Joan has needed a vacation for a long time. There are people and events that are hell bent on keeping her from having a peaceful moment with her husband Craig. Joan will not allow anyone or anything to stand in her way. 2019 Short Film Submission for 48 Hour Film Project
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10.0Three teenage best friends endure family life trials and tribulations. All while battling the effects of a COVID-19 quarantine and social unrest.
8.5The movie narrates the tale of Hamirji Gohil, a brave warrior who fought against the Tughlaq Empire to protect the Somnath Temple and the Hindu faith.
8.0Making of documentary surrounding the production of ‘Anora’
4.6In 1970, a man is tortured and murdered by the regime's secret police. Now nearly 40 years later, his friend, who had also been tortured, recognizes the man he deems responsible for the murder of his friend. Along with three old friends and the victim's daughter, they kidnap the man and take him to an isolated house. Once there, the concepts of justice and revenge begin to mix dangerously in a private trial with irreversible consequences.
4.3Two brothers from a dysfunctional family chase their respective dreams while engaging in other bizarre antics. One brother dreams of becoming a manga artist and the other wants to be a professional baseball player.
3.6The first gay-themed film produced in Cuba by the Institute of Cinema since Strawberry & Chocolate in 1993. The theme, however, is the same as in Guttiérerez and Tabìo's film: homophobia, machismo and fear. The fatal attraction between Alfredo, a doctor in the merchant navy, and handsome Carlos starts in a rundown Havana bar and ends at the sailor's house. But Alfredo's flirting and seducing of Carlos immediately turns into something complicated, ambiguous, dangerous. In a claustrophobic, tense atmosphere, their bodies are powerfully attracted, and the words, though violent, intensify the level of sensuality. Does each man kill the thing he loves? Evoking dreamlike atmospheres and characters, 80-year-old veteran director Enrique Pineda Barnet openly references Fassbinder's Querelle and Jean Genet. Quite controversial in its approach, the films demonstrates the milder attitude of Raul Castro's regime towards Cuba's LGBT Community.
5.0Anna is a woman who sells flowers at the local market and whose only hope and joy in her life is her only son Amaurys. Raul, Amaurys' best friend, involves him in a drug deal which results in his death.
4.6A young couple and their daughter move into a rambling old house. Soon, an increasingly alarming string of events and supernatural disturbances connects the house, and them, with a series of unsolved murders committed three years earlier. They are the only living witnesses, but for how long?
3.0Behind their conservative middle-class exterior, a young couple runs a highly successful sex fantasy magazine. Ironically, to spice up their marriage, the wife responds to a fantasy ad submitted to a magazine, but her new penpal is the prime suspect in a brutal murder.
5.0This short film narrates the life of Rebeca, a woman who works as a receptionist in a hotel, who, despite having explored her most intimate feelings, has not been able to find her capacity to love.
5.0Towards the end of the Shahanshah's reign, Sergeant Makvandi is assigned the commander of the gendarmerie station in a small town. A stern disciplinarian, Sergeant Makvandi tries to impose order at the station but, being as degenerate as his subordinates, he fails to re-store discipline. faced by rebellious crowds, he imposes martial law, but people outwit him by mailing to his address a forged letter which "promotes the sergeant and ends the curfew". Makvandi tries to intimidate a school teacher into writing a song which he wants the students to sing on the day his "promotion" comes into effect. But the teacher refuses to give in, for he and his students are preparing to sing a new song, the song of revolution.
5.2A road trip after graduating from high school is the setting of this independent feature film, in which four fundamentally different teenagers set off to Portugal together to find themselves, their purpose in life, and great freedom after school.
5.6Saturnino Farandola: Raised by monkeys, taken in by sailors, captain of a frigate. He sets off to chart unknown worlds with his loyal crew. Beneath the sea he encounters love in the person of Mysora the beautiful. On land he comes up against a mad wise man, a Machiavellian mandarin and bloodthirsty Apaches, but nothing will be able to stop his desire to explore.
5.0An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
9.5Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these events.
