Facets Video (Firm)
Publisher
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Anna is a photographer who feels she is losing her mind when she believes that aliens are taking over the men in her town of Vienna, making them more aggressive." ... a psychologically revealing and sexually frank take on gender and culture from an almost-forgotten era when women filmmakers ... readily expressed themselves in avant-garde film."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
Persian
Formats
Description
Sadry and hs new assistant struggle to make a living running their gas station. With few customers and little in common, they spend most of their time alone except for occasional visits by the local postman. Despite their apparent loneliness, each of the three men dream of romance and become determined to pursue impossible relationships.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
Persian
Description
Amanagol, the daughter of a poor rural family in Iran, becomes Aman when her father shaves her head, disguises her as a boy, and dispatches her to another village to work weaving carpets. Her secret is jeopardized when a co-worker falls in love with her.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
Russian
Description
In 1991, Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Arzebarski and Sergei Krikalev are stranded on the MIR orbital space station due to political upheaval in the Soviet Union. Unable to return to Earth as scheduled, Krikalev becomes the first human to live a record ten months on a space station.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"In 1974, [Alexander] Kluge and good friend Edgar Reitz [known for the Heimat series] roamed Frankfurt for ten days with a camera capturing life in the city at that time -- the political demonstrations, carnival fun, and debate within the congress for the SPD Party. Kluge interweaves the real-life footage with fictional threads about two very different women. One woman seduces men, sleeps with them, and then robs them blind; the other is a spy from...
10) Szerelem =: Love
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Hungarian
Description
An emotionally precise drama of a bedridden old woman. Her son is in jail and her daughter-in-law makes up stories about his life as a filmmaker in America, forging letters from him, which his mother believes as she awaits his return.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
A young woman from Japan working as a volunteer in Iraq is kidnapped. When she returns home, she and her family become the targets of ridicule and humiliation by everyone she meets, until the only place she wants to be is where she once was.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
Kurdish
Formats
Description
Mehmet is a cheerful young man from Western Turkey, and Berzan is a Kurdish rebel in the underground, who become fast friends while living in Istanbul. Mehmet is unjustly arrested, but the experience makes him aware of his country's political realities. When the situation heats up, and Berzan is involved, Mehmet embarks on a sweeping, spiritual journey across Turkey to his friend's Kurdish homeland.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, French railway workers bravely battled the Nazis on many fronts, from transporting forbidden mail to committing acts of sabotage. They became an invaluable part of the French resistance.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Anatomie d'un rapport: A delirious dissection of the dilemmas of two intellectuals who can't quite make their sex life work; a confessional film about Moullet and his wife.
Genèse d'un repas: An economic comparison from production to consumption of 4 Moullet 'diet' staples.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
Russian
Description
At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship between Sasha, a young boy who loves to play the violin, and Sergey, the macho driver of a steamroller. The film sidesteps sentimentality to give us a warm yet ironic look at two individuals who bridge differences in generations to form a powerful bond.
Series
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a Polish Resistance fighter who assassinates the wrong man on the last day of World War II. Captures all the bitterness and disillusionment felt by the Polish people during the political struggle that followed the war's end.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Leni inherits the family circus after her father is killed while practicing a difficult act. Feeling that small-time carnivals are on their way out, she updates the show by turning it into a 'reform circus, ' which consists of socially relevant entertainment. Unfortunately, it fails to attract customers, and her circus goes bankrupt -- twice."--Container.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
Agnes leaves the comfortable confines of school to work in a slum district with her friend. In her job at the chemical factory, she discovers that the working world can be difficult for women who must endure sexual harassment, harsh conditions, and more.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A relentlessly realistic portrait of a young working-class couple suffering the everyday stresses of marriage. Beginning with a terrible argument between husband and wife, we examine the minute details of these two peoples lives in order to see what brought them to this moment.