To escape a marriage arranged by her extremely religious father, a young girl seizes the chance to run away and save more than herself.
2018-09-27
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The story takes place in March 1999, Kosovo. It is the period of NATO bombing. Massive displacement of Albanians on ethnic basis. Terror, fear, insecurity and hunger have plagued the town of Gjakova.
On the 20th anniversary of their edgy little 90's cable show Underground Entertainment, the authors, along with many SF, horror and B celebrities in cameos, remember how they pushed the envelope, shocked, entertained, but also introduced the audience to many movies, comics and conventions.
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I've been following her for a week. I've got to kill Maria.
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Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He decides to stage a play and, with threads of memory, he improvises the lines with his young cast. Telmo dives into his own history and ends up revealing for himself what, being so painful, he'd rather forget.
Pinocchio, an animated wooden puppet tries to escape from his father, Gepetto in a creepy and dark toy factory.
A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.