Vanguard Cinema (Firm)
1) Pandōra
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Greek
Description
An American woman named Pandora creates chaos in a Greek village after the civil war, much like her mythological namesake.
2) Night boats
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Helena and Jacob decide to run away together from their retirement home. With their lives changed in an instant, they travel off the beaten path to avoid detection, through remote areas in a car that has no reverse. Like fugitives they take on one last adventure, trying to make it on a ship Helena didn't board 60 years earlier.
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Inuktitut
Description
The story of a family in Greenland torn apart by conflict between past traditions and the modern world. The point of departure is a bloody tragedy when Nisi, the older son, suffers a mental collapse and goes on a killing rampage before pointing the gun at himself. Grief, disgrace and shame invade create havoc within the family. The father, Rasmus, faced with the growing contempt of his younger son Simon, leaves the community. Using a broken dogsled,...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Edie chain-smokes, bites her fingernails and smashes her foot down on the gas pedal. Life whirls by, but she likes it that way. Jean sits at the kitchen table for hours, hearing the faint sound of her son's laughter and her husband's footsteps coming up the walk. And then the memory is gone. The house is empty. She wanders in search of something familiar and finds it when Edie blows into town. And then there's Cal who works at the local diner and...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Nederlands
Description
Ten-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the seventies. As an only child, she leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. The mandate says that everything is to be shared in the squat. But soon not everyone is able to honor these ideals, leading Karo to get caught in the crossfire of the internal conflicts that begin to divide the group and threaten her family. Karo slowly realizes that nothing can stay the...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Joey Kern and Alexandra Holden play pals who ought to be lovers, but their timing has never been right. When Alison makes a late-night visit to Wes on the eve of leaving for Tokyo to rejoin her beau, the two chums travel down an emotional memory lane, discovering truths about their relationship in the process.
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after noon on September 11, 2001, retired FDNY firefighter Mike Lennon arrived at the devastation of the World Trade Centers. After two weeks of digging, first for survivors and then for remains, he grabbed his camera and began interviewing every firehouse that had lost men. An interview done prior to 9/11 with John Satore, a firefigher who died at the WTC, leads to a flood of memories from his fellow firefighters who were with him inside...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On a business trip to Venice, Vanessa, a beautiful American woman who is engaged to be married, meets Bill, a television reporter from Ireland. Though she tries to resist her attraction to him, they soon become embroiled in a passionate love affair. After her return to the States, and inevitable break-up with her fiance, she discovers that Bill has been sent to a war zone and is now presumed dead. Hope prevails when the identity of the scarred body...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Manuel learns that his imprisoned father is going to be executed in the next week at a Texas prison. The only problem is that Manuel lives in Mexico and his wife is expecting their firstborn within the week. So, Manuel decides to trek across Mexico with his camera toting friend, Diego, and make a documentary that turns out to be both heartwarming and funny.
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