KimStim (Firm)
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Siblings Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and their little sister Clara. That evening, other relatives will be joining them for dinner. This sequence of family scenes in a Berlin flat creates a wondrous world of the everyday: Coming and going, conversations, all manner of doings, each movement leading to the next, one word following another.. It is a carefully staged chain reaction of actions and sentences. And in between, silent gazes and...
2) Bridgend
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A haunting drama that follows Sara (Hannah Murray - Game of Thrones) and her dad, Dave, as they arrive in a small village haunted by suicides of its young inhabitants.. Sara falls dangerously in love with one of the teenagers, Jamie, while Dave as the town’s new policeman tries to stop the mysterious chain of suicides. The film is an uncompromising story focused on the relationship between vulnerable teenagers and their parents who are left in the...
3) Et tu Brute
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Tuscan saga continues: betrayal, redemption, and globalization: Italian-style. The two families fight it out for the hand of America's Mondavi family. But who's the real winner and who's the real loser? And what does it mean for U.S.-European relations when the dust finally settles?
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
How would a grape respond under psychoanalysis? Jean-Louis Laplanche, world-renowned psychiatrist and Freud translator, is the owner of the Chateau de Pommard in Burgundy. Yet his peculiarity does not compare with that of the husband-and-wife psychiatric team who bought and sold the Napa winery aptly named Folie à deux.
5) Bestiaire
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Curious, compelling and compassionate, BESTIAIRE, Denis Côté's contemplative portrait of animals in captivity is, put simply, a series of beautifully framed and composed tableaux of a variety of animals at Quebec's Parc Safari; but it's also a complex meditation on the relationship between man, beast and environment. Côté lets his often startling imagery speak for itself, giving us, the viewer, plenty of time, and food, for thought.. Official...
6) Beltracchi
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For nearly 40 years, Wolfgang Beltracchi fooled the international art world and was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era. An expert in art history, theory and painting techniques, he tracked down the gaps in the oeuvres of great artists – Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Heinrich Campendonk, André Derain and Max Pechstein, above all – and filled them with his own works. He and his wife Helene would then introduce them...
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Life in the megacity is exhilarating and difficult. How do urban spaces enhance or disturb our interactions and intimacy with others? How can we make our streets more accessible by foot or bike, nd make our cities more inclusive? Through his acclaimed urban theories and practices, architect and professor Jan Gehl is leading a revolution to transform cities worldwide.. Nominated for the Nordic Dox Award and the Politiken's Audience Award at the Copenhagen...
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Antinori and Frescobaldi families have dominated the political and economic life of Tuscany for a thousand years. For the past thirty, they've concentrated all their resources in wine. The tensions and conflicts underlying the two ruling families resemble a nineteenth-century opera (or a Mafia turf war).
9) Homo Sapiens
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This New York Times Critics' Pick is an ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario. HOMO SAPIENS is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we're gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit though humanity has disappeared, now...
10) Creepy
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A year after a botched hostage negotiation with a serial killer turned deadly, ex-detective Koichi (Hidetoshi Nishijima), and his wife move into a new house with a deeply strange new neighbor (Teruyuki Kagawa). His old cop colleagues come calling for his help on a mysterious case, which may be related to the strange goings-on next door, in this insidiously-constructed narrative that braids plot twists on top of plot twists and shock on top of shock.....
11) The Appian Way
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An intimate, revealing portrait of Robert Parker, whose reviews dictate the fate of much of the wine world, from California to London to Chile.
14) Pax Panoramix
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The battle to defend nature and local artisanal winemaking extends from the Pyrénnés mountains (Yvonne Hégoburu fights to create organic wine in her late husband's memory) to the asphalt of Brooklyn (quintessential New Yorker Neal Rosenthal) to Burgundy (the unlikely rebel Aubert de Villaine of Romanée Conti, the guardian of the wine world's most sacred and aristocratic treasure) to Bordeaux (Pierre Siri, "The Mouse that Roared").
15) White Sun
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Nepali
Description
Gorgeously photographed in outskirts of the Himalayas, WHITE SUN explores the damage done to the fabric of Nepalese society by the decade-long civil war between the Maoists and Nepal’s monarchical government. On the occasion of his father’s funeral, Chandra returns to the village he left years earlier to join the Maoists, and finds himself revisiting frayed family relations and unspoken divisions among neighbors. Past traumas return and cause...
16) Impulso
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
The spectacular avant-garde choreographies of flamenco dancer Rocío Molina have electrified audiences around the world. Her extravagant, mesmerizing and mostly improvised pieces combine traditional Flamenco with modern-dance, avant-garde theatrics, objects, paint, and eclectic music compositions. IMPULSO is an intimate portrait of Molina, one the dance world’s most passionate artists, as she travels the world to perform her improvised “impulsos”...
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. Yung Chang’s THIS IS NOT A MOVIE captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions. The process of translating raw experience into incisive and passionate dispatches requires...
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Winner of Best International Documentary at the Torino Film Festival, this acclaimed film follows a man at three disparate moments in his life; as a member of a small nudist commune on an Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland, and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway. Three moments for a radical proposition for the creation of utopia in the present. Winner of the New Vision Award at **CPH:DOX - Copenhagen...
19) Tatsumi
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
TATSUMI celebrates the life and work of Japanese artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi—a manga pioneer who elevated the genre to a new level of creative expression and adult realism. A comics-crazed teenager, Tatsumi began to get published and was able to support his poor family in postwar occupied Japan. He finds even greater inspiration after meeting his idol, the famous Disney-esque animator Osamu Tezuka. But despite his success, Tatsumi became dissatisfied...
20) The Wolf House
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at the service of the military dictatorship ruled by Augusto Pinochet—, is punished for having lost three pigs, so she decides to run away and take refuge in an abandoned house hidden in the forest.