Hapless Insurance Loss Adjuster - Martin Dyer - feels his life is spiralling out of control but discovers that even when you reach rock bottom, that some clouds really do have a silver lining.
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Hapless Insurance Loss Adjuster - Martin Dyer - feels his life is spiralling out of control but discovers that even when you reach rock bottom, that some clouds really do have a silver lining.
On November 8, 2018, a spark flew in the Sierra Nevada foothills, igniting the most destructive wildfire in California history and decimating the town of Paradise. Unfolding during the year after the fire, this is the story of the Paradise community as they begin to rebuild their lives.
The official stage play adaptation of Koyoharu Gotoge's series Kimetsu no Yaiba. The time is Taisho, Japan. One day, Tanjiro, a kind-hearted boy who sells charcoal, has his entire family killed by a demon. Furthermore, his only surviving sister, Nezuko, has been transformed into a demon. Tanjiro is devastated by the hopeless reality, but decides to pursue the path of "demon hunting" in order to return his sister to a human and avenge the demon that killed his family. The sad story of brother and sister, woven together by humans and demons, begins now!
A story about the dramatic fate of the national poet of Belarus Yanka Kupala. The movie reveals the main milestones of the poet’s life and career, coinciding with the most tragic events of the 20th century.
Ben goes down a late-night internet wormhole of bad advice and growing neuroses.
Childhood friends Amy and Steve come home from their first semester of college for a relaxed winter break, but must navigate turbulent reunions, unspoken romance, and even an unplanned pregnancy. There's no place like home for the holidays!
The new player comes forward as the future of international football
An orphaned boy in a post-apocalyptic world, meets a grieving woman who is trying to find her lost daughter. Their journey leads them face-to-face with a despot who may have the daughter held captive.
Ozzy, beset on all sides by the eccentricities of the artists around her, meets Jack, a city-dwelling forest sprite jazz singer. Together, they escape Dante's, the jazz club Ozzy manages, and losing herself, Ozzy finds something else.
A robotics company executive pushes for the development of an android companionship model and unexpectedly spends a week with her.
After an overdose, a young man's father sets up a rehab in their isolated mansion on a lake. An eccentric team of hired professionals attempt to "fix" him in this coming-of-age dark comedy taking place over one weekend.
Having found themselves in a delusional state, trying to discover if they are sleepwalking, a couple on the cusp of starting a family, dreaming of the perfect future, are made to face the consequences of their willful blindness.
It mainly tells the story of the great monk Ji Gong/Dao Ji of Lingyin Temple and the monk Guang Ming who traveled around the world during the Great Song Dynasty. They were invited to go to Taiping Town to do things and pray for the people on the way. But it is a story of constant adventures, punishing evil and promoting good and eliminating harm for the people.
Zein, a young man in his mid 20s, seems content with his job as a customer service representative for an internet service provider. During one of his shifts, way past midnight, he receives a call from a customer, Akram. Complaining about a malfunction, Akram’s frustration starts growing. His dissatisfaction with the process gradually becomes an abusive rant, during which he lashes out at Zein, exposing to him the drudgery of his work, his powerlessness, and the ugliness of his life.
A directer wants to make a film on Anwar, an industrialist who's wife cheats on him for another man and only married him for the money. After the divorce, he became an alcoholic and a chain-smoker.
This documentary exposes the failure of family courts to keep children from being used as a weapon after separation. Courts decision ends up completely erasing one parent, causing severe emotional trauma to children. Psychologist refer to extreme cases as parental alienation, which is a form of Child Psychological Abuse. Essentially brainwashing and manipulating children by one parent to hate or despise the other parent. This results in severe psychological damage based on scientific findings, including depression, low self esteem, drug abuse, being alienated from own children and suicide. Family court reform is badly needed, as this is preventable pandemic affecting over 20 million children in the United States (Harman et al).
Alíz and Máté get romantically involved, even though they both have families. But the outbreak of the pandemic, rewrites the rules of their newly formed relationship. They must decide: is it just a flare, or is it real love? And if it is love, do they have the right to sacrifice others happiness for theirs?
When Lydia's grandma bestows a precious gift upon her, she knows it's going to be memorable - 'This is something to treasure your whole life. Happy 21st birthday bubelah.' Grandma hands her a cheque - for a nose job.
An elderly man and woman who love each other cycle through the forest and end up at a bench. She is delighted to see that this is exactly where she wanted to go. A carefully constructed film about love and old age, and love and loss-and the realization that everything is connected.
A woman has her daily routine. It is a very well-organized personal microcosm. But new arrivals upset this routine. As she sees this disruption as a personal attack, she withdraws into herself.
Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.
The story of a man left at a crossroads who tries to stay honest in the days of overcoming cowardice and choose the most suitable person for life from among several women in his environment .
Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old historic centre. A circle of hell where, even to get a residence permit, you have to pay to work
After his father’s death, Beijing entrepreneur Li Zhiqiang returns to his hometown. As tourism redevelopment advances, his family clashes over the old house: relocate, rebuild, or preserve, forcing him to confront duty, memory, and home.
A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.
After losing her mom in an accident, a teen and her father welcome a distant cousin named Sienna into their household. Hoping to claim the family as her own, the psychopathic Sienna hatches a devious plan to recreate the prom she never experienced.
A sunshine of about 26 years old, a pure wedding dress designer working hard in Shanghai to strive for his dream, of course, accompanied by this failure, in the low point of his career, he has long endured other people ’s incomprehension, ridicule and even use, but he Still grateful. After repeated failures, he not only realized his dream of starting a business, but also moved others with his persistence, kindness, generosity and tolerance, and harvested his own love story.
A handmade narco sub is on the verge of sinking and losing its precious cargo due to a mechanical failure. The three crew members are forced to open the forbidden cargo cabin to distribute the weight and save the ship. Next to the cargo they find a special “gift“ for the buyer: a young girl, gagged and in terrible shape. The boat, barely big enough for three to begin with, becomes a steaming powder cake of fears, desires and greed.
Traffic on the B61 road, which connects Rotterdam to Warsaw and cuts through the German spa town of Bad Oeynhausen, is permanently gridlocked. The promised cure is a bypass whose construction is documented for a period of eight years: the efforts of the mayor, police, fire brigade and construction companies, the delays in the construction of the northern bypass and above all the reactions of the affected residents.
In the mid-Ming Dynasty, Zhang Sheng and Yuan Su, two police officers in the Yamen of Beijing, were expelled from the Yamen because their colleague Cheng Yun beat a prisoner to death. They were at odds with each other. Later, Cheng Yun was killed mysteriously. The evidence pointed to the prison warden Ge Lin and the mysterious wealthy businessman Shen Kang. Can the two of them put aside their past grudges and fight back in desperate situations? Under prosperity, those unknown evils will eventually "surface".
A young American couple, Mark and Olivia, are expecting their first child. Before that, they want to make their dream of a trip to Europe come true. They book private accommodations through an Internet portal and embark on their 4-weeks-journey. On their arrival in Germany Elisabeth picks them up at the airport. She is the daughter of the landlady of Mark and Olivias first accommodation, a tiny house, located at a beautiful lake, in the hometown of Olivia's great-grandparents. They learn that the 82-years old landlady is in the hospital and dying. Elisabeth drives Mark and Olivia to the house. And then the two young people spend their first night in Germany. A night in which Mark gets to know the owner in a special way. The next morning, it is strangely quiet over the house by the lake. And no one will know so quickly what happened a few hours ago.
While drinking coffee at an outdoor café, Dupin sees a man drop to his death.
In this deliciously dark comedy, a woman desperately attempts to reunite her husband's amputated leg with his body before his funeral, leading her on a wild goose chase across Taipei and through multiple encounters with bureaucracy, ineptitude, and her own recent past.
A story of a man trying to save a child life with 200,000 rupees at a private hospital. Many challenges come in his way and many obstacle and a story of a woman trying to save her life from a man he didn't love and from acid.
This fictional short film as a fake documentary is about Manoel's last day as doorman at the Clara Building, all recorded by his grandson and a film crew.
The film tells the story of Yan Ruyu (Yang Jinjie), a chivalrous woman who joins forces with scholar Song Shao and Jiang Fengyang, a Jin Yi guard. They must, to stop Liu Chong, a great eunuch, from usurping the throne and seizing power. Yan Ruyu's struggle between "righteousness" and "personal grudges" shows the fragile side of human nature and portrays a man of the jungle with weaknesses and human feelings.
Nikita Nekrasov is a scientist, a theoretical physicist who studies our world and other possible worlds. He refuses to make a choice between mathematics and physics, between one woman and another, as he ponders the existence of the multi-universe. At scientific conferences, attended by eminent foreign scientists and a rising younger generation of physicists alike, Nekrasov gets carried away debating the beauty of string theory. He attempts to explain to all of his women – Katya, the librarian, Zoya, the scientific secretary, Svetalana, the head of department – about the theory of his own polygamy, and the possibility of having enough feelings to satisfy everyone.
Deseo follows Selene, a Spanish woman living in New York, on an evening in Williamsburg. Unsatisfied with her own life and intrigued by a woman she meets that night, Selene seizes an opportunity to "help" this woman in need, immersing herself in her reality. The line between helping without asking and taking advantage of her then becomes blurry.
Vasilisa returns to her hometown for the wedding of her school friend Inna. Inna’s groom “Chistiy” with his two friends “Lambada” and “Kolbasa” organize a unplanned bachelor party on the eve of the wedding. Inna and Vasilisa show up unannounced to the party. Based on real events from 2014 in the city of Gomel.
