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Argentina
Family Law [FAMIL]
(Argentina, 2006, 102 min) The World of Jewish Film
Family Law is a witty and touching portrait of a young man making the passage from delayed adolescence into adulthood. Daniel Hendler plays the neurotic and uptight lawyer Ariel Perelman, who has big shoes to fill as the son of a genial and legendary lawyer. Three generations of Perelmans confound each other with how much they need to learn about being a family. More...
Winged creatures transform a woman into one of their own, and she takes flight away from her gilded mansion into the wild. Insect is a fascinating blend of still photography and animation. More...
In a lyrical and lonely film from Australia, Lloyd wastes away his days sniffing glue, both avoiding and obsessing over the past wrongs that have hurt him. More...
Ten Canoes [TENCA]
(Australia, 2006, 92 min) Other
The oral traditions of Aboriginal Australia are reflected here through a gently teasing narrator guiding us into two interwoven stories, one set a thousand years ago, and the other way before that, spiked with lowbrow humor (all the good bits: sex, gluttony, kidnapping, sorcery). More...
Austria
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams [GRBAV]
(Austria , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Germany , Croatia, 2006, 90 min) Contemporary European Cinema
The story, written by Žbaniç, a survivor herself, explores both the overwhelming personal sacrifice of living through a war in your own city (how is war possible in a city that hosted an Olympics a decade before?) and the relationship between a single mother and her coming-of-age daughter which is, quite possibly, even harder. More...
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