A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living.
Timecode is a 2016 Spanish live-action short film directed by Juanjo Giménez. Luna and Diego are the parking lot security guards. Diego does the night shift, and Luna works by day. One day, Luna's boss asks her to investigate a broken tail light. It won the Short Film Palme d'Or award at 69th annual Cannes Film Festival in 2016. It is also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (formerly Poland).
Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.
Jago tells the story of an 80 year old sea nomad called Rohani who has spent his life plying the waters of South East Asia’s Coral Triangle. The story is told entirely from Rohani’s perspective, against the spectacular backdrop of the Togian Islands, and recreates events that capture the turning points in his life, as a hunter and as a man. We were able to bring Rohani’s past experiences to life by working closely with his family and friends in the village where he grew up. These are the people you see representing Rohani in the film at various stages in his life. Story telling is a big part of Bajau culture, and a way of preserving traditions through generations, so everyone was very enthusiastic about what we were trying to do and brought lots of ideas of their own, especially Rohani. Although he had never had a camera pointed at him, it certainly wasn’t the first time he’d sat around telling stories. We were just lucky that he let us capture it on film.
Their family name alone evokes horror: Himmler, Frank, Goering, Hoess. This film looks at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime: men and women who were left a legacy that indelibly associates them with one of the greatest abominations in history. What is it like to have grown up with a name that immediately raises images of genocide? How do they live with the weight of their ancestors' crimes? Is it possible to move on from the crimes of their ancestors?
Den døv-stumme Sergey begynder på en kostskole, der er specialiseret i at hjælpe elever, som ikke kan høre. Men på skolen udgør eliten af de ældste børn et netværk, der har forbindelser ud til et miljø med prostitution og stoffer, og her skal Sergey f orsøge at finde sin plads i hierarkiet. Ved at deltage i en række røverier arbejder han sig højere op ad rangstien i organisationen. Men en dag møder han Anna, en pige, der har et forhold til en af lederne i gruppen, og pludselig finder han sig selv i en situation, hvor han ufrivilligt må bryde med alle de uskrevne regler.
Michel er formand på et værft, der skal fyre 20 mand. Demokratisk lægger han navnene på alle de ansatte i en hat og trækker selv de uheldiges lapper op - inklusive sin egen. Michel må indstille sig på en meget førtidig pension, men det lader han sig ikke mærke af, i hvert fald ikke udadtil. Kort efter holder han sit guldbryllup på værftet. Han og hustruen Marie-Claire får foræret en rejse til Kilimanjaro, men inden de når ret langt med planlægningen, stjæles både penge og billetter. Tyvene må have været med til brylluppet, men har man nu også lyst til at få straffet nogle af ens egne?
An elderly woman wants to meet her son’s murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the place of a gangster inmate so that the latter may escape. Two women, one man, three destinies that come together in the visiting room of a prison…
Claude Lherminier er en galant, ældre herre, der nærmer sig de 82. Den seneste tid er han blevet en kende excentrisk og fordriver gerne tiden med at gøre livet surt for husholderskerne. Den aldrende charmør nægter at indse, at der i øvrigt skulle være noget galt. Et af hans påfund er, at han vil besøge sin yngste datter, Alice, i Florida. Det er der blot en lille hage ved. Hans ældste datter, Carole, har rigeligt at gøre med at holde familieforetagendet oven vande, men er samtidig hans sikre forankring i dagligdagen og med til at holde humøret oppe. Mere gavnligt modspil får Claude, da Carole ansætter en rumænsk kvinde til at tage sig af sin far. Hun er ikke sådan at bide skeer med. Claudes indfald bliver stadigt mere tossede og til sidst ser Carole ingen anden udvej end at sørge for permanent pleje til sin far.
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
The true story of a French teenager rising out of the underprivileged suburbs through love, education and rap music. Regis is a culturally gifted boy who dreams of success for his rap band, but he must accept drug money for the sake of his project. Discovering Islam and love, he bears with the harsh loss and paybacks of delinquency, until he finds the strength to express himself through music and slam-poetry and ultimately becomes a major artist of the French music scene.
Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?
Vincent has an extraordinary ability: his strength and reflexes increase tenfold when in contact with water. To make full use of this gift, he settles in a region with many lakes and rivers, which is isolated enough to allow him to live a peaceful life. Then, one day, during an aquatic escapade, he encounters Lucie.
As we follow a mother and her son, we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own and a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths.
It all began when camcorders replaced cameras. Making TV programs then became within everyone's reach. Jean-Lou, Yasmina, Victor, Clara, Adonis, and the others didn't only want to create their own television channel, they above all wanted to make a revolution. Thus Télé Gaucho was born, as anarchic and provocative as the main channels were conformist and reactionary. Five years of mayhem, brutal pirate TV demonstrations, drunken parties, and thwarted love.. And that was my idyllic interlude.
Set in a remote village in Malabar, the film portrays the struggles of a young Muslim woman and her family who is ostracised by society for questioning a religious speech