While Islamic terrorist diehards continue to lead the fight and spreading terror in parts, Rachid, a young "repentant" terrorist returns to his village taking advantage of a national amnesty to come down from the mountains and return to civil society.. Then he meets an embittered local pharmacist, paving the way for the disclosure of secrets that have the potential to tear them apart, and leading to an emotionally devastating finale that audiences will find unforgettable.
Lisa a daring adolescent girl initiates friendship with two boys Bruno and Lalo. Her preference is for Lalo but when he does not respond to her fully, she has sex with Bruno. Then she resumes her relationship with Lalo causing heartburn for Bruno. But the two friends Lalo and Bruno do not fight over her and kill each other. The three go out together and indulge in adolescent adventures and outings happily. Lisa leaves Argentina with her parents . She returns to Buenos Aires for a conference after 30 years . She meets her two ex-boyfriends, who are settled in life. The arrival of Lisa unsettles them and revives their memories.
In Buenos Aires, the bitter and methodic Roberto is a lonely man and the owner of a hardware store. Roberto collects bizarre worldwide news in an album as a hobby and his acquaintance Mari has an unrequited love for him, but Roberto is always evasive. One day, Roberto sees a Chinese named Jun being expelled from a taxi while he is watching the landing of airplanes in the airport and he helps the man to stand up. Jun does not speak Spanish and shows a tattoo with an address on his arm. Roberto heads to the spot with Jun and discover that the place belonged to Jun's uncle that sold it three and half years ago. Roberto goes with Jun to the police station, to the China's embassy and to a Chinese neighborhood to seek out his uncle but it is a fruitless search. Roberto lodges Jun in his house and after a series of incidents, he finds a delivery boy to translate Jun and he learns the dramatic story of his life.
Venice is having trouble with the men in her life. On the night her ex-hippy dad Arthur arrives in Sydney to stay on the sofa of her tiny apartment for a week, she is dumped by her lover and begins an ill-advised affair with her charismatic best friend Lenny. Arthur carefully ignores the turmoil swirling around his daughter’s life until she confronts him about the childhood that still pains her.
Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy serving time in a minimum security prison in New South Wales are thrown together on a journey with no money and no transport. To Lena, Vaughn represents the life she is running away from, and to Vaughn, Lena embodies the society that has rejected him. For a short period of time, they experience a true happiness together.
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. Lord Kitchener, who ordered the trial, hopes to bring the Boer War to an end with a peace conference. To that end, he uses the Morant trial to show that he is willing to judge his own soldiers harshly if they disobey the rules of war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
World War I, 1915. Archy Hamilton , a rising-star sprinter, sets aside his dreams to join the Australian Light Horse Division to fight in the war. He runs into fellow sprinter Frank Dunne, whom he convinces to join up with him. Unable to enter the Light Horse due to his inability to ride a horse, Frank is sent to Infantry, where he encounters some old buddies. Training commences, and Frank and Archy run into each other. With a special transfer to the Light Horse, Frank and Archy are sent to the Gallipoli Peninsula to fight the Turks. What they encounter shakes their beliefs about war.
Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master. John Grant, Red Dog's's master, a bus driver for Hamersley Iron, starts dating a woman named Nancy, who is a secretary at Hamersley Iron. After living in Dampier for two years, John proposes to Nancy. On the night of the engagement, John tells Red Dog to stay until he returns from Nancy's caravan. Early the next morning, John rides his motorcycle from Nancy's caravan, but is killed in an accident on the way home. In the shock of John's accident, Nancy and the Hamersley men forget about Red Dog. Three days after the funeral, they find him still waiting where John told him to stay. After three weeks Red decides to look for John, across much of the Australian North West Pilbara region from Perth to Darwin, in search of his beloved master.
Depressed Perry , works for an English paint company, until his wife is fatally crushed by a falling fridge. Distraught he travels to a desolate part of Australia, where he meets Grace, a woman who is as troubled by her life as he is. Together they hope to color their worlds with love rather than paint, but will the universe let them?
Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginner, and a bit of an ugly duckly who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are wrong when they say, "there are no new steps!"
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger. Red Leaf is interested in the DNA of the animal and Martin travels to Tasmania alone. He poses as a researcher from a university and lodges in the house of Lucy Armstrong. Martin leans that Lucy's husband has been missing for a long time and he befriends her children, Sass and Bike. When Martin goes to the village, he has a hostile reception from the locals. Along the days, Martin spends his days in the Tasmanian wilderness chasing the Tiger and becomes closer and closer to the Armstrong family. But Red Leaf wants results no matter the costs.
Fatma lives with her husband andsix children in Vienna, trying to preserve the traditional values and the social prestige of her family. When Ayse, a 19-year-old girl from the Turkish countryside, is chosen to be married to Fatma’s son, a special friendship evolves between the two women.But soon this relationship is put to the test as the family has to face a difficult stroke of fate.
"Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family.
One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested."
Six stories about Westerners who travel to Third World countries as tourists. Margarethe Tiesel plays divorcee Teresa, who packs her truculent teen daughter off to weight-loss camp before heading off to Kenya in need of love, affection and a renewed sense of her own desirability . Soon she meets Munga and for a while, things proceed satisfactorily: a gentle charmer who makes her feel young and wanted once more. The illusion of love is quickly shattered as he requests money. Disillusioned Teresa continues her quest for love from other men but can never quite escape her feelings of loneliness
A teenage boy is hired along with the music group of his father by a Zamindar (landlord) for entertaining him until the annual flood is over in the Haor region of East Bengal. But the boy finds out that he has to do something more than the rest of the members of the group - he had to dress up as a girl, and dance to Ghetu music. The wife of the landlord cannot stand this new 'rival' of hers and conspires to kill the boy.
Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5. There have been 200,000 Korean children spread throughout the world since the end of the Korean War. Born in 1965 in Seoul and adopted in 1971 by a Belgian family, Jung is one of them. Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, the film goes back over some key moments of Jung's life: the orphanage, his arrival in Belgium, family life, difficult adolescence... It relates the events that led him to accept his uprooting, identity, integration, maternal love, all in a reconstructed and blended family.
Belgian schoolteacher, Murielle, and Moroccan immigrant, Mounir, starts off well when they fall in love and decide to live together in the home of Mounir’s surrogate father, Doctor Pinget. But as Murielle quickly learns, the physician casts a paralyzing shadow over his young ward. When Murielle gives birth to a first and then a second child, life for the young couple seems more or less satisfying, but when a third child arrives, the burden it places on the two parents is heavy. Murielle that constantly urges her husband to distance himself from the authoritarian doctor, at least financially. As Murielle gets further sucked into the oppressive homestead, Murielle is driven towards the final, horrific act.
Rahima, a Muslim woman in her twenties who works in a restaurant and her brother Nedim, are orphans of the 90s Bosnian war, but never allude directly to their parents. Her decision to wear the headscarf, triggers old tensions. Nedim gets getting bullied at school by the pampered son of a politician. This incident triggers a chain of events leading Rahima to the discovery that her brother leads a double life. Set in the present-day Sarajevo, in which the ghosts of a war torn past loom.
After becoming infected with the virus that killed superstar Hannah Geist, Syd March must unravel the mystery surrounding her death to save his own life. Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion - for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, smuggling them from the clinic in his own body. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.
