The Past Is a Foreign Country
The mysterious death of John H. Jenkins, rare book and historical document dealer, is the start of a journey deep upriver into that exotic kingdom known as the past.
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The mysterious death of John H. Jenkins, rare book and historical document dealer, is the start of a journey deep upriver into that exotic kingdom known as the past.
A young married couple's happiness is put to the test by rash decisions and quarrels. A 2005 Uzbek melodrama about how fragile happiness can be.
In 1993, a ballet dancer, whose marriage is suffering from the recent death of her daughter and financial difficulties, leaves for Russia with her friends to find work to support her husband as well as artistic passion.
In Russia, even milkmaids are now being labeled as foreign agents! What led the country to disapprove of the ordinary villager Elena Agafonova? Whom does she work for? And what is the reason behind the widespread fear of
Mr. & Mrs. Nelson are excited to be getting two new foreign exchange students to live with them. All of a sudden a chain of murders start to happen again in the city of Houston. Is it connected to Sinclair's death?
Foreign in a Domestic Sense is a constellation of testimonies and imaginaries of Puerto Ricans who have migrated to Central Florida in recent years, conjured by visual artists Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Sofía Gallisá M
Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.
A film-experiment in six hundred takes, three seconds each, of a European's private images in Africa and of an African's images in Europe. A mutual perception of the one's and the other's native place.
Slow motion imagery of a female face is duplicated and superimposed over itself. One of these image tracks plays in reverse; the sound of a female voice recalling the first time that she saw her lover is played over and
"Urumqi Middle Road" depicts the 2022 White Paper Protests in China, where people took to the streets in Shanghai and across the country to protest the draconian Zero-Covid and lockdown policies.
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.
In this film, Dammbeck explores his own decision to relocate to Hamburg, West Germany, and tries to sort out his past as an artist. In the process, he interviews artists Cornelia Schleime, Hans-Hendrik Grimmling, and Han
A banished Knight is lured to an unexpected realization
While documenting the streets of Al-Muhammadiyyah in Jeddah, a Filipino expat unexpectedly unveiled his relationship with the place and his peculiar kinship with the community cats in the neighborhood.
Based on the novel of the same name by Daniil Granin. Engineer Chizhegov often travels on business to a small town, where he meets a woman who reciprocates his feelings. The protagonist faces a difficult problem: he is m
This is a work of Nobuhiko Obayashi when he was around 30 years old. This semi-documentary from the perspective of a young designer visiting Japan from Northern Europe tells the story of the filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi a
The History of Seoul Foreign School as told by those whose lives have been touched by the faith of the early Protestant Missionaries in Korea.
An evocative portrait of New York jazz artist Marion Brown.
A remake and rewriting by director Bernard Borderie and scripters of a well-made 1932 film, this routine French drama seems a little outdated. The story has changed from a Russian officer who returns home from the war to