Darius Weems, a 15-year-old with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, had never left his hometown of Athens, Georgia. In the summer of 2005, he and a group of young college students traveled across the country in a wheelchair-accessible RV to test accessibility in the United States. Their ultimate goal was to reach Los Angeles and convince MTV's hit show, "Pimp My Ride," to customize Darius's wheelchair. Along the way, they found joy, brotherhood, and the knowledge that life, even when imperfect, is always worth the ride.
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
Spreading about 400 km in parallel to the Cantabric Sea, the Cantabrian Mountains, located North to Spain are a natural top wall full of animal and vegetable life that live in an extreme conditions across any year. Making a review along the four seasons, the documentary examines the situation and the relation of the different species, focusing in the brown bear's life in addition with the salmons travel along of thousand kilometers to return home to spawn, showing too the difficult of a landscape where danger is everywhere, including in the smallest size. A fascinating travel for revealing the wonder of nature.
A washed-up musician befriends a reclusive artist with an unusual name.
Patrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When Patrick loses his campsite hammer, his quest to retrieve it takes him to the farthest corners of the camping grounds.
Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex.
Un ragazzo, un aspirante mago e un bambino selvaggio intraprendono insieme una missione per trovare e uccidere un potente drago che minaccia il mondo degli umani e quello della magia.
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
A charming romance develops between a boy with one eye and an overweight girl, though when she loses weight after going to college, their relationship is tested in devastating ways they never dreamed would happen.
A coming-of-age tale that turns on three teenagers who are having a vacation by a lakeside.
Besouro è stato il più grande capoerista di tutti i tempi. Un ragazzo che - identificandosi con l'insetto che volando sfida le leggi della fisica - sfida lui stesso le leggi del pregiudizio e dell'oppressione. Ambientato nella regione del Recôncavo negli anni '20, Besouro è un film di avventura, passione, misticismo e coraggio. Una storia immortalata da generazioni, che arriva nelle sale con azione e poesia nello scenario mozzafiato del Recôncavo Baiano.
Patience (Isabelle Huppert), traduttrice specializzata in intercettazioni telefoniche per la squadra antidroga, frustrata e annoiata da un lavoro duro e mal pagato, durante un’intercettazione viene a conoscenza dei traffici poco raccomandabili del figlio di una donna a lei cara. Decide così di dare una svolta alla sua vita e intrufolarsi nella rete dei trafficanti, per proteggere il giovane. Quando si trova tra le mani un grosso carico di droga, non si fa sfuggire l’occasione e diventa La Padrina, una “trafficante all’ingrosso”. Fa esperienza sul campo e poi… riporta tutte le informazioni in ufficio al servizio della sua squadra!
Nella campagna russa, verso la fine dell'Ottocento, un gruppo di amici si riunisce in una lussureggiante residenza estiva, vivendo un misto di passioni non corrisposte e di tragedia. Il tutto ha inizio quando la famosa scrittrice Irina porta il giovane amante Boris nella casa di campagna di famiglia per un fine settimana. Qui, Boris matura un'ossessione per Nina, l'amante del figlio di Irina, lasciando che tutto vada per il verso sbagliato.
She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes Wenger decides to take a time-out from work to guide his daughter Carla through this difficult phase in her life and, above all, to keep her away from alcohol, boys and other temptations. This is easier said than done, however, and when his wife Sara goes back to work, Hannes proves himself entirely inept at raising a teenager. Whether it’s Carla’s birthday party, her mobile phone contract or her first time, Hannes makes one awkward blunder after another. The fact that other teens have embarrassing fathers provides only faint consolation; Hannes’ best friend is a war reporter named Holger who prefers to be shot at in war zones rather than stay at home and be driven crazy by his own teenage nightmare.
A recent college graduate decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of his dreams. With an unsupportive girlfriend, an increase of clienteles, and the growing threats of being caught or killed, he soon realizes he is in way over his head.
Based upon Matt Thorne's award-winning novel about life in a call centre, "Eight Minutes Idle" is a warped urban comedy about what it really means to put your life 'on hold'! Dan Thomas has always taken the path of least resistance - in his work life, home life and love life! But when Dan finds himself kicked out of the family home, he's faced with no option but to secretly move into the call centre where he works. Suddenly, everything that he's previously taken for granted - a well-stocked fridge, clean clothes, his friends, his self respect, even his beloved cat - are either disappearing or conspiring against him. As Dan's work/life balance spirals dangerously out of control, he's forced to break out of old habits and to dare to do something he has never had to do before - really care about someone other than himself. Written by Sarah Cox
Kati has had her dream man at home for five years: attractive, loyal and professionally successful as a doctor. Unfortunately, "her" Felix now spends so much time at work in the hospital that Kati too often feels alone. When she met the good-looking, charming artist Mathias, it hit her like Felix did back then. Shortly before her last inhibitions fall, fate shuffles the cards in an unbelievable way: after a car accident, Kati wakes up in the past - exactly on the day five years ago when she accidentally met Felix
Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...