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| Phuong, An, and Nhu are Vietnamese women in their early 20s. The three become illegal residents in Japan after escaping from their workplace as technical trainees. An contacts a broker to help them find work. The broker takes them to a fisherman's ice-covered hut where they can stay in exchange for labour. They are happy because, as well as finding a job, they have also doubled their salary. As they start their work, Phuong suddenly falls to the ground, stricken with severe pain. Worried, An and Nhu take Phuong to a hospital, but they are refused admission for not having an ID card. Second feature film by its director. |
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| B-MOVIE is a documentary about music, art, and chaos in the wild West Berlin of the 80s. Before the Iron Curtain fell, artists and communards, squatters and hedonists of every color roamed here. The walled-in city was a creative melting pot for subculture and pop culture, "Genial Dilletantes" and world stars. B-MOVIE tells the final decade of the divided city, from punk to the Love Parade, with authentic film material and original interviews. Featuring Annette Humpe, Blixa Bargeld, Nena, Nick Cave, David Bowie, Gudrun Gut, Westbam, Joy Division, Zazie de Paris, Die Toten Hosen, the "real" Heino, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Ärzte, The Unknown, Malaria!, Notorious Reflexes and many more. |
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| After many years of absence, the "Gió Mới" (New Wind) drama troupe returns to the stage with a new production. Hà and Hùng, former lovers, are cast as the lead actors. The friction between art, the collective, and personal emotions during the decline of Northern Vietnamese theater in the 1990s forces these artists to grapple with the changing times. |
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| One of the most interesting districts of the capital is Prenzlauer Berg. Located east of the center, it attracts both old and new Berliners. Even before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the dilapidated old buildings provided shelter to the alternative scene, quickly leading to the creation of the "Prenzlauer Berg myth". Intellectuals, artists, and students shaped the district, it was even referred to as the Montmartre of Berlin. After the fall of the Wall, this image drew in newcomers, affluent youth, and the in-crowd. A rapid transformation began. Trendy bars sprouted up like mushrooms, one Wilhelminian-era residential building after another was renovated. Prenzlauer Berg became the most popular residential and nightlife district in the capital. The picture book showcases these changes, but also much of the district's original charm. In courtyards and prefabricated buildings, industrial monuments, and modern new buildings, the past and future of the district become clear. Unknown and prominent residents - Wolfgang Thierse - have their say. Craftsmen and artists, who shape the district, are introduced along with musicians, multimedia agencies, and architects. |
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| The precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet) enjoys the Northern Italian summer of 1983 in the 17th-century villa of his family. The Italian-American boy spends his time playing and transcribing classical music, reading, and flirting with his girlfriend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio is closely connected to his parents. His father (Michael Stuhlbarg), a respected professor, specializes in Greco-Roman culture. Elio's mother Annella (Amira Casar) works as a translator. Together they introduce their son to the achievements of high culture and provide him a carefree life with all its advantages... |
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| Rick's Cafe in Casablanca is a meeting place for many people from Europe who want to flee to America during World War II. Rick Blaine, the owner of the cafe, reunites with Ilsa here, with whom he had an affair in Paris. But a revival of their old feelings is doomed to fail, as Ilsa's husband Victor must be saved from the Nazis. |
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| Two angels watch over Berlin. Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are silent observers, accompanying people through the city's rooftops and streets. They hear their thoughts and feelings, without being able to feel them themselves. Ever since Damiel fell in love with the trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), he struggles with his fate. He would love to become human. To do this, he would have to become mortal, with all the consequences. A former angel (Peter Falk) advises him to take the plunge into life. |
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| Like 46-year-old Nguyen Van Cuong, most of the others are also skeptical. Some families have lived for generations in the self-built huts that float on a raft. The water, the Bay of Ha Long, is their home. They make a living from fish farming or the tourism industry, but the growing communities are a thorn in the government's side. Therefore the residents are being forcibly relocated to the mainland. They receive compensation and new homes, but their future remains uncertain. |
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| Klaus Fried was a teenager when his father Erich Fried, the writer, died. He had to share him with the entire world public. The son embarks on a search, meets family members, friends and companions and, together with Julia Albrecht, tries to piece together a picture of his father from the memories of these people. When he meets Astrid Proll, co-founder of the RAF, the hard struggle for answers makes it clear how similar father and son are. |
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| Suong, a young girl from rural Vietnam, migrates to the bustling city of Saigon to work in a local eatery with two other migrant workers. Within the caging, barren walls of the eatery, their days are filled with repetitive tasks and with vacuous, tedious hours. However, behind her veil of apathy, Suong battles a dilemma that she soon has to face with her family. |
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| The journey of a small classical Vietnamese opera (Tuồng) troup, one of the very few left, as they travel and perform through the Western Vietnam countryside. Behind the closed curtains, the Royal characters are commoners and peasants who struggle to make ends meet. On the verge of disbandment, what future awaits the troup, its artists, and this traditional art form? |
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| Returning to Vietnam after many years of studying abroad, a doctorate in atomic force Thai Duong entered an unimaginable reality. Many funny situations took place in his family when he was pondering over choosing a job in a new environment. Thai Duong was tricked into losing money, and his father and brother Loc Ton performed a risky mission to earn money: buying liquidated bombs. |
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| "I am the survivor of the laughing forest, but no happiness survived with me." Deep within the vast jungles under the canopy of the Trường Sơn Mountains, the girls guarding the military warehouse were consumed by loneliness, somber rainy seasons, and scorching dry seasons. After a battle, they fell before having the chance to love anyone—except for Thảo, the only girl who did not succumb to "laughing sickness." She returned to the city carrying the wounds of war. Adapted from the short story of the same name by Võ Thị Hảo. |
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| "Scherbenland" tells the story of a band whose first album began with the question: "Why am I so miserable?" – and of a city transformed by their songs. In the early 1970s, Kreuzberg became a testing ground for a counterculture. With songs like "Destroy What Destroys You," "Everything Changes," and "The Dream Is Over," Ton Steine Scherben gave a voice to a generation. |
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