Capturing Avatar is a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Avatar. It uses footage from the film's development, as well as stock footage from as far back as the production of Titanic in 1995. Also included are numerous interviews with cast, artists, and other crew members. The documentary was released as a bonus feature on the extended collector's edition of Avatar.
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.
A doomed love affair blooms against the beautiful and exotic backdrop of the deserts of India in this romantic drama. Samantha Hartley (Kelli Garner) is a woman in her early twenties who travels to Rajapur in India to visit a resort where her mother stayed years ago. While tracing the steps of her mother, Sara (Lynn Collins), Samantha learns the true story about her mother's stormy marriage to Jeremy (Justin Theroux), a charming but moody alcoholic. Only a few days after their wedding, Sara began to wonder if marrying Jeremy was a mistake, and while visiting India on their honeymoon, Sara met Jai Singh (Manoj Bajpai), a handsome and sensitive widower living in Rajapur. Jai Singh, who speaks fluent English, soon strikes up a friendship with Sara that quickly grows into a romance, but both are aware of the transgressive nature of their love, and their affair takes a tragic turn, leaving its scars on all parties involved.
While settling into married life with Akiko, Ryu is brought into a case involving a woman named Katsuragi Aoi, a member of a pickpocketing ring with most of her teammates murdered from unknown masked vigilantes that Ryu fought as Accel. As the details of the case begin to unravel, Ryu is framed and Akiko believes that he may not be faithful to her. As the clock ticks down, Ryu must solve the case, clear his name, and save his marriage before everything comes to an explosive end!
In der Dokumentation geht es um den Bürgerkrieg in Syrien. Der Regisseur Talal Derki begleitet in dem Dokumentarfilm von August 2011 bis August 2013 zwei Freunde in der Stadt Homs, die Demonstrationen gegen das diktatorische Regime von Staatspräsident Baschar al-Assad organisieren. Nachdem die syrischen Sicherheitskräfte militärisch gegen die Demonstranten vorgehen, entschließen sich die zunächst pazifistisch eingestellten Freunde sich zu bewaffnen und werden Widerstandskämpfer gegen das Assad-Regime. Die Dokumentation zeigt dabei den Werdegang der Hauptfigur Abdul Baset Al-Sarout, vom Torwart einer Fußball-Jugendmannschaft zum Kommandanten einer kleinen Gruppe von Kämpfern auf der Seite der Freien Syrische Armee in der mit der Kamera sehr nah am Geschehen der grausame Bürgerkrieg in einer zerstörten Stadt gezeigt wird.
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.
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.
Verfolgt von einer Gruppe entflohener Aliens sucht Ean nach dem göttlichen Schwert, das ein Zeitreiseportal öffnen könnte, mit dem die in der Vergangenheit gestrandete Kriegerin gemeinsam mit dem Cyborg Thunder zurück ins Jahr 2022 reisen will. Zeitgleich beginnt der Kopfgeldjäger Muruk, der Ean schon aus manch einer Zwangslage befreien musste, zu ahnen, dass eine fremde Präsenz in seinen Körper eingedrungen ist. Als es der Gruppe endlich gelingt, in die Gegenwart überzuwechseln, finden sie dort brachiale Verwüstung vor: Die Freisetzung der Substanz Haava durch den Alienanführer Controller forderte bereits Tausende von Leben. Ean, Thunder und Muruk bleibt nicht viel Zeit, die Außerirdischen zur Strecke zu bringen und die Menschheit zu retten.
BIFA-nominated psychological thriller. “Everyone’s got a secret, something they hide…” When a small time criminal returns to London he unravels a catastrophic secret about the murder of his brother. Twisting and turning, this dizzying journey into the mind of a criminal at his darkest hour keeps the viewer guessing until the final frame. An intense and mind-bending crime noir shot on 35mm.
A young man returns home for the weekend to discover the difficulty of juggling friends, parents, magic mushrooms and several thousand chickens.
A girl is at school. Suddenly it's as if she can't breathe. As she runs down the stairs we follow her into her mind. It takes us deep into dark woods.
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.
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.
A young woman lives sadly in a small garrison town with a soldier. Little by little, won over by boredom, sadness, total inaction, she develops a relationship with plants and starts talking to plants.
Tension mounts between a quadraplegic man and his wife as she prepares a bath for him.
A single man has worked most of his life in a supermarket. One night, he unexpectedly meets with his father, and the two are faced with the question of the reasons for their separation.
When Crystal Wyatt was 16 her father passed away. From that time her life would never be the same. Crystal is banished from the family ranch, and starts a new life as a singer in a San Francisco nightclub.
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.