Film Movement (Firm)
2) Campfire
Series
Film Movement ; 3, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
עברית
Description
A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join the founding group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about their struggles with the acceptance committee and their living as an outcast in the settlement.
3) Illegal
Series
Film Movement ; 9, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan. One day, they are stopped on the street for a routine check by the police; Tania is arrested and placed in an immigration detention center for women, while Ivan manages to escape. Threatened with imminent deportation and fearful for Ivan's fate, Tania embarks on a harrowing journey, determined to preserve her dignity and find her son. Short film : Rita....
4) Arranged
Series
Film Movement ; 5, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"[C]enters on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages."--www.imdb.com
5) Three worlds
Series
Film Movement ; 11, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Al, a young man from a modest background, is ten days away from marrying the daughter of his boss, along with succeeding him as the head of the car dealership where Al has been working for most of his life. One night, while coming back drunk from his bachelor party, Al commits a hit-and-run when he hits a man by accident and is urged to leave the scene of the crime by his two childhood friends who are with him in the car. The next day, gnawed by guilt,...
6) Tanta agua
Series
Film Movement ; 11, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Alberto, a divorced father, takes his two children for a vacation at a thermal resort in Salto. Things don't turn out as planned as the non-stop rain forces them to stay indoors, away from the pools and with no TV. Alberto's efforts to entertain his children are met with indifference by Federico, his youngest son, and Lucía, his teenage daughter. -- imdb.com
7) Spare parts
Series
Film Movement ; 3, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Slovenian
Description
Hard-drinking, chain-smoking Ludvik spends his nights smuggling illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. Together they cope with life in a rundown town, home to the only nuclear power plant in former Yugoslavia.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Foreign Letters: Ellie, a 12-year-old immigrant girl from Israel, is lonely and homesick. Life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age. Trust slowly builds as the two teach each other about life in America. As Ellie and Thuy become inseparable, they eventually hurt and betray each other. Ellie must give up her most prized possession, in order to save their friendship." --
"A Summer Rain: An 11-year-old immigrant girl from Israel...
10) The great match
Series
Film Movement ; 5, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Kazakh
Description
Three soccer fans, living in the farthest-flung corners of the planets: Mongolia, Niger and Brazil, determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final.
Series
Film Movement ; 5, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Lost memory, Andreas wonders into a city. The people around him seems to have emotion problems, he tries to escape but finds no way out. Some beautiful music streams out from a crack Andrea and his friend found, but where does the music come from?
Series
Film Movement ; 8, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Jorge has only a few weeks before his five-year-old son Natan leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef, and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan learns to live in harmony with life above and below the surface of the sea.
13) Prairie love
Series
Film Movement ; 10, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As a mysterious high plains drifter travels across the wintry North Dakota prairie, he finds a man lying unconscious in the middle of the road and stops to lend a hand. After defrosting, the man explains that he's on his way to meet his pen-pal girlfriend for the first time, as she's being released from prison. Desperate for a girlfriend of his own, the drifter sees this as an opportunity to change his lonely existence, and hatches a plan to steal...
14) Hawaii, Oslo
Series
Film Movement ; 4, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of desperate people whose paths cross on the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Frode and Milla have their first child, but learn he will not live long without an expensive operation they cannot afford. Bobbie-Pop is a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. Leon is an institutionalized mental patient, who hopes to keep a 10-year-old date on his birthday with his teenage sweetheart. Leon'sbrother, Trygve, gets...
15) 1944
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Estonian
Description
The year is 1944. As the Battle of Tannenberg Lines rages, Estonia finds itself helplessly trapped in the crossfire of two opposing forces. With the Red Army on the offensive, the severely outnumbered SS dig in to repel the Soviet avance on the Third Reich. Half of their infantry are local Estonian recruits, drafted from Siberian labor camps, and sent back to their homeland wearing enemy uniforms. Forced to fight against their own brothers, these...
16) Free men
Series
Film Movement ; 10, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Français
Description
In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.
Series
Film Movement ; 9, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Karen cries on the bus --"Karen has left her slimy but successful husband Mario after ten years of marriage. She needs a fresh start to find out who she is and who she could be, despite her husband's proclamation that she can do absolutely nothing. She walks out into Bogotá with no job, no friends, and hardly any money, but catches a break when she meets a hairdresser named Patricia at a cheap flophouse. With her younger and seemingly stronger friend...
18) Watchtower
Series
Film Movement ; 11, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Türkçe
Description
A man and a woman seeking refuge from the world: Nihat at a remote forest fire tower, Seher in her room at a rural bus station. When their lives collide, each now has to fight their battle of conscience before the other.
19) Madeinusa
Series
Film Movement ; 5, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can't see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse....
Series
Film Movement ; 8, film 2
Publisher
Nord-Quest
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Multiple
Formats
Description
"Welcome" - - Director Philippe Lioret (109 min.) [France] : "Bilal, a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, has struggled his way through Europe for the last three months, trying to reunite with his girlfriend, who recently emigrated to England. But his journey comes to an abrupt halt when he is stopped by authorities in Calais, on the French side of the Channel. Left with no other alternatives, he decides to swim across. Bilal goes to the local swimming...