Keyword: woman director

History Lessons

6.5

1972

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A shot from a car coursing through Rome in 1972 opens this interpretation of Brechts unfinished experimental novel The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar. In a second part set in contemporary Rome, a young researcher discusses the economic and political manipulation that drove Caesar to power.

Indie Game: The Movie

7.9

2012

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A documentary that follows the journeys of indie game developers as they create games and release those works, and themselves, to the world.

Disco Pigs

6.8

2001

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Pig and Runt - born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by blood. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are also partners in crime, with an appetite for recklessness, exploration and destruction. But days before their 17th birthday the perfect balance of their world begins to shift. Pigs sexual awakening and increasing jealousy begins to threaten the private universe they have spent their lives constructing. Unable to contemplate the loss of Runt, Pigs unpredictable nature spirals out of control in a trail of violence. The invisible thread between them is stretched to breaking point, the inseparable are about to separate, and which one will survive depends on which one can break free.

Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray

5.6

2016

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A determined single mother, with nothing but guts and vision, breaks through notorious art world barriers to become one of the preeminent painters of our time.

The Sky Turns

5.4

2004

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One year in the life of a tiny village in northern Spain.

Onegin

6.9

1999

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Russia, 1820s: Onegin inherits his uncles country estate and moves there from St. Petersburg. He befriends his neighbor, Lensky, and meets Tatyana through him. She falls in love with Onegin but he just wants friendship.

Night Labor

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2013

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Night Labor is an intimate experience of what the film critic J. Hoberman calls situation documentary, a blending of minimally structured narratives with documentary moments and long takes that elide conventional narrative and plot in favor of mood, lyrical entertainment, and banal mystery.

God Man Dog

6.3

2007

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This is a rhapsody of Gods, men, and dogs down and out together. A meandering truck full of gods gets mixed up with a cast of outcasts whose lives gradually entwine with each other. Yellow Bull, the owner of the truck, travels around giving shelter to deserted god statues yet cant afford to have his artificial leg fixed. Biung, an alcoholic aboriginal, transports top-class peaches between a remote village and Taipei city yet finds himself less valued than even a peach. Ching, a depressed middle class wife, attempts to redeem her marriage after the death of her newborn. Then theres a fatal car accident caused by a stray dog. Can it change their lives and put an end to the obvious and distinct boundaries between them?

The Mirror Has Two Faces

6.5

1996

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A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.

Shoot the Messenger

5.4

2006

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Shoot the Messenger follows one mans painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.

The Gulls

6.5

2015

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\Only the wind, the sand, the reed and a desire to live not worse than the others...\ - these words served as a base for the atmosphere of this story, and they are incredibly precise as a definition of the real world in these places. The Seagulls are a parable on the background of modern Kalmykia. It is about love, with the characters intuitively fulfilling forgotten traditions. Their love is silent and their sorrow is without tears - The seagulls are souls of dead fishermen, broken boats - a hope. Elza the fishermans wife lives in a seaside town in Kalmykia. She wants to leave her husband but cannot take this step because she is afraid of uncertainty. Suddenly her husband dies. Because of his death, Elza has to think everything over and reconsider her views on life, on happiness, on liberty.

Manuela Jankovic's War

6.6

2014

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In the year 1991, Manuela and her grandmother, a Serbian immigrant who flew from the World War II, live together in Mexico. A conflict starts in their homeland, as well as in their private lives.