This documentary explores Nigeria's cultural practice of marking, including its origins and meaning as a symbol of identity, beauty and spirituality.
A new phenomenon of authentic Chinese rap has taken the internet by storm. But behind the unprecedented gains in popularity, there is a struggle for freedom of speech. Rappers are trying to figure out what they still can and cannot do after new censorship is announced.
The story of a family whose mother disappeared 30 years ago, without leaving a trace. Her husband and two sons have reconstructed a life as they could, haunted by this ghost and tortured by questioning. When an unknown young Romanian arrives to bring them what seems to be the pieces that are missing from their story, they now have to face their demons.
It's not just any day at the factory for our shady but somehow admirable hero Iulica (Gabriel Spahiu), Health and Safety Chief, but the morning after the glorious victory of underdogs Steaua Bucharest in the European Champions Cup over the mighty Barcelona - the only Romanian team ever to win it. Everyone, or at least the men, really wants to be celebrating this, but in fact it's Romanian Communist Party Day which is taking centre stage in the works canteen.
Robert and Bertrand covered accused of theft and are sent to prison where they meet Irena.
In this child's game, a live-action boy and girl draw characters and compete who is better. The girl draws a flower and the boy draws a car that runs it over. Then a drawn lion chases a drawn girl, until it all becomes frightfully serious.
The little girl had just colored her nails and the world painted her face.
As a result of a successful conspiracy against Menshikov, Peter II is prematurely recognized as an adult and is in a hurry to be crowned in Moscow. The Dolgoruky brothers gather for this celebration. There were eight of them - all-powerful and influential representatives of the ancient Rurikovich family - and among them the beautiful Ekaterina, the daughter of the huntsman Alexei.
A dinner reunion of two childhood friends and their spouses turns into a disaster when they realize they have radically different lifestyles.
1731 werden neunzehn "Vampire" bei Olmütz auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt, darunter sieben Kinder. Im Banat, einem Teil des heutigen Serbiens, häufen sich Berichte über "blutleer gesaugte Menschen". Kaiserin Maria Theresia will dem Treiben ein Ende setzen und beauftragt ihren Leibarzt Gerard van Swieten, Licht in die Sache zu bringen.
Two women, two destinies, two Nastyas. One is a policewoman, the other a criminal. But who of them is actually in prison? At the basis of the script lies the real story of Nastya Cherepanova, a postwoman from near Nizhni Novgorod, who in 2011 stole pensions from a savings bank and went to search for a better life with her lover.
Villagers are fed up with mischief of Gopal (Gopya) and complain about him to village Church Priest, who tells Gopa that to put an end to all his mischief he should get married. But Gopya tells him that is impossible as their fortune teller has told his family that his father will pass away when he gets married. Gopya lives has a step mother who considers him as her own son and wants him to get married. Gopya meets Gopi and both get attracted towards each other but his father tries to bring obstacles in it.
Jerry King kommt bei der Suche nach dem Mörder seines Bruders Regan in das Städtchen Templeton. Dort findet er die Stadt von einer Gang beherrscht vor, zu deren zwei Anführer mit Sicherheit der Gesuchte gehört. Nach einigen Händeln, in denen sich Anführer Rod besonders hervortut, ist es an Jerry, die Geschehnisse zu beschleunigen. Nach einem Duell ist Rod dabei, sein Wissen um den Mord an Jerry weiterzugeben, als er vom wahren Anführer der Banditen, Gringo, erschossen wird. Der leitet alle Operationen der Bande und ist auch für den Mord an Regan verantwortlich. In einem weiteren Duell zieht Gringo gegen Jerry, der schon seine Bande gesprengt hat, den Kürzeren, sodass wieder Frieden in der Stadt einkehren kann.
Questions arise about love, sexuality, and the breakdown of relationships and traditional roles surface as tension builds and weaves a love triangle into an erotic knot.
When the Nazis took power, the Jewish artist Leo Haas (1901-1983) was arrested in his Czechoslovakian hometown. He spent the next six years in different concentration camps and became known for the paintings he did in the Theresienstadt camp. This film presents Haas as a political artist and resistance fighter and celebrates him as a socialist caricaturist dedicated to the GDR.
Beauty is a Zero Budget Malayalam Short film made by a group of film enthusiasts. The movie focuses on the societal definition of beauty that we grew up listening to and how it shapes our perception about the same.
Yonatan, a young rascal, needs fifteen Shekels. Everything else is not important right now.