Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.
Oameni de știință și activiști din rândul celebrităților arată cum solul poate reprezenta cheia pentru combaterea schimbărilor climatice și pentru protejarea planetei.
When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.
Când Kun, în vârstă de 4 ani, își cunoaște noua surioară, lumea lui este dată peste cap. Fetița, pe care o cheamă Mirai (care înseamnă viitor), câștigă rapid inima întregii familii. Atunci când mama lui se întoarce la muncă și tatăl lui se chinuie să conducă singur gospodăria, Kun devine din ce în ce mai gelos pe Mirai, iar într-o zi fuge în grădină unde întâlnește oameni ciudați din trecut și din viitor, inclusiv pe sora lui Mirai ca adolescentă. Cei doi, Kun și adolescenta Mirai, pleacă într-o călătorie prin timp și spațiu și descoperă povestea incredibilă a familei lor. Filmul este o aventură magică și emoționantă despre legăturile care aduc membrii unei familii împreună și ne transformă în cine suntem cu adevărat.
Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal.
"In Chile, when the sun rises, it had to climb hills, walls and tops before reaching the last stone of the Cordillera. In my country, the Cordillera is everywhere. But for the Chilean citizens, it is an unknown territory. After going North for Nostalgia for the Light and South for The Pearl Button, I now feel ready to shoot this immense spine to explore its mysteries, powerful revelations of Chile’s past and present history." Patricio Guzmán
După ce a fost amenințat în timpul unei mărturisiri, un preot bun trebuie să lupte cu forțele întunecate care se apropie de el.
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
After his wife's death, a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, decides to quit music and return his allegedly cursed accordion to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales, a teenage boy who admires him and wishes to follow his footsteps. Together, they start a journey throughout several towns in Northern Colombia to Taroa, in La Guajira desert, where the singer's master supposedly lives.
Elroy Jetson invents a time machine that takes him back to prehistoric times, where he meets the Flintstone family.
When two neighbours clash, their argument becomes less about proposed building alterations and more about the wider battle between class and social status. The hugely impressive building in question is the only example of a Le Corbusier residential home in all of Latin America, adding to the poignancy of their argument.
A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland and as the singer of a neo-pagan black metal band in Norway. Three moments for a radical proposition for the creation of utopia in the present.
Despite their differences, Celeste and Sihem quickly become inseparable. The common will to get out of drugs seals their fusional friendship. This will be as much a force as an obstacle when, transferred from the center that welcomes them, they find themselves left to themselves, to the test of the real world and its temptations. They will have to fight to finally live.
Elaine "Ellie" Harrison has just moved from Minnesota to Annapolis, Maryland while her parents take a year-long sabbatical to continue their medieval studies in nearby Washington D.C. Her new high school, Avalon High, seems like a typical high school with the stereotypical students: Lance the jock, Jennifer the cheerleader, Marco, the bad boy/desperado, and Will, the senior class president, quarterback, and all around good guy. But not everyone at Avalon High is who they appear to be, not even Ellie herself. Eventually, it becomes apparent that Avalon High is a situation where the ancient Arthurian legend is repeating itself.
René González e un pilot cubanez care-și părăsește soția și copilul ca să fugă în Statele Unite și să înceapă o viață nouă la începutul anilor 1990. Însă René nu e americanul care vrea să pară. El își unește forțele cu exilații cubanezi din Florida, care formează Rețeaua Cubaneză, rețea condusă de agentul sub acoperire Manuel Viramontez a.k.a. Gerardo Hernandez. Astfel René face parte dintr-un grup pro-Curo care trebuie să observe și să se infiltreze în grupurile teroriste care vor să atace republica socialistă. Filmul se bazează pe povestea adevărată a celor 5 cubanezi, agenți secreți, inclusiv González, care au fost arestați în Florida în septembrie 1998 și mai târziu condamnați de spionaj și alte activități ilegale.
Doi soți bogați lovesc accidental cu mașina și ucid un tânăr marocan în drum spre o petrecere, iar acțiunile și încercările lor de a se sustrage consecințelor stârnesc un conflict cultural între localnici și turiști cu reverberații asupra vieții lor.
Remake al muzicalului din 1980, Fame îi are în vizor pe studenții unei prestigioase academii de dans și muzică din New York. Într-o lume atât de competitivă, în care trebuie să lupți din greu pentru cele 15 minute de glorie, Denise, Malik, Jenny, Marco și mulți alții trăiesc patru ani de vis, plini de provocări, dar și de dragoste, fericire și succese.
Golsa is a 16-year-old girl living with her family in a small town near Tehran. She spends most of her time hanging out with a group of friends. One day the group decide on a course of action the consequences of which will have unexpected results and turn their little bit of fun into something far more complicated.