Cinematic Era: 2010 Vintage

The global clean water crisis brings Kenna, Jessica Biel, Emile Hirsch, Lupe Fiasco and more to face the ominous Mount Kilimanjaro.

When two documentary filmmakers find evidence of a hidden base on the moon, they quickly become entangled in uncovering a secret history of earth that was meant to be long forgotten.

Dunno Y...Na Jaane Kyon (English: Don't Know Why) is a 2010 Indian film. The film was directed by Sanjay Sharma and written by his brother Kapil Sharma who also played the lead. It premiered in April 2010 at India's first mainstream gay film festival, the Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. It features the first gay kiss in Indian cinema between Yuvraaj Parashar and Kapil Sharma. Two young men fall in love with each other but struggle to come to terms on how best to comfortably and securely express it in public. Between family pressures and social taboo on the matter, the fictional gay couple remains closeted lovers and patiently await the day a love as special as theirs may be understood and shared with the world without fear of any backlash.

This is the third in a series of films based on horror stories. In a building where women who are supposed to be at the peak of their happiness jump to their deaths one after another. Yuki, who works at a general store in the building, receives a gift of an engagement ring from her long-time lover. But then a strange feeling begins to hover around her...

Rock Hudson was a virile screen idol who was the epitome of clean-cut masculinity. He was one of the first Hollywood celebrities to die of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, providing the killer virus with a famous face amidst the American AIDS paranoia of 1985. 2010 is not only the 25th anniversary of his death but would also have been his 85 birthday. The film investigates the many film roles Rock Hudson played, against the more intimate and private world of Roy Fitzgerald.

A drama about messed up athlete who tries to regain his career.

When career criminal John - the character from Clausen's drama-comedy »Temporary Release« (2007) - is granted parole, he hastens to Jutland to visit his son who is in difficulty. John might be a dedicated father, a perfect employee, and a great line-dancer, but life isn't exactly plain sailing.

Rumours say that a year back somebody was murdered at Blue Roof Guest House. After that incident people believe that the Guest House is haunted and spooky.

A collection of six documentary films featuring various locations and cultures of the world, screened at the Musée du Quai Branly from 18-23 May.

Javier se ha casado con María, el amor de su vida, y ahora lo único que desea es estar feliz con ella el resto de su vida, pero el destino se la quita poco después de la boda. Ahora Javier está enredado en sus emociones: ¿cómo aceptará la muerte de su mujer para encontrar nuevamente el amor?

Patrick Perrin is a dealer in a small seaside casino. His dream? To leave. To leave everything for an unknown destination. But a trip such as this doesn't happen overnight. To start with, Patrick decides to buy a suitcase. A nice red one with wheels that he immediately puts at the foot of his bed. All that's left to do is to fill it up and choose a destination.

Tarihci Dede is giving information to a couple of children about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's success and his way to shape todays Turkey.

An attempt to promote Korean tourism. A screenwriter meets a photographer. They walk through the beauty of Korean nature.

The crew on board the fishing vessel Undercurrent RE 29 has become uncomfortably numb with its never ending routine of week long tours at sea. Then, during one dark and dreary night this routine is shaken to its foundation when one of the most solid crew members commits suicide. To fill his gap, a young woman takes his place on the next tour and gradually the fragile balance is tipped, and personal issues that should be left on the mainland cause dangerous friction between the crew members

A documentary–concert film chronicling the life of Canadian singer, Céline Dion during her 2008–2009 Taking Chances World Tour.

Laruang Lalake is a realist film that portrays the workers within the Filipino gay film industry and their personal stories - from the naughty to the gritty, from the horny to the hopeful. The film weaves the journey of ambitious probinsyano actor Samuel, Marc the idealistic film crew member who is secretly in love with Samuel and Wilredo a filmmaker on the brink of bankruptcy. And then there is also Peejay who is determined to steal a name for himeslf. As the camera grinds between naked bodies in homerotic play, its all in a day's work for eveyone living in a society that is yet to acept the Filipino gay man.

Mamma Gógó is about Gógó, an elderly lady, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease and her son’s and family’s reaction to her illness. While Gógó is continuously getting herself into trouble, of the kind only a person with Alzheimer can, the son, the director, is struggling with financial troubles after his film Children of Nature has flopped in the cinema. As Gógó‘s disease progresses her family decides that it is best for her to move to a nursing home. Gógó and her deceased husband, who appears on the scene, are not happy with that decision. The director is dependent on others when it comes to his finances and when Gógó settles into the nursing home he decides to sell his mother’s apartment and valuable artwork but the profits of the sale help him to get by.

Abraham, the planter comes from Jaffna to his ancestral home in central Kerala unaware of the unpleasant things waiting for him. On the night of his arrival, he dies under mysterious circumstances and the cloud of suspicion falls on everyone.

Investigation into a global ecological disaster that could endanger the entire human race. Today, a third of our food depends directly on bees, the most important agricultural pollinator* on our planet. Yet, for several years now, millions of bees have been mysteriously disappearing. Why? Will we be able to cope with this predicted catastrophe?

