In both amateur and professional sports, being gay remains taboo. Few dare to come out of the closet for fear of being stigmatized, and for many, the pressure to perform is compounded by a further strain: whether or not to affirm their sexual identity. Standing on the Line takes a fresh and often moving look at some of our gay athletes, who share their experiences with the camera. They’ve set out to overcome prejudice in the hopes of changing things for the athletes of tomorrow.
Al-Zamar Hassan is on the run after he was an Engineering student and presented a play with the acting team in the Faculty that the authorities didn't like. He moves from village to village in Upper Egypt, in search of safety. He settles in the village of Araba becoming a vendor in a grocery store.
An agronomist manages to irrigate and stabilize some sand dunes in southern Romania.
Boston, fin du XIXe siècle. Diana McQueen, petite arnaqueuse, vit sous la coupe de son déteneur Tom Rourke. Le jour où elle commence à avoir des remords, Rourke la corrige, mais elle réussit à s'enfuir. Grâce à une amie, elle contacte Beau Canfield, un fermier prêt à l'épouser. Malgré ses origines citadines, madame Canfield s'habitue à son nouveau mode de vie lorsque Rourke réapparaît...
Five breakups in five stories. A study on small apocalypses.
Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.
A mother and her son live in the country. She has gone mad and the son has fallen mute as a result of the violence to which they had been exposed in the war.
By the 14th century, the Byzantine Empire was, if not on the verge of actual collapse, at least seriously decadent and clearly on its last legs. The hungry wolves of Europe were preparing to dine on its corpse, and as a result the Byzantine army and its allies were constantly engaged in battles and skirmishes. In this story, a widow lives in the 14th-century Byzantine village of Doxobus with her son Xenos. She forms a relationship with a village elder, and when she gives birth to the elder’s son, her son from her previous marriage is sent to live in a monastery.
Christine inherits a sailboat from her father, whom she barely knew. Christine is a divorced single mother and her job at a research insitute leaves her with too much work and too little time to sail. She can't find anyone to buy the boat at full value, so she tries to repair it over the winter in the hopes of being able to get a better price in the spring. Working on the boat become something of an obsession to the detriment of Christine's relationships with her son, boyfriend and collegues. When the boat is finally ready to sell, she isn't sure that she is willing to part with it after all.
Cette comédie satirique s'intéresse à la vieille génération qui s'oppose à la jeunesse en quête de plaisir en 1947 et en 1978.
"a colorful poem of the first copy-motion film... the system registers images directly from a color (xerox) duplicator model 6500... an original, versatil, unique system developed by Darino" –Back Stage
Captain Feathersword challenges his friends to a race, to find who can reach the end of the rainbow first. The Captain departs with his crew aboard the S.S. Feathersword, while The Wiggles travel by road in their Big Red Car. Dorothy, Wags and Henry The Octopus take to the air in their giant hot air balloon.
Shot on super 8mm film and edited in camera. After destroying Earth, humans have successfully terraformed another planet before inexplicably vanishing, leaving behind a single AI humanoid. As her battery slowly dies she sends transmissions out into the cosmos reflecting on existence and her lost love.
In Marty’s quest to find a job out of college, his options begin to turn from bleak to sinister.