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Abouna (Chad) |
[DVD] 791.43 A1554 |
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| After two young Chadian boys discover their father has abandoned them, they embark on a desperate quest to bring him home. |
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Australia) |
[DVD] 791.43 A2447
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| With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, tick, Adam, and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered pink tour bus "Priscilla," the trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits. |
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| All About My Mother (Spain) |
[DVD] 791.43 A4163
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| Manuela is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son. but when tragedy strikes and her son is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles. |
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| Antonia's Line (The Netherlands) |
[DVD] 791.43 A6352
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| This is a remarkable portrait of a family and a community, of mothers and daughters, and of one indomitable woman who holds them all together. This award winning film is earthy, sexy, romantic, filled with laughter and warmth. It's a joyous celebration of an unconventional Dutch family's simple pleasures and enduring passions. |
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| Aparajito The Unvanquished (India, West Bengal) |
[VHS] 791.43 A6392 |
| After moving his family to Benares, Apu's father becomes ill and dies. Apu's mother works to support the family and Apu begins training for the priesthood. However, he wins a scholarship to the University of Calcutta and he finds his future lies not as a priest but as a man of Calcutta. (This is Part two of the Apu trilogy. The others are Pather Panchali and the World of Apu) |
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| Autumn Sonata (Sweden) |
[DVD] 791.43 A9414
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| An international concert pianist visits her grown daughter after a seven-year absence. Aching with the memory of her mother's neglect, the introverted daughter explodes into a rage and the reunion turns into a shattering confrontation. |
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| Autumn Sun (Argentina) |
[VHS] 791.43 A9416
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| Because of the impending visit from her American brother, a Jewish woman is forced to create a contrived relationship with a man of her own faith. Complications result. |
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| The Ballad of Narayama (Japan) |
[VHS] 791.43 B18835 |
| A century ago, inhabitants from a remote mountain village lived in constant fear of starvation. Their lives were cruel, horrible, and at best, hopeless. To survive, a number of ruthless laws were passed. One of the most brutal laws was taking the elderly to the distant peak of Narayama to die. |
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| Baran (Iran, Afghanistan) |
[DVD] 791.43 B2251 |
| The film tells the story of illegal Afghan immigrants living and working at a construction site in Tehran, Iran. When one of the workers is injured, his daughter, posing as a man, becomes the breadwinner. But a hot-headed 17 year-old local youth also working at the site discovers the secret. |
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| Bend it like Beckham (England, India) |
[DVD] 791.43 B4583 |
| Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team. |
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| Billy Elliot (England) |
[DVD] 791.43 B5994 |
| Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand. |
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| The Blue Kite (China) |
[DVD] 791.43 B6581 |
| Told in part from a young boy's point of view, this is the story of a Beijing family and their neighbors as they experience the political and social upheavals of the 1950's and 60's in China. |
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| Bopha! (South Africa) |
[DVD] 791.43 B7255 |
| A father and son clash in this movie about the anti-apartheid movement. |
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| Bride & Prejudice (India) |
[DVD] 791.43 B8512 |
| Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? |
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| La Cage aux Folles (France) |
[VHS] 791.43 C1313 |
| This is a farce involving a flamboyant homosexual couple's attempt to appear to be conventional parents in front of the prospective in-laws of the son of one of the men. |
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| Central Station (Brazil) |
[DVD] 791.43 C3975
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| When a young boy witnesses his mother's accidental death, a lonely, retired schoolteacher reluctantly takes the child under her wing. |
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| Children of Heaven (Iran) |
[DVD] 791.43 C53675 |
| A young boy, Ali, loses his sister Zahra's school shoes. In order to stay out of trouble, the two come up with a plan to share Ali's shoes, but they must keep it a secret from their parents. |
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| Cilantro y Perejil: Recipes to Stay Together (Mexico) |
[DVD] 791.43 C5723 |
| A female documentary director's latest project is to capture her sister's marital difficulties on film in hopes of shedding light on the travails of modern romance. |
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| The Closet (France) |
[DVD] 791.43 C6457 |
| François Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a condom factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing from happening: he creates photos and then spreads the rumor that François is gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in François Pignon's life -- and other people's too -- is drastic! |
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| The Color of Paradise (Iran) |
