An archeologist travels to the Canary Islands’ cave dwellings as part of his quest to discover the remains of the indigenous inhabitants of the islands. An essay film, composed of archival footage, on the complex map of power that constructs historical discourse..
As Bolivia stages the 50th anniversary of Ernesto "Che" Guevara’s death, Julia, an old countryside teacher is invited to share her historical story with the world: Giving a bowl of soup to the captured guerrilla in her classroom, while he recited a poem about flowers to her a few hours before his death. The invitation is withdrawn soon after, as other women step forward claiming the story of “the soup and the flower” as their own..
A new father could not be more happy about the birth of his first son...until he learns that the baby is not biologically his. In spite of everything, he raises the child as his own..
Alors que son précédent film abordait la question de la paysannerie par le biais de la crise sanitaire majeure du XXe siècle (vache folle) et sous la forme d’une fiction (Petit Paysan, César du Meilleur Premier Film 2018), Hubert Charuel raconte cette fois les transformations du métier, d’un point de vue personnel. Alors que son père prend sa retraite, sa mère doit réadapter sa façon de travailler et les conditions d’exploitation de son troupeau de vaches. Elle devra les déménager vers une ferme industrielle, ultra-moderne..
The action of the picture develops in the troubled 20s of the last century, in the taiga Siberian outback. On the periphery of historical events, the heroes of the film argue about faith. All of them will have to go through trials and find out if their faith is strong or is it just a mask under which they hide their weaknesses? Everyone answers this question in their own way. What are the words of the film characters and beliefs in the face of death? The events of one day and one night divide the life of the heroes into “before” and “after”..
This is about a father and his daughter who has been injured from the mines from Iran-Iraq war..
A woman very dedicated to God has a daughter, which forces her to pray at all times, but she does not think like her mother, and has another way to do it. She worships the devil and is owned by him!.
Set on a modern kibbutz, as the spectre of an Arab invasion lurks in the backgroun,d and financial pressures are breaking down traditional communal values, a series of fragile, interwoven stories mirror this disintegration of collective ideal..
The film showcases the opening of the Dnepr water-power plant..
Names of Revolution recalls the memories of those who participated in the struggle to rewrite the history of the “Busan-Masan Democratic Protests,” which has been under-represented in modern Korean history. As the then college students, seamstresses, mold technicians, combat police, workers, bus drivers, advertising planners, and photojournalists pour out their memories from over 40 years ago before the camera, vivid words come to life..
Religiously themed early Soviet propaganda film in Azerbaijan against Islam. Unlike earlier propaganda films in the region, this was actually made by an (nearly) all Azeri cast and crew and directed by an Azeri filmmaker that would go on to be famous amongst his own people, despite his early collusion with the new ruling government. At the center of the film is a greed Molla (holy man in Azeri Islam) who has been cheating one of the local peasants for years out of all types of goods and services, and then delighting over his success in an very un-religious, specifically un-Islamic, way. Once the Revolution takes place and the Bolsheviks arrive, the peasant is empowered and realizes the deception on the part of the Molla and takes him to the newly set up "People's Court," where is finds justice and the Molla is punished..
In this dark love triangle that proceeds with the inexorable logic of a Greek tragedy, a dedicated wife in a small Vietnamese fishing village secretly turns to another man when her husband is unable to give her the child they both crave — but the surrogate father's crazed jealousy will have fateful consequences. (TIFF).
The film is about the public prosecutor who fought against the criminality but was killed by them..
Hamed leaves his hometown and goes to Cairo to work as a gatekeeper in a building. He marries Fathia, who comes to live with him in Cairo. Fathia gradually learns to read and write and she aspires to work in a good job while Alaa who lives in the building tries to woo her..
17-year-old Sheng is fascinated by photography. He not only takes photos but makes his own films. In fact, Sheng has been bullied by his schoolmates..
Cinematic memorial, designed to echo the names and memories of the underage victims of forced disappearance during the military dictatorship..
Sous le nom de Melville retrace le parcours de Melville pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l'impact que cette expérience personnelle de la guerre et de la Résistance a eu sur l'ensemble de son œuvre de cinéaste, ainsi que, indirectement, sur celle de ses héritiers. Le film comporte des éléments d'entretiens avec des cinéastes comme Johnnie To ou Masahiro Kobayashi qui viennent éclairer a posteriori l'œuvre de Melville..
Samantha is on a mission to Thailand to transport a microchip that contains secret Russian military information before it falls into the hands of Chaipon, a ruthless Thai general. When Sam falls for the man carrying the chip, she must save the day..
