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August Days
Spain, 2006, 93 min.
This biographical road trip features two brothers, Marc and David, as they embark on a trip in search of a dead friend’s past. This visually sublime film is a languorous stroll through idyllic nature, a strong experience of cinema, as well as a mysterious biographical portrait.... more
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Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures
Brazil, 2006, 99 min.
In 1942, Johann, a young German fleeing the war, and Ranulpho, a Brazilian seeking an escape from the oppressive drought in his home province, join forces. Merrily rolling from village to village, they bring rural folk the magic of cinema as they screen a film advertising a miraculous new patent med... more
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Congorama
Canada, 2006, 105 min.
Michel, a Belgian inventor, learns he was adopted and heads off to Quebec to find his biological family. There he gets involved in an accident that has implications for the future of the automobile in this tangled comedy of hidden bloodlines and lost birthrights.... more
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Little Miss Sunshine
USA, 2006, 101 min.
The Little Miss Sunshine Pageant is the impetus for this dysfunctional family road trip in which seven-year-old Olive, is vying for the title. Her family—including a suicidal uncle, her failing motivational speaker father, her mother at her wit’s end, her silent angst-ridden brother and... more
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Murderers
France, 2006, 100 min.
Grandperret takes up the script left by the late Maurice Pialat to tell the story of two ordinary girls hitting the road to escape their tedious life, attracted in a spiral of violence. This modern tale is an accusation on the blindness of a society unable to protect its youth.... more
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Transylvania
France, 2006, 103 min.
In this picaresque gypsy musical road movie, Zingarina, a dark rebellious young pregnant woman goes to Transylvania with her best friend, in search of the man she loves. When her former lover brutally rejects her, she abandons her friend and all connections to her past in order to be able to fully b... more
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