the Nu Shu area still able to read and write Nu Shu. Exploring Nu Shu customs and their role in women's lives, the film uncovers a women's subculture born of resistance to male dominance, finds a parallel struggle in the resistance of Yao minorities to Confucian Han Chinese culture, and traces Nu Shu's origins to some distinctly Yao customs that fostered women's creativity.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Asians.; Foreign study.; Second language acquisition.; Sociology.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Current affairs.; History.; China.; Language and languages.;
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In Our Prime. by Park, Dong-hoon,film director.; Min-sik, Choi,actor.; Dong-hwi, Kim,actor.; Byeong-eun, Park,actor.; Hae-joon, Park,actor.; ODK Media (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Choi Min-sik, Kim Dong-hwi, Park Byeong-eun, Park Hae-joonOriginally produced by ODK Media in 2022.Ji-woo, an outcast in a prestigious private high school, does not fit in due to his different social background from his well-to-do classmates. One day, he meets Hak-sung, the school’s security guard who is actually a mathematical genius who defected from North Korea, now living with his past shut away. Ji-woo asks Hak-sung to teach him math, and although reluctant at first, Hak-sung eventually agrees. Finding each other in their most difficult times, Ji-woo and Hak-sung open up to one another during their special math lessons, but their friendship is at risk when Ji-woo is framed for an incident in school, and Hak-sung is faced with people prying on his past.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.;
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Márquez Without Words. by Ushakov, Valery,film director.; Zhdanova, Anastasia,actor.; Vistin, Andrei,actor.; Churovskaya, Lada,actor.; Burlai, Mark,actor.; Tsygantsov, Vasiliy,actor.; Gakharmanov, Yan,actor.; Stage Russia (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Anastasia Zhdanova, Andrei Vistin, Lada Churovskaya, Mark Burlai, Vasiliy Tsygantsov, Yan GakharmanovOriginally produced by Stage Russia in 2022.Valery Ushakov’s endlessly fascinating MÁRQUEZ WITHOUT WORDS is a philosophical parable narrated by the language of the body and music. The protagonist, Aureliano, notices one day that the world around him has turned upside down. To understand what is happening, he turns to a series of boxes that store memories of his past. Opening them one by one, he embarks on a journey through his life, his loves, his losses, his childhood and his regrets, all in search of the one central memory for which he has lived.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Education films.; Performing arts.; Arts.;
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The Strangler. by Vecchiali, Paul,film director.; Surgère, Hélène,actor.; Danno, Jacqueline,actor.; Perrin, Jacques,actor.; Guiomar, Julien,actor.; Barge, Paul,actor.; Saviange, Sonia,actor.; Altered Innocence (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Hélène Surgère, Jacqueline Danno, Jacques Perrin, Julien Guiomar, Paul Barge, Sonia SaviangeOriginally produced by Altered Innocence in 1970.An unconventional French giallo released before the sub-genre’s popularity boom resulting from filmmakers like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, THE STRANGLER centers on Émile (Jacques Perrin), a handsome young man targeting women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple women fall to Émile’s suffocating white scarf, inspector Simon Dangret, the detective assigned to track down the killer, resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man with the assistance of Anna, a beautiful woman who believes herself to be a potential victim.Praised as a “complex, melancholic meditation on isolation as well as a portrait of collective hysteria” by the New York Film Festival, the film equally subverts and indulges in the conventions of the giallo with unexpected beauty and refinement.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Horror films.; Motion Pictures.; Crime.; Motion pictures, French.; Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).;
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The Throne. by Lee, Joon-ik,film director.; Hae-sook, Kim,actor.; Geun-young, Moon,actor.; So-Dam, Park,actor.; Ji-Seob, So,actor.; Kang-ho, Song,actor.; Ah-in, Yoo,actor.; ODK Media (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Kim Hae-sook, Moon Geun-young, Park So-Dam, So Ji-Seob, Song Kang-ho, Yoo Ah-inOriginally produced by ODK Media in 2015.In the year of 1762, 35 years into the rule of King Yeongjo of the Joseon dynasty, Crown prince Sado is accused of plotting treason by his biological mother Lady Yi. King Yeongjo cannot penalize his own son as a traitor, as it would mean that he would become the father of a traitor threatening his throne, and ends up ordering Sado to take his own life. As Sado’s lieges oppose King Yeongjo’s decision by putting their own lives at risk, King Yeongjo locks Sado in a wooden rice chest to kill him.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Historical drama.;
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