[DVD] 791.43 C7192
[VHS] 791.43 C7192 |
| Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind, unaware of his father’s intentions to disown him. Engaged to be married, the widowed man has kept Mohammad a secret from his fiancée, certain the boy’s disability will destroy his only chance for happiness. With the wedding swiftly approaching Mohammad’s future hangs precariously in the balanceas his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see the wonder of life and love that’s so clear to his son. |
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| Daughter of Keltoum (Algeria, Switzerland) |
[DVD] 791.43 D2382 |
| A young Swiss woman travels to her birthplace - an isolated settlement in the mountainous desert of Algeria - to find her biological mother. The perilous journey immerses her in a world virtually untouched by contemporary society. |
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| Daughters of the Sun (Iran) |
[DVD] 791.43 D2384 |
| 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. |
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| Eat Drink Man Woman (Taiwan) |
[DVD] 791.43 E14 |
| A retired master chef and widower is worried about the future of his three unmarried daughters who are skeptical about marriage. Yet he himself surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior. |
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| Family Resemblances (France) |
[DVD] 791.43 F1984 |
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| A dysfunctional family eats together one night a week. On this Friday family politics and fights disrupt a birthday party. |
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| The Funeral |
[DVD] 791.43 F9813
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| An old man’s unexpected death creates hilarious havoc with his family. The traditional three-day undertaking becomes a sly comedy of manners as the younger generation struggles with the complex rituals of the Buddhist ceremony. |
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| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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[DVD] 791.43 G2185
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| This drama is set in Italy in 1938, when Mussolini’s anti-Semetic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden. |
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| Good Bye Lenin! (East Germany) |
[DVD] 791.43 G64605 |
| Alex’s proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam. |
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| The Good Earth (China) |
[DVD] 791.43 G64613
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| A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth. |
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| Grandfather (Spain) |
[DVD] 791.43 G7524 |
| When news of his son’s death brings old Count Albrit home to Spain after years abroad, he’s pleased to meet his two charming young granddaughters. But one of the girls is not his son’s daughter, and therefore not his true heir. The determined Count sets out to discover which granddaughter is worthy of his love and name. |
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| Hamoun (Iran) |
[DVD] 791.43 H2286 |
| The story of Hamid Hamoun, an executive in a large import-export business, who also works as a part-time English instructor. He feels alienated from Iranian society, bound by its conventions yet unwilling to abide by its rigid laws. His wife wants to divorce him but is unable to do so under Islamic law. In this film, husband and wife struggle to find their own solid ground. |
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| Hope and Glory |
[DVD] 791.43 H7917
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| Story of a young boy and his family in London during World War II. |
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| How Green was my Valley (Wales) |
[DVD] 791.43 H8474 |
| A man looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of his closely knit family while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time. |
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| In Celebration (England) |
[DVD] 791.43 I352 |
| Three sons return to the primitive Yorkshire mining town of their birth to celebrate their parents’ fortieth wedding anniversary. During the celebration, their submerged hatreds and fears emerge from behind their model blue collar family facade. |
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| Inheritance (Denmark) |
[DVD] 791.43 I557 |
| Christoffer, who four years earlier abandoned the family steel business for an idyllic life as a restauranteur with the woman he loves, Maria, a rising actress. But when Christoffer’s father commits suicide, Christoffer’s domineering and manipulative mother compels him to return home to take control. Maria’s worst fears for Christoffer are tragically realized as he must contend with a business on the brink of financial ruin and a brother-in-law scheming for control. Christoffer must make wrenching decisions that threaten to tear his family apart and destroy his soul. |
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| Iris (England) |
[DVD] 791.43 I685 |
| Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer’s. |
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| King of Masks (China) |
[DVD] 791.43 K536 |
| Desperate for his art to survive, the King of Masks finds an apprentice in a destitute child purchased on the black market. When the child reveals an unexpected secret, their relationship is suddenly tested by both the old man’s stubborn sense of tradition and the established customs of China. |
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| Kolya (Czech Republic) |
[DVD] 791.43 K817 |
| A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires, setting off a wild set of circumstances and leaving him as the temporary guardian of a small boy. |
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| Last Train (Uruguay) |
[DVD] 791.43 L34985 |
