Another one issue of Anthology of Short Films, today it`s number seventy four. There are 6 mini-films here, all in high resolution
1. Alice ou la vie en noir et blanc / Alice or Life in Black and White. 2005.
Alice, having trouble with her self image, tries to hide her weight and eating disorder from her school and parents.
Director: Sophie Schoukens.
Cast: Fanny Duret, Nicole Duret, Valérie Lemaître.
Belgium, 2005.
Language: French.
Subtitles: English.
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2. Volta. 2014. HD.
A mother and daughter start out from downtown Athens and head to the northern suburbs of the city. Nina thinks she's going on a walk.
Director: Stella Kyriakopoulos.
Cast: Katerina Douka, Marisha Triantafyllidou, Christina Tsatsou, Giorgos Valais.
Greece, 2014.
Language: Greek.
Subtitles: English.
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3. La ritirata. 2009.
osa is thirteen. She has a younger sister, Lucia, and a younger brother, Dumì. At the time of the story her parents are away. She has a daily chore her mother gave her and that everybody knows about, especially her grandparents, to whom she and her brothers have been left. Rosa has a big love that she has to take care of, that she has to protect at any cost, and she is the only one to know about it. It is a love that is special and dangerous. Rosa races through the fields, every day the same path underneath a scorching sun, to reach and stay with her love, even if only for a few hours. His survival depends on her. But someone has been spying on her and she is forced to commit an extreme gesture to save her love. And he has to do the same not to compromise her. World war two is around them and in the rest of the world.
Director: Elisabetta Bernardini.
Cast: Valery Usai, Julian Siravo, Romano Talevi, Federica Dezi.
Italy, 2009.
Language: Italian.
Subtitles: English.
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4. Girlfriends. 1997.
A Northern Black girl (Britney Nicole Mitchell) of about ten years of age is sent to live with an aunt in the South since her mother can no longer afford to care for her. There, a good friend (Brighton Hertford) is made, but racist neighbors eventually separate the two..., yet not before they can swear an allegiance of friendship to each other. Twenty or so years later, the White girl is married and living with a physically abusive husband. Will her old friend's vow to help out whenever there is trouble be kept?
Director: Deborah Pratt.
Cast: Nicholas Bellisario, Troian Bellisario, Denise Cheshire, Susan French.
USA, 1997.
Language: English.
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5. El Cuento de Antonia. 2016. HD.
Battered by incessant winds, this community welcomes Antonia with a ritual of stripping bare the stories she embodies. Being recalcitrant to established orders and endowed with a beauty that defies the widespread poverty, she is the protagonist of a visionary tale for today's Colombia.
Director: Jorge Cadena.
Cast: Mitchailet Lemus, Edwin Padilla, Flor Martinez Rojas, Eudes Rosado.
Switzerland, Colombia, 2016.
Language: Spanish.
Subtitles: English.
1820x1080 HD
6. Petits gestes / Small Gestures. 2002.
A young girl before the mirror. She pretends it is cinema: she acts, flirting, in front of the camera. This very short film allies the insouciance of an child in front of a camera with the reflective, chiselled writings of Jean-Luc Godard.
Director: François Rossier.
Cast: Apolline Gratrand-Dévé.
Switzerland, Germany, 2002.
Language: French.
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