Cinematic Era: 2014 Vintage

Madi Ghafur, a brave junior high school boy, is obsessed with becoming a national karate champion like Diwa, the older brother who died in the tsunami.

An animated short about four flavors of ice cream in an ice cream cart in a park. Where being popular can lead to your early demise. As can Global Warming which is what this short is about.

It tells the story of Gülcemal, who lives alone in nature, and the comical, dangerous, and crazy events that befall him after inheriting his father's estate, whom he has never met.

Based on the life of actress Rosaura Andreu.

As Calvin searches for happiness in life, he ends up finding his faith in a very unlikely place, a basketball court. His new found faith takes him for a ride he is not prepared for.

In this stand-up special filmed in Kansas City, comedian Chris Porter, an ex-finalist on "Last Comic Standing," delivers his takes on drugs, growing old, women's fashion and his love for Taco Bell.

The iPhone thief just robbed an old man at the start of the feature; yet, the thief, with his quiet angst and look of desperation, feels like a victim himself in this sordid look at the underbelly of the city. Both guilt-ridden over the robbery and desperate for money, the thief is sinking fast into the quicksand of treachery when being lured into smuggling iPhones across the border with tragic outcome. Oblivious to helping advice from his loving aunt, complication arises when things get out of hand. Is the thief destined for doom, or will he ever find redemption and a way out?

In an NBC primetime special with Matt Lauer, global superstar Mariah Carey does something she has never done before. For the first time, Carey performs in a one-of-a-kind special concert from the house she shares with husband Nick Cannon in Bel-Air, overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Carey sat down with Matt Lauer in a personal interview and opens up about her childhood, her family life, and her critically-acclaimed, autobiographical new album, "Me. I Am Mariah... the Elusive Chanteuse," which has received reviews that surpass her biggest selling albums.

This documentary is the story of Adrian Esposito's journey to find healing for his anger and autism by traveling across America and Canada and interviewing Native American healers and elders for their advice.

Weerasethakul's contribution to an omnibus production exploring analogies between football and everyday life. The project was created by Mexican film director Daniel Gruener and originally broadcast during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Fred Bonnemaison, a driven and self-centered Parisian food writer has to return to his home town, Lyon, when his mother, a lively octogenarian, runs away to join a community of free-thinking widows.

Namib, an incredible spot is home to the highest sand dunes on Earth, along with 3500 species of plants of incredible diversity, all adapted to the arid climate. Elephants, antelopes, lions, giraffes and rhinoceros roam freely in the Namib with neither fence nor enclosure, as if at the dawn of time. Management of the protected areas has been entrusted to the local people and in particular to the Himba, the dominant tribe of the desert. Underground there are hidden treasures, diamonds, uranium and iron. From the beginning of the 20th century the Namib has attracted miners from all over the world, with an increasing appetite. Today, new mining projects threaten the ecosystem of the region. Olivia crosses the desert from the South to North, sharing the difficult everyday lives of the people of the desert. Exploring this rich but fragile garden of Eden, she attempts to understand why the survival of the desert is so important to the people and animals that live there.

Ankica is the proud owner of a legitimate massage salon, which she runs with her best friend Ljilja. She dreams of keeping her out-of-work husband and adult daughter in comfort while helping Ljilja pay for her son's recurring rehab programs. But in reality, Ankica’s debts are mounting, and she refuses to add happy endings (sexual favors) at the salon to increase revenues. When a loan shark threatens to take her apartment if she does not repay her debt, in desperation, she turns to crime.

A young shepherd boy, crippled in an accident considers the significance of the anniversary of the night the Messiah was born. A gentle stranger appears and the boy encounters miracles of his own.

San Diego-based, Grammy-award-winning rock band Switchfoot gave four local teen filmmakers behind-the-scenes access to their 10th annual Bro-Am surf contest and concert, which has raised more than a million dollars for San Diego underprivileged teens. The Canyon Crest Academy student filmmakers who created this documentary attend the same public school district where members of Switchfoot grew up and developed their love for music, surf, and beach culture. A production of the school program CCA-TV and Envision Cinema, this short film focuses on the band members' desire to give back to the community that invested in them when they were teens.

