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Deep Focus Festival: Women in Film · 2016

Deep Focus Festival: Women in Film 2016

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10 films · 2 reviews

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The Ascent (Voskhozhdenie)

The biblical story of Christ and Judas set in wartime winter Belarus.

(Country: Soviet Union; Year: 1976; Director: Larisa Shepitko; Writer: Vasiliy Bykov, Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko; Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Mariya Vinogradova, Nikolai Sektimenko, Sergei Kanishchev)

Embers

A decade after a devastating epidemic, the survivors struggle with amnesia.

(Country: Poland, US; Year: 2015; Director: Claire Carré; Stars: Jason Ritter, Iva Gocheva, Greta Fernández)

Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (Exotica, Erotica Inc)

“Sailors are like terrorists. They arrive in ports with a bomb called love and throw it,” says former prostitute Sandy, protagonist of this documentary.

(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Evangelia Kranioti; Writer: Evangelia Kranioti)

Hedi Schneider Is Stuck

A family struggles with a woman's sudden descent into depression.

(Country: Germany, Norway; Year: 2015; Director: Sonja Heiss; Stars: Laura Tonke, Hans Löw and Leander Nitsche)

I'm All Yours

An HR worker so sympathetic to those she has to fire that she sleeps with them in consolation finds that she's the only person who can save her ailing, self-centered brother.

(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Baya Kasmi; Stars: Vimala Pons, Mehdi Djaadi, Agnès Jaoui)

Life Partners

Nearing 30, Sasha and Paige realize their codependent friendship is preventing either of them from settling down. But when Paige meets the dorky yet lovable Tim, Sasha fears that she’s being replaced.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Susanna Fogel; Writer: Susanna Fogel, Joni Lefkowitz; Stars: Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody, Gabourey Sidibe, Abby Elliott, Kate McKinnon, Julie White, Rosanna DeSoto, Greer Grammer, Beth Dover, Monte Markham, Simone Bailly, Elizabeth Ho, Brennan Murray, Matthew Cardarople)

No Home Movie

Portrait of the director's mother in the last years of her life.

(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2015; Director: Chantal Akerman)

The Violators

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A respectfully written and admirably performed drama.

Luke Shaw · 3 out of 5
Two dysfunctional girls, from different backgrounds set off on a course that will have profound implications for both of them.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Helen Walsh; Writer: Helen Walsh; Stars: Lauren McQueen, Brogan Ellis, Stephen Lord, Liam Ainsworth, Derek Barr, Callum King Chadwick, Jennifer Hennessy, Roxanne Pallett, Harry Evans, Jacqueline Leonard, James Foster, Stella Grundy, Sean McKee, Andrea Davy, Karl Camilleri)

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Wings (Krylya)

Story of former fighter pilot Nadezhda Petrukhina.

(Country: Soviet Union; Year: 1966; Director: Larisa Shepitko; Writer: Valentin Ezhov, Natalya Ryazantseva; Stars: Mayya Bulgakova, Sergey Nikonenko, Zhanna Bolotova, Panteleymon Krymov, Leonid Dyachkov, Vladimir Gorelov, Yuri Medvedev, Nikolay Grabbe, Zhanna Aleksandrova, Rimma Markova, Arkadi Trusov, Olga Gobzeva, Boris Yurchenko, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Natalya Gitserot)