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2) Egg
Publisher
Miyu Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A woman is locked in her home with an EGG, which she is both attracted to and scared of. She eats the EGG, she repents. She kills it. She lets the EGG die of hunger.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A Van Helsing-like professor and his protegé are tracking Dracula's descendants through the world of "parallels", creatures who are human in form but live quite distinct psychic lives. A circus dwarf who is in love with one of these creatures leads them to a mansion filled with oddly behaving nuns, The Order of the White Virgins. The nuns are detaining a beautiful woman who is the betrothed of the still-extant Dracula. When she escapes, everyone...
5) Kimono
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Looking for something to eat, a homeless woman sneaks into a man’s apartment. When she is almost caught, she hides in his closet. But instead of leaving the apartment, she gets interested in the man and starts to secretly live there and observe him. What she doesn’t realize, however, is that the man has already noticed her presence. Youth Jury Award winner and Best Short Fiction Film nominee at the **Dresden Film Festival**.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The richness of Yanomamo mythology is again revealed in this film (compare Moonblood and both Myths of Naro ), as is the remarkable skill of another Yanomamo storyteller. The myth in this case is that of Jaguar, a prominent figure throughout South American Indian mythology. Long ago, Curare Woman tasted bitter, so Jaguar did not eat her. Curare Woman hid her pregnant daughter in the roof above Jaguar's hammock, and sent Jaguar far away to hunt while...
7) Baby Steps
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From Oscar-winning Producer Li-Kong Hsu (Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Eat Drink Man Woman) comes this multi-cultural comedy-drama, which takes a funny but honest look at gay family issues in complicated dynamo of a cross-generational Taiwanese and American family.. Danny, a Taiwanese-American man, longs to have a baby with his American partner Tate, but their attempts at international surrogacy are complicated by...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
How Wonderful is a hilarious and really honest look at pregnancy, featuring a cast of well known Australian actors and actresses. No matter what they tell you, no-one is really prepared for this big event. Thirty-one year old Kerry, a modern career woman, is having her first baby. She teeters between the public perception of the lucky event and her own entirely different and bizarre perceptions of the highs and lows of pregnancy. As she tries to deal...
10) Slavery
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Slavery is officially banned internationally by all countries, yet despite this, in the world today there are more slaves now than ever before. In the four hundred years of the slave trade around 13 million people were shipped from Africa. Today there are an estimated 27 million slaves - people paid no money, locked away and controlled by violence. Multi-Award winning documentary makers Kate Blewett and Brian Woods - who produced the groundbreaking...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
This film, the first from the Central African Republic, takes us inside the world of the 'pygmies' or more properly BaAka. Le silence de la forêt is a film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Season eight begins six months after LaGuerta's murder, and Dexter is still managing life as a dad, brother, and serial killer. As Deb struggles to deal with the consequences of her actions, a mysterious woman comes to work with Miami Metro, offering firsthand information on Dexter's past.
Series
Criterion collection volume 102
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"In Luis Buñuel's deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-middle-class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events both actual and imagined, including terrorist attacks, military manoeuvers, and ghostly apparitions. Stringing together a discontinuous, digressive series of absurdits set pieces, Buñuel and his screenwriting partner Jean-Claude Carrière send a cast of Europeanfilm...
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