Cinematic Era: 2021 Vintage

Harry Nicholls’ produces and stars in this award winning comedy remake of the opening scene of Fred Zinnemann’s Oklahoma! - the first movie Harry saw at the cinema with his wife, Mary.

A group of mercenaries is tasked with stealing weapons from a secretive military compound. Their mission quickly spirals out of control when they're promptly attacked by both a rival group and something much, much worse.

A time and space that get mixed up, A brother and a sister, One who loves starting fire, Whereas the other loves extinguishing it, An unusual relationship.

Two murders of prostitutes in a similar way - no wonder that Commissioner Sandra Mohr suspects a connection. The obvious suspicion that a serial killer could be up to mischief in Styria is initially dismissed by her supervisor Sascha Bergmann.

This documentary follows a Cree woman as she takes on the Indian Relay race season, as well as the Canadian authorities in her quest to give Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women a voice.

After staying apart for 11 years, Ain and Adam meet again and rediscover love for the second time. However, their love is tested when Ain receives a bouquet of roses and it makes Adam jealous. When Ain tries to explain her side, Adam refuses to listen, further deteriorating their relationship. Is their love really fated to fail?

A short film by Joe Wright comes a very special love story, and his most personal project yet. Inspired by his love of puppeteering and his dedication to the craft of filmmaking, this is a beautifully twisted tale of love against all odds.

During another snowless winter, a famous freeride skier has a chance encounter with two kids on the street, which prompts him to dig through his grandfather's old family albums, capturing the snowy winters of the past. Immersing himself in the photos, the young man is transported to the parallel world of the winter mountains. Is winter irretrievably lost?

"Live Tour 2O2O Newsflash" is the eighth concert tour by Tokyo Jihen. The tour started at the Tokyo International Forum on the leap day exactly 8 years after the band broke up. Subsequent performances were cancelled due to the spread of coronavirus. A live recording of the tour was held at NHK Hall with no audience, and from 19:00 on September 5th of the same year, it was shown in two forms: Internet distribution and live viewing at the movie theater.

December 31, 2015. The Valencian bookstore Valdeska closed its doors permanently after forty years of activity. The result of four years of monitoring and filming, these 31 minuts of run time are part of a book unread, unknown and undiscovered. "Me voy. Me voy" it's not the story of a bookstore, not the portrait of an exceptional bookseller, it's a will to attach the things in the filmed image, to make something lasting showing the moment of its disappearence.

"Kade Haan Kade Naa" movie is a romantic comedy featuring Singga and Sanjana Singh. The plot of the movie story is based on a confusing situation with the characters.

Adam is crazy in love with Liv but the young woman just lost her husband and refuses to commit to a new relationship. Without explanation she sends him to the strange and mysterious Zieggler corporation where everybody seems to know what Adam hasn't figured out yet about his own life

Inside a house he doesn’t recognize, with a family he doesn’t know, a young man tries to make some sense of what is happening to him. Everything keeps changing, his mind is sick. "Trust the protocol" is all he can do.

Diana's last Christmas as the wife of the future King and their last Christmas together as a family. A not so festive season, dogged by tension and family arguments, a catalyst for the Queen's most disastrous and unfortunate year yet.

“DISCIPLES” is a new Dazed film by Jess Kohl exploring the subcultural world of Malaysian skinheads including the traditional, SHARP skins, and Nazis.

A biographical film about director Bahrudin 'Bato' Čengić and his contribution to Bosnian cinematography.

A teacher gives a brief history lesson on the concept of whitness to students. This is intercut with Rage Against the Machines Killing in The Name of as well as quotes relating to the discussion. It goes onto critique racism and the overall structure of wealth and power in America and the history that generated it.

A young man returning from the demonstration crosses a woman in his car, listening to the radio. Dominique Laporte, collapsologist, reacts to this event.

The action takes place in a half-empty pub, where a strict and strange rule is in effect: smoking is allowed only after 6:00 PM.

A musical based on Aoike Yasuko's manga "El Halcon" and "Seven Seas, Seven Skies"

There is a killer slashing his way through a public park. Cable TV Bounty Hunter, Hunter Murdoch and Investigative Reporter Gail Storm join a group of locals to try and stop the killers bloody trail of dead bodies........Will they?

A wig shop next to the cancer hospital. Most of the customers here are cancer patients. Yang Shuai, a young barber with a negative attitude towards life, meets Gao Xue, a nurse who is suffering from pancreatic cancer. The two fall in love. In the last moments of Yang Shuai's life with Gao Xue, they find the meaning of survival and the truth, goodness and beauty of life.

