Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams(2006)
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Narges prepares for immigration to America to join her kids, but she loses her passport before the flight, and sets out to search for it in the places she has been to or at her friends'. She meets a peculiar wizard, and experiences a series of events that will change her mind about her trip.
This film is a rumination on cultural identity told through the viewpoint of a female photographer from Iran, traveling across the western US.
Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to control its citizens, has begun a program to record their dreams. Unaware of this devious plot, Simin is torn between her compassion for those whose dreams she is recording and a truth she must find within.
Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities are suspicious, and Joseph has an uncertain future in store.
Bianca and her mother meet again in Porto after many years. Together, they will hit the road with their stripping show, running after lost time, impossible love and strange fantasies.
The story of Samuel de Champlain's futile search for a passage to China in North America and his later founding of Quebec.
"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.
The film presents dazzling, creative, and surprisingly diverse "home theater" from five decades. And especially on the basis of the sometimes explicit sexual scenes, van Ackeren draws a very specifically German picture. This includes twenty-five Super 8 films with such beautiful titles as "Lady Di's Hat" (The VIP Movie), "Skin the Cock" (The Leisure Movie) or "Model Experiment" (Sex Film Without A Highpoint).