In the autumn of 1942, a major railway sabotage took place in the frontline area: undermining the Soviet military echelon carrying equipment and soldiers to the front. The instant reaction of the NKVD and military counterintelligence gives its results.
During World War II 17 men were put to death by Swiss bureaucracy. The reconstruction of the case of Ernst S. fueled a controversy about collective guilt, double standards and the role of Switzerland in the war.
A Japanese silent drama about two farmers
Claudio Monteverdi's operatic adaptation of this story from Homer's The Odyssey receives a modern and distinctive staging in this 2002 production directed by Humphrey Burton for Les Arts Florissants. Penelope Marijana Mijanovic is left to her own devices when her husband, the heroic Ulysses Kresimir Spicer, goes off to fight in the Trojan Wars. After many years alone, Penelope finds herself attracting a number of suitors who wish to claim her hand; however, what she doesn't realize is that jealous Ulysses has his ways of keeping an eye on her. Production of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; from the Theatre du Jeu de Paume.
Right-wing populism is spreading through Western Europe like wildfire. It is most popular in quiet, white neighbourhoods where people are shielded from different cultures and lifestyles. In this unscripted documentary, Sam Peeters portrays an ironic caricature of life in the Flemish suburbs, which reflects the current European zeitgeist.
A strong tale of racial integration, two different stories of young men who both are looking for a land to put their roots down.
Coming to Taiwan in the last century following Kuo-Min-Tang, it turns out that there is no home for the veterans to return to. They eventually settle down in Kang-Le Li, with all the others who are the builders of fancy metropolitan Taipei but find city housing unaffordable.
Vitaly and Victor have been friends all their lives. They were born in 1936 in the Kyrgyz USSR, survived the famine during World War II, graduated from school in the year of Stalin's death, and left for central Russia to build communism. Now they are over eighty. The system to which they devoted their lives collapsed, the homeland became a separate country. Together they decide on a desperate journey to Kyrgyzstan to find the graves of their parents and take stock.
A Swiss patriot lives an orderly and satisfying life within his modest four walls. Everything seems harmonious until the day a foreigner moves in next door.
The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, “Freedom and Fatherland,” is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live and grew up. To fulfill their commission from a Swiss cultural festival, they adapted a great Swiss novel, “Aimé Pache, Painter from the Vaud,” by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, from 1911 (about a local artist who goes to Paris for his education and then returns home) and extruded its autobiographical analogies to Godard’s own life and work. Using a choice set of clips from Godard’s films to coincide with events from the painter’s life, verbal references to modern times and to Godard’s own—Sartre, the late nineteen-sixties, the cinema—and images of the Swiss terrain, which plays a decisive role in the work of Pache, Godard, and Miéville (an important filmmaker in her own right), they produce the effect of mirrors within mirrors.
A human emotional story that introduces us to true human values, but also to longing for our homeland.
In the mid-1950s Henan countryside, communist youth league member Xian Yue responds to the call of the county committee, signing up to participate in the youth commando team, as do the little sisters. Laoxin Yue and other elders firmly oppose the women going up the mountain, think it it is nonsense, unlucky and so on. In response to the feudal remnants of the discussion, Xian Yue does not compromise, carrying out a face-to-face struggle and eventually leading the commando members up the mountain.
The poet and publicist Yury Mikhailovich Kublanovsky has many places on Earth that are dear to him. To the poet for seventy, and his flash-memories, being experienced anew, “close” times: what was experienced once and lived now. The film is about the fate of a man for whom the Motherland, wherever he is, is always there.
Directed by Nuri Habib.
Vincent and Serge, two brothers, and the pretty Carole are on their way to the United States. They stop in a village they think is quiet. However, a recent storm has left sinister traces, thieves are prowling the forest, hunters are not only aiming their guns at game, the cliffs are slippery... And when Vincent falls in love with Carole, his brother is determined to keep the clan together.
During the last dictatorship and in the first years of return to democracy in Argentina, the under movement suffered attacks, exiles, arrests, ridicule and disqualification for a large part of society and applause from a minor group of people. In that underworld, Transformism was located as a form of expression cultural and artistic. Bernarda is the homeland, deconstructs the gender binary from Lorca and those movements of culture of the 80 '.
A girl born in the former Yugoslavia returns to a mountain village her grandmother fled during the Greek Civil War. The place has become a trendy ski resort and no longer corresponds to her family memories.
A mother and her son return to their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh after 15 years abroad and try to retrace their roots. Beginning with the death of the father of the family, the film proceeds with the central characters seeking a link to their lives.