| Three old men and a little boy are to protect an old patrimony, La '33', the last train, in this film adventure. |
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| Late Spring (Japan) |
[DVD] 791.43 L3514 |
| A widowed father feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. |
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| Leila (Iran) |
[DVD] 791.43 L5295 |
| Reza and Leila, an attractive and affluent young couple deeply in love and recently married, discover that Leila is unable to conceive. Although Reza steadfastly insists that it natters not in the least, his mother feels oetherwise: she is determined that her son have children and continue the family line. Invoking traditions, she convicnes her dauther-in-law that Reza must, out of necessity, take a second wife to produce an heir. |
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| Like a Bride (Mexico) |
[DVD] 791.43 L7273 |
| This film is a delightful depiction of the adventures, suffering, love affairs and difficulties of two Mexican Jewish girls in the early 1960s. |
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| Local Hero (Scotland) |
[DVD] 791.43 L8112 |
| This film is a comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland. |
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| Mambo Italiano (Canada) |
[DVD] 791.43 M2633 |
| Fifty years ago, Gino and Maria came to Canada, and never quite recovered. Now, their son Angelo breaks the news ... he wants to quit his job and he’s in love with his best friend. Tradition is undone, and family is going to take on a whole new meaning. |
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| A Man and a Woman (France) |
[DVD] 791.43 M2661 |
| A daredevil race-car driver and a movie script girl meet while visiting their children’s boarding school. They soon share a love filled with warmth, humor and truth, and intertwined with the demands of career and parenthood. |
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| Mandabi: The Money Order (Senegal) |
[DVD] 791.43 M2712 |
| A story about a man who receives a money order that threatens to destroy the traditional fabric of his life is used to point out the problems of modern Africa as a civilization struggling to recapture its own rich heritage after colonial corruption. |
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| Monsieur Ibrahim (France) |
[DVD] 791.43 M7544 |
| In this moving film an elderly Turkish Muslim grocer befriends a lonely teenage Jewish boy in a working class section of Paris. |
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| Monsoon Wedding (India) |
[DVD] 791.43 M7555 |
| You are invited to join the festivities as one colorful and eclectic family gathers from all over the world for a traditional wedding - a non-stop four-day celebration as unpredictable as the monsoon season itself. Anything goes when love, lust, hope and happiness take them by storm and bring them ever closer. With this family, when it rains, it pours. |
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| Mostly Martha (Germany) |
[DVD] 791.43 M9157 |
| Martha is the chef who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The demands of her job and her natural shyness keep her from meeting new people. When her sister suddenly dies, Martha adopts Lina, her eight-year-old niece, completely changing both lives. Martha gets unexpected help from Mario, Martha’s hunky new sous chef, who is not only a whiz on the chopping block but knows sundry magic tricks and jokes to keep Lina’s spirits afloat. Just as Martha starts to grow attached to the girl, Lina’s erratic father shows up demanding that he take her back to Italy with him. |
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| My Father's Glory (France) |
[DVD] 791.43 M9955 |
| The enchanting story of Marcel Pagnol’s childhood in the south of France, and a very special summer when he was 11 years old. In the countryside of Provence he fell under the spell of the rugged hills, made new friends and strengthened the unique bond with his father. |
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| My Life as a Dog (Sweden) |
[DVD] 791.43 M9956 |
| Shipped off to live with his uncle for the summer, 12 year old Ingmar finds unexpected adventures with the help of the town’s warmhearted eccentrics. These experiences give him a sustaining inner strength to accept his life and to eventually enjoy childhood. |
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| My Mother's Castle (France) |
[DVD] 791.43 M99567 |
| Sequel to My Father's Glory, the story continues of Marcel Pagnol’s childhood holidays in Provence. During a Christmas in the region Marcel’s affection for the area deepens and he also learns to love and appreciate his mother’s true nature. |
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| My Son the Fanatic (England) |
[DVD] 791.43 M9958 |
| Parvez, a cab driver who left Pakistan in search of a better life, must choose between his friendship with a woman not his wife, and his son, who has adopted increasingly traditional beliefs. |
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| Nowhere in Africa (Kenya) |
[DVD] 791.43 N9484 |
| Critically acclaimed, this is the award winning true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learns to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya. |
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| The Official Story (Argentina) |
[DVD] 791.43 O326 |
| The wife of an Argentinian businessman faces the ultimate challenge when she begins to suspect that her own daughter, adopted at birth, may have been stolen from a family of "los desaparecidos". |
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| Osama (Afghanistan) |
[DVD] 791.43 O812 |
| The film chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era. |
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| Pather Panchali Song of the Road (India, West Bengal) |
[VHS] 791.43 P2977 |
| This is the story of a poor family in India and the misfortunes that befall them. (This is Part one of the Apu trilogy. The others are Pather Panchali and the World of Apu) |
