Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=4+4294953641 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694235 Found memories: Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonios old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priests sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who is arriving in the ghost village of Jotuomba, where time seems to have stopped. A deep relationship is forged between the two women, which gradually builds to have a profound effect on both of their lives, as well as the rest of the villagers. --Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729403 Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets Mara, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1473271 When Chens estranged wife reappears asking for a divorce and custody of their daughter, the musician girl decides she will live with whoever can provide her with a piano. Chens struggle thus begins. When efforts to borrow money and even steal a piano fail, Chen concocts a preposterous plan - hell make a piano from scratch! He persuades a bunch of reluctant, but loyal, misfit friends to help him forge the instrument in a derelict factory from a heap of scrap steel. Though crude in design and tune, the factory piano awaits its first and final performance from his little girl.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1583785 Ten-year-old Gulistan and her brother Firat live in the heart of Turkish Kurdistan. Tragedy strikes when their parents are shot down by paramilitary gunmen before their very eyes. Traumatized and orphaned, Gulistan and Firat try to care for their infant sister, but their money soon runs out and theyre forced onto the street. It is there that Gulistan meets the part-time escort Dilara. Accompanying her on a hotel call one day, Gulistan is shocked to recognize Dilaras client as the murderer of her parents, and she devises a method of revenge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547612 Tell your children (Meseld el) A little girl manages to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Decades later she is confronted by a group of Neo Nazis. History repeats itself. Based on a true story--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1335667 Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan. One day, they are stopped on the street for a routine check by the police; Tania is arrested and placed in an immigration detention center for women, while Ivan manages to escape. Threatened with imminent deportation and fearful for Ivans fate, Tania embarks on a harrowing journey, determined to preserve her dignity and find her son. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375852 Young Manuel lives with his hard-working farmer parents in the remote, mountainous region of the Colombian countryside. While the adults in their lives try to avoid both the armed military and the guerrilla rebels fighting each other in the area, Manuel and his friend Julin are obsessed with playing soccer any chance they get. Shortly after his birthday, the new ball Manuel received as a gift gets kicked off to a minefield, and he and his friends will do everything in their power to recover their prized belonging. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1583789 Anna has everything she thought she could ever need: a respectable career, a caring family, and a loving partner, Alessio. But when she meets Domenico, a handsome, married waiter, her neatly ordered world begins to fall apart. They quickly fall into a heated affair, based on secret meetings, stolen caresses, cell phone fights, and endless lies. Annas increasingly distant behavior goes unnoticed by Alessio, while Domenicos wife becomes steadily more suspicious of her husband. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1347551 Silviu has only two weeks left before his release from a hostile juvenile detention center. But when his mother, who abandoned him long ago, returns to take his younger brother away--a brother Silviu raised like a son--those two weeks become an eternity. While his outcries for help fall on deaf ears, he is introduced to a beautiful social worker that he can only dream of being close to. Faced with a slew of conflicting emotions and wild with desperation, Silviu is driven to a surprising act of defiance as he makes a last grasp for freedom. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1086744 A 23-year-old Slovenia girl moves to the capital from a small town. She lives and isolated life and works as a call girl until one of her clients, a foreign politician, dies of a heart attack. Pursued by both local pimps and cops, she seeks refuge in her old home town. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1055257 A 17-year-old Kurdish refugee has struggled his way in Europe and tried to emigrated to England. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1442147 On a desolate island in the Arctic Circle, two men work at a small meteorological station, taking readings from their radioactive surroundings. One day while Sergei is out, inexperienced Pavel receives terrible news for Sergei from HQ. Intimidated, Pavel cant bring himself to disclose the information. When the truth is finally revealed, the consequences explode against a chilling backdrop of thick fog, sharp rocks, and the merciless Arctic Sea. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1133681 Lil A: 12-year-old Lil A found dance to be the perfect antidote for the severe tics he suffered because of a nervous disorder. Now the tics have subsided and he has decided to become the best dancer and choregrapher in the whole world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116503 For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo travelled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows never to play again, and embarks on one last journey to return the instrument to its rightful owner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1203023 Jorge has only a few weeks before his five-year-old son Natan leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef, and eases him into the rhythms of a fishermans life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan learns to live in harmony with life above and below the surface of the sea. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1200354 In the heart of Jaffa, Reuvens garage is a family business. His daughter Mali and his son Meir, as well as Toufik, a young Palestinian, work there. No one suspects that Mali and Toufik have been in love for years. As the two lovers are secretly making their wedding arrangements, tension builds between Meir and Toufik--imdb.com. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1045068 Storm: Hannah Maynard, prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, it looks like the case will unravel, but Hannah refuses to give in. Hoping to uncover new findings, she travels to the witness burial in Sarajevo and meets his sister Mira, who she senses has much more to say than she is willing to admit. Despite threats of violence, Mira reluctantly agrees to testify at The Hague. She and Hannah must both risk life and limb to make it to the court, only to discover that there are traitors among their own ranks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582452 In order to save their daughter, who is suffering from cancer of the blood, a divorced couple must have another child. As both have remarried, they must put their current relationships in jeopardy to test their love and commitment to one another. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993196 Tomo, just turned sixteen, and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely dificult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive. He is not comfortable in his fathers world. Both struggle to make sense of their new world, and a chance meeting in Somers Town, London leads the two to form an unexpected partnership. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=998708 Sid, the rebellious son of Kwan, a savage Hong Kong triad boss, escapes to Taiwan upon enraging his fathers adversary, a powerful underground business leader. Hiding out in the mountains, Sid encounters a group of Zen drummers. Their mesmerizing art, rigorous training, and austere way of life pique the hostile urban young mans interest and he asks to join the group. Although Sid despises his father, he is turning out to be a younger version of him: wild and defiant. Immersion in the world of the Zen drummers gradually converts him into a focused young man. Sids independence from the triad life and his father is profoundly challenged, however, when a twist of fate forces him to choose between loyalty to his family and his new found faith in himself--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=837785 When Yvan, a quick-tempered 40-year-old vintage car dealer, catches young burglar and ex-junkie Elie trying to rob him, Yvan becomes strangely attached to Elie and agrees to drive him home to his parents in his old Chevrolet, leading to a bizarre journey through Belgium for the two loners. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1031900 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621181 An untraditional Shiite woman and a Christian taxi driver find they have a lot in common when she hires him to take her to find her son during a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006. As they journey through the desolate countryside, a love grows between them in response to all the death that is surrounding them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1010526 It is a significant day for 80-year-old Antonio. His estranged son is coming to visit and all must be perfect. There will be a special champagne toast; an embrace; warm words that may finally bridge the gap between them. But first, Antonio must wait. Bedridden, he looks out his window at the Patagonian landscape and sees the past and present, while sensing the future. He escapes the eyes of his faithful caretakers and leaves the house for what might be a last walk in his fields, inhaling the scent of the land that has been his life.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1012429 Tarek, a young Palestinian man blackmailed into a suicide mission in Tel Aviv, is given a second chance at life when the fuse on his expolsive vest fails to detonate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1064867 A shy and lonely 35 year old security guard at a supermarket works the night shift monitoring the surveillance cameras. One night he discovers a 25 year old cleaning woman through one of the cameras and is immediatly attracted to her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1064866 Jan, recently released from prison after serving time for the murder of a child, has always maintained his innocence and is ready to put the past behind him. A gifted organist, he takes a job at an Oslo church under his middle name, Thomas. His talent and gentle manner quickly earn him the respect of his superiors, as well as the love of the pastor, Anna, and her little boy, Jens. But his past catches up with him when Agnes, a local teacher, comes to the church on a school visit and recognizes the organist as Jan, the man who was convicted for the murder of her son.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=807159 As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games. Ben X is the characters name but spoken quickly in Dutch as benniks, meaning I am nothing. International Movie Data Base http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765378 The morning of Tundes graduation party things have already begun to unravel. Tunde has managed to alienate his sister, Simisola. His older brother, Ade, persistently plagues him with criticism, and their mother has started drinking again. Unbeknownst to most, Tunde has orchestrated the return of his long estranged father, resurrecting unresolved family anguish against the backdrop of Tundes celebration. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=816097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=825638 Its 1988, and Melo, an Uruguayan town on the Brazilian border, awaits the visit of Pope John Paul II. 50,000 people are expected to attend, and the most humble locals believe that selling food and drink to the multitude will just about make them rich. Petty smuggler Beto thinks he has the best idea of all--he decides he will build a WC in front of his house and charge for its use. His efforts bring about unexpected consequences, and the final results will surprise everyone--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804920 Well-to-do, sophisticated couple, Elsa and Michele, have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasnt worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes her initial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful job hunt, lets himself go, alternating between vivacity and apathy. The growing distance between them eventually leads to a break-up. Only when they part will they realize that they risk losing their most precious possession: the love that binds them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=762163 In rural Mexico, during the peasant revolts of the 1970s, Plutarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio lead double lives. On the one hand, they are simple country musicians, and on the other they actively support the peasant guerrilla movement against the oppressor government. When the army occupies the village, the rebels are forced to flee and leave their ammunition behind. Making the most of the fact that he looks like an inoffensive violinist, Plutarco has a plan: to recover the munitions hidden in his cornfield. His music enraptures the captain, but he still has to get his hands on the ammunition. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=756332 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=775272 Choking man: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this intense blend of drama and magical realism from famed music video director Steve Barron. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=770314 Motorcycle: In a remote village in north-east Thailand, the only phone begins to ring. It is a call from the city that Grandfather Koons son has been killed in a motorcycle crash. Somehow, Koon must bring the body back to the village and ensure that there is a proper funeral. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=738489 A nigerian peasant comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in NE Burkina Faso, Africa. He quickly finds out the gold rush ended twenty years before and the inhabitants of this wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=715122 In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents differences. Mal is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgitos mother a poor socialist proud of her familys social standing, places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Mal and Jorgito. When the children learn that Mals mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Mals father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725645 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=733655 Das Frulein is the story of two Balkan refugees. Reza owns a restaurant and has lived in Switzerland for 25 years. Ana is a Bosnian who breezes into Rezas life and injects both joy and discontent. Happiness describes a Polish American woman who buys a box of happiness in a store and cannot decide what to do with it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=707443 Lost memory, Andreas wonders into a city. The people around him seems to have emotion problems, he tries to escape but finds no way out. Some beautiful music streams out from a crack Andrea and his friend found, but where does the music come from? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=752535 Centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=710641 Uncle: Biography of a humble man, retold by an anonymous nephew, who strings together a collection of his uncles passions, failings and beliefs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968292 Ana, a new employee in Rezas cafeteria, has high spirits that thaws Rezas joyless life in Zurich. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=704576 Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three oclock in the afternoon to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and cant see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa and her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the Mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change the destiny of the girl. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749861 An intelligent, moving and beautiful portrait of Sabine, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by her sister, the famous French actress Sandrine Bonnaire.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692995 Caleb is a charming small-town entrepreneur determined to keep his woodworking shop afloat in spite of the relentless idealism of his business partner and father, aging hippie draft-dodger Jim. When wealthy American Matthew arrives, Caleb sees a chance to turn his fortunes around provided he can keep Jim distracted long enough. Juggling mounting debts, freeloading hippie houseguests, and a budding love life, Caleb strikes a sescret deal with Matthew that could set him up for good if it doesnt destroy his entire way of life.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=658859 A little girls search for her biological mother takes the family to strife-torn Sri Lanka. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=660931 Three friends and one love triangle. All want to quest for the perfect wave and love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634038 Bursting with idealism, Melanie Prschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city; however, things dont go quite as she planned. She had hoped to be a fresh breeze to the school, but her colleagues are annoyed by her new teaching methods. Not only that, Melanie hasnt one friend in her new town. Trying not to get discouraged, she attempts to form a relationship with her neighbor Tina. As Melanies efforts become more and more desperate, Tina begins to withdraw. Soon Melanie is crossing borderlines and entangling herself in a spiral of lies.--Distributor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=681172 Be with me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope, tragedy and redemption. The protagonists in the movie are fictitious bar one -- Theresa Chan, a courageous deaf and blind woman whose life story inspired the film.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=691728 A trio of friends residing in an urban Czech housing project finds that happiness can come from the place where you least expect it in this quirky and heartfelt drama. As the shadow of the countrys largest chemical factory looms large over their bleak industrial suburb, Monika, Tonik, and Dasha hold out hope for a brighter future in another place. While supermarket employee Monikas dreams are built around the hope that she will someday venture to America to be with her boyfriend, George, Tonik secretly pines for Monika, and single mother Dasha finds comfort in the arms of a married man while slowly drifting from reality. As Tonik flees his conservative parents to live on the farm of his eccentric aunt, Dashas grip on reality finally slips -- leaving her two young children in the care of Tonik and Monika. As things begin to look up for the willing but inexperienced new parents, a lifetime of happiness is finally within their reach. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=676646 The drama, unfolded around the filming activities on the campus of a university in Tokyo, presents the modern youth of Japan, their personal life and love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=632449 Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of desperate people whose paths cross on the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Frode and Milla have their first child, but learn he will not live long without an expensive operation they cannot afford. Bobbie-Pop is a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. Leon is an institutionalized mental patient, who hopes to keep a 10-year-old date on his birthday with his teenage sweetheart. Leons brother, Trygve, gets a weekend leave from prison to be with Leon on his birthday, but plans on using the furlough to escape. Overseeing Leon and protecting him is his guardian angel Vidar, Leons best buddy at the institution, who sees things no one else can see, and who may be able to save everyone--except himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=658858 Mimi, a divorced aerobics instructor who is up to her ears in debt, leaves Montreal with her restless 14-year-old daughter and moves in with her childhood friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=700206 The story of three soccer fans, who live in the farthest-flung corners of the planet but are determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final. A global comedy featuring a family of Mongolian nomads, a camel caravan of Tuareg in the Sahara, and a group of Indios in the Amazon. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594211 When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom is suddenly wooed by a man almost half her age, her electricity hits high-voltage. Yet it is Agatas joy and magnetism in the face of life in all its irony that eventually offers the eye of the storm. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=615351 Hard-drinking, chain-smoking Ludvik spends his nights smuggling illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi is his new assistant. Together they cope with life in a rundown town, home to the only nuclear power plant in former Yugoslavia. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=574112 Blocks away from the Capitol and White House stands a tiny storefront church, endeavoring to combat the street violence, unemployment, and homelessness that threaten American families living in poverty. Over the course of a year, this feature-length documentary follows four church members as they work to fulfill their dreams for a better life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=574460 A collection of six short films from Australia, India, the United States, Japan, and Germany. In Inja, a South African landowner goes to great extremes to separate a Black boy and his puppy. Sangam features a conversation on a subway between an Indian who has just arrived in New York and a disillusioned Indian-American. Mt. Head is an animated fantasy about a man who eats some cherry seeds and ends up with a cherry tree growing out of his head. In Das Rad (also animated), two rocks who have stood atop the same hilltop for centuries, discuss the activities of the human beings below them. The first three lives of Stuart Hornsley tells the story of an abstracted physicist who, having missed out on a chance at true love because of his dedication to science, builds a time travel device to enable him to change the course of his life. Deathdealer : documentary is a mock documentary in which the Grim Reaper is protrayed along the lines of a traveling salesman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=567631 A comedy focusing on the residents of a tiny island town during the course of a strange twenty-four hours. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=574451 Antares tells three stories of passion, jealousy, routine, and violence, in which love is the cause of and driving force behind each characters emotional and physical experiences. Alex and Nicole are divorced, but Alex cannot let go of what has passed. Sonja is facing tough times because of her pregnancy and becoming wildly jealous of her husband Marco. Eva, a loyal wife and mother, has her life turned upside-down by a fling with Tomasz.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610616 A 42 year-old widowed mother of two teenage daughters wants to join the founding group of a new settlement in the West bank. This is about their struggles with the acceptance committee and their living as an outcast in the settlement. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=550988 A story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516352 A comedy drama about two parentally neglected teenagers, Placid Lake and Gemma, who find the courage to believe in themselves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=512814 Based on a true story. A man and his family on a journey 2000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycle in search for a good life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375579 In the midst of struggling to overcome her self-destructive behavior, the youngest of three sisters, Agnes (Molly Parker), returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia determined to confront the past. Her arrival sets in motion a chain of events that allows a family of women to re-connect with the world and each other in their own ways. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=938521 A gifted young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594195 A father sets off from Moscow with his 11-year-old son for his sisters house in Koktebel by the Black Sea. With no money, nor means of transportation, they drift through the expansive and mesmeric landscapes at the mercy of chance. For the father, the journey is an attempt to restore self-respect and win back the trusct of his son. For the boy, the mythic coastal town holds the key to a new life.