5.5A romantic comedy about teenage life on campus. It tells the story of the friendship that develops between Jojo (Johana) and Faramy, since they were kids all the way through college. Things begin to change when they're assigned to oversee the induction of a group of junior students as Faramy secretly falls for one of the students in the group, Ayu. As Faramy and Ayu's relationship gains strength, Jojo is left feeling left out and neglected. At the same time, she receives an offer to go on an exchange student program to Australia and also gets to know a guy called Johan, making Faramy jealous. Both Faramy and Jojo feel the strain as they try to distance themselves from each other. Will Faramy stop Jojo from going to Australia? And what's the conclusion to the battle of egos between them?
0.0Sheila is the spoilt daughter of Dato Ismail. Ever since she was young she always got what she wanted and now, tired by her attitude, her father offers her a challenge; run his company for two months. Accepting the challenge, Sheila becomes the 'lady boss' of the company, but things are not all smooth-sailing for the obnoxious Sheila.
7.5A Swiss mayor and a Chinese watchmaker living in the Jura decide to organize the semi-finals of Miss China in Switzerland.
6.7The TGV? No, it is not the famous French high-speed train, but instead the rickety and colourful bus operated, driven, repaired and, if need be, pushed by the intrepid "Rambo". This time, the trip between Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and Conakry, the capital of Guinea, is outright dangerous: the road crosses the territory of the Bijagos, who have launched an unexpected and violent insurrection. Rambo finds several odd passengers (with a handful of sheep) who are ready, for various legitimate or untold reasons, to take every risk to reach Conakry. And the TGV sets off on an eventful journey...
6.0A submerged self wakes up in a laboratory. Gradually we understand that it's the subjective experience of Ypsilon, a human brain being kept alive artificially.
0.0In a fictional West African town, black-on-black political corruption exists "from the bedroom to the president's palace" as a mother fights for custody of her child, and a money-laundering scheme determines a government rice contract.
3.0Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, challenges him to a duel and is killed. He before him curses Rodrigo, that if he marries Jimena, he will lose his manly faculties. And, in fact, when he gets married, Rodrigo becomes effeminate.
3.5The two brothers Bobby-John-Joe and Billy-Bob-Earl St. John live with their alcoholic mother on a farm in the Wild West. Suddenly, their missing father Jerry-Lee-Larry reappears. He disappeared twenty years ago with his daughter Jill-Sarah-Mae-Jennifer. He claims that Jill was abducted. But as it turns out, Pa is a wanted crook. Ma St. John sends her sons to town to have him picked up by the sheriff.
5.4A film that celebrates the aspiration of Bobby, who wants to become the number one detective in the old city area of Hyderabad.
6.9After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.
6.1Sena has had a care-free deco-truck business, but one day, she receives a strange request by a cheap hoodlum, Takizawa, to carry a blind stripper, Azumi, to a certain location. She reluctantly accepts it, but yakuza members begin a persistent search for Takizawa, who turns out to have stolen their company’s money. Here comes the long-awaited new deco-truck series featuring the idol, Saori Hara, rolling down the highway on a ton of love, action, and steam!
0.0In the middle of the deep African forest exists a jungle tribe led by a shaman-queen Nilüfer (Cavidan Dora). One of the Turkish journalists who arrive there falls in love with her and tries to bring her to Istanbul.
6.2Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.
6.0A man tells his wife a trifling lie, but it involves him in a difficult situation and almost ruins his marriage.
9.73 robot-themed episodes from various Scooby-Doo series. First stop is Cyber Gulch, where the Mystery, Inc. gang must solve the riddle of the man-a-trons or get terminated in Go West, Young Scoob. En route to Florida, Freddy runs into a real Monster Truck at a championship stock car race in Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters. Buckle up for a roller-coaster ride of fun and fear in Foul Play in Funland when the gang discovers a fully operated amusement park...with nobody in it! Will they find the phantom in the Hall of Mirrors? Stay tuned for more escapades with Scooby-Doo - and watch out for those robots!