Signals - After Victory
Overview of films
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Liberation in 26 Pictures
An old man observes certain acts of domestic violence across the street – and decides to get back in action, the partisan way. Das ist Valter.
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Gloria mundi
In order to justly portray a torture victim for a film on the Algerian War, an actress starts to systematically mistreat herself. One of the most dist
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Independencia
Clever and ingenious film that imitates the style of early Filipino cinema: shot in the studio with painted sets as background, in black-and-white and
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Japanese Devils
14 veterans of the Imperial Japanese Army talk about their experiences in China, which most of the time means the crimes and atrocities they committed
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Protect My Country
Japanese soldiers take a Chinese village: babies get bayoneted, the elderly crucified, able men pressed into the enemy army. A classic piece of anti-J
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Dead of Night
Andy is back from Vietnam, as his parents always knew he would be – and that note the Army sent about his death must have been just a terrible mistake
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Algérie en flammes
Scenes from the FLN’s struggle for the independence of Algeria. Film making as an act of solidarity in the international anti-imperialist struggle. Pa
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Memories of a Forgotten War
An experimental take on the little-known Filipino-American War: a hybrid between documentary and fiction, a weaving of stories in which stylised histo
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Fighting Soldiers
In the middle of 1938, Kamei Fumio got himself attached to an infantry regiment which he followed around through China for about four months, filming
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The Vulture
When Boaz comes back from the Yom Kippur War, he leaves two friends behind on the battlefield. To ease the pain of their loved ones, he starts to inve
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Ultimo
Adaptation of the poem Mi ultimo adiós (My Last Goodbye) by Jose Rizal (1896): ‘On the field of battle, ‘mid the frenzy of fight / Others have given t
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Where Is Where?
Spectres from an ‘incident’ during the Algerian War visit a Finnish poetess. One of 2009’s most intellectually challenging and rewarding films.