Animation, Documentary, Family
Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland. The script is based on a part of Mikołaj Smyk's diary, the director's grandfather. The biographical objects used in the animation, such as an authentic headscarf, Polish and Russian books, the copy of Mikołaj Smyk's diary and photographs help situate the story in its original environment.
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SIMILAR MOVIES
From Darkness
Blood: The Last Vampire
Annaluise & Anton
Night and Fog
Shrek
Eclectic Shorts by Eric Leiser
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein
NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart
Karihwanoron: Precious Things
Impossible Figures and Other Stories I
Junk Head
Two Trams
Declutter
Preghiera della sera (Diario di una passeggiata)
WEED
Caucasian Gates
The Udi people
Classic Cartoon Favorites, Vol. 3 - Starring Goofy
The Yes Men
Candy Boy
SIMILAR MOVIES
From Darkness
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 2002
A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for. Based on an Inuit folktale.Blood: The Last Vampire
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 2000
In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new katana to her. Soon she saves the school nurse Makiho Amano from two vampires disguised of classmates and Makiho witnesses her fight against the powerful demon.Annaluise & Anton
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 1999
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.Night and Fog
IMDB 8.2 | Jan , 1956
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.Shrek
IMDB 7.8 | May , 2001
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.Eclectic Shorts by Eric Leiser
IMDB 0 | May , 2006
Eric Leiser displays his boundless creativity in this short collection; A stunning compilation of works presented with a mixture of live action, stop motion animation, puppetry and pixilation techniques, produced between 2001 and 2006.Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein
IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 2001
The Chipmunks work in an amusement park attraction. After Alvin drives a crazy tour group, they miss their next performance and are locked in the park after closing time. Little do they know that the real Dr. Frankenstein has been hired in a new attraction called, "Frankenstein's Castle"; figuring that the castle isn't scary enough, the mad scientist recreates the real Monster.NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart
IMDB 0 | May , 2017
NiiSoTeWak means “walking the path together.” Tapwewin and Pawaken are 10-year-old brothers trying to make sense of the world, their family and each other. They’re already grappling with some heady questions about identity. What does it mean to be a twin? What does it mean to be Cree? How do you define yourself when you’re forever linked to someone else? The twins discuss these questions with their two elder brothers — 22-year-old actor Asivak and 20-year-old basketball player Mahiigan — and their parents, Jules and Jake.Karihwanoron: Precious Things
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2017
Yagorihwanirats, a Mohawk child from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, attends a unique and special school: Karihwanoron. It is a Mohawk immersion program that teaches Mohawk language, culture and philosophy. Yagorihwanirats is so excited to go to school that she never wants to miss a day – even if she is sick.Impossible Figures and Other Stories I
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2021
Impossible Figures and other stories I is the first and—paradoxically—the final part of the triptych. The city, which is its subject, grows not only in space but, most importantly, in time. With all consequences.Junk Head
IMDB 6.5 | Feb , 2022
Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. The clones ruling the bottomless underworld may have become fertile. Parton is selected to go on a mission through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters to secure humanity's future.Two Trams
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2017
In one depot, two trams lived together. All day long, they traveled around the city, filling the streets with cheerful clatter, and they were happy. But in life, nothing lasts forever.Declutter
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2017
One Saturday morning, filmmaker Madison Thomas has a revelation: she’s just like her mother. As she thinks about a friend going through tough times, she feels the sudden urge to clean. Through the scrubbing and wiping and rinsing, Madison's thoughts drift to her mother — and her obsessive need to tidy. Madison’s mother survived a traumatic childhood: her own mother never reconciled what she went through at residential school. Cleaning offers moments of control that she didn’t have as a child. She’s fought hard, against all odds, to become a strong woman. They say trauma is in the genes, that it’s passed from one generation to the next. But strength is inherited too. Through rituals as simple as spending time together and smudging, Madison and her mother are beginning to mend the cycle of pain in their family. Declutter is an intimate look into a private moment between mother and daughter and the strength that carries them both.Preghiera della sera (Diario di una passeggiata)
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2021
The film recounts an experience, that of a director and his two actors at grips with a play: from the first meeting to the initial readings, the rehearsals done at home, the ones done on stage and finally the first performance. But an experience that took place in the peculiar situation in which the whole of Italian culture found itself in the days between the first and second wave of the pandemic, when it really seemed possible to restart and the feeling of euphoria was accompanied by the illusion that the worst was behind us. Once again we were suddenly checked in our desire for beauty, for life.WEED
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1971
This 1971 color anti-drug use and abuse film was produced by Concept Films and directed by Brian Kellman for Encyclopedia Britannica. “Weed: The Story of Marijuana” combines time-lapse, montage, illustrations, animation (by Paul Fierlinger and emigre Pavel Vošický) and dramatized, documentary-style interviews to survey the evolving role of cannabis in U.S. society, with emphasis on the legal risks faced by young people. A unique score of experimental synthesizer music is provided by Tony Luisi on an EMS VCS 3 “Putney”Caucasian Gates
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1929
Short documentary about the Georgian Military Road. Captures Ingush and Ossetian settlements of the early 20th centuryThe Udi people
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1993
The film is dedicated to the ethnogenesis of a small people, preserving their traditions and language, the Udi peopleClassic Cartoon Favorites, Vol. 3 - Starring Goofy
IMDB 9.5 | Jan , 2005
All of the shorts on here feature Goofy The Art of Skiing (1941) How to Fish (1942) How to Swim (1942) Baggage Buster (1941) How to Dance (1953) Lion Down (1951) The Big Wash (1948) Hold That Pose (1950) Father's Day Off (1953)The Yes Men
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2003
A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.Candy Boy
IMDB 3.4 | May , 2007
Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.