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Nostalgia for the Countryside

August 31, 2012 / Dang Nhat Minh, Drama, Family & Relationships, Movie Trailers, Vietnam, Vietnamese

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Released: 1995 Country: Vietnam Director: Dang Nhat Minh Language: Vietnamese Theme: Family & Relationships Genre: Drama Summary Set in a rice-growing village in Vietnam, this is a tale of crossroads where stories flow together like small rivers of sorrow. 17-year-old Nham has left school to care for his widowed mother, his little sister Minh, [...]

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The Women From The Lake of Scented Souls

August 30, 2012 / China, Drama, Gender & Sexuality, Mandarin, Movie Trailers, Xie Fei

The men in a rural Chinese village make secret plans to watch sex and action films from Hong Kong. As the story unfolds it becomes clear that the little village can provide more scandalous and juicy materials than any filmmaker can dream up.

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Little Brown Comedies

August 30, 2012 / Art & Music, Experimental, Khavn De La Cruz, Movie Trailers, Philippines, Tagalog

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Released: 2009 Country: Philippines Director: Khavn De La Cruz Language: Tagalog Theme: Art & Music Genre: Experimental Summary A collection of short films by the enfant terrible of Philippine cinema, including ‘Amen, a brown comedy’ — a satire on the traditional Filipino custom of having younger people raise the hands of their elders, to [...]

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Motel Cactus

August 29, 2012 / Drama, Gender & Sexuality, Korean, Movie Trailers, Park Ki Yong, South Korea

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Enter Coupon Code: Original Title: Motel Seoninjang Released: 1997 Country: South Korea Director: Park Ki Yong Language: Korean Theme: Gender & Sexuality Genre: Drama Summary Seemingly voyeuristic in its approach, Motel Cactus is a steamy narrative of people’s lives and relationships, all of which takes place in a single, seedy motel room in Seoul. The film consists of four separate stories [...]

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Kiss Me Not On The Eyes

August 29, 2012 / Drama, Gender & Sexuality, Jocelyn Saab, Lebanon, Movie Trailers

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Dunia Released: 2005 Country: Lebanon Director: Jocelyn Saab Language: Arabic Theme: Gender & Sexuality Genre: Drama Summary Set in Egypt, Dunia is a richly told narrative that centers on the protagonist, a young woman who studies poetry and dance at the local university. Fiercely independent, Dunia struggles against the traditions of her culture [...]

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Before We Fall In Love Again

August 29, 2012 / Cantonese, Family & Relationships, James Lee, Malaysia, Mandarin, Movie Trailers, Romance

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Nian Ni Ru Xi Released: 2006 Country: Malaysia Director: James Lee Language: Mandarin, Cantonese Theme: Family & Relationships Genre: Romance Summary Before We Fall In Love Again is the first part in James Lee’s Love Trilogy, inspired by Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, the second being Things We Do When We Fall In Love. [...]

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And The Moon Dances

August 29, 2012 / Drama, Ethnicity & Cultural Identity, Garin Nugroho, Indonesia, Indonesian, Movie Trailers, Recommendations

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Bulan Tertusuk Ilalang Released: 1995 Country: Indonesia Director: Garin Nugroho Language: Indonesian Theme: Ethnicity & Cultural Identity Genre: Drama Summary Literally translated, the title means “The Moon Pierced by Wild Grass,” and the film tells the story of the relationship between an aged traditional song teacher named Waluyo, his folk music disciple Ilalang [...]

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Lady Of The Roses

August 29, 2012 / Documentary, Ecology & the Environment, Iran, Mojtaba Mirtamasb, Movie Trailers, Persian

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Banoo-Ye Gol-E Released: 2008 Country: Iran Director: Mojtaba Mirtamasb Language: Persian Theme: Ecology & The Environment Genre: Documentary Summary ‘Lady of the Roses’ is the name given to the late Shahindokht Sanati, a lady who went to the Lalehzaar region of Kerman before the Islamic revolution. She replaced poppies with roses [...]

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August Sun Trailer

August 29, 2012 / Drama, Movie Trailers, Prasanna Vithanage, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, War & Military

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Ira Madiyama Released: 2003 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Prasanna Vithanage Language: Sinhalese Theme: War & Military Genre: Drama Summary This filmic offering by acclaimed director Prasanna Vithanage (Walls Within and Death on a Full Moon Day) is a poignant narrative of human displacement against the backdrop of the bitter, real-life conflict [...]

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Spring in the Colony

August 29, 2012 / Arjun Gourisaria & Moinak Biswas, Bengali, Drama, India, Movie Trailers, Recommendations, Urbanity

Situated on the southern fringes of Calcutta, the bustling, sunny Deshbandhu colony, a settlement of refugees from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), has a lot going on.

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The Wind Game

June 19, 2012 / Alireza Ghanie, Drama, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian, Philosophy & Ethics

The Wind Game is about love, death and a spiritual quest for a homeland. A young man is searching for his father, and encounters a man who relates a story to him. The young man then has a visionary dream that he writes down in a letter to his old friend, an elderly Poet in Austria.

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Rumi – Poet Of The Heart

June 19, 2012 / Art & Music, Documentary, Haydn Reiss, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian

The surprising bestselling poet in America is a thirteenth-century Sufi poet and mystic named Jelaluddin Rumi. For seven hundred years, Rumi’s writings have enchanted, inspired, and enlightened Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists.

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Lesson From Bam

June 19, 2012 / Alireza Ghanie, Documentary, History, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian

Made 40 days after the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran killed over 68,000 people and destroyed the city’s ancient mud-brick citadel, Lesson from Bam honors the Great Citadel – a heritage that is gone, but a memory that should be kept.

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Heiran

June 19, 2012 / Drama, Family & Relationships, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian, Shalizeh Arefpour

This film is the story of a 17 year old rural girl, Mahi, who comes from a war-stricken family in southern Iran. Mahi falls in love with an Afghan student named Heiran, who has came to her village to work. Mahi’s family is strictly against her marriage to an Afghan. Mahi must now choose between her family and her love for the Afghan student, Heiran.

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Gilaneh

June 19, 2012 / Drama, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian, Rakshan Bani Etemad & Mohsen Abdolvahab, War & Military

The film illustrates the love and devotion a mother has for her son and daughter even though the violence of war destroys their dreams.

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