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WEBSITE: Song of Sparrows ART DIRECTOR: Jason Wright TRAILER DIRECTOR: Greg McClatchy
Academy Award entry for Best Foreign Language Film from Iran, directed by Majid Majidi
Karim works at an ostrich farm outside of Tehran, Iran. He leads a simple and contented life with his family in his small house, until one day when one of the ostriches runs away. Karim is blamed for the loss and is fired from the farm. Soon after, he travels to the ...
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WEBSITE: Sex Positive ART DIRECTOR: Jason Wright TRAILER DIRECTOR: Greg McClatchy
Maybe it took somebody with no investment in the sexual-culture wars of the 1980s, like 24-year-old filmmaker Daryl Wein, to rediscover a lightning-rod figure like safe-sex pioneer Richard Berkowitz and present him without prejudice. A one-time S/M hustler, Berkowitz and his friend Michael Callen, supported by controversial AIDS researcher Joseph Sonnabend, began urging gay men to avoid unprotected sex as early as 1982 — and were treated as ...
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WEBSITE: No Regret ART DIRECTOR: John Beal TRAILER DIRECTOR: Greg McClatchy
Set in Seoul, South Korea, “No Regret” centers on Sumin (Lee Young-Hoon), who leaves the orphanage where he grew up and heads to the city to study art design. After losing his job at a factory due to layoffs, he finds himself working as a prostitute in a gay bar. Initially Sumin resists the advances of Jaemin (Lee Han), who comes from a rich and conservative family that ...
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WEBSITE: Serbis ART DIRECTOR: Jason Wright TRAILER DIRECTOR: Greg McClatchy
“Serbis,” from acclaimed Filipino director Brillante Mendoza, is about the Pineda family, who operates and lives in a run-down movie house that shows dated sexy double-feature films. As they go about their daily activities, we get a glimpse of how the family suffers and deals with each other’s sins and vices. Preoccupied with their own personal demons, they are unmindful that inside their movie theater another kind of ...
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