Ingo's hidden gems
A collection of not-so-well-known movies of very different kinds that i consider of outstanding quality and highly recommend.
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- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsAlexandra DahlströmRebecka LiljebergErica CarlsonTwo teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.The best coming of age film i have ever seen. Not surprising it's Scandinavian...
- DirectorMichael SchorrStarsHorst KrauseHarald WarmbrunnKarl-Fred MüllerSchultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.Don't worry what people think. Try something new. Live your passion. Touching, melancholic, comic, and heart-warming all at the same time.
- DirectorPhilippe LioretStarsVincent LindonFirat AyverdiAudrey DanaBilal sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe and wants to get to England to see his love who lives there.The best feature film i have seen regarding the topic of refugees.
- DirectorJacques FeyderStarsJean ForestVictor VinaPierrette HouyezA man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wanting her to take the place of his beloved mother, and makes life miserable for his new stepsister..A humanist masterpiece about love and hate, understanding, insensitivity and malice, courage, redemption and pardon. The best silent film i have ever seen.
- DirectorAleksandr ZachinyayevStarsVladimir BolshovSergey ChekryginAleksandr FilyasThe story of a boy Sanya, a pupil of a boarding school in the Far North. His father drowned in the White Sea, and one day the child's intransigence and thirst for justice lead the child to a small island. Sana will have to face the local hermit and even the police, but, most importantly, the teenager will challenge the elements themselves.A deeply pacifist and humanist coming-of-age drama. Also notable for winning the Grand Prix at the Radiant Angel Film Festival in Moscow in November 2023 - amazing that a pacifist film managed to pull that off!
- DirectorLorraine GrayFrom December 1936 to February 1937 members of the United Auto Workers organized a sit-down strike inside the General Motors Fisher Body 1 and 2 plants in Flint, Michigan. They ultimately won recognition of their union and improved wages and conditions. "With Babies and Banners" tells the story of the Women's Emergency Brigade, composed of female GM workers and the wives of men involved in the sit-down strike, which not only provided support services (like running the union kitchens that provided food to the strikers occupying the plants) but did picket duty themselves. It intercuts footage from 1937 with interviews with the same women 40 years later, still active in union politics and still pressuring the UAW to acknowledge women as equals.Brilliantly treating two topics rarely discussed: The labor movement in the USA, and the role of women in the labor movement.
- DirectorMalte RauchBernhard TürckeEva VoosenStarsJochen NixDocumentary describes the fate of 1,700 Hungarian Jewish women who were held captive and had to build the first concrete runway at Frankfurt Airport under inhumane conditions.An outstanding documentary about forced labour in Nazi Germany. The artistic quality is mesmerizing and well suited to the dire subject.
- DirectorDario AzzelliniOliver ResslerStarsJosé Luis AcostaLuis AlfonsoLuis AlvarezA vivid example of the challenges a society in the Global South faces when trying to establish a better world, to escape from the exploits of post-colonialism and global capitalism, shown from the perspective of working-class people in Venezuela. By one of the leading experts on Latin American social movements and politics, Dario Azzellini.
- DirectorNatasha ArthyStarsSemra TuranNima NabipourCyron MelvilleAicha attends Kung Fu at her high school in Copenhagen. Her Muslim, Turkish father wants her to study hard and become a doctor but instead she starts training at a Kung Fu club where Emil helps with her training. They become friends.When you are in a gloomy or depressed mood, go watch this film. It shows a lot of beauty and joy in a very simple everyday setting, and it is very encouraging, in particular from a feminist and a humanist perspective.
From an artistic perspective, the contrast of speed and stillness nicely contributes to the depiction of human rage and dignity - shown at once, in the same characters, at the same time. - DirectorNiki CaroStarsKeisha Castle-HughesRawiri ParateneVicky HaughtonA contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.Among the emotionally strongest films i have ever seen, highly recommended from a humanist and feminist perspective. Besides, an excellent example of how nowadays in New Zealand, Maori heritage is not only respected and valued, but naturally tangible in most contexts of modern everyday life, without being sacrosanct or idealized. That level of respect and constructiveness is quite unusual for countries with a recent violent colonial history.