A simple game of 'fetch' is Mutt's only desire in exchange for his loyalty and hard work, but the harsh taskmaster, Mac, is too busy to play - obsessing over the meager income from the milk of the farm's cow, Matilda. When Mutt turns to the cow to play, the milk suddenly stops and the only hope for survival is Mac's acknowledgment of their co-dependence. Written by Circe Films
A simple game of 'fetch' is Mutt's only desire in exchange for his loyalty and hard work, but the harsh taskmaster, Mac, is too busy to play - obsessing over the meager income from the milk of the farm's cow, Matilda. When Mutt turns to the cow to play, the milk suddenly stops and the only hope for survival is Mac's acknowledgment of their co-dependence. Written by Circe Films
2008-01-01
5.2
Janie Sawyer, an American teenager, is forced to live in Moscow because of her father's job. Janie is trying to escape her lonely life in Moscow through her deep love of music and the internet. Janie and Lana Starkova meet on a fansite for the pop-band t.A.T.u. Trapped in a small Russian town, Lana wants desperately nothing more than to flee her mundane life causing the two girls to develop an instant connection through their love of t.A.T.u.'s music.
A serial killer and the detective who tracked him down find themselves in an unexpected stalemate.
Director Wang Yixin’s first feature film. The story portraits a photographer obsessed with the image in a film camera, during the time passed this obsession creates a chemical between he and the model of being photographed, the independence of the camera and its ontological structure is being challenged and reversed
Road movie documentary through half a century of filmography by Želimir Žilnik. But also a journey through the history of Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists. With the specific style of docudrama that he built over the years, Zilnik managed to stay engaged and brave, but above all free, by making low-budget films for decades. We follow the efforts of his team to finish the film "Freedom or Comics", which was seized by censorship 50 years ago, and which was recently accidentally found. The story of an uninterrupted struggle for disenfranchised social and minority groups who are constantly the main heroes of Žilnik's films.
A young photographer's home is haunted by it's former residents.
Ryan is a dancer who just can't seem to get laid. When his best friend Dustin tries to intervene, everything gets tipped on its head and what Ryan was really looking for all along was right in front of him.
Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a kiss. As she starts up she drops the necklace in the grass and their efforts to find it prove futile. Sam promises to buy her one to replace it, thinking it was her own properly. He has her minutely describe it that he may get an exact duplicate. Meanwhile, the governess has found the necklace and given it to its owner, Mazie, who is unknown to Sam. He sees it on Mazie's neck and after a chase insists on purchasing it.
A young college student is given a disturbing ultimatum when a dark secret from his past is resurrected.
A girl gives birth to an owl creature and this monster rallies all its furry friends into a bloody revolt against the humans for their savage behavior.
Creampuff is an intense and darkly romantic short film about Robert and Jack, two men snared between desperation and disgust and clinging to a destructive, dependent relationship as a last stand against despair and pain. As they prepare a birthday celebration for Jack's daughter, tensions escalate and the relationship strains to breaking point. When Jack's ex-wife, Suzanna, arrives without his daughter, Jack is devastated. Creampuff is an exploration of the craving for and power of intimacy and the grace of love beyond affliction.
Madrid is the meeting point of eleven stories of people in physical and spiritual transit. Eleven honest and direct stories, young and necessary as their protagonists, that arise from the pedagogical, therapeutic and cinematographic experience of the Inside Cinema School organized by Pedro Sara and Violeta Pagán (The sensitive ages of light) in Matadero Madrid. Eleven new stories that speak of life and hopes, of borders and territories, of growth and survival. An exciting polyphonic story that brings us closer to the here and now.
A depressed young man, Benjamin, falls victim to a corporate pharmaceutical clinic, Apex, who have developed a revolutionary new drug which suppresses physical and emotional pain. But at what cost?
Instructions for Polygamy addresses adult comedy from taboos and current themes: Pregnancy as a product of consumption, virtual links as affective delivery, sex toys as a possibility of exploring one's own enjoyment; plus tensions between hedonism, responsibility or individual interaction, marriage. And between these tugs arises the entanglement. Adult comedy entertains, opens debate, proposes refection. However, with some exceptions, it has long been completely absent from Argentine Cinema
Rick Stein sets out on his German voyage with his usual appetite to unearth some of the country's hidden culinary gems. As always, Rick seeks out enticing fishing opportunities and is on the hunt for the most tantalising seafood - but this journey is different to most because it is one that is very close to Rick's heart. Although Rick has always known he was of German descent, he knows very little of his German family - but the one thing he is sure of is that he wouldn't have the business he has today without them. In the early 70s, he inherited £10,000 from a great uncle that he never knew, money that provided him with a great investment in his restaurant.
When a couple buys a scenic mountain retreat from a deceased woman's estate, her abusive son becomes vengeful about being uprooted from the only home he's ever known. Now, facing eviction, the son holds a grudge against the new owners and their children.
A group of government workers: their happy-go-lucky circumstance, failed responsibilities, and reckless work ethic. It delves into the world of a government agency where non-stop discussion of intrigues and personal frailties is the order of the day.
Lewis Klahr has started a new series of short animation films under the title of 'Couplets'. The project is intended to eventually result in a feature-length animation film. The theme is love, and each part focuses on a pop song. Wednesday Morning Two A.M., the powerful opening of this huge project, tells the story of a lost love. The music is by The Shangri-Las.
Cleveland's Screaming is a documentary movie about the Akron and Cleveland, Ohio hardcore punk scene of the early 1980s. Documentaries about punk rock always focus on what was happening in London, New York or L.A. But Brad Warner and his friends didn't live in "happening" places like that. Like thousands of other kids all over the country in those days, they made their own scene in their own town out of nothing.
Dog racing is used as a metaphor for the futility of human existence.
Follow a day of the life of Big Buck Bunny when he meets three bullying rodents: Frank, Rinky, and Gamera. The rodents amuse themselves by harassing helpless creatures by throwing fruits, nuts and rocks at them. After the deaths of two of Bunny's favorite butterflies, and an offensive attack on Bunny himself, Bunny sets aside his gentle nature and orchestrates a complex plan for revenge.
In this animated short, a terrible curse deprives Balthasar's kingdom of its stories. Taking the unicorn's horn back into The Belly of the Earth is the solution. Poppety will lead an expedition, by chance uncovering a hitherto closely guarded family secret.
Mad God is a fully practical stop-motion film set in a Miltonesque world of monsters, mad scientists, and war pigs.
When the clock strikes twelve in a toy store a bunch of paint tubes come to life.
Animation film about boy Ivashka's adventures in the country of fairy tales.
Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to 'Peanut Vendor', a 1931 jazz hit for Red Nichols. The two foot high monkey had bolted, moveable joints and some 50 interchangeable mouths to convey the singing. To get the movements right, Lye filmed his new wife, Jane, a prize-winning rumba dancer.
Flint must quickly alter his plans for a romantic date with Sam after his monkey-cleaning invention goes awry.
Flint's mischievous gummy bear grows to 50-feet by using his new food-modifying invention.
The Foodimals join Earl's scouting program but are very competitive.
A deliciously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
In the year 2150, Johnny, a lazy Space Delivery Man, must deliver a package on a planet he does not fully understand.
Ebenezer Scrooge is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the guidance of some new found friends, Scrooge learns to embrace the spirit of the season. A retelling of the classic Dickens tale with Disney's classic characters.
A trippy pop-art collage of phallic objects, naked women and American icons, most notably Elvis Presley.
A young llama named Koro discovers that the grass is always greener on the other side (of the fence).