пятница, 28 декабря 2018 г.

Los chicos crecen (1942)


Los chicos crecen / The Kids Grow Up

Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen
Stars: Arturo García Buhr, Pepita Serrador, María Duval, Santiago Gómez Cou, Maruja Gil Quesada, Miguel Gómez Bao, Aurelia Ferrer, Mariana Martí, Quico Moyano, Edgardo Morilla, Tito Alonso

A married man takes advantage of his friendship with another man, making him pretend to be the father of the children he has out of wedlock.

Argentina
In Spanish

понедельник, 24 декабря 2018 г.

América (2010)




América - Uma História Portuguesa

Director: João Nuno Pinto
Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Fernando Luís, María Barranco, Manuel Custódia, Dinarte Branco, Cassiano Carneiro, Raul Solnado, Mikhail Evlanov, Francisco Maestre, Nikolay Glinskiy, Dmitry Bogomolov

Portugal, beginning of the new millennium: Liza is a young Russian immigrant married to a Portuguese called Vítor. He is in fact a petty crook who lives off scams and tricking old ladies. Their son, Mauro, is a strange child who has decided not to speak. Besides her domestic chores, Liza has to take care of Vítor’s grandmother, a bed-ridden hundred-year-old lady who rejects any care that is given to her. Fernanda, Vítor’s Spanish ex-wife, taking advantage of the wave of illegal immigrants into Portugal, turns up with a proposal for a false passports business. From then on, and to Liza’s great despair, her house becomes a halfway home for countless immigrants of different nationalities and races, all looking for a better future.

Country: Russia | Brazil | Spain | Portugal
Language: Portuguese | Spanish | Russian
Subtitles: Portuguese, English, Spanish (in .mkv)

четверг, 20 декабря 2018 г.

Ezra (2007)




Director: Newton I. Aduaka
Stars: Mamoudu Turay Kamara, Mariame N'Diaye, Mamusu Kallon, Richard Gant, Mercy Ojelade, Emile Abossolo M'bo, Cleophas Kabasita, Merveille Lukeba, Peter Odeke, Wale Ojo

Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars. Ezra is structured around the week-long questioning of a 16 year old boy, Ezra, before a version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, created in Sierra Leone in 2002 in the wake of its decade long civil war. This hearing is then inter-cut with chronological flashbacks to pivotal moments during Ezra's ten years in the rebel faction which made him who he is.

Nigeria
In English, with French subs (VobSub)

вторник, 18 декабря 2018 г.

La Lettre (1998)



La Lettre / The Letter

Director & Writer: Michel Gondry
Stars: Elodie Saada, Thomas Mouty, Jérôme Monot, Ilda Mouty, Frédéric Daniel

Michel Gondry's examination of childhood love is replete with his trademark surreality. One evening at the turn of the century, Stephane discusses with his brother the end of the millennium, but also girls, particularly Aurelie, a classmate with whom he is secretly in love. The following day, Aurelie has a letter to give to him...

Short
France, in French, with English hardsubs

пятница, 14 декабря 2018 г.

Brekkukotsannáll (1973)




Brekkukotsannáll / Annals of Brekkukot / The Fish Can Sing

Director: Rolf Hädrich
Stars: Jon Laxdal, Nikulas Thorvardsson, Thorsteinn Ö. Stephensen, Regina Thordardottir, Árni Árnason, Þóra Borg, Sigridur B. Bragadottir, Róbert Arnfinnsson, Sigrun Hjalmtysdottir, Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir, Halldór Laxness

This is a high quality TV film in two episodes and one of the best and most important in Icelandic film history. It is based on the novel Brekkukotsannáll (Annals of Brekkukot) by the Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Halldór Laxness, published in 1957. The story takes place in Iceland in the beginning of the twentieth century and deals with the orphaned boy Álfgrímur, his adoptive grandparents, and the small, tolerant community of misfits and eccentrics they gather around them at Brekkukot, their cottage on the outskirts of Reykjavík.

Iceland
In Icelandic

среда, 12 декабря 2018 г.

Everyone's Child (1996)




Director: Tsitsi Dangarembga
Stars: Thulani Sandhla (Itai), Elizjah Madzikatire, Nomsa L. Mlambo, Walter Muparutsa, Casey Mugabe (Nhamo), Killness Nyati, Chunky Phiri, Simon Shumba

Two teens, Tamari and Itai, are impoverished following the death of their parents when their uncle takes their plow which they need to feed themselves. While their preoccupied neighbors in the village ignore them, Itai leaves for Harare and Tamari stays behind to care for their younger brother and sister. Finally, some of the neighbors notice and come together to support the children.

Zimbabwe
In English

пятница, 7 декабря 2018 г.

Un fils unique (1969)




Director & Writer: Michel Polac
Stars: Eric Ancian, Francis Bouvet, Eléanor Farouel, Serge Hureau, Guy Schoeller, Paul Vanier-Baulier

The young son of a shopkeeper seeks into a painter a new father figure.

France
In French

вторник, 4 декабря 2018 г.

Hollywood kaçaklari (1997)



Hollywood kaçaklari / Hollywood Runaways

Director & Writer: Muammer Özer
Stars: Füsun Demirel, Halil Ergün, Bülent Kayabas

Inspired by the director's childhood, the film tells the story of a poor Turkish neighbourhood in the outskirts of a city and the idle boys who live there. We also meet an old woman and her naive son Kocaoğlan. Tuna, the boy's ringleader, is a film fanatic who dreams of a future in the film business, and his best friend Fedai wants to become a famous football player like Pelé. The two boys decide to go to Hollywood to realize their dreams.

Turkey | Sweden
In Turkish