In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming a journalist.
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In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming a journalist.
When Angelo and Tristan failed to catch the last train ride, a bond grows between them when they decide to walk towards an alternate route.
Francesca for the others, Thomas for himself, is a boy born in a female body that doesn’t feel anymore belonging to him. He has a date with a girl met online but things don’t go as planned. Thomas and his friends grew up in Barona spending their afternoons riding scooters. On a random day, among the buildings of the outskirts of Milan, Elisa, Thia Bomber’s girlfriend, notices Thomas for the first time. The screams, a party, a kiss: moments of a day that changes forever the life of the guy.
On Instagram Michal presents himself as a rapper who is one step away from stardom. In reality, he is a fast-food worker in a place from where no-one ever made the big time. What he doesn't yet know is that his dream will come true this afternoon.
Mother Karin and daughter Mari are facing the demise of Mamma, Karin's mother and Mari's grandmother. They both release their pain on each other, but in unconditional love, everything is allowed.
Håkan Hellström plays a football trainer to a team consisting of lookalikes of well-known football players such as Zlatan, Messi and David Beckham
Follows six best friends from college, now in their 40s, who reconnect for their 25 year reunion weekend. As secrets are revealed, one will force them all to reevaluate their lives
Ashwin, A middle-class youngster who is passionate about bikes tries to pursue professional racing against all odds and challenges.
Winter of 1943. Andorra, a small country in the Pyrenees. In the tense calm of a borderland, where echoes of a nearby war reach the ears of the local inhabitants, Antonio and Sara, a young, married couple, are expecting their first child. No one knows exactly what is going on, nor what is being fought over, the priority is just to survive another day. When a family of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution arrives in the valley, the locals will find their lives disrupted and filled with a sense of fear and unease. Sara will have to face her own contradictions and decide whether to follow her head... or her conscience. The past, along with all the secrets that have remained buried under the snow for so many years, are about to surface. The burning cold has reached the mountains.
After a long night out two lonely people awake in unfamiliar places on opposite ends of the same city. Their eventual meeting in a city park can only be described as good fortune.
“Love is Free” is a triptych telling the story of one woman’s relationship with love and how it has been shaped by her relationship with her eccentric father.
A professional fighter hiding her career protects her mother from an abusive landlord.
On an urban island in Shanghai, Yoyo starts secretly following Lan Tian. In a parallel world, Lan Tian is quietly observing Yoyo in the distance. Trapped in a twin-towered shopping complex, they experience two variations of encounters, as affections, desires and other feelings start to appear.
After a car accident leaves her boyfriend in a coma, April’s panic attacks return and make her life a living hell. However, once she accepts the kindness of a stranger trying to help her, she realizes that he might not be the stranger she thought he is.
Brothers Omar and Jepoy wait for the next rain to pick mushrooms to sell, test the magic of a song Jepoy learned from school, and prove a legend Omar heard.
Ellen believes she has the perfect life. When her new husband, Paul, isn’t traveling on business, he dotes on her and her daughter. But after a stranger is caught prowling around their house, things don’t add up. Why is Paul always away on business? And did he know the prowler? It's as if something, or someone, is taking over his priorities. Ellen begins to discover a web of lies that she must expose to in order to free herself and her daughter. That is, if Paul doesn’t stop her first.
The 6 Guarani villages of Jaraguá, in São Paulo, fight for land rights, for human rights and for the preservation of nature. They suffer from the proximity to the city, which brings lack of resources, pollution of rivers and springs, racism, police violence, fires, lack of infrastructure and sanitation, among others. Unable to live like their ancestors, their millenary culture is lost as it merges with the urban culture.
An elderly couple escape for the day to re-discover their old seaside haunts and re-affirm their lifelong love affair.
Wrestling with grudges and an insurmountable bout of artist’s block, a young woman has until sunset to create her magnum opus.
Three distinct settings uniquely portray three separate stories of old friends reunited, a young man's reckless ambition, and love found amidst tragedy. These disparate tales converge to explore complex themes of friendship, ambition, and love, weaving a poignant relationship between two people in each story.
