An astronaut journeys to a distant planet where the inhabitants spend a great deal of time looking at little screens.
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An astronaut journeys to a distant planet where the inhabitants spend a great deal of time looking at little screens.
The conflict between the Colombian authorities and the marxist FARC guerrilla broke out in 1964, and in 2012 peace negotiations started behind closed doors in Cuba. Featuring unique access to central figures on both sides, To End a War tells the story of the war and the negotiations, focusing on the challenge of establishing peace in a country where the majority of the population has never known anything but war.
An imagination of the last day of Peg Entwistle's life. An actress who, in the midst of the Great Depression, and on the verge of her own career breakthrough, leapt off the 'Hollywoodland' sign and into infamy.
A heartbroken artist wanting to move on from his last relationship crosses paths with a robot designed for love.
Music video for Lauren Bird's song "I Wonder".
From celebrated author Janette Oke comes a rigorous and romantic adventure as epic as the wide frontier. Erin Krakow, Daniel Lissing, Jack Wagner and Lori Loughlin star in When Calls the Heart: Healing Heart. Elizabeth encounters some tension in her classroom when the nephews of Ray Wyatt arrive and bully the other students. Meanwhile, Ray himself threatens the very survival of Abigail's Café when he opens a competing commissary. And when Lee loses his voice, Rosemary is more than willing to do his talking for him…but he's anything but speechless when Rosemary gets behind the wheel of his new car!
Explores the most memorable cold weather playoff game in sports history, the 1967 NFL Championship Game, that featured the face-off of two legendary teams: the Dallas Cowboys, led by Tom Landry, and the Green Bay Packers, led by Vince Lombardi.
Experimental remake of the 1999 Robin Williams feature film comedy “Bicentennial Man”, starring Marcelline as “Nam Nam,” a robot who wanders the earth for 200 years trying to become human so they can die.
After taking down the top bully with an obscene weapon, high school outcast Wren faces off against a jury of peers in a fight for his identity and his future.
A paper cut-out stop-motion animation where the protagonist visits an exhibition of Matisse-inspired paper cuts in her pink wheelchair and is transported from the reality of the dull grey world outside into the colourful world of her imagination.
For decades, a gross injustice has been perpetuated against an entire people. Through consumption of news media, we think we understand what they are going through. But we have no idea.
Struggling to sleep, Alice seeks professional help to deal with a nightmare she had.
Death in the ring. The fight is fixed and no one can beat the monstrous champion anyway. Underdog fighter rises to the challenge after gaining internet fame. He will have the fight of his life.
Cerimon House, a humanities and cultural arts organization in the heart of the Alberta Arts District, is honored to welcome the two time Olivier Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox, renowned for both his classical theatre stage performances and a remarkable career on screen including playing the original Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter, and most recently playing Sir Winston Churchill in the new film Churchill. Some of his most famous films and television appearances include Braveheart, Rushmore, The Bourne Series, The X Men Series, Troy, Match Point, Super Troopers, Zodiac, Nuremberg (Emmy Award), Deadwood, Frasier, and the upcoming HBO series Succession. His career on Broadway includes Strange Interlude, Art, and Rock n Roll. His time with the Royal Shakespeare Company includes Titus Andronicus and King Lear.
A young father-to-be struggles to overcome his grief and fear of becoming a father and specifically his father.
"A Bird In The Shadow," is a Twilight Zone inspired short film that follows actor Eric Wu during his final days on the set of his newest movie. Eric's father Jim Wu was a legendary actor who died under mysterious circumstances when Eric was young. Since then, Eric has had premonitions of his own death as he continues his father's legacy. Can Eric escape death and finish his latest film?
Black and white, single line and still an iconic goopy mess of genius.
The story of the Monarch butterfly: a symbol of American pride and the embodiment of the returning dead in Mexico. It would be a happy story, only, today they are dying. The monarch butterflies population has declined by up to 80% in the last decade. Who is to blame?
The tale of a young woman, Helen Stoner, who visits Holmes and Dr. Watson, fearing for her life as recent events begin to mirror those that led up to her sisters untimely death.
Everything was not planned. We started the day, in a basement in Queens, New York, watching a Japanese cult film, Rainy Dog, which was shot in my hometown, Taipei, Taiwan. Hand-processed and solarized the film to hide the anxiety of unsureness. This film is a part of the Camera Rolls series by Erica Sheu.
Historical re-enactments of athletes performing various sports at the University of Virginia are seen as Kent Merritt, one of the first African American scholarship athletes at the university, reflects on his experience.
Liam Gallagher's first U.S. concert as a solo artist. Performed as a secret gig at New York's McKittrick Hotel.
