Movies: Hubert Bals Fund

  • 2001
    Nadie te oye: perfume de violetas

    Nadie te oye: perfume de violetas (2001)

    Nadie te oye: perfume de violetas

    7.82001HD

    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...

    Nadie te oye: perfume de violetas
  • 2014
    The Tribe

    The Tribe (2014)

    The Tribe

    6.72014HD

    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...

    The Tribe
  • 2004
    Osama

    Osama (2004)

    Osama

    6.92004HD

    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....

    Osama
  • 2021
    Wandering Heart

    Wandering Heart (2021)

    Wandering Heart

    6.52021HD

    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...

    Wandering Heart
  • 2004
    The Holy Girl

    The Holy Girl (2004)

    The Holy Girl

    6.72004HD

    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...

    The Holy Girl
  • 1996
    East Palace, West Palace

    East Palace, West Palace (1996)

    East Palace, West Palace

    6.41996HD

    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....

    East Palace, West Palace
  • 2003
    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003)

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    7.62003HD

    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...

    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
  • 1994
    The Silences of the Palace

    The Silences of the Palace (1994)

    The Silences of the Palace

    6.71994HD

    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....

    The Silences of the Palace
  • 2002
    El bonaerense

    El bonaerense (2002)

    El bonaerense

    6.62002HD

    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...

    El bonaerense
  • 2018
    Rojo

    Rojo (2018)

    Rojo

    6.02018HD

    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....

    Rojo
  • 2007
    The Aerial

    The Aerial (2007)

    The Aerial

    7.12007HD

    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....

    The Aerial
  • 2006
    Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess

    Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess (2006)

    Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess

    7.72006HD

    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....

    Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess
  • 1998
    The Apple

    The Apple (1998)

    The Apple

    6.21998HD

    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....

    The Apple
  • 2014
    Two Shots Fired

    Two Shots Fired (2014)

    Two Shots Fired

    5.92014HD

    Mariano, 16, inexplicably and without warning, shoots himself twice and improbably survives. Then, life goes on. His brother pursues a romance with a girl working at a fast-food joint, his mother takes off on a trip with a stranger, and Mariano recru...

    Two Shots Fired
  • 2001
    Secret Ballot

    Secret Ballot (2001)

    Secret Ballot

    5.92001HD

    A female election agent and a gun-toting soldier try to collect votes among the local islanders with mixed success....

    Secret Ballot
  • 2012
    Araf/Somewhere in Between

    Araf/Somewhere in Between (2012)

    Araf/Somewhere in Between

    4.72012HD

    Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their empty, monotonous li...

    Araf/Somewhere in Between
  • 2005
    4

    4 (2005)

    4

    5.42005HD

    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?...

    4
  • 2015
    Ixcanul

    Ixcanul (2015)

    Ixcanul

    6.82015HD

    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 ...

    Ixcanul
  • 1995
    The Corridor

    The Corridor (1995)

    The Corridor

    6.31995HD

    The atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown. A series of faces, gestures and images both real and imagined time. A fragmentary narrative without dialogue depicting several people in Vilnius....

    The Corridor
  • 2009
    The Happiest Girl in the World

    The Happiest Girl in the World (2009)

    The Happiest Girl in the World

    6.82009HD

    Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a commerci...

    The Happiest Girl in the World