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It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.

An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.

1965 French film by Agnès Varda

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.

It is Manoel de Oliveira's first feature-length film. Mostly children, from Oliveira's hometown, Porto, play in its story. Aniki-Bóbó is a rhyme from a children's game, akin to Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

多罗河岸的一帮孩子迎来了他们的新成员。这个害羞的男孩不得不偷一个玩偶以获得接纳。他爱上了帮派里唯一的女孩，但她同时也是“老大”的心头好。奥利维拉作为导演的第一部作品，受瓦尔特鲁特曼《柏林：城市交响曲》影响，用父亲购买的摄影相机拍摄而 成。本片受巴罗斯助理导演发掘而得到放 映，成为了这一时期葡萄牙电影的代表作。
　　“点指兵兵”是意大利街头的儿童游戏，奥利维拉几乎完全任用非专业儿童演员，演绎了关于“愧疚与恐惧、欲望与越轨”的故事 ,超前地作出类新现实主义的实践，被认为是葡萄牙 20世纪40 年代最杰出的影片。

1930 silent film by Robert Siodmak and Edgar George Ulmer

1962 film by Jean-Luc Godard

1955 film by Agnès Varda

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

2002 Taiwan film by Yee Chin-yen

1987 film by Abbas Kiarostami

Film company co-workers Sai and Oom go their separate ways after a year. When Sai’s computer crashes one day, she discovers a year’s worth of photos have vanished from her hard drive—including shots of Oom. 36 examines the power of memory to create reality.

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

A poor miller gets tricked by the Devil and accidentally sells his daughter for a bit of gold. But Satan can't take her because she's too pure and has wept on her hands. So Satan orders the miller to cut her hands off. It's the beginning of the young girl's journey towards freedom.

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

Tadek is a teenager rebelling against the world. Just before the end of the school year, he escapes from his aunt to his sister Anka, who lives in the south of Poland. There, the lonely Tadek unexpectedly becomes aware of his erotic fascination with his sister. A film about the sinful love between a brother and a sister, about the characters’ painful adolescence and their objection to cultural taboos. Finally, a story about the freedom to choose one’s way in life.

一直作為米路斯．科曼劇本鐵三角（另一位是帕培錫，也是本片編劇之一）成員的艾雲．巴薩，當然也走低度戲劇路線。同是音樂家的彼德與卡洛老友重逢，生活狀況大不同，你有伴侶我有家庭，然而都有說不出的不明朗，唯有以酒與音樂代替口水。全片推展不問目的，只在剎那間的意圖，行行企企比起科曼更義無反顧，卻有生活淡如流水的詩意和繆思，叫觀眾聯想到二十年後的伊力．盧馬。巴薩鍾愛音樂的程度不下於文字和電影，古典音樂與民間音樂於全片迴轉迴盪，難怪成了奇斯洛夫斯基十大心愛電影之一。

康城影展青年評審團獎，美國全國影評人協會特別獎

這部1966年的珍品，是捷克新浪潮短暫生命中最佳作品之一。成名音樂家到小鎮探訪舊同學，舊同學是個窮音樂教師，有時在喪禮上吹奏樂曲。平凡的素材在巴素手裡，變出風趣復罕見的旋律，一部憂鬱的喜劇，或灰色喜劇。

- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

Ivan Passer's (Cutter's Way and Creator) last film to be made in his native Czechoslovakia is about friends – musician Petr and music teacher Karel – reunited when Petr returns to town for a performance. Passer frequently collaborated with Milos Forman and the episodic, low-action aesthetic that was evident in Forman's early work can be seen here. Years of separation have bred apprehension between the two men, and Karel's simmering jealousy makes their meeting all the more awkward. Eventually, the barriers crumble enough for the pair to freely discuss their lives. The film's simple beauty is in the details of the men's reacquainting themselves with each other, discovering each other's regrets and unfulfilled desires. Alive with pathos, humour and insight.

Special Award, National Society of Film Critics Awards

Its simple city mouse-country mouse story involves the meeting of two former schoolmates as they prepare for a small-town concert. Enlivened by Passer's flair for grotesquerie, this unassuming masterpiece maintains a delicate balance between hilarity and despair.

- Elliott Stein, Village Voice

Source: HKIFF Czech New Wave 2006

2018 Kenyan film by Wanuri Kahiu

Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.