An inspiring English teacher transports her class into the very heart of a Persian poem.
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An inspiring English teacher transports her class into the very heart of a Persian poem.
Thanks to a partnership between Carlotta Films and the Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation, Ray Harryhausen's fairy tales and fables are being shown in cinemas for the first time in France. Discover this major work in the history of animation, performed by a legend of the 7th Art that will inspire Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and Avatar.
Paris, in 1942. The wearing of the yellow star is decreed. On the verge of bankruptcy, Joseph Haffmann, a Jewish jeweler, offers his employee, Pierre Vigneau, to entrust him with his shop if he agrees to hide it until the situation improves for the Jewish community in France. Will Peter take the risk to clandestinely host his "old" boss? And if so, under what condition? Pierre finally accepted. Named six times for Molières, four times awarded, this play by Jean-Philippe Daguerre has been adapted for the cinema with, in the main roles, Daniel Auteuil, Sara Giraudeau and Gilles Lellouche. The film will be released in 2021.
Ultimate Frisbee is founded on fair play and Spirit of the Game. There is no referee and players call their own fouls. Will Beefree, a team from Turin, be able to maintain the balance between the soul of Ultimate and the desire to win the Italian Championship?
Filmed during Tarja’s The Shadow Shows World Tour, during which the influential heavy rock singer circled the world for 7 ½ times with over 300.000 km travelled and played over 200 shows in 40 countries in front of 1 million people. Act II consists of the singer’s very intimate set filmed and recorded live at the Metropolis Studio in London, UK and the breathtaking live performance of one of her shows in Milan, Italy, as well as previously unreleased interviews and photo galleries. Set-List: 1. No Bitter End / 2. 500 Letters / 3. Demons in You / 4. Little Lies / 5. Eagle Eye / 6. Diva / 7. Calling from the Wild / 8. Supremacy (Muse Cover) / 9. Tutankhamen / Ever Dream / The Riddler / Slaying the Dreamer / 10. Undertaker / 11. Lanterna dos Afogados (Os Paralamas do Sucesso Cover) / 12. Love to Hate / 13. Victim of Ritual / 14. I Walk Alone / 15. Innocence / 16. Die Alive / 17. Until My Last Breath.
Documentary on the making of "Annihilation" (2018)
Seventeen-year-old Tatiana skips school with her friends in order to say goodbye to a boy whom she is unwilling to part with.
In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has become a totalitarian system that persecutes dissenters, Muslims and homosexuals. Jan Schneider has stood as a lawyer on the side of dispossessed victims. When he learns that the regime wants to jail him again, he decides to flee with his family. His goal is the South African Union, which enjoys political and economic stability after an economic boom. A freighter is to bring him, his wife Sarah and the two children Nora and Nick together with other refugees to Cape Town, but the tugs abandon their passengers in much too small boats off the coast of Namibia. On rough seas, it comes to disaster, the little Nick is lost, and no one knows if he could reach the shore...
To bring together again, for the first time since their premiere on a December evening in Moscow, Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta and ballet The Nutcracker, was the audacious challenge that Russian stage director Dmitri Tcherniakov accepted for the Palais Garnier in Paris in March 2016 : a revolutionary production, which was to become one of the key events of the Paris Opera season.
Two sailors are under pressure from the fishing company to fish a lot of fish, but other problems arise.
How the American coffee chain, now global, has conquered the urban middle class. This investigation on three continents reveals the carefully hidden face of the brand.
A documentary about the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and its German founders Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. As jews they had to flee Germany and the Hitler regime in the late 1930s. In New York they wrote music history with their record label Blue Note Records.
Colombian comedian Alejandro Riaño discusses the perks of dating a she-wolf, styles of dancing, the quirks of Bogotá men and soccer game announcers.
A woman inherits her late grandmother's house and quickly realizes it isn't as uninhabited as she thought.
On one side of the city divided in two by the Bosphorus, a woman insistently tries to watch the other side. Emre Birişmen was born in Istanbul in 1986. He completed his undergraduate and graduate education at Sabancı University's Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design program. He is a visual artist working with photography and video.
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.
Mystical thriller about an investigation carried out by three characters into the disappearance of the residents of a small town. The film is characterized by a twisted plot and alternating main suspects until, at the end of the film, the viewers are presented with a strikingly different version of the story. It is the second film by Marius Pocevičius, in which an ironic and absurd world is created and complex narrative wings that involve the viewer throughout the film's time.
