Alen Smailov / 2nd Alen Smailov
An office worker seeks himself through art.
2024-03-01
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Alen Smailov is my name, And playing the piano is my game.
Set in the sun-drenched landscapes of Okinawa, this heartfelt coming-of-age story follows Teruya Yō, a teenager living with his cheerful single mother, Akane, and younger sister, Mai. Despite their modest life, the family is close-knit and full of warmth. When Yō falls for Lisa, a student at a local dance school, he joins her class—discovering not only his passion for dance but a talent that quickly blossoms. Encouraged by his mother, a former dancer, Yō begins to dream big. The arrival of Hiroki, a music producer and Yō’s estranged uncle, brings news that shatters Yō's hopes of reconnecting with his absent father. As emotions erupt, long-buried truths between mother and son come to light.
“In 2015, Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo released the acclaimed feature documentary SEMBÈNE!, on the life and career of Ousmane Sembène. For the following short documentary, the filmmakers have assembled footage from interviews that were not included in the original film, including musician Youssou N’Dour, activist and author Angela Davis, author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, filmmaker Clarence Delgado, and filmmaker and scholar Manthia Diawara” (Criterion Collection).
About the initial period of the revolutionary activity of the Russian revolutionary Joseph Dubrovinsky (1877-1913, Innokenty is one of the underground nicknames of the Bolshevik), about the years of active propaganda work, a duel with the "king of the Okhrana" Zubatov, exile and the resumption of work underground.
Umid, the internally displaced person (IDP) due to War, loses the set of keys belonging to his house which is currently under occupation. The keys represent the last hope to come back to his house, so Umid still hopes he will be back one day but the accident bears a strong symbolic meaning to him. He interprets it as losing the last hope.
A film adaptation of Valerian Pidmohylny's short story of the same name. The story of the complex relationship between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat during the Bolshevik coup.
A seasoned bouncer is forced to deal with severe consequences after letting two minors slip into the nightclub, he's employed to guard.
Onizuka, a former motorcycle gang member turned high-school teacher is assigned to a private academy full of troubled students. The issue at this high school revolves around an exposé-style influencer who has nearly 2 million followers who specializes in exposing and spreading rumors, causing controversies and uproar, regardless of whether the individuals involved are celebrities or ordinary people. Several teachers and students from the academy have been exposed so far, and due to being targeted so frequently, there are rumors circulating within the school that there might be a culprit impersonating the influencer. As a result, students live their school lives while constantly observing each other’s expressions, becoming increasingly suspicious and paranoid.
Vera lives in a small town, works as a cashier in a bank and brings up her seven-year-old daughter Dasha alone, whom she has been afraid of losing since birth. At the age of three, Vera herself got lost at the train station and ended up in an orphanage. To this day, Vera does not give up trying to find her mother. Unexpectedly, Marina's mother finds Faith on her own. The long-awaited reunion makes a woman incredibly happy. But everything changes when Vera's first love, Andrey, arrives in the city with his fiancee Olesya. Andrey guesses that Dasha is his daughter, and begins to suspect that Vera's mother is not who she pretends to be.
Mid-90s. At first glance, Boris Likhachev, a veteran of the Afghan war, is the most ordinary Russian, peacefully leading a quiet family life on the outskirts of a regional town in which there is no crime at all. Of course, because a few years ago he and his combat commander Alexei Bystrov cleared this city of all criminal elements. After that, their paths parted — Boris Likhachev started a family and lived a quiet life, and his commander became the mayor of the city.
11-year-old Vadim is withdrawn and lonely, his parents are getting divorced. Mom leaves Vadim with his grandfather on Lake Baikal for the whole summer. On the shore of the lake, Vadim gets acquainted with an unusual animal — the Baikal seal. The seal will help the boy find friends and save his parents' marriage.
Laura remembers an affair that just ended: for a few weeks, she and a married doctor, Alec, met every Thursday for lunch in a train station and a movie. They fell in love in this short period together. Based on the story by Noel Coward, and shot for Grupo Bandeirantes' tele-theatre.
Ida Red may not survive her 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.
The story of a rich powerful man who an accident cause his life to change forever.
Tells the story of the struggle to reach dreams and fraternal relations, friendship to romance from Oki Setiana Dewi, Dr. Shindy, and Ria Ricis.
A 15 episode serial in which boy detectives Frank and Joe Hardy try to solve the mystery of a haunted farm where the farmer has died and left no one to care for his livestock. A ghost assists them to prevent the acceptance of a false inheritance claim.