A silent short film about a fairy who yearns to leave her world behind in favour of ours, but she must be willing to give up something important.

Ziba and three of her prison cohorts, recently released from a Tehran prison, settle in an out of town doctor's house posing as house sitters and embark on a get rich quick scheme. They plan to mug the lecherous men who give a ride to ladies waiting at street sides for a pickup, which was- and is, to some extent, now- how some prostitutes found work back in the time in Iran. The film portrays the characters as well as the social origins of these men, and as it progresses, explores the backgrounds of these women.

Marc is angry for his inability to stop his mother's death with so much unsaid between them. When his father is in a car accident he takes matters into his own hands. Nothing will stop him from saying those unspoken words to his father.

Eleven year old Tim plays fate and takes a flight to Scotland with his father Eric. They were happy there two years ago, shortly before his mother Anna died in a car accident. In Scotland, Tim combs through the Hartspring Castle and whose crypt. He finds a chart with Celtic characters, that refers to the true existence of the legendary Loch Ness monster.

The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the reception falls apart as the butler of the château, and one of the caterers is taking down a flight of stairs falls. The cream puffs are carefully picked up from the floor an arranged as though nothing happened. The bride comes from a bourgeois family, presided by Maddie, an old lady with a secret in her heart. The wedding, to be performed at the local church, by father Victor, proves to be not the classic marriage that has been planned...

Jupri inherited his brother-in-law's horse carriage that he can use for work. Unfortunately, it's hardly profitable as no customers are using his service. Kirno, his friend, advises to ask help from the cemetery. Jupri's fate drastically changes as he realized he might have dealt with supernatural beings.

Rica has been very protective of her sister Cecil even giving up her one true love Bong JC de Vera for her sisters future and after a freak accident 8 years ago at their little Party store for Fireworks, but as they grow up under the care of their grandmother Gina Pareño their parents comeback Tonton Gutierrez and Cherry Pie Picache as they comeback and they are all grown up Rica has a fear that she's losing Cecil's love as a sister and who raised her like a parent, and even falling in love for Edzel Luis Manzano will the sisters grow apart after having people come into their lives?

A romantic comedy centered on two young cooks and a female sommelier working in a famous Zurich luxury restaurant.

As a lunar eclipse commences, a frantic moon becomes increasingly twitchy as it attempts to hold back the darkness.

An aging actor finally secures the audition of a lifetime. But just how badly does he want the role?

Catastrophic power outage in Berlin. Poorly maintained grids, greedy power companies and corrupt politicians are to blame. The result is riots and looting. Can senior engineer Anja Radke save the day? But then she comes under suspicion of being involved in the incidents.

A balls to the wall action film about Fast, the fastest person alive, who is also named Fast.

Annina, who grew up in the Ruhr region, is to become the wife of a real lord, William Huxley III, in her adopted home of London. Before that, however, she has to take care of a little formality back home, as Annina is actually still married to her childhood sweetheart Tom. After the divorce is finalized, it turns out that neither spouse has really come to terms with their relationship.

Mary believes that her husband is using her for their own benefit — and not without reason. She catches him with his mistress — not even one, but several, to see that he is using drugs and is associated with criminal figures, which leads some of his darkest financial affairs.

A blend of reality and fiction, "Open Five" follows the story of Jake, a struggling musician and his sidekick, Kentucker, a maker of "poor" films and what happens when two girls (Lucy and Rose) venture down to Memphis for a long weekend.

Shinjin Kouen performance of Moon Troupe's The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Madrid, 1993. Two old friends down on their luck kidnap a college girl and demand ransom from her family.

This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the elitist theory of democracy and the relationship between war, propaganda and class. Includes original interviews with a number of dissident scholars including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips (Project Censored), John Stauber (PR Watch), Christopher Simpson (The Science of Coercion) and others. A deep, richly illustrated study of the nature and history of propaganda, featuring some of the world’s most insightful critics, Psywar exposes the propaganda system, providing crucial background and insight into the control of information and thought.

A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics.

Two guards are headed to a house where there has been a shot due to a statement of a neighbour who called the police. What can possibly happen there? The most unexpected!

It's the tragedy of a young man whose dream of universal happiness is so powerful an influence on him that he cannot allow himself to accept the personal happiness of marriage to a young, beautiful and devoted girl. Therefore, he goes insane.

An ex-seminarian slash communist runs a hotel in Baguio. He then meets a handsome upcoming lawyer. A once-a-year trip to Baguio by the lawyer and conversations with the hotel owner develop into an affair which encompasses decades of socio-political changes in the country.

Each year, hundreds of Central American migrants try to cross the northern border of Mexico on the freight train known as the Beast. That trip is usually the most dangerous journey of their lives. On the road many lost their dreams, their body parts and even their lives. Crossing Mexico is their biggest challenge, here are victims of discrimination, violence and even murder. This film portrays the suffering of those people who travel in search of a better life.

