Cinema Guild
Language
English
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Description
The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2008, it is still racially segregated. A fascinating investigation into our nation's history and traditions, this acclaimed, award-winning documentary illuminates the complexities of race relations in 21st century America. Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated for the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the **Sundance Film...
2) Marwencol
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
English
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Description
Jeff Malmberg's landmark documentary MARWENCOL follows the story of Mark Hogancamp, a victim of a brutal beating, who in response created a fantastic miniature world. As he documents the town's dramas with his camera, the dolls become living characters in an epic tale of love, adventure, resurrection and revenge. When his photos are discovered by the art world, Mark is suddenly forced to choose between the safety of his imaginary world and the real...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A reflection on art, life and the movies, THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS is a magnificent film from the great Agnès Varda (*Cleo From 5 to 7*), a richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy and the birth of the French New Wave. Nominated for the Allan King Documentary Award at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Documentary Film...
4) Jerichow
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Deutsch
Description
A business relationship turns into a love triangle when an ex-soldier begins working for a store owner and his beautiful wife.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
A young couple's relationship is pushed to the brink while vacationing in the Mediterranean in this smart, sexy drama from acclaimed new filmmaker Maren Ade. On the surface, Chris and Gitti appear blissfully in love while enjoying the sun and sand of Sardinia. But the more time they spend together, the more their silly games and playful teasing begin to unmask hidden fears and desires. When they accidentally run into another, seemingly happier and...
6) Beeswax
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
English
Formats
Description
From director Andrew Bujalski, BEESWAX revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren living in Austin, Texas. Charming and intimate, this is a story about how we depend on our families, the kind we're stuck with, and the kind we build for ourselves and the beeswax that holds them all together. Nominated for the Producers Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.** Official Selection at the **Berlin...
7) Jauja
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Español
Formats
Description
An astonishingly beautiful and gripping Western starring Viggo Mortensen, JAUJA (pronounced how-ha) begins in a remote outpost in Patagonia during the late 1800s. Captain Gunnar Dinesen has come from abroad with his fifteen year-old daughter to take an engineering job with the Argentine army. Being the only female in the area, Ingeborg creates quite a stir among the men. She falls in love with a young soldier, and one night they run away together....
8) Jealousy
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
An enthralling tale of love, temptation and betrayal. After separating from his wife, Louis moves into a garret apartment with his fellow actor girlfriend Claudia as they struggle with fidelity and the temptation to give up their art for an easier life.
9) Horse money
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
A visionary masterwork, HORSE MONEY is a mesmerizing odyssey into the real, imagined and nightmarish memories of the elderly Ventura, a Cape Verdean immigrant living in Lisbon. Winner of four awards at the **Locarno International Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** and **New York Film Festival**. "*The director has plenty of influences, Stanley Kubrick and Old Hollywood classicists such as John Ford among...
10) 499
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Español
Formats
Description
To reflect on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hernan Cortes' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. As the anachronistic fictional character interacts with...
11) Sunless Shadows
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Persian
Description
Mehrdad Oskouei’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed Starless Dreams (2016), SUNLESS SHADOWS takes another look at the lives of teenage girls in an Iranian juvenile detention center. But this time the focus is narrowed: each of the film’s principal subjects is serving time for the murder of a male family member. One by one, Oskouei invites them to go into a room alone, push the red button on the camera and address their accomplices or their...
12) Counting
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, COUNTING merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life. COUNTING measures street life, light and time, noting not only surveillance and overdevelopment but resistance and its phantoms as manifested in music, animals and everyday magic Winner of Best Cinematographer at **DOC LA**. Official Selection...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by ancestral interpretations of the bond between humankind, nature and the cosmos, ROCK BOTTOM RISER is a vibrant essay film set in Hawaii that explores the different kinds of matter to be found in geology, ethnography and astronomy.
14) Survival Prayer
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Following individual food harvesters as they gather and prepare for the winter, SURVIVAL PRAYER celebrates the modern ways of a remote indigenous community and bears witness to a profound relationship between individuals and the land that sustains them.
15) Chinese Portrait
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
China in all its diversity. Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaus of people and environments, each one more extraordinary than the last.
16) Our Body
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
French documentary titan Claire Simon observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life. Through these many encounters, the specific fears, desires and struggles of these individuals become the health challenges we all face, even the filmmaker herself.
17) Maidan
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, MAIDAN chronicles the civil uprising that toppled the government of Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich and has since developed into an international crisis between Russia and the West. Filmed in stunning long takes, sans commentary, MAIDAN is a record of a momentous historical event and an extraordinary study of the popular uprising as a social, cultural and philosophical phenomenon. Official Selection...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A meditative exploration of our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. Patrick Shen gathers experts, audiologists, and academics to examine not only the cognitive effects of constant noise, but also what we lose culturally when we have less silence. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Atlanta Film Festival** and at the **Cleveland International Film Festival.** *"A...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic, the film follows Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived there for over 40 years collecting, cleaning and documenting marine litter that persistently washes up on the island's shores. Shot on 16mm and created using eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After renouncing his long-held Christian beliefs and walking away from his critically-acclaimed band, Pedro the Lion, musician David Bazan retreated into a solitary life of touring solo, struggling to rebuild his worldview and career from the ground-up, and to support his family of four. STRANGE NEGOTIATIONS finds David a decade into his journey, during which he has become a sort of reluctant prophet to Americans reeling from their country’s own...