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.
A seemingly unremarkable man spends a day taking a bizarre test at a mysterious facility. Through his day he interacts with the odd, detached employees of the facility, guiding him from section to section, obscuring the intentions or duration of the test.
A boy competes in various events during the Olympic games. Short film from 1936.
The story is about a lawyer who believes that capital punishment is terrible, and that imprisonment, if forever, remains a compassionate punishment, then he engages in a bet with a businessman, if he can stay in prison for fifteen years exchange for any wealth, and they hold a bet that if he holds, he will get two million rubles.
A woman travelling on the underground is bedeviled with images of desire. What She Wants – wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer – is a film about sex and shopping, the social deployment of sexuality, and capitalism in detumescence.
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.
A woman with indiginous roots in her 40s goes on a trip into her past: When she was four years old she had been taken away from her mother by the canadian authorities, like many others. This is her very sad story as an example for many others.
Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is presented. The commissioner orders the prisoner to be clapped in irons, but this proves to be easier said than done because our anti-hero - presumably the Slippery Jim of the title - proves to be an expert escapologist.
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
A female boxer 10 minutes before her final match gets into an emotional crisis and has to fight it. A fight before a fight.
Chow Chong Fat and Wat Kam Heung, who knew each other since young, are coming to their 10th wedding anniversary. Fat always works as an accountant and also a handy man in the family business “Lo Wat Kei” founded by Heung’s father. Fat is ordered around by Heung’s family members every day. Bullied by Heung’s mom, uncle and aunt, Fat leads a very miserable life. The only thing that brings Fat out of his rigid and boring life in “Lo Wat Kei” is the reunion with his dream lover Ceci. Lacking the joy of life, Fat buys a lottery ticket which wins him the first prize of 20 million HK dollars. But this is just the start of the whole exciting story.
In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
Adolescent Hector faces a major lifestyle change after moving into his aunt's flat in a blue-collar suburb of Madrid.
Celebrating the 10th birthday of Radio Disney, a galaxy of pop stars pulls out all the stops in this energetic concert. Tracks include "Who Said" and "Best of Both Worlds" by Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana); "Find Yourself in You" and "Real Wild Child" by Everlife; "Rush" and "No One" by Aly & AJ; "The Party's Just Begun" and "Cheetah Sisters" by The Cheetah Girls; and "Right Where You Want Me" and "Beautiful Soul" by Jesse McCartney.
Between France and Chile, the journey of a young woman following in the footsteps of Chilean poet Francisco Contreras' exiled wife jostles fiction and reality.