Become a ballerina! Prima Princessa brings you England's world famous Birmingham Royal Ballet performing excerpts from The Nutcracker that will inspire the ballerina in you! Come join in the holiday fun with Prima Princessa as she takes you to a magical show filled with snow fairies, toy soldiers, tutus, pirouettes and plies.(Amazon editorial)

Lena is a young art student new to London. Calling it her art project, she obsessively follows and takes pictures of an unwitting Sol. He is a scruffy, charismatic 20 year old, by all appearances homeless, who drifts around in numerous detached relations to people affiliated with the art scene. Her project takes a wrong turn when Sol discovers her. Fascinated by her odd behaviour, Sol is now the one to follow her.

Actually, the young Berlin doctor Jan Büchner wanted to go directly to the Baltic Sea for a week. But a detour forces him to drive over land. And then his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, just behind a small town called Marienhagen. The residents of Marienhagen take care of Jans Wohl and make the stay as pleasant as possible. A comedy about rural doctors and people who fight for their pride and self-respect and take their destiny in their own hands in their own hands.

Two families on holiday, camp side by side on a spectacular deserted beach. Immediately territorial, the two men of the families draw a line in the sand in a stand off, but bit by bit as all the rest of the members of the families on each side cross the line and make friends the two men are left to sort out their issues together – through fishing!

'Woohoo' (tiger dance) is a tradition practiced in a small village (Beserah, Kuantan) during a prayer ceremony every 60 years. As the only elder who knows "Woohoo" can no longer perform, his filial granddaughter put up a misleading advertisement which in turn attracts five youngsters from different backgrounds - bad-tempered bank security man Ah Beng, indecisive Char Kuey Teow hawker Ah Huat, effeminate designer Rain, university student Bobby and smart alec Alan - to be trained as 'woohoo' players. After some tough training, they finally look like a formidable team. However, few days before the anticipated festival day, the only 'tiger head"'is accidentally destroyed by the mischievous kids in the village.

Arkadiusz Jakubik's directorial debut plays out on many levels. One of them is, as in the title, a simple love story. However, parallel to it and on the same footing is the reality of filmmaking.

Freddie is starting as a thug for Jazdec the Polish, a pimp and concealer of illicit goods. Freddy's love for Larna, whom he dreams to snatch from prostitution, drive them into jeopardy under the clutches of a Chinese Godfather. To see Larna alive, Freddie must kill the so-called Mr. Zhu, a strange Chinese Zorro who just arrived in Paris to retrieve a young runaway fellow countrywoman.

A adult themed show in which a pop princess that lives in a candy wonderland helps a pregnant teen from Detroit learn there are more important things than taking care of your baby.

A father with problems to communicate with his son and to educate him decide to send the problematic child to a correctional center. The father can't imagine the type of education that this correctional center is going to give to his son.

The film was originally named as “Ran Qing Shi Jie Bei” (The Legend of World Cup), but director Xiao Jiang changed the name when the famous octopus in Germany named Paul became a global sensation when he correctly predicted the outcome of all Germany games in the recent football World Cup as well as the result of the World Cup final. “We planned several topics to shoot about, like black horses, prediction results, gambling, misjudges, terrorism and football hooligans. And we chose to shoot the prediction results when the amazing prophet Paul appeared,” said Xiao Jiang. Xiao Jiang said they have sent invitations to the aquarium in Germany inviting Paul to attend the film premiere in China. The octopus appearing in this film is an ‘actor’ who looks similar to Paul.

Two fathers, a Romanian searching for his daughter who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania, meet on the river Danube. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian peasants struggling unsuccessfully to move an old wooden church up the hill to their village at a time when building Orthodox churches was prohibited.

Santuaryo is a movie that centers on the unfolding narration of a young man named Archie (Basti Romero). Archie went looking for a lost treasure when he came into the possession of an ancient map left by an old adventurer. His journey left him battered and cloudy with memories as he was found drifting on the ocean and later rescued by island fishermen. When his long time lover, William (Will Sandejas) arrives at his side, he is forced to painfully recall what happened to him and describes how he crossed paths with a group of boys looking for the same treasure. In the end, Archie realizes what is most valuable in life and it is in his relationship with William that he finds his greatest fortune. Panoramic and provoking. Santuaryo is ultimately a hypothesis about the behavioral mutations of a group of boys when faced with desperate circumstances.

Romance, in Russian

Simon, an adopted boy of a Danish couple visiting Kenya with his mother, goes missing in Kibera slum. When his mother offers a reward on TV, the kidnappers are on the run.

The House of Suh” tells the story of Andrew and his sister Catherine, and how the values, conflicts, and dysfunctions of their Korean immigrant family led to the murder of Robert O’Dubaine. Eloquently narrated by Andrew, the documentary highlights issues of assimilation and the struggle between freedom and responsibility, raising questions about guilt, innocence, and the illusive gray area in-between.