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La represa tells the story of an aboriginal tribe that finds itself endangered by the construction of a dam over their sacred land. "Beard in head" and his loyal friend "Straight hair" will have to go to the city to prohibit the construction of the dam by the white man.
A funny, yet dramatic, in-depth look inside the subculture of professional, competitive radio control race car drivers. Carpet Racers explores the lives of the men (and women) who's love affair with RC is timeless.
After watching the film Nu Hon Than Chet (Kiss of the Death), a dreamy clumsy high-school girl, An, wishes that she can meet a Prince Reaper that helps her to complete her dream. As her wish, An runs into this Teen Reaper. However, he's such a clumsy Reaper that he creates a lot of trouble for An. Instead of being rescued, An has to "save" this Teen Reaper's life.
Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.
Verdi: " La forza del destino", overture Martucci: "La canzone dei ricordi" Schubert: The "Great" Symphony No. 8 in C Major, D 944
This moving portrait of a maternity clinic in Vienna provides a fascinating insight into the drama, pain, and beauty of coming into the world. The everyday miracle of birth, in all its intensity and diversity, is shown using direct cinema techniques and linked to the cycle of accompanying processes in the hospital. A chronicle of the beginning of life—and its organization.
The Icelandic people was born of Norwegian immigrants who would not submit to the tyranny of the king of Norway and established a republican country in the Middle Ages, where social classes were virtually diluted and developed a subsistence economy. After centuries of freedom was first submitted by Norway and then by Denmark until World War II. Iceland has always had a libertarian spirit that is born of its history and of being a place with few inhabitants and always with a rebellious and disobedient spirit.
Ever wondered what men get up to alone at home? More than a few great minds have worked up a head of steam over this one. Here is a surprisingly sexy hymn to domesticity and the male state.
Hachi, the loser in all the car races, was in despair. Though one day, editor of runner magazine, Okada came and recruited him. With the natural talent of Hachi and the knowledge of Okada, Hachi is getting stronger. His rival is now Kazutoyo, who is fully equipped with high-tech machines.
Dan and Stan are sent to a lost island to rescue a wealthy pair of treasure hunters. The adventurers encounter a tribe of sexy jungle girls who worship a flesh-eating T-Rex.
Lewis Klahr has started a new series of short animation films under the title of 'Couplets'. The project is intended to eventually result in a feature-length animation film. The theme is love, and each part focuses on a pop song. Wednesday Morning Two A.M., the powerful opening of this huge project, tells the story of a lost love. The music is by The Shangri-Las.
Young people disappear in Berlin's subway shafts, near the "Kill Your Darling" disco.
"Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to shoot in Kodachrome, a film stock I have shot since I was 10 years old. It is a loving duet with and a fond farewell to this noble emulsion." - Nathaniel Dorsky
The plot of the movie begins when Saihnaa moves into a new apartment and becomes a neighbor of a young man named Orgil, who dances every night. Orgil is appointed as the boss of Saihnaa. A dispute between neighbors eventually turns into love.
Kyung-eun and Byung-chul had lost their son 1 year ago. One day, they hear the sound of foot steps in the empty room that is their son's room.
A mother takes her son to visit his father before leaving on vacation.
An aerial celebration of mountains, rivers, deserts and lakes. One could spend a lifetime searching for a single image that is Idaho, only to realize that the allure of this place lies precisely in its dazzling diversity of altitudes and attitudes. Soar above our state with this spectacular tour of Idaho. Original music by Idahoans.
Ganz Deutschland befindet sich im Kochwahn, ein teurer Herd hat mittlerweile mehr Prestige als ein neues Auto. Ganz Deutschland? Nicht ganz! Denn mitten im Rheinland, im kleinen Ort Rommerskirchen, sitzt ein Mann und sagt: „NEIN!“. Kochen soll nicht „in“ sein, sondern lecker! Horst Lichter nimmt in seiner liebenswert charmanten Art kein Blatt vor den Mund und sagt es, wie es ist: Früher passten alle gängigen Gewürze in eine Gewürztrommel, heute sind die Gewürzregale im Supermarkt so groß, dass man die Erdkrümmung sieht. Heute kochst du mit Sachen, die früher in den Schweineeimer kamen - und dann auch noch Sushi … Für einen Mann, für den alles Fleisch unter 400 Gramm Carpaccio ist, ist Sushi die ultimative Beleidigung - und vor allem: Wofür braucht eine Sushibar einen Herd?
A story about the essential bond between humans and animals told against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in the U.S.
During her vacation at a mansion in Paungde, invited by U Min Khine, psychiatrist Dr. Thet Yi becomes intrigued by Mg Nyo Maing, a reclusive and mysterious man haunted by tales of an unseen figure named Ko Myint Wai.
