Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.
In his award-winning debut feature film, director Ahmet Ulucay portrays the innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small Turkish village. Working for a watermelon seller by day, Remet spends his evenings trying to rebuild a film projector with his friend Mehmet. Both have big dreams to be famous film directors one day.
Departures er en fortælling om ære og respekt og en hyldest til mennesket og livet. Den vandt Oscaren for Bedste udenlandske film fra 2008. Daigo er en passioneret cellist i et orkester, der netop er blevet opløst, og står nu uden job. Daigo beslutter sig for, sammen med sin kone, at rejse fra Tokyo og hjem til sin fødeby, hvor hans mor har efterladt ham et hus. Han vil søge arbejde og starte et nyt kapitel i sit liv. I avisen støder han på en stillingsannonce benævnt "sidste afgang" i den tro, der er tale om et rejsebureau. Han erfarer imidlertid, at stillingsbetegnelsen dækker over en ganske anden profession, bedemand. Daigo begynder at føle en stolthed i sit nye arbejde og sætter en ære i at gøre det til en perfektionistisk kunstart, hvor han fungerer som bindeled mellem den afdøde og de efterladte. Samtidig giver det ham mulighed for at reflektere over forholdet til sin egen familie, og hans cellospil åbner yderligere op for de indestængte følelser.
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
Triaderne, kinesiske gangstere, smugler våben ind i Hong Kong. Under en razzia på et te-hus mister en hårdkogt strømer sin partner, og sværger hævn. Sammen med en undercover betjent, som bliver sat ind some lejemorder for gangsterne, sætter han sig for at lukke hele organisationen ned.
In the harsh times of the small time crime in Istanbul, a conscientious police officer Cumali is recognized by the police chief Ziver Bey who sees Cumali as a threat and matches him with Sekerpare, a famous harlot.
On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.
En sammentømret gruppe venner og en enkelt outsider, nemlig den mystikomgærdede Elly, leger gæt og grimasser i et sommerhus ved kysten. Men weekend-idyllen bliver brudt af en voldsom hændelse, som efterlader mange tolkningsmuligheder. Det får gruppens harmoni til at krakelere og åbner for en tankevækkende og usentimental undersøgelse af relationer, ikke mindst de ægteskabelige.
A story about the complex connection with a brother who is based in Mexico, meant to be a metaphor of the relationship between neighboring countries America and Mexico.
Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing more... (1992).
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
I 1960'ernes Hongkong flytter forfatteren Chow ind på et hotelværelse. Han lider under mindet om et uforløst kærlighedsforhold og begynder at skrive en science fiction-roman om et tog, der kører mod året 2046, hvor man kan genfinde den tabte tid. På overfladen lever han et ubekymret playboy-liv med mange smukke kvinder. Men Chow kan ikke for alvor give sig hen, for han kan ikke glemme sin store kærlighed.
It was supposed to be just an ordinary holiday on sunny Kos, but Toni has to rescue a beautiful local girl, a talented free-diver, from the clutches of kidnappers. When it appears that nobody else can be trusted, Toni must reluctantly rely on his step-brothers' assistance.
En antropolog fra Harvard sendes til Haiti for at finde et mystisk pulver, der siges at kunne vække døde til live igen. I hans søgen efter mirakelmidlet forvilder den kyniske videnskabsmand sig ind i den sjældent sete underverden med zombier, blodige ritualer og ældgamle forbandelser.
In Thorold, Ontario in the summer of 1996, a movie legend was made when a real-life tornado hit a drive-in theatre during a screening of Twister. But how much truth really lies inside this tale of life (or weather) imitating art?
In the middle of a city facing a new century, a group of friends between the ages of 15 and 18 live out the adventures, deceptions and anxiety of "The First Night."
Alone on a farm, a man spends his days tending to his animals, with a particular love for his sow. After an illicit encounter between the two creatures, the pig gives birth. However, tragedy strikes when the man tries to force the newborn piglets to love him as he loves them.
Documentary tribute to the Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez produced in 1977 consisting of archive images of the singer during his visit to Paris in September 1974, joined by fictional scenes which take the form of a journalistic investigation. A little-known film in the filmography of Ahmed Rachedi who during this Parisian period will direct another feature film that we would very much like to see again: "A Finger in the Gear" (1973), on a screenplay by Rachid Boudjedra. The credits and some images of "La chanson de l'Adieu", released in France in December 1981 in the famous Luxor hall in Paris where more than 5,000 spectators came to see it.