Hiraeth is a heart-breaking film that explores one woman's grief at the edge of the solar system. Amber Jones, a British astronaut on the first manned mission to Europa. She's a controversial choice with a checkered background.

The documentary Schwarze Adler (Black Eagles) lets black players of the German national football team tell their personal stories for the first time. What road did they take before they got to where we cheer for them? What hurdles did they have to overcome? What prejudices and racist hostility were they exposed to – and what was it like in the past, what is it like today?

In the prosperous period of Kaiyuan the crown prince was seriously ill. Emperor was secretly looking for a remedy for his son and one of the experts diagnosed that the prince had a very special destiny and needed to convert to Buddhism with a "Buddha bone relic". Emperor didn't want the crown prince to suffer, so he ordered Pei Lunde, who had the same eight fate characters as the crown prince, to become a monk on his behalf. There are rumors that "Buddha bone relics" can make people become immortals. As soon as the news that Pei Lund was taking the "Buddha bone relic" to the Jinshan Temple was exposed, the demons and evil spirits of the Kuhai Territory were ready to move, spreading nets around the world, trying to snatch the "Buddha bone relic" The abbot of Jinshan (Golden Light Temple) foresaw that Pei Lunde was afraid of a disaster, so he assigned Xiao Wu of the Demon Subduing Monks to escort Pei Wende to the temple.

A group of pioneering nuns bravely stand up to the Catholic Church patriarchy, fighting for their livelihoods, convictions and equality against an all-powerful Cardinal. From marching in Selma in 1965 to the Women’s March in 2018, these women have reshaped our society with their bold acts of defiance.

"YouthMin" is a mockumentary following an attention seeking youth pastor and his small group of Christian teens at Bible camp.

A day in the life of a regular guy struggling with his own mental health and loneliness.

Tired of the misfortunes she has experienced throughout her life, Bade tries to escape her dark cloud through fortune tellers, therapies, and many other methods. Unable to find a solution, Bade decides to search for the reason behind her misfortunes in her past. On this journey, Bade's greatest ally is Yusuf, who, like her, cannot escape his own misfortunes. The two face various adventures along the way.

Frida, a young hen, wants to be a singer. However, her village is directed by strong rules: only chickens are allowed to sing, hens should be brood. In order to escape her fate, she decides to rebel and become a singer.

The brilliant designer of smart houses leaves a posthumous surprise for his widow.

Together tells the story of the final 46 days of Manchester City’s 2020-21 season, filmed exclusively inside the first-team ‘bubble’, and brings fans closer to players and staff than you’ve ever been before.

Maria starts to show signs of wanting to belong somewhere else: scales appear on her skin, roots appear on her legs, and she hears the sound of water - she dreams of being a fish. One day her daughter comes across her disappearance and reconstructs, through the memory of her gestures and meetings with her mother, a possible explanation for her escape.

Years ago, a Vanjing Mountain woman named Si Fan left her hometown and was never heard from again. Years later, a city girl named Linxi came to Fanjing Mountain to shoot a short movie. She meets a father and son, Old Witch and Little Witch, who are carrying sliding poles on Fanjing Mountain. A heavy rain stops the three from going up the mountain, and they take shelter in a pavilion at the foot of the mountain, each telling the story of a woman who appeared in their lives. Three stories were told. The three were surprised to find that the women in their stories clearly had different lives, but seemed to be inextricably linked. Each one began to speculate secretly, was the woman in these three stories the same person? And was what they saw the woman's real life? Is this life as it is? Or is it a story written by the girl, Lin Xi? Life is always full of unknowns and doubts.

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France performs a programme of French and Russian works with celebrated British conductor John Eliot Gardiner and acclaimed German violinist Isabelle Faust. Programme: Emmanuel Chabrier - Suite pastorale Igor Stravinsky – Violin Concerto in D Emmanuel Chabrier - España Claude Debussy – Images

Two friends compete for a mysterious woman at a party. Next morning, she's found dead in the apartment of one of them, and they can't remember what happened.

The story of a young man who accidentally kills the love of his life in a car crash, and seeks resolution and escape with her mother. This psychologically complex yet subtle story brings us into post-recession rural Ireland. A community has turned its back on who they believe is a perpetrator rather than a victim. Steven has done time for the incident, and can’t find a way to reconcile himself to his new life. He turns to his dead girlfriend’s mother for solace, and a strange relationship unfolds.

A father is hypnotized on his deathbed, following his own method, and is left hanging between life, death, and dreams.