Tells the story of impossible love between a man and a woman after the man decided to have a his sex changed. The relationship between Laurence, a writer and teacher, and his girlfriend Fred. Devout bohemians who have little interest in conventional mores, they lead a charmed existence buoyed by their contempt for virtually everyone else on the planet. That is, it’s a charmed existence until Laurence breaks down one day and confesses that he believes he’s a woman trapped in a man’s body. Initially shocked, Fred soon decides to carry on as if nothing has happened. But as her doubts mount she is under pressure .
Clara and Nikolai meet at a sweat-soaked rave and end their night at his apartment. The first part of the film is a candid portrait of love, When Clara tries to sneak out without saying goodbye, this typical hookup takes an unexpected turn.
Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin of these envelopes and establishes a connection with Joseph, a Lebanese worker. After a while, Joseph abruptly disappears and Marie, overwhelmed by the mission fallen on her, starts a journey into the past, through a small village in Lebanon.
A girl soldier struggles to survive in a conflict-torn central African state. Komona, a 14 year old girl, tells her unborn child the story of how she became a rebel. It all began when she was 12; kidnapped by the rebel army, she was forced to kill. Her only escape and friend is Magician, a 15 year old boy who wants to marry her. Despite the horrors and daily grind of war, Komona and Magician fall in love. They thought they had escaped the war, but fate decided otherwise. Around them, war rages on….
Since she was a little girl, Natalia has lived as a prisoner in Ivan’s house. Despite the disturbing situation, a strange familial connection has developed between the two, which is challenged when Natalia experiences a sexual awakening that gives her unprecedented power she’s never felt before.
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves and her hopes. Parra was born in 1917 and grew up in southern Chile with her siblings and widowed father , a schoolteacher and guitarist, who eventually died of alcoholism. As a young woman, she participated in a traveling musical troupe with other family members, gathering traditional songs from around the country, before moving to Europe with Swiss flautist Gilbert Favre , where she further developed her contemporary folk style and was selected to display her paintings at the Louvre. Returning to Chile, she split with Favre, leading a life of increasing isolation before her suicide in 1967.
Lu Jie has no idea her husband Yongzhao is leading a double life, until the day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. Her world crumbles - and it's just the beginning. A few hours later, the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car. The police officer in charge of the case refuses to believe her death was accidental...
Thirteen-year-old Wei Minzhi arrives in Shuiquan village to substitute for the village's only teacher while he is away on personal business. He explains that many students have recently left school to find work in the cities, and he offers her a 10-yuan bonus if all the students are still there when he returns. One day, when Zhang leaves for work in nearby city of Zhangjiakou, Wei is determined to get him back. Wei goes to the local television station at Zhangjiakou to broadcast a missing person notice. The station manager is interested in her story and decides to feature Wei in a talk show. Zhang sees the show and Wei and Zhang are reunited.
This mystical documentary takes us through the untrodden, war-locked Northwest Amazon, where we discover the secret knowledge of of Cabiyari and Cubeo indigenous cultures and their insight into nature, life and medicinal and psychotropic plants. It is a window into a forbidden zone of the Amazon, patrolled by violent factions.
Antonio Farfan is a 46 year old man working in a notary's office who has always believed that his personal and professional failure is the inevitable result of his looks: he is bald, short and fat. Though his mind is never silent, his life goes almost uneventfully until the new notary arrives: a fatter, balder and shorter man that, unlike Antonio, is successful and loved by others. Dazed and confused, Antonio is now thrown out to the real world where he faces his own fears and ends up living pretty unexpected situations.
Porfirio tells the story of Porfirio Ramirez, a man who became handicapped after a failed police operation where he was shot in the back in 1991. Because of this, Porfirio sues the state, but due to several problems with the case, the lawsuit gets closed. With no money, and many problems, Porfirio takes a risky decision with his son: Hijack a plane and demand a meeting with the President of Colombia to discuss his problems. Based in the true story of Porfirio Ramirez.
Sofia is a woman in her sixties living with her husband Alfred in a cold, quiet village in the Andes. She has never seen the sea and has always dreamt of going there. Year after year, Alfred promises to take her to the Caribbean, but their plans are always thwarted by life's unexpected changes and year after year he puts it off, until finally one day, Sophia decides to go alone, leaving Alfred to face the enormous challenges of living day to day without her.
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with the Earth. Justine and Michael celebrate their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of Justine’s sister Claire and brother-in-law John . Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth threatening the very existence of humankind...
Mahmoud was part of the armed groups coerced by the Egyptian Government which carried out attacks on protestors in Tahir Square the 2nd of February 2011. Since then, Mahmoud has lost his job, subjected to humiliation , and ostracized by his own community that live close to the Pyramids. He and his family are close to despair when he meets Reem, a secular young Egyptian divorcee who works in advertising. Reem is a fervent ecologist who lives in a wealthy neighbourhood of Cairo. This will be the encounter of two people but also of two different worlds.
A girl , Asmaa, who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope. Based on a true story of a woman who died from a burst gallbladder after doctors refused to operate on her because she had AIDS
The film revolves around Qamar, who after the death of her husband, is left alone to cater for her five children and decides to send them to Cairo to fulfill their dreams. Problems start when the eldest son, instead of taking care of his siblings, leads them astray. Qamar tries to bring them back together and seeks to resolve their problems, which soon go beyond her control.
Choubra, cosmopolitan neighborhood of Cairo. Hatem, a police officer, handles this neighborhood with an iron hand. Every single citizen fears and hates him. Only Nour, a young woman he lusts after, dares stand up to him. But Nour is secretly in love with Cherif, brilliant and uncorrupted deputy public prosecutor. Green with envy, Hatem turns her life into a nightmare.
Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja, is sent to fight in Afghanistan years ago, where he converts to Islam. He now returns home only to find himself facing another kind of war. The front line in the decrepit Estonian town runs between Eastern and Western culture, men and women, common sense and madness. Somewhere amidst these battles is his daughter, Angel, who Kirotaja has decided to find after all the years of absence. His only leads are the sound of his daughter crying, heard once on the telephone, and a dog-eared notebook full of letters addressed to her. But the town has other plans for him and the women running it seem to take him for their savior from the nagging feeling of emptiness that has enveloped them.
A journalist has gotten wind of corruption rumors involving a politician. On the day the journalist tries to contact him, he decides to go mushrooming with his wife. After discovering the spot his wife chose to pick mushrooms is full of vacationers, Aadu decides to find a quieter place. The woods where he ultimately ends up however, are perhaps too deep and inhospitable.A black comedy about a trip to the woods gone wrong.
Set in a suburb by the same name, Vuosaari is an episodic feature of today´s Finland. Vuosaari is the last stop on the metroline, the beginning and the end of a journey. The film´s intertwined seven parallel stories are about families and individuals, children and adults. They all need to be loved and touched.
The Second World War, spring 1944 at the battlefront between Finland and Russia. There is a casualty evacuation centre for the fallen right behind the front line. Dead soldiers are gathered there to be sent back home. A group of four men and three women are running the centre. "Silence" is the story of Eino, the son of a corpse washer, who has been commissioned to the centre with his friend Antti. Eino joins the war his simple soul full of heroic ideals. The war, however, turns out to be the dull task of taking care of the dead interrupted only by arduous trips to pick up more bodies. Life in the small community turns out to be more complicated than the war itself.