Settlements of Bulgarian loggers in the Komi taiga have existed for a quarter of a century. About two hundred thousand young people from Bulgaria worked here, many found their love, some even stayed here forever. The "winds of change" of the early nineties stirred the destinies of people and entire states... This film is about the Bulgarian trace in the heart of the Udora taiga, in the hearts of its inhabitants.
Skelton Raider is a group of space pirates fighting with the warrior called Ocean. The leader of the pirates is Captain Mahya and she really loathes the sight of three boys “Takeshi” “Satoru” and “Masao” who can transform into Ocean, but one day she discovers the location of their hideout.
The setting is the rooftop terrace of a cancer hospital in 1976, where two men converse their way from pedantic banter to verbal jousting to painful soul baring over the course of the play.
Lockerboys is all about what boys do when left alone inside the locker/dressing room. Inspired by personal requests from followers of the Queeriosity Projects, Pinoy Indie Film Locker Boys presents some very steamy solo scenes to fulfill a queer young man's fantasy.
The crossed visions of illegal aliens who left everything behind in search of a better life in the West, and who now almost regret being here, and those who are ready, in Africa, to follow their example and risk their life to cross the seas. Following back and forth the immigrants from Mali and the coast of Senegal to workers' suburbs around Paris, the film shows the hidden face of these shadow workers, the neglected dimension of people so close so far, our brothers beyond borders drawn by men.
Surrounded by divers and swimmers, a little girl feels humiliated by her fear of jumping in the water. But when she sees two unexpected creatures swimming effortlessly underwater, can she take the plunge into their magical world?
A maid does the housework: she cleans the toilet, polishes the living room, makes dinner, does the laundry. In the meantime, she secretly desires the teenager of the house where she works. He doesn't even notice her presence. Accompanied by the routine that sees her days go by, the maid longs for the moment in which her luck will change.
Rudy can't get enough of the sheer vitality of Tokyo. Exciting, edgy, and full of life, Tokyo is shopping madness by day and a carnival at night. Join the throngs at one of the world's most exciting street intersections to witness its blazing neon and JumboTron shows. Greet the new day at the Tsukiji fish market, where a staggering 2,000 tons of seafood pass through each day. Get caught up in cherry blossom mania, visit distant neighborhoods via the subway, and wander the streets in search of new restaurants, a Tokyo obsession!
In August 2007, Germany’s most successful music export worldwide, the Scorpions, already ventured deep into the Brazilian jungle for a sold out show – in front of 40,000 enthusiastic fans the band played a concert in Manaus, the metropolis on the Amazon river. A cooperation with Greenpeace was already existent at this point and when the band returned to South America the next year, they happily intensified it. Kaus Meine, lead singer of the Scorpions, recollects, “Due to the unbelievable success we returned to Manaus in 2008, but we also played Rio, Sao Paulo and Recife again. During the show in Belem we accepted Greenpeace’s invitation to participate in a three-hour flight across the rainforest in order to get a picture of the proceeding destruction (an area twice the size of Germany has been destroyed by fire so far).
The film explores Civil War veteran Samuel Mitchell's life and survival of a horrific accidental explosion at Sewanee, Tennessee in August, 1863.
In an old photography studio, an old man and a group of young men meet. The old man has seen everything, but is determined to live a full life until the very end. The young men have just begun their lives, but feel aimless, lost and insecure. One man's story is ending, while the young men's stories are just beginning. Between their differences, a lesson on life is found.
Koko, a rich and fascinating Japanese lady arrive in a small Italian village on the lake and shake all the people with his conduct. Giorgia, a young and chaste flower girl who live with her grim grandmother, destined to a religious life and to a marriage with a gross truck farmer, take a fancy to the beautiful Koko. Giorgia will get a sentimental education from Koko and she will start to understand what it means to be free and independent.
A documentary about people in Kenya who are imprisoned by the global flower industry. The dilemmas of the industry become painfully clear and a dark world of oppression, sexual abuse and terrible working conditions unfolds. There is only one conclusion possible: the smell of the imported rose is not sweet, but bitter.
Charlotte picks up where Lola left off in Cannibal Lolita to continue with her lover Sandman in an orgy of sex, murder and cannibalism. No one is safe in their homes from the carnage they bring.
Min Mors Hemmelighet (Suddenly Sami) is a personal film about identity. During the director’s childhood and youth in Oslo her mother never told her about her indigenous Sami background in the Arctic area of Norway. Why didn’t she? And how can the director suddenly become Sami in the middle of life? And does she really want to?
BREATH MADE VISIBLE is the first feature length film about the life and career of Anna Halprin, the American dance pioneer who has helped redefine our notion of modern art with her belief in dance's power to teach, heal, and transform at all ages of life. This cinematic portrait blends recent interviews with counterparts such as the late Merce Cunningham, archival footage, including her establishment of the first multiracial dance company in the U.S., and excerpts of current performances such as "Parades and Changes" at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, to weave a stunning, inspiring account of one of the most important cultural icons in modern dance.
Handsome and Belle just might fall in love, if fate doesn't get in the way first.
