Based on a true story, this film follows a 7-year-old boy, Wawa, and his older sister, Naxiang, who live beside the Nujiang River in Yunnan Province, China. Every day, Naxiang crosses the river to attend school using an overhead cable, but their mother will not allow Wawa to use the cable. Eventually, Wawa secretly uses the cable to cross to the other side. The dangerous activity has deadly consequences, and the siblings’ lives are changed forever.
In the middle of a broadcast about Typhoon Yolanda's initial impact, reporter Jiggy Manicad was faced with the reality that he no longer had communication with his station. They were, for all intents and purposes, stranded in Tacloban. With little option, and his crew started the six hour walk to Alto, where the closest broadcast antenna was to be found. Letting the world know what was happening to was a priority, but they were driven by the need to let their families and friends know they were all still alive. Along the way, they encountered residents and victims of the massive typhoon, and with each step it became increasingly clear just how devastating this storm was. This was a storm that was going to change lives.
All the photos, never printed, were lost due to a damaged memory card. What a funny name for such a card. I can remember those lost images more than most of the photos I took during that time.
Frank Hurley (1885-1962) was firmly established by 1925 as Australia's most famous photographer. An artist interested less in expressing human experiences than the grandeur of nature and the romance of exotic lands, his work was known to Australians through books, newspaper features and documentary films. His journeys began in December, 1911 when he joined Mawson's expedition to Antarctica as official photographer; his stills of the Expedition were widely published around the world and this documentary "Home of the Blizzard" was released in 1913.
Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.
In a city where the high school drop out rate is at its highest, a pre-destined path of murder, crime, and drug trafficking seems to be the only way of life for teenagers growing up in Liberty City.
After the death of the family's matriarch, her husband and son must confront not only the corruption in society around them but the corruption within themselves.
A young married couple, Christopher & Melody, work opposite schedules to remain financially afloat as Chris bangs out his first novel while working as a waiter. Never seeing each other is taking it's toll, as the two rarely get a chance to engage one another. Chris finds the attention he craves in Brandy, a saucy co-worker.
A romantic film packed with fun and adventure Gandharavam tells the story of an auto mechanic who falls in love with the daughter of a crime mob family.
Ashton Redding, a mailroom attendant at Brev Corp, is lured into a strange bond with the Phototron 69 photocopier machine in the office... (ALTER)
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
Die talentierte junge Anwältin Corinna Jakobs erhält die große Chance zum beruflichen Durchbruch: Sie soll den namhaften Hamburger Fangflottenbesitzer Petersen vor Gericht vertreten, der von einem Ökoaktivisten in der Presse immer wieder als Umweltsünder angeprangert wird. Doch als die Anwältin sich in den raubeinigen Umweltschützer verliebt, gerät sie in einen schwierigen Gewissenskonflikt.
A lot of hell and very little heaven heaven among homeless and damaged characters in Stockholm. The young heroin addict couple, the slippery pimp, a mentally ill poet, are some of the personalities we are being served.
A cult experiments with DNA and creates a homicidal baby.
Mattia is a boy who has gone blind following an accident. One day at the port he meets Henry, younger than him and of a noble family. Day after day their friendship will turn into love but ... The short, with strong themes, tries to make known the "Barriers" of modern life, from those that still discriminate and undermine the love between two people of the same sex to those that still exist between the various social classes.
An act of betrayal throws a young couple's marriage into jeopardy in this romantic drama featuring Richard Belzer and Ice-T.
Martha is a foreign worker employed as a caretaker of sick old woman who refuses to die. Martha's only moments of freedom come when she delves into her imaginary world.