The stories of three women from the same family across three different decades. The main characters – Saima, Tuulikki and Salla– each live in the same country house. Saima´s story takes place in the war time 1942, when Finland fought against Soviet Union, Tuulikki´s story in colourful year 1978 and Salla´s story in the present day. Each woman is between 30 and 40.This film pictures the encounters between people. How much does the time we live in affect us - and our ability to hold on to our dreams?
Nineteen-year-old Augustine, a servant at an upper-class home in Paris, suffers a seizure whilst serving dinner. She is immediately shipped off to the Pitié-Salpêtriere Psychiatric Hospital, where women diagnosed with the then-fashionable malady of "hysteria" are brought for treatment. Augustine captures the attention of the eminent Doctor Jean-Martin Charcot after she suffers another seizure in which she appears to experience intense physical pleasure. Charcot, instantly intrigued, begins using Augustine as his principal subject for neurological experiments involving hypnosis. The relationship between doctor and patient slowly grows closer, professional lines become blurred.
Dominique, an overwhelming and possessive father, runs a big pet shop “Le Paradis des Bêtes” with his sister. He is a violent person, and when he goes beyond the point of no return in his relationship with his wife Cathy, he runs away with their children, Clarisse and Ferdinand. He goes across the border and takes refuge in a big hotel in an up-market winter sports resort. While there he tries to create a world of illusion to win back his son and daughter… who love him unconditionally.
A fact-based drama about the German occupation of France, including the story of Guy Moquet, the young French communist hero executed by the Nazis who remains a symbol of the French Resistance, as well as those of acclaimed German writers Ernst Juenger and Heinrich Boell, both of whom served in France with the German army.
"New York City, not-too-distant-future: Eric Packer, a 28 year-old finance golden boy dreaming of living in a civilization ahead of this one, watches a dark shadow cast over the firmament of the Wall Street galaxy, of which he is the uncontested king. As he is chauffeured across midtown Manhattan to get a haircut at his father's old barber, his anxious eyes are glued to the yuan's exchange rate: it is mounting against all expectations, destroying Eric's bet against it. Eric Packer is losing his empire with every tick of the clock. Meanwhile, an eruption of wild activity unfolds in the city's streets. Petrified as the threats of the real world infringe upon his cloud of virtual convictions, his paranoia intensifies during the course of his 24-hour cross-town odyssey.
As the day goes by, chaos sets in, and he watches helplessly as his empire collapses. Also he is sure that someone is going to assassinate him. When? Where? He is about to live the most decisive 24 hours of his life"
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore : their son has problem. Their fears are unfortunately confirmed. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monster, family man... Monsieur Oscar is alone, accompanied only by Céline, the slender blonde woman behind the wheel of the vast engine that transports him through and around Paris. But where is his true home, his family, his rest?
Two brothers who are complete opposites : one is a salesman in a chain store, while the other fancies himself the oldest punk-with-a-dog in Europe...But the twists of modern life will reunite them, putting them both on the street. Now confederates of the Punk Attitude, the two men put everything on the line to spark off a new revolution...
Noor wants to be a man. He doesn't belong anymore to the Khusras, Pakistan's transgender community. And he is definitely done with the love affair he had with one of them, that had drastically changed his life. Now, he is doing a man's job in a Truck Decoration Center and he made up his mind: he will find a girl who will accept him as he is...
Sabrina, a young North African woman, falls in love with Dorcy, a black Christian trying to make ends meet as an actor. They plan to get married, but when rumour gets out about their engagement, Slimane, the eldest of Sabrina’s 40 brothers, is disgusted and is determined that Sabrina should stay faithful to familial and community traditions. He opposes the union and is prepared to use any means necessary..
Ali finds himself with a five-year-old child on his hands. Homeless, penniless and friendless, Ali takes refuge with his sister Anna in Antibes, in the south of France. Ali, a man of formidable size and strength, gets a job as a bouncer in a nightclub. Stephanie trains orca whales at Marineland. When a performance ends in tragedy, a call in the night again brings them together. When Ali sees her next, Stephanie is confined to a wheel chair : she has lost her legs and quite a few illusions. Ali's direct, unpitying physicality becomes Stephanie's lifeline, but Ali too is transformed by Stephanie's tough resilience.And Stephanie comes alive again. As their stories intersect and diverge, they navigate a world where strength, beauty, youth and blood are commodities-but where trust, truth, loyalty and love cannot be bought and sold, and courage comes in many forms.
Three generations of a French family open up about their sexual experiences and desires after young Romain is caught masturbating in his biology class. .After one of their sons gets caught filming himself masturbating in school, Claire, who never opened up the conversation of sex with her three children, decides to encourage them to explore their sexuality freely and openly.
France, late 1920. Thérèse marries her neighbour Bernard Desqueyroux, fascinated by him and his opinions. Life is easy, as Bernard’s pinewood estates keep them both in the lap of luxury. But when Thérèse’s best friend Anne, who also happens to be Bernard’s younger sister, falls in love with a handsome young Portuguese man, Thérèse begins to see what she has been missing in her life. She feels stifled by the tedium of provincial life and the intellectual mediocrity of her husband. She dreams of Paris, aims to stimulate and culture, and despite herself, starts looking for a way to get by. Until the day Bernard gets drunk.
When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel lodgings, extends friendship and care, and listens to her story. Laure's lover, Mario, the proprietor of the bar where Betty and Laure met, is first a friend, then Betty's next conquest.
The titular inspector travels to a small coastal town to investigate the puzzling death of a devout and wealthy Roman Catholic writer who is found murdered on a beach with the word pig written on his back. When Inspector Lavardin arrives to investigate, he discovers that the widow, Helene, he hasn't seen in 20 years. In the course of his probings, Lavardin inadvertently uncovers several metaphorical skeletons in the closet.
Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity. As he succumbs to green-eyed jealousy, his life starts to crumble. Each step on his downward spiral to madness seems to accelerate, driving him further along the path to a personal hell. Finally, the former shell of his personality cracks completely, with tragic consequences.
Francois comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. He notices that the village hasn't changed much, but the people have, especially his old friend Serge who has become a drunkard. Francois now tries to find out what happened to him and tries to help him.
Anne runs for re-election to the town council, shepherded by Matthieu, her fellow candidate and campaign manager. Her husband, Gérard, hates the campaign and feels vindication when a nasty leaflet circulates about their family. His son, François, just back from the U.S., is in love with his step-sister Michèle, and she with him, although something is amiss besides being cousins. Watching all, their elderly Aunt Line, has her own haunting memories. A death in World War II and a death on election night collapse time in the perpetual present and bring unexpected expiation. There's a lot to celebrate.
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) - high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of factory life to university and a good salary. During his year in seventh column (fifth form), this innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. A night in the forest hunting for escaped Russian POWs brings things to a head.
Civil war ravages Irina’s country. Soldiers burst into her family’s house, kill her relatives and rape Irina. Irina flees to Berlin where she works as a prostitute. In Berlin she meets Kalle, and lets him stay at her apartment. But their happiness is soon threatened when Kalle discovers a dead john in his girlfriend’s bed and commits a desperate deed. Criminal defence lawyer Noah Leyden takes on the case. Events surrounding Irina and Kalle provide him with fresh material with which to ponder his favourite topic …
German forces have been encamped in France for over 12 months, meeting with only mild, sporadic resistance from native freedom fighters. A German officer is assassinated by 3 men in Nantes, Hitler demands that 150 French citizens be shot immediately. Events are told through the eyes of a Communist, 17 year old Guy Môquet, was one of the victims of this act of retribution and was posthumously celebrated in France as well as through the eyes of a German soldier of the same age who was of the firing squad
About a life-and-death struggle in the asphalt jungle of Berlin district Neu Koln. A man works in the shadows and without license as a doctor. He has no practice, no appointments system. He treats people in the courtyards and streets – everywhere he’s needed, stealing medicine from pharmacies. Forced to adopt the role of a shadow, an outlaw, he is confronted with the question as to whether he really is a doctor.
