Street Life documents the lives of Chinese migrants in Shanghai, one of the world’s largest and most vibrant cities, now symbolic of China’s economic might. The film centers on Nanjing Road, one of China’s oldest commercial streets and today a popular destination for tourists and moneyed Chinese. The street has also become a Mecca for uprooted and homeless Chinese, who make ends by collecting garbage and recyclables. These characters and their stories are the focus of the film. The central character in Street Life is a migrant known as “Black Skin.” Black Skin faces numerous pressures in the course of the film, including police violence. In the end, these pressures are too much for him to bear and he goes mad. Black Skin’s story intersects with those of fellow bottle collectors, enterprising thieves and even a young boy who has been abandoned.
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
When the promise of living in a perfect digital world traps the citizens of Sanctuary City online, Combat Wombat and Sweetie must return to save the day and kick some wom-butt!
At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.
The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.
In a Cyberpunk overcrowded world, two sisters are separated by the uprising of the population against the one child policy.
Maura is a black woman, mother of 7 children and recyclable material collector in one of the largest cities in Latin America. While she works hard to maintain herself, she has to deal with prejudice, invisibility and the ignorance of those who do not recognize the value and important role of the recyclable material collector bring to the city, as an environmental agent.
Pinocchio was tired of being a puppet in the Land of Toys. Living without responsibilities, without any merit, without any respect for the environment he's living in and with no thoughts about the future made him a donkey. He decided to meet Geppetto and find a way to return to his human form.
Robert Sternvall, a German journalist, returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. In the result of his journalistic investigation, Robert meets Sophia, a young opera singer, who happens to be the daughter of missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan, whom Robert abandoned in captivity during the fall of the village of Talish in 1992. Robert and Sophia’s frequent rendezvouses ignite a passionate romance...
The film on the Khojaly tragedy, tells the story of a young officer, unfolding against the backdrop of the terrible events of February 1992.
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground resistance newspaper in occupied Belgium.
Driven by the problem of marine plastic pollution, two designers collect nets from the bottom of the sea and, with 3D-printing, transform them into symbols of marine beauty.
A man wakes up in a world made of construction paper ruled by a little girl who just wants to play with the characters she thinks she has created. He strives to escape but finds out about another sinister force at work.
The Happy Place is a service that rents out rooms connected to a virtual realm that can be customized to any which way the user desires. A young girl frequently visits The Happy Place in order to live out her fantasy – a vast, beautiful world where she has friends who love and cherish her.
Soon to be a father, a married man's life turns upside down when an act of infidelity leaves him dealing with a volatile situation. Will he find a way out?
An unusual game of chess between two rivals.