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Intimate Lighting (1965) Language: Czech Subtitles: English  

Director: Ivan Passer Producer: N/A Writer: Ivan Passer, Jaroslav Papoušek, Václav Šašek Screenplay: Ivan Passer Cast: Zdeněk Bezušek, Karel Blažek, Věra Křesadlová, Jaroslava Štědrá Music: Josef Hart, Oldrich Korte Cinematography: Josef Střecha, Miroslav Ondříček Editor: Jiřina Lukešová Production Design: Karel Cerny Costume: N/A

Production: Filmové studio Barrandov Distributor: N/A

Description: Intimate Lighting is a Czech drama film directed by Ivan Passer. It is widely considered as a major film of the Czechoslovak New Wave and to be Passer’s most significant film. It follows the adventures of a professional symphony musician, Peter, who comes to a small town to see a friend he has missed, Bambas. He is a teacher and performer at funerals. The two meet again and get involved in some comic exploits, including a possible symphony concert. Krzysztof Kieslowski placed it on his Top Ten list for a Sight & Sound magazine poll. Dave Kehr, formerly of the Chicago Reader, called it “one of the finest works of the short-lived Czech New Wave.” The New York Times noted that it was one of those movies that “loses none of its charm, to age or to repeated viewing” 

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As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me (2001) Language: German, Russian, Persian Subtitles: English  

Director: Hardy Martins Producer: Jimmy C. Gerum, Hardy Martins Writer: Josef Martin Bauer Screenplay: Bastian Clevé, Hardy Martins, Bernd Schwamm Cast: Bernhard Bettermann, Michael Mendl, Anatoly Kotenyov Music: Eduard Artemyev Cinematography: Pavel Lebeshev Editor: Andreas Marschall Production Design: Valentin Gidulyanov Costume: Tatyana Konotopova

Production: B & C Filmproduktion GmbH, Cascadeur Filmproduktion Gmb, HKC Medien Distributor: Angel Falls Filmverleih GmbH, Euro Video, Euro Cine

Description: As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me is a 2001 film about German World War II prisoner of war Clemens Forell’s escape from a Siberian Gulag in the Soviet Union back to Germany. It is based on the book of the same name written by Bavarian novelist Josef Martin Bauer. The book is in turn based on the story of Cornelius Rost who used the alias “Clemens Forell” to avoid retribution from the KGB. Forell is sentenced to 25 years hard labour for “crimes against the partisans” and sent as part of a large group of prisoners to a Gulag labour camp in the Siberian region of the Soviet Union. After a huge cross-continent railway journey on starvation rations, and a long-cross-country trek by foot into the bleak wilderness, they arrive at the gulag. This is run by a cruel commander, Lieutenant Kamenev. Forel is focused on escaping the labour camp.

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Film: Underground (1995) Language: Serbian, German Subtitles: English  

Director: Emir Kusturica Producer: Karl Baumgartner, Maksa Catovic, Pierre Spengler Writer: Dušan Kovačević Screenplay: Dušan Kovačević, Emir Kusturica Cast: Miki Manojlović, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Joković, Slavko Štimac Music: Goran Bregovic Cinematography: Vilco Filac Editor: Branka Seperak Production Design: Miljen Kreka Kljakovic Costume:  Nebojsa Lipanovic

Production: Ciby2000, Pandora Film, Novo Film Distributor: City2000, Komuna

Description: The film uses the epic story of two friends to portray a Yugoslav history from the beginning of World War II until the beginning of Yugoslav Wars. The film was a co-production with companies from Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Czech Republic and Hungary. Underground won the Palme d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. It was Kusturica’s second such award.

