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Ultra Low

2018 · ★ 5

A Seattle-based filmmaking team struggles to break down the doors of Hollywood.

Kunstwollen

The identity crisis of a screenwriter, lost between completing functional and salable stories, or giving free rein to the most creative and intuitive part of himself: his personal demon.

We're No Animals

2013 · ★ 4.3

A Hollywood actor grows tired of making the same corporate movies, so he moves to Argentina to find more experimental and meaningful work.

A Friend of the Deceased

1997 · ★ 5.2

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.

Indiecency

2018

Seven independent filmmakers in San Antonio, Texas share a house together and attempt to follow their dreams.

Quo Vadis, Aida?

2021 · ★ 7.6

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?

Shugaley 2

2020 · ★ 5

Russian sociologist Maxim Shugaley and his translator colleague Samer Sueifan are still being held in a Libyan prison. For more than a year, they have been subjected to torture and psychological violence on a daily basis. While in custody, Maxim Shugaley encounters various people who turn out to be, sometimes unknowingly, sources of information about the situation in Tripoli. Listening to their stories, the sociologist literally collects valuable information bit by bit, which can be decisive for the entire world community.

ME!

2020 · ★ 5

Jack recounts his latest filmmaking failure in a way that blurs the line of fiction and non-fiction...

Chuchotage

2018 · ★ 7.1

During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener.

Fear and Trembling

2003 · ★ 6.5

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.

Noches Desveladas

2012

Amusement parks are known as spaces where the magic becomes real. In the film, however, the viewer knows the dark place where a mechanic transits between reality and the fictional world of books.

São Jerônimo

1999 · ★ 7

Brazilian director Julio Bressane directs this religious biography on the life and work of Saint Jerome, the monk who first translated the Bible into Latin. Set both in the desert and in the posh confines of the Vatican, Jerome (Everaldo Pontes) agonizes over which Latin word would best fit its Hebrew counterpart. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi