First Run Features: Special Collections

The GLOBAL LENS COLLECTION on DVD: Non-Theatrical and Educational

Educational and non-theatrical copies of titles in The Global Lens Collection are available for $195 each. A discount is available if more than one title is purchased.

To Purchase Educational/Non-Theatrical titles in the Global Lens Collection:
• Fax an order form to 212-989-7649
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	Almost Brothers A film by Lúcia Murat, Brazil 102 minutes, Portuguese w/English subtitles, 2004, DVD Educational Interest- Brazil, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Justice, Latin America Institutional DVD Price: $195 This searing look at the class struggle of Brazil over a period of four decades is told through the closely linked yet fatally divided lives of Miguel, a middle-class white rebel, and Jorge, his black childhood friend.



	Angel on the Right A film by Djamshed Usmonov, Tajikistan 88 minutes, color, Tajik w/ English subtitles, 2002, DVD Educational Interest- Asia, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 Ten years after leaving Tajikistan, the gangster Hamro is tricked into returning to his home village, where he must confront old foes, debts, his tradition bound mother and a son that he didn’t know he had.



	Another Man's Garden A film by Joao Luis Sol de Carvalho, Mozambique 2006, 80 minutes, DVD Educational Interest- Africa, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Medicine Institutional DVD Price: $195 This film honors the courage of young women who continue to strive against the odds, proving that educating a girl is not a waste of time in a land where it is perceived that “sending a girl to school is like watering another man’s garden.”



	Border Café A film by Kambozia Partovi, Iran 105 minutes, color, Farsi, Greek, Turkish & Russian w/English subtitles, 2005, DVD Educational Interest-Business, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Islam, Middle East, Women’s Studies Institutional DVD Price: $195 A young widow takes over her late husband's truck stop café, staying in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran's conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café.



	Buffalo Boy A film by Nguyen-Vô Nghiem-Minh, Vietnam 98 minutes, color, Vietnamese w/English Subtitles, 2004, DVD Educational Interest- Adolescence, Asia, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Vietnam Institutional DVD Price: $195 In 1940s Vietnam, a young man takes up with a band of nomadic buffalo herders and discovers freedom, violence and love - but also secrets about his past that will change his life forever.



	Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures A film by Marcelo Gomes, Brazil 99 minutes, color, Portuguese & German w/English subtitles, DVD Educational Interest- Brazil, Business, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Latin America, Medicine, WWII Institutional DVD Price: $195 Johann, a young German opposed to Hitler’s war, travels the roads of Brazil where he meets Ranulpho, a sharp-tongued hitchhiker. But as Brazil enters the war against Germany and Johann is ordered home, each man must decide his own fate.



	Dam Street A film by Li Yu , China 93 minutes, color, Mandarin & Sichuan w/English subtitles, 2005, DVD Educational Interest- Adolescence, Asia, China, Cinema Studies, Family Relations, Global Lens Collection, Performance, Women’s Studies Institutional DVD Price: $195 During a time of rigid moral code in China, a sixteen year old girl living in small town discovers she is pregnant, and is forced to put her child up for adoption. Ten years later, a marriage proposal probes the depth of her unresolved past.



	Daughter of Keltoum A film by Mehdi Charef, Algeria 101 minutes, color, Arabic & French w/English subtitles, DVD Educational Interest- Africa, Algeria, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Family Relations, Middle East, Women’s Studies Institutional DVD Price: $195 A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace - an isolated Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria - to find her biological mother, who she has never met .



	Enough! A film by Djamila Sahraoui, Algeria / France 94 minutes, color, Arabic w/English subtitles, 2006, DVD Educational Interest- Africa, Algeria, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Islam, Middle East, Women’s Studies Institutional DVD Price: $195 Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women, Emel and Khadija, who embark on a dangerous search for Emel’s missing husband, braving the beautiful but lawless countryside.



	Fine Dead Girls A film by Dalibor Matanic, Croatia 77 minutes, color, Croatian w/English subtitles, 2002, DVD Educational Interest-The Balkans, Cinema Studies,Gay & Lesbian Studies, Global Lens Collection, Women’s Studies Institutional DVD Price: $195 A lesbian couple rent an apartment in a seemingly quiet building, but what initially appears as a safe love haven quickly turns into a nightmare. Fine Dead Girls has been named one of the best Croatian movies of the last decade.



	Fuse A film by Pjer Zalica, Bosnia Herzegovina 105 minutes, color, Bosnian w/English subtitles, 2003, DVD Educational Interest- The Balkans, Bosnia Herzegovina, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 In this bitingly funny story set in Bosnia two years after the civil war, a small town is turned upside down trying to create a squeaky clean image of itself as it prepares for a visit by President Bill Clinton.



	Hollow City A film by Maria João Ganga, Angola 88 minutes, color, Angola, Portuguese w/English subtitles, DVD Educational Interest-Adolescence, Africa, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 One of the few films to have been made in Angola since it was torn apart by civil war, this eye-opening drama is set in Luanda, the capital of Angola, in the aftermath of the war.



