A Separation

A Separation (2011)

Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. She has already made all the necessary arrangements. Nader, however, is having second thoughts. He is worried about leaving behind his father, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s. For this reason he decides to call off the trip altogether. More

A Separation - Nader And Simin (DVD)
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A Separation

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Cinco dias sin Nora

Cinco dias sin Nora (2009)

Before dying, Nora devises a plan to make José, ex-husband, take care of her funeral. But she misses something—the only flaw in the plan, a mysterious photograph left under the bed, will lead to an unexpected outcome that will remind us that sometimes the greatest love stories are hidden in the smallest places. More

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Five Days Without Nora - Nora's Will - Cinco días sin Nora (DVD)
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Five Days Without Nora

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Lluvia

Lluvia (2008)

Depuis trois jours, la pluie tombe abondamment sur Buenos Aires. Alma et Roberto ne se connaissent pas encore. Solitaires et vulnérables, à la merci des flots diluviens qui s’abattent inexorablement, ils cheminent tous deux à travers la capitale. Leur rencontre fortuite va bouleverser le cours des événements. Un film somptueux, réalisé de main de maître par l’une des plus douées représentantes de la nouvelle vague du cinéma argentin. More

Lluvia - The rain (DVD)
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Lluvia

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Pure Coolness - Boz Salkyn

Pure Coolness - Boz Salkyn (2007)

Is it possible to justify the bride kidnapping if “he” and “she” will create a happy family after that? People marry by mutual agreement and love. And it happens that they marry of parents’ interests will. But Kyrgyz people have such a custom when the bride is kidnapped. Rural herder Sagyn’s mother decides to marry her son to a modest girl Anara with parents of whom she has already come to an agreement. More

Pure Coolness (DVD)
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Pure Coolness

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Ejforija - Euphoria

Ejforija - Euphoria (2006)

In an amazingly beautiful place, on the bank of the wide Don, in a remote, half-destroyed village, surrounded by only steppe for hundreds of miles, a real drama takes place. An unexpected passionate love between a young man and a married woman literally destroys the lives of not only the main characters, but also their close ones. More

Euphoria (DVD)
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Euphoria

CHF 19.00 / EUR 16.00

Lugares comunes

Lugares comunes (2003)

In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. More

Lugares comunes (DVD)
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Lugares comunes

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Twilight Samurai - Tasogare Seibei

Twilight Samurai - Tasogare Seibei (2003)

Seibei Iguchi (Hiroyuki Sanada), a low-ranking samurai and family man, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make both ends meet. More

The Twilight Samurai - Tasogare Seibei (DVD)
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The Twilight Samurai

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Wo Ai Ni - I Love You

Wo Ai Ni - I Love You (2003)

Yi and Ju meet when the latter is about to marry Yi's best friend. After a senseless accidental death they meet again. The fall in love and soon get married. Everyday life arrives and the couple niddle-noddles between a desire for freedom and tenures. The dream of the great love turns out to be more difficult in daily life than expected... More

I Love Beijing - Xiari Nuanyangyang (DVD)
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I Love Beijing

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Fatma (DVD)
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Fatma

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

La saison des hommes - Maussim al-riyal

La saison des hommes - Maussim al-riyal (2000)

Atmospheric drama about a young wife who must bear her husband a child if she ever wishes to escape the island of Djerba and join him in Tunis. More

The Season of Men - Maussim al-riyal (DVD)
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The Season of Men

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Eu, tu, eles

Eu, tu, eles (2000)

In Russas, a poor, desolate and dry settlement in the arid backlands of the northeast of Brazil, the countrywoman Darlene de Lima Linhares lives together with her three husbands - Osias, Zezinho and Ciro - and two children. She has managed her simple life with them, taking from each one what he's able to give best. A very special story in the middle of nowhere. More

Marat, tueur à gages - Bérgyilkos (DVD)
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Marat, tueur à gages

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Mossane

Mossane (1996)

