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Aberdeen
$26.95 | 113 minutes
Writer-director Hans PetTer Molland (ZERO KELVIN) deftly combines two traditional cinematic genres--the road movie and the dysfunctional family drama--to create a moving character study that is entirely his own. Kaisa (Lena Headey) is a successful, hard-edged career woman living in London. Days after receiving a promotion, she is asked&hellip…
Cool and Crazy
$26.95 | 89 minutes
The Berlevag Male Choir are a group of men who sing songs of spirituality in and around their home country of Norway. This documentary introduces audiences to this unique singing group. It also follows the singers as they prepare for a Russian tour. This portrait of the choir highlights both the talent on display as well as the deep bond&hellip…
Doxita Volume 1
$24.95 | 98 minutes
A collection from Doxita, a traveling festival of documentary films that are under 40 minutes in length. The program, comprised of approximately two hours of film, represents a wide variety of documentary domestic and foreign, super-short and longer format, serious and funny. It is designed to profile the great content and artistic…
Early Bergman Box Set: Torment/Crisis/Port of Call/Thirst/To Joy
$61.95 | 474 minutes
Before The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries established him as one of the great masters of cinema, Ingmar Bergman created a series of less well known, devastating psychological character studies, marked by intricate, layered narratives, gritty environments, and haunting visuals. These early films, which show the stirrings of the genius&hellip…
Erotikon
$26.95 | 106 minutes
This silent masterpiece of light comedy by Swedish director Mauritz Stiller is an irreverent look at high society that is ahead of it's time. Irene, the bored wife of a distracted entomologist, pursues a womanizing aviator, but she may actually be in love with Preben, her husband's best friend. Meanwhile, her husband seems to be getting&hellip…
Evil
$24.95 | 110 minutes
The Stjärsnberg Academy has a great reputation, but when Erik (Andreas Wilson) enrolls there after getting expelled from his previous high school he discovers an institution that is spiralling violently out of control. As the students inaugurate a reign of terror, Erik befriends his roommate, Pierre (Henrik Lundström), and tries to stay&hellip…
Gitmo: The New Rules of War
$21.95 | 76 minutes
Jolting and impossible to ignore, this provocative and intelligent exposé cuts through the official lies and cover-ups to find out what really goes on at America's central gulag in the war on terror, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. GITMO: THE NEW RULES OF WAR is fueled by a jarring, globetrotting investigative fury that lends an ear to a fascinating&hellip…
Hamsun
$24.95 | 154 minutes
A compelling dramatization of the last years of Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's life, when he and his actress wife shocked the world by publicly supporting the Third Reich and openly advocating the Nazi occupation of Norway. But the Hamsuns' controversial politics are strongly rooted in their unconventional and tumultuous family&hellip…
Hunger
$24.95 | 112 minutes
A starving writer in 1890's Norway stumbles through the streets in search of his own fantasies. His articles are all refused by editors until he is left penniless and without food. Though he is forced to subsist on paper and dust from his cupboard, he retains his humanity by giving any food he gets to those who may need it more&hellip…
I Am Curious... - 2-Disc Set
$35.95 | 328 minutes
Two groundbreaking, naturalistic films from Swedish director Vilgot Sjoman are included in this collection. I AM CURIOUS (BLUE) and I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW) were intended as companion pieces and both are contained in this two disc set. Please see individual titles for further details&hellip…