2024-03-30
7.5
A behind the scenes look at the new James Cameron blockbuster “Avatar”, which stars Aussie Sam Worthington. Hastily produced by Australia’s Nine Network following the film’s release.
A documentary about autistic driving students and the obstacle they face while learning to drive.
The village headman in the Isaan region of Thailand organizes the Bun Bang Fai festival to pray for rain from the rain god Phaya Thoen, addressing the issue of drought.
This is Ado's first live video work, featuring all the songs from her legendary Saitama Super Arena concert held on August 11, 2022! Included are 24 songs in total, including her smash hits "Usseewa," "Odori," and "Shinjidai," as well as her favorite Vocaloid songs "Darling Dance" and "Zaneri".
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
Jake (Dakota Daulby, Falling Skies) and Noel (Matthew MacCaull, Vendetta) are estranged brothers haunted by a troubled past. In the years since their father died in a hunting accident and their mother committed suicide, they’ve lost touch with one another. After escaping from his abusive uncle, Jake seeks refuge with Noel who now lives with his girlfriend Paula (Christie Burke, Falling Skies) in the old family farmhouse. Located on an isolated island, it’s the perfect place to find solace and reconnect after years of separation. Or so Jake thinks…
An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.
After the truth of the How We Feel app's functions was revealed to the public, there has been a deep societal divide and government crackdowns all over America. Rumors of a new version of How We Feel begin to circulate...
Hip-hop artist Jay-Z tells a story about life in the streets, combining a narrative structure and musical numbers into an autobiographical tale of his life in Brooklyn, from hustler to performer.
Two young men and two girls on a moonlit night confess to each other in their strange fantasies and loves that go beyond the usual standards.. The impetus to making the film was the book of the same name by the Russian religious philosopher Vasily Rozanov, who died 100 years ago. His treatise was devoted to the study of sexuality and its denial in Christianity. The film was made in the style of experimental films of the 1920s with a non-linear narration full of strange surrealistic images. He is black and white and devoid of dialogue. Filmed on film 16 mm of firm "Svema", released in the USSR. This added to his exoticism. The image was put to the music of Alexander Scriabin “The Poem of Ecstasy” (1907).
"Pulsar" belongs to "The Angel Cycle" ("Le Cycle de l´Ange"). In this cycle of works we create bonds between the human body and astronomical bodies. Maria Klonaris´ improvised performance is a negative dance which lies between pleasure and catastrophe, a black and blue body language which grapples with the white of the screen and the luminous suddenness of a firework display.
In a society of abstract figures, 1000 people live imprisoned in an immense space, distinguished by their social class, like a hive of bees. Their ultimate goal is to produce light, but only one will be able to! 1000 Kings is a conceptual and innovative animation, a poetic meditation on the origins of the universe with a geometric approach and psychedelic colors, inspired by both Western and Eastern mythologies.
Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.
Monica Wyatt is a totally '80s teenager on the brink of a bright future when her dreams are destroyed by a car wreck that leaves her in a coma for 19 years. After miraculously awakening at age 38, Monica finds her once-perfect life in shambles and an unrecognizable world around her. As she struggles to fit into a world of Starbucks and cell phones, she attempts to win back the love of her life. In the process, she experiences a true wake-up call.
Working the lonely late shift, a gas station cashier shares a silly moment with a customer before being brought back to reality.
Six months after the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear plant and the release of radiation there, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to discover whether nuclear power is safe. He begins in Japan, where he meets some of the tens of thousands of people who have been evacuated from the exclusion zone. He travels to an abandoned village just outside the zone to witness a nuclear clean-up operation. Jim draws on the latest scientific findings from Japan and from the previous explosion at Chernobyl to understand how dangerous the release of radiation is likely to be and what that means for our trust in nuclear power.
Kumaran has had a troubled childhood after getting hit by lightning, comes back to his village to fight evil elements and provide hope through indigenous deities.
Suffering from unexplained vaginal pain, a frustrated acting student goes to a string of doctors, convinced that she is going to find a specialist who will figure out what’s wrong with her.
Lukas wanders through Vienna. In a random bar at night he meets other wanderers and strays. But what is colourful in the moonlight, in the morning never is.
Two fathers, from different age groups, are on a quest to mend things with their children, while a son goes after his father to redeem himself.
Lene and Timo have retreated to a house by the sea. Here it feels as if the world consists of the two of them only. But something unspoken clouds their time together.
After studying graphic design, Aline is reluctantly starting her practical training as an art teacher. When her boyfriend leaves her on top of that, she runs off to live with her parents in the countryside. In this moment of crisis, she encounters a Catholic priest who is able to talk about faith outside of religion. Aline is intrigued, but remains critical.
Ina is a therapist, the mother of a rebellious teenage girl, and a partner to a man who has always put his own career first. She puts everyone’s needs ahead of her own until one hot summer day, when her self-centered mother celebrates her 70th birthday, something happens that will change everything.
Charlotte is satisfied. She is in the process of experiencing a promotion in the company where she works as a senior executive. Everything would be fine if Charlotte didn't have a sister, a mother of three who left without leaving an address a few years ago. Since then, it is Yvonne, the mother of the two young women, who took care of raising Pierre, Louise and Antoine. However, one fine day, Antoine's father appears...
Isabel Burger would normally consider herself lucky. An unexpected inheritance takes Isabel, a trained chef, to Crete, where her German father left her a country house complete with its own olive grove. If only her failed startup in Munich and the resulting financial woes hadn’t led to the recent opening of insolvency proceedings against her. Isabel’s insolvency administrator gives her four weeks to sell her house on Crete as best she can and use the proceeds to pay off her creditors.
The impact of lingering trauma on an ex-serviceman, triggered by sounds of everyday life.
Fourteen-year-old Jeanne has lived in a farm commune since she was two years old. Her mother and father live in city communes and rarely visit. This is one of the commandments given by Otto, who rules the commune: children are to grow up without parents. Knowing nothing else, Jeanne enjoys her outdoor life, surrounded by lots of other children, until she falls in love with 16-year-old Jean and her childhood paradise begins to fall apart.
This Traveltalk series short looks at four of Spain's most famous cities, Granada, Seville, Toledo, and Madrid, with an emphasis on the Moors and their influence on the country.
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape.
Librarian and real crime buff Aurora “Roe” Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead. When his body is found outside of Aurora’s home, she then becomes the main suspect. Determined to find the killer and clear her name, Aurora can't help but to get involved once again.
The people, the scenery and the industrial traditions of the Stroud valley and the growth of the woollen industry.