This Senegalese melodrama tells the story of a young girl called Mossane who lives in a village between the ocean and the savannah. There, veneration for the traditions is very common. There's a legend saying that every other century a girl is born who is doomed because of her beauty. Mossane is only fourteen years old but is already considered to be extraordinary beautiful. More

Pequeno dicionário amoroso

Pequeno dicionário amoroso (1996)

Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruined relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long-term marriage with divorce. When they both meet, chances that they can do well together are not that big. - Equal time is given to male and female perspectives in this take on modern Brazilian love - and not only Brazilian. A romantic comedy, Little Book of Love looks at the stages of a couple's affair and divides them into alphabetically arranged scenes. More

Maboroshi no hikari

Maboroshi no hikari (1995)

Yumiko is a young woman from Osako, whose life is defined by the death of her loved ones. She lost her grandmother at the age of twelve, and her husband Ikuo, who is the reincarnation of her grandmother to her, commits suicide some months after the birth of their child. Once more Yumiko loses a person she had really loved. More

Maborosi - Illusion (DVD)
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Maborosi

CHF 23.00 / EUR 19.00

Okaeri

Okaeri (1995)

Yuriko works at home all day, transcribing tapes, feeling cut off from outside the world. Her husband, Takashi, works as a school teacher. In the evening he often goes to bars and comes home late, leaving his wife behind, waiting for him with the warm supper. He thinks she had accepted this reality, but one day she runs off, steals a car and starts turning into a woman he doesn't recognize. More

No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas

No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas (1995)

Don‘t Die without Telling Me Where You‘re Going is an extraordinary film by a remarkable director, Eliseo Subiela (Man Looking Southeast, Dark Side of the Heart).This is masterful filmmaking that brings to life an invisible dimension of our world: auras, souls, spirits. William and Rachel have loved each other in various lives. More

Don't die without telling me where you're going (DVD)
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Don't die without telling me where you're going

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Les gens de la rizière - Neak srê

Les gens de la rizière - Neak srê (1994)

Les Gens de la rizière tells the story of Yong Poeuw, his wife Yim Om and their seven daughters. The land is scarce, the family members are many, the children are growing up, the balance has become fragile. Yong Poeuw and Yim Om suspect that a rupture is coming. More

Rice People (DVD)
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Rice People

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Shamt al kushur - Les silences du palais

Shamt al kushur - Les silences du palais (1994)

The news that Prince Sid'Ali has died suddenly confronts 25-year-old Ali with her past again. During the funeral she visits the palace where she spent her childhood and adolescence and where her mother was a servant. She never knew her father - he may even have been the prince. As she wanders the deserted corridors, the images of her youth return, such as her forbidden friendship with Sarra, daughter of one of the princes, who taught Alia to love the lute. More

The Silences in the Palace - Shamt al kushur (DVD)
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The Silences in the Palace

CHF 26.00 / EUR 21.00

Sishi buhuo

Sishi buhuo (1992)

The news that his first wife was pregnant with a child when they separated some ten years ago comes to official photographer Cao Depai (Li Xuejian) like a thunderbolt out of the blue. Now she is dead, and the son that he never knew was found wandering the streets. He is afraid to tell his new wife about this extra mouth to feed, and at first he attempts to house the lad at his darkroom. More

Le pas suspendu de la cigogne

Le pas suspendu de la cigogne (1991)

While working on a story in the border area, a young journalist discovers a divided town bisected by a river which is also the national frontier. He observes a surreal wedding in which the bride and her family stand on one shore and the groom and his relatives on the other, lost under a cold sky: More

The Suspended Step of the Stork - To meteoro vima tou pelargou (DVD)
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The Suspended Step of the Stork

CHF 29.00 / EUR 23.00

Zan Boko

Zan Boko (1988)

Gaston Kaboré’s movie «Zan Boko explores the conflict between tradition and modernity with a family in a rural contexr. It has been for long time a central theme in many African films. Kaboré tells the poignant story of a village family swept up in the current tide of urbanization. More