Movies: Hubert Bals Fund
- 2001
Nadie te oye: perfume de violetas (2001)
Nadie te oye: perfume de violetas7.82001HD
Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The gir...
- 1996
East Palace, West Palace (1996)
East Palace, West Palace6.41996HD
A young gay man, identified as a writer, encounters a local policeman, who arrests him for public cruising in a park. The policeman is more than professionally curious about the young man, who seems to have the cop's number and suddenly kisses him....
- 2014
The Tribe (2014)
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Deaf-mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf-and-dumb. In navigating through the school's hierarchy, he encounters a corrupt underbelly of criminality, known as The Tribe. By participating in several robberies, he gets propelled...
- 2004
Osama (2004)
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After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother....
- 2003
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003)
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks7.62003HD
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us t...
- 2002
El bonaerense (2002)
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Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. After getting involved in a crime, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and sends him to Buenos Aires city so he can become an aspiring police off...
- 2004
The Holy Girl (2004)
The Holy Girl6.72004HD
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the g...
- 1994
The Silences of the Palace (1994)
The Silences of the Palace6.71994HD
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains....
- 2001
Secret Ballot (2001)
Secret Ballot5.92001HD
A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success....
- 2018
Rojo (2018)
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A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant....
- 1998
The Apple (1998)
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After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two Iranian sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time....
- 2018
DAU. Cinema (2018)
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An ongoing experiment, evolving from a biopic about Soviet physicist Lev Landau into a large scale project – part cinematic cycle, part behavioral experiment – involving hundreds of participants from around the world. Combining elements of film, thea...
- 2007
The Aerial (2007)
The Aerial7.12007HD
An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city's only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the city's inhabitants....
- 2021
Wandering Heart (2021)
Wandering Heart6.52021HD
Santiago, gay single father, has reached a tipping point in his life. Reeling from a bitter breakup, he is facing the impending departure of his daughter Laila, with whom he shares a close yet emotionally charged relationship. As the fear of being al...
- 2006
Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess (2006)
Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess7.72006HD
A wandering peddler separates from his fellow salesman and becomes involved with criminals in the jungle and ends up doing a pact with god to save a girl from rape....
- 2001
The Dark Night (2001)
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Mixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s, loosely based on the utopian fantasies of Fritz Lang and about the forbidden passionate love affair between a photographer and his model....
- 2005
4 (2005)
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Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?...
- 2015
Ixcanul (2015)
Ixcanul6.82015HD
María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she ...
- 2008
Anger (2008)
Anger5.12008HD
A married woman with a mute daughter has a forbidden relationship with the single father of a teenage boy....
- 2000
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Mysterious Object at Noon6.42000HD
A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story....