From acclaimed novelist Jim St. Germain (A Stone of Hope), a modern-day exploration of skin color and gender and how they affect one's ability to participate in relationships and society.
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From acclaimed novelist Jim St. Germain (A Stone of Hope), a modern-day exploration of skin color and gender and how they affect one's ability to participate in relationships and society.
Lionel, a 20-something year old working at a dead-end post office job, is searching for a greater purpose and sense of direction in his life. But, on a particularly slow day at the post office where he (and his flippant co-worker Gertrude) works, his day-to-day routine is disrupted by petty arguments and petty theft.
When a factory worker is implanted with his alien boss's parasitic offspring, he asks his wife to perform an illegal operation to remove it.
After an existential encounter with his neighbor, Ekrem rethinks his morning routine – cutting off the second head which grows from his neck every night.
The tortured life of Paul Morphy (1850s New Orleans chess prodigy) is examined.
Aspiring reporter Hope Jensen uncovers the remarkable secret behind a holiday phenomenon: money-filled glass jars anonymously given to people in need.
At his grand-mother's death, Jean, a fourteen-year old teenager inherits the file of a mysterious court case from 1895. Fascinated by this archive, both real and fictitious, Jean becomes the judge of a criminal case completed more than a century ago.
The film revolves around a Chinese man who returns to New Zealand following the death of his wife and begins to discover that she harbored a number of secrets.
A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab.
Teacher of the Year is A Tale told with utmost compassion and Passion trying to bring back the Ideal , Applied, Practical approach to Life which is instilled in ones' Formative School days, will be a Journey to the Glorious Chapters of one's Past , Connecting the dots to the Future. Teacher of the year is the story based on the current education system. The movie highlight the relationship between student and teach.
Born into a stretch of furry yellow, then hand-picked by the man he adores, a young rooster, COCKEREL, begins his caged yet sensual life as a native chicken farm's breeder without even knowing.
In this Korean omnibus film, three stories and relationships between the North and South are explored - stories about a hopeless romance, an unknown future and an expected and coincidental comfort.
A story of love, dreams, politics, revolution, and the aftermath of a civil war in Bangladesh.
Ten-year-old Solwei and Louis, her eighteen-year-old brother, have a car accident and find themselves in the middle of the night in a small, unfamiliar town. Here they meet with Alma, a mystical woman, whose contact details had been given to them. A truly strange night then begins.
Aragon, Spain. After living through her parents' divorce, Mar arrives in the summer in a mysterious town where she is fascinated by the horrifying stories about the Civil War and its terrible consequences told by members of a group of teenagers who seem to live according to rules that are strange to her.
When a determined toy company executive, Christy, must learn about Hanukkah in a hurry in order to land a big account, she enlists the help of her co-worker's friend Jonathan, who happens to also be in desperate need of turning his bachelor pad into a Christmas Wonderland to impress his girlfriend's father.
On a cold, wintry night, Lena shows up on the doorstep of the Rossberg family mansion. She claims her car has broken down, but her arrival is intentional. Lena is in pursuit of Anselm Rossberg, an aged Auschwitz guard who lives with his daughter, Maria. Anselm and Maria both deny Anselm's past, but Lena is determined to get him to confess, even as her own weapon is turned on her and she is forced into a moral dilemma.
After an eight year absence from his family, John Corson returns to his family's beach house to reflect on his past one last time.
An Argentine scholar living abroad returns home to meet an old school professor, his role model in life. But the meeting will take an unexpected turn.
Two sisters have a petty argument.
Stuck living in his childhood home, now with his own family, Matti has been yearning for change. One day, the wait is over. He finds himself suddenly transported from one place to another – miles away.
A small town comes under the thumb of Martha, a ghost who returns to haunt the children who witnessed her death during a "game" of Ghost in the Graveyard as young children.
A brother and sister decide to sell their family farm but things go awry when a bag of money shows up on the front doorstep.
This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An inspiring woman keeping alive ancient traditions and spirituality in modern Japan.
Zohair, a 14 year old refugee from Afghanistan, finds himself trapped in legal limbo in Greece. While wandering around Athens, he recollects his hometown. His life gradually brightens through the work in an old sawmill and his relationship with an old carpenter and his son.
The story takes place in the nearest future. The main character, Georgiy, spends every night at the lake looking up at flying spacecrafts to Mars, Jupiter and Titan and other far away planets. One day he decides to spend all the family money to buy a spacecraft. When he finds out that the rocket is out of order and may cost him his life, Georgiy takes a chance and organizes a space journey with his children.
Through saline paths, hand in hand, two lovers wander, in “Bela Mandil”.
A story between school kids and the teacher in a high school happened in 1985 China.
Two friends, a boy and a girl, at the age of 16, decide to deal with the taboo of being naked.
Young-shin is locked up in a fat camp against her own will. After kissing her roommate, the boring days at the camp turns into a small turmoil.
The Passenger explores one night in the lives of Gus, Marcel and Jodie, three siblings caught in the world of moped crime in London.
