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Beyond America

Beyond America

February 10, 2008

Under an Eastern European totalitarian regime, a prominent dissident writer survives repression by resuming a submissive sexual relationship with her former lover. After their split-up years ago, he had joined the Secret Police in order just to take her back and provide the protection she needed. Struggling to preserve her humanity, she falls in love with a young platonic dreamer, a kind of rebel without cause, whom she initiate in literature and reinvents as a character capable to meet her own desires of freedom. BEYOND AMERICA is a love story and an action drama altogether, with archetypes of an aggressive, totalitarian society.

Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians

Dead Gay Men and Living Lesbians

February 9, 2008

As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter losses and, according to Praunheim, lesbian women have now placed themselves at the head of the so-called queer movement. The female protagonists in the film represent two different generations; they also incorporate the past and present status of homosexuals in society.

An Empress and the Warriors

An Empress and the Warriors

February 9, 2008

After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom.

Female Agents

Female Agents

February 8, 2008

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.

Figaro

Figaro

February 7, 2008

Seville, 1766. Count Almaviva falls in love with a young woman called Rosina, who lives under the tutelage of the old doctor Bartolo. Thanks to the help of his servant Figaro, the count seduces Rosina and marries her. Three years later, Count Almaviva returned to being the libertine he was.

Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov

Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov

February 5, 2008

The painting tells about the difficult process of rehearsals under the guidance of a conductor.

Grand Central

Grand Central

February 4, 2008

On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at New York City's newest landmark. A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the new Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street housed an underground electric train station that would revolutionize the way people traveled and transform midtown Manhattan.

Album d'Aprile

Album d'Aprile

February 1, 2008

Siyama: Village of Warriors

Siyama: Village of Warriors

January 31, 2008

Three young lives from the present are mysteriously destined to travel back in time through a portal to an old forgotten city. It is an era of civil war among the people of Siam where the fight is to protect the capital city of Ayuthaya from being conquered and overthrown.

Stone Warriors

Stone Warriors

January 30, 2008

The film tells the story of the carnage that occurred during the Civil War. The White Guards captured young Komsomol members and killed them by brutally torturing them.

Secrets of the Parthenon

Secrets of the Parthenon

January 29, 2008

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, and disfigured by catastrophic renovations. To save it from collapse, the modern restoration team must uncover the secrets of how the ancient Greeks built this icon of western civilization in less than nine years without anything resembling an architectural plan.

Дети блокады

Дети блокады

January 27, 2008

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce

January 29, 2009

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.

Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore

Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore

January 25, 2008

Hotel Meina

Hotel Meina

January 25, 2008

How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of 16 Italian - Greek Jews evacuated at The Meina Hotel ask themselves.

L'Affaire Ben Barka

L'Affaire Ben Barka

January 21, 2008

Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

January 18, 2008

A descendant of the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, filmmaker Katrina Browne explores the contemporary legacy of slavery by traveling with fellow descendents from Rhode Island to Ghana and Cuba, retracing the Triangle Trade route. Along the way, Browne and her companions meet with similarly interested travelers and discover the considerable importance slavery once had for Northern commerce.

Signorina Effe

Signorina Effe

January 18, 2008

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.

The Kautokeino Rebellion

The Kautokeino Rebellion

January 18, 2008

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

Let's Work For The Mongolian People's Republic

Let's Work For The Mongolian People's Republic

January 16, 2008

During the Great Repression of 1937, the Chekist Darambalsan was given the task of "arresting the person who spread rumors that a reincarnation would be born in Arkhangai province and destroying the reincarnation." Darambalsan searched for and destroyed the reincarnation, but at the last moment, he discovered that the reincarnation that was supposed to appear was himself, and he killed himself for his views and beliefs. The bitter story of the repression is depicted in this film, where one person accused the other in various ways and used it as a political game.