Simon Abkarian
1) Zarafa
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, ZARAFA is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Nominated for Best Feature at **Annecy International Animated Film Festival**. Nominated for Directing in an Animated Feature Production at the **Annie Awards**....
Publisher
Southport Music Box Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
"In Israel there is neither civil marriage nor civil divorce. Only rabbis can legitimate a marriage or its dissolution. But this dissolution is only possible with full consent from the husband, who in the end has more power than the judges. Viviane Amsalem has been applying for divorce for three years. But her husband Elisha will not agree. His cold intransigence, Viviane's determination to fight for her freedom, and the ambiguous role of the judges...
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1941. The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS General, eventually reaches Berlin. Under the orders of the Gestapo, French police and collaborators hound Manouchian and his Résistants until, to escape torture, one of their...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
©2011.
Language
Français
Description
In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerrilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
"Army of Crime tells an extraordinary true story of the French Resistance...
Series
[James Bond films] volume 23
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved...
6) Yes
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Feeling trapped in her marriage to a politician, an American scientist begins an affair with a Lebanese surgeon living in exile in London. As the affair goes on the couple finds it difficult to put aside their very different beliefs.
7) Persepolis
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Français
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane "Marji" Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....