Recently Purchased - World Language DVDs at Howard County Library

The great magician Da mo shu shi /

Year: 2013
Date added: 05/16/2013
Summary: After the revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, China was ruled by vicious landlords. A rising lieutenant uses amazing magic to scare convicts into joining his warlord's army.
Subjects: Magic - China - Drama. - War - Action and adventure films. - Historical films. - Film adaptations. - Feature films. - Fiction films. - Foreign films, Mandarin.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Sorcerer and the white snake = Bai she chuan shuo /

Date added: 05/16/2013
Summary: Based on a Chinese legend of a man who falls in love with a thousand-year-old white snake transformed into a woman. The sorcerer discovers the white snake's true identity and battles to restore balance between man and the supernatural.
Subjects: Wizards - China - Drama. - Legends - Action and adventure films. - Fantasy films. - Feature films. - Fiction films. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films, Mandarin.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Kaalpurush Memories in the mist = Kalpurush /

Year: 2008
Date added: 05/14/2013
Summary: Narrates the story of a father and a son in the backdrop of two different times and places. They were parted from each other never to meet again, yet their thirst for life and the desperation of tellling the unspoken word made them meet in the strangest situation.
Subjects: Fathers and sons - India - Drama. - Families - Foreign films, Bengali.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The brain Le cerveau /

Year: 2012
Date added: 05/14/2013
Summary: A special train has been assigned to channel secret NATO funds from Paris to Brussels. On the French side of the channel, Arthur, a resourceful small-time crook and his pal Anatole plan to hijack the train. On the English side of the channel, Brian, a brilliant super criminal, is waiting to do the same thing. But, standing in everyone's way is Scanapicco, a gangster who wants 'the Brain' dead for more than one reason.
Subjects: Train robberies - Drama. - Gangsters - Europe - Caper films. - Crime films. - Comedy films. - Action and adventure films. - Fiction films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Three colors. Kies´lowski

ISBN: 9781604655070;1604655070;9781604655230;1604655232
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: "A bold trio of stories about love and loss ... [that] was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 90s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity--but that hardly explains their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White, and Red ... examine a group of ambiguously interconnected people experiencing profound personal disruptions"--Container.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships - Drama. - Emotions - Fiction films. - Comedy films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Three colors. White

ISBN: 9781604655070;1604655070;9781604655223;1604655224
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: "A bold trio of stories about love and loss ... [that] was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 90s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity--but that hardly explains their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White, and Red ... examine a group of ambiguously interconnected people experiencing profound personal disruptions"--Container.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships - Drama. - Emotions - Fiction films. - Comedy films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Three colors. Blue

ISBN: 9781604655070;1604655070;9781604655216;1604655216
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: "A bold trio of stories about love and loss ... [that] was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 90s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, and fraternity--but that hardly explains their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White, and Red ... examine a group of ambiguously interconnected people experiencing profound personal disruptions"--Container.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships - Drama. - Emotions - Fiction films. - Comedy films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The names of love

Year: 2011
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: Baya is a young, extroverted liberal who lives by the old hippie slogan 'Make love, not war'. She seduces right-wing men to convert them to her political causes - and so far she's gotten exceptional results. That is, until she meets Arthur, a middle-aged, middle-of-the road scientist, and the sparks fly.
Subjects: Young women - Sexual behavior - Drama. - Political participation - Fiction films. - Romantic comedy films. - Comedy films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

A bottle in the Gaza Sea

Year: 2013
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Tal has emigrated from France to Jerusalem with her family. She writes a letter expressing her refusal to accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle, and her brother throws it into the sea near Gaza, where he is carrying out his military service. A few weeks later, Tal receives an e-mail response from a mysterious 'Gazaman', a young Palestinian named Naim. Thus begins a turbulent but tender long-distance friendship.
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict - Drama. - Toleration - Letters - Israel - Gaza Strip - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films, French. - Foreign films, Arabic. - Foreign films, Hebrew.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The big picture

ISBN: 0788615351;9780788615351
Year: 2013
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: Paul Exben is a handsome and successful Parisian lawyer with a perfect family and a glimmering future in the firm he co-owns with his mentor. But behind this perfect facade lies a restless spirit who's uncomfortable in his life and envies the freedom of his neighbor, Greg, an uncompromising photojournalist. After Greg's unexpected death throws his life into chaos, Paul embarks on a cross-continent odyssey of self-discovery and reinvention.
Subjects: Men - Conduct of life - Drama. - Photographers - Fiction films. - Thrillers (Motion pictures) - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The conquest

