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- A biker struggles to balance being a father and being involved in an outlaw motorcycle club.
- A 46-year-old ex-drug addict returns to high school as a freshman.
- The young and fanatical Jon is appointed pastor to a remote church in 17th century Iceland. As is custom, he marries the widow of his predecessor, a woman much older than he is. He is ardent in his fight against Satan, and the villagers don't dare to question his authority. When he falls for a beautiful young woman, Jon is convinced witchcraft is at work, and his crusade leads to cruel executions of innocent people. The stronger his lust, the deeper his madness drives him in his religious fervor.
- A portrait of the relationship between Minako, a girl in junior high deserted by her mother when she was young, and Yu, Minako's younger half-sister who loves to ballet dance. On a whim, Minako takes Yu to the house of their late grandparents near the sea. As she spends time taking care and playing with her little sister, Minako takes on the role of a mother. She reminisces on her own happy childhood. Minako has reached the age when she feels more and more distant from her father, but holds a deeper resentment for her mother who eloped with another man, deserting Minako and her father. Making use of fixed long-shots and panning camera movements, director KINOSHITA Yusuke, effectively represents the changes within a young girl's mentality without depending solely on words. Though the late TERASHIMA Shuji had always been playing "mama's boys" in dramas, this film exceeds his previous works with the strongest point being his fully refined expressiveness. Working with veteran actors and staff, KINOSHITA created an impact unlike other new directors, conveying an uncommon ability in his purposeful direction. The sure-handed camera work poetically tracks the subtle changes in Minako's appearance without falling into sentimentality demonstrating a meticulous care for the material. The film will pull at the audience's heartstrings and leave an impression that a great, new talent has been encountered.
- Turn from playing the piano to playing with swords, and you will get blood on your hands.
- Tourists from Finland, France, Germany, England and the US travel to Iceland to go on a pony trek, run by an Icelandic family, across the wilderness. There is tension between the two young girls, Kaisa and Anette, as they are both interested in Ragnar, who at first seems to care more about his horse, Perla. A mysterious ghost rider appears - bu is he for real? - and there is trouble with a disease spreading among the sheep. As the journey goes along, relationships develop between the various characters.
- After a horrific encounter, Sandy goes on a spiritual and emotional journey to find out if God exists.
- Three online video creators are trying in vain to create a viral video. A darkly comedic tale of the crackpot underbelly of public media where nothing is off-limits in the quest for hits.
- Carolina senses her best friend Ximena drifting towards the popular Mariana. Carolina overhears Ximena's thoughts and joins them at the movies, leading to her first kiss and period. Mariana humiliates her, but Ximena stands by her side.
- Charlie finds herself torn between tough decisions and choices, the newly turned 18-year-old is faced with a difficult choice that isn't even yet her own. As she discovers herself, a new found and uncanny friendship and acceptance, we venture with Charlie through not only the typical ups and downs of teen life going on adulthood, but also not so typical roller-coaster and juggling that this circus that life throws at her.
- Before 9/11, there was an implicit understanding between the INS and immigrant communities that people who had applications pending to legalize their status could reside in the country until an application was approved. After 9/11, and for South Asians and Arabs, the rule changed. The Muslim community, today, is alone among the vast immigrant population to face such targeted enforcement. Out of Status follows four families whose lives were permanently altered, when a member was secretly detained or deported.
- Based on Luke 19 where Jesus tells a few Pharisees that if the people don't cry out, the rocks will. The story begins in a world where people are not talking about Jesus. Suddenly, a rock starts talking to a teenager and tries to get him to tell others about Jesus. He thinks he must be going crazy - and so does his mother. Then he feels ashamed. Finally he decides to try and obey and see what happens...
- In a forest clearing in the middle of the woods, a little mushroom awakes one morning without his hat.
- When Djaner, 7, sat down next to his new classmates on his first day at a German primary school, he could hardly believe it. Lena, whose birthday it was, was given a candle and a pen as a gift. The whole class sang to her. In Macedonia, Djaner's former homeland, school was all about being afraid of being beaten. As a member of the Roma community, he fled to Hamburg with his brother Mamud and his depressive mother. Here, in a country which wants to deport him and his family, he yearns for home. Ghofran, 11, initially hoped she would be leaving Germany again soon. She listens to Arabic hip hop and still lives in Syria in her dreams while her father, Adal is battling for the right to stay forever. At school Ghofran meets girls who can do anything. But which parts of this does she want to accept and what is she prepared to give up for it?
