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Tag Archives: 2000s
Fleeing by Night AKA Ye ben (2000) Li-Kong Hsu, Chi Yin, Rene Liu, Lei Huang, Chao-te Yin

Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Read More »
The Final Curtain (2002) Patrick Harkins, Aidan Gillen, Adrian Lester, Peter O’Toole

Jonathan Stitch, having just won a prestigious MacKinlay Award for his first novel Read More »
The White Sound AKA Das weiße Rauschen (2001) Hans Weingartner, Tobias Amann, Daniel Brühl, Anabelle Lachatte, Patrick Joswig

Driving through the countryside, Kati, Jochen and Lukas take some magic mushrooms. Read More »
The Son AKA Le fils (2002) Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart

Olivier – meticulous, careful, even-handed – teaches carpentry at a vocational school in Liège. Read More »
In Jackson Heights (2015) Frederick Wiseman

Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. Read More »
Aviva, My Love AKA Aviva Ahuvati (2006) Shemi Zarhin, Assi Levy, Rotem Abuhab, Levana Finkelstein

Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. Read More »
Cabin Fever AKA Når nettene blir lange (2000) Mona J. Hoel, Svein Scharffenberg, Gørild Mauseth, Zbigniew Zamachowski

A large family is going to the mountain for their christmas vacation, in a rented cabin. Read More »
Little Soldier AKA Lille soldat (2008) Annette K. Olesen, Trine Dyrholm, Lorna Brown, Finn Nielsen

Lotte is a soldier recently back from war. She drinks, and her apartment is a mess. Read More »
Munyurangabo (2007) Lee Isaac Chung, Jeff Rutagengwa, Eric Ndorunkundiye, Jean Marie Vianney Nkurikiyinka

From opposing ethnicities, Ngabo and Sangwa are tested when old-timers warn, “Hutus and Tutsis should not be friends.” Read More »