15 UGLY SISTERS
BASH FILM 7
a film by Bashar Shbib
2004, USA, 35mm
81:03 minutes (NTSC)
Love, attraction and raw physical passion are explored in this poetic film involving two sisters who live in a remote country village, Amelia (Kathleen Horner) and Lai (Andrea Sadler), and a man - an old lover, Slu (Atilla Bertalan) - who enters their lives for a week. A lot can happen in seven days. Passions and tempers rise and fall, flare and die, and when the time is up one of them is dead...
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A MIDSUMMER'S WAKE BASH FILM 28 Five women of varying ages explore life, death, friendship and the many meanings of love as they gather together for a weekend after attending the funeral of a loved one. The landscape almost becomes a sixth character as the women connect -- not only with each other -- but also with Mother Nature. Secrets come out, and in the end they come to appreciate the resilient and comforting cycles both in the natural world and themselves. Take five female friends of various generations, bring them together for a weekend in the country to celebrate a wake and what do you get ?.... BONE (in post production) BASH FILM 20 Bone is the story of four friends who get caught up in a crooked venture to transport illegally obtained genetic material across national borders. It opens with the arrival of Hadley (Marisa Marlone), an airline stewardess, to her home city where she reunites with Paul (Romano Orzari), an educated guy who, much like many people from his generation, is stuck working for minimum wage in an not so gratifying position, in this case, an interior parking lot. Paul wants out and he tells Hadley about Marty (David Andrew Barret), a friend who’s been involved in small, shady deals for as long as he can remember. But this time, it seems he has an easy, sure-fire scam that could all net them a handsome sum. The idea is to use Hadley’s position as a flight attendant to their advantage in what sounds like a simple go-to and return... CAZALLA DE LA SIERRA BASH FILM 2A A property developer who spends a million dollars on a property then foregoes all the profits on the sale might not be a nominee for entrepreneur of the year. Yet there is such a person. Maria del Carmen Ladron de Gueverra, known for everybody as just Maria Carmen, has bought and is renovating a monastery in the hills north of Seville... CRACK ME UP BASH FILM 11 THE BLOND, THE BLIND AND THE BROTHEL... The film weaves the tale of Louie B. (TIM BRAZZIL), a hapless cowboy that thinks the world would be a better place if strangers would kiss each other more. After a run-in with a band of crooks headed by Stacey, (MARY CROSBY of Dallas fame), Louie goes blind and is sheltered by Billie Jean, a toughlove prostitute (DAPHNA KASTNER, Julia Has Two Lovers) and her gay and straight co-workers. What follows is a fabulously eclectic look into life in an East Hollywood Heidi Fleiss-style bordello for the working man, that's unconfining to heterosexual social mores.
EVIXION BASH FILM 4 Imagine a surreal narrative, without dialogue, in a style reminiscent of the twenties silent era and seen through the lens of moving voyeuristic camera that records the odd whereabouts of an unseemly group of marginal tenants such as: an aging homosexual and his drug-addicted lover, a couple of fitness-freak yuppies, an eccentric black lady and her son, a punkish crazy diva and other bizarre, incongruous characters. Watch them unravel in anarchy while they fight against the foul manoeuvres of an ingenious but nasty landlord who wants them evicted once and for all...
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BASHAR SHBIB'S DRAGHOULA BASH FILM 13 Harry is a young, Jewish scientist who lives with his overprotective and overbearing mother, Ida. He spends most of his time in his laboratory trying to isolate the guilt gene, using live rats for his tests. When the laboratory administration announces a major budget cut, he can no longer afford the number of rats he needs to continue his research. But Harry does not despair; he finds an agency which supplies rats from Transylvania at a ridiculously low price. When he is bitten by one of these specimens, his quiet life changes radically...... BREAD BASH FILM 2B
A visual gastronomical feast and educational tool. From the wheat field to the mill to the kitchens and bakeries of the world, Bread is a mouth-watering, fast paced, award winning documentary. Not only are the smooth, comparative cuts from bread being hand-made to production line machine-made appetizing, but exceptionally strong use of form and camera angles will sparkle the tastebuds of film gourmands. Itmay be the first and last time you get to sit down in front of an oven and watch buns rising... CLAIR OBSCUR (THE STORK) BASH FILM 6 Out in the country, on a beautiful old farm not far from a village that has only one hotel, live Edouard, the patriarch, his son Philippe (who doesn't seem to fit on the farm), Philippe's austere wife, Anne, and their daughter Stephanie. Their daily routine is suddenly interrupted by the enigmatic Pol, a singer who returns to the village after several years' absence. Inexorably attracted to the hotel where she is singing, Philippe again falls under her spell. He spends less and less time at the farm with his family. Tension rises...
DRINKING GAMES BASH FILM 23 It's only through personal challenges that you can learn what you are made of. But at what point do you give up? Just how far are you willing to go? Only you stand between yourself and greater things. And in this challenge all you have to do is kill yourself through consumption. So, are you ready to play? Four young people accept the challenge: Vaughn (Jon Deitcher) an unhappy business man with a death wish, Ethan (William Furtado) a seminary student questioning his faith, Damon (Michael Penning) a successful but arrogant artist, and Ash (Jasmine Roberts) a young woman with HIV. These players push their limits further than they thought they would ever go and really find out just what they're made of... |
