2010 Sao Paulo International Film Festival
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2009 Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Mamachas del Ring
$19.95 | 75 minutes
Carmen Rosa the Champion, the passionate leader of a group of indigenous Bolivian women wrestlers (think Hulk Hogan in petticoats and a bowler hat), is faced with a brutal decision when forced to choose between her love of sport and love of her family&hellip…
2008 Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Seaview
$24.95 | 82 minutes
The Seaview documentary asylum seekers, filmed in Mosney, is a former holiday camp an hour outside of Dublin, Ireland converted to a holiding center for asylum seekers. Over the three years they spent there, the filmmakers slowly gained the trust of the residents. Intensely close conversations reveal their individual stories, from the&hellip…
Harrison Montgomery
$9.95 | 95 minutes
In San Francisco's poverty-stricken Tenderloin district, would-be artist Ricardo Papa is trying to make ends meet as a petty drug dealer. On the run from his boss and on the outs with his girlfriend, he takes up residence in the dilapidated Hotel Boyd. There he crosses paths with thirteen-year-old Lattie Flemming who charms Ricardo with&hellip…
2007 Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Alice's House
$24.95 | 92 minutes
Best Actress – Carla Ribas
In every house, you never know what secrets lie behind the front door...ALICE'S HOUSE, the highly-decorated Brazilian drama, is now available on IndiePix from our partners, FiGa films! When Alice, a Sao Paulo manicurist, wife and mother has a chance meeting with an&hellip…
2003 Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Capturing the Friedmans
$26.95 | 107 minutes
Best Documentary
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a well-respected&hellip…
2002 Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Kedma
$23.95 | 100 minutes
Critics Award, Best Film
In May 1948, a group of European Jewish refugees illegally sail to Palestine via the cargo freighter Kedma, arriving only a few days before the departure of British forces and the founding of the nation of Israel. Once ashore they are received by the Palmach, Jewish fighters who help them evade arrest&hellip…
September 11
$19.95 | 128 minutes
A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated, angered, or forgiving, each film is drastically different from&hellip&hellip…
2000 Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Amores Perros
$7.95 | 153 minutes
Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly boundless energy. Told in three separate chapters--OCTAVIO AND SUSANA, DANIEL AND VALERIA, and EL CHIVO AND MARU--the film deals with love in the lives of several individuals&hellip&hellip…
1987 Sao Paulo International Film Festival
The Legend of Suram Fortress/Ashik Kerib
$27.95 | 164 minutes
Critics Award
This double feature of films by acclaimed Russian director Sergei Paradjanov contains both THE LEGEND OF SURAM FORTRESS and ASHIK KERIB.
ASHIK KERIB, based on Mikhail Lermontov's fable, follows the wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib as he journeys for 1000 days and nights, trying to earn enough money to marry his beloved&hellip…
1982 Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
$21.95 | 109 minutes
Critics Award
Director Emir Kusturica is known outside of his native Bosnia for films such as ARIZONA DREAM, UNDERGROUND and BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT. This early example of his work was shot in his home country in the early 1980s (when it was still known as Yugoslavia), is set in the 1960s, and follows the fortunes of a young man&hellip…