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The North Korean defector, who has just settled in the South, is confused by his brother who was separated from the defection process. Ji-hyeok, a Chinese restaurant deliveryman who is having a hard time finding a job due to his criminal record, wants to leave Korea as soon as possible. To raise money for his defector brother, Ji-hyeok, who is involved in a dangerous drug-transport errand, suggests intercepting billions of won of methamphetamine.
Barcelona, Spain, 1912. The disappearance of a girl from a wealthy family triggers a series of events that will shake the weak foundations of a hypocritical society.
When a young woman drives her estranged childhood best friend to get an abortion, the two are forced to confront each other about who they were and what they have become.
The main character, Nao, was looking for a man who was based on the letter of his late mother. Along the way, Nao runs out of power and collapses in front of a certain temple and asks the temple priest "Semimaru" to help him.
Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released from prison on good behavior and returns to her country home in Iowa to reconnect with her estranged 12-year-old daughter (Rylie Behr) and her cantankerous elderly grandfather (Tom Bower). Her return home is turbulent and a rough, unwelcome transition in which Kathy must come to terms with her diagnosis and its implications on her identity, while also realizing that her family was happier when she was gone. Conflict with her family intensifies as she struggles to keep her head above water, putting her self-worth and well-being to the ultimate test.
The impossibility of guide her three daughters in life and the constant failed promise to be a good mother frustrate and imprison Susana more and more. Ana and Clara, her older daughters, decide to release her from her burden.
When American Ranger John Cutter fails to save a family being held hostage and loses his entire team in a confrontation with infamous Ukrainian arms dealer Igor Rodin, he is discharged from the army.
Duda is a young girl of 13 years intrigued by her mother's work. Beside a new friend, she starts walking at night, and crosses a border with no return.
Lupita and Toña work as housemaids at the Ruíz Palacio’s house, an aristocratic Mexican family. For a long time they have been mistreated and poorly paid. They’re now fed up with the abuse and lack of respect they get from their employers.
The father wakes up from a terrible dream - he and his wife are getting a divorce, and in court the 7-year-old son chooses to "stay with the phone."
What's most important in life always changes and goes away. Winter in 2009, Akiko Shimizu goes to high school in Tokyo as far from home as she can get in with her ability. She is in junior grade. She is always sleep deprived and cannot sleep at home. She goes to her grandma's house where she used to live together and falls asleep there. Akiko, in lack of sleep as usual, meets Yoshida in a train. Although she knows that they never understand each other, she falls in love with someone, spends some time together, and seperate. Even if it's been a mistake, Akiko Shimizu embraces the moment and falls asleep.
While visiting a home for children, a little girl meets Joseph, a boy whose only dream is to have a yellow umbrella. This unexpected encounter awakens his memories of the past.
It’s the 1980s, teenager Xiaojun encounters a group of gangsters that will change his life. A youthful adventure through an iconic decade, Summer Swing is a profound reflection on the spirit of human freedom.
A short film exploring how a father deals with raising his child in a foreign country after his wife's death.
Hapless Insurance Loss Adjuster - Martin Dyer - feels his life is spiralling out of control but discovers that even when you reach rock bottom, that some clouds really do have a silver lining.
Based on the best selling novel "How to be a dreamer" comes Dream a story about a young boy growing up in the foster care system and fighting for more Malcolm finds himself waking up to the same nightmare over and over - the world, so he decides to dream.
The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…
Adrian must keep his work afloat while undergoing heavy chemotherapy. Tired of the abusive treatment of his worst client and suffocated by the demands of his boss, he decides to put his requirements in order, giving each party what they deserve.
Factory Talk is an intergenerational conversation about identity, sexuality and masculinity in a rural factory. Through the clanging of metal they make small talk, but as the gripes and grumbles testify to better times, the questions rising on the factory floor are of more than just nostalgia.
The period after the Sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror) conquered Constantinople, moving towards Europe in the fifteenth century , and Sultan Mehmed's determination to spread Islam in Europe by the superb morals of Muslims then.
Shi Guxiang, Su Yi, Kun Bing, An Lan, and Yue Lin went to the virgin forest to find plant spices similar to ambergris because the crocodile attack was forced to abandon the original route and go into a dangerous place. Monsters, piranhas, and other dangers followed one after another. During the escape, a group of accidentally found the fallen aircraft wreckage and gold. In the face of the huge temptation, several people thought about it. At the same time, in order to capture the traitor Bing Jiu, the jade boss Fei Ying and others met Shi Guxiang and his party and mistakenly recognized Bing Jiu ’s associates. After several forced investigations, he discovered the secret of gold. Destined to hold the stone, Xiang Xiang and his party surrendered the gold. When the crowd reached the place where the gold was buried, the forest tiger suddenly appeared, and a line of life was suspended.
After a viral video catapults her to the mayor’s office of her small town, Melanie Bridgewater soon finds herself in a fight against a shadowy government cabal seeking to make the United States more ‘globally compliant’. With the help of Benjamin Franklin’s time machine, she must travel to the age of George Washington in an attempt to remind America of the wonders of its own history and The Constitution.
By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, fame and love. He is the rising star of Soviet football. The whole country, with bated breath, expects victory from the national team at the upcoming World Cup where Streltsov is to face the great Brazilian football player Pelé. However, two days before the departure of the team, the sportsman’s enemies manage to destroy his career. When the door to big sport seems to be closed for good, Streltsov has to re-enter the field and prove that he is a true champion who is worth everybody’s love.
A girl plays at being a pirate when she learns that her father's ranch will be invaded. Convinced that she can help, she goes into the forest, not knowing that she will find something worse.
Memo lives on a remote Chilean sheep farm, hiding a beautiful singing voice from the outside world. A recluse with a glittery flair, he can't stop dwelling on the past, but what will happen once someone finally listens?
Anew production of Tannhäuser, which was premiered on 26 July 2019 and presented the Bayreuth debut of conductor Valery Gergiev, as well as the house debut of young soprano star Lise Davidsen. Tobias Kratzer’s staging presented Tannhäuser as a wildly contemporary parable of art and freedom which was praised as “novel” and “wrenching” (New York Times) and received exceptional press acclaim. hey were joined by mezzo soprano Elena Zhidkova’s Venus (“scene stealing”, according to Opera Today), baritone Markus Eiche’s Wolfram and Stephen Milling’s Landgraf.
The film is about a show dancer, Kristal, 40+ years, blond hair woman, who with a Lada car goes around small pubs and entertains people. First she seems a bit ridiculous, self-sufficient and naive, a potential victim, an circus animal, but she comes out as something else. Kristal is a weird saint, who takes to bear all the hate, despair, lust and confusion around her and through that gives people a momentary relief.
Eleven people, isolated from the outside world, communicate via screens. A son wants to hold the hand of his suffering mother. Love grows. A mother has abandoned her family. A therapist finds himself at the edge of ruin. A daughter connects with her parents.
Lord of Shanghai (Chinese: 上海王) is a 2016 Chinese action film co-written, produced and directed by Sherwood Hu and stars Hu Jun, Yu Nan, Rhydian Vaughan, and Qin Hao.[1] The film is an adaptation of Hong Ying's novel of the same name.[2] It picks up the story of three generations of the Lord of Shanghai and their love story of the legendary woman Xiao Yuegui.
This independent feature film is about Gour, a speech-impaired little boy, and his life and adventures in a village in rural West Bengal. The film was crowdfunded by 930 residents of Aranghata village in the district of Nadia, who raised around ₹19L for the making of the film.
An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.
Beautiful Dreamer is a contemporary dramedy about a group of Bay Area friends in their early 40s navigating one of those life moments together: expecting a surrogate baby, a long and deep friendship in jeopardy, two women finally deciding to marry after years of living together, a novelist with crippling writer's block. Capturing this next uncharted chapter of their extended family, Beautiful Dreamer explores the messy secrets and complicated nature of parenthood and the modern family, all the while testing the boundaries of love and friendship and the bioethics of surrogacy.
Maryoto and Maryani celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Right on that day, a surprise came to this family at the dinner table.