Fred Beckey is the legendary American "Dirtbag" mountaineer whose name is spoken in hushed tones around campfires. This rebel climber's pioneering ascents and lifestyle form an iconic legacy that continues to inspire generations.
After wishing for the perfect man, a woman awakes to discover her new handsome neighbor is actually the snowman she built the day before, who has now come to life. But when she awakes on Christmas morning, he is gone and the snowman is back. Could it all have been a dream?
Hide Your Metal is a short documentary following four Heavy Metal bands leading up to the DeathRash Night II concert in Amman, Jordan. The story depicts the obstacles metal musicians face in expressing themselves publicly and how heavy metal's 'satanic' reputation in Jordan impacts their evolution as musicians.
Cinéma vérité celebrating Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a drag ballet company founded in the wake of the Stonewall Riots.
When Gordon Gund went blind in 1970 at age 30 due to retinitis pigmentosa, he resolved to find a cure for the disease and created the Foundation Fighting Blindness. After decades of scientific research, a major breakthrough emerged, and this short film showcases the inspirational story of a 17-year-old Belgian boy who is a beneficiary of this work.
Ohio-based black sci-fi short.
ḤARAM is an essay film portraying the urgent contemporary situation at the Haram Al Sharif/ Noble Sanctuary in the Old City of Jerusalem reflecting on the growing Temple Mount Faithful movement whose goal is to build the Jewish Third Temple on this holy landscape and in turn to assert Jewish sovereignty over this holy Muslim site.
Trouble in paradise...Nautical Films presents: The Pumpkin Man vs. Kreepy The Clown
The story centers on two protagonists at very different points in their lives. The first is Caleb, a young man who has just escaped a botched crime that left his brother dead and has been forced to go into hiding. The other is Robert, an older man returning to his old him in search of a chance to heal old wounds.
Having cancer and six months to live, sends Clayton Rockwell (William L. Johnson) a successful businessman, devoted husband and father on a journey to do the unthinkable. Clayton finds a replacement Wesley Madison (Richard Gallion) and grooms him to exactness to take over his business and family all the while Kenneth Swain (Darrin Henson) is working to take over his company.
SHINE Wrestling & WWN present SHINE 43, Ybor City, FL, 7/14/2017. Matches include: SHINE Nova Title Tournament First Round Match Priscilla Kelly vs. Veda Scott • SHINE Nova Title Tournament First Round Match Amanda Carolina Rodriguez vs. Leah Vaughan • SHINE Nova Title Tournament First Round Match Stormie Lee vs. Aja Perera • SHINE Nova Title Tournament First Round Match Kiera Hogan vs. Shotzi Blackheart • Opportunity of a Lifetime SHINE Championship #1 Contendership Five Way Match Maria Maria vs. Brandi Lauren vs. Daisy vs. Dementia D’Rose vs. Natalia Markova • SHINE Nova Title Tournament First Round Match Aria Blake vs. Dynamite DiDi • SHINE Nova Title Tournament First Round Match La Rosa Negra vs. Jordynne Grace • SHINE Nova Title Tournament First Round Match Candy Cartwright vs. Robyn Reid • SHINE Nova Title Tournament First Round Match Ivelisse vs. Holidead.
Q.T. Marshall has been independently wrestling for nearly a decade. Turning 30, and sustaining multiple injuries in the ring, his career could quite possibly, be coming to an end. Q.T. has one last shot in making it into the WWE - if he fails, he will be forced to hang up his wrestling boots forever.
Flynn, one half of a young lesbian couple, has a feeling that something is not quite right in the relationship. When two birds fly into her kitchen window, killing themselves, she is prompted outside and then down into the dark cellar. She will find something that will explain why she has been having second thoughts about her lover.
A recently divorced woman hires an actor to play her ex-husband and redo the bad memories of their marriage.
A dark comedy about a magic piece of veal that forces all who eat it to tell the truth.
Lieutenant Commander Che Barnes, who died in 2009 after the plane he was flying was struck by U.S. Marine Corps helicopters, is remembered by his two brothers for his passion for flying and saving lives. Barnes and his fellow Coasties and U.S. Marines died in the line of duty. This is Che's story.
Artists are those who, throughout universal history, have suffered from the most diverse stereotypes. Men, vagabonds; women, prostitutes; the children, with no future. Un grateful people, easy life, oblivious to work. It is through art, however, that we strongly criticize society and allow debate on important issues. Today, in Brazil, the artistic and cultural class has been emptied by the municipal, state and federal governments in order to disqualify work and the importance of the sector for social development.