DCI Bernie Reid's latest case is the mystery of a man brutally murdered in a London apartment building. As an insomniac going through a divorce, Reid's concentration on the case is further complicated after an encounter with Anna, an enigmatic figure. He tracks her down to a party where Anna denies any knowledge of having already met him. Despite her protestations, there is a mutual attraction between them both. Bernie's professional ethics come into question as he grows more attached to Anna, who is about to unveil a dark mystery
Teenager Adele wants to die. She neglects her chores at her parent's farm to stand on the edge of a cliff, staring down at a drop that would end her life, but she can't make herself do it. When she discovers escaped murderer Timo hiding in her bedroom, she demands a deal: she'll help him run from the police, but only if he kills her. To ensure that he will remain free long enough to enact their bargain, Adele and Timo must leave her hometown together, then cross the German border, and eventually flee Europe by ship.
After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must trust someone she was taught to hate and face the darkness within herself.
Einstein supposedly said: "If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years left to live." Over the last decade, millions of bees have disappeared worldwide. Is this a one-time anomaly or are we facing total system collapse? Looking for answers, director Markus Imhoof—using exquisite cinematography to put the viewer inside the bees’ world—travels from the Alps to the Arizona desert, interviewing experts ranging from beekeepers to scientists. What separates this work from earlier films on the subject is that Imhoof proposes a possible solution…
Rostock, East Germany, 1984. The two friends Cornelis and Andreas have set their sights on seeing the world as sailors of the GDR Merchant Marine. It's a dream they've always shared – and that soon seems doomed to failure. A few years pass and the pals are still on land, working as dockhands. The Stasi then approach them with a proposition: they are to find out whether Conny's foreman is really planning to flee to the West. Their reward: a career at sea. Andreas urges Conny to rat on his boss. Though he refuses, it's too late: Andreas passes the information on to the Stasi. Shortly thereafter, the Stasi start to harass Conny's Vietnamese girlfriend, prompting Conny to flee with her to the West. She makes it, but Conny is caught and sent to prison. The two friends are now firmly in the grip of the Stasi, who expertly play on the registers of hope and longing, deceit and betrayal to shatter not only dreams, but lives, loves and friendships as well.
"A drama centered on a white man lost in the Botswana marshlands. A young German travels through a country in Africa. He meets an old fisherman near a river, who takes him deep into the wilderness in his wooden boat.
The next morning he finds himself alone in the middle of an endless delta. An abyss of being a stranger in a foreign world.
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Electra is the daughter of King Agamemnon, who ruled over Mycenae. When Agamemnon was murdered by his queen and her lover, upon his return from the Trojan War, Electra was confined within her father's castle while her brother Orestes fled for safety. Years pass and hard times overcome the people of the land. Electra is married off to an older peasant man, and effectively exiled from her rightful place as Princess of Mycenae.
An Englishman returns to Greece , with the intention of opening up a lignite mine on a Greek island. His joyless existence is disturbed when he meets Zorba, a middle aged Greek with a real lust for life. As he discovers the earthy pleasures of Greece, the Englishman finds his view on life changing. Along the way, Bates is introduced to widow Irene Papas, the unrequited love object of everyone on the island, who comes to a tragic end when she is accused of adultery. Zorba is able to convince Bates that failure is an inescapable part of life, and that only by constantly tasting defeat can one truly enjoy life's victories.
"A set of four short films from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea.
In <>, a man drags a dragon tail of empty plastic jugs through traffic; a cat prowls Beijing alleyways; intellectuals sit in shadows smoking, discussing past and present horrors; bubbles float enigmatically; the world burns…
In <>, Park Hee Soon is a man whose hospitalized father is dying. To satisfy his father’s last wish, he hires an actress to pretend to be his fiancée. The ruse works too well when the father, though comatose, manages quite unnervingly to connect with her. In <>, Lee Kang-sheng is a bald bare-foot monk, walking as slowly as possible through various locations in Hong Kong. Watched by passersby, he radiates his own intense solitary space. In <., Francis Ng, is a man preparing for sex reassignment surgery. "
1940 Budapest A doctor's young wife is planning to run away with his protégé. The youngsters have planned to reveal their affair at a gala dedicating a new hospital wing. Professor Péter Kádár is successful in all respect. His career is on the top and he has a beautiful young wife- Anna. His perfect life however falls to pieces on the same day when he is appointed to the leadership of the most reputed clinic.The professor even doesn’t suspect while being celebrated his up to that time faithful colleague, his adopted son Doctor Zoltán prepares to elope with Anna.The promising adventure takes an unexpected run: the professor makes a heavy bargain which modifies the life of all three for good and all.
Mate, a lonely, divorced real estate agent is put in charge by his boss to sell a suburban storage building. The storage is rented by the Chinese, who keep their semi-legal goods here before selling them on the market. The stock comprising of several thousands of boxes is guarded by a Chinese man, Wu, who also lives in the storage. During this forced association a strange friendship begins between the two lonely men, even though Wu is told by his boss to prevent the sale of the storage under all circumstances. The boss is also giving enticing promises to Wu to help him realize his dream: go back to China and create his own football team.
"... and the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the sons even if those sons are daughters." Elza is a heavily pregnant drug addict caught in a love triangle fraught with tension. She is beginning to completely lose her grip on life when her father appears unexpectedly on her thirtieth birthday. Rusty is a police legend and Elza hates him. What was meant to be a warm reunion soon turns into a claustrophobic chase to the finish.
A story told by using bits and piecs from 500 films from all over the world. A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: the LOVE between man and woman... in an archetypical love story
1957, Budapest. The 1956 Revolution has fallen. The new Prime Minister , János Kádár – orders that each and every National Defense officer’s loyalty should be tested by new and rigorous directives. Jung, a young defense officer's loyalty is tested by his mentor in a highly deceptive spy game.
Steve, a dancer-turned-dance-impresario returns to his native Hungary after a 20-year absence. The Communist regime that expelled him is gone, his former apparatchik father had retired in disgrace, but his younger brother, Gyula still works in the same run-down studio with the same cash-strapped dance company they both started out in - and he is married to Steve’s former sweetheart, Mari. The two brothers decide to revive their last project together, a dance piece based on the old ballad, The Maiden Danced to Death. If Gyula makes it to Steve’s exacting standards, Steve can take it on a world tour, reviving the sagging careers of both. But the ghosts of the past begin to haunt them when Steve decides to even some old scores.
A story of an author struggling desperately to live his own life and to fall in love in the shadow of his manic-depressive ex-actress mother in the era of slowly declining communism. In their helpless interdependence, love and hate chains them to each other. This emotional stalemate is the primary meaning of the word tranquility. Our heroes are locked within the cages of their own madness, pacing within and hoping for liberation assisted by someone else. The question is whether they are going to be able to act sensibly and find a resolution.
