Against the backdrop of a sprawling half-constructed tower block in Tbilisi, Viktor, a local celebrity drag queen, and Tarzan, a drifting teenager, search for fleeting possibilities of intimacy in the vestiges of a collapsing world. Playing out meager tasks of survival in a restricted not so far future, Viktor and Tarzan slowly come to understand their environment as a vestibule of the afterlife.
Matt Shally
Luka Chachxiani
Maqsime Rauch
Against the backdrop of a sprawling half-constructed tower block in Tbilisi, Viktor, a local celebrity drag queen, and Tarzan, a drifting teenager, search for fleeting possibilities of intimacy in the vestiges of a collapsing world. Playing out meager tasks of survival in a restricted not so far future, Viktor and Tarzan slowly come to understand their environment as a vestibule of the afterlife.
In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature, including Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. Based on the bestselling memoir by Azar Nafisi. A film by Eran Riklis starring Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears).
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Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
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An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
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