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Film: 23 Secundos (2013) Language: Spanish Subtitles: English  

Director: Dimitri Rudakov Producer: Francisco Bello Writer: Dimitri Rudakov Screenplay: Dimitry Rudakov Cast:  Hugo Piccinini, Susana Groisman, Stefanie Neukirch Music:  Matías Banacore Cinematography: Diego Pevese Editor: N/A Production Design: N/A Costume: N/A

Production: Clever Producciones Distributor: N/A

Description: Emiliano is a 33 years old mentally retarded guy who to make a living and pass time washes windows of cars. He lives with his mother and has all natural desires of a grown up man. One day while washing the windscreen of a car he observes a murder and his life changes. Emiliano though mentally retarded this murder affects him significantly and he starts taking various actions to do his bit in the society regarding this grave injustice to the victim. His actions though he feels are heroic in nature, might seem insignificant to a causal observer. It’s his story.

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Film: Death of a Salesman (1985) Language: English Subtitles: Auto  

Director: Volker Schlöndorff   Producer:   Robert F. Colesberry, Michael Nozik, Nellie Nugiel  Writer:  Arthur Miller Screenplay:  Arthur Miller Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning Music:  Alex North Cinematography:  Editor:  David Ray Production Design:  Tony Walton,  John Kasarda Costume:  Ruth Morley

Production:  Roxbury Productions, Punch Productions Distributor:  Shout! Factory, CBS

Description:  Death of a Salesman is a 1985 American made-for-television film adaptation of the 1949 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. Willy Loman returns home exhausted after a cancelled business trip. Worried over Willy's state of mind and recent car crash, his wife Linda suggests that he asks his boss Howard Wagner to allow him to work in his home city so he will not have to travel. Willy is prone to frequent flashbacks in which he sees events and figures from his past, such as his long-deceased older brother Ben, Willy's idol. Unable to distinguish between his memories and present-day reality, he speaks to the people in his flashbacks as if they were real, startling those around him.

The film is mostly told from the point of view of the protagonist, Willy, and the previous parts of Willy's life are revealed in the analepsis, sometimes during a present-day scene. It does this by having a scene begin in the present time, and adding characters onto the screen whom only Willy can see and hear, representing characters and conversations from other times and places.

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Film: Xuan Zang (2016) Language: Chinese  Subtitles: English  

Director: Huo Jianqi Producer: Wong Kar-wai, Jiaren Karren Wang Writer: Jingzhi Zou Screenplay: Jingzhi Zou Cast: Huang Xiaoming, Zheng Xu, Purba Rgyal Music: Wang Xiaofeng Cinematography: Sun Ming, Satish Bhargav Editor: Weijie Cao Production Design: Ming Wu

Production:  China Film Corporation, Eros International Distributor: China Film Group Corporation

Description: During the Tang Dynasty's era of "Zhen Guan" (of Emperor Taizong), Xuan Zang, a young Buddhist monk, in his quest to find the knowledge in Buddhism, embarks on a journey to India, that is fraught with perils and dangers. He encounters natural disasters, and sees the sufferings of the common people. Soldiers get in his way, his disciple betrays him, he struggles through deserts, and is short on food and water. He finally arrives in India, and studies Buddhism in earnest. By the time he returns to China, he is 50 years old.

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Film: Escape from Sobibor (1987) Language: English Subtitles: N/A  

Director: Jack Gold   Producer: Dennis E. Doty   Writer: Thomas Blatt (Manuscript), Richard Rashke, Stanislaw Szmajzner (Book) Screenplay: Reginald Rose   Cast: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker, Jack Shepherd Narrator: Howard K. Smith Music: Georges Delerue   Cinematography: Ernest Vincze   Editor: Keith Palmer Production Design: Allan Starski Costume: Doreen Watkinson

Production: CFS Avala Film, Rule, Zenith Entertainment   Distributor: CBS

Description: Escape from Sobibor is the story of the mass escape from the extermination camp at Sobibor, the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (uprisings also took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka).  

On 14 October 1943, members of the camp's underground resistance succeeded in organizing a mass escape involving over 300 prisoners. It is their story.  

The film begins with a new trainload of Polish Jews arriving for processing at Sobibor. The German Commandant gives them a welcoming speech, assuring the new arrivals that the place is a work camp. Other SS officers move along the assembled lines of prisoners, selecting a small number who have trade skills (such as goldsmiths, seamstresses, shoemakers, and tailors). The remaining prisoners are sent away to a different part of the camp from which a pillar of smoke rises day and night. It is some time before the new prisoners realize Sobibor is a death camp.