17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas staion. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure. Only a natural disaster will shatter Noi's universe and offer him a window into a better world.
Böddi returns to the village of Krókur after 10 years in Germany and he's going to change the way Icelandic people think. On his blog he preaches noble, highbrow German ideals mixed with Viking Era romanticism. He's a bit too enthusiastic and is fired from his teaching position at the local high school after an ill-advised trip with his students to Drangey Island. Being a man of ideals, Böddi continues his crusade but has little luck. The girl he loves doesn't want him and the one he's using ends up using him. On his blog he continues to criticizes everything and everyone, much to the locals' dismay. Nothing will change in Krókur Village. So Böddi rides south to the big city of Reykjavík on his sturdy steed Nietzsche. He's got a gun in his pocket and noble ideas for the people. He's ready for his revolution.
A man is living with his only daughter and does everything he can for a living and for his daughter s sake hoping she is his forever. But a misunderstanding makes everything really complicated for him.
Yalda is a disabled daughter of the family who has developed an interest towards collecting glass animals, and harbors a secret attraction to her brother best friend Reza . Ehsan, writes poetry and desperately dreams of leaving Iran. He dreams of being a writer and spends his spare time haunting cinemas and watching old movies over and over. Farideh, holds down two food factory processing jobs to help support her family.The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.
Comedy about a male teacher working at a girl’s high school, which is governed by a strict feminist principal. One of the teachers at an all-girls academy run by a fiercely feminist principal ,Ms. Darabi, is on long leave for pregnency. She discovers to her dismay that the only suitable replacement is a man Reza Attaran. Despite her aversion to males, he attempts to woo her, and their courtship becomes a battle of wills that allows for a satire of gender inequality.
The Gardener’ is a documentary shot in the magnificent gardens of the Baha’i Faith’s headquarters Haifa, and Akka. It is the story of a debate between two Iranian generations; it is about the positive aspects of religion. The film also sheds light on the beauty of the Baháí gardens. As the father accompanies a gardener from Papua New Guinea, he finds similarities between the teachings of this religion, which was born in Iran, and the positive ideas promoted by people like Mandela and Gandhi.
Hayuta and Beri, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today's Israel and to the social changes surrounding them. After years of struggle, the two refuse to let go of their dreams and their revolutionary plans to build a welfare state in Israel. Over the course of a painful night of disillusionment, the two decide to leave their apartment for one last journey.
Everyone wants to gain entry to Israeli society by serving in the IDF. Everyone wants to get through basic training safe and sound, but for some reason, instead of team spirit and cooperation, members of the platoon would rather succeed at one another's expense.
Three years in the life of Aharon in which his soul matures but his body refuses to grow. Perhaps, one of his glands is dormant, or perhaps he is afraid of growing up and becoming like his parents. Or maybe, he is just a late bloomer, in need of a little more time. But nobody has the time to wait. Betrayed by his family, by his best friend and his beloved, lonely in his small body, but aware of his maturing soul, he realizes something must be done.
A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sites of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer. . Nimer, a Palestinian student and dedicated son, dreams of studying abroad and of a better life. One fateful night he meets Roy , an Israeli lawyer at a Tel Aviv nightclub , and the two fall in love. Their mutual attraction is instant. Torn between a homeland that would renounce him for his sexual identity, and an Israel that repudiates him for his nationality, Nimr finds a safe haven in Roy, and hopes one day to continue his studies in America. But when his Israeli student visa is suddenly revoked, he and Roy must work feverishly to keep Nimr from being deported.
Yaron is excited, because his wife is expecting their baby very soon. At the same time, a terrorist group of Jewish revolutionaries motivated by class, led by the Byronic Natanel and revolutionary muse Shira, pursues a course of hostage-taking; enter Yaron and his men, a special police unit tasked with counterterrorism duties.
Everything is complicated in Yoni's life. He's almost 13, but physically undeveloped and struggles daily to grow up. He sells homework in order to secretly buy a body building wonder powder, screams with full force to thicken his girlish voice, that gave him the nick name - Helium. His new classmates, a year older and two heads taller, bully him. A week before the ceremony - his autistic brother, Tomer, 17, hidden in a hostel that is now shut down - returns home. This shakes not only Yoni's life, but the unstable foundation of the entire family.
A tragi-comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who reluctantly travels to Eastern Europe to bring the body of a deceased former employee, a recent immigrant to Israel, back to her family, in order to prevent a public-relations disaster for his company. The characters in The HR Manager have no names; they are unhappy people known solely by their professional roles, until the young woman's tragic death - she's been the victim of a suicide bombing - forces them to find comfort in each other and in life.
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust. Arik continually seeking to build his relationship with his father by learning of other people’s lives. However, the principal heroes of the film do not and cannot share the atmosphere of optimism around - they are survivors who live in a country which is unwilling or unable to cope with the horror, the pain, the shame of what they went through.
Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife Maria. Luciano becomes obsessed with getting on Big Brother, or Grande Fratello, and translating his imaginary local-hero status into big time wealth. Luciano is stunned at the prestige and affluence of Enzo, a former Big Brother contestant who arrives and leaves by helicopter. Luciano quite correctly notes that this conceited jerk has no more essential talent than he does. In chasing this dream his perception of reality begins to change.
Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star (Penn), now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father's persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal now hiding out in the U.S. Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late. Having estranged for 30 years, death that he learns the true extent of his father's humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Muller - an event he is determined to avenge. So begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America to track down and confront his father's nemesis.
David Locke is a television journalist making a documentary film , seeking to interview rebel fighters involved in Chad's civil war. Locke finds that an Englishman by the name of Robertson, has died overnight in his hotel room. Locke switches identities with Robertson; In London, Locke's wife Rachel has been having an affair with someone else but is guilt-ridden and torn by the news of her husband's death. Meanwhile "Robertson" has flown off to Europe with the dead man's belongings. Locke soon discovers Robertson is a gunrunner, and is drawn into a deadly spiral.
Roberto is a an ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, complications set in when he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for 25 years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave. Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. His friends with Augusto, building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire...
Twenty years ago they were classmates, but above all they were friends, they were a group. Then something happened and the group broke up. Soon they become a group again, at least for a few days: the Ministry of Education has annulled their high school graduation exams and they have to take them again, or witness the annulment of all qualifications acquired thereafter. And so, with a few more wrinkles and a little less hair, we see them together again, like old times. With the desire to savor again the taste of youth, but with a greater or lesser awareness that that period has ended.
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and is now jobless. Daigo moves back to his hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer- a funeral professional" who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi" . As a "Nokanshi", acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed, Daigo uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.
An elderly, retired professor, Takashi , hires a young prostitute, Akiko, for the evening. It turns out that she’s a Sociology student (the very subject he used to teach) and he finds himself becoming unwittingly drawn into the lives of her and her pathologically jealous boyfriend over the next 24 hours.
The police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. The Sanno crime family has expanded their thriving business to include a growing influence in politics. The higher ranks arenow controlled by young executives, while the old trustworthy members have beensidelined. This weak spot in the Sanno, detective Kataoka has been looking for. The cop ignites a conflict between the Sanno and their old ally, the Hanabishi, with his covert plans and dirty tricks. As the police launch a planned clean-up of the organized crime, a nationwide war between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West begins.
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on their own psyches. Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limits of science and the wisdom of Big Brother.