In Osaka, Shiromiya will soon turn 40 years old and he is unemployed. He lives with his daughter Yoyoko who is 5-years-old. Yoyoko has a secret. One day, Shiromiya's childhood friend Machi appears in front of them. Machi is a police officer. She looks at Yoyoko with suspicion...
Bobbi Johnson is a young literary sensation facing her difficult second novel. Already dealing with a crazed stalker and her junkie ex-boyfriend, Bobbi is convinced by her publisher to use new smart editing software and finds herself going head-to-head with an artificial intelligence determined to write her book for her.
A little girl called a demon spirit to take her mother's murder revenge.
At a time when transgender people are banned from serving in the U.S. military, four of the thousands of transgender troops risking discharge fight to attain the freedom they so fiercely protect.
During a routine scan, a young couple navigating their first pregnancy discover a health condition that could gravely impact their baby, forcing them to re-examine their relationship and their future.
The absurd story follows three friends, Ismayil, Chingiz, and Ali, who have reached an age to take on responsibility and the various schemes they turn to in order to earn money.
Michelle, a mother and former full-time worker, is tasked with taking care of her mother, Indira, who has begun to develop dementia. Faced with the prospect of having to put her in a home, Michelle struggles to evaluate her priorities.
A suburban woman encounters a strange van outside her home, which in turn leads to even stranger occurrences.
Ryūmonji Seigō (Hitoshi Ozawa), leader of the Ryūmonji Clan and known as the 'Immortal Dragon,' occasionally leaves the yakuza world to run a coffee shop, helping troubled locals. When former cop Kakuta (Hiroyuki Watanabe) asks for help with a wire fraud case, Ryūmonji entrusts his men, including Kanbara (Yasukaze Motomiya), to deal with the criminals. However, a drug deal within the family is exposed, and Ryūmonji works to resolve it. As he investigates, more problems within the organization arise. “The Ryūmonji Clan must remain noble thieves—protecting the weak.” As his dragon tattoo comes alive, the legendary yakuza takes on modern-day evils!
A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts of his lectures.
A dramatization of the complex and dangerous life of Omar Sheikh. A convicted terrorist who many believe had financial connections to 9/11, Sheikh is widely known as the man responsible forthe 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Sofía makes a home-made video of her holidays travelling through the North Pacific coast with her friends Marielena and Clara. Marielena is obsessed with following the itinerary she made, but Sofia's irresponsibility and spontaneity force her to take new decisions. Meanwhile, Clara carries with the secret of a possible but doubtful pregnancy.
Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancée, Vera. His friend Igor, who emigrated to Iceland a few years earlier, convinces Mihkel to smuggle two bottles of liquid amphetamine and then seek payment from an Estonian priest, who is a business partner of Igor’s in Saint Petersburg. The priest is then to set him up in his new home and bring Vera over to join him. Rather than getting paid, he is instead coerced into swallowing seventy drug capsules to take on to Iceland. He arrives in Iceland and is picked up by Igor and his two Icelandic accomplices, Jóhann and Bóbó. However, in the next two days it becomes clear that something is wrong and Mihkel cannot pass the drugs. The Icelandic criminals become very nervous, and more and more frantic activity ensues as the situation becomes more serious.
After a kidney transplant, Jake Warren experiences reoccurring nightmares he believes to be visions of his donor's violent murder, sending him on a dark path of vengeance, leading to an unbearable truth.
Considered for a few years the “country of the future”, Brazil has seen since 2013 a deep disenchantment between the middle and popular classes that culminated with the rise of Jair Bolsonaro to the Presidency in 2018. Enchanted portrays this recent Brazilian history from a homonymous neighborhood of the Rio suburb transfigured by the 2016 Olympics. From Rio to Paris, a political and poetic testimony of Brazil through the eyes of the first generation of the popular class to study abroad.
When Zhorik moves to Kyiv, he has high hopes to improve his life. But then he encounters the mundane struggles, bureaucracy, and corruption of Ukrainian reality.
Marcelo Vergara is a man without emotions; antisocial and arrogant, someone who still alternates between her adolescence -bohemian, rocker and anarchic- and her current self. Now approaching her 40th birthday, Vergara has a dream. A wish that he can't seem to get out of his scattered mind: to be a father.
In order to provide for his family after his Father was murdered a young boy lies about his age to enlist in the Navy.
