Summary: A filmmaker follows the lives of four infants from childbirth through the first year of life in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco and Tokyo. Bananas Bend It Like Beckham Summary: Cultural identity development issues for an South Asian teenaged Sikh female soccer player raised in Great Britain. The Beauty Academy of Kabul Summary: American women open a beauty school in post-Taliban Kabul as community service project. Born Into Brothels Summary: This film is a portrait of a group of unforgettable children in Calcutta's red light district.
CAMP Summary: A summer musical theater camp for teenagers —explores identity development and isolation. The Color of Paradise The Debut Summary: A third generation Filipino teenager deals with cultural identity issues in the U.
El Norte Summary: One of the first films to portray faithfully the plight of Central American political refugees, El Norte is a remarkable fusion of documentary realism and visual poetry.
Elephant Summary: Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. God Grew Tired of Us Summary: Boys who fled Sudan and moved to Ethiopia and Kenya because of political unrest. Looking past his unique aesthetic, Lady Bird has all that quirky humour, complex characters and tightly-knit writing that makes audiences stay past the initial look of the film.
The coming-of-age film to end all coming-of-age films, Raw is a film that, on the surface, adopts a rather traditional narrative structure as far as the genre goes. What it does differently, however, what that gave the film its unquestionable notoriety in the international scene, is how it interprets that traditional narrative structure.
The growing pains of going through college. Of stepping out of your comfort zone into the daunting unknown. Of finding love.
Of losing love. Of exploring who you truly are. These are concepts explored countless times in the span of the genre. In films that droves of teenagers flock to and fawn over almost on a yearly basis. Raw is no such film. All these obscene concepts and more serve as an unusually profound medium to explore such simplistic and universal ideas.
You might ascertain reason to believe that such a complex and outlandish approach to something so incredibly simple is nothing but a mere gimmick intended to draw in a more adrenaline-seeking crowd.
However, Raw is far above from your standard torture porn and truly deserves its capacity as an arthouse film. The two polarising extremes that the film resides in, go hand in hand, giving rise to an experience that dares to make bold comparisons to provoke thought.
Asking us and essentially forcing us to reflect on our own struggles in growing up and how drastically we metamorphosed in the shortest possible time. Featuring a career best performance by Scarlett Johansson , it follows an otherworldly woman who lures lonely men into her van. Her constant interaction with human beings begins to question her identity and existence in this world.
Their relationship gets increasingly complex as their personalities blend in mysterious ways as their identities become indistinguishable. The plot is further complicated with the entry of another woman, the wife of a bar owner, who gets entangled with the other women. Altman infuses a dreamlike, almost seductive quality to the film as it provides a very ambiguous view of the reality surrounding its characters, not letting us have a precise and concrete view of the identity of any of the characters.
There really is no comprehensive explanation for what happens in the film. She meets an amnesiac woman who is lost in her identity.
A dreamlike Los Angeles is slowly turned into a nightmarish web of devastating realities as Betty is revealed to be Diane; a desperate, insecure woman madly in love with an actress named Camilla Rhodes who resembles Rita.
Lynch leaves us to interpret the reality of the film and our understanding of the plot and the characters helps us to interpret the true identity of its characters. In his directorial debut, Kaufman anatomises the psyche of Caden Cotard; an ailing theatre artist working on a grand stage production that could turn out to be his magnum opus. His seething angst as an artist and the desire to feel important all over again have made him an absolute shell of a person as he sees his life goes by through his world, painfully witnessing the deaths of his loved ones.
It tells the story of Alma, a nurse who is given the responsibility of taking care of a mute actress named Elisabeth. Scrap with hyenas, dash through an elephant graveyard, defeat your evil uncle Scar and recapture the Pridelands.
Votes: 1, Unrated min Drama, Music, Romance. Eventually, one contracts AIDS. In a not too distant future, a young man's outlook on his home android begins to change after tracking the android's behavioral log to a mysterious cafe.
Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout Stanley Sweetheart who seeks his identity during the sexual Director: Leonard J. Votes: A young girl, already a jaded sexual veteran, embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery to find out the true reasons for her dissatisfaction and total desensitization. Adult Camp is a comedy about the bumpy road to personal growth.
A group of men and women, strangers to each other, choose to spend a different kind of summer holiday week by traveling to Unrated min Biography, Crime, Drama. This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area. Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination.
My Guardian Characters Shugo Chara is a magical anime, revolving around "cool and spicy" teen Amu, a feminine but tomboyish schoolgirl, who yearns but appears unable to display her A year-old woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society? TV-PG Documentary. An exclusive and intimate portrait following the first pregnant man, Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy, into the delivery room as Thomas gives birth to their baby daughter Susan.
Two teen girls from a very restrictive Conservative Laestadian faith community, go alone to Helsinki for the first time. Votes: 2, A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film. Not Rated Drama, Thriller.
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