Doctor Ayano Orii, having made a failed suicide attempt after a romantic breakup, finds herself unusually sensitive to the pain of her patient Shinzo Egi, who suffers from severe asthma. It helps that Egi, stoic about his own pain, finds indirect ways to assuage hers. Coming to feel that he can trust her more than his own family, Egi asks Dr. Orii to promise she will end his life once things get bad enough. Orii sadly agrees, and some time later, she helps him die. Narrated in flashback, as Orii sits, three years later, in the waiting room of a prosecutor investigating her actions.
A young Frenchwoman, Julie Mahe, whose ambition to fly in space is realised when she is launched on a Russian Soyuz mission as a ‘space tourist’. Julie’s mission is watched on TV by a Kazakh young peasant villager Iskander who makes a living scavenging and selling fallen and discarded rocket parts. When Julie literally “falls from heaven” in a small space capsule, it’s Iskander who finds her unconscious. Since Julie can no longer remember anything, Iskander is able to pretend that they are engaged to be married, turning the ancient law of the steppes , - “Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep.” - to his own advantage.
Amir and Serikpai are children of school age. They are growing up in rural Kazakhstan without their father, who went off to Russia in search of work and never came back. Their mother, Polina, is raising them, and they share their home with Polina’s old father and his sister. Without male support, the daily grind is often hard for Polina, and she finds that she cannot cope. Polina has little to sell but her body. The boys are taunted at school by their classmates, but neither shame nor dishonour affects the great love they have for their mother.
Almaty means a city full of apples. In a market of Almaty, a boy sells plastic bags instead of delicious apples. He takes care of his little sister and invalid uncle while his parents drown themselves in liquor. This mature boy, who takes his sister and uncle to the movies, sits in stark contrast to his parents, who drive their boy out to the street to scrounge money for liquor. The weakness of adults hiding behind alcohol and the strength of the boy, stealing to make a living, are a contrast.
The story follows three different women named Anne, who visit a small Korean seaside town. The first Anne is a successful film director. The second Anne is a married woman secretly in an affair with a Korean man. The third Anne is a divorcée whose husband left her for a Korean woman. Each of the Annes meets the same group of people, and each of them begins to realise something about themselves, and what they have lost.
Kang-do is a loan shark and hit-man for recovery of loans who cripples his victims without mercy. Kang-do, is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother. Sticking to Kang-do's side no matter how hard he tries to shake her off , the woman slowly works her way into the angry man's life and softens him up. As he gets attached to her , he discovers the tragic secret that made her seek him out.
Young-jak who is a private secretary of Madam Baek, the power centre of a Korean conglomerate, reports to Madam Baek that her husband, Mr. Yoon is having an affair with a Filipino nanny, Eva. Madam Baek in despair, seduces Young-jak and starts a physical relationship with him.. Meanwhile Madam Baek’s daughter approaches Young Jak expressing her love. Lost between his morality and shortcut to successful life, he has to make the biggest decision of his life
Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’ daughter. One night, while coming back from his bachelor party, he is involved in a hit-and-run accident, urged by his two childhood friends present in the car. The next day, feeling guilty, Al inquires about his victim. What he does not know is that Juliette, a young woman, has witnessed the entire accident from her balcony. She is the one who had called 911 and helped the victim’s wife Vera, a Moldavian illegal-immigrant. But when Juliette recognizes Al as the reckless driver in the Hospital corridor, she is unable to denounce him…
A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village. Virtually all these women, both Muslim and Christian, have lost a husband, father, son or brother to past conflicts in Lebanon. While these women continue to mourn, sectarian conflict in the region and escalating violence swirl around the village and threaten to upset the delicate stability between the two groups. The women of the village, exasperated by the violence and stupidity of the men, hatch a plan to turn things around. The goal of these women is to avoid a religious war, as they have lost enough already.
Helena’s son dies tragically. Desperate to compensate for her loss, she tries to make Lucian, a deportee, a part of her life. As his supervisor, she succeeds in abducting the young man. And so Helena, her husband and Lucian travel to Macedonia where the couple have decided to scatter their son’s ashes and discover the county. In Macedonia Lucian’s lover Ajsun is struggling for her independence. She and Lucian have a young son, but Ajsun’s father has now sold his daughter to another man in order to protect her from the shame of having an illegitimate child. Both Ajsun and Helena must try to hold their own in a male-dominated world.
Roberto, depressed after his wife Lucía's death in a road accident, decides to leave Puerto Vallarta, with his 17 year old daughter, Alejandra, and live in Mexico City. Alejandra tries to help him, but a very difficult situation arises for her at the new school: She befriends her new mates. But when Juan films her having sex with him and circulates the film, she becomes is a victim of bullying and abuse by her new mates.
Pilar loses the one thing in life that mattered to her and, from that moment on time stops. The present begins blending with the past, and the heroine withdraws into a world of her own. An intimate drama about the extreme emotions connected to the loss of someone on whom our lives depend.
Stunningly beautiful, Aya is a dreamy and flirtatious 20-year-old woman living in Chefchaouen, in Morocco’s Rif Mountains. Her awakening sexuality takes the form of an obsession with Bizet’s opera Carmen and draws her into a dangerous involvement with the local drug baron. When Aya’s brothers sell her virginity to the baron, hoping to exchange her for a cannabis field, her fairytale illusions are brutally shattered.
Kathmandu. Diya, aged 22, hopes to become a professional dancer, encouraged by her best friend Kiran. Whilst her parents have promised her hand to a stranger, her friendship with Kiran develops into a love affair. Transgressing local morals and tradition, Diya breaks off with her fiancé to live with her girlfriend. But by living out their lifestyle in the light of day, the young women expose themselves to real danger…
The haunting search to discover why fifteen-year old Jessie was murdered by her closest friends. Group leader Caesar is able to magnify, the childish grievances that each of Jessie's friends bear towards her and transforms them into a general and pervasive hatred that leads ultimately to her horrible, senseless killing. A story of insecurity and peer pressure gradually unfolds.
Habibi Rasak Kharban' (Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head) is a dramatic feature that tells the story of a forbidden love in Gaza. The film is a modern re-telling of the famous ancient Sufi parable 'Majnun Layla'. Two students in the West Bank are forced to return home to Gaza, where their love defies tradition. To reach his lover, Qays grafittis poetry across town.
Eva, is a 11 year old, who's fed up with all the tensions at home. In order to make her parents realise how she feels about this, she runs away from home. She hides in the attic of her best friend's place, Jackie en Thomas. When she finds a secret letter and gets caught in neighbor Brandsema's garden, her plans take an unexpected turn
Although Henrik has been living happily with Tone for several years, her pregnancy and a stressful new job expose some problems in their relationship. Tone is beginning to move beyond her carefree youth, but Henrik is more reluctant to assume any adult responsibilities. An aging adolescent who is 35 but still stuck in a state of arrested development.
The difficult relationship between Robert Lim and the bright little Brian. He’s a flop as a salesman and although he raises the boy the best he can after his wife’s death, his meagre earnings barely pay for a roof over their heads and tuition at an elite private school, where the rich kids bully Brian. One day he takes Brian to the penny mall stands for a treat and leaves him alone in the bathroom for a few minutes while he goes to buy a lottery ticket. When he returns, Brian has vanished into thin air. The only trace is on closed circuit TV, which clearly shows a slightly older boy leading him away. Robert’s frantic search through the infernal bowels of the Filipino city with a pimp, for a guide. There he finds the dregs of humanity, who kidnap children for horrifying purposes
Separatists kidnap 20 guests from a resort in the southern Philippines, for the independence of the Philippine island of Mindanao. French social worker Therese Bourgoine and her Filipina friend Soledad , cling to each other as the separatists force their captives into a fishing boat and take them hundreds of miles across the Sulu Sea to another island, Basilan,resulting in a 12-month ordeal.
