Space Battleship Yamato 2010
Snabba Cash (Easy Money) 2010
Que pena tu vida (Fuck My
Autoreiji (Outrage) 2010
Freetime Machos 2009 Sweden
Intouchables 2011 France
Attack The Block 2011 England
Stockholm is home to three men involved in various parts of the criminal underworld. Two are lifelong criminals, the other a poor but bright finance student aspiring to raise his status in life. A drug shipment coming to town that unsettles the criminal power base. The dream of a big score entangles the three.
8/10 It seems like the French have a knack for making great films about disabled people. Like 2007′s The Diving Bell and Butterfly, Intouchables is also about a paralyzed man but takes a lighter approach to the situation. It’s both serious, funny and affirming all around. François Cluzet plays privileged Parisian, Phillipe. His great wealth [...]
Being a bride is never easy, but being betrothed to a Syrian, in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights is doubly hard. Anyone leaving to marry someone in Syria, becomes a Syrian citizen and isn’t allowed back into the country. The film combines the political complexities of the occupied territories with with an equally challenging family drama.
At a local Connecticut recreation center, an adult swim class learns more than blowing bubbles. All sorts of people take the course. Some are doing it to spend time with their family, overcome a childhood fear, enjoy their a new pool, prove something to themselves, meet someone, or just learn how to swim.
Adam is a 55-year-old pool attendant in Chad. He’s been working the same hotel job for the past 30 years. His son Abdel has taken up the trade and works along him. He’s a fit young man and does more of the physical work. When the new Chinese owners decide to have Adam replaced by his son, he loses his identity and tormented by shame.
Ludo is the life of the party, but when he’s involved in a crippling accident. It has his close friends wondering if they should break off their yearly vacation together. These are people that have shared their lives and know each other’s secrets. It’s those still buried secrets that unravel.
The Arbor is about the life of English playwright Andrea Dunbar and her daughter Lorraine. It’s a true story, filmed with actors lip-synching to the voices of the people whose story it tells. Dunbar and her daughter’s lives are more tragic than her plays.
Rosario Tijeras is the story of a beautiful gun toting seductress in Medellin Columbia. It’s 1989 and Rosario is brought bleeding into a hospital by her friend Antonio. Her life slipping away, the scene flashes back to when they first met.
Kelin is a beautiful girl about to be married. Her father negotiates a bride price between two suitors. A hunter is Kelin’s choice for husband but he loses the bidding to a Yak herder. She soon finds that her life isn’t so bad and has a sexual awakening. Life gets complicated when her hunter suitor wants her back.
Jamal’s wife and sister are part of the resistance movement, his sister is exiled and wife dead by suicide. Hoping to avoid the same fate for his daughter Miral, he has her brought up in a school for Palestinian orphans. He hopes that education can temper the rising Intifada. This is Miral’s story of her struggle between violence and peace.
Prior to World War II the state of Israel didn’t exist, it was carved out of lands with an uncertain status. Jews and Arabs have historically lived in that area but in 1948 the area became Israel. Some Arabs left and many stayed, this is a story about the Suleiman family that stayed.
Older brother Izumi couldn’t be more different from graffiti remover and brother Haru. While doing his job, Haru discovers a pattern between the graffiti and a string of arson fires. What seems like a light drama turns into a tale about family bonds, arson, rape, revenge and murder.