Film Movement (Firm)
1) Prairie love
Series
Film Movement volume year 10, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
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...
2) Arranged
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 12
Publisher
Cicala Filmworks
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Arranged: Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. A young Orthodox woman, Rochel Meshenberg, is about to begin her first year as a special education teacher at the local public school. She is also about to begin the process of finding a husband via the time-tested method of using a "shadchen, " or matchmaker. As the school year gets underway, Rochel meets Nasira Khaldi, a Muslim woman of Syrian descent. Nasira is also a first-year teacher. The two young women - Rochel...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2004, [2003]
Language
English
Description
Three sisters come of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2005
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"Would-be immigrant Er Di is back in China, expelled from the United States for working illegally. While in the U.S. he fathered a child, and when his American-born son comes to China for a visit, Er Di is barred from seeing him. At the same time, Er Di becomes involved with a beautiful member of a touring Shanghai opera company. Caught between his past and his future, his son's culture and his own, Er Di seeks bonds with both"--Container label.
Series
Film Movement series. Year 2 volume film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Spanish Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, she arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is both new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with the village...
6) Gun runners
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The unique story of two Kenyan warriors who decide to trade in their rifles for sneakers, so they can become competitive marathon runners.
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is...
9) Shadowman
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Official documentary about '80s street art pioneer Richard Hambleton, known as the godfather of street art. This plunges viewers into the chaotic life of a forgotten artist, from early fame as a painter and denizen of the Lower East Side through his struggles with heroin, to his surprising comeback as street art exploded to become one of the most popular and lucrative art movement in the world.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Korean
Description
"Byong-man Jo and Gye-Yeul Kang have been inseparable companions for the past 76 years. Living in their small home by the river, they wear traditional Korean clothes, go shopping at the local market, have picnics with neighbors, and enjoy dance parties. Every night they go to sleep holding each other's hands. Observing this fragile couple for 15 months, director Moyoung Jin acts as a fly-on-the-wall, capturing their twilight days with tender moments...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This stirring feature portrait of Lucha libre star in his waning years in the ring is less a swan song than a meteor shower rendered in Technicolor. Famed as much for his flamboyant drag and sky-high pompadour as for his show-stopping kicks and flips, his trailblazing ascent as one the industry's first openly gay wrestlers has resonated internationally for a quarter-century.
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Collection of eight short films.
13) Theeb
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
Arabic
Description
1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers' quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long...
14) White riot
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Britain Late, the '70s. Punk is exploding. The country is deeply divided over immigration. The National Front, a far-right political party, is gaining strength as politicians like Enoch Powell push a xenophobic agenda. Outraged by a racist speech from Eric Clapton, music photographer Red Saunders teams up with like-minded creatives to create Rock Against Racism. The RAR zine reports on stories and issues that the mainstream British media ignores,...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
The documentary takes viewers on an eye-opening journey through the life and work of the great Salvador Dali and his longtime muse and collaborator, Gala. The film begins in 1929, a crucial year in Dali's life and career, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and ends in 1989, the year of his passing. Using archival footage, images, and documents (many of them never before used in a film), this intimate and revelatory documentary' examines...
16) Mayor
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. His immediate goals: repave the sidewalks, attract more tourism, and plan the city's Christmas celebrations. His ultimate mission: to end the occupation of Palestine. Rich with detailed observation and a surprising amount of humor, the show offers a portrait of dignity amidst the madness and absurdity of endless occupation while...
17) Second coming
Series
Film Movement volume 13, year 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Busy working parents Mark and Jackie have not been intimate with each other in several months, so when Jackie discovers she is pregnant, it comes as an inexplicable shock to all. Jackie insists she's been faithful, but Mark reacts with rage, knowing the baby can't possibly be his. As the unnerving side effects of Jackie's condition worsen, will this seeming miracle bring the family closer together or tear them apart?
18) Ali Zaoua
Publisher
Filmmovement
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Arabic
Description
"Synopsis: Ali, Kwita, Omar, and Boubker are a group of street urchins living in the hard streets of Casablanca. Their everyday lives are filled with violence, begging, and indifference. In order to survive they create a bond of friendship and family between them. The bond is cut short when Ali is senselessly killed at the beginning of the film by a blow to the head; his life taken by a single act of a rival gang. Ali's friends decide not to report...
19) I am the blues
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It takes the audience on a musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. The film visits blues musicians rooted in the genre's heyday, many in their '80s, still living in the American deep south and touring the Chitlin' Circuit.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When small-time mob leader Zhou Zenong accidentally kills a cop, a dead-or-alive bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the lam from both the police as well as dangerous gangsters out for the reward. Hiding out in China's densely populated Wuhan province, Zhou becomes entangled with a beautiful, enigmatic owman, who has mysterious intentions of her own.