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The documentary focuses on images of women in advertising, in particular on gender stereotypes, the effects of advertising on women's self-image and the objectification of women's bodies.
Tsai Chin returned to grace the Hong Kong Coliseum's stage in 2010. The set list this time features a large selection of classic Mandarin oldies from the 1960s, including the concert theme song "A Wonderful Night on the Sea". The veteran Taiwan singer with a voice like velvet also treated her audience to her fan-favorite numbers, including "Your Eyes", "The Forgotten Time", "One Last Night", and "Just Like Your Tenderness" for a total of over 30 songs.
WHO TOOK THE BOMP? LE TIGRE ON TOUR follows iconic feminist electronic band Le Tigre on their 2004-2005 international tour across four continents and through ten countries. Supported by a community of devoted fans and led by outspoken Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill), Le Tigre confronts sexism and homophobia in the music industry while tearing up the stage via performance art poetics, no-holds-barred lyrics, punk rock ethos, and whip-smart wit in this edgy and entertaining documentary. Directed by Kerthy Fix (STRANGE POWERS: STEPHIN MERRITT AND THE MAGNETIC FIELDS), WHO TOOK THE BOMP? LE TIGRE ON TOUR features never before seen live performances, archival interviews, and revealing backstage footage with these trail-blazing artists.
The directorial debut of Kano Kyoko, the "older sister" of celebrity duo The Kano Sisters. Kano Kyoko and co-star and sister Mika show off their dazzling bodies with an air of luxuriance, as they present six short films on various expressions of love. While it covers various stimulating topics in its exploration of "free love" unbound by worldly morals such as homosexual love, discipline, S&M, sex-toy play, threesomes, and voyeurism, the images are nevertheless romantic and refined.
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me . . . ." And so begins one of the most famous and haunting poems from the enigmatic mind of one of literature's most prolific dark poets, Edgar Allan Poe. This chilling classic adapted for a 21st-century audience. EDGAR ALLAN POE'S 'ANNABEL LEE' tells the story of Jack Blythe, an artist who rents a summer house in a quiet beach town to find creative inspiration. He gets more than he bargained for when he meets a beautiful but hauntingly mysterious woman who offers to be his subject for a painting. When Jack discovers that his seductive stranger resembles a woman presumed dead for 18 years, he becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth. Soon, Jack is caught up in a terrifying struggle that will unravel an unsolvable mystery and reveal a horrific secret
A mad scientist creates a formula that brings inanimate objects to life.
A half-hour fictional documentary film that, through the fates of different people, tries to illuminate the phenomenon of the YUGO car, a cute outsider of small capacities but big ambitions, in the period between 1980 and 2008, when it was manufactured. The film combines statements from authentic workers that were involved in the production of Yugo, archives, along with the reconstruction of different fragments from the Yugo's history which portray him both as a family and a thug's car, as a part of the great American Dream, or as a symbol of betrayed expectations. This film is a small 'commemorative' review of the history of an automobile that for a long time symbolized, in a jocular and veritable way, sometimes even by accident, the times in which he was manufactured.
Real-life TV funny men, Jeremy Corbett and Ben Hurley, embark on a pie-fuelled bro-mance adventure. Driving from Auckland to Invercargill, the comedians discover more about road trips, Simon Barnett's hair, John Clarke's monkey and each other, than they ever wished to know.
The Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele in 2010. Iréne Theorin stars as Elektra, with Eva-Maria Westbroek as Chrysothemis, Waltraud Meier as Klytämnestra, Robert Gambill as Aegisth, and René Pape as Orest. Daniele Gatti conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker.
After many experienced EnduroCross: The Movie, ShotMaker Productions rolls out with the sequel, The Foundation. Follow us on an adventure of the 2010 EnduroCross series. Go behind the scenes of EnduroCross as The Foundation documents the factory teams from the board rooms, all the way to the practice track. See Poland's Taddy Blazusiak and America's Geoff Aaron battle it out for the 2010 EnduroCross championship. In the Foundation DVD... See every pass, crash, and win of the 6 round
Chris Black possesses a power that could lead to the destruction of the current regime, and they will stop at nothing to destroy him. The chase is on as Chris runs for his life in this sci-fi thriller set in an alternate and futuristic Los Angeles.
A fairy tale about what happens when a princess who only knows how to say yes meets a boy who says no to everything. But it is also about parental love, forgiveness, and overcoming one's own limitations.
In economic crisis, Kiko (Eric French) and Marcelo (Adrià Collado) believe finding a solution to their economic problems re-letting a room in his house in Ibiza ... As the floor in the living only two fit the closet of the housing as if it were a small room. After several unsuccessful visits appears Soto (Fernando Tejero), a strange character who not only accepts live in the small "bedroom" but also offers the ultimate solution to your all their woes ...
A documentary. David Sieveking takes the advice of his idol, David Lynch and tries out Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's transcendental meditation technique.