The film tells about the life of 25-year-old Intigam, who lives in a remote village in the south of Azerbaijan. His grandmother filmed Intigam's dance with sheep and put it on YouTube. With more than 10 million views on YouTube, Intigam is life-changing. An invitation comes to him from Baku and he has to come to Baku. They want to use the purity of the main character and embezzle the 2 million manat allocated to the author of the most viewed video of the year. Before long, the premeditated ruse is revealed and the fraudsters can't get their way. Getting used to village life, Intigam gets into funny situations in the city. In the end, there is a scandal at the award ceremony, and the ground is laid for a video that can collect the next number of views for YouTube.

Two young schoolboys are walking home from school and become witnesses to a shooting.

"I feel like a piece of neon, I'm just a gas inside a tube." — 'Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World' is part of NEONSIGNS.HK — an online exhibition on Hong Kong's neon signs.

Have you ever found it impossible to say something, face to face, to someone you know, someone you love? The words just won’t come out? New messaging service, Somebody, could help.

An omnibus work portraying the lives of youth who have just started to work. Town Workers was produced using rotoscoping, an animation technique which traces live-action performances. It was created in collaboration with Town Work, a part-time job magazine.

Each house locked away the secret of a family. For one hour a day Sergio, helped by his grandmother, carry out his desires in a home dominated by his grandfather. A twist will force Elena, his mother, to make a decision that will change their lives.

In a near future, after a global war has destroyed civilization, pirate gangs attack and loot surviving people.

Auntie Maam is a foot masseuse. She is also a freelance actress in Thai independent films. One day, one of the films she played is chosen by a film festival in Europe. The film director asks her to join the trip to the festival Auntie Maam has never had a passport. She consults Kaen, her nephew how to get one. This film is a satire black comedy with social issue. The background is the Thai political movement against the government in the early of 2014

Adhyaksha is a 2014 Indian Kannada language comedy film directed by Nanda Kishore. It stars Sharan, Heeba Patel, P. Ravi Shankar, Malavika Avinash, Chikkanna and Ramesh Bhat. It is a remake of the Tamil film Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam. The music for the film and soundtracks were composed by Arjun Janya.

The film is about a teen named Edie who lives with her grandmother – a woman who tries to instill moral values and life lessons using her Jewish heritage. However, Edie finds her grandmother’s words constricting and tries to separate herself from what she thinks is the problem: her Jewish faith. At school, Edie wants to fit in with the popular crowd, particularly because of a boy named Darren whom she has feelings for. But Darren and his friends, June and Chad are not the most tolerable of people and their prejudices toward others not like themselves; drive Edie in a downward spiral. As Edie struggles to find her way through adolescence, faith, and her first love, she learns that her actions have consequences and perhaps the steep slope she has chosen to go down will risk more than she ever thought possible.

Experimental short film by Roberto Toledo.

In a city at night, a human-shaped deer tries to steal a man's identity by taking his head off.

The successful journalist Linda (Thekla Carola Wied) depends on their job to the nails to finally spend a quiet life with the retired Latin teacher Jacob (Günther Maria Halmer). But yet they have reckoned without their busy adult children Leonie (Julia Brendler) and Thomas (Jens Atzorn) made the constantly unload their triplets care with grandparents. Then, when even a previous love of Thomas Jakob is around the corner and another grandson in his luggage, the pensioner is finally overwhelmed. He does everything it can to keep the delicate origin of the baby a secret. Finally, Thomas and Leonie want to soon give the knot.

After spotting the girl of his dreams at a laundromat in New York City, Ryan embarks on a frantic journey to craft the perfect first impression before she returns to pick up her dry clothes.

Vienna's high society parties with sex, drugs, alcohol and young models. Hanna von Stezewitz stands in the center of it all. She's young, attractive and rich, head of a corporate group and one of Vienna's most important financers.

Pioneer erotic film maker Peter de Rome talks about his life and work.

Written by Roel Mondelaers and Hans Van Nuffel, Plan Bart is a romantic comedy about competing desires -- sacrificing one's childhood dreams for the responsibilities of adulthood, air guitar championships for diapers and bottles, 'having sex' with 'making love.'

On December 26, 2004, Southeast Asia was hit by a huge tsunami and hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives. Here, two Swedes who were affected by the tsunami are depicted. Mikaela, among the youngest of 16 Swedish children who lost both of their parents, is now returning to her childhood home. Sussi, who lost both of her daughters, now runs an orphanage in Phuket with her partner.

Performances from Beyoncé's "Mrs. Carter Show World Tour."

Shots fired inside a club frequented by black Brazilians in the outskirts of Brasilia leave two men wounded. A third man arrives from the future in order to investigate the incident and prove that the fault lies in the repressive society.

