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The Defenestration of Prague, which took place on May 23, 1618, was the decisive historical moment that unleashed the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) between several Catholic and Protestant states and changed the course of European history forever. (Additionally released as a heavely edited historical documentary entitled The Defenestration of Prague, 85 min.)
Saimon hides his feelings as he and Takashi hit the road in search of love, but the journey leads them somewhere unexpected.
A failed circus artist managed to regain his beloved and to pull her from the embrace of her new lover, using the acrobatic skills she once fell in love with.
In Inadequate, by Mylla Fox, we follow the drama of Amanda, an obese young woman, and her mother, who is obsessed with her own body and a certain healthy standard of living. The insistence on imposing their lifestyle on their daughter causes that the relation of the two to wear to a point where Amanda can no longer deal with its mother. During the short is worked out the relationship between the two, with all the shocks, and still the need for affection that one feels for the other, after all.
SP Chauhan is a biopic that traces the remarkable journey from poverty to the prosperity of a heroic social worker of Haryana, Thakur Satpal Chauhan, who braved adverse social conditions to promote women's empowerment and an alcohol-free society.
A great reckoning in a small town. A town without a name. A town not on the map. A town with its own rules. A town without access from the outside. A town with secrets not available even to those 'living' there. How long? Suddenly a time warp, an accident of fate and then unexpectedly the appearance of a woman from beyond. Then it begins. The hidden ways of the town start surfacing. Although no way out of the town, the arrival of Alice puts the town's ways to a test.
An aged Byomkesh Bakshi and a tale of his family. After 2 years of exile, one night 'Khoka' A.K.A Abhimanyu Bakshi surrenders in a police station declaring a murder. His son Satyaki initially accepts that fact but after his grandfather's suggestions he tries to uncover the truth and uncovers a grand conspiracy. Will he be able to find the 'satya' (truth) in time?
Somewhere in the hills of Los Angeles, we meet four actors who portray the police profession, through narrative and staging.
When a journalist is tasked with doing a story on a young pastry entrepreneur, a romance blossoms that questions everything about herself.
A.D. 1519: When Huldrych Zwingli begins preaching as a priest in Zurich, the plague affects him. Looking death in the face, God's Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged and strengthened, he turns Zurich upside down with the Bible in his hand. However, resistance - even from the closest circle of friends - increases more and more.
Two women discovering and asserting who they are as young adults come to realize the painful truth of how a shift in perspective can sometimes end a friendship.
The Adventure of Tingting – Postman the Ghost (Ep1) Date: 17 August / Weather: Sunny / Temperature: 27°C Tingting Wong and best friend Lingling Chan have been caught by the cops! The policewoman tortures them forcing them to unveil who burnt down the postbox and why! Tingting fights with the policewoman like a superhero! Finally, Tingting wins over the Postman Ghost to protect the future of Hong Kong!
Alice wakes up with a terrible feeling that she had been raped. Her attempts to repress these nightmarish thoughts collapse, as she finds herself petrified and unable to get out of her apartment. Just across the street lives Ziv, a 17-year old gentle and gifted musician who faces his own loss. Fate will soon join these two characters together and reveal how a crisis can produce both destruction and growth, violence and grace.
Marina visits her daughter for her birthday in St. Petersburg, but feels superfluous at the party. She meets a young man, Artyom, and together they escape from the party.
A religious fanatic must subject his beloved indoctrinated niece, who’s drifting away from their faith, to a gruesome baptism.
The sensitive, 12-year-old Jonas is torn apart between his mother's alternative world and the longing for affiliation to the strong gang of boys. In the heated atmosphere of the village fair and due to the frenzy of group dynamics, the boys increasingly lose control. Until they eventually find themselves in the dark in front of the gate of the villages freak. And Jonas needs to decide who he really is and which price he's willing to pay for it.
A public toilet cleaner is concerned about her pregnancy test on a normal day of her work.
An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes.
The film is about essential things, about what excites everyone, but this excitement visits us either in early youth or in old age.
A thief while fleeing from the police becomes a witness to an accident.
This is a remarkable Canadian black comedy that leans towards the themes of the international and the familial. Sarah and Aaron are related, but their live paths have diverged a long time ago. While still solving their personal problems, they have to work together to fulfill the last wish of their Jewish grandmother, who got into a concentration camp aged 15 and has miraculously survived the Holocaust. They have to somehow find the remains of her favorite childhood pet – a dog that could dance on her hind legs, but is long dead and is buried somewhere in Poland. This is a well-formed film that refuses to employ sentimentality just for show.
A short stop frame animation following a lonely Inuit who struggles to survive after an oil tanker leaks oil off the coast of Alaska, killing all the wildlife in the area.
In 1979, two decades before the Columbine High School Massacre, the idea of children being targeted for mass slaughter in the sanctity of their school was inconceivable.
Cherry, a young prostitute who has a past of abandonment, heartbreak and abuse finds out how much loss she can handle before the burdens of her past and present take a toll on her. How much is too much before Cherry crashes and burns?
The story of the relationship between death row warden, Albert Gilmore, and Aleisha Edwards, a young black woman on death row, convicted for the fatal shooting of the officer who killed her husband.
Lee Chong Wei is a 2018 Malaysian biopic film directed by Teng Bee, about the inspirational story of national icon Lee Chong Wei, who rose from sheer poverty to become the top badminton player in the world. The film is based on Lee's 2012 autobiography Dare to Be a Champion
Class 18, the notorious yakuza class in Wutong Middle School received a letter from their future selves one day. The letter accurately predicted what would happen to class 18 during their high school years, and asked the students to complete three impossible missions to save their sick math teacher. To avoid the misfortunes written in the letter, the bad kids called a truce and gradually developed a heartwarming relationship with the Math teacher on their journey to shift the track of history.
