Gitel (2013)

Actors: Robert Mullan (director), Robert Mullan (writer), Donatas Simukauskas (actor), Gediminas Storpirstis (actor), Sakalas Uzdavinys (actor), Jelena Grishina (miscellaneous crew), Visockaite Sonata (actress), Agne Rimkute (costume designer), Jonas Spokas (miscellaneous crew), Liudvikas Vilimas (actor), Perlis Vaisieta (actor), Aleksandra Metalnikova (actress), Peter Gerard Dunphy (producer), Karina Stungyte (actress), Mantas Petrauskas (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: 5th September 1969, and Gitel Bargman is about to attend a party to celebrate her 33rd birthday - although for her it is hardly cause for celebration. She is racked with guilt for simply being alive. Attractive, intelligent and witty, Gitel is a successful violinist who lives in a Kuybyshev (USSR) apartment. To the outsider, she has everything. But Gitel hides a secret. She's a haunted woman: haunted not only by painful memories of the past, but also by the ghosts of her two sisters who died when she, by a mere quirk of fate, survived. And because she lives in the past, Gitel cannot embrace her future. To love, and to be loved in return, remains an impossible dream. October 13th, 1941, the Ninth Fort, Kovno, Lithuania. A horrified young Gitel watches helplessly as her parents and both sisters are murdered in the extermination camp at Kovno, Lithuania. She is standing alone, frozen with terror. Since that day Gitel has received 'visitations' from her two dead sisters, Zelde and Chayke. She discusses them with her psychiatrist who is disinterested and disbelieving, even when she tells him she can actually 'almost touch them.' The same thought returns over and over to Gitel: 'How can I live, when they died?' At a birthday party, thrown for her by her surviving brother Chaim, she meets Lev Rosenzweig. Lev also has a disturbing past - his wife's suicide and a son who refuses to forgive his father for his mother's death. Reluctantly and painfully, Lev and Gitel try to find love in each other. Lev, urged on by Chaim, persuades her to return to Lithuania for the first time since the Holocaust. In Kovno, Gitel visits the site of the murder. She breaks down. She lies on the ground. It rains. Lev lies down beside her, and Gitel allows him to console her. Back in the Kovno hotel the visitations continue. Gitel begins to question her sanity and wonders whether she is inventing these dead siblings, or whether they are in some sense 'real'? And she wonders whether she can learn to live without them. Back in Kuybyshev she realizes she's in love. In her apartment Gitel and Lev tenderly make love. As a gesture of her love, she decides to track down Lev's estranged son David and tries to persuade him to see his father. David refuses. Suddenly tragedy strikes when Lev suffers a heart attack. As Gitel nurses him back to life she finds she has less time for her dead visitors. Gitel and Lev marry. At the reception, Lev's estranged son and a granddaughter Lev didn't even know existed arrive - they tearfully embrace. At the end of the reception, and unbeknown to Lev, they are joined by Gitel's deceased siblings. She understands that this will be their last visit.

Genres: Drama,

Now, Forager (2012)

Actors: Roger Deutsch (miscellaneous crew), Brandon deSpain (actor), Krzysztof Szpetmanski (producer), Nick Raio (actor), Kit Bland (producer), Erika Sanz Corbacho (miscellaneous crew), Julia Halperin (director), Julia Halperin (editor), Julia Halperin (producer), Jason Cortlund (writer), Jason Cortlund (actor), Jason Cortlund (director), Kim Weiler (actress), Juan Diaz de Lindo (miscellaneous crew), Diana Greenhut (actress),

Plot: Lucien and Regina gather wild mushrooms in the woodlands of New Jersey and sell them to restaurants in New York. Their lifestyle is simple, their income unstable. Regina decides to take a full-time job cooking at a high-end restaurant to improve their financial security and to follow a more fulfilling personal career path. Feeling threatened, Lucien proposes that instead of selling out, they give up their apartment and drive to the more-profitable West Coast as full-time itinerant foragers. As individual desires take them down divergent paths over the course of a year, their marriage is put to a test.

Keywords: basque, cooking, food, foraging, mushrooming, mushrooms
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A Film about Love & Fungi

Frances Ha (2012)

Actors: Scott Rudin (producer), Laura Sevier (miscellaneous crew), Josh Hamilton (actor), Greta Gerwig (writer), Greta Gerwig (actress), Noah Baumbach (director), Noah Baumbach (producer), Noah Baumbach (writer), Kathy England (miscellaneous crew), Gibson Frazier (actor), Lila Yacoub (producer), Sam Lisenco (miscellaneous crew), Adam Driver (actor), Lindsay Burdge (actress), Jonathan Urband (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Frances lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren't really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.

Keywords: 27-year-old, apartment, apprentice, best-friend, breakup, character-name-in-title, dance-company, dancer, dating, female-protagonist
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

Sophie: It's just this apartment is very... aware of itself.

Frances: We are like a lesbian couple.

Frances: I'm too tall to marry.

Frances: Sometimes it's good to do what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it.

Frances: [at a French cinema] Hello. When did "Puss in Boots" start?

Frances: It's that thing when you're with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it... but it's a party... and you're both talking to other people, and you're laughing and shining... and you look across the room and catch each other's eyes... but - but not because you're possessive, or it's precisely sexual... but because... that is your person in this life. And it's funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it's this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It's sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don't have the ability to perceive them. That's - That's what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess.

Benji: Are you still undateable?::Frances: Oh yes, very undateable.

Frances: Do I look old to you?::Benji: No. Yes.::Frances: How old?::Benji: Older than I am.::Frances: Older than 27?::Benji: No. 27 is old, though.

Benji: Let's do something fun. We could go to a movie.::Frances: Movies are so expensive now.::Benji: Yeah, but you're at the movies.