Zoe's regimented life is thrown into upheaval when she unexpectedly falls in love. In doing so, she is faced with making a series of choices whose outcomes not only impact on her independence but on the relationships with those most important to her.

This title was completed in 1984 and opened in 2014.

A bounty is placed on Batman by crime lord Black Mask, drawing the assassin Deathstroke, who provides a bloody and violent demonstration of his skills for Black Mask.

This short documentary takes its cue from an interview with Chinese author, Yu Hua, about his latest book, "China in Ten Words, " focusing in on anecdotes and stories for three of his words, "Leader, " "Revolution, " and "Disparity."

Keng is a really normal barber who lives a really low-tech life in a small room at the heart of Bangkok. One day, fellow barber gives him an old cellphone and suddenly it rings when he is on the way home. He does not answer but decides to call back and meets with an answering machine. The recorded voice sounds really nice and Keng falls in love instantly. He makes up his mind to find her and meets three strange people along the way: a new barber whose personality is the same as him, a caf-owner lady in black, and a woman at the bus stop.

The ongoing Vampire saga that started with Vampires: Brighter in Darkness, Vampires: Lucas Rising tells the tale of the immortals Lucas Delmore and Toby Brighter and their fight to defend their Love and Mankind.

When thirteen year old Aharon,is selected for the great honor of carrying the big Torah book around the neighborhood in 'Simchat Torah' celebrations, he feels life is finally about to change for the better. But his selection causes age-old tensions between his parents to surface, and the symbolic happy ritual becomes a life-threatening struggle.

Because radioactive waste was dumped in the bog, a monster has emerged that targets the teenagers nearby. A sheriff, two big game hunters, a mad scientist and a journalist work together to kill the monster…

Set in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua’s uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Juliet chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local drug kingpin he’s hired to protect.

Despite the seemingly failed Mayan Calendar prophecies of 2012, there is an unseen infrared planet still inexorably approaching our solar system. Recent astounding Vatican revelations suggest high-level Catholic church officials are preparing for the arrival of a highly advanced extraterrestrial race. If true, some believe this could mark the return of the fabled Annunaki from Nibiru.

Ten years after the release of their controversial documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky catch up with the members of the band at the 2013 Toronto film festival world premiere of their 3D feature film, Metallica Through the Never, using the premiere of the new film as a springboard to reflect upon the legacy of Some Kind of Monster, its influence on the band and their experiences during the decade since its release.

Numa Perrier reimagines the story and moments in a distinct photograph of her mother. What results is a complex merging of memory, absence, and imagery set against the backdrop of Port Au Prince, Haiti.

When an eight year old asks his mom "where do babies come from?", he is forced to embark on an adventure to reverse a spell he did himself.

After dropping a body in the morgue, a hospital porter takes a break to smoke a cigarette and contemplate his life. The line bewteen life and death is not as clear as we think.

Icelandic personal trainer and body builder Egill Einarsson or "Gillz" teaches us how to live life his way, the right way.

In some ways, Barry Switzer and Brian Bosworth were made for each other. The Oklahoma coach and the linebacker he recruited to play for him were both out-sized personalities who delighted in thumbing their noses at the establishment. And in their three seasons together (1984-86), the unique father-son dynamic resulted in 31 wins and two Orange Bowl victories as Bosworth was awarded the first two Butkus Awards. But then Bosworth's alter ego: "The Boz," took over both their lives and ultimately destroyed their careers. In "Brian and The Boz," Bosworth looks back on the mistakes he made and passes on the lessons he learned to his son. It's a revealing portrait of a man who had and lost it all, and a trip back to a time when enough just wasn't enough.

In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audio cassette.

Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his life.

Spin-off short story of the "Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi!" series, which is set after "Kowa Too!" FILE-01.

Today, countless French people of all ages find it hard making ends meet. We know virtually nothing about these lives, their innermost thoughts, their daily routine and their struggle to survive. Stigmatized by misleading and unfair descriptions, they are the dark and silent face of our society that we are gradually coming to accept. However, within them, they carry the desire for rebellion, their dreams, the lust for life and the words to express all that. Alone at their side, volunteers from charity organizations, a genuine shadow army, work selflessly for an idea of justice and the common good. Their united energies fuel the desire to go on living together and mark out a pathway of hope for all. Cinema's fragile gift is to place us at the heart of these fragments of existence, both offered to our gaze and yet so modest.