#world Cinema

[gael-garcia]

Les Femmes Palestiniennes (1974, Jocelyne Saab)

youtube (eng subs). vimeo (spanish subs) / runtime: 10mins

Palestinian women share with men this role in the armed struggle. […] We run our suicidal operations, they attack us from airplanes. It’s easy to fight, using aviation when one is up against simple armed Fedayeen. They attack us with American and French airplanes. It’s not just Israel who’s at war with us, but also the United States and France and all the other countries. We’re not afraid of Israel. We fight at broad daylight, face to face. The coward ones fight with their aviation. The brave ones fight on foot to free their land. […] And if there’s a political (two-state) solution? There won’t be any political solution. The only thing there will be is Palestine. As long as there’s at least one of our children left alive, there won’t be any political solution. There will only be Palestine, in its entirety.

[moonlightsdream]

Oldboy 올드보이 (2003) — dir. Park Chan Wook

[louismoncher]

100 unforgettable movie scenes: Maggie Cheung as Mrs. Chan & Tony Leung as Chow Mo-Wan in IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000)

— "Editing Like a Memory" Via Director Goran Stolevski: It was the first time I realized what you can do with editing that wasn't about being fancy or showing off techniques. It was about kind of capturing feelings in a way that was a lot more direct. This person is really trying so hard, partly for herself and partly for everyone else around her, to hide those (feelings). When it explodes, it feels so much more real.

[lifeinasmalltowninjapan]

Marie-France Pisier

🎥 Trans-Europ-Express (1966)

[zoirohs]

Son Ye-jin as Kim Su-jin A MOMENT TO REMEMBER (내 머리 속의 지우개, 2004) dir. John H. Lee

[jafar-panahi]

Nome (2023, Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼) directed by Sana Na N'Hada

Nome  is a film over 50 years in the making. In the late 60s, revolutionary Bissau-Guinean Marxist leader Amílcar Cabral sent filmmakers Sana na N’Hada, Flora Gomes, Josefina Lopes Crato and José Bolama to Cuba. To help change international public opinion against the Portuguese colonial regime, they returned to the country to document the struggle. This archive footage forms the basis for the fiction Nome, N’hada following its eponymous character as he joins the resistance movement.   The story takes place in Guinea-Bissau in 1969, during the war of independence between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea. The protagonist, Nome, leaves his village and joins the ranks of the guerrillas. After years of struggle, he returns to his village as a hero. However, the initial joy soon gives way to bitterness and cynicism. (source)

[cinesoleil]

looking for an angel (1999)

[inmyworldblr]

Laapataa Ladies (2023) | dir. Kiran Rao

[shesnake]

Sisi & I (2023) dir. Frauke Finsterwalder

[a-pint-of-j-and-b]

Khlib i Sil/Хліб і сіль (Bread and Salt) | Grigori Kokhan and Nikolai Makarenko | USSR (Soviet Ukraine) | 1970

"A group of peasant farmers in turn-of-the-century Ukraine leaves home in search of better luck in Siberia. The story follows those who stay behind and their dispute with the landowner, as well as a love triangle involving a local beauty and two young men."

[beingharsh]

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), dir. Alain Resnais

[gael-garcia]

Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001, Mai Masri)

As Southern Lebanon is liberated from Israel, Palestinian refugees from the Beirut and Bethlehem camps meet after 52 years watch on the Palestine Film Institute site, Mai Masri's vimeo, or netflix

[moonlightsdream]

FILMS in 2024: 43 | Godzilla Minus One ゴジラ-1.0 (2023) — dir. Yamazaki Takashi   

[louismoncher]

CURE (キュア, Kyua) 🎥 1997, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

[zhaozi]

MARRY MY DEAD BODY (2022) starring GREG HSU and AUSTIN LIN

[lifeinasmalltowninjapan]

L'homme Qui Ment (1968)

🎬 Alain Robbe-Grillet