The family B. is the protagonist of the story. Their house is located halfway between Israeli settlements and an Arab village. The family B. is quite well off and educated. The father Mohammad is a principal in a secondary school. After a gunfight the Israeli army occupies the second floor of the house for security reasons and asks the family to leave the house. Mohammad says no, he does not want to leave, the house is the border of his dignity, loosing it means giving himself and his family forever to the hatred against the Israelis. Mohammad is a dreamer, an active pacifist, a man who insists in seeing in the others the possibility to love and not to hate. But he is also a Palestinian, he lives for his principles and is ready to accept even the most extreme consequences. As soon as the group of Israeli soldiers occupies Mohammad’s house thorough and painful divisions occur within the family. The family splits between those trying to understand the father’s message and those who simply cannot do so or let themselves be attracted by violence. Those able to see, to meet, though just for one second, the enemy’s eyes are the ones who will be saved.
Two nearby villages in Kurdistan are separated from each other by the mined border. Although now the inhabitants of these villages can’t communicate freely, young couples are still trying to unite their lives.
Run or stay? Jim searches for the eternal answer to the problem of human existence‚Ķ.But occasionally, it’s the wrong day to ask.
This film starts off as three different stories that gra-dually intertwine into one. The characters reveal their passion and anxiety through the means of modern communications such as the Internet and cell phones. Sund@y Seoul delves into an aspect of how the medium that is the Internet constructs and dismantles people’s lives. These characters live gradually intertwine in the large city of Seoul, revealing their hidden desires and anxieties. College professor, Dong-Chun, sets up a hid-den camera in a motel room in a desperate attempt to keep going his secret love affair with his student, Eun-young. Ordinary middle-age housewife, Myung-joo, takes a stab at making a sexual breakaway through antisocial and free-spirited Shin-ae. High-school student, Jung-hwan, falls in love with a call girl named Soo-hee. By chance, he also meets Myung-joo while chatting on line. Soo-hee makes love regularly to Jee-wook, a married cop who she met when she was caught in his sting. Junior-high student, Hae-mee, has a puppy love for Jung-hwan so she follows Soo-hee and secretly takes pictures of her. These characters are like sensationalistic stories found in cheap tabloids.
One of the pioneers of Canadian animation. Poor beggar. An artist unable to create. Fallen angel. Arrogant. Shy. Broken. Not destroyed. It is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who, thirty years ago, produced some of the most influential animated films of his time.
A 12 year old boy leaves his grandmother and goes to work the land with the man. During the labour they are disturbed by the voices of interlopers. The boy is sent to find out more and discovers the old woman is conjuring spirits of death into the forest.
Charlotte learns how to take the best out of her situation by transmuting feelings of emotional pain into constructive and beautiful real moments. She learns how to shine even in the darkness…like stars.
A fake science-fiction movie about the way we live now. A girl drops into the ocean from outer space. A bring from a distant constellation called Monday, she has assumed the human form of a beatiful young woman in order to look for her friend who arrived years before and whom she suspects is in trouble; caught perhaps in the body he has assumed. On the heels of the Great Revolution, the city-state of NYC has been liberated by Triple M, the Major Multimedia Monopoly which has brought into being the Dictatorship of the Consumer, securing for the citizens greater choice, personal autonomy and technological progress. Jack Bell is responsable for the Human Value Reform Act. Citizens are now public offerings on the stock exchange; each time they have sex their value increases depending on the current state of the market. Horrified at the dehumanizing consequences of his suggestions, Jack is the secret leader of the Counter Revolution. The beautiful junior executive he works with, Cecile, ends up taking part of Jack’s counter revolution.
Growing up with her drifting single mother, sixteen-year-old HEIDI (Abbie Cornish) has learned to use sex as a survival tool. After a confrontation in her suburban Canberra home, Heidi feels unable to remain with her mother. She flees to Jindabyne, seeking work in the snowfields. With little money or practical experience, she accepts a job at a petrol station beside Lake Jindabyne. Heidi befriends her co-worker BIANCA (Hollie Andrew), and, over time, Bianca’s mother (Leah Purcell) and family. She begins a romance with a wealthy local farmer JOE (Sam Worthington), and finds a home behind the motel of kindly IRENE (Lynette Curran). Heidi’s new life unfolds happily. Joe’s relationship with Heidi challenges his ideas of sexuality, class and his future in this place. When Heidi’s past invades her new world, her resulting behaviour damages every relationship she has formed, until she discovers the transforming power of forgiveness and learns that she is more than she had realised.
Something magical is in the air. Times are happy and love is uncomplicated for young soldier Keng and country boy Tong. The film starts with a sensual love story, pleasant evenings with Tong’s family and song-filled nights in town… Then life is disrupted by a disappearance. And some kind of wild beast has been slaughtering cows. Local legends say a human can somehow be transformed into another creature… Then begins a tale of a soldier who goes alone into the heart of the tropical jungle, where myth is often real.
Two teenage sisters from the Mennonite religious become stranded in an unfamiliar place seeking food and a place to stay overnight. As they discover the new world through a modern landscape with colorful characters, the secret behind their journey is revealed.
The Japanese 18-year old boy Kiyoshi has isolated himself in the kitchen. His family seems to have accepted his sequestered life. It has been two years. On the internet he has contact with youngsters like him. Kiyoshi’s sister is the only one who still has contact with him.
On its premiere, in 1980, The Big Red One didn’t last for two hours and was far from the version that Samuel Fuller had imagined for his war epic. Twenty-five years later, the film critic Richard Schickel and the producer Brian Jamieson retrieved whatever they could from the original film, considered to be hopelessly lost, and restored to the screen The Big Red One. The Reconstruction, 40 minutes longer, in what migh as well be the closest to Fuller’s original vision. Semi-autobiographical war movie, inspired by the director’s experience at the service of Big Red One Task Force during Second World War, the film is a summary of stories of a military group composed by the veteran Sergeant Possum and four young soldiers that survive in the midst of chaos and horror of the world-wide conflict. Eight complete sequences have been added, including an appearance of Fuller himself – as an action cameraman – and his wife Christa – acting as a German countess. Delirious and episodic, the film combines realism and surrealism, lyricism and dark comedy, and represents a modern and ruthless insight into the war.
Tao is living out her dreams at World Park where visitors can see famous international monuments without ever leaving the Beijing suburbs. The pretty young dancer and her friends perform daily in lavish theme park shows among replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, St Mark’s Square, Big Ben and the Pyramids. Tao and her boyfriend, security guard Taisheng, moved to the big city from the northern provinces a few years ago. Now their relationship has reached a crossroads. Taisheng becomes attracted to Qun, a fashion designer he meets on a trip back home. Tao’s fellow dancers are on sentimental journeys of their own. Xiaowei questions her future with irresponsible boyfriend Niu. Meanwhile, Youyou uses romance to the advantage of her professional ambitions. Not everyone who comes to Beijing with high hopes can land a job where SMS games are accepted parts of daily life. Many, like manual laborer Erxiao, experience a much harsher reality. But, despite the fun and magic, even theme park microcosms are vulnerable to change. For Tao and those around her, there will be marriage and break-up, loyalty and infidelity, joy and tragedy.
From outer space, earth seems to have lost its colour. Doctor Space flies to find out what is the matter with the planet, is it suffering from a virus
“A Man” is a story about a man called George, a dishwasher who lives in a trailer and he meets Constance his old girlfriens who has left her husband. In the end, Constance returns to her husband.