The director, a passionate musical documentary filmmaker, became fascinated by the machines used in a factory that produces stamped metal boxes. The machines, with their sonority, rhythms, tunes and automated movements, become musicians and dancers in a show that drive the film to play its cinematic score. The soundtrack, composed with workshops sounds only, unfolds as a musical masterpiece performed by machines for iron and bolt dancers, all coming together in a majestic mechanic choreography. The man who conceived and created these « iron monsters » occupies a fragile place in this powerful, metallic world, which is at the same time incredibly beautiful and musical.
The NPF, a women's professional softball league that few know exists, has spent decades struggling for survival in a male-dominated sports world. Its players are forced to choose between their livelihood and their dreams, and this year they've been given another chance.
One young woman's quest to determine the superiority of one spiral cake over another leads her to the limits of scientific inquiry.
In 2016, the last textile weaving factory from the communist era in North-West China was demolished. 'Weaving' follows two textile worker families during the five year demolition process as they struggle to adapt to outside change while trying to keep their families intact. Where old and new social values collide, their story allows us to take a closer look inside China's changing family dynamic in an increasingly materialistic and complex society.
Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania was a flashpoint in history for the Seneca Nation of Indians. Completed in 1965, the dam was to mitigate flooding in Pittsburgh, 198 miles downriver, but the 27-mile reservoir that formed above it inundated vast tracts of the Seneca Indians' ancestral lands, forcing their removal in breach of one of the United States' oldest treaties. Set against a backdrop of a federal Indian termination policy, pork-barrel politics, and undisclosed plans for private hydropower, Lake of Betrayal reveals an untold story from American history-a one-sided battle pitting a small Native American nation against some of the strongest political, social, and commercial forces in the country. Although the Seneca suffered irreplaceable cultural losses, the Kinzua crisis became a turning point to build a stronger Seneca Nation.
A documentary sharing the stories of inspiring women from different walks of life who are overcoming their fears and making an impact in their communities.
Paul Henreid, perhaps most famous for his roles in CASABLANCA and NOW, VOYAGER became a star at Warner Brothers during World War II, as the exotic lead with the European accent. After the war, his contract was cancelled and he was left to his own devices. He continued acting and also began producing and directing. In his choices, both as actor and director, his work evinces an increasing bitterness and cynicism. A personal statement? Or a result of the unceasing political shifts of the times?
A sobering look at the brutal treatment of Japanese-Americans before, during, and after WWII as well as the global repercussions that resulted.
The true story of the deadliest shootout for lawmen in US history as ten police officers and one civilian went to arrest two brothers for murder on January 2, 1932, just outside Springfield, Missouri.
chinese film
A Brooklyn based artist moves to Paris to get married and start a new life. As an old life of crime catches up to him, he enters the depths of Paris' underground art and spiritual drug scenes to settle a score.
Unable to overcome her sister's death after 20 years, "A" is barely surviving, living in denial. Routine and obsession bind her into a surreal world, isolated from reality. A message from beyond suddenly forces her to face her demons.
The lion has to become more physically fit. The gazelle does not think he is capable of doing so.
A short documentary by Nikita Lavretski.
When a teenage girl goes missing in the woods, it's up to an aging sheriff to find her. With his deputy questioning his every move, this small town sheriff will have to face the wrath of the girl's abusive father in order to bring her home safe before it's too late.
In 1916, the highest paid silent film director at Universal Studios was a woman named Lois Weber. Yet today, she is virtually unknown. "Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber" examines the achievements of this incredible woman, as told through the eyes of a young magazine photographer hoping to impress her.
Documentary about the life of Tomi Reichental, a Holocause survivor living in Ireland.
Yoni Brook and Pacho Velez's Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt presents New York City in a single-shot (from above) microcosm as an everyman struggles to enter the subway, a droll take on human-versus-machine.
Based on true events, Hold Me Down depicts a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother in the Bronx who works as a stripper at an illegal nightclub to support her child.
The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to the earth. For Winona LaDuke, the “black snake” is oil trains and pipelines. When she learns that Canadian-owned Enbridge plans to route a new pipeline through her tribe’s 1855 Treaty land, she and her community spring into action to save the sacred wild rice lakes and preserve their traditional indigenous way of life. Launching an annual spiritual horse ride along the proposed pipeline route, speaking at community meetings and regulatory hearings. Winona testifies that the pipeline route follows one of historical and present-day trauma. The tribe participates in the pipeline permitting process, asserting their treaty rights to protect their natural resources. LaDuke joins with her tribe and others to demand that the pipelines’ impact on tribal people’s resources be considered in the permitting process.
The region is in a state of unrest. Rumors of a rabid man-beast are rife. Sightings are rare. Marama and her father Abbott remain at their home in the forest.