Bjarne and Malin live on the banks of the Ljungan. Bjarne’s father-in-law Halvar lives on the other side of the river. They have never seen eye to eye. The now 20-year-long conflict is based on class antagonisms, past words and inheritance issues regarding a firm of haulage contractors, for instance. One unlucky day, Malin crosses the river to persuade Halvar to guarantee a loan Bjarne wants to take out…
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Tag Archives: 2000s
Shesh Peamim / S#x Acts / Six Acts (2012) Johnathan Gurfinkel, Sivan Levy, Eviatar Mor, Roy Nik, Drama
Gili is a teenager who decides to change schools. She is determined to improve her lame social status. Over the course of a few weeks she hooks up with several different boys, all from her new school. Their encounters get more and more sexual, each time exploring their limits a little further. The boys are eager to take what is so generously offered, and Gili is thrilled with the attention. Just as Gili is trapped in the zone where it’s not certain if she is giving her consent to what is happening or not, the viewer too feels trapped in the same zone, feeling for certain that something terrible is happening, but unable to pin point exactly when, and what…
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Atlantic. (2014) Jan-Willem van Ewijk, Fettah Lamara, Thekla Reuten, Mohamed Majd, Drama
A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
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Gurov and Anna (2014) Rafaël Ouellet, Andreas Apergis, Sophie Desmarais, Carlo Mestroni, Drama, Romance
With his marriage to Audrey almost at an end, Ben begins a torrid affair with Mercedes, a young French student in his writing class. The affair soon spins out of control, their emotions and Ben and Audrey’s family hanging in the balance.
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Métamorphoses (2014) Christophe Honoré, Amira Akili, Sébastien Hirel, Mélodie Richard, Fantasy
A girl is approached by a strange boy outside her high school. He asks her to follow him to hear stories where gods fall in love with human beings.
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H Story (2001) Nobuhiro Suwa, Béatrice Dalle, Kou Machida, Hiroaki Umano, Drama
An autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais’ 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour.
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Ha-Kochavim Shel Shlomi / Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2003) Shemi Zarhin, Oshri Cohen, Arieh Elias, Esti Zakheim, Drama, Comedy
16 years old, Shlomi lives with his restless mother, his soldier brother and their ill grandfather. Although not doing well in school, Shlomi is a gifted cook and takes care of most household chores. One day, the school’s principal finds out Shlomi is actually a genius and tries to get him into a more suitable curriculum. However, Shlomi is more interested in taking care of his family and his new love interest, the beautiful girl next door.
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A Religiosa Portuguesa / The Portuguese Nun (2009) Eugène Green, Leonor Baldaque, Francisco Mozos, Diogo Dória, Drama
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
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Le pont des Arts / The Bridge of Art (2004) Eugène Green, Adrien Michaux, Natacha Régnier, Alexis Loret, Drama, Music
Paris in the seventies. A depressed philosophy student hears music that will change his life; he becomes fascinated by the singer.
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Apples From The Desert / Tapuhim Min HaMidbar (2014) Matti Harari, Arik Lubetzki, Reymonde Amsallem, Elisha Banai, Irit Kaplan, Drama, Family, Romance
Rebecca is the only daughter of an Orthodox Jewish family living in Jerusalem. Unhappy with the reality of her life, Rebecca secretly exposes herself to the secular world. One day she runs away from her family to a kibbutz in the desert with a young man.
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