A decade after the town of Bacolor was buried, Pol finds the lost coffin of his two-year-old daughter Marikit at the quarry. Her remains are unchanged, perfectly preserved a decade after she died from meningitis. Pol takes the coffin home, not knowing what to do. But his ignorance vanishes after a chain of events makes him think Marikit has done enough miracles to be called a saint.
An unusual love story between a retired piano teacher and a coal miner that confronts the very foundations of their characters: their different educations, faiths, values and life experiences. Having recently lost her partner, Basia decides to leave his home. Together with Witek they travel to the seaside and against the backdrop of the Silesian landscape they discover their prevailing feelings of loneliness drifting away.
A tale of survival of Rose, a Masurian woman, whose husband, a German soldier, was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. The law of the jungle had replaced the rule of law. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who survived the Warsaw uprising and is attempting to hide his identity.
18 year-old Tadzik, who arrives out of the blue at the home of his older sister Anka (Agnieszka Grochowska) for a vacation. It is clear from his lingering glances at her that his feelings are more than fraternal, but Anka is in the middle of a relationship , and keen to keep her brother at arms’ length. Meanwhile self-confident local Romany girl Irmina, who saw hunky Tadzik jump from a freight train when heading home, has taken a shine to him, and declares to girlfriends that she will marry him.
Eryk, a loner on a mysterious mission back to his semi-derelict family home in the rural Polish backwoods. He is a freelance hit man mentally scarred by his battlefield experience in Chechnya. The reason for this homecoming is an assassination,which is orchestrated from afar. But when Eryk discovers a teenage girl Bezi using his house as a refuge, his plans are suddenly derailed.
In fascist Portugal of the late sixties, a rich landowner leads an idle life of hunting (animals and women), drinking and enjoying himself. He owns everything and everybody around him; not only the objects, but also the people like his servants and his own beautiful wife, whom he keeps secluded inside his house like an emulator of the old feudal lords. The triangle formed by him, his wife and his manservant is an ambiguous one and the tensions produced within it end up in a tragic outcome.
Set during the end of Portuguese colonial rule of Mozambique. Luis a Portuguese army lieutenant marries Evita Evita, who has just arrived in Mozambique, and does not hesitate to voice her opinion of the conflict. This annoys Luis' captain Jaime, who embodies fascism and racism. Luis,is embarrassed by his wife's bold statements, but leaves it to Jaime to "correct' her. But as the two male leads, who are absent from the screen during most of the film, have to leave to fight the native rebels seeking independence, Evita finds her own truth in a country falling apart.
Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita - the only person in the world she loves and was loved by - back to her. As children, the two women lived together in an orphanage where the tough, short-tempered Alina served as a protector for her more delicate friend. Now, Alina wants Voichita to leave her cloistered life and return with her to Germany, but as the fateful hour draws near, Voichita seems disinclined to go, and so Alina stays on for a while, which is when the real trouble begins. Voichita has found God - and God is the hardest lover of all to be jealous of.
Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His 5 year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes frustration to Marius. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on their annual holiday, he is told that she is ill but he doesn't believe it and insists to take her with him. The situation soon gets out of control. The family taking part in a web of humor, violence, childish songs, police interventions and love statements.
The story of a man who leaves America to return to the land of his birth. At first Satché’s fellow-Senegalese accompany him lovingly and treat him almost as if he were a saint, but as the day continues Satché discovers how malicious and greedy they can be. Several of the romantic memories he harboured from a distance turn out to be banal when he is face to face with them; nonetheless Satché’s encounter with this reality manages to bring him peace.
Jasna is a teenage girl living in the poor suburbs in the south of Belgrade, Serbia. She likes to record everything around her using a mobile phone camera. She is making videos of herself, her school friends, family and Djole - the boy of her dreams. Her family is a mess: father is terminally ill and mother is barely coping. Jasna develops an intense relationship with Djole. Jasna starts to experiment with drugs and to skip school. Her life is getting out of control and she needs Djole to accept and reciprocate her affections.
What happens when a troubled young boy meets an old lady who's living her own share of problems? An intricately woven story that has the protagonists overcome boundaries of age, language and culture and reach out to each other to form a lasting friendship.
About a corrupt cop Ronnie who has illusions of being above the criminal class, and who desperately wants to clean up his act. Ronnie is given the opportunity to go legit by a cash-in-transit guard... but only by orchestrating the biggest cash heist in South African history.
Daniel and Laura, both teachers, who are confronted by an unusual situation when Mario, a childhood friend of Daniel's, turns up acting strangely and wanting them to meet his daughter, Julia. Daniel manages to get rid of him. When Mario slits his wrists and dies, Daniel and his wife Laura provide a home for the dead man’s daughter. Laura, who is childless, loves the girl from the moment they meet, but Daniel feels increasingly nervous around her. The demons of his past guilt continue to torment him. Daniel suffers agonies – until a show down in the mountains …
French and Bambara language fantasy drama about a soldier and an artist who wander through an African desert searching for the lost paintings of legendary French artist François Augiéras. The best way to escape from your pursuers without leaving any trail is to walk backwards in your own footprints. That is what François Augiéras believed. He covered a bunker in the desert with paintings, and then let it sink into the sand so that no one would find it. But who is Augiéras? Legionnaire, painter, writer, gunman, saint, thief, devil or a mixture of all those?
Struggling martial artist and dancer Bruno loves his girlfriend Carla, but when he meets fellow dancer Rai, serious sparks begin to fly, opening the couple up to new possibilities. But once Bruno's clandestine encounters with Rai are revealed, a confused and hurt Carla kicks him out. But she simply doesn't want to give up on her love. Eventually she agrees that Bruno can date them both as long as he keeps his life with Rai relatively separate.
When lonely, tortured pawnbroker Sarathsiri meets and marries the beautiful, enigmatic Selvi, he thinks he has finally found a way to put his past behind him. But a chance visit from an old friend opens up wounds that threaten to tear open the barely healing fabric of a mutilated nation coming to grips with the unspeakable cost of a thirty year civil war. Will love help them cross the bridge? Or will the past continue to colour the present?
A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests. Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives with his older sister (Léa Seydoux) in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. With his sister drifting in and out of jobs and relationships, twelve-year-old Simon takes on the responsibility of providing for the two of them. Every day, he takes the lift up to the opulent ski world above, stealing equipment from rich tourists to resell to the local kids down in the valley. He is able to keep their little family afloat with his small-time hustles and his sister is thankful for the money he brings in. But, when Simon partners with a crooked British seasonal worker, he begins to lose his boundaries, plummeting him into dangerous territory. -
Peter is a very peculiar tour guide: his speciality is to take on a journey his customers’ stuffed animals, taking care of them in every aspect, even taking careful pictures of the most beautiful moments of the holiday. But one day he is involved in a car accident and the three teddy bears he was looking after disappear mysteriously. Peter has then to contact his customers trying to fill the void created by this disappearance.
