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More than the World
[Short] - Global Lens
(Argentina, 2004, 12 min)
Talented filmmaker and screenwriter Nuñez de Arco (Mercano the Martian, featured in the UW Cinematheque’s fall 2005 program), offers a charming and story of a boy and his loyal canine. Marito falls in love with a young girl, enraging her father More»
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Little Fish
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(Australia, 2005, 114 min)
Cate Blanchett is luminous and vulnerable as Tracey, a former heroin addict determined to regain self-respect and independence from the intertwined addictions of drugs, love, and family. More»
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Look Both Ways
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(Australia, 2005, 100 min)
Australian animator Sarah Watt creates a vibrant first feature that weaves together the stories of several characters, each affected by a fatal train accident. Balancing delicately between whimsy and existential angst, Look Both Ways focuses on the More»
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Mona Lisa
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(Australia, 2004, 15 min)
Australian filmmaker Sotiris Dounoukos lets us glimpse inside the private world of an aging Greek mother and her grown-up-but-still-at-home son. As George prepares for a big night out, his mother’s sad manipulations may keep him from leaving. More»
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Darwin's Nightmare
[Feature] - Global Visions
(Austria, 2004, 107 min)
Darwin’s Nightmare traces the devastating downward spiral that was triggered by two relentless killing machines: the Nile perch which, over the course of a few decades, ate through everything that used to live in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria; More»
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Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine
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(Austria, 2005, 17 min)
Tscherkassky has crafted a visceral filmscape through the reworking of images from Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. In the filmmaker’s words: “Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine is an attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy.” More»
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 Belgium |
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Aaltra
[Feature] - Contemporary European Cinema
(Belgium, 2004, 92 min)
An inventive and witty black comedy, Aaltra is a terrifically deadpan, understated marvel of black-and-white CinemaScope. Codirectors Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern star as Ben and Gus, adversarial Belgian neighbors whose picky dislike More»
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Innocence
[Feature] - Contemporary European Cinema
(Belgium, 2004, 115 min)
Hidden amidst a lush forest outside of a distinct time and place lies a mysterious all-girls boarding school where the students dress exclusively in white and wear color-coded ribbons in their hair to signify their age. The girls, sheltered from the outside More»
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 Brazil |
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Almost Brothers
[Feature] - Global Lens
(Brazil, 2004, 102 min)
Filmmaker Lúcia Murat joins forces with author Paulo Lins (City of God) to chronicle the stormy friendship of Miguel, an upper-middle-class senator, and Jorginho, a spirited criminal from the Rio de Janeiro slums. Not yet the clean-cut politician More»
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Cinema, Aspirins, and Vultures
[Feature] - Global Lens
(Brazil, 2004, 99 min)
Escaping the blood-soaked war raging in his native Germany, Johann is thousands of miles away traveling the dusty roads of northeast Brazil. His mission: to stop at sparsely populated villages and offer two of the greatest technological advances—cinema More»
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The Night of Truth
[Feature] - Global Lens
(Burkina Faso, 2004, 100 min)
“War opens our souls so demons move in,” is the sobering observation from Burkina Faso’s first female filmmaker Fanta Régina Nacro’s powerful story about the painful struggles to combat hatred to make way for forgiveness and More»
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Source of History
[Short] - Global Lens
(Burkina Faso, 2003, 22 min)
After witnessing the brutal murder of his parents, Sergeant Toe joins a rebel army to fight against government forces in an unnamed African country. Sergeant Toe mobilizes troops, demonstrates keen military strategy and wins the respect and trust of seasoned colonels—all at the age of 11. More»
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