Cuando Antonio Pappano, el director musical de la Royal Opera House de Londres, levantó la batuta el 14 de julio de 2011 para dirigir “Tosca” de Puccini, el público sabía que se acercaba una velada muy especial. Tres superestrellas se unieron en el escenario por primera vez y encarnaron los papeles principales del famoso drama musical: Angela Gheorghiu en el papel principal, Jonas Kaufmann como Cavaradossi y Bryn Terfel como Scarpia. "Tres elementos poderosos crean una química explosiva", escribió The Times, refiriéndose a los tres personajes principales, cuya red emocional de amor, odio, pasión y celos impulsa el drama Tosca en el contexto de las guerras napoleónicas. Angela Gheorghiu se movió vocal y dramáticamente en un cosmos de matices de expresión: "expresó la vulnerabilidad de Tosca con una poesía lírica de luz plateada, pero luego cambió a gutural-animal cuando se paró sobre el cadáver de Scarpia", continúa el Times.

Cult filmmaker Tom DeSimone (Reform School Girls; Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie) revisits the production of a lost gay film and resurrects youthful adventures on the California coast. From the creators of Raw! Uncut! Video!.

Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animation filmmakers.

Family man Poul Berg is tempted by a questionable investement offer and indebts himself to a point where suicide seems like the only way out. His widow struggles to maintain even a simple standard of living for herself and their three children, who are fatally marked by their fathers deed. (stumfilm.dk)

Anton Brtko es un humilde carpintero que trata de vivir con placidez en una pequeña ciudad eslovaca durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Aunque observa con ironía y desprecio a los seguidores nazis que tratan de imponer su disciplina sobre la comunidad, la presión de su esposa Evelyn y su cuñado Markus, un caudillo fascista local, no deja de poner trabas a su tranquilidad. Cuando Markus le ofrece hacerse cargo, en calidad de ario, de la mercería de la anciana Sra. Lautmann, su vida queda trastocada. Mientras Evelyn se ilusiona con la idea de enriquecerse, Tono intenta hacer entender a la Sra. Lautmann que queda relegada del negocio por ser judía, pero no sólo le resulta imposible a causa de la sordera de la mujer, sino que además entre ambos surge una relación de ternura y comprensión mutua. Las situaciones cómicas en la tienda se suceden mientras la fiebre antisemita se va intensificando en el exterior.

On the 20th anniversary of their edgy little 90's cable show Underground Entertainment, the authors, along with many SF, horror and B celebrities in cameos, remember how they pushed the envelope, shocked, entertained, but also introduced the audience to many movies, comics and conventions.

Relive the magic of Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre's captivating performance at Bangkok Youth Center in 1988

In answer to an orphan boy's prayers, the divine Lord Krishna comes to Earth, befriends the boy, and helps him find a loving family.

Short film built from photographs, sped up like a traditional stop motion and is meant to be an evocation of the English Eerie and Folk Horror.

This documentary looks at the Danish resistance movement's execution of 400 informers during the Nazi occupation and the ensuing cover-up.

A girl is at school. Suddenly it's as if she can't breathe. As she runs down the stairs we follow her into her mind. It takes us deep into dark woods.

Nos encontramos en un momento histórico determinante. La crisis que vivimos no es solo del capitalismo, sino que se manifiesta en muchos otros renglones de nuestra cotidianidad. Sin embargo, nuestras generaciones más próximas, ya sea por desidia o adoctrinamiento, o ambas, parecen estar ajenas a lo que ocurre en la política global. Es el propósito de este proyecto presentar algunos de los problemas que aquejan a nuestra sociedad y a nuestro planeta de manera gráfica para generar el mayor grado posible de conciencia a este respecto.

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.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.

As the silhouette of a lonely girl runs through the woods, something in the shadows is lurking her.

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).

Statesman and poet Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee's eloquence and vision shaped India's destiny. A look at his remarkable life as he led his country through a challenging period of change and development as the 10th Prime Minister of India.