July 21, 2011

In a world where society is controlled by a totalitarian regime and children are the tool of ideological formatting, Isa realizes that her child is different from the others and that this will bring consequences to her life.

January 31, 2009

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy dependent to the access on technology, progression or any resources of information, as philosophers like Paul Virilio or Jean Baudrillard already claimed?

March 1, 2021
February 22, 2008

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

Rahmat travels to a host of islands in a vast salt pan in order to collect the inhabitant's tears for an unknown purpose. He is joined on his mysterious journey by a young boy searching for his father. As their travel nears its end, a potent critique of the Iran's political leadership emerges.

January 1, 1989

STARMANIA is a cyberpunk rock opera that premiered on stage in 1979. In the near future, most developed countries have merged. Zéro Janvier, CEO of the biggest corporation in "The Occident" (as the new Western state is known) is campaigning to become President on a platform vowing to eliminate the terrorist group The Black Stars and their leader Johnny Rockfort. He has convinced the Stars' information broker Sadia to secretly work for him, while also courting the retiring film star Stella Spotlight. Meanwhile, Johnny Rockfort plans to kidnap television sweetheart Cristal, but he falls in love with her instead. Overlooking all this is Marie-Jeanne, a waitress in the café where the Black Stars meet, and her friend Ziggy, an obsessive David Bowie fan whose dearest wish is to appear on Cristal's music program STARMANIA. The show recounts these entwined love stories set in parallel, touching also on themes of terrorism, totalitarianism, and an individual's right to decide his own destiny.

In the 1970s, a widow in a remote village takes over her husband’s barber shop. She becomes the laughing stock of the male-dominated community and in the process discovers freedom and liberation.

影片背景是處於共產主義最後統治時期的羅馬尼亞,墮胎仍是法律明令禁止的範疇。嘉碧塔和歐蒂莉亞兩個女大學生是閨中密友,意外懷孕使得嘉碧塔必須非法墮胎。 在一家廉價旅館裡,兩個年輕的女生與執行非法墮胎的醫生Domnu' Bebe見面;然而她們能夠支付的手術費用卻無法滿足這位醫生的要求——為了讓自己的好友可以順利墮胎獲得解脫,歐蒂莉亞不得不以自己的身體當作代價,電影以一場墮胎事件開始,卻帶出兩個女孩在當時所面臨的背叛和掙扎,讓人分分秒秒都身處在欺騙和陷阱中,幾乎無法喘息……而4月,3週又2天,正是嘉碧塔從懷孕到墮胎的時間。

本片號稱有史以來最棒的羅馬尼亞片,並榮獲第六十屆坎城影展,最佳影片「金棕櫚獎」、「國際評論獎」以及「國民教育獎」三項大獎殊榮,歐洲電影獎(The European Film Awards)最佳影片和最佳導演雙料獎也,讓年僅30多歲的羅馬尼亞新銳導演克里斯汀穆基Cristian Mungiu,成了羅馬尼亞電影的國際影壇大黑馬,這部穆基第二部作品也是「羅馬尼亞三部曲」的首部曲,並將代表羅馬尼亞參賽2008奧斯卡,及獲英國電影雜誌《視與聽》(Sight and Sound)年度第一佳片獎。

★2007坎城影展金棕櫚獎

December 15, 1961

C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.

December 12, 1954

A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.

Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a vaudeville act.

November 15, 2023

In a bleak and oppressive totalitarian society ruled by Big Brother, personal freedoms are nonexistent and surveillance is constant. Art is mocked and destroyed, and imagination is considered a serious illness. In this grim world, a brilliant mathematician engages in a forbidden romance with a colleague and learns about a secret resistance. He is faced with a choice - to join or betray it.

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

December 6, 2002

背景設定在未來,在那個時空下所有的情緒波動都被當成戰爭和犯罪的根源,於是被嚴格禁止。為了維護和平,每個公民每天要服用固定劑量的「普羅寧」,這種效力強大的藥,被設計來封鎖人類的感覺,讓每個人的喜怒哀樂停滯麻木。假如拒絕服藥的話,會有類似日本武士一樣的特別警察小組,身著制服將你捕殺。 直到今天,政府高層主管約翰普瑞斯頓(克里斯汀貝爾飾演)還是堅信這套系統的可行性,他利用訓練精良的特警小組來捍衛系統運作,並且毀滅那些拒絕服藥的人。直到有一天,他錯過應該定時服用的「普羅寧」,意外發現有了歡笑悲傷的世界竟然這麼不可思議,帶給他奮不顧身、爭取自由的熱情。

September 21, 1953

George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. Episode 1 of Season 6 of Studio One's anthology series.

December 14, 1984

George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

May 23, 2006

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

September 3, 2000

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

March 6, 1991

A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.

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