1960-11-05 London, England, UK
Tilda Swinton (born Katherine Matilda Swinton) is an award-winning British actress of Scottish descent, known for her versatile roles in independent films and blockbusters. She is a recipient various accolades throughout her long career, including an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards, in addition to being nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. Swinton began her career by appearing in experimental films starting with Caravaggio (1986), followed by The Last of England (1988), War Requiem (1989), and The Garden (1990). She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Isabella of France in Edward II (1991). She next starred in Sally Potter's Orlando (1992), for which she received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in The Deep End (2001), and followed this with appearances in Vanilla Sky (2001), Adaptation (2002), Constantine (2005), Julia (2008), and I Am Love (2009). For the film Young Adam (2003), she won the British Academy Scotland Award for Best Actress. Her performance in Michael Clayton (2007) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Additionally, she won the European Film Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). Swinton has also played the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia series (2005–2010) and the Ancient One in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. Swinton was awarded the Richard Harris Award by the British Independent Film Awards in recognition of her contributions to the British film industry. In 2013, she was given a special tribute by the Museum of Modern Art. In 2020, Swinton was awarded the British Film Institute Fellowship, the highest honour presented by the institution, for her "daringly eclectic and striking talents as a performer and film-maker and recognizes her great contribution to film culture, independent film exhibition and philanthropy." That same year, The New York Times ranked her thirteenth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century up to that point.
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Ballad of a Small Player | Cynthia Blithe | 2025-10-15 |
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Instant Coffee | Self | 2025-01-24 |
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Broken English | The Overseer | 2025-08-29 |
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Karl | Self | 2025-08-29 |
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发光的，万花筒般的 | 2024-07-21 | |
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The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze | Self | 2024-06-13 |
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Transparent | 2024-06-12 | |
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La habitación de al lado | Martha / Michelle | 2024-10-07 |
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A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (voice) | 2024-10-18 |
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The End | Mother | 2024-12-06 |
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Problemista | Elizabeth | 2024-03-01 |
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January Stories (version Harinezumi) | 2024-10-02 | |
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Impulse: Playing with Reality | Narrator | 2024-11-15 |
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The Killer | The Expert | 2023-10-25 |
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Some Thoughts On The Common Toad | Narrator (voice) | 2023-06-17 |
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Cannes Uncut | Self | 2023-06-12 |
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All Kinds of Love | Self | 2023-06-20 |
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Asteroid City | Dr. Hickenlooper | 2023-06-08 |
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Wood Sprite / Death (voice) | 2022-11-09 |
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Three Thousand Years of Longing | Alithea | 2022-08-24 |
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The Eternal Daughter | Julie / Rosalind | 2022-12-02 |
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Durmiente | 2022-11-10 | |
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Sleep Song | 2022-01-01 | |
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema | Self | 2022-12-09 |
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Goliath: Playing with Reality | Narrator (voice) | 2021-11-01 |
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The French Dispatch | J.K.L. Berensen | 2021-10-21 |
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Memoria | Jessica Holland | 2021-09-30 |
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The Souvenir: Part II | Rosalind | 2021-10-11 |
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The Storms of Jeremy Thomas | Self | 2021-12-10 |
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Last and First Men | Narrator (voice) | 2020-02-25 |
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Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien | Self (archive footage) | 2020-08-20 |
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The Human Voice | Woman | 2020-09-03 |
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The Human Voice Q&A With Pedro Almodovar And Tilda Swinton, Hosted By Mark Kermode | Self | 2020-11-06 |
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Uncut Gems | Anne - Adley's Auction Manager (voice) | 2019-08-30 |
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The Personal History of David Copperfield | Betsey Trotwood | 2019-11-07 |
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Avengers: Endgame | The Ancient One | 2019-04-24 |
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The Dead Don't Die | Zelda Winston | 2019-05-15 |
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The Souvenir | Rosalind | 2019-05-17 |
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Isle of Dogs | Oracle (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
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Suspiria | Madame Blanc / Dr. Klemperer / Helena Markos | 2018-10-26 |
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Tania Libre | Narrator (voice) | 2017-02-14 |
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Okja | Lucy Mirando / Nancy Mirando | 2017-06-28 |
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Letters from Baghdad | Gertrude Bell (voice) | 2017-04-21 |
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War Machine | German Politician | 2017-05-26 |
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Letters from Generation Rx | Narrator (voice) | 2017-07-18 |
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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger | Self | 2017-06-23 |
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async - first light | 2017-04-01 | |
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Doctor Strange | The Ancient One | 2016-10-25 |
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Phantom of the Universe | Narrator | 2016-10-18 |
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Hail, Caesar! | Thora Thacker / Thessaly Thacker | 2016-02-05 |
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Trainwreck | Dianna | 2015-07-17 |
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B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 | Self | 2015-02-05 |
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À la découverte du tournage de Moonrise Kingdom | Self / Social Services | 2015-09-22 |
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A Bigger Splash | Marianne Lane | 2015-11-26 |
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Dreams Rewired | Narrator (voice) | 2015-02-01 |
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The Gospel According to St Derek | Self | 2014-10-20 |
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The Grand Budapest Hotel | Madame D. | 2014-02-26 |
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Snowpiercer: Transperceneige, From the Blank Page to the Black Screen | Self | 2014-04-02 |
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Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch | Self | 2014-04-22 |
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Antarctica: On the Edge | Narrator (voice) | 2014-10-19 |
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Only Lovers Left Alive | Eve | 2013-12-12 |
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Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes | Narrator (voice) | 2013-01-01 |
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David Bowie: Five Years | Self (archive footage) | 2013-05-25 |
