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- A taxi driver, a young girl and a backpacker simultaneously experience a wonderful journey in Tokyo, where they find connections to their own homes in Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia.Throughout their journey, they run into the same Japanese woman named Akiko. Meanwhile, a writer in Paris recalls her encounter with Akiko in Tokyo.
- Water is essential to existence. Our bodies require it, as do our souls. It is the stuff of life and death, of sweat and tears, of need and wonder. Water bubbles through our imaginations, splashes through our forms of play and winds through the tributaries of human spirituality. Yet, as precious as we know water is, we have treated it as if it were infinite and cheap, which has led to an international crisis of epic proportions. One Water is a film that celebrates all the myriad ways water has touched human lives around the globe and explores our changing relationship to water as it grows ever more perilously scarce. The film leaves audiences with a series of provocative questions that culminate in one that will impact all of our futures: is water a human right or a commodity? Through a starkly emotional journey, the audience is invited to bear witness and encouraged to recognize this major global crisis as his or her very own. Filmed in 15 countries in both hemispheres, One Water churns together stirring visual sequences, compelling expert commentary, hypnotic local music and a score performed by the world-renowned Russian National Orchestra to immerse audiences in a direct and exhilarating experience of the meaning of water to humanity. The film highlights a world where water is exquisitely abundant in some places and dangerously lacking in others. Taps flowing with fresh, clean water are contrasted with toxic, polluted waterways that have turned the blue arteries of our planet murky. In India, the story of women and children who walk miles everyday to fetch water of questionable quality unfolds, revealing how the need for water feeds the vicious cycles of ill health and poverty. In Africa and Hungary, the tale of how water washes through daily spiritual life and moments of bliss is explored. Along the Ganges and the Colorado, the devastating drama of once sacred rivers suffering from extreme overuse comes to the fore. And from all over the world, come scenes of how water is inspiring innovation, compassion and hope.
- At the end of the Second World War, Trieste, a city in the north of Italy that had remained in the shadows throughout the conflict, suddenly found itself the focus of great strategic interest. Caught between Italy and Yugoslavia, between the West and the Communist block, it was administrated by America and Britain for no less than nine years. These were the years of Philip Morris cigarettes, of the first blue jeans seen in Europe, of neon signs, nylon stockings, increasingly short skirts, of nights fuelled by martinis and boogie-woogie, and the first Hollywood movies. The American soldier Jim Herring and his Trieste wife Claudia witnessed it all and tell us about those incredible years with the help of never seen archive footage and historical reconstructions. Trieste appeared to be a happy island, but in reality it was revealed to be a powder keg and a nest of spies!
- Imagine being attacked by an enraged hippopotamus. Or finding yourself inside your upside down car in a fast flowing river. Or with a javelin through your neck. They're all true stories. Meet the people who experienced them - and lived to tell the tale.
- A young woman (Symphony) living in Atlanta has a loving boyfriend, great friends and a Grandmother who worries like any other. But one night things change Symphony's life forever. A choice has to be made, kill or be killed.
- Young milkmaid Dasha married Zinovy, who dreamed to leave the village and go to town. Having sent his wife to maternity hospital he decided that it was time to carry out his dreams and left. But Dasha with a child came home and cherished the hope that her husband would change his mind and come back home.
- A heartwarming festive tale of friendship and love. Set in the corner of the forest, Mr Bear and his best friend Mouse excitedly share their joy of Christmas as they plan a party for all their friends with plenty of festive treats. While getting ready for the party, Mouse ventures out into the forest to find some berries, only to get caught in a snowstorm. Despite his best efforts, Mr Bear can't find Mouse and becomes increasingly worried for her as time passes by. However, Mouse finds a nice spot to shelter from the storm, where a kind Robin makes her tea. Mouse suddenly spots the torchlight of her friends in the forest as they are making their way to Mr Bear's party, which helps her to find her way home just in time to celebrate with sherry and mince pies. Based on the illustrated story by Lorna Gibson, who also created this animation. Narrated by Stephen Fry, with music by Andrew Pickering.
- This film is an experimental attempt. The narrative is about an author who is creating some characters for a novel. Author bathes in the middle of the characters. The author's scattered thoughts we see in some of the characters' vague, incoherent activities.
