Nikki is no professional athlete. Still, she swims the English channel to raise money for a good cause.
Annedore takes care of orphan birds. They give her that which humans througout her turbulent life could never give her: love.
A taxi driver kicks a homeless woman out of his car. It'll be a long night until he can make amends.
A short film about an armed man in a secret location.
The Painted Door is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Bruce Pittman and released in 1984. Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, the film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Atlantis Films of Toronto. It follows a housewife who struggles with loneliness after her husband ventures into a blizzard. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film.
What is it about Speedos? Well here Australian director Tim Hunter is on a mission to find the answer to the question of why so many gay men can't seem to get enough of hunks in tight fitting trunks? Although somehow I think the answer can be found in the question! Anyway in a bid to discover the truth, Hunter has carried out a series of interviews with men who have more than a passing interest in this briefest of garment, including that of Speedo designer Peter Travis, who here relates his part in the history of 'the male equivalent of the Wonder Bra.'
The simple storytelling and stunning visuals take viewers on a journey as one young man finds that good things and good behavior are a way out of his dark world.
A story about a boy named Ahura and his mysterious past, which when his friends enter, that buried past comes back and creates terrible events.
A woman blames her terminally-ill daughter for her husband abandoning them and now fantasizes if life might be better if this child wasn't in the picture.
An early short by Wolfgang Büld, in which he wanted to depict the pleasant, mundane songs and movies of the 50s. The film was supposed to be like a song by Peter Kraus or Ted Herold.
Mercedes, Max, Krull, Stephan and Karin live in an apartment in Munich. Krull loves Mercedes in vain, Karin thinks boys are horrible and takes part in competitions. She wins an evening with Udo Lindenberg. Pursued by Krull, Karin and Mercedes leave the apartment. Stephan and Max are left alone. While Karin goes to the hairdresser for the evening, Mercedes meets Simon, who drives a large truck. They decide to get married and have seven children.
My debut short film - as I approached adulthood, I created this as a means of reflection towards adolescence and life. A poetic documentary about looking away from the past and being present in the beauty of life.
A short film inspired by the poems of Giulia Bencivenga.
A struggling comedian, Mary Beth, decides to leak her own stand-up comedy sex tape in order to get famous.
TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his escape to West Germany and a show trial was held after his arrest.
Ciro is a quiet and respectful young guaquero that despite his young age and his little experience becomes one of the best and most outstanding of the coffee region in Colombia. Ciro is hired by Oliver, an English adventurer man, ambitious and who goes by the world looking for luck and trying to hunt fortunes. Obsessed with a large guaca to keep filling his pockets, he plunges into the jungle of Quindío with Ciro. What they don't know or can come to what can be found in their path, through a journey in which the jungle, mysticism, tradition and ambition overflowed playing an unexpected trick.
This is the story of a family that represents the collective memory of Colombia that has lived at war for more than seventy years, a journey through a country submerged in corruption, poor health coverage, and abuse by the military.
The bereaved wife of a teacher who died prematurely resorts to ritualistic magic to resurrect her beloved husband. The results have unintended bloody consequences.
Two men fueled by alcohol and rage force a mechanic into giving their car a last minute inspection. As the process continues, shifts in power start to emerge and tensions start to run dangerously high.