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  • The Wind Game

    The Wind Game

    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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  • Three Days Of Darkness

    Three Days Of Darkness

    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: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Horror Summary “So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.” In Khavn De La Cruz’s horror pastiche, the Apocalypse has hit three beautiful young women in the form [...]

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  • The Trial of Mr. Serapio

    The Trial of Mr. Serapio

    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: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Drama, Experimental Summary Khavn De La Cruz is a filmmaker, rock musician, poet and producer, the enfant terrible of low-budget (or no-budget) filmless films in the Philippines. The digital guerrilla turns his subversive gaze to the first Filipino [...]

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  • Manila in the Fangs of Darkness

    Manila in the Fangs of Darkness

    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: 2008 Country: Philippines Director: Khavn De La Cruz Language: Tagalog Theme: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Drama, Experimental Summary ‘Manila in the Fangs of Darkness’ is a deconstruction of and an ode to ‘Manila in the Claws of Neon’ (1975), a film by Lino Brocka, who is widely considered to be the most prolific [...]

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  • Cameroon Love Letter

    Cameroon Love Letter

    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: 2010 Country: Philippines Director: Khavn De La Cruz Language: English Theme: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Experimental Summary Prolific Philippine filmmaker Khavn De La Cruz pays tribute to Cameroon, a nation that has long embraced Philippine cinema, in this work that combines documentary footage with a narrative that mirrors the style of soap operas [...]

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  • Black Silk

    Black Silk

    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: Prae Dum Released: 1961 Country: Thailand Director: Ratana Pestonji Language: Thai Theme: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Romance Summary A karmic lesson is illustrated by the lives of two people who get entangled in a web of crime. One of them knowingly gets involved, the other unknowingly. And the consequences get played out [...]

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  • Yasujiro’s Journey

    Yasujiro’s Journey

    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: 2004 Country: Indonesia Director: Faozan Rizal Language: Indonesian, English Theme: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Drama, Experimental Summary A younger man’s journey, as it is portrayed in this impressive atmospheric debut film, is not so much a literal quest to find guidance from his grandfather whose name he bears as a spiritual quest to [...]

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  • Aries

    Aries

    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: 2004 Country: Indonesia Director: Faozan Rizal Language: Indonesian Theme: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Drama, Experimental Summary “Aries is the code of living in Heaven, until one day the passion comes and forbidden fruits fall to the earth.” So begins Aries by talented experimental filmmaker Faozan Rizal. This visually arresting work is set against [...]

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  • Reaching Silence

    Reaching Silence

    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: Nisshabd Released: 2005 Country: India Director: Jahar Kanungo Language: Bengali Theme: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Drama Summary Nisshabdh is a contemplative film about Sarit (Kaushik Chakravarty), a young man whose job as a door-to-door salesman suffers as a result of his mounting sensitivity to sound. When visits to doctors and gurus fail [...]

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  • 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: 2004 Country: Bangladesh Director: Tanvir Mokammel Language: Bengali Theme: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Drama Summary As a young man, Lalon Fakir had contracted pox while on a pilgrimage. Thinking him dead, his fellow travelers performed his funeral rites and drifted his body away on a raft. A weakened Lalon was finally washed ashore [...]

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  • Mirrored Mind

    Mirrored Mind

    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: Kyoshin Released: 2004 Country: Japan Director: Ishii Sogo Language: Japanese Theme: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Drama, Experimental Summary The Mirrored Mind is based on a young woman’s post-modern reaction to the disconnection between the plastic city of Tokyo and the illusion of nature. We follow the reflective cinema verite to participate in [...]

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