THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
Directed by Mario Camus, 1987

Based on the play by Federico Garcia Lorca, this film is the story of a cold-blooded provincial widow and her five adult daughters. Bernarda (Irene Gutiérrez Caba) rules her wealthy household with an iron fist, forbidding her daughters to socialize with, let alone marry, the local people she considers their social inferiors. Spanish with English subtitles.

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MEDEA
Directed by Lars von Trier, 1987

This brilliantly original exploration of the dark passions of a woman scorned unfolds in shimmering North Sea marshlands and gloomy subterranean passageways. From the director of Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves. Danish with English subtitles.

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MEMORY OF WATER
Directed by Hector Faver, 1994

Holocaust survivor Joseph Gruferman reflects back on his life as he lay dying. His memories go as far back as his childhood in Russia, where his mother dominated the family. He also recollects his adulthood in France, where his wife had died 30 years earlier, and where his daughter now searches for a sense of identity.

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REMBETIKO
Directed by Costas Ferris, 1983

Greek actress Sotiria Leonardou, who also co-scripted, stars as Marika, a rembetika singer whose family immigrated to Greece from Smyrna after the Turks pillaged the city in 1922. The family's hard life in the slums of Piraeas provides a colorful backdrop to explain the origins and meaning of rembetiko. Marika's rise as a singer parallels the political history of Greece, connecting the times to the music. In Greek with English subtitles.

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THE SHOE
Directed by Laila Pakalnina, 1998

In 1950's Cold War Latvia, Soviet patrolmen sweeping the beaches for infiltrators discover a woman's shoe and footsteps leading to the quaint little village of Liepaja. Just like Cinderella, each woman in the village tries on the shoe, though the reward for a perfect fit will be no Prince Charming. In Latvian with English subtitles.

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TICKETS
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, & Ermanno Olmi, 2005

Three of the world's most celebrated directors join together to direct a trilogy of interwoven stories set during a train journey from Central Europe to Rome. The characters connect through casual encounters but the stories are related through their themes of social status, the mystery of chance, and sacrifice. In Italian, English, Albanian, and Farsi with English subtitles.

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JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN:
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOL.1
1960-1994

The films of van der Keuken stretch the boundaries of both documentary and narrative fiction. Rejecting the traditional documentary format as too restrictive, he uses fictional techniques to depict content drawn from real life, resulting in a uniquely personal style that is at once daring yet engaging.

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JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN:
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOL.2
Directed by 1993-2001

Cogent, complex, and classically composed, the documentaries of Johan van der Keuken reveal his life-long curiosity about the ever-changing world and its inhabitants. His films stretch the boundaries of both documentary and narrative fiction, resulting in a uniquely personal style that is as daring as it is compassionate.

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JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN:
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOL.3
Directed by 1960-1976

Volume 3 is a 16-film, 3-DVD set that features work from van der Keuken's early to midcareer, including The White Castle, which interweaves images of the Spanish tourist mecca Formentara, a community center in Columbus, Ohio, and factories in the Netherlands to vividly illustrate the alienation that modern economics produces around the world.

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JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN:
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOL.4
1973-1984

Volume 3 includes The Flat Jungle, a featurelength documentary about the Wadden Sea wetlands, Southbound, a complex chronicle of a trip from Amsterdam to Egypt, and The Palestinians, a documentary shot in Lebanon in 1975 just before the civil war.

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JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN:
THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOL.5
1998-2002

In the fifth and final volume of this groundbreaking collection, the focus is on death and dying as van der Keuken continues to make films after learning he is terminally ill. Includes The Long Holiday, For the Time Being, Last Words: My Sister Yoka and Last Words.

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WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES
Directed by Franci Slak, 1993

Political intrigue meets romantic obsession in this enigmatic, Hitchcockian triller. When the rural post office where Ana works is robbed by a young biker, she takes advantage of the confusion after the robbery to steal some money for herself. Slovenian with English subtitles.

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YERMA
Directed by Pilar Tavora, 1999

Based on a book by Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca, Yerma tells the story of woman who longs for a child, but is unable to conceive. Her desperation and obsession eventually drive her to the brink of insanity. Stars Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Irene Papas and Juan Diego. In Spanish with English subtitles.

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