Movies: Hubert Bals Fund
- 2001
Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening (2001)
Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening7.82001HD
Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The gir...
- 2014
The Tribe (2014)
The Tribe6.72014HD
Deaf-mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf-and-dumb. In navigating through the school's hierarchy, he encounters a corrupt underbelly of criminality, known as The Tribe. By participating in several robberies, he gets propelled...
- 2004
The Holy Girl (2004)
The Holy Girl6.72004HD
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the g...
- 2021
Wandering Heart (2021)
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Santiago, gay single father, has reached a tipping point in his life. Reeling from a bitter breakup, he is facing the impending departure of his daughter Laila, with whom he shares a close yet emotionally charged relationship. As the fear of being al...
- 2003
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003)
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks7.62003HD
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us t...
- 2006
Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess (2006)
Heremias: Book One - The Legend of the Lizard Princess7.62006HD
A wandering peddler separates from his fellow salesman and becomes involved with criminals in the jungle....
- 1996
East Palace, West Palace (1996)
East Palace, West Palace6.41996HD
A young gay man, identified as a writer, encounters a local policeman, who arrests him for public cruising in a park. The policeman is more than professionally curious about the young man, who seems to have the cop's number and suddenly kisses him....
- 2015
Ixcanul (2015)
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María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she ...
- 2004
Osama (2004)
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After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a preteen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother....
- 2009
The Wind Journeys (2009)
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After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together...
- 2012
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012)
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE7.62012HD
Florentina Hubaldo keeps repeating her story, orally, akin to a mantra, a meditation and a prayer; her way of remembering; her means of maintaining hope for survival and redemption; fighting with what’s left of her memory. She lives and exist in a pl...
- 2000
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Mysterious Object at Noon6.42000HD
A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story. A TV-obsessed boxer, a group of schoolkids, a lonely rubber-tree tapper and feuding food vendors all add to a tale that includes witches, tig...
- 1992
Rapado (1992)
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After the theft of his motorcycle, Lucio bums aimlessly around Buenos Aires drifting from one arcade and record store to the next, indulging in short chats with friends and, more often, setting out onto the streets alone....
- 2005
4 (2005)
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Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?...
- 2012
Araf/Somewhere in Between (2012)
Araf/Somewhere in Between4.82012HD
Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their empty, monotonous li...
- 2007
The Photograph (2007)
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Sita is an escort at a karaoke bar who struggles to raise money to send her daughter out of the city to live with her grandmother and settle her debts with her pimp. She moves in with aging photographer Jan and helps him fulfill his last wishes....
- 1997
Who the Hell Is Juliette? (1997)
Who the Hell Is Juliette?4.91997HD
Filmed from 1995 to 1997 in Havana, New York, Los Angeles, Morelia and Mexico City, it tells the story of Yuliet, a Cuban teenager, and Fabiola Quiroz, a Mexican model, who, with humor and frankness, surrounded by quirky supporting characters, show u...
- 2004
Crónicas (2004)
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A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."...
- 2013
Modest Reception (2013)
Modest Reception6.42013HD
An Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying out unusual requests the couple make of them....
- 1994
The Silences of the Palace (1994)
The Silences of the Palace6.51994HD
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains....