Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.
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Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.
A young actress, successful in her small hometown, seeks fame and fortune in the big city. She goes to live with a friend, who is currently making a film about Zhao Dan. They live in a building about to be destroyed. Can their differing visions of art and love come to pass, or will heartbreak put an end to their relationship, as it does to the old Shanghai?
After encountering a group of bandits with plans to rape and steal from her, a young widow ventures into the wilderness in search of justice.
A girl, a gun and a last chance.
A collection of three short films directed by Moon So-ri. During recent years, Moon tried writing and directing. She previously wrote and directed three short films “The Actress” (2014), “The Running Actress” (2015), and “The Best Director” (2015), and these three short films are assembled here together in her first feature film “The Running Actress”.
A couple of sound engineers have stopped paying attention to each other. During a film shooting they see themselves in the actors who play the scene, which makes them understand the importance of listening to one another.
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
A woman who appears to be in the middle of life travels to Switzerland to seek euthanasia. As she puts the well-considered decision into action in an apartment, she encounters doubts for the last time.
Two sisters Tae and Yo come back to their old house which is soon to be torn down. Clearing up the family mementos, Tae finds a red box full of recipes and letters written by their mother who died 20 years ago. In these recipes and letters, she finds out how her mother had struggled in her life due to relocation from Japan to Taiwan, the death of her Taiwanese husband, and a battle with cancer. Tae travels to Taiwan to trace her mother's past, reminiscing about the dishes she made for the family.
When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid became Lola.
The film follows the life of a married cat and dog couple who start off with a dream to open a bakery, only for their lives to drift apart due to a variety of circumstances.
France, 1910. While her mother seems to be suffering from an illness she wishes to hide, the young Cassandra feels a growing presence in the family home ... But what shadow is hidden in the silence of the dark room?
David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.
Against the backdrop of New York's dazzling fashion scene, a woman in the process of transforming herself from a model into a designer is forced to live with her husband's ex-wife when he disappears without a trace.
While his father lies sick in a hospital room, Albert and his family try to get on with their lives. Their world seems suddenly divided in two: what happens inside the hospital, and the universe outside.
When a PhD student decides to document a real life sex addict for her dissertation in sex psychology, she becomes much more than a curious observer.
A high school class is learning about LGBTQ, but the students grow suspicious when they realize that no other classes have such lessons. Is there a queer student in the class?
After Daisy (Cierra Ramirez) gets kicked out of a cult for exposing the leader's corruption, she teams up with a vagabond named Ace (Jeff Wittek) to seek revenge.
“Honey, thanks for taking care of the house. There's wine in the fridge. If Raja gets restless, just give him a cookie.”
Super Lune is an application that combines the waves of love to those of the stars. If the love is real, the connection will glitch. To satisfy the obstinate requests of her boyfriend, Iris downloads the app. She connects to John Love, and starts playing the game. Where will this choice take them?
Marge asks her nephew Christian for help to protect herself against her sinister husband Walter. Christian will soon discover dark secrets and that Walter is not who he's intended to be.
Katya and Sasha love each other, but everyone has a business of his life. He is a doctor, she is a modern artist. Katya begins to move away from Sasha and be ashamed of his ignorance. He feels out of place among the artistic environment of his wife, but he cannot leave.
Based on the acclaimed novel by danielle marcus and directed by derek scott. Plug love is a urban love story. When a woman realize that being cheated on is not worth the finer things in life. While being in a unfaithful relationship with her man. She stumbles upon the true definition of real love. Which is define by another man. In which the relationship becomes deadly.
After an accident at a compressor station in Kazakhstan kills her husband, Ainur, a young Kazakh woman, travels to Russia to find Andrei Artamonov, her husband's former university classmate and best friend. Together with Ainur and the head of the station Lykov, Andrei has to find a solution to a problem that failed his university project many years ago and make what might be the hardest choice of his life.
In the labyrinth of suburban America, a soldier wanders through streets not as dead and empty as they may appear. A ghost story in digital camouflage.
With no career expectations, a temperamental young woman gave in to a job as a maid in a hotel. Makes the beds, replaces the towels, replaces the soaps. One day she discovers a suitcase left behind by a whimsical French tourist, inside which she finds a lime green canary, a natural yogurt and a five hundred euro envelope.
A young woman finds her lost lover in a world of ever-changing surreal landscapes. But love, she discovers, is more complicated than she imagines.
Jenni is a young, beautiful Latina who loves her friends and family. When she learns that her best friend is planning to have an abortion, she is devastated and does not understand why any mother would do that to her child. Jenni has a close relationship with her own mother and even gives her a special friendship necklace on her 40th birthday.
The elite special commander Tang Ke was assigned a new task to go to a building full of felons, and he had to "persuade" these criminals on his own.
The film follows the story of a man in Tehran, from 7 am to 5 pm, when he must do a job because it is his last chance.
A bickering mother and father take their daughter to visit her estranged grandmother. Isolated, the grandmother has grown ill; suffering from a worsening paranoia of imminent alien invasion. The young girl and the grandmother form a bond as the parent's fight about how best to handle the situation.
When a disturbed teen named Todd runs out of bullets in an attempt to commit suicide his call to a former bullet shop turned pizza place changes his life, hopefully for the better.
In a world where sex has become powerful leverage, Tessa takes on a job as high-class escort and calls herself Aimée. The secret life that comes with the job and the denial of her true feelings detaches her from herself and the people who love her most.
