Impressions of Upper Mongolia

Every image in The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography comes from gay erotic videos produced in Eastern Europe since the introduction of capitalism. The video provides a glimpse of young men responding to the pressures of an unfamiliar world, one in which money, power and sex are now connected.

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19m

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the economic, social and psychological conditions of past and current artists.

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22m

Cast

Elorri Sarasola Barandiaran, Miren Barrena Rebe, Ilazki Azaldegi

For Kyrgyz director Melis Ubukeyev, making a full-length feature film of the Kyrgyz national epic Manas was a lifelong dream. He spent years working with the National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyzstan to gather material for the project, which ultimately never came to be. His efforts, though, were not in vain. He made several documentar...

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1h 14m

Director

Melis Ubukeyev

Cast

Gulnara Chokubaeva, Shaabai Azizov, Bolot Beyshenaliev

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male phantasy? The film explores the complexities of such question...

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1h 39m

Director

Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey

Cast

Debra Dolnansky, Michael Thomas, Jan Creighton

1940. On the border between Latvia and the USSR, a woman is killed in front of her house as she tried to protect her son from the liberating attack of the Soviets. Almost 80 years later, the archive photo bearing witness to this news item and representing a collateral victim of the European Union’s founding conflict forms the starting ...

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1h 27m

Four friends pretend a cruise to escape their wives and go clubbing, but they are forced to go through face-saving shipwreck, becoming castaways.

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1h 38m

Director

Eduardo García Maroto

Cast

Antonio Vico, Mary Santpere, Fernando Rey

In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.

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1h 27m

Director

Eduardo García Maroto

Cast

Virgílio Teixeira, Margarita Andrey, María Isbert