FILMS
- The Box Man
You’re either in the box, or out of the box. more...
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- Nirvan Mullick
- USA
- 2002
- The Box
A pixillated Tilda Swinton stars in technoband Orbital's spooky music video. more...
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- Jes Benstock, Luke Losey
- England
- 1996
- The Boxer
Behind the public stresses and strains of Olympian athletics, there are always the personal dramas of men and women whose entire personalities have been changed during the period of preparing for inte more...
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- Julian Dziedzina
- Poland
- 1967
- The Boxer
Although the setting is that of a concentration camp, the story of The Boxer is a psychological study of a pugilistic hero faced with a weird, unexpected situation. He is an inmate of the camp more...
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- Peter Solan
- Czechoslovakia
- 1964
- Boxers and Ballerinas
A classically trained ballerina waits for an overseas dance tour. Another one helps her mother’s penniless dance company. A boxer wins 120 fights and world respect as a champion. Another one lives w more...
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- Mike Cahill, Brit Marling
- USA
- 2005
- Boy
One of the best reasons for having any film festival anywhere, is the discovery of an exciting cinema talent, and within the past year, the work of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima has suddenly been re more...
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- Nagisa Oshima
- Japan
- Boy in White Pants
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- Brazil
- Boy Meets Girl
For Alex the world seems a strangely disjunctive and increasingly absurd place. He considers himself a filmmaker, but his projects never manage to evolve beyond their titles. And time is running out more...
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- Léos Carax
- France
- 1984
- Boy Soldier
The boy soldier of Karl Francis’s powerful new Welsh-language feature is Private Thomas (an excellent performance by Richard Lynch), a 19-year-old recruit who joined the army as an alternative to th more...
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- Karl Francis
- Wales
- 1986
- The Boy Who Owned a Melephant
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- USA
- 1959
- The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan
The 1,600-year-old Buddhas carved into the pale cliffs adjoining Afghanistan’s picturesque Bamiyan valley were the world’s tallest stone statues until the Taliban destroyed them in 2001. The town more...
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- Phil Grabsky
- England / Afghanistan
- 2003
- The Boy Who Stopped Talking
Anyone who’s ever experienced the upheaval and sadness that comes with leaving the place you’ve called home will appreciate the charm and candor of this heartfelt family tale. For young Memo, the more...
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- Ben Sombogaart
- Netherlands
- 1997
- The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear
This enchanting animated film is like a majestic watercolor painting come to life, pitting Man against Beast in a tale of maternal love, family bonds, animal instinct and basic survival. Set in a land more...
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- Jannik Hastrup
- Denmark / France
- 2002
- A Boy, A Girl, A Dream.
Stylish and impassioned, Qasim Basir's third feature expresses the vitality of being true to oneself in the face of a politically challenging new era. Seemingly shot in one continuous take, it details more...
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- Qasim Basir
- USA
- 2017
- Founder’s Directing Award: Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater charted the evolution of a relationship over the course of three films with his beloved Before series; now the filmmaker ups the ante with this bold, brilliant exper more...
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- Richard Linklater
- USA
- 2014
- Boys and Girls
Three contemporary love stories in Tel Aviv, starring Assi Dayan, son of the Israeli defense minister. A girl meets a boy in a library and has to decide what to do next; a young husband comes home to more...
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- Yehuda Ne’eman
- Israel
- 1970
- The Boys from Fengkuei
The past two years have seen a major revolution in Taiwanese cinema, with a breakthrough by younger directors paralleling that in Hong Kong five years ago. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s fourth feature is striki more...
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- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Taiwan
- 1983
- The Boys of Baraka
Mavis Jackson tells her Black male Baltimore high school audience that they have three options by the time they reach age 18: “An orange jumpsuit and bracelets, a black suit in a brown box or a blac more...
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- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
- USA / Kenya
- 2005
- The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story
When asked how long it takes to write a song, the Sherman Brothers often say, “It takes your entire life . . . plus the time required to jot it down.” And what unexpected lives surface in this int more...
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- Gregory V. Sherman, Jeffrey C. Sherman
- USA/England
- 2009
- Brain Opera
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- Pascal Lamorisse
- France
- The Brainwashers
Y’know, those little guys who go in and wash your brain? more...
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- Patrick Brouchard
- Canada
- 2002
- A Brand New Life
Little Jin-hee sports a sweet, mischievous and open smile for her father, who takes her shopping in the open market and then to dinner. What an adventure! Of him we see only a hand to hold, a jacket d more...
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- Ounie Lecomte
- South Korea/France
- 2009
- Brand upon the Brain!
A companion piece of sorts to the exceptional silent installation-feature Cowards Bend the Knee, the semiautobiographical Brand upon the Brain! mines the rich territories of director Guy more...
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- Guy Maddin
- USA/Canada
- 2006
- Branding at the Gonzales Ranch
Four students at Española Valley High School report on some of the important issues and personal experiences that shape their lives. —Joanne Parsont more...
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- Española Valley High School Students
- USA
- 2000
- Brandy in the Wilderness
In his many lives, Stanton Kaye has run tech-sector startups, post-production facilities for low-budget filmmakers and even washed dishes at Chez Panisse. But before all of that, he was one of the bri more...
