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one movie from every country

the challenge is to watch at least one movie from all 195 countries in the world. not sure if that's possible cause getting a copy of movies from countries with very "visible" cinema is already hard enough. but we will try. (this is also just to keep myself from jumping off a cliff.)

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

American Samoa

Andorra

Angola

Anguilla

Antarctica

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia — Amerikatsi (2022, Michael A. Goorjian)

Australia — Nitram (2021, Justin Kurzel)

Austria — Des Teufels Bad (2024, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz)

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium — Close (2022, Lukas Dhont)

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil — Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (2014, Daniel Ribeiro)

British Virgin Islands

Brunei Darussalam

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cabo Verde

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada — J'ai tué ma mère (2009, Xavier Dolan)

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile — Una mujer fantástica (2017, Sebastián Lelio)

China Mainland — 少年的你 (2019, Derek Tsing)

China — Limbo (2021, Soi Cheang)

Christmas Island

Cocos Islands

Colombia

Comoros

Congo-Brazzaville

Congo-Kinshasa

Cook Islands

Costa Rica

Cote d’Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark — Jagten (2012, Thomas Vinterberg)

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Falkland Islands

Federated States of Micronesia

Fiji

Finland — A Moment in the Reeds (2017, Mikko Mäkelä)

France — Anatomie d'une chute (2023, Justine Triet)

French Guiana

French Polynesia

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany — Die Mitte der Welt (2016, Jakob M. Erwa)

Ghana

Greece — Miss Violence (2013, Alexandros Avranas)

Greenland

Grenada

Guadeloupe

Guam

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary — Hat hét (2022, Noémi Veronika Szakonyi)

Iceland — Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur (2019, Hlynur Pálmason)

India — Taare Zameen Par (2007, Aamir Khan)

Indonesia — 1 Kakak 7 Ponakan (2024, Yandy Laurens)

Iran — طعم گیلاس (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)

Iraq

Ireland — The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, Martin McDonagh)

Italy — La vita è bella (1997, Roberto Benigni)

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan — 誰も知らない (2004, Kore-eda Hirokazu)

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya — Rafiki (2018, Wanuri Kahiu)

Kiribati

Kosovo

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Latvia — Flow (2024, Gints Zilbalodis)

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macedonia

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Martinique

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico — Roma (2018, Alfonso Cuarón)

Micronesia

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands — Noordzee, Texas (2011, Bavo Defurne)

New Caledonia

New Zealand — Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, Taika Waititi)

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria —

Niue —

Norfolk Island —

North Korea —

North Macedonia —

Norway — Verdens verste menneske (2021, Joachim Trier)

Oman —

Pakistan —

Palau —

Palestine —

Panama —

Papua New Guinea —

Paraguay —

Peru —

Philippines — Patay na si Hesus (2016, Victor Villanueva)

Poland — Sala Samobójców (2011, Jan Komasa)

Portugal

Qatar

Republic of the Sudan

Romania — 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile (2007, Cristian Mungiu)

Russia — Возвращение (2003, Andrey Zvyagintse)

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Samoa

San Marino

São Tomé and Príncipe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa — Tsotsi (2005, Gavin Hood)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Korea — 도가니 (2011, Hwang Donghyuk)

South Sudan

Spain — 20.000 especies de abejas (2023, Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren)

Sri Lanka

Sudan

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Suriname

Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Swaziland

Sweden — Höstsonaten (1978, Ingmar Bergman)

Switzerland — Der Spatz im Kamin / The Sparrow in the Chimney (2024, Ramon Zürcher)

Syria

Taiwan — 誰先愛上他的 (2018, Mag Hsu, Hsu Chih-yen)

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand — หลานม่า (2024, Pat Boonnitipat)

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey — Okul Tirasi (2021, Ferit Karahan)

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom — All of Us Strangers (2023, Andrew Haigh)

United States — Blue Jasmine (2013, Woody Allen)

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Vatican City

Venezuela

Vietnam

Wallis and Futuna Islands

Western Sahara

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe

there are countries i've seen more than one movie from. as for my reasoning behind which film i choose to list, i don't have any. i just write down whatever comes to mind first.

i'm literally more than a hundred films away from completing this. i'll probably die without succeeding.

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

I can do whatever I want with you, right?

[uppoompat]

I like it when you're jealous. It's cute. I also like it when your jealousy makes you call me your baby. You do? Yeah, I like every name you call me.

YOUR SKY OF US (2025)

[uppoompat]

Let's end the fake [relationship] and build a real one together. What do you mean?

YOUR SKY (2024-2025)

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

You're ready, right?

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missing these freaks

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they're so in love, it's annoyinggggg

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pretty babe 💕

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shes stunning. she's glowing. she's breathtaking.

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he looks so good stressed. i hope they stress him out more 😛

[byemambo]

"I'll let this plushie kiss you, OK?"