Always at G - the Hälsinge fiddler and actor Görgen Antonsson. Join him at fiddler meetings, pub gigs and theatre performances, but also to the Crown Princess's birthday and the symphony orchestra in Berwaldhallen.
This is not how the young Swiss couple imagined their desert trip: on their way to Timbuktu, they break down and are stranded in the Algerian desert of Tar. Oliver is more concerned with the broken truck than with Elena, so she explores the oasis alone. There she meets two women: a mysterious fortune teller and the young Aya. And then there is Saïd's small public telephone exchange, which connects Tar with the outside world. While Elena discovers a new world, Oliver wants to end the trip as soon as possible.
Machansa, a successful businessman with a severe gambling problem, ends up living in the streets after losing a bet. Now he must survive a year without gambling if he is to regain control of his company and return to middle-class life.
A melancholy comedy about two fathers, two sons, and the cocaine sale that brings them all together for an everyday adventure about the moment before making a change, and maybe worrying that change just means trading up one sorry addiction for another.
The action of the film takes place in two periods of time. An old man leads his son through a forest, and is simultaneously under his care confined to bed with a deadly illness.
The future of our food resources depends on one small insect - the western honey bee, or Apis mellifera. Indeed, it is the most important agricultural pollinator on our planet, given that one third of our food supply depends directly on pollination from bees. This documentary tells the story of a worldwide ecological disaster that has been waiting to happen for several generations.
A widowed mother, who lives alone in a secluded house, has a premonition that her son in the Air Force is going to die in a plane crash. No one believes her. Impossible to do anything about it, when he is halfway around the world piloting his plane over enemy territory, all she can do is imagine a miracle.
Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patty, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent container, Patti gives the girl a new home for an uncertain period of time. However, Walter is concerned that they may be accused of kidnapping the girl, and he plans to report Asia's presence to the police. . Patty receives a letter from the mother in which she announces that she will collect the girl two days later. They have a farewell party, but the mother does not show up.
After a dispute a young woman leaves her older boyfriends comfortable apartment. She has nowhere to go so wanders the streets aimlessly eventually ending up in a cafe where she has a random encounter.
Noémie and Priscilla, two teenagers from a modest background, nurture the same violence, the same revolt. They seriously worry their families, who feel that these girls are capable of anything...
The Petzl RocTrip 2010 in Mexico welcomed people from all corners of the world to the unique climbing destinations of El Chonta et Las Peñas de Jilotepec, with a stop at the Aztec pyramids of Teotihuacán.
Die Literaturagentin Lara Brunn fährt nach längerer Zeit wieder in ihren Heimatort in den Bayerischen Alpen. Anlass ist der Geburtstag ihrer Mutter. Lara wartet gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester Sylvia im Elternhaus, doch die Mutter taucht nicht auf. Am nächsten Tag findet ein Suchtrupp in den Bergen eine männliche Leiche, die schon seit mehreren Jahren dort liegt. Kurz darauf wird in der Nähe auch die Mutter tot aufgefunden. Während Sylvia an einen Unfalltod glaubt, vermutet Lara einen Mord. Sie stößt auf einige Ungereimtheiten und muss schnell feststellen, dass sie nur sehr wenig über das Leben ihrer Mutter weiß. Auch die eigene Vergangenheit wird immer ungewisser.
Leo Monroe is a young man on the verge of adulthood -- and on the verge of a meltdown -- in this charmingly dysfunctional comedy filled with wacky characters, a topical storyline, and budding romance.Forced to leave college after losing his student loan in a bad economy, Leo returns to his childhood home to find it is in the primary stages of foreclosure. To make matters worse, he also discovers his relatives and neighbors are losing their homes as well due to shady loan practices. In an effort to keep the family afloat, all of Leo's relatives (who are universally unemployed) must move into Leo's house together. "Subprime" is an off beat family minefield of a comedy dealing not only with todays housing crisis and employment downturn, but also looks at life through the eyes of a young suburban adult forced to reexamine his beliefs about everything he holds dear.
A would-be publican decides to set up shop on a remote island with a flat-pack DIY pub, but encounters more competition than he bargained for.
Director Simoné Laine delves into Ciment’s influential life, including his history with film periodical Positif (and its infamous rivalry with Cahiers du cinéma).
“Many years ago, men and lions used to live in peace together and were allies. They protected each other. But little by little men forgot about their deal and in the end the lions did the same.” These are the words that Lionel’s dying grand-father whispered to him in his village in Africa. Lionel is an 11-year-old boy who leaves happily in Switzerland with his mother and step-father. During a school trip to the zoo, Lionel is irresistibly attracted to an old lion lying in a cage. The lion starts to communicate with him and asks him to find a way to set him free in order to go back to Africa. With the help of his best friend Federico and of his classmates, Lionel is determined to keep his promise…
The Moon Bird is a dark fairytale about an orphan girl called Teardrop who inherits magical powers from her late parents. A terrible sorceress Experimentia desires the magic for herself and pursues Teardrop for her own evil ends. Teardrop must outwit the sorceress with the help of a magical bird created after one of her tears binds with the moon.
