New Yorker Video (Firm)
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
Nafas, an Afghan-born Canadian journalist, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away.
3) Underground
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Croatian
Description
A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
At the center of this intimate and touching story is Georges Lopez - a remarkably devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11 in all their school subjects and life's lessons. Demonstrates how a teacher, if well trained, dedicated and sensitive to a child's educational and emotional needs, can hugely influence a generation of children at their most critical time of development.
5) The bank
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
A brilliant young mathematician is on the verge of discovering a formula that could predict the fluctuations of the stock market and he is quickly taken under the wing of a corrupt CEO at Centrabank. Together these two men will play a deadly game of deception and revenge, while initiating one of the largest banking scandals in history.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jake is an anxious schoolteacher living in New York. He is barely on speaking terms with his father, has been recently abandoned by his girlfriend, and is heading for a life of compromise and mediocrity. Emotionally paralyzed, Jake embarks on a course of psychoanalysis with the maniacal Dr. Morales, who wields his heavily accented sarcasm like a machete. Morales' tactics are worthy of the Spanish Inquisition, and soon Jake is just trying to keep him...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Français
Description
Irene, an actress, travels from one small town to another with her one-woman show in rural-industrial northern France. Things change when a scooter-driving vagabond fixes her stalled car. What develops is a remarkably natural and tender affair.
8) Taking sides
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2001
Language
English
Description
After Hitler took over power in 1933, many Jewish artists were forced to leave Germany. Wilhelm Furtwängler choose to stay. Though never a member of the party, he was a receipient of honors associated with party membership. However, the conductor often used his position and contacts to save hundreds of Jewish musicians from concentration camps. When U.S. Major Steve Arnold is tasked with the pre-trial investigations, his aim is to prove that the...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
Pascale lives with her adult twin sons in a renovated Belgian farmhouse. Each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier. Both boys pursue their respective interests, but neither seems compelled to embrace adulthood or the responsibilities that come with it. Pascale falls in love again and dreams of a new life for herself and her lover. Her dream is to own a countryside B&B. But what would seemingly be a happy time...
10) The unforeseen
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Documents the struggle between development and preservation that plays out in cities and towns across American. The story of a development that could threaten a natural spring in Austin, Texas.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Greek
Description
Spanning the years 1919-1949, begins with refugees from Odessa settling on a piece of land that was promised to them on Greece's misty northern plains. The foundling Eleni falls in love with her adoptive brother Alexis, but is forced to marry his widowed father. Eleni flees with Alexi to the nearby port of Thessaloniki. As the unrest of the 1930s pits fascism against leftism, Alexis, departs for America and leaves Elenis behind to bear the brunt of...
12) The willow tree
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Persian
Description
Youssef, a blind University professor, is suddenly faced with a fatal disease and must undergo a treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?
13) After innocence
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Language
English
Description
Tells the dramatic and compelling story of seven men that were exonerated after being imprisoned for decades and released after DNA evidence proved their innocence.
14) Tycoon
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Language
Russian
Description
During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
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