In the Kenyan bush, a crackdown on ivory poaching forces a silver-tongued second-generation poacher to seek out an unlikely ally in this fly-on-the-wall look at both sides of the conservation divide.
The unsuccessful writer Max Rhode is a law-abiding citizen. But what Max doesn't know yet: In a few days he will commit a crime so horrific that it is hard to imagine for a human being.
Lui is working towards protecting the ocean, promoting plastic-free life, and taking care of every sea turtle on Lamay Island. But her ex-boyfriend, Hui, crushes the dream they had set up and plans to build a resort in Lamay that would destroy the habitat of sea turtles. Lui works with the village chief, Hao, to defend his homeland but it puts them in danger.
When Shoichi learns that a former coworker is behind a publisized murder, he takes it to social media to reveal that he knows the murderer. But when he agrees to be interviewed by the media, his life is about to change.
This documentary recounts the difficult choice actress Mary Astor had to make after learning her personal, very intimate, diaries had been stolen. The film tells the story of Astor's 1936 child custody case.
Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch: great scientists, national icons, opponents in the service of research. One is a Frenchman and chemist and is already in the second half of his life. He is honored worldwide with numerous prizes for his discovery of the rabies vaccine. The other was a still unknown German country doctor in his 30s, whose discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus was later awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. From 1881, the two were bitter rivals. Their 20-year rivalry resulted in spectacular progress in the fight against deadly epidemics.
In focusing his attention on the competitors of Mr Gay Syria, director Ayse Toprak shatters the one-dimensional meaning of “refugee”. Using the pageant as a means of escape from political persecution, the organiser Mahmoud — already given asylum in Berlin — hopes to offer the winner a chance to travel as well as bring international attention to the life-threatening situations faced by LGBT Syrians.
Brannan brings a whole new meaning to “double dating” when she inadvertently makes dates with two people on the same night.
A mysterious wanderer drifts through an Australian outback mining town until an unexpected connection with a motel maid leaves him to confronting his own identity.
In a world where food has been outlawed, a small band of food lovers risks their skins to defy the authorities and feast on contraband food.
"The Undefeated Femininity" - a film about Gun Grut Bergman. In September 1949 Ingmar Bergman left his wife and five children, and escaped to Paris with a new woman, Gun Grut. It was the beginning of a passionate love affair, an enduring jealousy drama and a new theme in Bergman's films. Now their son, Ingmar Bergman Jr, walks in his parents' footsteps, from Paris to the home on Grev Turegatan 69 in Stockholm.
Angel, a university student who doesn’t like getting into troubles. Jorge, a ministerial police officer, returns to work after a time of absence due to a personal loss. Their paths are crossed in the violence of the night.
2018 release
Kevin James makes his long-awaited return to stand-up in this family-friendly special, dishing on fatherhood, fans, his disdain for allergies and more.
As they undergo 12 weeks of intensive training, a group of young civilians is gradually moulded into soldiers. The Basic Training, a prerequisite for joining the Canadian Armed Forces, becomes the gateway to exploring the inner workings of a world governed by its own rules and values.
Includes footage of the oral presentation of the third generation of Ichikawa Somegoro VIII and others. In June 2007, when he was two years old at the Kabuki-za theatre, he played the chivalrous Harusamegasa in his first appearance under his real name 'Fujimasai'. Koshiro Matsumoto IX says he started jumping around in the middle of the day and was made to study without knowing he wanted to play Benkei Rokkata By the age of four, he had become Kintaro Matsumoto IV and is now Somegoro Ichikawa VIII. The film presents 10 years of close-up footage.
Adele, a twenty-five year old girl who suffers from mental disorder, has never met her father and has always lived under the protective wing of her mother Margherita. Everything changes when her very existence is overturned by the latter’s sudden and unexpected death.
Tired of the endless swipes and hookups of algorithmic dating, Chandler and Mallory find themselves as the third and fourth wheels of a Tinder date with their eccentric roommates Kyle and Chelsea.
The documentary sees actor Yumoto Yuma guide the viewers through hide’s last moments and the documentary features footage taken on the day before his death, the first time it’s been seen publicly. We also see Yumoto travel throughout Japan and Los Angeles as he pieces together the life and history of hide. “HURRY GO ROUND” also features appearances by Hiroshi Matsumoto (hide’s brother), the band Spread Beaver, and recording engineer Eric Westfall among others.