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Grbavica
Jasmila Zbanic Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006
Esma (Mirjana Karanovic) is living with her 12-year-old daughter Sara (Luna Mijovic) in Grbavica, a quarter of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. Saras class plans to go on a school trip. Since children of fallen warriors in the last war are not supposed to pay, Sara thinks that she is one of them (because her mother told her that her father got killed in war). |
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I kynighi - Oi Kynigoi
Theo Angelopoulos Greece 1977
It is New Year's Eve. 1976. On a Greek island a party of bourgeois hunters comes upon a body, buried in the snow and miraculously preserved by the cold. By his uniform, he appears to be one of the thousands of partisans killed during the civil war and the hunting party, a group of the ruling elite, must now decide what to do with the body. |
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L'éternité et un jour - Mia aioniotita kai mia mera
Theo Angelopoulos Greece 1998
Eternity And A Day traces the final days of Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), a celebrated Greek writer as he prepares to leave his seaside home forever. While packing, he finds a letter from his long-dead wife, Anna (Isabelle Renauld), who wrote about an enchanted summer day they spent thirty years ago. |
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Les Artistes du théâtre brûlé
Rithy Panh Cambodia 2005
While much of Cambodia's cultural heritage was eradicated through the deaths of many artists during the Khmer Rouge era, the country's main theatrical structure, Preah Suramarit National Theatre remained standing throughout the Cambodian Civil War, even occasionally being used by the communist regime for official visits and propaganda pageants. |
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Nostalgia de la luz
Patricio Guzmán Chile 2010
Au Chili, à trois mille mètres d’altitude, les astronomes venus du monde entier se rassemblent dans le désert d’Atacama pour observer les étoiles. Car la transparence du ciel est telle qu’elle permet de regarder jusqu’aux confins de l’univers. |
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To vlemma tou Odyssea
Theo Angelopoulos Greece 1995
A Greek-American filmmaker, known simply as «A», returns to his hometown in northern Greece for a screening of his latest controversial film. His real reason for coming back, however, is to track down three long-missing reels of film by Greece's pioneering Manakia brothers who in the early years of cinema traveled through the Balkans, ignoring national and ethnic strife and recording ordinary people, especially craftsmen, on film. |