Lev Shapiro: [wrapped in a towel, walking between Frances and Sophie] I'm just trying to get your attention.

Lahko noc, gospodicna (2011)

Actors: Andrija Zafranovic (editor), Danijel Hocevar (producer), Jurij Moskon (editor), Metod Pevec (writer), Metod Pevec (director), Miroslav Mandic (miscellaneous crew), Karmen Jernejcic (miscellaneous crew), Jan Cvitkovic (actor), Metka Rakusa (miscellaneous crew), Jasmina Kozar (miscellaneous crew), Jana Flego (miscellaneous crew), Jernej Sugman (actor), Polona Juh (actress), Irena Gatej (miscellaneous crew), Jana Zupancic (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Drop (2008)

Actors: Anna Shubin (editor), Joan Wolkoff (actress), Patrick Edgar (actor), Janis Vogel (producer), Vincent Venturella (composer), Janis Vogel (director), Colin Ruel (composer),

Plot: The urge to get 'off-island,' hit the road, to go somewhere, find something, someone, propels a game of lost-and-found. In 'Drop,' Lev, 25, and Cal, 20, are both outcasts within their circle of friends. Lev, fed up with his band, decides to whisk Cal, fed up with her alcoholic mother, on a spontaneous road trip. Lev launches himself into an unknown future, but Cal secretly takes the opportunity to find something she lost long ago. The confines of the car lead to intimacy and claustrophobia as they clumsily take to the road.

Keywords: martha's-vineyard
Genres: Drama, Short,

Semeyka Ady (2008)

Actors: Rimma Markova (actress), Ruben Dishdishyan (producer), Mikhail Efremov (actor), Elena Yakovleva (actress), Sergey Danielyan (producer), Vladimir Krestovskiy (actor), Sergey Krestovskiy (actor), Anna Melikyan (producer), Anastasiya Richi (actress), Irina Grashdankina (costume designer), Eldar Salavatov (director), Taya Katyusha (actress), Anastasiya Prikhodko (actress), Ilya Filatov (actor), Rostislav Nikitin (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Comedy,

Giborim Ktanim (2006)

Actors: Jonathan Bar-Giora (composer), Dana Ivgy (actress), Lucy Dubinchik (actress), Avigail Ariely (actress), Tzion Baruch (actor), Miki Kam (actress), Itai Lev (director), Doron Suliman (miscellaneous crew), Amos Tamam (actor), Hilel Rozman (producer), Einat Dvash (producer), Eran B.Y. (writer), Nir Zwickel (actor), Daniel Damidov (actor), Alon Lysy (actor),

Genres: Family,

Cast Away (2000)

Actors: Alan Silvestri (composer), Robert Zemeckis (producer), Nick Searcy (actor), Tom Hanks (producer), Nan Martin (actress), Valentina Ananina (actress), Michael Forest (actor), Christopher Kriesa (actor), Jenifer Lewis (actress), Tom Hanks (actor), Chris Noth (actor), Helen Hunt (actress), Jay Acovone (actor), Gregory Alpert (miscellaneous crew), Robert Zemeckis (director),

Plot: A man is marooned on an island after his plane crashes into the ocean. Far away from home, his girlfriend, and any human contact, he engages in a battle of wits with himself as he is tested mentally, physically, and emotionally in order to survive.

Keywords: aircraft, airplane, airplane-accident, airplane-engine, airport, analemma, barefoot, beard, blockbuster, blood
Genres: Adventure, Drama,
Taglines: At the edge of the world, his journey begins.

Quotes:

Chuck Noland: I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing.

[Chuck talks to Wilson, the volleyball]::Chuck Noland: Hey, you want to hear something funny? My dentist's name is James Spalding.

Chuck Noland: Aha. Look what I've created. I have made FIRE.

Chuck Noland: WILSON!

Chuck Noland: You wouldn't have a match by any chance would you?

Chuck Noland: We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and... knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had... lost her. 'cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So... I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I - , I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over *nothing*. And that's when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that's what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I'm back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass... And I've lost her all over again. I'm so sad that I don't have Kelly. But I'm so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

Kelly Frears: I always knew you were alive, I knew it. Everybody said that I had to let you go. I love you. You're the love of my life.::Chuck Noland: I love you too, Kelly. More than you'll ever know.

Chuck Noland: [reading from a birthday card] The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Chuck Noland: First thing it's two minutes, then four, then six, then the next thing you know, we're the U.S. mail.

Chuck Noland: We live and we die by time. And we must not commit the sin of losing our track on time.

Nad tyomnoy vodoy (1993)

Actors: Valeriy Todorovskiy (writer), Vladimir Ilin (actor), Yuriy Kuznetsov (actor), Ivan Okhlobystin (actor), Viktor Pavlov (actor), Aleksandr Bashirov (actor), Aleksandr Abdulov (actor), Tatyana Lyutaeva (actress), Dmitry Meskhiev (director), Sergei Kuryokhin (actor), Sergei Kuryokhin (composer), Boris Grebenshchikov (actor), Tamara Lipartiya (editor), Viktor Sergeyev (actor), Igor Kalyonov (producer),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Daniil knyaz Galitskiy (1987)

Actors: Ernst Romanov (actor), Yuriy Dubrovin (actor), Bogdan Stupka (actor), Bolot Beyshenaliev (actor), Vera Kuznetsova (actress), Nikolai Volkov Ml. (actor), Vladimir Guba (composer), Ivan Gavrilyuk (actor), Nurmukhan Zhanturin (actor), Sergey Bystritskiy (actor), Yuri Rudchenko (actor), Zinaida Dekhtyaryova (actress), Viktor Demertash (actor), Aleksandr Titov (actor), Yuri Votyakov (actor),

Genres: Drama, History,