Zheng Shen is a young and wild electronic music composer. He is deeply shocked by the death of his grandmother, May. In his grandmother's will, she expresses her hope that Zheng Shen will care for grandpa Mu Ji as much as she had done. However, Zheng Shen does not receive the letter. It is accidentally delivered to the new Chinese Opera talent, Miao Xian. Having lost all hopes in love, Miao Xian is very touched by May's genuine affection and decides to carry out May's wish. To Miao Xian's surprise, grandpa Mu Ji mistakens Miao Xian as the young grandma May when she begins to take care of him. This coincidence not only brings Zheng Shen and Miao Xian closer but also beings to change everyone's lives.
In Taipei, radio show hostess Vicky searches the internet for her disappeared lover. During her virtual and introspective search, which she comments both on and off, she runs into avatars with pseudonyms as improbable as that of her lover called Dog: Assassin, Money, Playing and Cola. With their help she tries to see more clearly into the fractured reality of a city where disappearances have become commonplace.
The bird expert, Min Lin, had a cold war with his brother, Xiong Lin, for years. Meanwhile, Min was obsessed with the brood crisis of the migratory bird, Angel. Everythingwas just like a mysterious test from life. While Angel had new chicks again, the baby of Lin family was also born finally.
Laichun, her father and two mothers, uncle and grandfather are of different generations; thus they all think differently. Father is the family head, and because he believes he must continue on the family name ends up taking two wives. His first wife also feels the same way, and so allows the second wife. Laichun feels the abyss between her and her parents and ends up getting pregnant, but hits a wall when her boyfriend does not take any responsibility. When her father is hospitalized, she begins to understand her father and two mothers.
A young man, comes to the capital from the provinces and soon becomes a famous dramatic actor. Everything in his life is planned: tours, theater rehearsals, renovations at his house in the village. Even his mother’s death is planned ahead, as her burial place has already been bought at the village cemetery. The actor firmly believes that everything is under his control and he constructs a cozy reality for himself. But one day he receives a telegram informing him that his mother has passed away. With this telegram, the actor’s world collapses. With the loss of his loved one he realizes that the world, the reality he constructed is meaningless.
The lives of the poor in 4 different regions of Thailand, all of whom are connected by the same railroad. An old monk named Tu Pu attempts to teach the younger monks but the locals begin to lose their faith. A Myanmar laborer quits his job to help his wife who is about to be deported. His wife can't pay off her debts. Kamkon is an orphan. She tries her best to become recognized as a family member on her husband's side. Neighbors Suan and Klaew once were good friends, but now they are sworn enemies.
In a remote Tunisian village an American film crew invades its neighborhoods, bringing greed and betrayal that devastates the innocent inhabitants. Anis, a young Tunisian villager with an uncanny resemblance to Marlon Brando, is seduced by false promises of stardom, wealth, and fame, and the impossible dream of making it big in Hollywood.
Sumru (28) is doing music research in Istanbul. To work on her thesis on gathering and recording an collection of Anatolian elegies she sets off for the south-east of the country. In the course of the trip, Sumru crosses paths with Ahmet, a young guy who sells bootleg DVDs on the streets of Diyarbakır, with Antranik, the ageing and solitary warden of a crumbling church in the city and with various characters who witness the ongoing "unnamed war". During her three-month stay in Diyarbakir, she finds herself having to confront an agony from her own past which she has buried until now. While they set off for an evacuated mountain village in Hakkari, she does not respond the questions of Ahmet, who can not understand the reason why they take such a dangerous journey, "Why this village especially, what is there?"...
In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's exact location. As the group continues looking, its members can't help but chat among themselves about both trivia and their deepest concerns in an investigation that is proving more trying than any of them expected.
A young unemployed woman applies to a fortune-telling café lying that she has experience. While she reads the coffee cups of different women, she also tries to find a way out herself. Divorced, disconnected from her family, about to be thrown out of her flat, she is surrounded with troubles. Her mind is made up: she will escape to America. But how? She needs money, papers and a visa. Through the shapes emerging in coffee cups, she expresses her own frustrations and desires to match those of the customers. Meanwhile, the other young fortuneteller and the rebellious boss at the cafe try to bring her out of her shell. Will she be able to get away from present tense and try her luck for the future?
Ozgur is a young woman who is the daughter of a refugee family fled to France. She is born and raised in Paris. After her father Huseyin's death, she comes to Istanbul to fulfill Huseyin's last wish. He wanted to be buried in his own country. But because of September 12 military coup d'etat period, Huseyin is no more a Turkish citizen. So this happens to be a great obstacle for Ozgur. This will force Ozgur to a journey both in Istanbul and herself. In this journey Ozgur will meet with her father's and mother's relatives who are completely different people. Most importantly she will meet with Ferhat who will deeply effect her. This journey will become a confrontation with themselves and 2011's Turkey for Ozgur and Ferhat.
17-year-old Ayse passes out while pushing her younger sister's swing, her father Osman and pregnant mother Hatice rush her to the hospital, ready to sacrifice anything to see her well. But when they learn that she is carrying a baby, anger replaces concern. Though she refuses to name the father, the viewer can easily identify the papa, since Ayse frequently moons over the photo of a man who, as peripheral conversations establish, is the object of a police search.
Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage, but a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes an impossibility that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity.
Robbie sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend Leonie and hold his newborn son Luke for the first time. He swears that Luke will not have the same tragic life he has had. Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, he's given one last chance......While serving a community service order, he meets Rhino, Albert and Mo who, like him, find it impossible to find work because of their criminal records. Little did Robbie imagine how turning to drink might change their lives - not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world. Will it be 'slopping out' for the next twenty years, or a new future with 'Uisge Beatha' the 'Water of Life?' Only the angels know........
Eva puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15, he does something irrational and unforgivable in the eyes of the entire community. Eva grapples with her own feelings of grief and responsibility.She, fosters that solitary life because of the incident, the aftermath of which has turned her into a meek and scared woman. Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault?
Overworked and underpaid, a forty-plus mother of three is driven to abandon her senile father so she can take better care of her children. She is too poor to afford to put her father in a home, but still too wealthy to qualify for benefits; the perfectly eligible friend who brings her father back from yet another extended wander is revealed to be married; the father’s lonely wait at a housing estate . The deeply affecting mixture of tenderness and exasperation with which the mother helps her father shower and dress quietly underlines the film’s central theme.
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink's tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a time when he's no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack, temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink's health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.
About the legendary American painter, Jackson Pollock. Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940s art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country and marry and, soon, Pollock creates work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But, with fame and fortune, comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before long, Pollock's life threatens to explode.
The relationship between a young father and his infant son after the death of the boy's mother. Webber is the dad of a 2 year-old boy, who lost his wife in an accident. He is nearly broke and doing his best to go on auditions with a child in tow. He meets Lydia a beautiful, single, woman who has a kid herself and owns the coolest indoor children playland in the area. But dating brings with it is own natural set of emotional complexities and can be as much the undoing of someone in Mark's position.
The children in the town, called Cold Rock, have been going missing, which the town folk say is caused by entity known as 'The Tall Man'. Julia Denning a local nurse whose husband died years earlier, loses her child to 'The Tall Man'. She tries to track down where the child is taken, but finds that there's more to what's happening than she knew. The towns-folk start to turn on her and the truth comes out. Who is 'The Tall Man'? And what is the truth behind the disappearances?