- The experimental short film "Chess" is an attempt towards racial injustice. Although having equal power and characteristics,there are discrimination and conflict in our society. External condition is not a constant truth, it is ephemeral .All have the same ending. Chess is the reflection of it in symbolic meaning.The film ends on a serious note of bringing a sense of anti-racism through the black and white chess pieces and their allocated powers. The main intention is to project a stand against racism. This film is solely dedicated to all those great personalities who raised their voice against racism.
- Lalon Shah was a Baul, mystic, songwriter, singer, social reformer and secular thinker. He has become an icon of religious tolerance and secularism in Bengali culture. It is not known whether he was born in a Hindu or in a Muslim family. Every year on the occasion of his death anniversary, thousands of his disciples and followers assemble at Lalon Akhrah, Kushtia and pay homage to him through celebration and discussion of his songs and philosophy for three days. In 2004, Lalon was ranked number 12 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time.
- Camouflage is a short film about post marital sexual abuse. Where the story of the night of a so-called happy couple unfolds tragically. The image of sexual harassment of the rapist husband has come up in this fiction work. It manages to force her to have sex without his wife's consent.
- After an intoxicated (wealthy) married couple intentionally and maliciously kill the animal of a reclusive (downtrodden) loner, he concocts a plan of revenge, which includes kidnapping them and forcing them to watch videos of how he plans to kill them for 28 days.
- The monument of RAJU signifies a sign of victory, apprehensiveness and unity which proves to be a historical creation of University of Dhaka. In spite of this, a plan of a metro rail through the monument has been passed. This might prove to be fatal for preserving historical facts. In order to keep the glorious history intact we have to awaken ourselves. Awakening from the slumber.
- The effort to decipher the 3-billion-letter human genome is one of the biggest stories in the history of science. In this collaborative production with WGBH's NOVA, host Robert Krulwich of ABC's Nightline follows the highly-publicized race between two teams-The Human Genome Project and Craig Venter's Celera-to accomplish this monumental deciphering, and then moves beyond that milestone to consider the profound medical and social implications it will bring.
- Phantom of the Universe is an an exciting exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to its anticipated discovery at the Large Hadron Collider. The show will reveal the first hints of its existence through the eyes of Fritz Zwicky, the scientist who coined the term "dark matter." It describes the astral choreography witnessed by Vera Rubin in the Andromeda galaxy and then plummets deep underground to see the most sensitive dark matter detector on Earth, housed in a former gold mine. From there, it journeys across space and time to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, speeding alongside particles before they collide in visually stunning explosions of light and sound, while learning how scientists around the world are collaborating to track down the constituents of dark matter.
- Documentarian Abe Benjamin stumbles across an old cassette tape in a thrift store that leads him to investigate the mysterious origin of a bamboo bike and the odd little girl who accompanies it on its journey through time. Unbeknownst to Abe, the Braughman Brothers Security Team are on the hunt for the same bike at the request of their billionaire boss and best friend Joe Panda. Chaos ensues.
- The Revelation is a short narrative film. A dreamer, a talented young artist, walks in the way of her cherished dream. But the story changes its course because of her capriciousness and indifference. Although this changed story came back to her as an unexpected Miracle. For which the artist was not prepared at all.
- It's a narrative experimental approach of life, though not always, actively implements the consensus of expected and unexpected sense of everyday world which is envisaged as a site of out-of-the-way and dispersed stories of ups-downs, success-failures, and hope-despair. Despite being isolated and scattered, the stories could be stitched together in one way or another in an optimum approach to the understanding of the world.
- Alaskan Steel Men, is set in remote Kodiak, Alaska, following the adventures of a team of extreme heavy metal welders. Dennis and his wife Theresa own Quality Marine Alaska and have assembled some of the best welders and pipe fitters in the business. Their weapon in the war against Mother Nature is fire and steel. The conditions in Kodiak are brutal. One mistake can cost lives. From welding underwater in icy cold seas and saving sinking fishing boats, to sealing a crack inside a floating barge that's getting crushed by epic ice flows, the team at QMA takes on the most dangerous emergencies in Alaska. Dennis and his men are fearless, tough as nails and never hesitate to put their lives on the line to get the job done.