Year: 2012
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to the French presidency through the lens of his unraveling marriage to then-wife Cecilia. This lampoon depicts the future president as a bold and unashamed virtuoso of political combat, whose inattention to his disintegrating domestic partnership emerges as his chief vulnerability.
Subjects: Sarkozy, Nicolas, - Drama. - Presidents - France - Politics and government - 2007-2012 - Biographical films. - Fiction films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Children of paradise Les enfants du paradis /

ISBN: 9781604656282;160465628
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: A story which revolves around theater in 19th century Paris, and the love between the mime Debureau and the beautiful courtesan Garance who is also loved by an aristocrat, a criminal, and an actor.
Subjects: Theater and society - France - Paris - Drama. - Man-woman relationships - Mime - Fiction films. - Foreign films, French
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The flat [ha-Dirah] /

ISBN: 0788616439;9780788616433
Year: 2013
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: "Filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger travels to Tel Aviv to clean out the apartment of his recently-deceased German-born Jewish grandmother. ... Goldfinger begins an unsettling journey into his family's history ... and discovers that knowing the truth can be a terrible burden. ... The Flat is a real-life suspense story about how the past can return to haunt the present"--Container.
Subjects: Jews, German - Israel - Biography. - Grandparent and child - Israel. - Zionism - History. - Family secrets. - Documentary films. - Nonfiction films. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films, German. - Foreign films, Hebrew.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Norwegian wood

ISBN: 1422918734;9781422918739
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: "Tokyo, the late 1960s. Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe's personal life is similarly in turmoil. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not, outgoing, vivacious, and supremely self-confident, marches into his life and Watanabe must choose between his past and his future"--Container.
Subjects: Psychosexual disorders - Japan - Drama. - Man-woman relationships - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) - Motion pictures - Japan. - Film adaptations. - Fiction films. - Foreign films, Japanese.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Kahaani a mother of a story /

Year: 2012
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: Set in the backdrop of the Durga Puja in Kolkata, Kahaani is a desperate heart wrenching and suspenseful tale of a pregnant woman Vidya Bagchi in search of her missing husband. Just like the city-Kolkata, there are many twists and turns in Vidya's quest, wherein nothing is what it seems and danger lurks in every corner. Vidya's Kahaani moves deeper and deeper into the mystery, raising the stakes and putting her life more and more at risk, reaching a cataclysmic and devastatingly shocking end.
Subjects: Investigations - Drama. - Kolkata (India) - Thrillers (Motion pictures) - Foreign films, Hindi.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

La terra trema

ISBN: 1417233788;9781417233786
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: In a poor Sicilian village, where the fishermen have been exploited for generations, a young soldier returns home from war convinced that by working together the townspeople can change the system to overcome their adversities.
Subjects: Families - Italy - Drama. - Fisheries - Sicily - Fishers - Sicily (Italy) - Social life and customs - Fiction films. - Foreign films, Italian.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Time of my life

Year: 2013
Date added: 05/13/2013
Summary: Thomas and Mario are friends for life. Lynn is the girl they both love and Speck the loose cannon who is the fourth wheel to their wagon. Mario is a fiercely ambitious young man with big plans for an exciting future. Just when his political career is about to get under stream, he is suddenly diagnosed with a disease that changes the course of his life. Based on a true story, this is the journey of a combative Multiple Sclerosis patient and the group of friends and family that stand by him to legalize euthanasia in Belgium.
Subjects: Friendship - Drama. - Multiple sclerosis - Patients - Belgium - Euthanasia - Biographical films. - Foreign films, Dutch.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

La ardilla roja

Year: 2012
Date added: 05/10/2013
Summary: On the verge of committing suicide after he loses his girl and has become a washed-up rock singer, Jota sees a motorcycle go over the side of a boardwalk. Going to investigate, he finds a young woman who has lost her memory. Jota convinces her that she has been living with him for several years and takes her to a camping site, The Red Squirrel, where he says they will become reacquainted. As her memory begins to return, events take an unexpected turn.
Subjects: Amnesia - Drama. - Man-woman relationships - Camping - Detective and mystery films. - Foreign films, Spanish.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Hara-kiri Death of a samurai /

