"Bells of Waiting" - a horror short by Glenn McClanan - tells the eerie tale of Vanessa, a young professional who goes to her ex-boyfriend's apartment to pick up her last possessions, only to discover a chilling secret that changes her life forever.
The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child. Each story explores what it means to belong to a specific community. A Thousand Roads is a fictional work, produced by National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) to explore the human context of the NMAI’s collections. The film is striking visually, and presents through its beauty and its stories an imaginative entry into knowing about Native people living in the vast indigenous geography that comprises the Americas. Rather than presenting a conventional historical perspective, the film is composed of short contemporary fictions about individuals, grounding them in emotional truths to which an audience can easily relate.
A greedy King Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches to gold. He learns his lesson when the food he tries to eat and his own daughter are turned to gold as well. The visitor reappears and offers him the opportunity to return to his old self, which he gladly does.
A 27-year-old woman struggles with identity amid modern city life.
Short tourist film set on a tropical island where a sailor falls in love with a native girl.
When Tom travels across the country to locate the Daughter he never knew, undeniable questions of consequence rise to the surface when he offers a ride to stranded young woman.
The comforts of home are sacred, sweet and beloved. Mark had all of that... a beautiful wife, an angelic daughter, a purpose. His role was simple: To provide and protect. There was just one problem. Mark never learned how to stand up for himself. He lacked self-confidence and avoided confrontation for his entire life. For the most part, his fears went unnoticed and he was able to cloak his nervousness, until the day that everything around him changed. Mark finds himself in the middle of a very dark and terrifying predicament and is left with only one choice. He can stand up and fight, or lay down and die.
A story about love, hate and loneliness, depicting several days from the life of two brothers. They work as track walkers on a railway somewhere in rural Russia.
Saved from shipwreck, a little girl is taken into the protection of the North-African tribal chief and named "Zohra".
In "Falling. Desert. Syn" there is the body of repetition—not of tautology but of smooth resurrection; a body dying and being resurrected in a dance without suffering. A body of the desert, which is not deserted, but instead possessed by a force of attraction towards the sky, a force as strong as the one towards the earth. A body for the stars, the same one which plunges into the underworlds.
As the gap between a burning airplane and the ground gets smaller, one passenger has other things on his mind!
Waste youth - but not with the wrong cigarette brand. Even on the Faroes, being young is an issue of style and distiction. And the difference between "Kings" and "Prince" is the difference between provincial backwaters and the big, wide world
The story of a Grandmother who swims every day in the sea whatever the weather.
A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition...
Hedi, a young man in his thirties, moves into an old apartment where he's going to make an amazing and life-changing discovery.
Vadim, convinced his girlfriend Simona, to make an abortion. His way to the clinic is interrupted by a range of obstacles. Once arrived at the doctor, Simona doesn't find Vadim. Suddenly, Vadim finds himself between life and death. In the end, a miracle happens and resolves everything.
Two guys are arguing about the meaning of life and the purpose of humankind's existence. 'Why do we exist and who are we?' - this is the question.
This 1914 drama set in the WWI-era relates a heroic act carried out by a war nurse for the Red Cross (Dora Tschitorina) who has witnessed the death of her husband (Ivan Mosjoukine).