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One man?s misery is another man?s art.
Tellervo and Oliver Kalleinen had a great idea - go around the world collecting people?s complaints, transforming them into a song and having the complainers perform it. And that?s exactly what they did. The result is often hilarious, both in the wide range of whines and grumbles and in the creative way these often trivial cavils are made into music.
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A mysterious eclipse may be the extraordinary solution to the ordinary lives that three young Latin Americans are trying to escape.
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Life may be good for others, but the only milk and honey in Sa?a?s life is in his father?s special recipe for lamb.
Sa?a is an unexceptional guy: timid, reticent, decent. Instead of the novels he wants to write, he?s the pseudonymous food critic for a Zagreb newspaper. A divorced man, he can see his son only occasionally, their visits framed by the condescending glares of his ex-wife and her new lover. His most frequent phone caller is his mom: why don?t you call more, are you coming to Sunday dinner?
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Sometimes you have to get lost to find the way to what you really want and what you really need.
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Philip is a successful architect, a single dad having a difficult time with his 16-year-old son. When he learns of his fatherÕs death, a father who abandoned him years ago, Philip makes an obligatory journey to the funeral, only to find that he has a burning need to discover who this man was that he had resented for his entire life. At the funeral, Philip meets Karl, his fatherÕs friend at the nursing home, and Karl sees an opportunity he canÕt pass up. As Karl moves out of the nursing home and in with Philip, both father and son use Karl as the surrogate dad they had always hoped for.
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Inspired in part by the TalibanÕs rule in Afghanistan, The Silence Between Two Thoughts is a remarkable, austere, provocative film. It is also an astonishing and important film. In a remote village in an unspecified land, a fundamentalist HajiÕs decree that a young woman be executed is halted because "criminals must go to hell, but an executed virgin will go to heaven." However, the Haji is determined that his sentence be carried out, so he orders the executioner to marry the young woman, thus making him both her husband and her potential executioner.
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Great stories are timeless. Great people are inspirational. Sometimes, on a rare occasion, we are lucky enough to discover both. A Polish Jew, Moritz Rabinowitz, was an astute businessman who built his clothing empire from scratch, after years of selling textiles and watches from village to village. Before the war, he was an outspoken fighter against Nazism and was the first person the Germans wanted to arrest after the occupation.
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Set in the twin worlds of high-stakes gambling and the law, May Miles ThomasÕ psychological drama, Solid Air, displays the skillful artistry of a confident filmmaker, as she explores mortality, injustice, betrayal and paternal love. In his late 50s, lonely divorcee, Robert Houston, suffers from asbestosis, a progressive and fatal disease. In a pursuit to win compensation, he embarks on a civil action case against his former employers.
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In the tradition of Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction, Slim Susie is a "gangster comedy," set in a rural Swedish town with an assortment of original oddballs. For years, Erik has lived in Stockholm, after moving away from his dull hometown where it wasn't even possible to see a film all the way to the end. Now, he returns to his boyhood home upon discovering that his younger sister, sweet, innocent Susie, is missing. But home is not what it used to be; it is far from what Erik remembers.