ISBN: 1422922812;9781422922811
Year: 2013
Date added: 05/08/2013
Summary: "An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord."--IMDb.com
Subjects: Samurai - Japan - Drama. - Suicide - Feature films. - Action and adventure films. - Foreign films, Japanese. - Fiction films.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Clandestine childhood

Dragon Wu xia /

Year: 2013
Date added: 04/26/2013
Summary: Liu Jin-xi is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu. Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy hero and draws the attention of China's criminal underworld in the process.
Subjects: Martial arts - China - Drama. - Gangsters - Heroes - Martial arts films. - Crime films. - Action and adventure films. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films, Mandarin.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Miracle of Marcellino

Year: 2004
Date added: 04/24/2013
Summary: Story of an orphaned baby found on a doorstep by friars of a humble monastery.
Subjects: Orphans - Drama.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

A.B.C Africa

ISBN: 1567304052;9781567304053
Year: 2005
Date added: 04/12/2013
Summary: Over the course of a 10-day visit to Uganda in 2001, Abbas Kiarostami uses his camera to capture and caress the faces of a thousand orphans. An alternately heartbreaking and optimistic view of the results of the AIDS epidemic and civil war.
Subjects: Orphans - Uganda. - Uganda - Social conditions - 1979- - Children of AIDS patients - Documentary films. - Experimental films. - Foreign films, Persian.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Code inknown incomplete tales of several journeys = Code inconnu : re´cit incomplet de divers voyages /

Year: 2002
Date added: 04/12/2013
Summary: On a bustling Paris street corner, four separate lives intersect, interweaving the stories of a promising actress, her photojournalist boyfriend, a teacher of African descent, and a Romanian illegal immigrant. A portrait of life in a fractured, lonely world.
Subjects: Actresses - France - Paris - Drama. - Photojournalists - Teachers, Black - Illegal aliens - Foreign films, French. - Fiction films.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The camp

Year: 2011
Date added: 04/12/2013
Summary: A group of excited kids along with their camp instructor set out on a fun filled adventure camp in the remote wilderness far, far away from Mumbai! Although their journey starts off as fun and games two kidnapping goons who are armed and dangerous kidnap one of the campers. So the campers take it into their own hands to rescue their friend.
Subjects: Camping - India - Drama. - Kidnapping - Fiction films. - Foreign films, Hindi.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

9 star hotel U¯ti¯l tis? nuju¯m /

ISBN: 1417201320;9781417201327
Year: 2007
Date added: 04/12/2013
Summary: A look at some of the many Palestinians who illegally cross the border into Israel looking for work, and how they share their food, belongings, and stories, as well as a fear of the soldiers and police.
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs - Israel. - Illegal aliens - Employment - Arab-Israeli conflict. - Documentary films. - Nonfiction films. - Foreign films, Arabic. - Foreign films, Hebrew.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The boy Mir ten years in Afghanistan /

Year: 2010
Date added: 04/12/2013
Summary: Tracks the irrepressible and lovable Mir from a naive eight-year-old to a fully grown adult. Over the decade, it not only is a journey that follows Mir as he journeys into early adulthood in one of the toughest places on earth, but it's a film that is unmatched in mirroring and revealing the vitally important story of modern Afghanistan.
Subjects: Afghanistan. - Taliban. - Teenagers - Documentary films. - Nonfiction films. - Foreign films, Dari.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

A royal affair = En kongelig affære /

Date added: 04/10/2013
Summary: The passionate and forbidden romance between the mad Danish King, the royal physician, and the young but strong-willed Queen leads to a revolution that changes an entire nation.
Subjects: Caroline Mathilde, - Drama. - Struensee, Johann Friedrich, - Queens - Denmark - Man-woman relationships - History - Christian VII, 1766-1808 - Romance films. - Historical films. - Fiction films. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Chicken with plums Poulet aux prunes /

Year: 2013
Date added: 04/03/2013
Summary: Nasser-Ali Khan appears to care more about his career than his family, but there is more to him than just the surface. After his beloved violin breaks, he sets out to replace it with his son's help. But when he cannot replace the instrument, he decides that the only solution to his sorrow is death. As he lies in bed waiting to die, his wife provides him with delicacies, such as chicken and plums, to help him find a reason to live again. Along the way, the family explores life with a view of beauty and humor.
Subjects: Khan, Nasser Ali - Drama. - Tar (Lute) players - Iran - Biography - Film adaptations. - Feature films. - Fiction films. - Biographical films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Even the rain Tambie´n la lluvia /