- In Bangladesh, Accidents are frequent phenomena nowadays, and we fall victim of it regularly. that is why even death has become natural and meagre, in one sense a weapon of convenience. Social values and duties have got a synonym called fairy tales. Political turmoil and bureaucracy are traumatizing public life. Our works only depict the proverb ''every man for himself"'. Society has turned into a Nifelheim where gratification is dominant, ethics conceals itself in the suffocating cell of anarchic rule. In fact, in the final conversation, it is quite evident that the whole story is Yellow Journalism and a creation of the reporter. It is like a dead society where melodrama is presented by the dead's.
- Her name is Paula. As day breaks over the waking city, she's already at work - looking for clients as she walks a stretch of sidewalk in front of the corner grocery store. She likes handing out dog treats and joining in kids' games. The grocer's son sees Paula as a reassuring mother figure, and he feels emptiness whenever she is away. Inspired by a real-life news item, director Dominic Etienne Simard paints a pulsating portrait of a mixed-use, working-class neighbourhood where young families cross paths with prostitutes, their interactions leaving unpredictable ripples in the motley fabric of urban life. With broad brushstrokes, the filmmaker incorporates Paula's dramatic story into an expressionistic panorama, in which glances between the characters carry emotions and paint strokes reveal their desires. With its hard-hitting story, Paula takes animation into the realm of social filmmaking.
- WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA is a bold examination of the loneliness inside of relationships. The film centers on the strained marriage of Undine Jones, an actress, and John Goodman, a well-regarded composer. The story opens as the two are driving cross-country from New York to California to start over - hoping that the move will renew their relationship. Within weeks, Goodman is back in New York and Undine has begun work on a movie where she is drawn into an instinctively unavoidable relationship with one of the film's crew, Jim Travis. It is through Undine and Jim's connection that the film explores lust, love, intimacy, the past and forgiveness. Traylor's use of the California desert resonates with the search of her characters; in the most barren of landscapes, it finds wildflowers that bloom.
- It's the most intense police series ever. Police POV captures what it's really like to be a cop, with every wild moment caught on TASER'S new AXON camera, from the officer's perspective. All the car chases, drug busts, foot pursuits and struggles with hidden guns, just as the cops see it. You'll never look at law enforcement the same way again.
- In Los Angeles during the holiday season. David (David Guy Levy), a painter, and Enci (Lili Bordán), a Hungarian nanny, meet in a bookstore when he catches her shoplifting on his ever-present flip camera. As they start a tentative relationship, he captures it all on his digital camera, though nothing about the situation is as straightforward as it seems.
- In 1948 the partisan violence whips the Colombian countryside. Liberals and Conservatives face up to death. South of the country in Tolima, conservative official forces brutally kill several liberal farmers, among them the husband of Rosalba Velasco. The young woman, mother of a two years old child, witnesses the massacre and suffers a psychic process of depersonalization and turns out herself an instrument of revenge and death. During one decade her actions will leave as balance an endless number of police and dead civilians and she becomes target of the persecution of the army, the police and the paramilitary bands of the time. The leaders of the Liberal illegal armed bands, opposed to the Conservative Government, try to neutralize Rosalba's excesses and recruit as a militant. The young woman stands out for her courage and gains respect and admiration from his male companions. She will be further known with the alias Sergeant Matacho and will become a legendary personage among the incipient Colombian guerrilla movement. Though a woman emotionally disturbed, she generates around her an inevitable attraction and her life becomes a paradox as she gives birth to several children while killing so many other around her. She dies at hands of the Colombian army when she is on the verge of giving birth a son of Desquite, a famous brigand of the time.
- On March 20th of 1965, Bobby Kennedy became the first human to stand atop a lonely peak in the Canadian Yukon that had just been named to honor his assassinated brother, JFK. His climbing guide was Jim Whittaker, a mountain icon who at 28 had become the first American to summit Mt. Everest. From that solemn trek, Jim-the shy outdoorsman and eventual CEO of REI-and RFK ignited a friendship over their shared love of wilderness. In the following years their lives would intertwine, both men having a profound effect on the other. But their shared path would end with an assassin's bullet. In June of 1968, Jim would look on as Bobby was taken off life support. 50 years later, Jim's son Bobby Whittaker- a legend of the grunge scene- decides that he and his brother Leif must ascend the mountain. Leif, the experienced alpinist, will guide Bobby, as they test their relationship on dangerous ground. When they are joined by RFK's son Christopher Kennedy their trio is complete. Mt. Kennedy's long shadow has loomed in all of their lives for decades. Now, half a century after their fathers' climb, three sons will forge their own paths and find a vantage point above the shadows.