Lured by the chance of being the protagonist of a documentary film, Buddha Dev, a 27 year old flamboyant cricketer from Goa, starts authorising unrestricted access into the most private parts of his life.
A man is offered the chance to escape to his perfect dream world - all he has to do is hand over everything he owns. Will he really abandon his family? The answer to this question asks us to consider what really matters in our lives.
After a New York City woman is sexually assaulted while walking home one evening, she struggles to accept the truth and rediscover the intimacy within her relationship.
Marco is a 35 year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father. Even when offered a job at a restaurant in Melbourne, he declines using his father as the excuse. When tragedy strikes, the only glimmer of joy arrives in the form of Olivia, a spirited Australian chasing her dream of working in design while on a family mission in Udine. Against the stunning vineyards, rugged mountains and blue Adriatic of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, these two very different people find themselves at a crossroads that will change their lives forever.
After the Carnation Revolution the peasants in the Alentejo region occupied the huge proprieties where they were once submitted to the power of their masters. The protagonists of this film, resistants of this struggle, tell their story to the youngsters of today, in their own words.
Abhimanyu Roy is stuck with writer's block until he decides to re-live the memories of his childhood sweetheart Bindu who aspires to be a successful singer and struggles to give Abhi the one thing he craves - stability.
Fifteen-year-old Sarah has returned to Colmar, where she has taken up high-performance figure skating and competition. The rivalry between the girls and the trainer's harsh words put her body to the test on the ice, while her adolescent desires distract her from her athletic ambitions.
Laëtitia, Roca, Nico and Naël are in a band. As per usual, they meet late afternoon before rehearsal in a vacant lot. The group will soon no longer exist; they will be forced to disband because Laetitia is moving away to study. This is the story of four young adults who do not want to say good-bye.
Accusations of guilt turns a father into a fugitive, leaving his son to find and bring him home after struggling to put the pieces together.
John Newton was a troubled young man with a violent temper and a penchant for vulgarity that literally made his fellow sailors blush. Whipped for desertion and sold into slavery, it seemed his life would end early in a West African grave...until he was rescued by a ship captain sent by his father. Following a powerful conversion experience during a storm at sea, Newton would eventually become a pastor in the Church of England and the writer of several of the church's most beloved hymns, including "Amazing Grace".
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
When Jacob's ex-girlfriend Polly comes to visit, the pair can barely contain their excitement. Since their teenage days when they were an item, Jacob has long since been out of the closet and in a happy relationship with boyfriend Nicholas, so both he and Polly have a lot of catching up to do. Sure enough, Polly's visit extends into a long stay as the trio relish each other's company. However, all good things must, eventually, come to an end.
Fred is a projectionist, like his father. As he has to project a film in Normandy, he convinces him to hit the road together. The road trip will be a journey through clash of generations, drag queens and family affairs.
Two mimes are preparing for the evening's show, but one of them has got something more sinister in mind.
One night, three bored young men in a car decide to pay a visit to an older man they only know vaguely. At first he’s glad to see them but soon afterwards thinks they’ve come to burgle him and turns a gun on them. When the police turns up, they’re all taken into custody.
The Diary of Polina Żerebcowa, now an acclaimed writer and journalist, is a moving record of entering adulthood during the course of the war. The Chechen author describes her childhood and youth, which spanned from 1994 to 2004. First as a nine – year-old girl, then as a teenager, she documents her process of adolescence, presents her own vision of the world and immortalizes the experiences that shape her-she records her whole life, which takes place during the horrific Chechen wars. And although Polina's diary is a loose personal note, it is exceedingly evocative and lyrical. It leaves no one indifferent. The show, whose main character is the aforementioned diary presented by the outstanding actor, Andrzej Seweryn, gives Polina her voice so that she can tell us about what she experienced, what happened over the course of 10 years, during the two Chechen wars. Thus the story of how to remain human in the most inhumane circumstances is created.
Two twin sisters are making a birthday cake. Like a two headed creature, they appear to be a projection of one another. In the brief afternoon they spend together, they relive past conflicts and some shared fears that come back to haunt them.
After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans handyman and blues singer-songwriter Gabe Recolte was bereft. Left homeless and heartbroken, he had been forced to evacuate and relocate before he could tell club owner Hattie how much he cares for her.
Thirteen-year-old Mariam lives with her father, Rezo, in the poor slums of Tbilisi. They share a one room shack. Mariam and Rezo are barely making a living, being forced to steal at times. Along with the struggle against poverty, Mariam also has to deal with the facts of becoming a woman and the fear that her father would betray her in order to make money.
A Moroccan wedding ceremony - the bride, deeply veiled, is entrusted to the groom. While the musicians play and the women emit traditional trilling sounds, the couple retreats to the unknown realms of their shared bedroom. There, a bizarre drama unfolds while the wedding party waits for the bloody linen cloth.
Rony is an ordinary man sentenced to 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. In jail he will have to face the gangs and hard life behind bars while he dreams of recovering his family and proving his innocence.
When Mark Woods, a survivor of a deadly virus that wiped out mankind, goes city to city in search for other survivors, he slowly discovers that his traumatic past holds the key to his survival.
When two young boys start a brawl, their parents begins arguing with each other.
After Nader and Janne share a tense moment in a bus doorway, this chance encounter transports them into a shared reality. As one door closes behind them, countless others open. Coincidence (or is it fate?) causes their paths to cross a second time, and they step through yet another doorway, into their future. Together, the couple must fight to face both minor challenges and major surprises.