An old man’s relationship with animals evolves and changes forever when a young boy enters his lonely life.
An old man’s relationship with animals evolves and changes forever when a young boy enters his lonely life.
2015-04-11
7.2
For the thirtysomething Sheng Ruxi, whose surname unmistakably echoes the slang term "sheng nu" (leftover women), the wait for a perfect partner is growing more despairing by the day. With an ultra-anxious mother who would rather die than see her daughter stay single, Ruxi is further annoyed by the doctor she’s fixed up with. Could her new colleague, the dashing 25-year-old Ma Sai, offer last-minute salvation?
During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man. The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.
After washing his hands, Hu Bayi helped his friend Uncle Ming go to the South China Sea to salvage the pearls. Unexpectedly, he encountered a shipwreck and fell to the bottom of the sea, but accidentally found a thousand-year-old ruins of an ancient country that sank at the bottom of the sea. They went through many hardships and dangers at the bottom of the sea, and finally united to defeat the deep-sea beasts, and cleverly used the equipment in the ruins to escape.
When a world is devoured from any sense, a lonely man looking for missing people experiences the meaningless of life and death.
An emblematic figure in the defense of Berber culture, Mouloud Mammeri (1917-1989) experienced numerous confrontations with the authorities in Algeria, including the suspension in 1973 of the teaching of Berber at university and the ban of the conference he was to deliver on March 10, 1980 at the University of Tizi Ouzou on ancient Kabyle poetry... which will be the detonator of the powerful and harshly repressed cultural demands movement of April 1980, also called the Berber Spring. Mouloud Mammeri is one of the "historians" of French-speaking Algerian literature from the middle of the last century who, through his pen, gave back the soul to a country by giving it back its voice.
Documentary about mass actions on the streets of Kyiv between 1989 and 1991 just before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Amar Kanwar’s A Season Outside is a thought provoking quest to investigate the futility or validity of violence. The film employs several codes of conflict and discord—from the territorial border of India and Pakistan to visuals of Tibetan refugee settlement— to satiate the curiosity to posit violence as a credible response to hurt and harm. It questions its worthiness as device to exact revenge on the transgressor.
2023 marked the thirtieth anniversary of Maroun Baghdadi’s sudden and tragic death. Maroun was a Lebanese filmmaker who wrote and directed films during the Lebanese civil war and contributed to documentary and fiction filmmaking from 1973 up until his death in 1993. In this film, Feyrouz Serhal embarks on a day trip in Beirut and navigates the city that profoundly shaped Maroun’s journey in life and cinema. Here she encounters individuals who were close to him and who shared his experiences. And as she traverses Maroun’s life and career, the social and political backdrop moves to the foreground. The film reflects on the last fifty years of the history of the country from a present standpoint. Through Maroun’s story, we perceive how cinema can, beautifully and dramatically, portray our stories and discourse our life events..
A wandering samurai is plagued by visions of a beautiful woman killed by his own blade.
Rocker Nils Lofgren, onetime backup for Neil Young and Crazy Horse and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band but also an exceptionally gifted solo performer in his own right, headlines the concert film Nils Lofgren & Friends: Live Acoustic. The 'friends' of the title include musicians Mary Ann Redmond, Buck Brown, Tommy Lofgren, Mark Lofgren, Mike Lofgren, Paul Bell, Jeffrey 'Skunk' Baxter. The venue is the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia; on its stage, Lofgren and his fellow players perform eighteen numbers before a roaring crowd
Luigi Cozzi's memories about the production of Dario Argento's "4 mosche di velluto grigio".
A business competition between two bakso (meatball) sellers that has been going on for a long time. One day the misunderstanding between the two that made this cold war culminated. The two insisted on accusing each other that a rival stall was using "pesugihan" (deal with the devil)
A cruel sea captain (Charles Middleton) oversees a rough crew.
The experience of being reunited in the ancestral home where they spent many years of their lives prompts two brothers to reminisce.