Year: 2012
Date added: 04/03/2013
Summary: "Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken. Inspired by the real-life Water Wars in Bolivia in the year 2000"--Container.
Subjects: Motion pictures - Production and direction - Bolivia - Drama. - Green movement - Water-supply - Historical films. - Melodramas (Motion pictures) - Fiction films. - Feature films. - Foreign films, Spanish.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

A¯job prem ebong--

Year: 2012
Date added: 04/02/2013
Summary: This is a black comedy based on the travails of a young widow who attempts to seek justice for the death of her husband in a politically oppressive environment. When her husband is recklessly run over by the local political leader's bus, Moyna, refuses to bow down to the tyrannical pressure that her in-laws succumb to. She demands justice and fights for it with the help of the bus conductor, Nakul, and the mathematics teacher, Bajranath Sikdar.
Subjects: Widows - India - Drama. - Social life and customs - Comedy films - India. - Foreign films, Bengali.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Black eagle

Year: 2013
Date added: 04/02/2013
Summary: A hotshot elite Air Force pilot Tae-hun is kicked off the military's top-notch Black Eagle air team and demoted into combat. Arriving at his new unit, the fighter is quickly popular with the majority of the squad. But Tae-hun's soon causes tension with the unit's own ace top gun, the strait-laced Cheol-hui. When a North Korean MIG fighter enters their air space, a reconnaissance mission erupts into a fierce dogfight, so they must set aside their differences and lead the way to rescue.
Subjects: Air pilots - Fiction. - Aerial reconnaissance - United States. - Action and adventure films. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films, Korean.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Rust and bone De rouille et d'os /

Year: 2013
Date added: 04/02/2013
Summary: Ali and his son depart Belgium for Antibes to reside with his sister and her husband. Ali's connection with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, intensifies when she endures a horrific accident.
Subjects: Foreign films, French. - Accidents - Drama. - Man-woman relationships - Thrillers (Motion pictures) - Feature films. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Hitler's children

Year: 2013
Date added: 04/01/2013
Summary: "Adolf Hitler did not have children, but what of the families of Hermann Gring, Heinrich Himmler and Hans Frank, to name a few? What is it like for the descendants of these top Nazi officials to deal with the legacy left behind by their notorious families? HITLER'S CHILDREN introduces us to the children, grandchildren and nieces and nephews of these infamous men. Among them Niklas Frank, son of Hans Frank and godson of Hitler, who despises his father's past so much that he has spent his entire adult life researching and writing negatively about him, often touring around Germany to lecture against his father and the Nazi regime. And Bettina Gring, the great-niece of Hitler's second in command, Hermann Gring, who lives in voluntary exile in Santa Fe, NM and together with her brother decided to get sterilized so as to not pass on the Gring name or blood. These, and many others, discuss how they have coped with the fact that their last name alone immediately raises images of murder and genocide; and how they have reached a balance between the natural admiration and affection children feel towards their parents, and their innate revulsion of their crimes. Some have been more successful than others at achieving that balance, but each bares, for the first time, the scars that their legacy has left them." -- filmmovement.com
Subjects: Frank, Niklas, - Goering, Bettina. - Himmler, Katrin, - Children of Nazis - Interviews. - Germany - History. - National socialism - Psychological aspects. - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Conflict of generations - Germany. - Guilt. - Documentary films. -
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

King of triads

Year: 2012
Date added: 03/22/2013
Summary: As is tradition in the Hong Kong underworld, after the execution of a crime organization's leader, a new boss is called. But after the new man in charge begins extorting the former crime head's children for money to pay off debts, the family will stop at nothing to seek redemption and seize control of the triad.
Subjects: Triads (Gangs) - Drama. - Hong Kong (China) - Extortion - Gangster films. - Action and adventure films. - Martial arts films. - Fiction films. - Feature films. - Foreign films, Cantonese. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Mysterious island Gu dao jing hun/

