Based on true events, Hold Me Down depicts a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother in the Bronx who works as a stripper at an illegal nightclub to support her child.
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Based on true events, Hold Me Down depicts a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother in the Bronx who works as a stripper at an illegal nightclub to support her child.
A group of third-year students in the acting department of an art college in Guangxi repeatedly cause problems—arriving late to class, playing with their phones, and other disruptive behaviors—leading the college to repeatedly replace their acting instructor. Finally, they decide to hire an experienced acting teacher from outside the school: Ms. He Man.
In late-1950s Czechoslovakia, a young couple's new love is tested by their parents' expectations and the toll of the Communist regime.
A real romance filmed over five years. Josephine and Zefrey simmer in the white hot apocalypse of first love until the throw of a dart finds them on a spontaneous trip to the Maldives and cracks open the question -- is their love true or just a performance?
Juan has become the laughingstock of the small fishing village, due to his wife being unfaithful and getting pregnant by another man. He has left fishing and now obsessively cares for an ostentatious mansion of a wealthy family from the capital. One day, the young son of the owner shows up at the house, without his father's permission and loaded with alcohol, with a foreign friend and a village girl they just met. During the course of the weekend, Juan will be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of his life.
A drag queen hesitates to visit the grave of their father who was a homophobe.
A filmmaker revisits the town of Tayug, Pangasinan in preparation for a new feature film she is making about the folk hero Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Uprising of 1931. As she revisits the actual sites in Tayug where the infamous uprising had taken place, she imagines scenes in her new film about the subject. As she goes deeper in her research at Tayug, she uncovers the memories of the townspeople about Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Uprising of 1931.
Private first class Yoon-suk got a day out and breaks up with his girlfriend, Mi-jin. On the way, Yoon-suk meets a film majoring student Sun-young and she asks him if he could be the role of a dumped soldier.
Yochi, a selectively mute Mayan kid, tends a nest of endangered parrots in the pine savanna of Belize. When his beloved older brother, Itza, returns from the city, Yochi learns that he has become a poacher.
The young woman gets the last chance to please her mom. She just has not to spoil her funeral.
Josephine, the matriarch of a sprawling family, is delighted to gather everyone for Easter lunch for the first time in two years. While they all share a joyful meal, an incident ignites underlying tensions between the family members and leads them gradually into chaos.
A romance-comedy film directed by Jayatheertha, starring Sathish Ninasam and Sruthi Hariharan in the lead roles.
New father Jussi wakes up to sounds in the hallway and encounters a homeless alcoholic Pentti. Things are not always as they seem at first glance.
Nauryz is a magic time of year when all the wildest dreams may come true.
A FAVOR FOR JERRY follows Khan (Khan Baykal, ALWAYS SHINE, THE HAPPY HOUSE) as he crosses NYC filling in for a pot-dealing friend on election day. Shot in real time on November 8 2016, the film freely mixes documentary and narrative elements. As events unfold, the actors directly incorporate the moment into their performances and what begins as backdrop increasingly takes center stage.
An open ended conversation of Black singles about dating in Atlanta about the pitfalls and possibilities for them. Six stereotypes are embodied in individuals at the table. Unrealistic expectations are discussed and analyzed. Real examples of situations and dynamics in relationships are highlighted.
Fish Out of Water
An unexpected event brings together an unlikely group of students.
Kelvin and Mila are getting married. The situation get intense between them as they got into more and more quarrel over trivial things.
Isolated in rural England, a teenage girl is forced to confront the recent death of her mother.
"On the edge of non-existence and hallucination, of a reality that, if I acknowledge it, annihilates me. There, abject and abjection are my safeguards." Julia Kristeva.
A stranger in a truck approaches a woman walking alone on a vacant road. Captured in one single, unbroken take.
Two hitmen, Ray and Mick, are ordered to kill a man who has wronged their boss. The pair soon find out that the man they are after is more than he appears to be.
All the colour, depth and mystery of India's complex and riotous cultural heritage is brought to light in a single action which changes two countries forever. A proud Indian international student is attacked in a brightly lit train carriage against a backdrop of darkness. Unknown to his attackers his high caste status has little relevance, and in one poignant moment, he is rescued by his counterpart, an 'untouchable', a low caste. They are united by what would otherwise be impossible. The highly publicised event sends shock waves through the international community.
Lucía and Gonzalo have been dating for three years. They are about to go to a luxurious dinner at the agency where he works. An apparently trivial discussion ends up being deeper than expected, to the point of defining the future of the relationship.
Just outside her apartment, Ana finds Dina, a naked, mysterious and confused young woman. Ana invites Dina in and calls a couple of persons so that they can meet her. Pamela and Raymundo, human traffickers, show up to negotiate the buying of Dina, who claims that she comes from the future and that she is actually on a mission to investigate how far human evil has grown in Mexico by the year 2015. The young woman provokes an unsolvable dispute between the traffickers, who end up dead.