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Film: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Language: English Subtitles: N/A

Director: Sidney Lanfield Producer: Gene Markey, Darryl F. Zanuck Writer: Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle Screenplay: Ernest Pascal Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie Music: David Buttolph, Charles Maxwell, Cyril J. Mockridge, David Raksin Cinematography: Peverell Marley Editor: Robert Simpson Colourist: Production Design: János Körömi Costume: Zoltán Füle

Production: 20th Century Fox Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Description: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) is a mystery film based on the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is among the best-known cinematic adaptations of the book and is often regarded as one of the best. The film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson and Richard Greene as Henry Baskerville.

The Hound of the Baskervilles marks the first of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Rathbone and Bruce as Holmes and Watson, respectively. It is also notable as the earliest known Sherlock Holmes film to be set in the Victorian period.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson receive a visit from Dr. James Mortimer, who wishes to consult them before the arrival of Sir Henry Baskerville, the last of the Baskervilles, heir to the Baskerville estate in Devonshire.

Dr. Mortimer is anxious about letting Sir Henry go to Baskerville Hall, owing to a supposed family curse. He tells Holmes and Watson the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, a demonic dog that first killed Sir Hugo Baskerville several hundred years ago and is believed to kill all Baskervilles in the region of Devonshire.

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Film: Dear Elza (2014) Language: Hungarian/Russian/German Subtitles: English

Director: Zoltán Füle Producer: Péter Barbalics, Zoltán Füle, Katalin Weith Writer: Zoltán Füle Screenplay: Zoltán Füle, Márk Grátz Cast: Gábor Makray, Géza Bodor, Zsuzsanna Ripli, Jevgenyina Komelkova Lombos Mihály Music: Szilárd Horváth Cinematography: Márk Grátz Editor: Márk Grátz Production Design: János Körömi Costume: Zoltán Füle

Production: Art Deco Film Distributor: Romis Film, Schröder Media

Description: During WW2, Hungarian soldier Lombos Mihály gets denied his chance to go back to home and is forced to join the battle against the Russians in Ukraine. During one big confrontation with the Russians he gets captured by them and is forced to work with the Russian Shtrafbat (Penal Battalion). The Russians start using him as a 'trampler' through the German minefields and as an interpreter.

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Film: Firaaq (2008) Language: Hindi Subtitles: English

Director: Nandita Das Producer: Percept Picture Company Writer: Nandita Das, Shuchi Kothari Screenplay: Nandita Das, Shuchi Kothari Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Sanjay Suri, Raghubir Yadav, Deepti Naval, Paresh Rawal Music: Rajat Dholakia, Piyush Kanojia Cinematography: Ravi K. Chandran Editor: A. Sreekar Prasad Production Design: Gautam Sen Costume: Vaishali Menon

Production: Percept Picture Company Distributor: Daxar Multimedia, Suraya Filem, Shemaroo

Description: Firaaq (Separation) is a Hindi political thriller film set one month after the 2002 violence in Gujarat, India and looks at the aftermath in its effects on the lives of everyday people. It claims to be based on "a thousand true stories". Firaaq means both separation and quest in Arabic. Firaaq won three awards at the Asian Festival of First Films in Singapore in December 2008, the Special Prize at the International Thessaloniki Film Festival, and an award at the Kara Film Festival in Pakistan. It won two National Film Awards at 56th National Film Awards.

Firaaq follows the life of several ordinary people, some who were victims, some silent observers, and some perpetrators one month after the 2002 violence in Gujarat. It focuses on how their lives are affected and (irrevocably) changed.

The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a carnage that took place in Gujarat, India in 2002. This sectarian violence killed more than 900 Muslims and 300+ Hindus, hundreds of thousands were made homeless and the number of women raped is still unknown.

