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MULTICULTURAL MOVIES
COMENIUS MULTILATERAL 2009/2011Intercultural Competences Across the School Curriculum
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BILLY ELLIOT
Stephen Daldry
United Kingdom
2001
110’The film is set during the 1984-1985 UK miner’s strike, and centres on the character of 11-year-old Billy Elliot, his love of dance, and his hope to become a professional ballet dancer. Billy lives with his widowed father, Jackie, older brother, Tony (both coal miners out on strike) and his invalid Nan, who once aspired to be a professional dancer.Jackie takes Billy to the Sports Centre to learn boxing, but Billy dislikes the sport. He is instead drawn to a ballet class that is using the gym, but the traditions and the prejudices become huge problems…
BLACK CAT, WHITE CAT
Emir Kusturica
Yugoslavia
1998
129’Matko Destanov, a small-time Roma smuggler and profiteer, is living with his teenage son Zare in a ramshackle house by the Danube River in eastern Serbia near the Bulgarian border. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her. But none of the two care much for an arranged marriage: Zare is in love with Ida, Afrodita is waiting for the man of her dreams…
BRIDES
Pantelis Voulgaris
Greece
2004
128’
Set in the 1920s, the film reflects the uncertainties of those
years in the Balkans, characterized by conflict, poverty and
nationalism, and men from many countries looking to the New
World as an opportunity to start a better life and to support
those at home. We follow the story of a mail order bride, one
of 700 aboard the SS King Alexander, who falls in love with an
American photographer. She is bound for her new husband, in
USA; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’
Cristian Nemescu
Romania
2007
155’
In 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, a train
containing American radar equipment required in Kosovo,
guarded by American and Romanian soldiers, goes through
Romania and is stopped for four days in a small village on the
Baragan Plain, because some customs papers were missing…
Doiaru's (train station chief) daughter, Monica, develops a
crush on an American soldier, but as she knows no English, she
uses the help of a local geek, Andrei, who is in love with her…
CARAMEL
Nadine Labaki
Lebano
2007
95’
Caramel revolves around the intersecting lives of five
Lebanese women, in Beirut: Layale, Nisrine, Rima, Jamale
and Rose. Each one has a problem…
The film doesn't refer to any of the political problems or
recent warfare that has troubled Lebanon. Rather, Labaki's
tale paints everyday people (particularly, women) with
everyday problems.
DIVINE INTERVENTION
Elia Suleiman
Palestine/Israel/Moroco/Germany
2003
92’
In Nazareth, Santa Claus runs away from children as gifts
fall from his basket. He's been stabbed and leans against a
tree. Neighbors bicker over small stuff. A Palestinian
couple meets in a car. More bickering neighbors.
A tourist asks an Israeli policeman for directions. Unable to
help her himself, the policeman brings out a blindfolded
Palestinian prisoner from the back of his van. The
Palestinian tells her three different possible routes…
GABBEH
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iran
1996
85’
The film gets its name from a type of Persian rug and starts
by showing an elderly couple, carrying their Gabbeh,
walking toward the river hoping to wash their rug. When
the rug is spread on the ground, a girl, referred to as
Gabbeh, magically comes out of it. The movie follows her
story and audience learn about her family, her uncle who
is hoping to find a bride, and most importantly her longing
for a young man she hopes to marry.
THE HATE
Mathieu Kassovitz
France
1995
93’
This film focuses on a single day in the lives of three
friends in their early twenties, from immigrant families
living in an impoverished multi-ethnic French housing
project in the suburbs of Paris, in the aftermath of a riot.
Abdel, a local hoodlum, is hospitalized after the riot, where
a policeman lost his gun. His friend Vinz finds it and claims
he will kill a cop if Abdel dies…
KANDAHAR
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iran
2001
81’
Hidden behind a burqa, Nafas, the sister from Canada,
makes her way across the border with a family of refugees.
When they are robbed by brigands and the family turns
back, she decides to continue on her way, accompanied
first by a young boy who was just expelled from a Qur’anic
school, and then by an African American convert to Islam,
who has become disillusioned with the turn the country
has taken under the Taliban.
LISBON PEOPLE
Sérgio Trefaut
Portugal
2004
105’
Throughout the twentieth century, Portugal was a land of
emigrants. Today, it is a land of immigrants. An important
part of these came from Eastern Europe and has a level of
education higher than average. But also Brazilian, Chinese,
Indian, African... Will these immigrants change Lisbon and
Portugal? Will they leave to resign by the country's indolence
resigned?
LIVE AND BECOME
Radu Mitlaileanu
France
2005
140’In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as
genuine Jews. In turn they are secretly carried to Israel. The
day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In
his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-
year-old boy. Upon arrival this second mother dies. Schlomo
is adopted by a good family but remains depressed until he
secretly sends a letter to his real mother. From the beginning
he experiences large and small racist difficulties…
THE NAMESAKE
Mira Nair
India/USA
2006
122’
The Namesake depicts the struggles of Ashoke and Ashima
Ganguli, two first-generation immigrants from West
Bengal, India to the United States, and their American-
born children Gogol and Sonia. Gogol wants to fit in
among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's
unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
The film takes place primarily in Kolkata, India; then, in
New York City and various New York state suburbs.
THE PROMISE
Luc e Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Belgium/France/Luxemburg
1996
93’
Igor and his father, Roger, are making a decent living
renting apartments to illegal immigrants and sometimes
working them illegally (among other scams). But when the
building inspector pays a surprise visit and Amidou falls off
a scaffold in his hurry to hide, things start to unravel,
particularly when Igor makes a promise to the injured
Amidou that ultimately exposes the different values of Igor
and Roger, and of Amidou's wife, Assita.
THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN
Abdellatif Kechiche
France
2008
151’
At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags
himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and
more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced
father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite
the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that
financial difficulties make even more intense. He wants to
escape from it all and set up his own restaurant. However, it
appears to be an unreachable dream given his meagre…
THE VISITOR
Thomas Mcarthy
USA
2007
104’Walter Vale is a widowed economics professor who lives a fairly solitary existence. When he arrives at the apartment he maintains in Manhattan, he is startled to discover a young unmarried couple living there, having rented it from a swindler who claimed it was his. They are Tarek, a Palestinian-Syrian djembe player, and Zainab, a Senegalese designer of ethnic jewelry. He later discovers both are illegal immigrants. Although they have no place to go, they hastily pack and leave, but Walter decides to let them stay. Over the next few days, a friendship slowly develops…
WATER
Deepa Mehta
Canada/India
2005
114’
The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced
into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It
focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who
wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on
widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a
follower of Mahatma Gandhi.