The police found a woman named Ferlina (38) dead in her own home. Rio (18) who is her only child, became a witness to the incident to uncover who is the perpetrator of the murder.
When a 15-year old, seeking an escape from her alcoholic mother's abusive boyfriend, is lured into a sex trafficking scheme by a man she met online, she must realize the difference between love and manipulation to return to those who care.
Maddy is putting off telling her housemates that their community dream has come to an end...
237 years after mankind's extinction, an android longs for a past it can never experience.
A Vietnamese American teenager and her story of loss, grief, and resilience after losing her parents. She finds her mother's journal which details her family's life as Vietnam war refugees and immigrants in America.
The struggle between the tribal people and the corporate company.
The road ahead might be straight and even, but human character is shaped by the journey thereon. Sagar and his father set out to invite their far-off relatives to Sagar's wedding. But the venture is not as easy. Sagar has left his job in Pune in order to live with his parents in the village and work as a farmer. "Farmers are not good suitors", yet somehow Sagar has found a bride and they are about to be married. Sagar and his father are always at odds against each other for no particular reason. This father-son tension characterises their journey, their relationship in the hands of the dust and the soil of the road.
Nam and Fire are racing champions of Asia’s track and street. However, when the owner of a racing team recruits Nam to mentor her son Calvin to become a future champion, Nam does not realize his choice will destroy everything he has. With Fire and Calvin suffering the fatal accidents caused by Kenji, a ruthless Japanese racer, it rekindles Nam’s courage to take on his darkest challenge on the road again.
It's every parent's nightmare. Your child needs you and you feel powerless to help. Whether it's that the child needs the necessary medical care, or needs you to protect them. What would you do to help your child?
A young man, sick of his father's abuse, leaves his home and looks for a place to spend the night.
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest hours, if we remember to turn on the light."
The club as a place of endless (im)possibilities. A man and a woman wait here together for 25 years for a mysterious, all-changing event to occur. From 1979 to 2004: from disco to techno. A love story and an obsession.
After Whim makes it through the unconventional audition for the dance piece Syncope, the choreographer finds himself unsatisfied with her full commitment. But what she and the other dancers experience in the rehearsals is just a glimpse of what his dark vision will demand from them.
A nervous painter-to-be has to overcome his own demons during the university entrance exam, which appear as pests in his imagined inner garden.
Coffee, Bagels, and lost love: Two grumpy, old men confront their lifelong rivalry and reminisce of the woman who broke both their hearts.
The story takes place in Tawarayama Onsen in Nagato City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. It is a story about a summer spent by a man and a woman who long for their hometowns.
A short, magic realist drama that explores antisemitism, queerness and spirituality. Daniel, a teenage boy caught in a web of lies, is pulled in different directions by his best mate and burgeoning Neo-Nazi, James, his secret lover, Isaac, and his orthodox Jewish father, Adam. As his ability to juggle his identities falters, he finds himself haunted by a Hasidic spectre demanding a sacrifice.
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Jodi Arias befriends Donavan Bering and Tracy Brown in prison, and they became inseparable. Donavan is released from prison before Jodi's trial and becomes her mouthpiece, posting on social media and defending Jodi. When the details of the case and Jodi's story no longer add up, Donavan refuses to continue her work, bringing out Jodi's vengeful side.
With the hopes to secure a venue for his wedding, Desi, reaches out to his estranged pastoral father to use his church. Will he be able to forgive his father and find closure or further alienate himself from his family?
An heiress and her husband -- who's also her father's most trusted aide -- have a romantic weekend getaway disrupted when things take a nightmarish turn.
Hugo is 17 and a member of a handball new talent program, an institution that trains professional athletes. A brilliant and committed player, he is preparing for a crucial match that will determine his career. But the day before the event, his coach has him sit on the bench for substitutes.