Siti has two best friends Mawar and Teratai. Siti in love with Awang but Mawar also has the same feelings for him. Teratai advised Mawar not to betray her friendship. Siti suddenly has a mysterious disease, her face turn ugly. It was so terrible that the villagers called him a ghost and she was often hated and humiliated. Finally, Awang left her too. Siti is disappointed and become befriends with a woodcutter named Nadim. Only to Nadim where Siti can expressed herself. Mawar heard Tok Ketua and Tok Imam talk about "Panti" Mountain which is said to be a Nenek Kebayans house, where the Nenek Kebayan could handle all kinds of illnesses but to go to there she would have many hallenges and obstacles. Mawar is envious of Siti and hopes Siti will go to Mount "Panti" and never return.
In order to protect the elders of the family, Guo Er, the genius girl from Warrior League comes to Shan Yu Valley, a place where humans and mutants live together peacefully She comes across He Bi Qiang, a rogue who lives by his wits. Under the guidance of the Mediator, Gao Yao, the three of them are involved in a series of supernatural cases triggered by the ancient artifact Energy Crystal. While the love-hate relationship between Guo Er and He Bi Qiang escalates, He Bi Qiang dies unexpectedly and turns into a puppet for a fathomable adversary. Guo Er must release him from this spell.
A chemical engineer of foreign origin faces discrimination and bullying at work, plunging him into an identity crisis.
Everything changes in the life of a young 15-year-old Chukchi hunter Lyoshka with the advent of the Internet in the village. He falls in love – for the first time and deeply – with the silent video chat girl. Upon learning that she lives in Detroit, Lyoshka decides on the most desperate act in his life.
The Sikand family learns they are part of an ancient bloodline and the only hope at continuing it is their gay daughter Savarna.
Verity unfolds without cuts over the course of a video call between two former lovers who find themselves in very different personal circumstances, as they reconnect after 5 years. The film is set against the backdrop of the global Covid-19 pandemic and it expresses different elements of our shared humanity.
'Evolution of Evil' is the story of Lori and Christopher, a Pacific Northwest couple wanting to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city into the wilderness. The couple makes their way past the usual campsites, and backpack into the remote Mt. Hood Wilderness area.
OBSCENE BEAUTY dives into the NYC Neo-Burlesque scene — its history, impact, and players. As an exploration of sexuality, culture, comedy and art, the documentary follows performers within the community and examines how they utilize their three minutes on stage as a platform for their own socio-political commentary. Through a night of performance, OBSCENE BEAUTY explores the raw artistry and self-expression of a genre that has been able to withstand the test of time.
Jessie Dale is a third generation baker who loves her cake shop more than anything in the world. When developers threaten to buy her building and force her out, she must do all she can to save her bakery, all while juggling a blossoming romance with her client's brother.
It’s the past that defines you, Kari tells his therapy group. And indeed, after serving a lengthy prison sentence, he wants to become a better person. However, his former life as a ruthless debt collector catches up with him in a nightmarish way.
On Junie's eighteenth birthday, the secret of her late period and potential pregnancy puts her sisterhood and close family ties at risk of breaking apart.
Two lego space cowboys fight for survival. After one of them dies, a mysterious space man walks into the fight, he's riding an Iron Man Space Ship. An Avant-Garde short film.
This documentary offers an honest look at our fraught, complex relationship to video games from the perspectives of gamers and their concerned parents.
The documentary film is based on reconstructed archival films of the 1920 Polish-Soviet war, which ended in one of the greatest military successes of the Polish nation. The film also uses radio recordings, accounts of participants and witnesses to the events, as well as archival material testimony that has survived to our time: photographs, orders and records of secret reports. Polish Television carried out a digital reconstruction of century-old, previously unpublished archival films, including those from Soviet Union, France, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the USA.
Battering, breading, frying – Berta has prepared thousands of schnitzels in her old cast-iron pan over the years. This 83-year-old landlady’s life on the family farm with adjoining guest house in the Upper Palatinate has been marked by constant hard work. A life that her granddaughters Monika and Hannah never wanted to lead. Now, the deeply indebted farm is on the brink of collapse. Despite having an academic background and contrary to her intentions, Monika, in her early thirties, decides to give up her modern life and save the family business. The two women join forces and give themselves a year to sort out the farm’s problems.
From puberty, to relationships, social media, violent intruder drills, drugs, suicide, and quarantine, Still Untitled answers the question, "What do 8th graders really care about?" In this film written by Lyndell Higgins and her 8th Grade Acting class, we experience from the eyes and hearts of middle schoolers what it means to grow up today and embrace all of what being an 8th grader is all about - smiles, tears, fear, love, confusion, and hope. All filmed during quarantine.