After the death of his mother, an unhoused man recovering from a substance use disorder strives to gain forgiveness from his estranged sister.
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After the death of his mother, an unhoused man recovering from a substance use disorder strives to gain forgiveness from his estranged sister.
This animated short chronicles the life cycle of the critically endangered sea turtle. Capturing the beauty of the ecosystems that sea turtles inhabit, the film is ideal for all audiences, and for teaching young and old alike about these fascinating creatures.
Dazed by her mother's death, 9-year-old Hanali travels with her father to a remote town where she meets Rosa, a mother who recently lost her child. Under the weight of their grief, delusion takes hold - pulling the two together as they seek to find what they've lost.
Thirty-something friends Chente, Linares y Mijo set out on a journey to Lake Atitlan, to fulfill the last wish of their recently deceased childhood friend, Chacha: to throw his ashes into the lake and drink the last four beers in his name. On their way, they run over a police officer. Giving him up for dead, the three friends shove the body in the trunk of their car…and that’s when the fun really starts as they face one outrageous situation after another forcing each one of them to come to terms with their own existential crisis.
From the film Limite, by the Brazilian avant-garde director Mario Peixoto, the female body is explored before her own fears and anxieties in a re-edition work. A body that wants to be close to light but also to darkness, a film body that becomes materialized as a medium.
Based on the best-selling book of the same title written by Javier Martínez. Mateo likes Ramiro, and he is determined to get his attention.
The last night before a young doctor leaves with a prestigious scholarship to England, during which he must resolve some issues with his ex-girlfriend, and the conflict between staying and taking the plane.
John Huston, a pioneer of film noir, westerns, war films and epic dramas. We explore his life and works, which include classics such as 'The Maltese Falcon', 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', and 'The African Queen'.
Iolanta is a one act lyric opera, sung in Russian, by Tchaikovsky. Performed in the style of a nineteenth-century Italian melodrama, the scenes have a recitative introduction followed by a single arioso, aria, duet or chorus. Persephone is a three act melodrama, sung in French, by Stravinsky. It is a story of regeneration, symbolised in Sellars use of dancers from the Cambodian dance company, Amrita Performing Arts. Peter Sellars, one of the most innovative creators on today's stage, has linked these two productions by using the same stage setting, instantly archaic yet modern, and lit by rich colours to define the journey from darkness to light.
Who lives in the hermitage of the hill? Sand and clay animation short film
Bolivia in the 50's : on the Island of the Sun, in the midst of Lake Titicaca, Alberto Perrin films the indigenous community recently emancipated through the agrarian reform and the 1952 revolution. 2010: Carmen Perrin, his daughter, returns to the inhabitants the films shot by her father. No nostalgia, because the ancestral rites and the spirit of liberty continues to enliven the community, despite the pressure of tourism. A memory is emerging, gestures are invented, ties are woven in the landscape sanctuary.
A tongue-and-cheek story of heartbreak told entirely through images from an IKEA catalogue. -from http://www.filmlinc.org/
This short film is a social drama produced and shot by students from the Madrid Film School (ECAM). It is a non-profit short film with the sole intention of recounting the life of the working-class neighborhoods of Madrid.
Quilapayún tells the story of the most important music group from Latin America: Quilapayún.
Norival, has 41 years old, is a widower and father of Pedro, age 5. To support his child, Norival does small jobs in various farms across the country. The movie 'Pains' follows a day in their life during the harvest season of sugarcane. During this period Norival and his son live in Minas Gerais' countryside, in Brazil's southeast, in small city called Pains. As a cane cutter, Norival struggle to raise money and provide a good education for his child.
Bruno Díaz, a Buenos Aires security guard, follows a trail of blood that leads him to meet horrible creatures. Now, he must become the hero he always wanted to be in order to leave that place alive.
Young vivi, fascinated by the memories of her dead mother stories, longs to escape her fishing village to a mythical island where mermaids live. But to get there, one must go against the current. She and her loyal friend Vale embark on a journey more dangerous than they thought.
Father Andres, a local priest from a rural religious congregation outside of Quito, is living a life of total sadness, anxiety and loneliness. In within himself he has a fetish with femininity, and he feels desperate to liberate himself from this lonely and oppressed environment. Inspired by his alter ego, Jackie Kennedy and by his alter boy in the church , Father Andres decides ultimately the unthinkable, to dress himself as his icon, calling himself Jackie, leaving his home, exploring the streets with his deep sexual oppressed desires, that for so long have been kept hidden and tampered. Facing with curiosity this new facet of his life, the father decides that there is no turning back, even if this new liberation ultimately leads him to confront dangerous situations, having been discovered by Patricio and his bullying homophobic friends.
A present moment, a memory or a wish.
Three generations of a dysfunctional family gather at the family home in order to arrange all details for their great-grandfather's "Last Day"
It all started in July 2018. Groups of migrants coming from Africa endeavouring to cross the border with France started arriving at Irun train station. They would sleep in the street. The charities working in the town succeeded in convincing the squatters’ movements to take a hand in the matter by letting them use their places. The wave of generosity spread to the people of Irun.
