Documentary about the great cultural transformation of Helsinki, Finland, in the early 1980's. The birth of new sub-cultures, art galleries and performances.
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Documentary about the great cultural transformation of Helsinki, Finland, in the early 1980's. The birth of new sub-cultures, art galleries and performances.
Ryūji reunites with Kazuo Ikeyama, a key witness in the corruption scandal surrounding the West Osaka Urban Development Project five years prior – the very case that cost Ryūji his prosecutor's post. Determined to drag Ikeyama into court, Ryūji's investigation hits a snag. However, whilst uncovering the truth behind a social welfare fraud case stemming from an apartment eviction dispute, he encounters Onishi, a day labourer holding the key to the corruption scandal. Eleven years prior, Onishi's son had died in a suspicious accident at a quarry linked to Ikeyama, then a corporate henchman.Ryuji finds a lead to solving the corruption case from five years ago through this eleven-year-old incident...
A documentary about the The Ortega Cinema in Palencia which celebrated its 60th anniversary and was totally renovated in 1997.
Yusuf's everyday life is dominated by routine. He has made himself comfortable in his life between television and computer and is happy that way. But the people around him try to get him out of his beloved routine. His working wive and his buddy Tamer make him go on a fishing trip on the frozen lake. He reluctantly agrees to go, but once there, he gets a chance to restore his image as the provider and head of family.
A couple argues over what may or may not have been said in the heat of passion.
Can I be Facebook friends with my parents? Should I add someone I don't really know? Will other people think my status updates are funny?
When a group of twenty-somethings looking for a good time beat up a defenseless bum, they inadvertently find themselves the stalking sport for a homeless butcher hell-bent on bloody retribution.
The story of legendary computer game developer Richard Garriott's spaceflight in October 2008.
Parafotos head back to The Algarve to look at more naturist opportunities.
A short film made by Alain Cavalier for the 2010 dvd release of ‘Le Combat Dans L’ile’.
Musical movie called "Rock on" was ready to be filmed. For saving the cost of the budget, the casting producer named "Senior Tsai", picked up his roles from the rejects of an audition. Such as kid from Hong Kong, he can both write and sing, Candy, a girl who's just like the Barbie doll, and LaReine, a snappy girl who could dance hip-pop to the top, together they co-starred this new title. For creating more topics, Tsai he called up Johnny, who used to be the hottest idol, to helm this musical film and train the new hopefuls he had seek. Progressively, the shooting got started and this has-been idol, Johnny, he eagerly hoped this movie would win him his come-back moment.
The members of the unsuccessful heavy metal band "Mötörcöck and the Mötley Poo" are convinced that they have found a way to become famous. Their evil plan is to shoot a snuff music video in which they are going to kill a young woman for real. During the execution of their sick idea, the musicians realize that they are definitely messing with the wrong "victim"...
A history of the origin of National Baseball Hall of Fame and its first induction ceremony in 1939.
After his landing on Jupiter moon Alpha64, the cosmonaut Yuri Lennon is confronted with an extraordinary paradox.
Documentary from Sarah Bertrand
A coffee-shop owner does not serve coffee. Four old men insist to order. A fridge filled with the last ice creams that everyone craves for.
A reclusive, recently widowed Holocaust survivor reluctantly babysits her vivacious young grandson Adam, and discovers that what she wants isn't actually what she needs.
The Vigil is a thriller film that tells the story of the relation established between two opposite characters that share an intense and strange night in today's Lima. Edgardo Chocano, a westernized Peruvian intellectual of upper class and a violent and instinctive girl of the lower class that is escaping the threat of a gang of criminals. It's main theme deals with the possibility of an understanding between this two contradicting characters.
A portrait of Rome by artist Theo Eshetu.
Documentary telling the story of the piracy explosion, with unique access to the coastal towns of war-torn Somalia, the boardrooms of the City of London, the operation hubs on board warships in the Gulf of Aden and the heartbreak of a hostage situation gone wrong. (Storyville)
A documentary that takes a retrospective look at the influence of Mau Piailug, a native from the tiny Micronesian atoll of Satawal, in reviving the art of non-instrument navigation in Polynesia. Relying solely on his knowledge of celestial bodies, oceanic currents, and natural markers, Mau guided the traditional sailing canoe Hokulea on a 1976 voyaging to Tahiti, a journey not completed in more than 600 years. For Native Hawaiians, this expedition signaled an exodus from the cultural doldrums of the previous century. Sail along on this remarkable journey and share Mau's story of reinvigoration, reconciliation, and redemption of a people as the master wayfinder and teacher that breathed life back into the sails Polynesia's voyaging tradition.