Year: 2011
Date added: 03/22/2013
Summary: A group of attractive young strangers joined a 'survival game' led by a TV host and a photographer on a remote desert island. Each person had their own agenda, but was chasing after a common goal: one million dollars prize! Greed drove them to plot against each other since the moment they boarded the boat, yet lust was still brewing among the youngsters under the blue sky on the vast sea. No one sensed the danger crawling near.
Subjects: Revenge - Drama. - Survival films. - Horror films. - Feature films. - Foreign films, Cantonese.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Post mortem

Paseo Voyage /

Year: 2012
Date added: 03/20/2013
Summary: A single mother decides to go on a trip from Santiago to the north of Chile with her only son. They are going to meet up with the child's father, a Chilean coal miner, after ten years of separation. The trip is plagued by silence, as the uneasy relationship between mother and son evolves and secrets of the past are brought to the surface. What is left unsaid may carry more meaning than anything spoken.
Subjects: Mothers and sons - Drama. - Absentee fathers - Feature films. - Fiction films. - Foreign films, Spanish.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Fertile memory

Year: 2004
Date added: 03/20/2013
Summary: Blending both documentary and narrative elements, Khleifi crafts a story of two Palestinian women whose individual struggles both define and transcend the politics that have torn apart their homes and their lives. Shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank "Green Line."
Subjects: Women, Palestinian Arab - West Bank - Drama. - Women - Jewish-Arab relations - Feature films. - Foreign films, Arabic.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The debt

ISBN: 0788610988;9780788610981
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/20/2013
Summary: 1964: three young Mossad agents capture the 'Surgeon of Birkenau, ' a monstrous Nazi war criminal. While being brought to public trial, the Surgeon manages to escape. Faced with failure in their mission, the agents report their captive committed suicide and return to Israel as national heroes. 1997: more than thirty years later, the supposedly dead Surgeon resurfaces in the Ukraine, determined to confess his crimes.
Subjects: Israel. - Drama. - Spies - Israel - Espionage - War criminals - Germany - Feature films. - Thrillers (Motion pictures) - Political films. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films, German. - Foreign films, Hebrew.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Elite squad

Found memories

Year: 2012
Date added: 03/20/2013
Summary: Land of the heroes (film from Belgium): "All 10-year-old Dileer and his sister Zienee want to do is watch cartoons, but they must contend with TV propaganda, collecting used weapons for their mother to resell, and their bullying cousin"--Container.
Subjects: Brazil - Drama. - Photographers - Villages - Feature films. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films, Portuguese.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

El mural

The butcher the chef and the swordsman Dao jian xiao /

Year: 2011
Date added: 03/08/2013
Summary: In this fast-paced, 'cutting-edge' action-comedy, a mystical blade transforms the lives of three ambitious men. This trilogy of intertwined stories based on desire, vengeance, and greed proves that the power of the blade is matched only by the trouble it brings to its owners.
Subjects: Swords - Drama. - Comedy films. - Action and adventure films. - Feature films. - Foreign films, Mandarin. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

This is not a film

Year: 2012
Date added: 03/08/2013
Summary: This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (Offside, The Circle) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his sentence, six years in prison and a 20 year ban from filmmaking, Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, discussing his plight with Mirtahmasb.
Subjects: Panahi, Jafar. - Political prisoners - Iran - Biography. - Motion picture producers and directors - Documentary films. - Nonfiction films. - Foreign films, Persian.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Tree with deep roots. Disc 7

Year: 2012
Date added: 03/04/2013
Summary: A dramatization of the invention of Hangeul (or Hangul), the Korean written script, in the 15th century in the Yi dynasty. For years, King Lee Do has been working covertly on the creation of a Korean alphabet that would make literacy possible for commoners. As the alphabet nears completion, the scholars involved in the project begin to die one by one. Assigned to investigate the mystery, palace guard Chae-yoon links the serial killings to a secret society plotting to overthrow the throne. However, unbeknownst to all, Chae-yoon also has a secret motive of his own.
Subjects: Sejong, - Drama. - Korean language - Alphabet - Serial murder investigation - Korea - Literacy - Television programs - Korea (South) - Choso?n dynasty, 1392-1910 - Detective and mystery television programs. - Television series. - Foreign films, Korean.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Tree with deep roots. Disc 6