	In the Battlefields A film by Danielle Arbid, Lebanon 90 minutes, color, 2004, DVD Educational Interest- Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Middle East Institutional DVD Price: $195 Daughter of self-destructive parents, Lina, 12, doesn’t show much interest in the war taking place around her in 1980’s Beirut. Instead, Siham, her aunt’s beautiful adolescent maid, is the focal point of her rebellious and neglected childhood.



	Kabala A film by Assane Kouyaté, Mali, 2002 112 minutes,2002, DVD Educational Interest- Africa, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 A young man leaves his village in disgrace after a tribal ceremony reveals the truth about his birth. Returning years later, he is determined to convince the village elders to use modern ways to mend the contaminated holy well.



	Khorma A film by Jilani Saadi, Tunisia 90 minutes, 2002, DVD Educational Interest- Africa, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Middle East Institutional DVD Price: $195 Residing in Bizerte, a small Tunisian provincial town, Khorma is a young orphan whose red hair and white skin give him a striking appearance. He is under the protection of Bou Khaleb, who treats Khorma like a son. Bou Khaleb teaches him his philosophies on life and trains him to become a professional announcer of marriages, births, and deaths.



	Kilometre Zero A film by Hiner Saleem, Iraq 91 minutes, color, Kurdish, Arabic & French w/English subtitles, 2005, DVD Educational Interest- Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Middle East Institutional DVD Price: $195 The first Iraqi film to be chosen to compete in the prestigious Palme d'Or competition at Cannes, Kilometre Zero is a darkly funny story about a Kurdish soldier and an Iraqi taxi driver who join together to return the body of a soldier to his family.



	Lili's Apron A film by Mariano Galperin, Argentina 90 minutes, color, Spanish w/English subtitles, 2003, DVD Educational Interest- Argentina, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Latin America Institutional DVD Price: $195 After Ramón loses his job, his wife Lili suffers a nervous breakdown; they will lose their house unless something drastic is done. Desperate, Ramón accepts a job in Lili’s name - and clothes – to serve as a maid to a rich family.



	Mango Yellow A film by Cláudio Assis, Brazil 100 minutes, color, Portuguese w/English Subtitles, 2002, DVD Educational Interest- Brazil, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Latin America Institutional DVD Price: $195 The hothouse atmosphere of Brazil comes alive in Mango Yellow, where lust and economic desperation combine in a volatile brew of provocative cinema.



	Margarette's Feast A film by Renato Falcão, Brazil 80 minutes, b/w, 2002, DVD Educational Interest- Brazil, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Latin America Institutional DVD Price: $195 A modern silent masterpiece, Margarette’s Feast tells an allegory of Brazil’s social struggles without words while making dazzling use of exhilarating Brazilian music.



	Max and Mona A film by Teddy Mattera, South Africa 98 minutes, color, English, with some Tswana, Afrikaans & Zulu w/English subtitles, DVD Educational Interest- Adolescence, Africa, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 In this funny and engaging film from South Africa, young Max leaves his small village to become a doctor in the big city. But things start to go wrong right away as Max is mistakenly sent on his journey with the sacred village goat.



	Nada + A film by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, Cuba 88 minutes, color / b&w, Spanish w/ English subtitles, 2001, DVD Educational Interest- The Caribbean, Cinema Studies,Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 Carla, a postal worker in Havana, fulfills her romantic longings by opening letters and rewriting them into passionate prose before sending them out again to their intended recipients.



	Night of Truth A film by Fanta Régina Nacro, Burkina Faso 100 minutes, color, French, Mooré & Dioula w/English subtitles, DVD Educational Interest- Africa,Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Peace & Conflict Resolution Institutional DVD Price: $195 This award-winning debut feature by one of Africa’s most talented female directors takes place in an unnamed country, where two peoples have finally embarked on a path to peace after a decade of atrocities.



	Of Love and Eggs A film by Garin Nugroho, Indonesia 90 minutes, color, Indonesian w/English Subtitles, 2004, DVD Educational Interest- Adolescence, Asia, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Islam Institutional DVD Price: $195 Set in and around a mosque in sprawling Jakarta, Indonesia, during the Muslim holiday of Lebaran, the interwoven stories of family, faith and romantic love in this humorous yet poignant film are revealed through the eyes of three Jakarta children.



	On Each Side A film by Hugo Grosso, Argentina 101 minutes, 2006, DVD Educational Interest- Architecture, Argentina, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Latin America Institutional DVD Price: $195 A photographer is hired to document the construction of a bridge that will connect Victoria with Rosario—two towns on either side of a river, unaware that his own story will be changed by the lives he touches with his camera.



