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.
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.
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.
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.
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
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.
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.
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.
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.
En DJ, en alfons og en italiensk turist er blevet fængslet i New Orleans. På trods af uenigheder og had mellem dem, lægger de en plan for at slippe ud.
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboard the subterranean Budapest Metro. A tale about racing along the tracks, and about a mysterious serial killer. And a tale about love.
The film follows three Palestinian refugees brought together by dispossession and hope for a better future. Hiding in the tank of a truck, the men attempt to make their way across the border into Kuwait, the "promised land." A masterful adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani's novel Men Under the Sun, The Dupes is also one of the first Arab films to address the Palestinian predicament.
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."
Raymond Saxx Jr., a powerful record producer, wakes from a drug-induced blackout to find himself locked up and classified "K-11." Plunged into a nightmarish world ruled by a transsexual diva named Mousey, Raymond is truly a fish out of water. Complicating matters are a troubled young transgender named Butterfly, a predatory child molester and the ruthless Sheriff's Deputy, Lt. Johnson. Ray's struggle to contact the outside world and regain his freedom seems impossible, but he must learn to navigate this new power structure if he is ever going survive and be in control of his life again.
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.
Når den smukke og synske Sarah åbner er underlig kiste på det museum, som hun arbejder på lader hun den smukke, men dødbringende troldkvinde vende tilbage til verden, som truer at tilintetgøre Rom. Kommer Sarah til at kunne buge sine overnaturlige krafter til at stoppe The Mother of Tears
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.