Short film in which a village is terrorized by a monster. The local police investigation seems to be getting nowhere. This idiosyncratic film examines social conventions, interaction and bureaucracy.
Two survivors struggle through a dangerous journey in a world shrouded with evil and terror.
In the afterglow of sex, a generation gap opens between two men as they struggle to define trust in the age of open marriage and NSA hookups.
This short film is based on true story and it's about the rapper with Autism that got jacked by those 2 criminals that ruined his birthday.
An experimental travelogue film that follows K a traveler and his encounter with the girl that he met last year, except, she claims she's not her.
Two lost souls meet one cold night in Post-war Manhattan. Before dawn deep rooted secrets will be revealed. And this man and woman, will believe in life, love, and most importantly miracles again. The human spirit can survive anything.
Chronicling the beautiful and tragic life and career of Ted Gärdestad, this biopic tells the story of the great highs and lows of one of Sweden's most loved artists.
When a scandal occurs between a high school teacher and one of his students, the school's principal decides to take matters into his own hands and investigate through the people involved.
Two struggling artists find inspiration in one another...until societal pressure and insecurity threatens to pull them away from their art...and each other.
A man accepts a concierge job, which comes with a small apartment, in an old building and, locked inside his lodgings, undertakes a strange job of grieving. He discovers that behind the walls, a system of secret corridors allows tenants to be observed. But is it really the tenants that he is spying on?
Jenny and John make a funny couple. She’s 29 and he is 14. They are walking to a street fiesta at the outskirts of Athens when Jenny decides to take a detour and derail their evening. A coming of age tale that unravels on the road.
Entirely shot on green screen, Shakespeare’s Macbeth has been reinvented by director Kit Monkman (The Knife That Killed Me) in an exciting new film adaptation. Starring Mark Rowley, (The Last Kingdom, Luther). Monkman’s unique adaptation successfully bridges the gap between theatre and film to create a wholly new type of imaginative space. This radical new adaptation puts the audience’s engagement with the story centre-stage, amplifying the theatrical context of the original and creating truly innovative and thrilling cinematic vistas, whilst maintaining the language and themes of Shakespeare’s original play. Using background matte painting and computer modelling to generate the world in which the action plays out, the green screen allows Monkman to create his vision of a multi-tiered globe in which the characters play out their various fates.
Pablo is seen less and less in the neighborhood. So much so that his friends no longer even know what's become of him. His secret: he has a passion for horse-riding and hides, for fear of having to cope with other people's attitudes. One day, his pals discover the truth. Pablo must then must make a major decision: to come to terms with himself and become the first cowboy in the projects.
Spaniard Kara visits a friend Nastja, who lives in a small Slovenian village. After some drinks with Nastya's friends on the local court, they decide to break into an abandoned school. The innocent party turns into a flight of dark forces.
Joey, a fashion designer, Mikee, a food and travel vlogger, and Ally, an aspiring composer cross their paths in Samar. What seemed to be an ordinary trip for Joey and Mikee turned out to be something more than they presume.
A pregnancy drama challenging the prevailing definition of a "nuclear family."
It’s the night before Christmas Eve and a little boy discovers a burglar in his home who claims to be his estranged grandmother.
A musical journey from the Scottish Highlands to the southern US.
After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determined to recover at any cost something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma must spend her nights taking care of Clemente, a hypochondriac compulsively obsessed with avoiding sudden death. Their relationship moves through suspicion, fear and compassion to tenderness and love.
Seventeen year old Magnolia is torn between right and wrong at the height of the Civil Rights movement in 1964 Mississippi. Her views are challenged by her best friend Delilah, who hides a dangerous secret.
Keiichi Yoshinaga, who works for a major construction company receives a sudden phone call from his ex-wife, Junko Aoba. She tells Keiichi that their second son, Tsubasa, who lives apart, has been arrested for murdering his classmate. Keiichi immediately meets Tsubasa, but for some reason he keeps silence. Since Tsubasa shows no signs of reflecting upon his conduct, he is possibly going to an open trial. To overcome this situation, Keiichi consults a lawyer Kyoko Kanzaki who has a child of the same age.
A young idealist, Ethan, is left searching for his family while fighting the infected, Med-Ex militia and bloodthirsty marauders, and the ghosts of his past.
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.
Two parallel stories about young ambitious teenage girls and middle-aged women who have experienced life's sweet spiciness. A remake of the Korean movie 'Sunny' (2011).
A short film which center's on Jack, a young man caught between his family, his faith and his sexuality. As Jehovah's Witnesses Jack and his family are united in their devotion to their faith but as Jack's sexuality comes to light this revelation puts a strain on the family and their position with the local church leaving 16 year old Jack with an impossible decision to make.
A look at the story through the prism of the present. Artists in front of the audience reincarnate in the heroes of the film (the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky; the women he loved and left him; the friends who admired him and backed away from him; the ruthless “Knights of the Revolution” who proclaimed him his banner) and lead the viewer “to” Mayakovsky, forcing him to live his love, creative, and human drama as his own.
A young woman discovers she was submitted to several surgeries to correct her intersexual body as a baby. She has to find her own self outside gender binaries.
A film that depicts the very first day of a Chinese foreign-exchange student living abroad.