Two tourists on a beach suddenly witness our indifference wash ashore. A film with a different perspective on the anxiety we feel and the dilemma we're faced with when confronted with other people's suffering.
This gripping documentary follows the trial of Issa Sesay, a leader in Sierra Leone's civil war who stands accused of crimes against humanity. Can the trial of one man uncover the truth of a traumatic past?
Ask any American worth their salt what they know about William Henry Harrison, and they'll probably say, "Well, I think he was that president who died only a month into office." Well, that person would be wrong. In truth, the president known as Ol' Tippecanoe actually rewrote American history. How did he do this? By faking his death and joining ranks with a shadow government known only as the Fraternity, which was, until recently, the most super secret conspiracy ever assembled: That is, until it stopped being a secret when a young female reporter found out and had the guts to report it. The Triumph of William Henry Harrison is the story of our ninth president, but it is also the story of Amanda Delacourt.
A spoilt girl joins the army in order to prove to her boyfriend that she's tough
HERE IT IS AT LAST - THE HOLY GRAIL FOR NIRVANA FANS... This DVD features the legendary SNL TV appearances originally broadcast live in the USA in 1992 and 1993, plus the digitally remastered soundtrack of Nirvana s famous live radio broadcast on KAOS FM from 1987. The DVD also features interviews with Leland Cobain, Kurt s Grandfather, and Alice Wheeler, intimate of the band and the photographer who documented Nirvana from their first single in 1988 right through to the end...Featuring: Rape Me; Smells LikeTeen Spirit; Territorial Pissings; Heart Shaped Box; Love Buzz; Floyd the Barber; Downer; Mexican Seafood; White Lace And Strange; Spank Thru; Anorexorcist; Hairspray Queen; Pen Cap Chew
Danish Comedy one-man show by Jan Gintberg
Knots and Fields examines the aesthetic debates and tensions that have animated the Darmstadt courses over six decades, exploring their relevance today in an increasingly globalised environment.
Jersey Boys, The Who's Tommy, Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, and now, Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival. This is the world of Big Time Theatre, and Des McAnuff's creative fingerprints have been on all of them. Des knows better than most how to stage artistically and commercially successful theatrical shows, but who knew that this Canadian-born director could play a wicked red hot guitar? Des McAnuff - A Life in Stages takes you behind the scenes of the hottest stage director working today. With a soundtrack composed by Des himself, listen to Pete Townshend, Billy Crystal and Christopher Plummer explain how working with Des McAnuff has been a profound artistic experience. Thought provoking and often times hilarious, welcome to the life of Des McAnuff.
Documentary on Jonas Mekas and the American avant-garde cinema, with several new interviews and appearances and over 100 excerpts and examples. Detailed sequences on Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Peter Kubelka, Bob Downey, Su Friedrich, and Anthology Film Archives.
How a young family deals with the loss of their mom.
Life is composed of seven-tenths work, one-tenth familial, one-tenth political and one-tenth relaxation. Here, the, is Scientology applied to that crucial seven-tenths of existence. Based on L. Ron Hubbard's book, The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World, here is a visual presentation of the landmark discoveries contained in the book for immediate application. The Problems of Work contains the senior principles and laws which applie to every endeavor, every problem of work. For they are the discoveries which lay beare the core of these problems and explain the very fabric of life itself. Contained within this film is not only technology to bring stability to the workplace, but the magic processes to return joy itself to all of life. For this is Scientology.
One day consists of 86,400 seconds. This is one of them.
It was a beautiful summer day, and heavily pregnant Eva just wanted to enjoy herself while shopping. She had no idea of the nightmare that awaited her. Betrayed by her boyfriend and abducted by a madman, Eva endures hellish torment. Tortured, raped, and tormented to death, her battered soul cannot find peace. Her thirst for revenge drives her back from the realm of demons to the world of the living, and everyone will pay for their sins in blood.
Guðrún is a ten year old girl. One day at school she is called in to the principal´s office. The principal informs her that her S.U.V. burnet to the ground earlier that same morning. While Guðrún spends recess trying to figure out what the principal had meant, an investigation on the alleged arson is taking place and Guðrún is the main suspect.
The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. . .
A detective seeks redemption after taking on an assignment involving the death of a girl.
Ellen Farnsby is a modern-day Scheherazade. And if she doesn't tell the story of a lifetime, someone else will be writing her obituary. She is kidnapped by Paige, a failed novelist with an ax to grind. Jeremy is a video store clerk whose one talent is fooling himself, and others, that he's an artist. He and a pop junkie of a detective named Lydecker are hunting for Ellen. Will Jeremy and Lydecker find Ellen before a vicious maniac edits her out of existence? Will Ellen write a brilliant novel or end up a tragic movie-of-the-week?
