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Film Reviews

Passionate

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.

Ava's Possessions

Ava is recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she must attend a Spirit Possessions Anonymous support group to figure out what happened. Ava's life was hijacked by a demon, now it's time to get it back.

Gigot

A poignant comedy about a mute who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute. Gleason shows his considerable talents as an actor without uttering a sound as he plays the bumbling, kind-hearted janitor, Gigot. Gleason wrote the original story and music for this film.

Accused at 17

A teenager is accused of murdering a classmate and claims that she was framed by her best friend. Her mother must try to find the truth.

Foreign Letters

A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best friend back home. Suffering from homesickness, language difficulties and rejection at school, life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age. As the two bond and become inseparable, they eventually hurt each other, and Ellie must find a way to restore their trust. Based on director Ela Thier's personal immigration experience, Foreign Letters is a film about poverty, prejudice, shame, and the healing power of friendship.

Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu

Raghavan (Kamal Haasan) is an honest cop in Tamil Nadu. His wife Kayalvizhi (Kamalinee Mukerji) dies in a violent incident. Raghavan is deputized to investigate the murder of Rani, the daughter of his colleague Arokiya Raj (Prakash Raj) in a remote village in Tamil Nadu. Arokiya moves to New York after his daughter's murder.

Jasminum

Dziejące się współcześnie "Jasminum" (łacińska nazwa jaśminu) opowiada historię tajemniczą i magiczną, pełną zmysłowych zapachów, wypełnioną szczególnym światłem jakie roztacza wokół siebie miłość. Klasztor, w którym toczy się akcja filmu, nie różniłby się od innych, gdyby nie fakt, że trzech mieszkających tam zakonników posiada pewną niezwykłą cechę. Każdy z nich pachnie innym, owocowym zapachem: jeden czeremchą, drugi czereśnią, a trzeci śliwą, a zapachy te mają szczególne właściwości... Pewnego dnia do klasztoru przyjeżdża młoda konserwatorka malarstwa, która otrzymuje zlecenie odnowienia tamtejszych obrazów. Natasza pojawia się w Jaśminowie wraz ze swoją 5-letnią córką Gienią. Urok i dociekliwość dziewczynki wprowadzają wiele zamętu w spokojne dotąd życie mnichów. W tej historii i ludzie i budynki i zapachy mają swoje tajemnice

Dov'è la libertà...?

A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.

Meetin' WA

Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares with cinema as a medium and form of expression.

Sorrow

A couple depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when survivor takes matters into her own hands.

Fratricide

Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and revenge.

Half Past Dead 2

Long time inmate Twitch (Kurupt) gets himself transfered to a tougher prison than the re-opened Alcatraz. He claims it's to be closer to his lady but his real motives are a bit more grandiose. There he crosses paths with Burke (Bill Goldberg) a bulky prisoner who can take care of himself. Twitch, despite being less muscular, is just as mouthy and is pretty much the same. But there is a gang war brewing between the black and hispanic inmates that explodes into a hostile takeover of the prison when the black's gang leader is shot dead and the finger points at Burke. But the sh!t really hits the fan when the real killer and leader of the hispanics, Cortez (Robert Madrid) takes Twitch's girlfriend and Burke's daughter hostage.

Office Romance. Our time

Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a ratings company, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director, wants to make Novoseltsev the manager but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other...

Il Solengo

A documentary about the story of Mario de Marcella, a hermit that lived in the woods near Rome. He was called by hunters "Il Solengo" because that's how they call the lone boar that is cut off from the rest of the pack.

The War You Don't See

This film investigates how the media has reported war, from the First World War to the present day.

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