Tree with deep roots. Disc 5

Tree with deep roots. Disc 4

Tree with deep roots. Disc 3

Tree with deep roots. Disc 2

Tree with deep roots. Disc 1

Year: 2012
Date added: 03/04/2013
Summary: A dramatization of the invention of Hangeul (or Hangul), the Korean written script, in the 15th century in the Yi dynasty. For years, King Lee Do has been working covertly on the creation of a Korean alphabet that would make literacy possible for commoners. As the alphabet nears completion, the scholars involved in the project begin to die one by one. Assigned to investigate the mystery, palace guard Chae-yoon links the serial killings to a secret society plotting to overthrow the throne. However, unbeknownst to all, Chae-yoon also has a secret motive of his own.
Subjects: Sejong, - Drama. - Korea - Choso?n dynasty, 1392-1910 - Korean language - Alphabet - Serial murder investigation - Literacy - Television programs - Korea (South) - Detective and mystery television programs. - Television series. - Foreign films, Korean.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The heir apparent Largo Winch /

Year: 2012
Date added: 03/04/2013
Summary: When billionaire financier Nerio Winch and head of the W Group is murdered, his second in command must locate his only heir, a heretofore unknown adopted son, Largo. But first the heir, a twenty-something adventurer, must overcome an onslaught of drug traffickers, assassins, corporate raiders and double-dealing insiders to fulfill his destiny in this twisty, fast-paced corporate thriller.
Subjects: Inheritance and succession - Drama. - Adopted children - Feature films. - Fiction films. - Thrillers (Motion pictures) - Action and adventure films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Bleak night

Author: Yoon, Sung Hyun
ISBN: 157032736
Year: 2013
Date added: 03/04/2013
Summary: A grieving father seeks to understand the circumstances that led his teenage son, Ki-tae, to commit suicide. The discovery of a photo prompts him to seek out the young man's friends, Dong-yoon and Hee-june. Before viewers' eyes, a complex picture of the dynamic between them develops - friends and foes-bullies and victims-brothers and strangers. What could have pushed the bond between the three young men past its breaking point?
Subjects: Suicide - Korea - Drama. - High school students - Feature films. - Fiction films. - Foreign films, Korean.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Kaala patthar

Year: 2012
Date added: 03/04/2013
Summary: A disgraced naval officer, a dedicated engineer, an escaped convict, and others from different walks of life fight to save workers during a coal mining disaster.
Subjects: Coal miners - India - Drama. - Coal mine accidents - Courage - Disaster films - Feature films - Foreign films, Hindi.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Fog and crimes. Season 1

Year: 2012
Date added: 03/04/2013
Summary: The River Po dominates the region of Ferrara with its seasons, its power and its mystery. It nourishes the close-knit fishing communities who live on its banks, and it also hides their secrets. Secrets that are sometimes uncovered by people like police inspector Franco Soneri.
Subjects: Crime - Italy - Ferrara. - Police - Television mini-series. - Television crime shows. - Fiction television programs. - Foreign films, Italian.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The intouchables

Year: 2013
Date added: 03/01/2013
Summary: An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust, and human possibility. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker, The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.
Subjects: People with disabilities - Drama. - Millionaires - Ex-convicts - Friendship - Feature films. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

A simple life

Year: 2013
Date added: 02/28/2013
Summary: Roger is a successful movie producer. Ah Tao has worked for Roger's family as a nanny and maid over the course of four generations. When Roger comes home to find Ah Tao's suffered a severe stroke and she is unable to care for herself, he agrees to help her relocate to a nursing home. He wants to help, but fears he'll fail her. She needs his kindness, but doesn't want to be a burden. As their roles reverse, he becomes her caregiver, and comes to understand how much she means to him.
Subjects: Women household employees - Drama. - Caregivers - Kindness - Hong Kong (China) - Social life and customs - Feature films. - Fiction films. - Foreign films, Cantonese.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The legend is born Ip Man /

ISBN: 1421023954;9781421023953
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/28/2013
Summary: Packed with Kung Fu combat and thick with drama, The Legend is Born follows Ip Man as he grows from a promising young pupil into an unstoppable force. When political corruption threatens his temple, his friends, and his honor, Ip Man single-handedly challenges a swarm of shinobi in an ultimate showdown.
Subjects: Man, Ip - Drama. - Martial artists - China - Martial arts - Biographical films. - Martial arts films. - Fiction films. - Feature films. - Foreign films, Cantonese.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Salt of this sea

Year: 2010
Date added: 02/28/2013
Summary: Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather's savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Direct, stubborn, and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of "returning" to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even if it's illegal.
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs - West Bank - Drama. - Palestine - Fiction films. - Feature films. - Foreign films, Arabic.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

