Modest Reception - Paziraie Sadeh

Modest Reception - Paziraie Sadeh (2012)

Leyla and Kaveh are the instruments of a cruel and bizarre game. The well-situated couple drive through the mountains distributing plastic bags full of money to every poor and unfortunate person they meet. At first everything goes according to plan as they disdainfully “share the joy” with their shocked “neighbors” while documenting the event via cellphone. More

Modest Reception - Paziraie Sadeh (DVD)
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Modest Reception

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Un mundo secreto

Un mundo secreto (2012)

‘María, someday somebody will notice you and realise how special you are …’ these are the words that María notes down in her diary. She also writes herself passionate love letters. But nobody notices how desperate she is. How could they? She is such an unassuming girl and hardly ever speaks. More

Le sommeil d'or - Golden Slumbers

Le sommeil d'or - Golden Slumbers (2012)

A nocturnal drive along a rural highway into a city at dawn that is somehow moving in the wrong direction. It is only after a while that you notice that the vehicles are travelling backwards, receding back into the dusk of reality. This mysterious metaphor forms the starting point for a journey into the unknown history of Cambodian film. More

Golden Slumbers (DVD)
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Golden Slumbers

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Avé

Avé (2011)

La Bulgarie des faubourgs  Parti de Sofia, Kamen se rend en stop à Roussé, dans le nord de la Bulgarie. Sur la route, il rencontre Avé, une jeune fugueuse un peu paumée de 17 ans, qui lui impose rapidement sa compagnie. More

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Konstantin Bojanov, Bulgaria
Avé (DVD)
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Avé

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

The Other Bank - Gagma napiri

The Other Bank - Gagma napiri (2010)

Twelve-year-old Tedo lives with his young mother in Keto in an isolated hut on the outskirts of Tiflis. Tedo and Keto are refugees from Abchasia. The civil war has claimed everything they ever owned, including Tedo’s and Keto’s hopes for a bright future as an intact family unit. Tedo was just four years of age when they were obliged to flee from Abchasia. More

The Other Bank - Gagma napiri (DVD)
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The Other Bank

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Chaque jour est une fête

Chaque jour est une fête (2009)

Three women in a bus in Lebanon. They have the same destination: a men's penitentiary. The first woman wants to visit her husband whom she hasn't seen since their day of marriage. The second one has only one goal: to get her husband who has to serve a long sentence to sign the divorce papers and thus gain back her freedom. More

Every Day Is a Holiday - Chaque jour est une fête (DVD)
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Every Day Is a Holiday

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Salt Of This Sea - Milh hadha al-bahr

Salt Of This Sea - Milh hadha al-bahr (2008)

Soraya, 28, born and raised in Brooklyn, decides to return to live in Palestine, a country that her family was exiled from in 1948. On arriving in Ramallah, Soraya tries to recover the money left in an account by her grandparents but meets with refusal from the bank. Her path then crosses that of Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, unlike hers, is to leave the country for good. More

Salt of this Sea - Milh hadha al-bahr (DVD)
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Salt of this Sea

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Comrades In Dreams

Comrades In Dreams (2007)

Ils sont six, ne se connaissent pas car ils vivent aux antipodes les uns des autres. Ils font partie pourtant d’une même communauté et partagent une même passion: le cinéma. En Inde, au Burkina Faso, en Corée du Nord et aux Etats-Unis, sous un chapiteau ou les More

Comrades in Dreams (DVD)
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Comrades in Dreams

CHF 19.00 / EUR 16.00

Que tan lejos

Que tan lejos (2006)

Self-discovery journey of two girls in their mid twenties while they travel along the Ecuadorian mountains and coasts. Esperanza (Hope) and Tristeza (Sadness) will not find postcard views or perfect love, but their journey will teach them there’s a world beyond that. More

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Tania Hermida, Ecuador
Qué tan lejos - How Much Further (DVD)
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Qué tan lejos

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Siberian Mammoth - O Mamute Siberiano

Siberian Mammoth - O Mamute Siberiano (2005)

This film examines the creation and exhibition of the propaganda film I Am Cuba, a Soviet/Cuban collaboration. It follows Soviet filmmaker Mikhail Kalatosov as he travels to Cuba in the early 1960s to make his film, a vignette drama which failed in both countries and was ressurrected in the West in the 1990s when Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese endorsed Milestone Films' 1993 ancillary release. More

The Siberian Mammoth - O Mamute Siberiano (DVD)
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The Siberian Mammoth

CHF 19.00 / EUR 16.00

Bombón - el perro

Bombón - el perro (2004)

Life is no bed of roses for 52-year-old Juan "Coco" Villegas. He, who has been a gas station attendant for twenty years in Patagonia, finds himself jobless overnight. He first tries to survive by selling knives of his own making. But business is bad and he can't find real work. One day though, after fixing a vehicle on a farm, he acquires a beautiful Argentinian watch dog. From this blessed day on, things start shaping well at last... More

Bombón - the dog (DVD)
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Bombón

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Nicotina (DVD)
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Nicotina

CHF 19.00 / EUR 16.00

Russkij kovcheg - Russian Ark

Russkij kovcheg - Russian Ark (2002)

A film shot in on shot with no break. On a winter's day, a small party of men and women arrive by horse-drawn carriage to a minor, side entrance of the Winter Palace. The narrator meets another spectral but visible outsider, "the European", and follows him through numerous rooms of the palace. Each room manifests a different period of Russian history, but the periods are not in chronological order. More

Russian Ark - Russkiy kovcheg (DVD)
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Russian Ark

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

What Time is it There? - Ni na bian ji dian (DVD)
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What Time is it There?

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

El entusiasmo

El entusiasmo (1999)

"El entusiasmo" is set in Chile in 1980. Three young people, Guillermo, Fernando and Isabel meet and become friends during the dictatorship years. Ten years later, Fernando and Isabel are married and have a baby, and, enjoying the new political freedom, they move to another part of the country where they meet Guillermo again. It is the story of the chilean society right after Pinochets military dictatorship. More

West Beyrouth (DVD)
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West Beyrouth

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas

No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas (1995)

Don‘t Die without Telling Me Where You‘re Going is an extraordinary film by a remarkable director, Eliseo Subiela (Man Looking Southeast, Dark Side of the Heart).This is masterful filmmaking that brings to life an invisible dimension of our world: auras, souls, spirits. William and Rachel have loved each other in various lives. More

Don't die without telling me where you're going (DVD)
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Don't die without telling me where you're going

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

The Journey - The Voyage - El viaje (DVD)
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The Journey

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Topio stin omichli

Topio stin omichli (1988)

LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST is a film about the void. It is a film about despair, about the failure of contemporary society. The prodigal father who figures in almost every Angelopoulos film here has evaporated into his mythical essence - leaving his children to become the wanderers in search of him. In the «chaos», two children appear, little Alexandros and his older sister Voula. More

Landscape in the Mist - Topio stin omichli (DVD)
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Landscape in the Mist

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

I was born, but - Umarete wa mita keredo

I was born, but - Umarete wa mita keredo (1932)

Yoshii, his wife and their two sons, Ryoichi and Keiji, move into a Tokyo suburb. The head of Yoshii’s department lives nearby. When he invites Yoshii’s family and all the children in the neighbourhood to a film show at his house, Ryoichi and Keiji are thrilled to discover their father on the screen. More

I was born, but... (DVD)
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I was born, but...

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00