Your Sky (2024) | 1.08

gif request for @97peaches my sweet angel baby <3

[asiandramas-takeover]

I loved Your Sky with all my heart but the whole “sea/sky” thing truly threw me off cause it came out of the blue & I feel we missed some important information.

I don’t know if the show was based on a previous written work that has that information, anyone knows?

[cupidarchived]

Hiiiiii! Your Sky is a novel adaptation. (I plan to make a master-post about all of the novel vs. series differences soon but it's taking some time. 😭) But I have to explain this because I feel like this was such an important missed moment!

It's mentioned multiple times in the novel, but they only slightly mentioned it once in the beach/mv filming episode, Episode 6. It's also present in a scene or two in the pilot trailer, so it's sucks that it didn't make it into the show. :(

In the novel, during their first "official" meeting Rak uses the Thai cheer-up/fighting! phrase: สู้ สู้ (suu suu!) "Suu suu!" can also be used to describe the sounds of waves crashing against the shore. So, Rak uses a sentence that uses homophones to cheer on Muenfah in a really cute way. "Do your best, P'Fah, just like the sound of ocean waves. Suu Suu!"

It makes Muenfah giggle, so much so that he comes back like 10 seconds later to ask for more encouragement. And every time after that, as Fah and Rak build their relationship, anytime he needs encouragement he goes to Teerak. Rak promises to be by Fah's side to cheer him up, he promises to encourage him to try hard like the ocean waves and tells him to come to him any time he needs motivation. Rak will text him, send a voice message, call or facetime him to be his "sea." Rak even makes a silly joke later on that if Muenfah upsets "the sea", the sea will become a "tsunami," and that gets a full belly laugh out of Muenfah.

Muenfah means ten thousand skies. It's a name given to him by his parents. When his mom is pregnant and she misses his dad because he's in Hong Kong for work, she asks him how much he loves her and he responds, "As much as ten thousand skies." And that's how Fah gets his name.

Hence, the tattoo, "I'm your Sky and You're my Sea." Which Muenfah gets after they've both confessed their love to each other and start their relationship together.

There's even more details to their love story, it's so so beautiful. But I just thought I'd give some context because this was actually a super sweet important moment for them and it's technically the beginning of their relationship.

[crispywizardtale]

[poetry-protest-pornography]

I have other thoughts, but the thing that really kind of destroyed me is that Fah was the one to cry about Rak's dad's violence and homophobia.

Rak spent so long being worried that it would go badly with his parents, that he had less of a reaction to his mom's acceptance than Babe did. He was relieved, but he was still holding himself so tightly together.

Rak didn't cry when his dad lashed out. He shut down a little, but there was no shock or confusion -- he was expecting this. He had convinced himself that this was going to be the outcome.

But Fah had not. Fah didn't doubt his parent's unconditional support, and for all the "meet the parents" nerves, he genuinely didn't think that there was going to be anything other than that same acceptance from Rak's family.

Fah is the one shocked when Rak's dad gets angry, when he won't listen, when he has to leave Rak behind.

Fah is the one who goes home and cries, who is scared and confused and worried.

I love that a break up was never on the table. I love that Rak stood up for himself and kept trying to advocate for himself and Fah. I love that Grandpa and Mom put Dad in his place.

But Fah being the one to cry hurt.

Not just Fah, though.

Mom cries and gets mad. Babe is upset. Grandpa is upset.

Lee and Ghlai are upset.

Everyone is visibly upset and confused, except for Rak.

Rak was prepared to face rejection from his family, and he came out anyway. Because Fah helped him be braver.

Rak doesn't cry until his dad apologizes, until he has his dad's acceptance and understanding and his wishes for a happy future.

He doesn't cry until the expected negative consequences of being out to his family are no longer a risk. That's when he let's himself feel relief, and feel all the hurt and anger and confusion and resentment. After he gets to explain himself. After he gets to say why Fah is important to him, and defend himself properly.

After he gets to be understood.

But that numbness, that swoop of fear before you come out to someone new, that pause before the words will come, and the shut down when it goes in an unexpected direction? That was so viscerally relatable.

But so was Fah's pain, his frustration at not being able to help the person he loves. His willingness to sacrifice his happiness to make Rak's life easier...

Ugh, I just love them.

This (mostly) sweet, fluffy little show came out of nowhere with this achingly accurate depiction of queerness, and I am delighted and surprised in the best ways.

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i remember seeing this one video on youtube where a girl was talking about how her mom had treated her like shit. she hated her for it. but she eventually learned to accept it and live with it by thinking that maybe, in a lot of ways, her mom was hurt too. maybe the world was hard on her too and that’s why she was like that. that if she were in her place, she too wouldn’t be so kind.

this scene reminded me of that. what teerak said was not anything similar, but it makes you think how kids always try to understand their parents and find a reason for why they are the way they are. like teerak, some even end up creating this narrative that it was their fault. because somehow, it’s easier that way.

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he loves him so much, it hurts

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throughout this whole thing, he kept asking people if they understood him, but he couldn’t extend the same understanding to his son

bro

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i need him to talk to my parents