- A Tribeca Film. Will is a young, charming playboy going from one casual affair to the next until he notices friends' happiness in committed relationships. He decides it's time to find a girl he can start the next chapter of his life with.
- Coming back from a business trip, Gabriele Manetti, a young entrepreneur, feels that his life is taking a direction that is different from what he expected. His world, all his beliefs due to his social condition, the relationships with his girlfriend and his friends do not satisfy him anymore. After his journey, he accidentally discovers he has acquired a new ability: seeing beyond appearance and foreseeing the future...
- Declan Holmes is graduating college, a hard enough time as it is, and heading out into the real world. The loss he experiences is like nothing he has ever known before. 'Potential Inertia' is the story of his journey through a very difficult time, and the relationships that can either build you up or tear you apart.
- Fumi and Kazu are life partners, both professionally and privately: they run the first and only law firm in Japan set up by an openly gay couple. The lawyers know all too well the realities of being a minority in a conformist society, where the collective unity is absolute and often maintained at the expense of individual rights and freedom. Not being part of the majority could lead to prosecution by law and alienation by society at large - illustrated by the cases that the two lawyers take on. The individual freedom is viewed as a privilege not a right, and the fundamental human rights of equality and security are only extended to the majority. In a 2014 report, Amnesty International slammed Japan for 'veering away from global human rights standards', while the World Economic Forum places Japan 101st out of 145 countries in the global gender equality ranking, far behind developing countries such as Rwanda and the Philippines. Laws of Love and Other Things follows the two lawyers as they enter into the lives of their clients; each revealing the hidden diversities of the homogeneous and conservative society. As the two lawyers work hard to defend the rights of their clients, they have their own dilemma to deal with - to raise a family of their own in a society where their partnership have no legal recognition or protection. The film explores the universal concept of love, family, and equality with the personal stories of the characters revealing modern Japan in transition. The film also poses the questions - what are the risks of being an outsider in your own country? What happens when you don't belong to the masses?
- A small US Army contingent has been sent to the Atlantic island of Sahrani with the purpose of helping to train the army of the local pro-American monarchy. The Kingdom of South Sahrani, rich in natural resources, has always been at odds with its Northern neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Sahrani. In recent years however, the situation has settled into an uneasy yet peaceful coexistence. But the Democratic Republic of Sahrani sees the training of Southern troops by the US as a threat. When they learn that the US troops have finished their deployment and are in the process of shipping out, the North prepares to strike while a false sense of security still occupies the minds of their Southern neighbors.
- After a mysterious Wish Pickle is delivered to Sesame Street, Elmo, Abby and Bert see their wishes to have jobs coming true; the three learn that if they believe in themselves and work hard, they can be anything they want to be without needing magic.
- One day, Miu Takigawa suddenly receives a letter notifying her that she has been chosen as a member of a brand-new project. Half in disbelief, she heads over to the location stated on the letter. There, she finds seven other girls summoned there in the same fashion. The girls behold a giant, top-secret facility. They stand in bewilderment as they are told they are going to debut for a major record label as an idol group. A new kind of idol, never-before-seen, is about to be born here.
- A filmmaker interviews various atheists about what they value in life, in the absence of religion.
- Sir Doug & The Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove tells the story of Doug Sahm, the wild man musicians' musician and unsung hero of Texas music. A country music child prodigy and teenage rhythm & blues dynamo who caused a riot at his San Antonio high school, Sahm emerged as an international rock star leading the Sir Douglas Quintet. He landed in San Francisco just in time for the Summer of Love in 1967. He returned to Texas as the cowboy hippie rocker who built a burgeoning music scene in Austin in before forming the Tex-Mex super group The Texas Tornados. A kinetic, quirky character with a solid sense of place as well as an innate wanderlust, Doug Sahm's story is the story of Texas music.