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설국열차 | Mason | 2013-08-01 |
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The Stars (Are Out Tonight) | 2013-02-25 | |
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Death for a Unicorn | Narrator (voice) | 2013-08-01 |
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The Zero Theorem | Dr. Shrink-Rom | 2013-09-20 |
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When Björk Met Attenborough | Narrator (voice) | 2013-07-26 |
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Amore carne | Self | 2013-02-06 |
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One Water | 2013-04-05 | |
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Moonrise Kingdom | Social Services | 2012-05-16 |
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Song 1 | Self | 2012-03-22 |
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Radioman | Self | 2012-12-07 |
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Ashes | Self | 2012-05-19 |
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We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian | 2011-09-28 |
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Cinema Is Everywhere | Self | 2011-10-22 |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | White Witch | 2010-12-02 |
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Behind Jim Jarmusch | Self | 2010-09-01 |
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Io sono l'amore | Emma Recchi | 2010-03-19 |
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Climate of Change | Narrator (voice) | 2010-05-12 |
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The Invisible Frame | The Cyclist | 2009-11-12 |
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Moments on the Set of I Am Love | Self | 2009-01-01 |
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The Limits of Control | Blonde | 2009-05-01 |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Elizabeth Abbott | 2008-12-25 |
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Burn After Reading | Katie Cox | 2008-09-05 |
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Derek | Narrator (voice) | 2008-02-19 |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | White Witch | 2008-05-15 |
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The New Ten Commandments | Self | 2008-01-02 |
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Julia | Julia | 2008-03-12 |
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Bienvenue à Cannes | Self | 2007-10-27 |
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A Londoni férfi | Camélia | 2007-05-23 |
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Faceless | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-20 |
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Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner | Self | 2007-02-16 |
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Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder | 2007-09-28 |
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Hitler's Favourite Royal | Narrator | 2007-01-01 |
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Sleepwalkers | Violinist Working As a Copy Clerk | 2007-01-16 |
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Strange Culture | Hope Kurtz | 2007-02-09 |
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Stephanie Daley | Lydie Crane | 2007-04-20 |
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Deep Water | Narrator (voice) | 2006-12-15 |
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Thumbsucker - Behind the Scenes | Self | 2006-01-24 |
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Constantine | Gabriel | 2005-02-08 |
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Broken Flowers | Penny | 2005-07-31 |
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The Somme | Narrator (voice) | 2005-11-14 |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | White Witch | 2005-12-07 |
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Thumbsucker | Audrey Cobb | 2005-09-16 |
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The Statement | Annemarie Livi | 2003-12-12 |
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Young Adam | Ella Gault | 2003-09-26 |
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Adaptation. | Valerie Thomas | 2002-12-06 |
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Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory | Self | 2002-10-10 |
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Teknolust | Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive | 2002-01-10 |
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The Deep End | Margaret Hall | 2001-01-21 |
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Vanilla Sky | Rebecca Dearborn | 2001-12-14 |
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Possible Worlds | Joyce | 2000-09-04 |
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The Beach | Sal | 2000-02-03 |
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The Dilapidated Dwelling | Narrator (voice) | 2000-10-06 |
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The War Zone | Mum | 1999-06-11 |
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Conceiving Ada | Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace | 1999-02-19 |
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The Protagonists | Actress | 1999-09-10 |
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon | Muriel Belcher | 1998-09-16 |
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Female Perversions | Evelyn Stephens | 1997-04-25 |
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Orbital: The Box | Traveller | 1996-04-15 |
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Visions of Heaven and Hell | Narrator (voice) | 1994-01-31 |
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Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies | 1994-05-01 | |
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Glitterbug | Self | 1994-03-05 |
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Tod eines Weltstars | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1994-06-01 |
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Blue | (voice) | 1993-08-19 |
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Wittgenstein | Lady Ottoline Morrell | 1993-03-26 |
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Das offene Universum | Carla | 1993-10-16 |
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Orlando | Orlando | 1992-12-11 |
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Hamlet | Ophelia | 1992-12-07 |
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Man to Man | Ella / Max Gerike | 1992-08-26 |
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Derek Jarman: A Portrait | Self | 1991-01-25 |
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Edward II | Isabella | 1991-09-11 |
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The Party: Nature Morte | Queenie | 1991-09-06 |
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The Garden | Madonna/Voice Overs | 1990-09-06 |
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Your Cheatin' Heart | 1990-10-11 | |
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A Call to Arms | 1989-01-01 | |
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Volcano Saga | Gudrun | 1989-01-01 |
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Play Me Something | Hairdresser | 1989-02-18 |
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War Requiem | The Nurse | 1989-01-06 |
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Degrees of Blindness | 1988-01-01 | |
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Cycling the Frame | The Cyclist | 1988-08-30 |
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Friendship's Death | Friendship | 1987-08-17 |
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Egomania – Insel ohne Hoffnung | Sally | 1987-05-20 |
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Aria | Young Girl | 1987-05-27 |
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The Last of England | The Maid | 1987-08-23 |
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Depuis le Jour | 1987-05-27 | |
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Caravaggio | Lena | 1986-08-29 |
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The Sluggard | The Sluggard | 1986-01-01 |
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Caprice | Lucky | 1986-06-15 |
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Hamlet | Ophelia | |
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Death in Her Hands | Vesta Gul | |
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Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project |
