2009-11-26
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"I Sing the Desert Electric" is a collection of video shorts taken in four locations and representing four distinct and highly regional music scenes. From fuzzy electric guitars of Mauritania to raucous electro street parties of Bamako, the short survey is a window into contemporary performance in the Western Sahel.
In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pull off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators.
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
Filmed April 12, 2003 at a benefit concert held at and for The Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing an improvised instrumental collaboration with silent Brakhage’s films. The band performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews).
A heroic true story of Major Mukund Varadarajan, an Indian Army officer who displayed extraordinary bravery during a counterterrorism mission in Kashmir’s Shopian district. The film captures his courage in protecting his nation and the devotion of his wife Indhu Rebecaa Varghese.
Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.
Due to a rental mistake, three families are forced to share a house in the Canary Islands, leading to chaotic and humorous situations as they try to live together.
Bullet, a female triad member, is recently released from prison. Bullet hooks up with her old gang rather quickly, although she is being closely watched by her policeman father and his gritty female partner Big Aunt . Bullet steals some jewels belonging to triad gangster Chin Bo while helping her friend May, who has been forced into prostitution. Chin Bo, also known as Brother Mad, kidnaps May and another of Bullet's friends to secure the return of his fortune, but the exchange goes wrong and a furious gun battle erupts.
Ruth Butler, a clerk in an emporium, marries Jimmy Rutledge and thereby greatly displeases his mother, the owner of the emporium, because of Ruth's lowly origins. Renaud Graham, one of Mrs. Rutledge's friends, becomes interested in Ruth, forces his way into her apartment, and attempts to make violent love to her. Jimmy walks in on their embrace and, suspecting the worst, leaves Ruth. In the family way, Ruth finds refuge in a boardinghouse where she meets Al Bryant, an aspiring writer. Ruth tells Al her life story, and he makes it into a bestselling novel and then into a play. Jimmy sees the play and comes to his senses, winning Ruth's forgiveness.
In 1953, Jacqueline Auriol, a French pilot, is about to go down in history along with her jet aircraft.
20 years after the events of Transmorphers, a newer, more advanced species of alien robot descends on a rebuilt Earth, threatening once again to destroy the planet.
A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.
Jake Crusher is a cop from the 80's who gets sucked into a VCR where he becomes Video Cop.
A group of wealthy teenagers commit crimes that escalate from petty mischief to dangerous plots, causing chaotic consequences — but not for themselves.
Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, governance, and on. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what's possible - what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of being and a new way of relating to the Earth. For everyone, it will be a reminder that humans are capable of being planetary healing forces.
Café de Luxe's owner comes back to his restaurant after a vacation.
A man is confronted by parallel versions of himself as he contemplates his life choices.
The third installment in The Angry Birds Movie franchise. Plot TBA.
A plumber and his germophobic son are forced to get their hands dirty to save the residents of an apartment building, when a genetically engineered, blood-thirsty creature escapes into the plumbing system.
Tales of Bravery and Stupidity is a one-man show that moves brilliantly between funny, relatable and surprisingly touching. Using music, stand-up, and storytelling, Bruce McCulloch takes us on a poetic flyover of his life "pursuing stories" and makes an unspoken agreement with the audience to contemplate the world together. Tales combines Bruce's knack for effin' funny observations with his humanistic yearnings, looking at the bravely stupid things he's done, and things we all do as we try and make sense of our messy lives. Bruce performs his show LIVE at The Rivoli in Toronto!
Kate has a huge crush on Jason, her classmate. And as she tries to reunite with him during her senior trip, things get a little messy.
An everyday New Yorker is dumbstruck by the awe and wonder of the tourists populating his relatively bleak surroundings during a lunch break.
University freshman 'Jae-goo' joins the gonggi club with his unrequited love, 'So-hee'?! At first, he only wanted to look good to 'So-hee', but then 'Jae-goo' gradually fell in love with gonggi's charm. 'So-hee' gradually opens her heart to 'Jae-goo', and the two set off for Jecheon, North Chungcheong, in search of a gonggi recluse master. 'Jae-goo' met 'Chang-soo', a recluse gonggi master who is also called 'half air, half sound', passed the test confidently. After becoming a disciple of 'Chang-soo' and becoming a master of gonggi, he encounters gonggi masters scattered all over the country. Credits : HanCinema
The steady boyfriend. The one who got away. The charming rock star. Who will Cami choose? In this interactive rom-com, her love life is in your hands.
Uncle Naji seeks assistance from his Grandfather who lives in Yemen, to support him in getting rid of the daemons in his restaurant, meanwhile, his Grandfather brought with him an artifact willing to sell them in the UAE to help Naji, but he got in trouble with a gang who was looking for Naji's friend Ahmed.
Owen is hiking through the countryside when he meets a strange sheep with human features. The story follows them both as Owen takes the sheep-man into his home and they gradually become friends.
The Queen Aleena Chronicles is centered around one thing: Queen Aleena. Dr. Robotnik is out to conquer Mobius, what else is new, and some of his plans include: marrying the Queen, kidnapping the Queen, stealing the Queen's crown jewel, and unbalancing the peace in the valley of Mobius. It's, of course, up to Sonic and his siblings to stop Robotnik while using the power of music to settle all their feuds.
Secrets of the Chaos Emerald focuses on Sonic, Manic and Sonia as they help Knuckles, Floating Island's stern guardian of the Chaos Emerald, protect the Chaos Emerald from Dr. Robotnik and his henchmen, Sleet and Dingo. If the Chaos Emerald gets into the wrong hands it can be used as a weapon against Sonic and Mobius, but at the same time the Chaos Emerald can be used to save Mobius - there has never been so much pressure on Sonic and his siblings.