Two sisters orchestrate a bus robbery to raise money to save their dying mother.
A China–Laos co-production tracing two cross-border romances across two generations, set between China, Laos, Thailand and Taiwan, exploring love, sacrifice and cultural ties along the Mekong.
The Lie 12 is a story of love.
After his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state of arrested development. Once his mother dies, he must forge his own path and attempts to find his lost brethren.
Two people find themselves back in the Philippines after years of being away. Feeling like outsiders in a place that's supposed to be home, this story follows how a lack of connection with your culture and home can truly make one feel isolated and lonely.
Nothing is forever. Everything passes. Are you sure? And a woman’s insult? Vera has come with her grandson to see her old childhood friend, Yura, and wish him a happy birthday. She has come with a gift that Yura remembers all his life. The remaining life.
On a pleasant full moon evening, a group of friends is playing cards on a terrace overlooking the beach. In the distance, on the open sea, somewhere between eroticism and violence, two young women float over the triteness of their conversations and the absurdity of their actions.
Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.
Once a dream wove a shade, and pitying I dropped a tear. But I saw lights near, that light the ground while the soul wanders.
Kasie, stuck in LA’s Koreatown, works as a karaoke hostess getting paid for her companionship by drunken men. When her dad’s hospice nurse quits she reconnects with her estranged brother, Carey, forcing them to enter a period of intense self-reflection as their single father who raised them nears death.
Eleanor and Margaret are childhood friends. After one semester spent apart at universities, they get together for an evening in the city, testing their friendship.
Ayane Sukehira (Kang Ji-Young) is an overweight woman who loves chocolate. Because of her love for chocolate, she has moved to Italy which is famous for its chocolates. There, Ayane Sukehira gets involved in an accident and she passes out. When Ayane Sukehira wakes up, she finds that her appearance has totally changed. She is now a beautiful woman. Ayane Sukehira travels back to Japan and she begins work as an esthetician. She still is not interested in dating and she buries herself in eating chocolate and playing games. One day, popular idol Takumi Minato invites her for dinner
Rahman is the custodian of a company and the doctor has told him that he will die soon. He decides to with the help of his friend Anush make a plan and inherit some money for his family.
As an attempt of robbery goes wrong, Sale is left with little choice.
As three young professionals chase their wildly different dreams, their relationships with each other indelibly impact their journeys of self-discovery.
Seven Bulgarians living in a small town on the Danube river decide to become contract soldiers rangers to get rid of poverty. Their training drills and military maneuvers provoke smiles but thoughts as well for the fate of Europe and the world.
The news of death is a part of the trade for Harjo, an old man who lives by selling coffins. One issue stalled his long preparation for his own demise, which actually would lead him to the start of another journey.
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Claudia travels to Iceland for her son Patrick's dream wedding. She has a big surprise in store: she is the mysterious "new girl" of his best friend Alex, who has even proposed to her and wants to turn the ceremony into a double wedding. However, the secret lovers are waiting for the right time to tell the unsuspecting Patrick. Both fear that he will be less than thrilled. Shortly after arriving in Reykjavik, Patrick receives a phone call that throws everything out of kilter for him: his fiancée Anna cancels at the last minute! He also receives bad news from the start-up he set up with Alex in Hamburg. Patrick would love to fly back immediately, but a volcanic eruption puts a spanner in the works. Instead of a celebration and honeymoon, he has to pass the time with Alex, Claudia and his assistant Nina. Nina also has a secret agenda: to conquer Patrick.
‘TAKBO’ is a short experimental film that studies the realities by which young Filipino women live.
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
A future reliant on solar energy falls into chaos after the sun disappears, forcing a reclusive astronomer and his bubbly neighbor out of the city in search of light in the perpetual darkness.
At a beautiful hotel near the beach, the Danish and Swedish operations of an international company are having a very important lunch meeting. A merger is imminent, and Karsten is under a lot of pressure from his boss Henrik; if the special entertainment Karsten has prepared for the occasion fails to succeed, he might lose his job.
A treatise of the human animal no. 38: HEARTACHE is an absurd depiction of the human being and its eternal tendency to have its heart broken. In eight standalone chapters, we meet the patients at the now closed Sanatorium for Heartache, in their assiduous attempt to cure themselves of this terrible disease. Meanwhile, on Antarctica, we join the penguin Edgar on an epic journey, as he traverses snowy plains and stormy mountains in an attempt to once again be reunited with the love of his life.
Young, bestselling author Eryn Bellow concludes her bookstore tour with her agent selling film rights and closing a six figure advance for her follow-up. Headwinds arise as critics get offended by the claims that Eryn is being declared a living literary legend. The storm gathers force as the assaults gravitate from bad reviews to a fake-memoir designed to obliterate her from the field. Through the noise, Eryn attempts to write her way out of the public fray, and reclaim her voice in the minds of her readers. Along the way, she hopes to prove a happy ending is not always a bad thing.
"Toorbos" explores the uprooting of a young forest woman and her community during the time of the last forest inhabitants of South Africa's Knysna forest of the 1930's.