by c2o library | December 12, 2008 | No Comments
La Noire de... | dir. Ousmane Sembene | France/Senegal | 1966 | 59 mins | French w. optional English sub
The film features a young Senegalese maid who wants to go to France. It is, in essence, a simple story, told around a stark fait divers (news short) that appeared in the French press on the Coˆ te d’Azur: ‘‘Une jeune ne´gresse se tranche la gorge dans la salle ...by c2o library | December 10, 2008 | No Comments
آفساید | dir. Jafar Panahi | 2006 | Iran | 93 mins | Persian with English/Indonesian sub
Inspired by the director's daughter's story, Offside tells the story of a group of girls who try to watch a World Cup qualifying match 2005 between Iran and Bahrain, an event deemed as too obscene for women and girls to be allowed into. Banned in Iran, the film won the Silver Bear ...by c2o library | December 10, 2008 | No Comments
На Дрини ћуприја / Na Drini ćuprija | Yugoslavia | 1945 | Serbo-Croatian trans. into English
This book describes the relations between Orthodox Christian Serbs and Bosniaks (Muslims) in the town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the centuries of Ottoman and Austrian administration.
The story spans about four centuries and is in some sense a collection of short stories. What unites the book and becomes in a ...by c2o library | November 11, 2008 | No Comments
Austria | 1983 | available in English and Indonesian | Movie available
A somewhat failed musical prodigy, the strict and rigid Erika Kohut taught piano at the prestigious Vienna Conservatory during the day and trawls the porn districts by night. Living (and still sleeping in one bed) with her domineering mother, who’s “old enough to be her grandmother”, her life has been congenitally forced along her Mother’s ideal.
Mother knows ...by Danny | November 11, 2008 | No Comments
In 1944, the Jewish ghetto in the Hungarian town of Nagyvarad faces imminent deportation to death camps in Poland; the narrator of Nine Suitcases is hiding under a false identity in the hospital, along with his wife. As an intellectual, he is asked for advice on such questions as whether a girl should sleep with a guard to try to save her father and whether the sick ...by c2o library | October 11, 2008 | 2 Comments
Non-Fiction (Science) | 571.8 JUDS | Hardcover | English
Applying hilariously exaggerated anthropomorphic slants, in this book Olivia Judson creates her own Dr. Tatiana, the sex advice column aunt agony to all sorts of sexually frustrated, confused creatures. With this framework, she present an informative and entertaining tour of the interesting evolutionary biology of sex.
The columns are grouped in thirteen chapters, each focusing on certain themes (female’s promiscuousity, wooing ...by c2o library | September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment
Non-Fiction (Films & Performing Arts) | 791.430955 SADR | 2006 | 392pp | English
From the infamous introduction of cinema to Iran through the Iranian monarchy in the early twentieth century to the worldwide acclaimed post-revolutionary era, Sadr presents us with a highly readable history of Iranian cinema with its embedded and reflected social, political, cultural and economic contexts, lucidly written in a comprehensive book.
In the West, Iranian cinema ...by c2o library | September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment
Takhte Siah | Iran | 2000 | 85 mins | Colour | PG | Kurdish with English subs
In Kurdistan, the border between Iran and Iraq, a band of teachers are trudging through a barren area, seemingly without directions, each with a rickety blackboard on their back like useless, clumsy wings. Even though the atmosphere is pessimistic, there are plenty of (black,) deadpanned humour colouring this film.
In the midst ...by c2o library | September 28, 2008 | No Comments
Sorry, this entry is only available in Indonesian. by Tyas | September 18, 2008 | No Comments
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