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Film: Iti Srikanta (2004) Language: Bengali Subtitles: English

Director: Anjan Das Producer: Shantasree Sarkar Writer: Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (Based on Srikant) Screenplay: Rajarshi Roy, Shantasree Sarkar Cast: Adil Hussain, Soha Ali Khan, Reema Sen Music: Bikram Ghosh Cinematography: Shirsha Roy Editor: Sanjib Datta

Production: Beyond Reels Distributor: Shemaroo

Description:  Iti Srikanta (Your Truly, Srikanta) is a 2004 Bengali period drama film directed by Anjan Das. This film is based on novelist Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel, Srikanta (1917).

This was actor Soha Ali Khan's debut film, and also of actors, Aparajita Ghosh Das and Bengali film debut of lead actor, Adil Hussain, whose voice was dubbed in the film by Sujan Mukhopadhyay. The film was part of the Indian panorama section at the IFFI in 2004. At the 2004 Anandalok Awards, Anjan Das won the award for Best Director.

The film is a love triangle between a young man Srikanta (Adil Hussain) and two women in his life, Rajalakshmi (Reema Sen) a rich courtesan and Kamalata (Soha Ali Khan), a vaishnavite living in an ashram. The movie depicts Srikanta’s inner conflict and turmoil over the two women in his life, torn between a baiji and a vaishnavi.  

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Film: Mera Naam Joker (1970) Language: Hindi/Russian Subtitles: English

Director: Raj Kapoor Producer: Raj Kapoor Writer: K. A. Abbas Screenplay: K. A. Abbas Cast: Raj Kapoor, Simi Garewal, Manoj Kumar, Rishi Kapoor, Dharmendra, Dara Singh Music: Shankar Jaikishan Cinematography: Radhu Karmakar Editor: Raj Kapoor Production Design: M.R. Achrekar

Production: R. K. Films Distributor: Yash Raj Films

Description:  Mera Naam Joker ("My Name is Joker") is a 1970 Indian drama film, directed and produced by Raj Kapoor, and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. The film stars Kapoor as the eponymous character, with Simi Garewal, Kseniya Ryabinkina and Padmini in supporting roles, and was also the debut of Kapoor's son Rishi Kapoor. The plot focuses on a clown who must make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. Three women who shaped his life view his final performance.

The film was partly made with the participation of Soviet actors and was partly shot in Moscow. The film is regarded as one of Kapoor's finest works. The film commercially became a blockbuster at the Soviet box office after it released there in 1972.

Mera Naam Joker is the story of Raju, considered the best circus clown ever. Ever since Raju's father died in an accident during his performance, Raju's mother had been repulsed by the circus. As luck would have it, Raju had a natural affinity towards the circus world. The film traces Raju's journey from his childhood to the day of his last performance.

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Film: Meet John Doe (1941) Language: English Subtitles: English

Director: Frank Capra Producer: Frank Capra Writer: Richard Connell, Robert Presnell, Sr.,  Screenplay: Robert Riskin Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck Music: Dimitri Tiomkin Cinematography: George Barnes Editor: Daniel Mandell Production Design: Stephen Goosson Costume: Natalie Visart Production: Frank Capra Productions Distributor: Warner Bros.

Description:  Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film is about a "grassroots" political campaign created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist with the involvement of a hired homeless man and pursued by the paper's wealthy owner. It became a box office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story.

Infuriated at being told to write one final column after being laid off from her newspaper job, Ann Mitchell prints a letter from a fictional unemployed "John Doe" threatening suicide on Christmas Eve in protest of society's ills. When the letter causes a sensation among readers, and the paper's competition suspects a fraud and starts to investigate, editor, Henry Connell, is persuaded to rehire Ann, who schemes to boost the newspaper's sales by exploiting the fictional John Doe. From a number of derelicts who show up at the paper claiming to have written the original letter, Ann and Henry hire John Willoughby, a former baseball player and tramp in need of money to repair his injured arm, to play the role of John Doe. Ann starts to pen a series of articles in Doe's name, elaborating on the original letter's ideas of society's disregard for people in need.

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Film: Rudaali (1993) Language: Hindi Subtitles: NA

Director: Kalpana Lajmi Producer: Ravi Gupta, Ravi Malik Writer: Mahasweta Devi Screenplay: Gulzar, Kalpana Lajmi Cast: Dimple Kapadia, Raj Babbar, Raakhee, Amjad Khan Music: Bhupen Hazarika Cinematography: Santosh Sivan, Dharam Gulati Editor: Bhanudas Divakar Production Design: Samir Chanda Costume: Mala Dey, Simple Kapadia Production: Doordarshan, NFDC Distributor: ATN, Indus Digital Video

Description:  Rudaali is a 1993 Indian Hindi film directed by Kalpana Lajmi, based on the short story written by famous Bengali author Mahasweta Devi.

The film is set in a small village in Rajasthan, India. It tells the story of a woman named Shanichari, who was abandoned by her mother shortly after her father's death. Bad fortune follows her throughout her life.

The title is a reference to a custom in certain areas of Rajasthan where women of a lower caste are hired as professional mourners upon the death of upper-caste males. These women are referred to as a "rudaali" (roo-dah-lee), literally translated as "female weeper" or "weeping woman". Their job is to publicly express grief of family members who are not permitted to display emotion due to social status.

Dimple Kapadia won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role as Shanichari in the film. Samir Chanda won the National Film Award for Best Art Direction. Simple Kapadia won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design.

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Film: Weekend (1967) Language: French Subtitles: English

Director: Jean-Luc Godard Producer: Writer: Julio Cortázar (Based on La autopista del Sur) Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne Music: Antoine Duhamel Cinematography: Raoul Coutard Editor: Agnès Guillemot Production: Comacico, Les Films Copernic Distributor: Athos Films

Description:  Weekend is a 1967 black comedy film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Weekend has been compared to Alice in Wonderland, the James Bond series, and the works of Marquis de Sade. The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival in 1968. Roland (Jean Yanne) and Corinne (Mireille Darc) are a bourgeois couple. Each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other. They drive out to Corinne's parents' home in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, resolving to resort to murder if necessary. The trip becomes a chaotically picaresque journey through a French countryside populated by bizarre characters and punctuated by violent car accidents. After their own Facel-Vega is destroyed in a collision, they wander through a series of vignettes involving class struggle and figures from literature and history, such as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Emily Brontë (Blandine Jeanson).

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Film: The Bandit (1996) Language: Turkish Subtitles: English

Director: Yavuz Turgul Producer: Mine Vargı Writer: Yavuz Turgul Screenplay: Yavuz Turgul Cast: Şener Şen, Uğur Yücel, Sermin Şen, Yeşim Salkım Music: Erkan Oğur, Aşkın Arsunan Cinematography: Uğur İçbak Editor: Hakan Akol, Onur Tan Costume: Gulay Dogan, Ozlem Sekercioglu Production: Filma-Cass Distributor: K Films, Warner Bros. Pictures

Description: The Bandit (Turkish: Eşkıya) is a 1996 Turkish film written and directed by Yavuz Turgul and starring Şener Şen and Uğur Yücel. According to the director the film, which is about a bandit who comes to Istanbul after serving a 35-year jail sentence, "blends fairy tale elements while carrying the notion of reality within a fictional story." The film is highly popular in Turkey, where it drew in 2½ million viewers and in Germany where it won a Bogey Award. The film is exclusively regarded as the savior and the turning point of Turkish cinema which was desperately struggling against foreign films since the 1980s and having difficulty attracting domestic audiences. It was Turkey's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 70th Academy Awards.

The epic adventures of the legendary Baran the Bandit following his release from prison. After serving 35 years, it is no surprise that the world has changed dramatically. Still, Baran can't help but be shocked to discover that his home village is now underwater thanks to the construction of a new dam. He then heads for Istanbul to get revenge upon his former best friend, the man who snitched on him and stole his lover Keje. Along the way, Baran teams up with Cumali, a tough young punk who finds the thief's old-fashioned ways rather quaint. When Cumali gets into deep trouble with a crime boss, Baran adds another vengeful task to his roster.