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- Stanton Kaye
- USA
- 1969
- Brass Tacks
A from-the-ground-up look at jazz—its sound and its soul—Brass Tacks tags along with its musician characters through the streets and studios of Atlanta as they struggle to turn their talent more...
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- Gavin Dougan
- USA
- 2003
- Brass Unbound
From its opening shot of a man descending a Nepalese mountainside with a sewing machine on his back, Brass Unbound never ceases to surprise. The film—a polyphonic journey exploring the transf more...
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- Johan van der Keuken
- Netherlands
- 1993
- Bravo Papa 2040
The villagers of Erkenbrechtsweiler, Germany "star" in this witty story of what happens when a military airplane flies particularly low one day. more...
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- Susanne Fränzel
- Germany
- Bread and Tulips
A housewife rediscovers the spark she’s hidden within herself in this gentle Milanese comedy, winner of nearly everything at this year’s Italian Oscars, the David di Donatello Awards: best film, d more...
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- Silvio Soldini
- Italy
- 2000
- Break Even
Prize-winner at the Munich Film Festival, Eoin Moore’s no-budget debut updates the improvised scripting approach of Mike Leigh with video’s unfettered sense of movement, creating a vigorous, unref more...
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- Eoin Moore
- Germany
- 1997
- Breaking Glass
A new director and a new singing star brighten the British musical genre in this drama set in the world of the post-punk record business. Hazel O’Connor portrays a young singer who rises from obscur more...
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- Brian Gibson
- England
- The Breaking of the Drought
Barrett (along with Longford) was one of the great pioneer directors of Australian films. He was noted for the way he merged conventional plots with vivid, documentary backgrounds. The sequence involv more...
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- Franklyn Barrett
- Australia
- Breaking Silence
What was gleefully heralded as the ’70s sexual revolution has given way to a more sobering reappraisal of the liberated libido. This evening’s program focuses on two troubling (and age-old) abuses more...
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- Theresa Tollini
- USA
- 1984
- Breaking the Ice
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- Finland
- Breakthrough
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- USA
- The Breath of a Nation
This spoof of D.W. Griffith’s title is a lighthearted, anarchic celebration of the strategems devised against Prohibition. —Paolo Cherchi Usai more...
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- Gregory La Cava
- USA
- 1919
- Breath on the Mirror
Exploring the effect of place and culture on dream states, this somnambulant stunner reinterprets the dreams of five residents of Pont-Aven, France. more...
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- Vanessa Woods, Sarah Friedland
- France/USA
- 2007
- Breathing Lessons
In the lexicon of current health issues polio is an ancient relic, as are the iron lungs used to treat its victims. One such victim is Berkeley resident Mark O'Brien, a poet and journalist who has bee more...
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- Jessica Yu
- USA
- 1995
- Brian at 17
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- David Holden
- USA
- Brick Lane
A naive young Muslim woman moves from rural Bangladesh to London in this elegant adaptation of Monica Ali’s debut novel, one of Britain’s most acclaimed works of fiction in recent years. Teenage N more...
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- Sarah Gavron
- England
- 2007
- Bride and Groom
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- England
- Bride to Be
Praised in Europe as a picture in which everything has been done to perfection, Bride to Be is a visual treat of unusual excellence. Based on the classic 19th-century Spanish novel Pepita Ji more...
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- Rafael Moreno Alba
- Spain
- The Bridge in the Jungle
Not all of the new American directors are turning toward the local scene in this country for their first feature film. The world has opened its doors to young creative talents and, ironically enough, more...
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- Pancho Kohner
- A Bridge over the Drina
A beautifully photographed Balkan landscape stands in stark contrast to accompanying testimony detailing horrendous events that haunt the site's recent past. more...
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- Xavier Lukomski
- Belgium
- 2005
- The Bridge
In the poem “Musee des Beaux Arts,” W.H. Auden wrote, “About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood/Its human position; how it takes place/While someone else more...
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- Eric Steel
- USA
- 2005
- Brief Crossing
Catherine Breillat’s contribution to a ten-part series commissioned by a French broadcaster is an incisive and elegant chamber piece and a continuation of her ongoing exploration of women’s sexual more...
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- Catherine Breillat
- France
- 2001
- Brief Encounters
A personalized condemnation of the corruption and petty bourgeois standards that the Soviet regime imagined itself rid of, Kira Muratova’s highly original directorial debut was shelved for over 20 y more...
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- Kira Muratova
- USSR
- 1967
- Brigands, Chapter VII
Brigands, Chapter VII begins at the end—but this is just the point, since one of the themes of Paris-based Georgian director Otar Iosseliani's innovative new film is that where power is conce more...
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- Otar Iosseliani
- France / Georgia
- 1996
FACTOID #336
Bing Crosby was invited several times for an onstage tribute at the Festival, reports then-director Claude Jarman, but declined the honor. “Nobody wants to see those little things that I used to do,” he modestly replied. He did attend though, with wife Kathy and their friend, Rita Hayworth.