Leonora is a woman obsessed by the death of her daughter. Since then, her life has been assaulted by a repetitive dream that will make her initiate a strange journey, in which oniric spaces start melting with reality.
For many French, who fought bravely, the First World War was to be the "all wars." Yet within two decades, Europe, and France in particular, was slipping again into the barbarism and cruelty of another conflict. The dreams of peace were dashed, and a new generation thrown into chaos. What sinister sequences preceded the Second World War? Back to the tragic events throughout the chronicle of a time nourished by passions and agitation, dominated by powerful personalities.
Mukhyamantri is an Odia language film written and directed by Chittaranjan Tripathy. The cast of the film includes Siddhanta Mahapatra, Samaresh Routray,Sonali Mohapatra, Bijay Mohanty and Robin Das. Panaag Bhushan Mohanta and Chittaranjan Tripathy produced the film.
Jail of Flesh, is a documentary that delves into a rare neurological disease. It is fatal, incurable and what provokes it is unknown. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis attacks the motor neurons, those who have this disease gradually lose total ability to move.
In THIS PALESTINIAN LIFE, director Philip Rizk uses an oral history approach to highlight the stories and perspectives of Palestinian villagers and Bedouin. This method avoids using "experts" to interpret the broader Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Rather, the film's anthropological and ethnographic method portrays the daily life of Palestinian communities, in order to explore in greater depth how Palestinian life is being undermined by the pressure of Israeli occupation. Especially in Gaza, this style reveals the profound fragmentation of community life. The following stories are threaded together and interlaced to reveal the similarity of Israeli measures of occupation throughout Gaza and the West Bank, and the similarity of Palestinian reactions through sumoud – perseverance – to remain on the land.
Eyes are on China from all over the world, and this story contains today's most 'in' Chinese elements. It is a unique story that spans across half a century in China and connects the East with the West. It depicts Communist China's transformation as seen through the eyes of a Chinese gay man and people surrounding him. It seeks to explore humanity and morality; cross-cultural interaction in the rapid process of globalization; race; gender; religion and sexuality; interracial and cross-cultural prostitution; the lives and subcultures of marginal people as opposed to the mainstream society.
Anniken travels to Poland to look for her father Marek Konkol. In her search a darkness begins to creep back and Anniken has to face a hurtful truth she has repressed for too long.. a truth that holds the key for her father's disappearance.
George discovers that the end of the world is the perfect time to lose everything.
Late in the 20th century, in response to repeated mass atrocities around the world, more than 120 countries united to form the International Criminal Court (ICC)—the first permanent court created to prosecute perpetrators (no matter how powerful) of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. The Reckoning follows dynamic ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and his team for 3 years across 4 continents as he issues arrest warrants for Lord’s Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, puts Congolese warlords on trial, shakes up the Colombian justice system, and charges Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in Darfur, challenging the UN Security Council to arrest him. Building cases against genocidal criminals presents huge challenges, and the Prosecutor has a mandate but no police force. At every turn, he must pressure the international community to muster political will for the cause.
In Comparison revisits issues explored in the director's 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Spanning continents and cultures, the film focuses on the brick in its many contexts, from the collective efforts of a community building a clinic in Burkina Faso, through semi industrialized moldings in India, to industrial production lines in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland. Through its notable structure and its captivating rhythms, In Comparison presents various methods of labor production, allowing for an assessment that changes with every layer and goes well beyond a simple binary divide.
Live concert of the Dutch band Krezip.
A woman drives in her car, wearing a grave look on her face. In the background, we hear the sounds of the freeway. The camera often captures her face, but occasionally we look at her from behind. Hypnotising lines on the road whiz by. Just like trees and other elements surrounding the road. Some short telephone conversations alternate with long silences. Meanwhile, the spectator travels along with the woman for many miles. Next, her phone rings for the third time. It turns out to be her lover. Gradually, the nature of the conversation becomes clear. It is their final, but intense and extensive talk. One time, the tone is very impersonal, another time defiant or even particularly emotional. More and more becomes clear about the two characters and their past relationship.
Gerard is a playboy novelist in New York, living off of his father and friends' money because none of his novels sell. He's a confirmed bachelor. One day, he gets a letter from his father in Monaco. His father is a very successful hotel owner, and the letter basically states that Gerard is to come home, buckle down and learn the business, and marry a woman of his father's choosing.
Chickenfoot is an American hard rock supergroup formed in 2008. The group consists of vocalist Sammy Hagar, bassist Michael Anthony, guitarist Joe Satriani, and drummer Chad Smith.
An old man crosses the desert with a valuable load, a row of cages with cherubs of sublime songs; when one of them is carelessly abandoned, he reveals the divine power to give life to lifeless beings and things.
A middle aged man takes the cable car to the top of the mountain above Tromsø. He has no plans to return. The freshman conductor and two cheerful sisters are also riding along, and the journey takes several unexpected turns.