When his grandfather passes away, Lucas finds himself trapped between last wishes and cultural traditions.
"The Pine's Branches" is the latest work in Murata Tomoyasu’s series “Sei toshi ni matsuwaru kioku no tabi (Journey through memories of life and death),” which he began following the Tohoku earthquake in 2011.
Jake banks his boyish ambitions of being an astronaut inside a jar of coins. But there are those who would step all over his dreams. Can he still manage to make the giant leap?
Rebecca loves seeing her social media stats on her phone, so she is thrilled when she gets to heaven and finds out she can focus on her life stats and nothing else. Forever.
Juancho is in search of his real family after the death of his adoptive mother, only to find out his father is a corrupt politician who tried to kill him.
In southeastern Tunisia, Salem and Halima spend months waiting for news of their son Ahmed, who has been smuggled overseas to Italy.
Escaping war, a Syrian writer seeks asylum in Germany with his family. On the escape route he lost his wife so that only he and his daughter are left. Once they are settled in a refugee camp, he is forced to give his daughter to a German family. A moving story of forced assimilation and the struggle of the refugee in the modern world.
In search of a miracle, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon and finds hope in a community, through rituals involving an ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca. With her perception forever altered, she forges a bond with a young indigenous shaman undergoing a crisis of his own, and a motley crew of psychonauts seeking transcendence, companionship, and the meaning of life and death.
A Woodstock therapist has an innovative method to help her patients consisting on spying on them, which leads her to a surprising discovery about her own adoptive daughter.
Sang-beom's father had always missed his family in the North. Sang-beom was tired of his father. Then, one day after his father passes away, Sang-beom goes to the cold noodle place that his father used to go to.
Irreparable live delivery ... It was too late when I noticed ... Sanako Nishimura, a college student, learned that her friend Mami was doing a net idol, and Sanako who forced her to participate in Mami's live delivery was also raw. Decide to start distribution. Her live delivery, knowing her pleasure of being seen, gradually becomes more radical and stimulates the distorted sex of men.
Claire is an abortion doctor living in a post-industrial America where football no longer exists, but TRAP laws still do. After restrictive state regulations force Claire to shut down her clinic, she drives a taxi while waiting to reopen. The senator who was instrumental in passing the legislation dies in her backseat, and his wife and daughter come out of the woodwork and into Claire's life.
In a contemporary world in one of the European cities, three friends, as they face a military conflict in their country, must modify their plans for the future.
Isolated in her room, a girl marks the passage of time, waiting for a special day.
A homeless man is given a second chance at life when he's reunited with an old high school friend. Despite a seemingly bright future, his alcoholism and anger issues begin to weigh him down.
Without a doubt, family is above all, on the other hand though, mum and dad are definitely hiding something. What is the secret of the sunny family cult?
Maggie Lay is the last surviving star of the theater of magazines in Chile, a theatrical genre that during the dictatorship, went from glory to oblivion. She currently makes a living as a bus driver, but has refused to leave the stage until today.
A violent clip on a mobile phone leads to an intricate discussion among the sixth graders: what happens in the clip and who has the power really – the bully, the victim or the onlookers?
straight to video 2017.
Wayne Wapeemukwa directs a complex portrait of five Vancouverites living on the fringes of society during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Herlina found out her husband has cheated and tries to keep the harmony in her family.
A rich ambitious street mob lost his mind. He endanger his family members, so did his marriage. He had to pay back his fault, and look forward to that destiny was on his side.
Therese, the mayor's wife in a Lebanese village, joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughter's suitor and his parents. She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house. Only when the long-awaited guests are at her doorstep, she discovers they are Syrian; this engagement will only happen over Therese's dead body!
After the death of her parents, a traditional and conservative young woman, Iman, has to take care of her younger sister, Noha. When her sibling is faced with a marriage proposal, Iman has to ask her uncles to meet the groom and his family, as customs in Arab societies require the presence of a man from the bride’s side for the marriage agreement. But Iman decides to disregard the tradition.
Lawrence Shaw is a run of the mill guy who just can't get accepted for being who he is. He's not straight enough for his job where he sells testosterone fueled ad campaigns to beer companies and he's not stereotypically gay enough for his boyfriend. To make things worse, his father Elijah just died and his last dying wish was for Lawrence to go on a road trip with his extremely homophobic half-brother Kevin to bury his ashes. It's a heroically dumb journey of brotherly love and acceptance that begs the age old question... Can you truly accept someone else when you can't even accept yourself?"
2048. A day in the life of some of Earth's inhabitants. It's the century of commercial use for Black Square, and "Vantawhite Pages" is the world's largest company. An almanac of human history has been created on Vantawhite Pages using ink from Vantablack.
A look at the trials and tribulations of school and childhood.
Meçhul is a story about a writer who have to fight both personal and environmental challenges to seek meaning in life.