- The elderly nursing home residents for years feel worthless and troublesome. But they want to be useful and experience something uncommon at the end of their lives. As unusual idea strikes their mind - to waive their pensions and enroll in the army as volunteers thus saving the country from financial crisis and spending excitingly the last years of their lives. The oldies are wise enough at organizing this event and adventures begin. The culmination of it all is the participation of the old people's army unit in NATO joint maneuvers.
- Li Zheng band Li Ying are two brothers the owners of a dating agency called "True Love Club" Your business is going very well, but everything changed when Xiao Feng is passed by a sweet love, who is interested in the agency to prove the relationship with their supposed "future wife", the beautiful psychiatrist Fei . What they do not know is that this regular case ends up in an unexpected and fun mess.
- As a child, Michael Stock was sexually abused - by his own father. 25 years later he is still looking for inner peace. In conversations with his family and friends and his own reflections, he paints an ever clearer, if contradictory picture of what happened and of the consequences for each of the family members. Old family films seem to show a happy family - excerpts from Michael's first feature film hint at his extreme adult life, overshadowed by his lifelong trauma. Yet in spite of the intense drama, the film doesn't have an atmosphere of anger and hatred but rather a surprising air of hope and love of life. Michael's aim is not to accuse the "perpetrator" but to understand. In the end, he takes his video "Postcard" to his father. With the camera running, he confronts him with his past.
- Tells the stories of how self-organizing online networks threaten to change the fabric of government forever.
- Adolescent and from a modest neighborhood, Ana has spent her years in front of a sewing machine, working to support her two younger brothers and silently enduring the abuse of a pervert stepfather and an indifferent mother. Her hearing impairment has made marginalized her in a world that refuses to listen to her, becoming her in an object of use of who are around her. Unable to resign herself that her brothers will suffer the same fate, Ana decides to save them, embarking on a trip to freedom.
- Surfing since as young as he can remember, at the age of 13, Sage is crippled by fear after suffering a wipeout on a huge wave. The wave slammed him to the bottom and held him pinned there without air until he nearly died. With his whole life still ahead of him yet now paralyzed by fear, Sage no longer surfs the waves. But unable to ignore the mystical and powerful pull of the ocean, he fishes in the surf, and finds more than he bargained for.
- Jimmy Tupper is a no one, he's nothing. He spends his days working at a Starbucks in Suburban Maryland and spends his nights drinking and playing Rock Band. His friends see him as the resident stoner and waste of space. One night they decide to pull a prank on poor Jimmy, and while he is passed out drunk they leave him in the middle of the woods. The next day Jimmy is nowhere to be found. When he finally emerges from the woods he is beaten and bloodied and making outlandish claims. He claims to have seen a monster, the famed "Goatman" of Bowie. His friends believe this to be the drunken ramblings of an over excited nitwit, but Jimmy knows better. He heads to the woods determined to capture footage of the elusive creature. Was Jimmy only dreaming? Did he really see a monster? Only time, and Jimmy's video camera, will tell.
- Tom Brokaw shares the personal odysseys of people who lived through the chaotic decade of the 1960s.
- Reynardo the Fox is a clever rogue, but he's not as clever as he thinks. He's got himself sucked into a Rebellion against the mad Emperor, and now he's got fateful choices to make. Should he rescue his oldest friend, the shiftless Lapino; wield a gem cursed by a dead god; or resurrect a weapon lost at the beginning of time? Worse, he's still in love with the Emperor's adopted daughter, who he met in sword fu school. He's got dozens of ways to screw this up; but can he find a way to win his war?
- Bear is dropped in the Scottish Highlands, the wildest UK region, notably Cairngorm National Park, every year still quite risky for its many tourists. The unforgiving winter elements scourge Bear with icy wind, cold and precipitation, so he must regularly seek shelter in between threading carefully on snow, ice, slippery moss and sliding pebbles or dealing with snowy slopes with avalanche risk, a rotting deer carcass is inedible but can be skinned for a coat, alas too heavy to carry long. Food and potable water are scares, so he purifies with moss and sets rabbit snare traps yielding a glorious meal. Bear strips to his boxers to keep his clothes dry when he must cross water, notably the murky marshes which can act as quicksand.
- Bear starts a testing journey trough tropical Ecuador paragliding down in the Andes, then works his way down into the Amazon jungle, trying to follow the course of water gradually swelling into a mighty stream, passing a cave requires getting over his aversion from bats. Wildlife is abundant, yet food not so easy to get, even if you know some local tribal techniques. He eats both a crucifix spider and giant larvae for the protein, making him all the more happy when a self-made bow and arrow allow him to fish-hunt in pools, for piranhas who aren't numerous enough to be dangerous, yet tasty. A bamboo bridge he constructs crashes to useless rubble, for lack of a canoe he braves the rapids on a tree trunk.
- After sky-diving down, Bear crosses the vast, scorching-hot Mexican Copper canyon, south of the US border. Bear finds the dehydrating heat by day -and icy nights- his greatest challenge while climbing up and down high, steep, unpredictable cliffs. The arid land, surprisingly varied with volcanic hot springs, waterfalls and a glacier, offers little water and sustenance, so he must filter unpolluted pools or finds steaming water and eat what he can catch, like fat grubs and tail-removed scorpions. Exploring a cave with a self-made torch, Bear braves his animal phobia, bats, and is delighted to find a river section with fish he can catch by hand after building primitive rock dams at both sides.
- A place with nebulous frontiers and laws. Characters captured in an existence whose outlines flee the camera's gaze. Such is the world of the old fairground located in the Arab League Park in Casablanca that Randa Maroufi leads us into. Actions frozen in gestures of exchange, expectation and aggression are played out following a score conducted by the artist who, in the manner of Eric Baudelaire, uses composition to explore reality. But this reality is also virtual, for these scenes come in part from a repertoire of violent self-representations found on the Internet. The artist reprises their vocabulary. Violence, she tells us, is a language, and its interpretation is a matter of context. A strange vitality emanates from the gentle immobility of the silent travelling shot that drifts through the scenes acted out by the local inhabitants, whether simply passing through or precarious residents. Like the roughness of the vegetal and urban architecture of the abandoned park, these existences are not festive, yet they celebrate life's endurance, a vital energy that is hidden yet tenacious. Maroufi's Le Park escapes along each hidden path, leading us on in a gentle dream whose outcome is never revealed to us. Indifferent to our presence, it murmurs its silent rhythm. These scenes, these lives - the artist began by approaching them with restraint, then trust, and always with respect. Without ever seeking to appropriate the indomitable park or the existences that inhabit it, Maroufi leads us into an intimate world on the threshold of an intensity at once real and fantasised. The artist thus draws, incisively yet delicately as if with a metal tip, a forgotten tale at the heart of the city but on the margins of the world.
- Even by Australian Outback standards, Kimberley is a vast and desolate wasteland, home to an inhospitable wildlife with a record concentration of poisonous species. Bear braves it, paying due tribute to traditional Aboriginal survival skills, showing how stranded tourists may still hope to get out alive. Even he wrestles with the scorching heat, leaving most of the and dry and very hard to find water or food, so you can't be picky, eating anything not dangerous and drinking what you can, even recycling your own filtered fresh urine. After a storm in a hastily improvised shelter, Bear heads for the marshy lands near the coast, with a healthy respect for crocodiles, the sweet water being dangerous enough, but seaworthy 'salties' are believed to bite harder the tyrannosaurus, and aggressive in breeding season like then, yet Bear must prepare to wade or dive croc-infested, murky waters.
- 10,000 days ago, Comet 23 struck the Pacific Ocean with the magnitude of all the nuclear weapons in the world going off at once. The Beck family was among the lucky few who survived the heat blast and fire storms. Then the freezing began. The comet knocked the Earth away from the sun, encasing the planet in snow and ice. For those who survived, life was violent and dangerous. The daily battle wasn't just against the punishing climate but against each other for the basic necessities that meant life or death. Still, the weather was growing colder and the ice was expanding. Villages were being crushed by violent tremors. And then the Becks found an object from the past, buried deep in the ice. And with it came a choice. A choice that could either save them or destroy them.