Filmmaker: Juanjo Gimenez, from Spain, rated 2.875
Summary of Jaibo, 2001: Jaibo is the story of Juanito. A boy for 12 years that makes a living by performing a low class show in the city streets together with his dad. But everything changes when he makes friends with a […]
From Canada, rated 3.875
Summary of The Arsonist, 2006: On an isolated farm during the boredom of summer, a young girl’s ceiling becomes a snowy landscape upon which the her memory and imagination play out the strange events of last winter.
From Canada, rated 4.188
Summary of Untitled, 2006: An abandoned farmhouse serves as the catalyst for the exploration of childhood, memory and domestic architecture. The elusive process of recollecting the past, both fabricated and real, is examined […]
Filmmaker: Priti Chandriani, from India, rated 3.375
Summary of Ashgari Bai, 1997: Ashgari Bai is one of the oldest exponents alive of the dying art of Dhrupad, the most orthodox form of Hindustani Classical music. She is also probably the only woman to have espoused this austere […]
Filmmaker: Priti Chandriani, from India, rated 2.875
Summary of Rani Hindustani, 2003: Rani Hindustani is the story of a woman who has rebelled against many social traditions in the process of discovering her own identity and today lives life on her own terms. Unable to come to terms […]
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Filmmaker: Priti Chandriani, from India, rated 2.813
Summary of Occam’s Razor, 2005: On June 15, 2004, a nineteen-year-old college going girl from suburban Mumbra (60 km from Bombay) was shot dead by the Gujarat Police. The charge leveled at her (till date, without substantiating […]
From Canada, rated 3.750
Summary of The Lesson, 2006: Inspired by the existentialist writer Eugene Ionesco, the story unfolds in a middle-class drawing room during a non specific time period. A professor, his young pupil, and his maid study the cirriculum […]
From Brazil, rated 3.500
Summary of Um Copo de Colera (A Glass of Rage), 1999: The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night […]
From Canada, rated 3.750
Summary of Empty Room, 2006: A woman suffers through the aftermath of a miscarriage by summoning up a visualization of her departed offspring. Her marriage, and sanity, soon come into question, concieved as an interesting blend […]
From Spain, rated 3.875
Summary of The Nine Mile Walk, 2003: Two friends lost in a strange place begin a game of words that leads to an unexpected twist.