Decades earlier, Mama Icha moved to the United States to help her daughter with the care of her grandchildren. However, she never lost sight of her hometown of Mompox, spending years sending money to build her dream house there. Now, at the end of her life, Mama Icha boards a plane and flies back to Colombia where she bravely struggles with her loved ones.

Like the twining vines of the honeysuckle, each of the three stories in this film follow a character whose growth is impeded by the clouds of society hanging over their heads. From a Hungarian taxi driver torn between the preservation of his family and the unexpected humane responsibility found in the clandestine activities he does for profit, to the Hungarian teenager of a single mother whose idea of life goals and success seems perpetually defined by the missing figure of a role model, and finally to the young Indian Carnatic singer who amidst personal and national turmoil decides to sacrifice the one thing that defines her - her talent, Honeysuckle aims not to narrate or condescendingly offer a message, as much as it seeks to illustrate the many life directions available, and the way none of them are good, in a world severely lacking a moral center.

A docu-comedy special that follows stand-up comedian Rory Scovel as he performs six nights in a row with one difficult, self imposed rule: not using any pre-written material. It all happens in Atlanta at Relapse Theatre, a venue operated by Bob Wood who tells his own unbelievable story of how he slowly and maybe with some questions of legality, converted an abandoned church into one of the best comedy venues in the country.

In the late Qing Dynasty, amid chaos and war, loyal postman Yin Hu sets out on a dangerous mission to deliver an urgent message, despite the fall of the empire.

Jean-Marie Bigard and Renaud Rutten, the French and the Belgian, embark on a joke competition, just to determine who has the funniest. In this second part, they refrain from nothing and multiply the lewd one-liners and the daring remarks.

A show about the confined current affairs of 2020 (but not only) based on laughter, song, dance and the joy of being in a theater, among real people.

Often discussed as an urban legend or a failed architectural project, Solomon Riley Presents Negro Coney Island redresses the erasure around Riley’s completed amusement park for the Black Residents in Harlem and the Bronx in 1924 on Hart Island. Working across archives, contemporary footage of Hart Island, and speculative interviews with key Black cultural producers of the time, including Riley, the film reimagines what we know about Negro Coney Island and its legacy with New York City’s still active potter’s field, Hart Island.

Two teenage girls next door, from different ethnicities, experience challenges and family drama in their own way. Each one wants what the other one has but is the grass really fairer on the other side?

Christmas elves, cursed by a witch, go on a killing spree in a neighborhood in Utah

2021. Gabriel wakes up after a thirty-five year coma. He has inherited the fortune of the Pieds Nickelés, a famous trio of swindlers. To earn it, Gabriel, who has discovered social networks and the smartphone, must find their three pairs of shoes. There follows a journey made of encounters with characters behaving like real Nickel feet.

Emilio is a lifelong farmer in his eighties who lives alone on his abandoned farm. Everyone close is gone. One animal is all there is left. Today is the day he decides to sell it.

It’s winter in some city. A young lonely woman walks the night with an obsession: never ceasing to chew gum. This affects her moves and relationships. When she finally accepts to give up on the world she knows, there will be no turning back.

December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.; Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, and Santa Claus is late. Denis, alone in his car, is anxious about setting foot in his former in-laws’ house to pick up his children.

The local hard rock and heavy metal scene in the San Francisco Bay area catapulted many groups to stardom, including Metallica, Exodus, and Testament

A story about a person suffering from Hypochondriasis during the Co-Vid19 Pandemic.

Follows freeskiers Heitz and Anthamatten as they travel to the world’s high-altitude mountain ranges and attempt to make their distinct mark on those giant peaks, exploring the absolute limit of human possibility.

While conducting research for a college project, Kayako befriends a lonely retired detective who can’t stop pondering his unsolved case out loud, Torao. Taking an interest in the case, the two embark on a journey to solve the mystery of a small town.

Boundaries are crossed and a friendship tested when a law-school study session leads to uncharted territory for two young people.

A number of lost souls find refuge in a small motel in the middle of nowhere, its only distinguishing characteristic being the ruins of an old Mystery Spot - a long-dead roadside attraction with strange metaphysical powers. Everyone at the Mystery Spot will be affected by its unique properties, but only some will survive its reality-shattering implications.

Taiwan is an island country. Although it is surrounded by the sea, its people fear the sea since the politics, the history and the religious beliefs held on this island make people turn their backs to the sea. Oceanic literature author Liao Hung-chi and underwater photographer Ray Chin lead the audience out to the sea and into the water. They prompt us to understand the sea and to think about the possibility that the ocean might become our lives and the future of our country.