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1) ABC Africa
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Uganda, March 2000. At the request of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development, Abbas Kiarostami and his assistant Seilollah Samadian arrive in Kampala. For ten days, their DV cameras capture and caress the faces of thousand children, all orphans, whose parents have died of AIDS. It records tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death. It attests to Africa’s sunny resilience to so much suffering and disease.
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Based on a series of interviews with Damian Pettigrew on the theme of the artist and creation a year before Fellini’s death – the longest and most detailed conversation ever recorded on my personal vision according to Fellini – this entertaining, unique portrait explores the mythical director’s world. From Federico’s childhood to his last film, Damian Pettigrew traces the master’s career, thoughts, and contradictions as told to him by...
3) Arsenal
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1929.
Description
In 1918, demobilized soldier Timosh returns to Kiev during a celebration of Ukrainian freedom. He soon challenges the authorities by urging the workers of the Arsenal to fight for the Revolution.
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
INSPECTOR LAVARDIN investigates on the murder of a famous writer, whose widow happens to be Helen, a woman Lavardin once loved. She has a daughter from a first marriage, who actually killed her stepfather, as he was trying to abuse her. Uncovering the true story, Lavardin finds another convict with Max Charmet, procurer and drug dealer.
5) The Torment
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
Paul has just bought a charming waterfront hotel in the heart of France. In debt for the next ten years, he sets to work with his beautiful new wife, Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart). The life of the young couple is a dream come true. Paul, however, becomes increasingly irritated and high strung. He starts taking sleeping pills and is aware of a voice in his head expressing doubts. As the tension rises, Paul becomes more and more suspicious and violent.
7) Amanda
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
David, who gets by doing odd jobs, meets Lena, who has just moved up to Paris, and falls in love. But soon after, his life is brutally interrupted by the sudden death of his sister. Beyond the shock, and the pain, David now finds himself alone with his young niece AMANDA to care for.
8) Limelight
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1952.
Description
Calvero, once a famous Music Hall star, now a washedup old man, saves a neighbor from suicide. He nurtures the young ballerina with paralyzed legs back to health, and helps her regain her self-esteem, so that she may return to the stage.In this film Chaplin intimately and poignantly explores the twilight years of glory: what it means to be forgotten, to despair, and how to gather the strength to overcome. Chaplin also offers Buster Keaton a highly...
9) Black Venus
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Paris 1817, at the Royal Academy of Medicine. «I have never seen a human head so similar to that of an ape». Standing by a molded cast of Saartjie Baartman’s body, anatomist Georges Cuvier’s verdict is break body to the audiences of London’s freak shows. Free and enslaved all at the same time, «The Hottentot Venus» became an out in cheers. Seven years earlier, Saartjie left her native South Africa with her master, Caezar, to expose her categoric....
10) Ten
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
TEN sequences in the emotional lives of six women and the challenges that they face at one particular moment in those lives, that could just as easily be ten sequences in the emotional life of the one same woman…
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
On the outskirts of Bucharest one hot summer day. Norica, a young waitress and Mitu, a pig-keeper, meet, taunt each other and play at who will drink and dare the most. Next morning, Mitu’s mind is a blank. What happened between them? But their affair is more than a one-night stand.
12) Rumba
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, there is a car accident and they see their lives turned up and down and up and down and up and down.
13) Monsieur Verdoux
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Inspired by notorious French serial killer Landru, Henri Verdoux lures wealthy women by promising them sweet happy-everafters. After the wedding bells chime, however, he murders them for their fortunes. In this particularly dark comedy, Chaplin questions our perception of evil: isn’t this refined criminal a mere amateur compared to weapons suppliers and dictators? We stand ready to condemn a murderer, but when war victims are counted in millions,...
14) Nightcap
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
André Polonski, a virtuoso pianist, and Mika marry for the second time in Lausanne, years after their first, very brief union. In the meantime, André had married Lisbeth who gave him a son, Guillaume. On the day of his sixth birthday, while the family was staying with Mika in Switzerland, Lisbeth died in a car accident. Young Jeanne, who is preparing the Budapest piano competition, happens to learn that she was almost switched on the day of her...
15) Taste of Cherry
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
A tale of one middle-aged man who wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered as an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters : Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier, a seminary student and a museum employee, each with reasons to turn down the job : fear, religious scruples and humanist revulsion at a life wilfully squandered.
16) Arab Blues
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colourful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice. In this sophisticated comedy, Manele Labidi opens a fascinating window into modern Tunisia at a crossroads, with a story of contrasts, contradictions and culture clashes, full of vitality and humour.
17) Hotell
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Erika is a beautiful young woman with a perfect life. Until the day it all falls apart. She starts going to group therapy and meets other people suffering from various forms of trauma. One day this eclectic group decides to take matters into its own hands and heads off together in search of a way out. They start checking into hotels – a place of complete anonymity where you can wake up as a different person.
18) The Clay Bird
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Against the backdrop of political unrest in the late 1960’s, Anou, a shy boy from rural East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), is sent off to madrasa by his religious father. There Anu struggles to adjust to the austere monastic life, quite different from the vibrancy and pagan festivity of his village. A growing rift between his parents in the village mirrors an increasing divide between moderate and extremist forces in the madrasa. While the conflicts...
19) El niño pez
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Lala, a teenager from the most exclusive suburban neighborhood in Argentina is in love with the Guayi, the 20-year-old Payaguayan maid working for her father. They dream of living together in Paraguay, at the shores of Lake Ypoá, robbing every purse and wallet in the house to fulfill their dream, hiding the money in a shoe box. But when the box is full, it bursts, fueled by desire, jealousy and rage. Revenge, risk, sex and blood weave a plot that...
20) Kishibe no tabi
Publisher
Mk2 Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Mizuki’s husband drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. Instead, Mizuki is wondering what took him so long. She agrees to let him take her on a journey.