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Hans-Christof Stenzel – Obszön – Der Fall Peter Herzl (1981)
Synopsis: Peter Herzl, social worker and Left sympathizer from Wuppertal is, assaulted and robbed on the way back from Yugoslavia to Germany. Due to some misunderstandings the police examined him as a...
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Syllas Tzoumerkas – I Ekrixi AKA A Blast (2014)
Synopsis In a striking and courageous lead performance, Angeliki Papoulia plays Maria – a woman who started her adult life with the best of intentions but, ten years later, feels her world falling out...
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Cheyenne Carron – Ne nous soumets pas à la tentation AKA Lead Us Not Into...
Quote: The best movie that I’ve seen so far at Cinequest is the French thriller Lead Us Not Into Temptation. A middle-aged married man does a good deed for a beautiful young woman and finds himself...
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Aleksandr Gintsburg – Giperboloid inzhenera Garina AKA Engineer Garin’s...
Synopsis: The year is 1925. Professor Mantsev invents a weapon of a formidable destructive force never seen before – a hyperboloid that strikes dead with a beam… Engineer Garin steals this prototype...
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Billy Wilder – The Apartment (1960)
Quote: Immediately following the success of Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond wished to make another film with Jack Lemmon. Wilder had originally planned to cast Paul Douglas as Jeff...
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François Truffaut – Tirez sur le pianiste AKA Shoot the Pianist (1960)
Quote: A hapless pianist at a jazz club gets caught up with the mob, when his older brother who owes money to them comes to him for help. Eventually, the piano player and his girlfriend become pawns...
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Mariano Llinás – Historias extraordinarias AKA Extraordinary Stories (2008)
Quote: Historias extraordinarias tells the adventures of three men known only as H (Agustin Mendilaharzu, doubling as cinematographer), X (director Mariano Llinás) and Z (Walter Jakob). These...
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Ermanno Olmi – Torneranno i prati AKA Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)
Quote: The winter of 1917, the North-East front, the final clashes of the Great War. An Italian stronghold situated at 1800 metres above sea level, on the Asiago plateau, described in the novels of...
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Michael M. Bilandic – Hellaware (2013)
Jaded by the “incestuous, New York, socialite sh_t” that sells at prominent art galleries, Nate embarks on a quest for a more authentic brand of contemporary art. When a coked-up YouTube search leads...
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Lamberto Sanfelice – Cloro AKA Chlorine (2015)
Synopsis Jenny is seventeen and dreams of becoming a champion synchronised swimmer, but her carefree adolescent life in Ostia, a coastal province of Rome, is shaken by the sudden death of her mother....
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Rafaël Ouellet – Gurov and Anna (2014)
Quote: Ben is a failed writer-turned-academic whose ‘happily ever after’ has begun to feel more like ‘the end’. He immerses himself in Chekhov’s story ‘The Lady with the Dog’, a permanent fixture on...
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Miklós Jancsó – Oldás és kötés AKA Cantata (1963)
Quote: Jancsó’s second feature film, received the Hungarian Critics’ Prize. In this work, influenced by Michelangelo Antonioni, Jancsó created the unique visual style by which he became known – the...
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Marco Bellocchio – Sangue del mio sangue AKA Blood of My Blood (2015)
Two haunting Italian tales from different centuries in the convent prison of Bobbio, caught somewhere between past and present: a young 17th century priest falls under the spell of a bewitching nun...
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Lukas Schrank – Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island (2015)
Quote: Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island is an animated short film, which tells the stories of two men, currently detained in Australia’s notorious Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre. In...
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Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin – Le vent d’est AKA Wind From the East...
“Wind From the East” (“Le Vent D’Est”) is a very deep and highly political discussion about communism, capitalism, art, revolution, intellectualism, Maoism, USSR, tradition, paradigms, poetry… It’s...
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Sohrab Shahid Saless – Hans – Ein Junge in Deutschland (1985)
Plot in German “Der in Westdeutschland lebende, iranische Filmemacher Saless (“Utopia”) schildert in seinem Drama eine deutsche Jugend am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs Frankfurt 1944: In der...
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Marguerite Duras – Le camion AKA The Lorry AKA The Truck [+Extra] (1977)
Synopsis: We are confronted with two images, a lorry driving through the night until dawn, a depiction of the loneliness and determination of the long-distance driver, and, intercut with it, an...
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Chuck Workman – What Is Cinema? (2013)
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman’s documentary What Is Cinema? tackles the question of its title through over 100 clips and new interviews with Mike Leigh, Jonas Mekas, Yvonne Rainer,...
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Charles Chaplin – The Tramp (1915)
Quote: The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and works on a family farm. http://nitroflare.com/view/4E8068BEE3848BD/The.Tramp.1915.720p.Bluray.AC3.x264-GCJM.mkv Language(s):English...
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Youssef Chahine – Al-asfour AKA The Sparrow (1972)
One of his most controversial films, THE SPARROW was written by Chahine in collaboration with avant-gardist Lofti el-Kholi. Set during the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and the United Arab Republic...
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