The harmony of a seemingly idyllic neighborhood is disrupted when a dog attacks a young girl.
Professional photographer Jamie's quantum physicist boyfriend Isaac has gone missing, and is presumed dead. Haunted by his disappearance while attempting to continue with life as normal, Jamie gets more and more wrapped up in figuring out exactly what happened, and is convinced that his disappearance has something to do with Isaac’s research into parallel dimensions. She continues to pursue him until she collides with a shattering revelation.
As teens ransack a suburban home for food and clothing, one recounts how he got there and how desperation has changed him.
A man wakes up one morning to discover he has turned into a puppet
The heroine of the film is a young woman from Uzbekistan, fleeing from store slavery and dreaming of returning her son.
Isolated, directionless and desperate for connection, an all-American teenage boy loses himself in the dark corners of the internet while searching for purpose.
A performance artist prepares for an event, whether they truly want to attend is uncertain.
The most painful loss of Victoria will be the thread of her revenge in an action short that puts violence between men and women on the table from a prism totally opposite to reality. Is the crime a revenge or a victory?
As the world commences its end, a young runaway must figure out if she has chosen the right person to spend her final moments with.
A young silversmith has to decide, when and how to break up with her boyfriend, at the last day of their relationship.
While drifting though Arizona, James encounters guru Sita and her group of devotees. He is initially unimpressed by her presence. Fate brings Sita back into James’s view and through a few intimate encounters, shows James the light to a new path.
At the time of her death, and after a lifetime of silence, a woman decides to confess all her terrible secrets to one of the psychiatrists in the mental institution she is held in. A story that talks about three generations of women marked by fate.
The night before Wei-Kai's best friend went to study abroad, Wei-Kai couldn't sleep, and his desires turned into fantasies.
Sergei’s life differs in no way from the life of other people. Work, family and days off spent before the TV set. That’s his comfort zone: in order to protect it, he is ready for any kind of compromise... or nearly any. Once, leaving his home for some family business, he returns as a completely different person.
A quiet boy goes to the forest to end his life, but a mysterious girl interrupts him. Forced to pretend he’s just practicing with a lasso, he unexpectedly finds himself pulled into a connection he didn’t plan for.
Claudie seeks advice from an old flame as a new love is born from the embers.
Two parents in Zurich think they have been doing everything right. Yet their teenage children disrupt their perfect family system until the parents move out themselves. The boundaries between reality and fiction become blurred.
Set in a small town in California and inspired by true events, Unborn is the story of a pregnant mother of two girls who feels the pressure to abort the pregnancy in order to fulfill her family's desire to have a boy.
The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace, the garden, the balcony and the stairwell.
When Sophia gets into an exclusive cheer camp with her best friend Charlotte, she's ecstatic to show off her skills. Camp queen bee Victoria and her overbearing mother Beth do not take kindly to a newcomer taking her spotlight, so they launch a dangerous plan to get their rival out of the way.
After years of absence, Agatha returns to the sea resort of her childhood, in Normandy, with her six years old son, Honoré. On edge, loaded with memories, she paces along the boardwalks of Deauville, while her son stays alone in the car. To his few questions, she gives no answers. On the wide beach of Trouville, in front of the old Hôtel des Roches Noires, she leaves him one more time. The film is freely inspired from Marguerite Duras's play, Agatha.
Just when a middle-aged aspiring bus driver thinks she and her 7-year boyfriend are headed to the altar, she learns that he is involved with another woman. A year later, she receives invitation to their wedding banquet, where she accidentally foils the plan of that woman’s ex-boyfriend to reveal her as a cheater and a swindler. These two jilted lovers decide to join forces and come up with a plan to take revenge on the alleged con woman.
A simple and quiet young man, Ruben faces the ups and downs of his life. But now, in the family, the “lame duck” is his brother. He allowed himself to be drawn by a gang of thugs into a high-risk enterprise. After being badly beaten in a beating, he finds himself between life and death. Fatally invested with a brotherly duty, Ruben goes to find the thugs to try to remove them from his "brother" and put an end to this story. But what was supposed to be an end turns out to be a nightmarish departure.