When her womanhood demands of Araceli the miracle of procreation, the forces of the unknown conspire to infest our sad world with the horror of "molecular zombie"! Fran, her pathetic partner, will have to put his petty qualms aside in order to save the day.
In Costa Rica, Panchita has just turned 109 and hopes for a visit from two of her children: Pablo, 93 years old, and Calixto, 88 years old. Sarita, who is 93, has no hesitation in confessing her love for Denis, a young policeman. Pachito’s daughter, fearing that something may happen to her 98-year-old father, tries to prohibit him from continuing horse-riding. In Sardinia, for his 93rd birthday, Adolfo wants to fulfil his dream of flying a plane. In Okinawa, Tomi, 93 years old, cannot recover from the death of her first son. Her friend Haru, who is 98, encourages her to return to the pop group formed of the island’s grandmothers.
Horror is a warm, sunny day.
A film that traces the intimate portrait of a marginal argentinean couple: a trans chica, Mariana Koballa, and her lover, Raúl Francisco. In a pink house, on the quiet island of Tres Bocas, they live surrounded by nature, friends and several pets. In a realistic and poetic way, this film follows the couple's daily life for an entire year, and reveals their humour amidst dramatic situations, the intimacy with the symptoms of Mariana's disease and their relationship's singularity.
Mikel will marry Julia, owner of a major jewelry he inherited from his parents. During the party in announcing their commitment, Mikel meets Ari, one of the waitresses catering. The attraction that arises between them will make Mikel is interested in the world of Ari: illegal motor racing. Then, the protagonist of this story decides to leave Julia without knowing the true intentions of the person who has seduced. Ari and her boyfriend, Navas, have hatched a plan to get around Mikel jewelry made with his ex-girlfriend.
Two strangers share breakfast. A train passes by. Will they dare catch it?
Aminodin's father always smiles because he says that happy people live longer. That's why, at age 8, Aminodin puts on her best smile while working at the Papandayan dump, where she lives with her family. At Instead, his cousin Aliman lost his when bombs began to fall from the sky in the town of Marawi.
Maria, 18 year old daughter of a single mother, decides to look for the father she has never met after her mother dies in a tragic accident. She finally finds him in a nearby town, living in what appears to be a haunted old country house in the middle of a neglected banana plantation. Amidst the peculiarities and superstitions of the Dominican country side, father and daughter will have to face the ghosts of the past that haunt them both.
Tomás misses his dad. And death, paternity, love… these concepts are mysteries that Tomás, a catholic priest, would like his father to explain him. That's why he constantly visits his tomb with hope of hearing a truth.
Similo is a science fiction love story set in Antarctica, in the year 2064. The story of Similo deals with artificial beings designed to be the perfect lovers for the fortunate few during a time of drought and poverty.
Short film shot during Holy Week in Granada, to relive the Passion of Christ and accompany him to the grave.
Grandmother Verónica and her husband Pastor, without money, live in the rural area of the municipality of Güepsa, Santander. Her tragedies are minimal, but traversed by the history of violence in Colombia, while around her, her neighbors struggle to stay alive in the daily routine of the countryside.
In an island on the south of Spain, a lone man collects olives from a landscape made of water and dry branches.
In 2017, director Denise Castro wants to shoot her most personal work: A new adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
The movie tells the story of UMA, played by Alexandra Braun, who lives in Italy and meets a writer, interpreted by the also Venezuelan actor Orlando Delgado. There's is an inexplicable chemistry between both, which would later become a love story that springs up on the wonderful coasts of Gaeta, until crossing the beautiful land of Florence. An accident will change their lives.
At the beach, Camelia plans to celebrate her son Angels birthday. Provoked by the unforeseen disappearance of his father Angel escapes, and Camelia is forced to began a search that will lead her to confront the failure of the family.
A young couple living with their little daughter are shaken to the core when a childhood friend is released from prison and wants the money he won from an old debt.
Penelope is a civil servant who lives with her mother, who has Alzheimer's. One day she meets Ulises, a poor old man who has lost his memory and his identity papers. She convinces him that he is her father and he must come home to take care of his wife.
This is the reality of women of the same nation who live divided by the wall that has separated them for 35 years now. Exiled Sahrawi women who live in the refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria) have a 88% representation rate in teaching and in healthcare, and 9% in government, evidence that they are the fundamental pillar of society. The ones who remained in the occupied territories of Western Sahara are part of every aspect of the struggle and activism against Moroccan occupation. They protest at the intifadas, they research the plunder of their natural resources, they paint flags, write pamphlets and they belong to the organisations that defend Sahrawi human rights in Western Sahara. These women: former prisoners, formerly missing, activists, today are tortured, harassed, followed, surveilled and violated simply for defending their legitimate right to freely express themselves in favour of Western Sahara’s independence.
Fundation of the Republic and Small Law are two Chinese elders who frequent the center of Chinese majors of Usera, in Madrid. During the preparations for the Chinese New Year, one of the elders dies and a series of electrical problems begin to happen in the club that threaten to spoil the party.
Salvador is a peasant who one day wakes up as usual to work on his land but instead finds a pile of corpses in the middle of his crops. He runs to notify the authorities but is Sunday and Election Day so the dead ones end up being a nuisance that nobody wants to deal with.