Le collège pour filles Fujisaki est réputé pour être fréquenté par des jeunes filles distinguées et de bonne famille. L’assistante de la présidente du conseil des élèves, Riko, surnommée « la Sauvage », est un garçon manqué effronté et espiègle. La présidente du conseil des élèves, Maki, surnommée « la Princesse de Fujisaki », est brillante, mignonne et pleine de vertus, et suscite l’admiration de ses camarades. Nous suivons leurs aventures, ainsi que leurs tentatives (plus ou moins fructueuses) de découvrir le secret de l'amour….
En 1939, dans le royaume de Navarre, le jeune souverain et ses trois compagnons, Biron, Longueville et Du Maine, s'engagent, lors d'un serment public et solennel, à consacrer les trois prochaines années de leur vie aux études de philosophie. Déterminés à respecter le pacte, ils renoncent à toute frivolité, ne courtiseront plus aucune femme, jeûneront une fois par semaine et ne dormiront que trois heures par nuit. Cependant, le sérieux de l'entreprise et l'honneur des étudiants sont mis à rude épreuve par l'apparition de la princesse de France et de ses trois charmantes demoiselles de compagnie, Rosaline, Maria et Catherine, lors d'une visite diplomatique..
Cet été, FOX passe à la vitesse supérieure pour s'accoupler en emmenant les téléspectateurs sur le voyage non conventionnel d'une femme vers l'amour potentiel et la maternité avec le nouveau spectacle non scénarisé Labour of Love..
Annie, a 36-year-old, single woman, desperately wants to have a child. Her best friend, Mickey, a gay man who had tried unsuccessfully to adopt a child, also feels the pangs of parental yearning. The couple decides to have a naturally conceived child together. Mickey moves in with Annie, but she then meets Gordon, the man of her dreams with whom she has a passionate fling. Annie finds herself pregnant and not exactly sure which of the two men in her life is the father. But commitment-shy Gordon wants nothing to do with the child. Mickey eventually assures Annie that no matter what, he will help raise the child as his, together as a family with Annie..
In 1975, Chicago filmmakers Flaxman and Goldman got carte blanche to film the shooting of a local film called THE LAST AFFAIR. Neither AFFAIR's director (who envisioned the film as "a combination of Fellini and Bergman") nor its cast (which included then-unknowns Betty Thomas and Ron Dean) had ever worked in the industry before. Made in the classic cinema-verité style of Drew and Leacock, A LABOR OF LOVE is a revealing and often hilarious exposé of the hidden side of adult film: onscreen partners despise each other offscreen, male performers can't "get wood," an actress has her period, Ivory Liquid is substituted for semen, and the director declares, "I really dislike every minute of this!" (Gene Siskel Film Center).
When a woman learns she cannot bear children, her mother decides to be a surrogate for her..
Faced with the familiar challenge of limited time and money, Fran and Gaby, a charming couple hailing from Mexico, work together to create a life that supports their activist efforts, but will their love be enough to sustain their ideals?.
Valerie, a maid of French descent (Monica Seller), comes to work for a family in Saigon of the 1930s/40s. One by one, she seduces the members of the family: the dame de la maison, the widower, young gay sonny with his friend from university, and grandpa..
Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession..
An expanding feeling, unfolding new inflections—forever different, forever changing..
A returning missionary recounts his experiences of sharing the gospel. Portrays what it is like to be a missionary. Excellent tool for encouraging young men to prepare themselves for missionary service..
Teresa navigates feelings of isolation in the early stages of a quiet grief..
This short film examines the role of the Asian woman within the realm of the home and the family. It features the boundless work that a housewife has to accomplish in a day in order to run a household and to care for her husband and children. The film is an early feminist take on the perception regarding the economic value of the stay-at-home mother and wife, whose contribution to society is often underrated..
Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden was born into enslavement in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She was 7 years old when she was freed. She stayed in Black Mountain and became a midwife, delivering several hundred babies including her own grandchildren. Her granddaughter, Mary Othella Burnette, came to StoryCorps with her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, to honor the family matriarch. [Overview Courtesy of Storycorps].
A short experimental film about loving your labia directed by Morgana Muses..
An amateur racing team consists of motorsport enthusiasts from every inhabited continent of the world decided to take on one of the toughest endurance races on the planet, the Dubai 24 Hours..
Labour of Love: The Housewife examines the role of the Asian woman within the realm of the home and the family. It features the boundless work that a housewife must accomplish in a day to run a household and to care for her family. The film is an early feminist take on the perception regarding the economic value of the stay-at-home mother and wife, whose contribution to society is underrated. A 2K restoration was made possible using a sole-surviving 16mm colour reversal (with scenes of black & white) print from the Asian Film Archive Collection (AFA) in 2022..
Documentary by Kenton Hoppas featuring James Adamson, Kevin Bolger, Kurt Boone.
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions..
A young labor organizer leaves Ottawa for New Brunswick to settle a strike of five garage workers..