An isolated house in the woods looks like an easy mark to a group of friends camping in the Maine wilderness. The thieves haul away several ounces of pot and hallucinogenic mushrooms in the heist. But when the homeowners track them down, the thieves learn too late that there are some people you just shouldn't mess with... and that they picked The Wrong House.
The once full, fresh waters of Lake Denial are rapidly receding leaving bogan residents Jack, Kevin and Blandy with an uphill battle in keeping their charter boat business afloat - literally. But when a supernatural event alters Jack and Kevin's ability to function, just getting by becomes a whole new problem. A comedy that sorts out the sinkers from the swimmers.
The story of the sexual discovery of Kriko Krakinsky, an 11-year-old boy living in a strange and bizarre family of immigrants that share mysterious and surprising behaviors around sexual issues.
a film by Raul Jorolan.
A love story of a Moslem freelance journalist and a Catholic college girl, in resistance by their different cultures and religion.
A man, newly settled in his new apartment, meets Ingrid, a young artist as beautiful as she is mysterious. His fascination with Ingrid and her complex life grows, and the neighbor discovers some of her dangerous secrets, linked to the dark world of magic. Halfway between suspense and experimentation, Ingrid delves into a world where artistic representations become the visual and auditory core. Based on his research into social media and including some amateur actors linked to this movement, Eduard Cortés has allowed the performances to flood the screen, turning "Ingrid" into a creative flow.
You need to suffer, to understand....
A new scientific expedition follows the King Cobra into the wild for the first time.
Lokesh, an innocent kid who loves playing his guitar, is turned into a psychotic killer thanks to a traumatic childhood experience, courtesy his ruthless father. Lokesh's passion for playing the guitar turns into an obsession for making disturbing tunes for spreading a message to the world, a message by God, and Lokesh believes himself to be God's Messenger. Whoever is unfortunate enough not to understand his music and his message doesn't deserve the right to live. Reva, a lonely young girl, torn apart by her parent's separation, feels the pain and the passion behind Lokesh's music, but oblivious to his psychotic killing spree, she puts herself, her friend and her kid sister, in danger of Lokesh's wrath!
A bruised and battered Max sits in an interrogation room dressed in a ghoulish costume caked in dried blood. With his alibi littered with two corpses, blood-curdling screams and a tale of "the beast", this furry man swears he can explain...
4 sick teams, 20 ripping skaters, head-to-head across America. The cover, the cash and the crown: one team takes it all.
There isn't much left of the once-grand Catskill Mountain House. The lavish resort hotel was perched on a precarious ledge in Greene County for over a century. During its 19th-century heyday, the hotel embodied the peak of luxury for a generation of the rich and famous. But like many resort hotels of the Catskills' glittering past, the Mountain House fell into disuse in the 20th century and was finally destroyed by the state of New York in 1963 to return its scenic overlook to wilderness. The Catskill Mountain House and The World Around was given the Gold Remi Award by the 44th WorldFest Houston International Film Festival!
Three teenage boys have their world turned upside down by tainted moonshine. They must rescue their loved ones and battle a marauding horde of zombies while fighting their way out of town.
Unhinged: Surviving Jo'burg is an honest, quirky and sometimes frenzied documentary about Johannesburg, South Africa's biggest city and the world's gateway to Southern Africa. With rapid narrative, dry humour, trivial factoids, insightful observations and a highly enjoyable soundtrack, the film tells a slice-of-city-life story. It's a personal video snapshot of today's city, providing a unique opportunity for viewers to get a glimpse inside a place that the world has a very fuzzy sense of. Written by Adrian Loveland
After a series of unfortunate events, a college film major has no choice but to make a documentary about a milk drinking contest in order to graduate.
The recording of his birthday concert in December in the Vienna Stadthalle with special guest Pia Douwes offers a foray through his musical career - from his beginnings to his current successes. The big hits from musicals such as Elisabeth, Starlight Express, The Rocky Horror Show, The Phantom of the Opera, Fame, Chicago, Cats as well as new numbers that Uwe Kröger has never performed before. Accompanied by the Herwig Gratzer Band, 12 dancers and special guest Pia Douwes, who leads the show with Uwe Kröger and even performs a few solo pieces.
An engineer starts to have feelings for a girl named Terme which come to his office for decorating till a young photographer come to Terme's life.
Nalan Kumarasamy's first short film project for Naalaiya Iyakunar
Studio documentary about the making of the 2001 album 'Blackwater Park'.
Near future. Human-like robots are in open market. Sveta acquires a nice Robot to solve her personal problems. Robot is tuned up automatically to fit the owner's character. But she is on her way to know who she truly needs.
A comedy about a a few days of a family's life in Iran
Documentary profiling the directors involved in the loose Philippine New Wave filmmaking movement.