Film Movement
1) Total Trust
Author
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
TOTAL TRUST is an eye-opening and deeply disturbing documentary about surveillance technology, abuse of power and censorship. Through the haunting stories of people in China who have been monitored, intimidated and even tortured, the film sparks a global debate about the dangers that Big Data and AI pose to individual freedoms. A bracing portrait of a society for whom privacy is all but extinct and a warning for democratic states employing unprecedented...
2) The Mission
Author
Language
English
Description
THE MISSION follows four American LDS teenagers who to travel to the frozen, forested lands of Finland.
Author
Language
Icelandic
Description
More than a thousand autumns ago, humans arrived with their animals to a land pushed up against the Arctic Ocean. Autumns came and autumns went. Where the road ends, Úlfar, the last in a long line of farmers, lives with his wife. As autumn returns their grandchildren arrive from the city to attend the last herding of the flock. Next autumn farming will cease and all the sheep will be gone, but the landscape pushed up against the Arctic Ocean will...
6) Seire
Author
Language
Korean
Description
In Korean folk traditions, "seire" is the twenty-one days after a baby is born in which they're uniquely vulnerable to bad luck, curses - even evil spirits. Many superstitions surround these first three weeks in a baby's life, and new mother Hae-mi carefully follows every one of them. Father Woo-jin is reluctantly willing to play along, but when he attends an ex-girlfriend's funeral, he unwittingly opens the door to to dark supernatural dangers. Plagued...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Does the most widely used weed killer in the world cause cancer? Into the Weeds: Dewayne "Lee" Johnson vs. Monsanto Company follows the story of groundskeeper Lee Johnson and his fight for justice against agrichemical giant Monsanto (now Bayer, which bought the company in 2018), the manufacturer of the weed killer, Roundup. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate...
8) Amador
Series
Film Movement volume year 10, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012, 2010
Language
Español
Description
Marcela, a young immigrant with financial troubles, finds a summer job looking after Amador, a bed-ridden elderly man whose family is away. She thinks her problems are solved, but Amador dies shortly thereafter, putting Marcela in a predicament. His death leaves her jobless, something she can't afford to let happen. Faced with a difficult moral dilemma, Marcela will prove that death can't always stop life.
9) Morlang
Series
Film Movement volume 1, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When Morlang, a successful artist, learns that Ellen, his wife and muse of 15 years, has had an affair, he reacts by having an affair with a young admirer. The results are unexpected and devastating and strains the married couples relationship even more. The film is loosely based on a true story.
10) Famous Nathan
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The insider documentary by Lloyd Handwerker, grandson of Nathan Hanwerker, who founded the legendary Brooklyn eatery and iconic New York institution, Nathan's Famous, in Coney Island in 1916. Featuring interviews with extended family, friends and the employees who helped make Nathan's the prototype for fast-food made with quality, love and care. It is also very much a story of labor and a chronicle of the people who spent their lives in the employ...
11) Wolf at the door
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A documentary, personal film memoir by Kamikaze '89 director Wolf Gremm.
12) The great match
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Kazakh
Description
Three soccer fans, living in the farthest-flung corners of the planets: Mongolia, Niger and Brazil, determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final.
13) To kill a man
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Hardworking family man Jorge is just barely making ends meet. When he gets mugged by Kalule, a neighborhood delinquent, Jorge's son decides to confront Kalule, only to get himself shot in the process. Sentenced to a scant 2 years in prison for the offense, Kalule, released and now intent on revenge, goes on the warpath, terrorizing Jorge's family. With his wife, son and daughter at the mercy of a thug, Jorge has no choice but to take justice into...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
At 88-years-old, Audrey Flack holds a unique place in the history of contemporary art in America. Feminist, rebel, mother, painter, sculptor, and teacher, Audrey's often controversial 40-year career evolved from abstract expressionism in the '50s to photorealism in the '70s. One of the first women ever included in the famed Janson's History of Art, Audrey continues to create, explore, and inspire with her unique style and indomitable spirit. It follows...
16) Violent cop
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
Detective Azuma is a rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results. While investigating a series of drug-related homicides, he discovers that his friend and colleague, Iwaki, is supplying drugs from within the police force. After Iwaki is murdered and Azuma's sister is kidnapped, Azuma breaks all the rules to get justice.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
When handsome and charismatic Pablo arrives at his affluent family's house, everyone is eagerly awaiting his return. A seemingly exemplary pillar of Guatemala City's Evangelical Christian community, Pablo's announcement that he intends to leave his wife for another man sends shockwaves through the family. As Pablo tries to acclimate to his new life in the city's gay subculture, his ultra-religious family does everything in its power to get their prodigal...
18) Dede (Not rated)
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Georgian
Description
Gegi and David are brothers in arms returning home to the high snowy peaks of Svaneti. Gegi saved David's life on the battlefield, and is thus invited to be guest of honor at the latter's wedding to Dina. But by fateful coincidence, Dina and Gegi have also fallen in love during a fleeting wartime encounter without even knowing each other's names. Dina tries to break off her arranged marriage to David, but her mutiny threatens to overturn entrenched...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
Description
Lalia (Mouna Hawa), Salma (Sana Jammelieh), and Nur (Shaden Kanboura) share an apartment in the vibrant heart of Tel Aviv. Lalia, a criminal lawyer with a wicked wit, loves to burn off her workday stress in the underground club scene. Salma, slightly more subdued, is a DJ and bartender. Nur is a younger, religious Muslim girl who moves into the apartment in order to study at the university. Nur is both intrigued and intimidated by her two sophisticated...
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
The true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church; Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope Jean Paul II- and found a new platform to celebrate his dual identity as a Catholic Jew; earning him both friends and enemies from either group....