Film Movement Plus - February 2022 Streaming Premieres
By Film Movement|February 1, 2022
DON'T MISS
Now through February 14, MyFrenchFilmFestival brings the best of a new generation of French films to cineastes the world over! This year's selections include nine features and fourteen short films.
FEBRUARY 4
Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. She starts teaching art in a local school, but she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy whose brother is a feared local gang leader.
Written by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee from an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach and directed by Bill Duke, THE KILLING FLOOR tells the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards, tracing the racial and class conflicts in the city’s giant slaughterhouses, which boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot in 1919.
FEBRUARY 11
Fettah lives in a Moroccan coastal village where every summer he looks after the needs of Europeans who come on holiday to windsurf. During one particularly memorable summer, he befriends a beautiful woman. When she leaves to go back home, Fettah decides to embark on a treacherous and solitary windsurfing voyage to Europe.
With the failure of President Herbert Hoover’s policies and ensuing Great Depression, Americans were desperate for help. FDR’s New Deal put the U.S. back to work, and also included special programs to utilize the talents and skills of artists. Narrated by Orson Welles, this remastered documentary classic includes interviews and commentary by John Houseman, Studs Terkel, Howard Da Silva, Arthur Rothstein, and more.
FEBRUARY 18
Hakan and Nihal have been married for many years, but shortly after they find out that Nihal is unable to have children, she disappears. While frantically searching for her, Hakan makes some painful discoveries.
Directed by Catherine Gund, this feature-length documentary examines the rust-belt city of Cleveland in the wake of the police murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
Winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary, the unforgettable journey of violin virtuoso Isaac Stern's tour of Red China.
FEBRUARY 25
After many years, a group of college friends reunites. None of them have seen each other since Dondong, a girl they all secretly liked, disappeared. In the time that has passed, a lot has remained unsaid. Until now.
The erotic classic newly restored! In the most lavish penthouses, visible only through keyholes, a dangerous and erotic world exists. But when fantasy gets too much for one young call-girl, escaping becomes her new reality.
In order to save his fief, expert swordman Kanji Sanzaemon publicly assassinates his lord's favorite concubine. Instead of being beheaded, he is sentenced to solitary confinement for one year, then ordered to serve as the lord's bodyguard.