Five boys and girls. Five small courage. Five different stories. But all linked together. From acclaimed director/writer Shunsuke Okubo ("Clocks Tell the Time" and "Moments")
Ieder jaar weer doet De Club van Sinterklaas enorm haar best om alle wensen uit de bergen verlanglijstjes uit te laten komen. Maar sommige zijn jammer genoeg onhaalbaar. Als de stoomboot door een storm op zee een andere route naar Nederland moet varen, ziet Sinterklaas ineens mogelijkheden om een wens uit de stapel met onvervulbare wensen uit te laten komen. Sara vraagt al jaren een echte knuffel van de Sint, ze woont alleen heel ver weg … helemaal in Oostenrijk. En nu ligt dat dus precies op de nieuwe route! De boot zet koers naar De Witte Bergen in Oostenrijk. Daar zien Test, Coole, Dans en de andere pieten voor het eerst in hun leven sneeuw en beleven ze allemaal sneeuwavonturen. Het hele dorpje is in feeststemming en Sara is dolgelukkig. Maar dan is Ozosnel ineens verdwenen en zonder paard kan Sinterklaas niet verder. Is er nog wel een pakjesavond in Nederland als De Club van Sinterklaas vast zit in de sneeuw?
Christoffel Columbus probeert op zijn sterfbed de mogelijke gevolgen van zijn bepalende rol als navigator, ontdekker, kolonisator en exporteur van het katholieke geloof te begrijpen en te verwerken.
Film over de Holocaust. Een joods gezin mag de flat behouden waarin ze altijd hebben gewoond en een relatief normaal leven leiden. Op een dag verdwijnt hun 10-jarige zoon. Hij is naar een deportatiekamp gestuurd dat een paradijs lijkt, behalve dat de gevangenen worden gebruikt voor medische experimenten.
Alice, in the passionate embrace of her young lover as she finally succumbs to temptation. However, when her husband James returns home early, Alice finds herself in an emotional minefield as she attempts to save her marriage while simultaneously negotiating her lover's escape.
Norberto has spent a lifetime with María. They are humble, from the neighborhood, and from time to time robbers. But Norberto needs to take a turn to feel alive, free, and to be herself. An unexpected confession will jeopardize his entire life.
The execution was scheduled and the last meal consumed. The coolness of the poisons entering the blood system slowed the heart rate and sent him on the way to Judgement. He had paid for his crime with years on Death Row waiting for this moment and now he would pay for them again as the judgment continued..
Hello explores changes in two people’s working lives: a Mexican trash picker who separates and collects recyclable materials from landfills to sell by the kilo, and a German freelance computer-animation designer working for the advertising industry in Berlin. The double interview is controlled and manipulated by a computer-generated severed hand which Maria describes as an object once discovered in the trash while working in the violent northern town of Mexicali. This CGI hand was in turn produced by Max, who was born with no arms, and sought refuge in computer-imaging as a means to operate and manipulate a digital reality.
Vasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis. At work, the place of the head of the department is replaced by the more pragmatic, but limited person Valentin Romanovsky. At home, his wife Lida, who earns at work more than her husband, habitually reproaches him for indecision. It’s hard for Muravin to come to terms with his established attitude to himself, but he is most worried when his wife shows disrespect for his main hobby - playing the guitar. Once, unable to bear the bullying, Muravin suddenly leaves the family (wife and daughter) and from work.
Despite his marginal and extrovert looks, Jérémie is a shy teenager who keeps a heavy secret: his homosexuality. While trying to find his way between his classmate and sexual fantasy Damien and his very generous but protective mother Gina, his life is about to change.
A doomsday pepper is surprised to find a mysterious box appear in his living room with no trace as to how it could've gotten there.
A woman arrives home late in the evening from a weeklong stay at her parents. As she arrives, she is a bit unsettled by a note that is left in her mailbox setting the tone for a dark ominous series of events as she settles in for the night.