- An Asian woman, Sheena, tries to make it big in the American film industry as a singer, dancer and actress. She wants to win an Academy Award to prove to the world that she is a good professional and not a mere puppet or a doll with no identity of her own. She is inspired by the Fine Arts and battles forces of destruction in the form of an evil fish. Her creative instincts are unleashed so that she can triumph over death and find fulfillment in her work and through her friends. The movie is set in the future in a place and time where there are no limits to human achievement. The cast is multi-racial and the theme is Creativity in the Arts.
- What could be more inviting than checking out a new locale and jumping into a new scene? Especially when experienced through the eyes of a smart, saucy, and blooming young girl named YaYa. YaYa's Wonderful World takes kids on an informational and entertaining jaunt enlightening us all with a fresh angle on cool crowds, jumping joints, and fabulous fare.
- The Faroe Islands - some have already heard of them, few people know where they are located and almost nobody has ever visited them. The group of islands between Scotland and Iceland is home of roughly 50.000 people (and about 70.000 sheep). It still manages to impress with its fascinating landscapes. "The Land Of Maybe" accompanies Faroese people in their everyday life and tries to approach their way of living. In undiscovered sea caves, a traditional restaurant and an iconic record store, the protagonists talk about tradition and modernity, weather and climate and about living and working on the Faroe Islands.
- The film was developed in a workshop with artist Sam Hopkins. Little Short film is a piece that touches upon family relations, modern history, European identity and the organic nature of the spoken language, within the context of auto-ethnography. In a Skype conversation with her mother, director Pia Ilonka is a patient listener to her mother, who engages in what Pia Ilonka can make a film about while in Berlin. The piece is humorous and visually enthralling, as the audience is devoid of visuals apart from the words spoken, which are presented rhythmically onscreen, mimicking the mother - daughter conversation. The words become themselves protagonists, in this dance of colloquial language, which not only underlines the organic aspects of the spoken, but also permits the viewer to create a secondary space, an imaginary space, resulting from a lack of literary visual imagery. The conversation, although trivial, touches upon universal themes such as war, regret, family history and the holocaust.
- Thousands go missing and are murdered in Mexico each year. On September 26th 2014, 7 people were killed and 43 abducted in the town of Iguala. Only one of the abducted students has been confirmed dead by DNA evidence. The remaining 42 are still missing, but evidence strongly suggests they were handed over to a drug gang by local police, murdered and their bodies dumped. This event has led to massive and ongoing demonstrations across Mexico and worldwide. Pesadilla (Nightmare) is an experimental essay reflecting on this particular event, in order to create more conscience about the current situation Mexicans live in.
- Hungarian Lullaby is a journey through time, across space, from woman to woman, linking past to present. It is a quest for the truth, that delves into a vault of secrets, forgotten memories and family history. The film takes us on a pulsating ride across the veins of continental Europe, attempting to create meaning from fragmented information, fragmented stories. It is a personal journey, a feminine and European symphony, an invitation to a world were memories collide and merge with present. A story about making sense of a patchwork, of reaching out a hand to our forefathers, but most of all about understanding where we come from.
- When an old key is left to a young woman by her dying mother, she seeks help from an antique dealer who lost his wife in a teleportation accident. The two try to unravel the meager clues left behind despite the threat of an all-seeing dictatorship's determination to regulate knowledge.
- Carroll Gardens has always been a predominantly Italian neighborhood. Innumerable stories and personal histories line the streets and fill lazy afternoons at the area's social clubs. But many of the families who lived in these narrow blocks have now moved away. Those who remain remember times when folks shared stoops, and mothers baked fresh bread and pasta while men worked on the docks nearby. Though mom-and-pop shops survive, some owners are struggling to pay rent.'Old-timers' don't mingle in the streets as often as they used to, and new transplants prefer trendier restaurants that have sprouted up along Court Street. A longshoreman community center erected in the late 1950s was torn down in April of 2008 to make room for condominiums, and upset community members when no part of the building was preserved and nonunion workers were employed for its demolition.