Return is a methodical construction of the approach of an individual towards an unseen goal, which assumes metaphorical significance. Viola moves toward the camera/viewer, pausing every few steps to ring a bell, at which point he is momentarily thrust back to his starting place, and then advanced again. Finally reaching his destination, he is taken through all of the previous stages in a single instant and returned to the source of his journey.
RETURN tells the story of a retired Green Beret who embarks on a healing journey from Montana to Vietnam. There he retraces his steps, shares his wartime experiences with his son, treats his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and seeks out the mountain tribespeople he once lived with and fought alongside as a Special Forces officer.
Polish animator Anna Błaszczyk’s humorous short—a collage of drawing, cut-out, and computer animation—was inspired by Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Return from the Stars, a time-paradox tale of an astronaut who returns to Earth after many years away.
Static images of an old country house are combined with voices of the past to evocative effect. Haunting and nostalgic, 'Return' conveys the life that exists in old, abandoned places.
A young man returns home for the weekend to discover the difficulty of juggling friends, parents, magic mushrooms and several thousand chickens.
Owen, a young man is dissatisfied with his life. He heads into the forest to escape and learns a lot during his time there.
Eyüp decides to cross mount Ararat looking for his aunt in Yerevan after following a madman's words. His aunt has also been expecting someone to come from behind this mount for many years. Eyüp cannot be sure about the woman he finds behind the blue door, whether it is his aunt or not because they can't understand each other.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
A tale of terror. Cathy Reed has been institutionalized most of her life because of Schizophrenia, as a child her parents thought she was possessed by demons and had her exercised by priests. Medical science saw different. Now decades later Cathy is freed, relocated to her own flat and given a chance to be independent. Once alone things are not what they all seem and when her nightmares turn real she questions her state of mind before she is left to face her demons.
Ein im Gefängnis sitzender Vater erhält die überraschende Chance auf Freiheit. Dazu muss er sich allerdings bereiterklären, der Polizei bei ihren Ermittlungen in der Kopenhagener Gang-Szene zu helfen. Die Sehnsucht, endlich seinen Sohn wiederzusehen, ist groß, doch er steht vor einem moralischen Dilemma: Er muss entscheiden, ob er seine Prinzipien über Bord werfen und mit den Behörden zusammenarbeiten soll, um seinen Sohn wieder in die Arme schließen zu können.
Paris im Jahr 2016: Ein Isolationswall umzäunt die berüchtigten, von Gangs beherrschten Ghettos der Vorstadtbezirke. Um eine Lösung der Probleme mit den Gangs herbeizuführen, inszeniert die Sondereinsatz-Behörde DISS ein Attentat auf Pariser Streifenpolizisten. Dabei lassen sie es so aussehen, als hätten die Gangs die Beamten auf dem Gewissen, um die Regierung davon zu überzeugen, dass es nur eine Lösung geben kann: Die Vernichtung des gesamten Bezirkes. Doch DISS hat die Rechnung ohne den Polizisten Damien und seinen Freund Leito gemacht, die bereits eine Verschwörung ahnen und mit allen Mitteln versuchen, das Schlimmste zu verhindern. Es beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.
The main character of the film is an outstanding physicist who was invited to Armenia from Russia to head a lab. He comes across many troubles in his homeland, but nevertheless finds his true love there.
Um die historische Wiederkehr geht es hier laut den Berichten von älteren Krimtataren. Die muslimische Minderheit wurde 1944 unter Stalin von der Krim vertrieben, Ende der 80er gab es nach Protesten ein Zugeständnis von Gorbatschow. Mit der Besetzung der Krim 2014 folgen unter Putin erneut zahlreiche Repressionen. Mit politischer Willkür werden Tataren verhaftet und zu langen Strafen verurteilt. Der Film zeigt mehrere Frauen, deren Männer inhaftiert sind und mit großem Engagement versuchen, mit Klagen die Situation ihrer Männer zu verbessern, die nur sporadisch Kontakt zu ihrer Familie haben.
Ultra Music Festival 2015. In the middle of the pouring rain. Dash Berlin wrote history surprising the crowd with one of the most emotional, powerful and energetic sets the festival has ever seen and proved to be right at home at the big main stage.
After reading an article about hypnotic regression, a woman whose maternal grandfather died when she was only three years old contacts the hypnotic subject named in the article believing that he is the reincarnation of her grandfather, and hoping that she can learn the truth about how he died.
A young man tricks his homophobic father into a camping trip with his secret boyfriend.
Kim Marsden inherits a cattle station near Alice Springs after the death of her father. Kim becomes convinced her father was murdered. She sends for a legendary local bushman called the Sundowner, who was one of her father's best friends.