We have a pope

ISBN: 0788615998;9780788615993
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/28/2013
Summary: At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville. But the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square wait in vain for the new Pope to step out on the balcony. Behind the thick walls of the Vatican panic has set in. After uttering a terrible howl of fear, the Cardinal refuses the office. The officials do everything to try to reason with Melville, including a psychoanalyst, appointed by the Vatican.
Subjects: Popes - Drama. - Vatican Palace (Vatican City) - Comedy films. - Feature films. - Fiction films. - Video recordings for the hearing impaired. - Foreign films, Italian.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The Pinochet case

Year: 2012
Date added: 02/28/2013
Summary: A film that explores how a small group of people in Madrid laid the groundwork for catching a dictator 25 years after his rise to power, making him the first to be humbled by the international justice system since the Nuremberg Trials. When Pinochet finally returned to Chile, he faced 200 accusations of his crimes, this time in Chilean courts. In January 2001, Pinochet was placed under house arrest, and the Chilean justice system finally started to make up for lost time.
Subjects: Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto - Trials, litigation, etc. - Trials (Political crimes and offenses) - Great Britain. - Extradition - Spain. - Torture - Chile - History - 20th century. - Politics and government - 1973-1988. - Crimes against humanity - Chile. - Fe
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

My tutor friend 2

Year: 2012
Date added: 02/28/2013
Summary: Junko, a Korean resident in Japan comes to Korea as a transfer student to find the boy that she likes. She arrives at a guesthouse and is happy to have her own room, delicious food and a kind owner. She doesn't realize that the room is actually taken by the owner's son, Jong-man, who passes out in the room. She wants to leave but the owner persuades her to stay by offering her the room and Korean language lessons...from Jong-man. What ensues is a hilarious adventure.
Subjects: Tutors and tutoring - Drama. - Feature films. - Romantic comedy films. - Fiction films. - Foreign films, Korean.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Goodbye first love

ISBN: 0788614746;9780788614743
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/27/2013
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Camille is a serious girl who has fallen in love with the cheerful Sullivan, an older boy who returns her feelings but wants to be free to explore the world. When he leaves her in order to travel, she is at first devastated, but in the following years she develops into a more fully formed woman with new interests and a new love and the possibility that she'll be less defenseless when Sullivan enters her life again.
Subjects: Teenagers - Drama. - First loves - Feature films. - Fiction films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Children of love Les enfants de l'amour /

Year: 2007
Date added: 02/27/2013
Summary: Michael, Winnie and Aurelie are three children of divorced parents. It is Friday morning and they are getting ready to spend their weekend with their fathers. Winnie (12) suffers because of the difficult relationship she has with her father and a lack of affection from her stepfather. For Michael (9), his father is a real hero and he blames his stepfather for the divorce. Aurelie (5), their younger sister, is very happy to see her father and doesn't understand why her enthusiasm isn't shared by her siblings.
Subjects: Children of divorced parents - Drama. - Father and child - Dysfunctional families - Parenting, Part-time - Brothers and sisters - Foreign films, French. - Feature films. - Melodrama.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The well-digger's daughter

Year: 2012
Date added: 02/27/2013
Summary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.
Subjects: Fathers and daughters - France - Drama. - Unmarried mothers - 19th century - Social life and customs - Provence (France) - Pagnol, Marcel, - Film adaptations. - Fiction films. - Historical films. - Romance films. - Feature films. - Video recordings for th
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Cet amour-la´

ISBN: 1567303927;9781567303926
Year: 2005
Date added: 02/27/2013
Summary: Marguerite Duras is one of the most widely read French novelists today. She had a celebrated love affair with Yann, her much younger muse and apprentice. The film also offers an insight into the heart and mind of one of the world's literary figures.
Subjects: Duras, Marguerite - Drama. - Man-woman relationships - France - Feature films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Bombay March 12th Bo¯mbe¯ /

Year: 2011
Date added: 02/27/2013
Summary: The movie follows the life of Mammooty, a municipality sweeper who is always under suspicion die to his brother-in-law, who is named as a terrorist and is killed in an encounter by the Army in the Andhra Border. Mammootty and his wife Roma is summoned before law many times and is repeatedly questioned so as to frame them as supporters to terrorist acts. And on the very next day of the Coimbatore blasts, Mammootty is taken by the investigating officers.
Subjects: Bombay Riots, Mumbai, India, 1992-1993 - Drama. - India - Social conditions - Feature films. - Foreign films, Malayalam.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Teddy Bear