After the black crows attack his land, a rich landowner gathers the village children and turns them into Scarecrows
The video explores the issue of energy as a critical factor for the development of life conditions, at the same time energy is the reason for wars of power, environmental disasters, and economic monopolies. People suffer passively from this system and go on its path suffering the weight of political choices. Only renewable energy can save the earth and human being from collapse and become the new symbol of contemporary passion.
Hank, fresh off a fight with his girlfriend, travels for a weekend alone to a quaint bed and breakfast, only to inadvertently trigger a fight between the elderly couple who runs it.
Pure sound unaltered by human hands is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Gordon Hempton is an Emmy Award-winning sound recordist who has spent the last 30 years trying to find and record the vanishing sounds of nature in an attempt to capture a disappearing sensory experience. Filmmaker Nick Sherman observes Hempton in the wilderness for 30 days and uncovers an obsessive artist on a quest for perfection in this obscure medium. Hempton’s natural ability to locate and articulate himself through sound has a contagious energy and gives his work a transportive quality. Soundtracker is a fascinating meditation on the world’s changing landscape and the things we may be leaving behind in the service of progress.
Larry works the night shift at a convenience store. He can't get a girl, and he hates his life. But that's not his biggest problem: He's a vampire, and he has to learn how to become a vampire in order to become a man.
An ode to the Hollywood classics of the 1940's. A film noir that tells the story of a reclusive actress, Jane Prescott, in the midst of a psychological breakdown.
This animated short by Claude Cloutier is a pictorial account of an attack on Canadian soldiers during WWI. On the edge of the battlefield, recruits are dreading the order to attack. At the signal, a young soldier leaps into a hell of fire and blood where the earth engulfs both the living and the dead. Blending archival images and Cloutier’s hypnotizing brushstroke, the film is a dazzling illustration of the futility of war.
A musical adventure comedy follows Baron Munchausen, a legendary hero with a unique worldview, as he embarks on magical and fantastical adventures in Ukraine. Directed by Oleksiy Kolomiytsev, the musical features transformations, chases, and magic. Munchausen aids the Ukrainian Cossacks in rescuing a girl named Galya from Turkish captivity. The production is vibrant with choreographic numbers, arias, duets, and choruses, set against colourful costumes and lighting effects. The musical arrangement blends various genres, including rock, rap, techno, disco, and folk.
João's mother mysteriously disappeared when he was a baby. Having grown up without the guidance of a mother, João ends up living in Porto, where he meets a girl with whom he falls in love. Despite this, bad influences make João enter a cycle of self-destruction.
The director becomes an obsessive cat owner, getting the whole village involved when the pet goes missing only days before it's due to have kittens.
In 1979, Toasters ‘N’ Moose formed, put out one album, and disbanded. Now 30 years later, their old manager (and his niece) has brought them together again for a 3 day tour of Northern California. Featuring their now classic hit “Rock Your Body Home” and live performances of many more great songs, our cameras follow on this less-than-historic tour.
Over the course of a controversial 10-year revolution in Nepal, 40% of the guerilla army fighting against the government were women. "Woman Rebel" follows the story of one such woman (codename "Silu") on her incredible journey — from the jungles, all the way through to the halls of Parliament. It's a powerful, unconventional topic featuring women as agents of change, not victims of circumstance.
A couple in a car, things aren't going well.
See what celebrated Latino actors, newsmakers and a musical legend have to say about being Latino in the U.S. in this installment of the award-winning series. Interviews include Jimmy Smits, Luis Guzman, Daisy Fuentes, Wilmer Valderrama, Ana de la Reguera, Ruben Blades, Bernie Williams, and many others.
On ancient star maps of magnificent color quality, experimental animator Lawrence Jordan takes the viewer out of this world into a world of cosmic imagination.—Canyon Cinema
Following a sell-out UK tour in December 2009, Paramore returned to British shores for a second jaunt, promising to be "bigger... and better". This cold Tuesday evening in MId-November saw thousands of fans - both young and old - pile into Birmingham's recently renovated LG Arena for a searing night of Rock 'n Roll.
ACM PRESENTS: BROOKS & DUNN – THE LAST RODEO, featuring performances by Jason Aldean, Kenny Chesney, Faith Hill, Jennifer Hudson, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, George Strait, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban with presenters Dr. Maya Angelou, Miranda Cosgrove & Matthew McConaughey.