	Rachida A film by Yamina Bachir-Chouikh, Algeria 100 minutes, color, Arabic and French w/English Subtitles, 2002, DVD Educational Interest- Africa, Algeria, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Women’s Studies Institutional DVD Price: $195 This acclaimed debut feature offers a unique glimpse into Algeria, where terrorism was commonplace during the 90s. Rachida, a young teacher, becomes the target of terrorists when she refuses to place a bomb in her classroom.



	The Sacred Family A film by Sebastián Campos, Chile 99 minutes, color, Spanish w/English subtitles, 2005, DVD Educational Interest- Cinema Studies, Family Relations, Global Lens Collection, Latin America Institutional DVD Price: $195 In this comedy drama from Chile, Marco brings his beautiful new girlfriend to meet his parents at their beach house, but her manipulative ways soon expose latent frictions, sexual tensions, and the unspoken rules that tie the family together.



	Shadow Kill A film by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India 91 minutes, color, Malayalam w/English subtitles, 2002, DVD Educational Interest- Asia, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 In 1940s southern India, a hangman named Kaliyappan struggles with the guilt and implications of the executions he obediently carries out.



	Stolen Life A film by Li Shaohong, China 90 minutes, color, Mandarin w/English subtitles, DVD Educational Interest- Asia, China, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 A young girl, Yanni, is taken to live with her aunt and grandmother in Beijing. Surprising everyone, she is accepted to college. But as she prepares to begin her new life, an encounter with a delivery man triggers a series of unexpected events.



	Thirst A film by Tawfik Abu Wael, Israel/Palestine 110 minutes, 2004, DVD Educational Interest- Adolescence, Cinema Studies, Family Relations, Global Lens Collection, Middle East Institutional DVD Price: $195 A middle-aged Palestinian man's obsession with his daughter’s shame has reached the point of madness, as even he knows. If he cannot abandon the harsh traditions that forced his family’s exile, his wife and children will surely abandon him.



	Ticket to Jerusalem A film by Rashid Masharawi, Palestine 85 minutes, 2002, DVD Educational Interest- Cinema Studies, Global Lens, Middle East Institutional DVD Price: $195 Jaber, a kind and gentle man in his early 40s ,runs a mobile cinema in the disputed territory of the West Bank. One day, he's encouraged by Rabab, a female school teacher, to organize a screening in Jerusalem's old city.



	Today and Tomorrow A film by Alejandro Chomski, Argentina 87 minutes, color, Spanish w/English subtitles, DVD Educational Interest- Argentina, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Latin America Institutional DVD Price: $195 Paula, an aspiring actress in Buenos Aires, is trapped in a cycle of unpaid bills and debts. Reluctantly, she calls a friend who mentors her in a new way to make money - streetwalking.



	Uniform A film by Diao Yinan, China 92 minutes, color, Mandarin w/English subtitles, 2003, DVD Educational Interest- Asia, China, Cinema Studies, Family Relations, Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 A young tailor discovers a solution for his problems: a policeman’s uniform, left in the family shop. A humorous but realistic portrait of the clashing values of modern-day China.



	What's a Human Anyway? A film by Reha Erdem, Turkey 124 minutes, 2004, DVD Educational Interest- Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 Set in modern Istanbul, Turkey, a cheerful Ali tries to recover his memory in the aftermath of a jewelry store robbery. But it’s his friends, family and neighbors whose lives seem chaotic.



	Whisky A film by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, Uruguay 94 minutes, color, Uruguay, Spanish w/English Subtitles, 2004, DVD Educational Interest- Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Latin America Institutional DVD Price: $195 When Jacobo, a lonely factory owner in Uruguay, hears about the impending visit of his irritatingly cheerful brother who he hasn't seen in years, he enlists his faithful assistant Marta to pretend to be his wife.



	Women's Prison A film by Manijeh Hekmat, Iran 106 minutes, color, Persian w/English subtitles, DVD Educational Interest- Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection, Law & Legal Studies, Middle East, Women’s Studies Institutional DVD Price: $195 Banned in Iran, this taboo-breaking film uses the life of women behind bars as a metaphor for Iranian society since the Revolution. Mitra, in prison for killing her violent stepfather, confronts the new warden and challenges her dogmatic views.



	A Wonderful Night in Split A film by Arsen A. Ostojic, Croatia 100 minutes, color, Croatian w/English Subtitles, 2004, DVD Educational Interest- The Balkans, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collection Institutional DVD Price: $195 Set in the dark, eerie streets of medieval Split, Croatia, during the two hours before midnight on New Year's eve, this stylish film noir spins three tales of desire, treachery and murder.



	Wretched Lives A film by Joel Lamangan, Philippines 102 minutes, color, 2001, DVD Educational Interest- Asia, Cinema Studies, Global Lens Collections Institutional DVD Price: $195 Set in the early nineties, during the short-lived and ill-fated reign of Joseph Estrada, Wretched Lives offers up a society in hellish microcosm, expressing outrage at the corruption of the political elite and their exploitation of the poor.