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A collection of 24 - films that take a look at the dark side of the festive season. 24 - international directors with the most diverse ideas and styles; linked by short animated segments that deal with the Advent calendar itself.

Together with her father, a 17-year-old girl takes care of her mentally and physically severely disabled sister. This is becoming increasingly exhausting, as she has to sacrifice her own life and dreams. Emotions get out of control and love may easily turn into hate. How to live such a life? Is it even possible to find a compromise here? A masterful film which brings the experiences and choices of those who are forced to be in such a situation frightfully close, doing so very realistically, without pathos. This can only be done with thorough knowledge of the topic. Director Margaux Bonhomme herself has grown up in a family with a disabled person – she has taken care of her own sister. She has carried this story with her for years and has now written it with the blood of her own heart. The lead actors of the film, Diane Rouxel and Jeanne Cohendy, have just shared the Best Actress Award at the Saint-Jean-de-Luz Film Festival in France. And this is how they should be regarded – as an ensemble. Cohendy is in no respect weaker than Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio who have given us disabled person roles worthy of an Oscar or an Oscar nomination. Tiit Tuumalu

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　Batavia City, a beautiful city that no longer safely inhabited. Robbery, violence, and a variety of increasingly rampant criminality. In the midst of this chaotic city, Srimaya, a cafe waitress who dreams of becoming an actress never thought that dream would change her life. Her meeting with Bono, a film director and his friend, Wawan, will take her on a dangerous adventure full of thrilling action with lives at stake. Turning her from an ordinary girl into Batavia City heroine of hope, Valentine.

　　Yiannis doesn’t have much going for him, save for his adorable dog, Jimi, and his fast-approaching date to get out of Cyprus for good. But when Jimi wanders across the U.N. buffer zone and into the section of the island Turkey seized more than forty years ago, an unregulated state unrecognized by the rest of the world, Yiannis learns, bringing a dog back over the border is not as easy as walking straight home. He enlists a mismatched band of accomplices from every side of the Cyprus dispute to find a way to get Jimi back, while never leaving the land he calls home.　　Writer and director Marios Piperides has been producing films in Cyprus for more than a decade, and his inside knowledge pays dividends in this narrative feature debut—a whip-smart comedy on legality, disputed nationality, and the frameworks that are erected to maintain a fragile peace. He demonstrates his compassion for locals on both sides of the divide, as he tenderly captures their struggle to find hope and make a living in a divided land. Such serious themes pair perfectly with Piperides’s sense of humor: As Yiannis’s efforts dip farther into absurdity, they offer a send-up of the forces that prolong a conflict that has been poorly understood and largely forgotten by the outside world.

　　The movie concerns about Trinity(Terence Hill=Mario Girotti)a roguish and cocky gunman with fast weapon who works as bounty hunter.His brother Bambino(Bud Spencer)is sheriff in a village but is also an undercover thief which attempts execute a heist.　　The'll face off against a rich owner(Farley Granger) and a Mexican marauders who try evict to a Mormons group. They help to the pacific settles and the confrontation will be inevitable but is developed by means of successive fights without blood,neither gore or cruel murders.The violence isn't crude but slight and predominates the comedy and parody. The storyline is embarrassment and ridiculous but has its agreeable moments here and there.It's a spaghetti western with humor and narrates the usual issues:invincible antiheroes,spectacular showdown ,violent taking on but united to slapstick and simple humor.It's an entertained Italian western with adequate runtime where there are irony,tongue in check,shoot outs,numerous struggles and is quite funny and amused. Terence Hill is sympathetic,hilarious and likable; Bud Spencer is rough, two fisted,bouncing ,grumpy man but with good heart,their characters are similar to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.The film is a spoof of famous films as ¨the magnificent seven¨ and ¨blazed saddles ¨but covered with spaghetti.The picture obtained a sequel with the same protagonists and director¨Trinity is still my name¨.Besides originated a series of awful imitations and copies. Rating:nice and bemused.

　　Based on an unknown Sch?nberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a not-quite loveless marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man, while he has cast an appraising eye toward an attractive, fashionably dressed acquaintance of his wife’s. Though each dreams, briefly, of leaving the marriage for the excitement and mystery of a new lover, in the end they decide stability and comfort are more important than the fleeting thrill of new romance. Directors Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, who previously collaborated on two other films about music (The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, 1968, and Moses and Aaron, 1975), rely on long fixed shots in austere black-and-white so that the focus remains on the musical brilliance of Sch?nberg’s atonal score, performed here by 70 musicians. That Sch?nberg would choose such a relatively lighthearted message for his newly discovered musical language remains a mystery, especially since the conclusion reached by the husband and wife—to stick with the tried and true—seems directly at odds with Sch?nberg’s own philosophy of composing. It is just this juxtaposition, however, coupled with Straub and Huillet’s faithful presentation, that makes the opera a compelling addition to the Sch?nberg canon—and the film such a challenging and intriguing experience.

Oneweekonacruiseship,withparties,funandnewfriendships.Theall-gayclienteleonboardarepreoccupiedwithtopicssuchasidentity,thebodybeautifulandthesearchforsex.Everyeveningisdedicatedtoanewtheme,challengingthepassengerstoevermoreextravagant,body-huggingoutfits.Inthecabinshowever,thetalkismorethanskindeepasthemenopenupabouttheirprivatelives.Marek,ayoungPolishmanjustwantstobeacceptedandlovedasahumanbeingandnotjustbecauseofhistautbody.DipankarfromIndiahasjustrecentlycomeout;heandPalestinianRamziarerevellinginthekindoffreedomtheycanonlydreamaboutintheirhomophobicsocietiesbackhome.MartinisHIVpositiveandpondershedonisticways,whilePhilippefromFranceobservestheproceedingsonboardserenelyfromhiswheelchair.InhisfeaturefilmdebutdirectorFerlandMilewskisucceedsinprovidingalookbehindthescenesofanostensiblysuperficialworld.Hishumorousapproachhelpshimcreateagenuinebondwiththeprotagonistswhotalkopenlyaboutgaydesires,freeloveandgoodold-fashionedmonogamy.