Thursday, January 14, 2021

Kanopy: Exploring World Cinema

 


Explore global cinema with Kanopy, a streaming service available free with your WPL card. Kanopy has an extensive collection of award winning films from around the world, including timeless classics and short films. You can watch 3 movies per month, and have 72 hours to watch the movie as many times as you like. If you do not have a Kanopy account, create one hereIf you enjoy discussing films, try our Film Discussion Club


Shanghai Triad

Language: Mandarin 

An absorbing tale of the Chinese underworld in the 1930's, focusing on a pampered night club singer, who takes on a young boy to be her servant. 

Museo

Language: Spanish 

Well into their 30s, Juan and Benjamin still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo in the district of Satelite, a Mexico City suburb. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's iconic National Anthropology Museum.

Beanpole

Language: Russian

After the siege of Leningrad in World War II, two young women search for meaning and hope during their struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog 

Language: Japanese

A Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age. He is then paired with a blind man who is initially reluctant to rely on his new partner.

Timbuktu

Languages: Arabic, Bambara, French 

Not too far from Timbuktu, now ruled by religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Tonya, and Issan, their shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists. Kidane and his family had been spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu, but when their destiny changes abruptly, Kidane must face the new laws of the foreign occupants.

As it is in Heaven 

Languages: Italian, French, Swedish

After having a breakdown, a famous conductor returns to his remote village and inspires a church choir to enter into a singing competition. 





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