1919-01-01
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A wealthy theatre owner decides to leave his wife for a dancer.
An industrialist badly in need of money hopes to marry his daughter off to a rich suitor, but she only has eyes for her penniless childhood sweetheart.
A young man tries to make sense of the world in the summer heat of late nineties Estonia.
This two-part film examines the plight of the working class. In part one, an elderly factory laborer goes to work in his last days before he is forced to retire. He leaves the factory life he has always known and goes home to his wife. In the second part, a young farm boy goes off to an industrial trade school to prepare for the very work the old man left behind. The old man loses his freedom by forced retirement while the young man loses his freedom by becoming a worker faced with a lifetime of factory work.
Magda (Young) rebels against the harsh treatment she receives from her stern father (Edward Kimball). She ultimately escapes from home with aspirations to become a singer. She is betrayed by Kellner (Edward Fielding), a friend of the family, but she also becomes a great success.
Naive 16 year old Rosi paints butterfly pictures and day-dreams of a better world, abhorring the conducts of Else, Laura, Max and and an immoral cavalier. [16-minute segment survives.]
In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing- the cult of Saint Death. This female grim reaper, considered a saint by followers but Satanic by the Catholic Church, is worshiped by people whose lives are filled with danger and/or violence- criminals, gang members, transvestites, sick people, drug addicts, and families living in rough neighborhoods. "La Santa Muerte" examines the origins of the cult and takes us on a tour of the altars, jails, and neighborhoods in Mexico where the saint's most devoted followers can be found.
When Chloe's grandmother gets diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she's forced to become a stay-at-home teenager overnight.
Sophie Hagan, a retired nurse, turned her home into a Transitions Shelter. The lives of a terminally ill woman, an alcoholic magician, a PTSD veteran, a young drug addict and a grieving mother are explored in the 'Cottonwood' residence.
An experimental portrait of the North American commercial fishing industry through the lens of GoPro cameras placed on a fishing vessel off the coast of New England.
Collection of documentary shorts by various acclaimed directors
A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.