Year: 2012
Date added: 02/27/2013
Summary: Dennis: "When introverted bodybuilder Dennis invites a local girl out on a date his mother is hurt and disappointed. Despite the pressure she puts on him to cancel the date, Dennis ventures into a night that he will never forget. This award-winning short was the basis for Teddy Bear"--Container.
Subjects: Bodybuilders - Drama. - Thailand - Denmark - Feature films. - Foreign films, Danish.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

The Gerber syndrome

Year: 2013
Date added: 02/27/2013
Summary: A TV crew is making a documentary about a new pathology. It's the Gerber syndrome, and doesn't look like a normal flu. Through the testimony of three people that are directly involved with the disease - a doctor, an infected girl, and a young security agent - the truth is revealed, and it is way more terrifying than what the authorities want us to believe. Because the Gerber syndrome is already among us. And it's very contagious.
Subjects: Communicable diseases - Drama. - Feature films. - Thrillers (Motion pictures) - Science fiction films. - Foreign films, Italian.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Fog and crimes. Season 2, Disc 3

Year: 2012
Date added: 02/26/2013
Summary: The River Po dominates the region of Ferrara with its seasons, its power and its mystery. It nourishes the close-knit fishing communities who live on its banks, and it also hides their secrets. Secrets that are sometimes uncovered by people like police inspector Franco Soneri.
Subjects: Crime - Italy - Ferrara. - Police - Television crime shows. - Fiction television programs. - Foreign films, Italian.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Fog and crimes. Season 2, Disc 2

Fog and crimes. Season 2, Disc 1

The kid with a bike

ISBN: 9781604656909;1604656905
Year: 2013
Date added: 02/22/2013
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Cyril, all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, the stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on."--Container.
Subjects: Abandoned children - Drama. - Foster mothers - Fathers and sons - Group homes - Belgium - Seraing - Seraing (Belgium) - Fiction films. - Feature films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Planet of Snail

ISBN: 0781514169;9780781514163
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/22/2013
Summary: Young-Chan, an accomplished young poet, comes from the Planet of Snail. Dwellers of this tiny planet are deaf and blind, and call themselves "snails" because they rely on their tactile senses and communicating by touch. Young-Chan lives with his wife, Soon-Ho, who is his soul mate and window to the outside world. They rely on each other completely. Along with Young-Chan's personal writings, Yi Seung-jun captures life on what seems like another planet, where touch communicates everything and love conquers all.
Subjects: Cho, Young-Chan. - Deafblind people - Korea. - Poets, Korean. - Documentary films. - Nonfiction films. - Foreign films, Korean.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Silent souls

Year: 2011
Date added: 02/20/2013
Summary: Tough guy Miron asks taciturn writer Aist to accompany him on a long journey to dispose of his dead wife's remains according to the rituals of the Merya people, an ancient tribe from picturesque West-Central Russia. As the two friends traverse the evocatively bleak landscape with her body and a pair of caged birds, Miron fills the hours relating the most intimate details of his marriage.
Subjects: Merya (Finnish tribe) - Drama. - Love - Russia (Federation) - Fiction films. - Feature films. - Foreign films, Russian.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

Alps

Year: 2012
Date added: 02/20/2013
Summary: "An oddball group of four people (made up of two hospital employees, a gymnast, and her coach) form a secret society that sets out to ease the grieving process for those whose loved ones have died. For a fee they will act the part of the missing family member -- learning their hobbies and eccentricities -- in order to help the customer accept their loss. As methadone is to heroin addiction, so are the Alps, as they call themselves, to the mourning process. But when the nurse known as Monte Rosa begins to attach too deeply to her subjects, their project spirals out of control into violence and confusion."--Container.
Subjects: Loss (Psychology) - Drama. - Attachment behavior - Bereavement - Feature films. - Melodramas (Motion pictures) - Fiction films. - Foreign films, Greek.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE

War witch Rebelle/

Year: 2012
Date added: 02/13/2013
Summary: A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
Subjects: Child soldiers - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Drama. - Kidnapping - Feature films. - Foreign films, French.
Call number: DVD WORLD LANGUAGE