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| Pelle the Conqueror |
[DVD] 791.43 P3865 |
| A Swedish man and his son, Pelle, travel to Denmark in the hope of finding work and a better life. Pelle is inspired by the people he comes to know and realizes that to make his dreams come true, he must set out on a path of his own. |
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| Rabbit-Proof Fence (Australia) |
[DVD] 791.43 R1133 |
| In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating by following the fence that has been built across the nation to stem an over-population of rabbits. |
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| The Road Home (China) |
[DVD] 791.43 R6282 |
| As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother’s village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent’s courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother’s village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love. |
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| Salaam Bombay |
[DVD] 791.43 S1592
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| Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets. |
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| Shall We Dance? (Japan) |
[VHS] 791.43 S5284 |
| This is a comedy about a middle-aged businessman who secretly yearns to break out of the rigid conformity of his daily life by learning ballroom dancing. |
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| Son of the Bride (Argentina) |
[DVD] 791.43 S6984 |
| Rafael is a 42-year-old divorced father and restaurant owner who is overwhelmed with life. He feels guilty that he doesn’t visit his mother, who is stricken with Alzheimer’s disease; he lives in his father’s shadow; he doesn’t spend enough time with his daughter and he can’t commit to his girlfriend. When a series of unexpected events happen, Rafael re-evaluates his life. |
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| Strictly Ballroom (Australia) |
[DVD] 791.43 S9172 |
| This film is about a championship ballroom dancer who’s breaking all the rules and his ugly duckling dancing partner make their dreams come true together. |
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| Such a Long Journey (India) |
[VHS] 791.43 S9424 |
| Gustad Noble is a hard-working bank clerk and devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter Roshan falls ill in spite of the ministrations of his wife Dilnavaz, and his promising son defies Gustad’s ambitions for him. One day, Gustad receives a letter from an old friend, asking Gustad to help him in what seems like a heroic mission. In his innocence, Gustad uneasily agrees, and soon finds himself over his head and alone as he is drawn deeper into a dangerous network of deception. |
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| The Syrian Bride (Israel, Syria) |
[DVD] 791.43 S9953 |
| Mona’s wedding day is the saddest day of her life. Once she crosses the border between Israel and Syria to get married, she will never be allowed back to her family in the Golan Heights. |
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| Tortilla Soup (Mexico) |
[DVD] 791.43 T7115
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| This is a heartwarming comedy that’s all about food, family and a certain kind of magic that only happens at the dinner table. Martin is the culinary genius behind a successful restaurant and the widowed father of three daughters whom he has a compulsion to try and steer in the right direction. Hungry for their independence, the girls find themselves at odds with their traditionalist father. |
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| The Wedding Banquet (China) |
[DVD] 791.43 W3882 |
| This comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents’ matchmaking by announcing that he’s engaged. What he doesn’t count on is that they’ll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials! |
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| The World of Apu (India, West Bengal) |
[VHS] 791.43 W9273 |
| Visiting the wedding of a friend’s sister, Apu, a struggling writer from Calcutta, finds himself the bridegroom when the husband-to-be goes insane just before the ceremony. Aparna, Apu’s wife, dies in childbirth and Apu is shattered. He refuses to see his son and wanders alone through the country. Five years later, he returns to his son. |
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| Valentin (Argentina) |
[DVD] 791.43 V1561 |
| Valentín is a nine-year-old boy whose feuding parents have left him to be raised by his eccentric grandmother. With his father visiting only occasionally, Valentin is left to look to the other men in the neighborhood for father figures, and to replace his absent mother, he warms to Leticia, one of his father’s many short-term girlfriends. When he tells her personal secrets about his father, however, Valentin jeopardizes their relationship. He sets out to discover the harsh realities about his parents, while bringing joy to those around him. |
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| Vera Drake |
[DVD] 791.43 V4733 |
| Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera’s world and family life rapidly unravel. |
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| Vodka Lemon (Armenia) |
[DVD] 791.43 V8725 |
| A small Armenian village faces tough times after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hamo is a widower with a small military pension and three useless sons. While making one of his daily visits to his wife’s grave he meets Nina and the two begin to date. |
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| Zaman: the Man from the Reeds (Iraq) |
[DVD] 791.43 Z235 |
| Zaman and his wife Najma have built their happy life together in a house of reeds. When Najma falls ill, the doctor tells them she needs surgery or some medicine he does not have. Zaman sets off in his boat and journeys to Baghdad for the cure. |
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