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1) Arranged
Series
Film Movement ; 5, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"[C]enters on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages."--www.imdb.com
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Dumas's fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on surreal and mythic quests armed with only their wit, their words, and their wisdom. With an astonishing ear for language, Dumas creates a mythology of the psychological, spiritual, and political development of African American culture by interweaving elements...
3) Styx
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering. Carrying...
Author
Series
Movement ; 1
Language
English
Description
Coral City is infected by corruption and crime, and it's up to the citizens to fight back! The Movement sees a young group of superheroes rise up and take back the streets of their corrupt city. But when one of their own is captured by the police, it's Coral City's finest against the citizens they have neglected to protect.
Author
Series
Movement ; 7
Language
English
Description
It's the corrupt cops and politicians of Coral City vs a rag-tag group of young super powered vigilantes known as the Movement. But after The Movement has been taken down, only the powerless Vengeance Moth is left to protect the streets from the Graveyard Faction! Critically acclaimed writer Gail Simone concludes her run on this fascinating new series.
Series
Film Movement ; 2, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Portuguese
Description
Based on a true story. A man and his family on a journey 2000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycle in search for a good life.
7) Glassland
Series
Film Movement ; year 14, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"John lives with his mother, Jean, in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager existence as a taxi driver. After finding his mother unconscious from yet another night of binge drinking, John learns that without treatment, she will not have much longer to live. Desperate to save their broken family, he offers his services to a petty criminal in order to pay for Jean's costly rehab treatment, but this decision runs the risk of changing their lives...
8) Cocoon
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Deutsch
Description
Nora, a shy 14-year-old Berlin girl, will never forget this way too hot summer. Surrounded by people with disrupted biographies, from different cultures and backgrounds, she makes her way into adulthood. Nora gets her first period, falls in love with another girl, learns to stand up for herself and gets her heart broken for the first time. When summer ends, things will never be the same again.
9) Edward II
Series
Language
English
Description
"Director Derek Jarman's controversial adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play portrays the weak-willed monarch as neglecting his kingdom for his commoner male lover." --
10) XXY
Series
Film Movement ; 6, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
The dramatic story of a 15-year-old hermaphrodite, born with what the doctors call 'ambiguous genitalia,' whose parents moved from Buenos Aires to an isolated cabin outside of Piriápolis, Uruguay, to protect their child from prejudice.
11) Corpus Christi
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Polish
Description
"After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, twenty-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. While in prison, he found Christ and aspires to join the clergy, but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for the town's new priest,...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Indonesian
Description
Set amid the political violence of late-1960s Indonesia, this film follows Nana, the beautiful wife of a wealthy plantation owner whose inner life remains with her deceased first husband, murdered in the civil war a decade prior. A survivor, Nana values her safety and material comforts, but carries out a haunted existence, dreaming of her lost love. Forced to confront her husband's blatant infidelity, Nana makes an unusual connection with his younger...
13) Return to dust
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In rural Gaotai County, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao, except for a small, abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; similarly, an unexpected bond between them starts to blossom. As seasons pass, their dedication to each other grows stronger, but...
14) Millie lies low
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Millie, an architecture student from Wellington, New Zealand, has landed a competitive internship with a prestigious firm in New York. After telling everyone she knows about the opportunity, she suddenly suffers a panic attack as her plane is about to take off, and misses her flight. In a desperate pivot, Millie decides to save face by hiding in plain sight around Wellington, suitcase in tow, using Instagram and the power of denial to depict a trip...
15) Cadejo blanco
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Sarita goes out dancing one night at the insistence of her free-spirited sister, Bea. Uncharacteristically, Sarita dances the night away, heading home alone when the party drags on too late. The next morning, after calling friends and neighbors, Sarita begins to panic when she realizes that Bea never made it home. The police are indifferent and unhelpful, but Sarita suspects that Bea's disappearance has something to do with Andrés, her sister's dangerous...
16) The sales girl
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Mongolian
Description
Studious Saruul covers for her roommate at a basement sex shop run by the alluring, grumpy Katya, who takes Saruul under her wing and shows the young woman that there's more than just studying, and that sex is fun, healthy, and empowering
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
日本語
Description
Investigative filmmaker Yuko is putting together a piece about the bereaved families connected with a bullied schoolgirl's suicide. Determined to shed light on the truth, Yuko's uncompromising nature brings her into conflict with the conservative-minded management at her television network but succeeds in getting her interview subjects to place their trust in her. Then Yuko discovers that her father, Masashi, who runs a test prep school, has made...
Series
Film Movement ; 8, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Jorge has only a few weeks before his five-year-old son Natan leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef, and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan learns to live in harmony with life above and below the surface of the sea.
Series
Film Movement ; 9, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Seventeen-year-old Erling is a rumored murderer and therefore sent to the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility. Once there he clashes with the island facility's governor who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment is the only way to turn these boys around. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling leads the boys in a violent uprising that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
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