Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to control its citizens, has begun a program to record their dreams. Unaware of this devious plot, Simin is torn between her compassion for those whose dreams she is recording and a truth she must find within..
This film is a rumination on cultural identity told through the viewpoint of a female photographer from Iran, traveling across the western US..
Protests rage against the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which persecutes Muslims. The director listens to the voices of the protesters and observes her own identity as a Muslim woman..
The love story of Eva, a young immigrant who has always dreamed of becoming a singer but works as a dishwasher, and Armie, a very skilled pianist with a fervent imagination. Both will discover that fantasy, dream and life can instead mix and become the recipe for happiness. The background is New York after the Great War and before the Great Depression, in an era of music, hopes and great changes..
A Sarajevo, peu de temps après la guerre, Esma élève seule sa fille, Sara, âgée de 12 ans. La gamine va à l'école et y rencontre Samir. Ce dernier, comme Sara, n'a pas de père, mais est persuadé que le sien est un héros de la guerre..
Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities are suspicious, and Joseph has an uncertain future in store..
Bianca and her mother meet again in Porto after many years. Together, they will hit the road with their stripping show, running after lost time, impossible love and strange fantasies..
Giacomo, a boy from Puglia, leaves immediately after the war for the United States of America, where, after a few years, he will be known by the name of "James". The young man, however, enters the gang scene. Following a fight, he will be put back on the right path by the former boxer, now carpenter, Frank!.
Narges prepares for immigration to America to join her kids, but she loses her passport before the flight, and sets out to search for it in the places she has been to or at her friends'. She meets a peculiar wizard, and experiences a series of events that will change her mind about her trip..
"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity..
The story of Samuel de Champlain's futile search for a passage to China in North America and his later founding of Quebec..
The film presents dazzling, creative, and surprisingly diverse "home theater" from five decades. And especially on the basis of the sometimes explicit sexual scenes, van Ackeren draws a very specifically German picture. This includes twenty-five Super 8 films with such beautiful titles as "Lady Di's Hat" (The VIP Movie), "Skin the Cock" (The Leisure Movie) or "Model Experiment" (Sex Film Without A Highpoint)..
It happens that people living under the same roof and united by common concerns do not feel intimacy and do not save each other from loneliness. So the brothers Morpheus and Vilkas seem to be made of different materials. The elder Morpheus is heavy, viscous, like a lump of clay, which he kneads. And the younger Vilkas has the wind in his head, he wants to escape from all worries. All the more strange and unexpected should be the case that will bring them closer together..
There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don’t exist at all. One such place is a dumpsite. From the humans’ point of view, it is a ghastly place, a stinking desert of trash. But it’s a desert that is teaming with life..
Dream Land is a one-year ink painting project by GAO Chun-fu. Every night, in the late hours, GAO captures the busy and chaotic state with ink painting. Applying the flowing technique, he paints the images and illusions emerging from deep within. The spontaneous gathering and scattering of water and ink reflect the artist’s internal breathing as well as the passing of time..
The history of the last 3 years of Cheran's struggle is already known. This community of Michoacán, in defense of its forests. found political self-determination and citizen self-defense. Through art and culture, the boys, girls and young people of the community express their ideas and emotions about the conflict and the current situation of a Cheran that is reinforced by reforesting and enjoying peace in its streets. The voice of women - pioneers in the uprising -, community radio stations and members of the symbolic bonfires complement this story that mixes a portrait of the community and its struggle with the representation that children make of it..
