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Synopsis: A piglet won by Farmer Hoggett as a
raffle prize is raised by Fly, the matriarch sheepdog, as one of her
own. His owner senses something special in Babe and makes sure he learns
sheep herding along with his new brothers. Babe proves so adept, in
fact, that Farmer Hoggett enters him in the world sheepdog championship. &n
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Synopsis: What does it mean to age
gracefully? For 75-year-old Frantisek "Fanda” Hána, it means something
other than what most other elderly people do. Fanda has no intention of
giving in to the loneliness, despair and indignities of a typical
retirement. Fanda never bends from his feisty personal philosophy,
despite a barrage of constant badgering from his wife, Emílie, who
continually tells him he needs to start taking life seriously. Unlike
her husband, Emílie is careening towards the end of her life, driven by
an obsession with saving enough money to pay for her
meticulously-planned funeral and burial arrangements.In defiance of such
fatalistic practicality, Fanda spends much of his time with his friend,
Eda, to keep engaged with life to the fullest. &n
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Leonardo, the long time partner of Charlotte, a world renowned concert
pianist, has just passed away. Because of Leonardo's passing,
Charlotte's daughter, Eva, formerly a journalist, has invited her mother
for an extended stay at the country home where she lives with her
minister husband Viktor. Despite not having seen Eva in seven years as
Charlotte is absorbed solely in her own life, Charlotte agrees. Upon
arrival at the parsonage, Charlotte learns that her other daughter,
Helena, is now living there with Eva as well. Helena, who is mentally
disabled, used to be institutionalized until Eva decided to look after
her herself starting two years ago. In some respects, Eva taking care of
Helena replaces taking care of her son Erik, who accidentally drowned
when he was four. Eva takes solace in believing that Erik is still a
major part of her life despite his death. Charlotte also has not seen
Helena in quite some time, and Eva surmis
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Synopsis: Bursting with imagination and
having seen her share of tragedy and fantasy, Amelie is not like the
other girls. When she grows up she becomes a waitress in a Montmartre
bar run by a former dancer. Amelie enjoys simple pleasures until she
discovers that her goal in life is to help others. To that end, she
invents all sorts of tricks that allow her to intervene incognito into
other people's lives, including an imbibing concierge and her
hypochondriac neighbor. But Amelie's most difficult case turns out to be
Nino Quicampoix, a lonely sex shop employee who collects photos
abandoned at coin-operated photobooths. &nb
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Synopsis: Manuela, a nurse and single mother
in her late thirties, must come to terms with the tragic loss of her
only son, Esteban, when he is struck by a car. She never told Esteban
who he was, "your father died long before you were born" was all she
ever told him. In memory of her son -- who's his father's namesake --
Manuela leaves Madrid and goes to Barcelona in search of Esteban's
father. However, the man that she left behind eighteen years earlier
when she was pregnant is now a transvestite named Lola. The search for a
man with that name cannot be simple. And indeed it isn't.  
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Synopsis: Life isn't easy for a group of high
school kids growing up in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they
negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet,
lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause
seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou,
embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in
Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their
lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual
identities, a final logging-off from innocence.  
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Synopsis: Felice is living a dangerous life:
in the middle of World War II Berlin she is a Jew and a lesbian, working
undercover at a Nazi newspaper where she finds information to take to
the Jewish underground. One day she meets Lilly, her lover Ilse's
employer, and falls in love with this bourgeois, Nazi-supporting
hausfrau. Their affair is as intense as it is dangerous, with Felice in
constant danger of discovery. In their own ways, each woman challenges
what is expected of her.
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Synopsis: The magical Mole Antonelliana (the
cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting and
inspiration for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening,
Martino, an avid cinephile and the museum's timid night watchman, comes
to the aid of Amanda, an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from
the police after dousing her overbearing boss with hot oil. Martino's
dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for
Amanda, as she awaits rescue by her devilish car-jacking boyfriend
Angel. Spellbound by the museum, Amanda develops a surprising romantic
connection with Martino, who until now has only found companionship in
his celluloid dreams. Torn between her newfound feelings for Martino and
her troubled relationship with the irresistible Angel, Amanda attempts
to balance the affections of her two suitors. Misadventure and chaos
ensue as the charact
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Synopsis: Inspired by a Korean legend, this
is the odyssey of two sisters, who after spending time in a mental
institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother.
Their recovery is affected by their stepmother's increasing cruelty,
together with appearances of the ghost of their mother, which creates an
atmosphere of strange occurrences and irrespirable fear.  
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Synopsis: Tae-suk is homeless and lives like a
phantom. His daily routine involves temporarily staying in houses and
apartments he knows to be vacant. He never steals from, nor damages, his
unknowing hosts' homes; rather, he is like a kind ghost, sleeping in
other people's beds, eating a little food out of strangers'
refrigerators and repaying their unintended hospitality by doing the
laundry or making small repairs. Once a beautiful model, Sun-hwa has
become withered living under the shadow of her abusive husband who keeps
her imprisoned in their affluent, expensively decorated house. Tae-suk
and Sun-hwa are bound by fate to cross paths though their invisible
existences. They meet when Tae-suk breaks into Sun-hwa's house and they
instantly recognize the similarity of their souls. As if bound by unseen
ties, they find themselves unable to separate and quietly accept their
bizarre new destiny.
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