Based on author's childhood memories of the devastating 1988 Spitak earthquake. The father and his two young kids are left without a home and above all, the disaster had claimed the life of their beloved mother and wife. After painful quest to find her body and give her a proper burial, by the new year's eve the family is settled in a makeshift home near the wreckage of their home. While his daughter and son are still playing and merging the disaster into their games, the father for the sake of his children struggles to find strength and heart to live on..
Heckle and Jeckle's New Year's resolution is to refrain from any more practical jokes, but their attempts at good deeds meet with more hostility than their annoying gags..
A withdrawn mid-twenties man attends a New Year's Eve party roiling with hidden tensions and some particularly ambitious resolutions..
Li, a man with an estranged relationship with his wife and child, Rita and Chika. One day, the death of his neighbor made him realize the brevity of life and vowed to work on becoming a better husband and father figure before it is too late. Therefore, before the Lunar New Year celebration, he insisted on reuniting his family. Li began to get closer to Rita and Chika by doing the usual things he did not do. Hence, his behavior made Rita and Chika confused. At first, Rita and Chika are still ignoring Li’s actions, but slowly they begin to accept Li as a husband and father figure. On Lunar New Year, Li managed to get the family warmth he dreamed of. But this warmth didn’t last long..
Nepali Short Film Ft. Swastima Khadka.
Schwartz approaches light traveling through water in all its forms. His macro lens strives to get closer to the essence, to the transparency of things, and yet, the tenebrous and doomed cry of a church’s bell, and the ascending, unstoppable pitch that accompany the images end up close to the sound of a derailed train—and the unfocused, unclear vision that comes with it. -Monica Savirón.
Choosing life in life’s final chapter is the poignant subtext of the new independent documentary Next Year Jerusalem, a lyrical portrait of eight nursing home residents who travel to Israel on a tour. Earnest and nuanced, Next Year Jerusalem is a poetic exploration of living and dying, hope and fear, travel and memory. It is a celebration of human experience and a reverent tribute to life's eldest travelers..
It is an anthology film based on of five different life stories. A slice of lives of a few people all culminating on new year's eve..
Sadie Benning's first film. A version of the teenage diary, Benning places her feelings of confusion and depression alongside grisly tales of tabloid headlines and brutal events in her neighborhood..
Victor is the owner of a trendy restaurant, but things are not going well in it. The only hope is for New Year's Eve, because all the tables are already booked, but December 31 comes and the chef and the whole team leave the restaurant. It would seem that everything is gone, and then Olesya, the owner of the kitchen at home in a village near Moscow, appears in the restaurant. She brought cakes that Victor had accidentally ordered from her and even managed to forget about it. Victor offers Olesya to become a chef for New Year's Eve. She refuses, Olesya promised her son Kirill a New Year's tale with fireworks. Victor persuades her to agree, he believes in her and knows that Olesya has a special gift — to awaken the best memories from people with her dishes. Will Olesya and Victor be able to perform a real New Year's miracle: feed all the guests with special dishes and fulfill the promise made to Kirill?.
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! is the 30th prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It aired on the CBS network on January 1, 1986..
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
Since 1939, The Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert has become a tradition and the world's most famous classical music event. For the second time in three years,celebrated conductor Franz Welser-Most returns to the podium for this extraordinary event. Welser-Most is the music director of The Cleveland Orchestra,General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. The Vienna New Year's Concert is unique and has often been imitated, but not equaled, with a live broadcast on television in over 70 countries around the world with over 40 million viewers. This package contains the complete New Year s Eve concert as seen on TV. Included as bonus track the film "Honeymoon", which was broadcasted during the intermission..
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's traditional New Year Concert in 2010..
New Year Live is the New Year celebration show for the BBC, which is currently hosted by Gabby Logan. Before 2009, the programme was set in a studio with performances from successful artists of the year. From 2009 it has been filmed live on the streets of London..
Celebrating Chinese New Year in this episode of EATS. Watch them how to make tea, bakeries, wotnton soups and dim sum, starring Antonio Hung and Brian Yu..