The story takes place on a wonderful night in Changsha. Nightbird Jing Weiwei met He Xixi, who was about to leave her hometown tomorrow morning at a bookstore, and they arranged to take a night trip together.
"Negative Numbers" is the true story of a juvenile detention centre in Tbilisi, Georgia in the early 2000s. Two ex- professional rugby players took up the challenge to help these young offenders by bringing rugby in to the centre. The film recounts some of these stories. "When you have to decide which family you really belong to."
This film is a homage to the life, career and fears of Slovenian actor Peter Musevski. He was always Pero for me, not Peter.
Polish WWII resistance fighter Witold Pilecki infiltrates Auschwitz, is imprisoned and interrogated by communist officials post-war, depicting his wartime experiences, incarceration, torture, and 1948 execution for opposing Soviet regime.
During that summer, Bo (Mandy Tam), a cheerful and kind-hearted girl who lives on Fa Yuen Street in Mong Kok, meets Edward (Edward Chen), a wealthy young man with an estranged father, by chance. To retaliate against his father, Edward hires Bo and her friend Keung (Leung Chung Hang) to ruin his father’s wedding. Bo and Edward are increasingly drawn to each other and start dating. Falling head over heels in love, they think their love will last forever. Just as the couple think this is the love of a lifetime, life doesn’t always go the way they want……
Brittany, during the 16th century. Freshly crowned king, Henri de Valois, known as Henri III, travels to the provinces to find a boy he once loved: Gabriel. Henri hopes to steal the kiss the young man once refused him.
The film tells the story of the first award ceremony of 1,052 meritorious generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army On September 23, 1955, the 22nd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the First National People's Congress decided to award Zhu De and other 10 senior generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with the rank of Marshal of the People's Republic of China, and they were awarded by order of the then President Mao Zedong. On September 27, 1955, the Central Military Commission issued a special telegram and announced the order to award Su Yu and other 1,038 senior officers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with the rank of general through the general ceremony ceremony held by the State Council. These include 10 generals, 55 generals, 175 lieutenant generals, and 798 major generals
The 2020 U.S. election, January 6 insurrection, and transition of power are recast and retold in a radical transformation of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
A father and mother rack their brains in order to help their son achieve early success in China's education system.
A closeted trans man struggles with the fear of feeling unloved if he comes out, forcing him to hide his true self.
A carefully constructed marriage implodes when an unexpected call unleashes the fragility and wounds that have been simmering for years.
In the midst of the silenced 1950s Puerto Rican revolution for independence, 16-year-old Celia is kept in the dark by her family. As she ruminates about the oppressive status of the Island, her questions are left unanswered. The family of three women are forced to face the fatal reality of their surroundings after Celia's classmate, Matías, arrives at their home with his father, Emilio, who is gravely injured from a gunshot. After realizing the boy and his father are active members of the revolution, tensions arise as they decide to hide them from the police. Matías lights a spark in Celia, who rebels against her family and becomes part of the revolution.
Stigme deals with the universal subject of ideological stigmatization. The film is set in western Herzegovina, in the turbulent period after the Second World War. It talks about the devastation in a traditional environment left by ideological confrontations, which culminates during a tobacco journey. The main character of the film is Dragan, the son of an ex-Yugoslav security-intelligence organization officer Mile (who ends up in prison). Dragan is forced to go on a tobacco journey with a group of tobacco smugglers, believing that none of the smugglers know his true identity.
Two young men coincidentally meet in Vienna. Their talk, stories and attitudes are wonderfully made and crafted. Short movie about heartbreak and relationship.
In the special, Yodonna is given an opportunity to revive as a human on the condition she learn about the emotion of love on Valentine's Day.
Taufiq (Afry Wijoyo) is a content creator who is neglected as a father to Ali. When Ali was sick, Taufiq was robbed and beaten until he passed out. Hashim (Man Yakuza), a foreigner who has also lost three of his children, helps Taufiq realize his responsibilities as a father.
The story revolves around a middle-class Indian family, where a father dreams of living in a building while his son wants to start a business, leading to a strained relationship.