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At the doorstep of his ancestral home, one resilient man embraces the spirit of Saint George, choosing dignity and faith over surrender.
This film celebrates the life and work of Zurita de Oliveira — musician, performer, composer, and author — widely recognized as the pioneer of rock & roll in Portugal. She turned music into an act of defiance, forging a path at a time when there was little room for free-spirited women. Through songs and testimonies, the film reclaims her memory and transforms her previously unheard lyrics into a gesture of resistance, sung and performed by the women of today.
Charlyne pushes open the door of a bar to see “how others find ways to cope with their loneliness”. There, she meets Alain, Joufflu, Pascal and the others. As the buses and the jass card games come and go, Charlyne becomes a regular. From this immutable backdrop emerges a brilliant filmmaker, in search of her place both in the frame and in life.
Adaptation of Tea Party of Episode 6
An influencer who dreams of having millions of followers is being followed in real life.
In the scorching summer heat four young people make their way from a funeral to a wedding. In the middle of nowhere their car breaks down.
Modesto, an escaped and desperate convict, now finds himself at the center of a hostage situation and must try to talk his wife out of divorcing him and overcome his murderous rage.
A woman on the fence about having kids is hunted in her home by a demonic horse-man.
Gael visits their family in Puerto Rico at the height of summer, and soon meets Mateo, a handsome local who changes their life forever.
In the magical Candy World, a powerful Fountain of Sweetness begins to corrupt after losing its friend and decides to destroy the world to create a new one. As chaos spreads across the candy land, a kind jelly named Baddy discovers the truth and tries to stop it. Instead of fighting, Baddy attempts to heal the Fountain’s pain and save Candy World before everything is erased.
The story of a boy who, after being forced to leave Ukraine due to the Russian invasion, returns home to Zaporizhzhia through his mechanical avatar — a robotic dog he controls from his room in Poland.
At 16, Nekai Foster was shot while walking home in Toronto's Jane and Finch neighbourhood. His journey of survival and recovery—defying all medical odds as he relearns to walk—exposes how gun violence shapes bodies, families and communities.
As an adolescent teen attends his last day of high school before graduation, he begins to have mixed overwhelming emotions about concluding this chapter of his life.
Follow Deimos, a spaghetti hungry inventor, who must traverse the inside of her own mind in order to track down the source of her sudden wormy hallucinations. These horrors threaten the fabric of her mind, and her appetite.
Much like Rock ‘n’ Roll before it, heavy, aggressive music, including, but not limited to Heavy Metal, Punk, Hardcore and underground Hip-Hop, has gotten a bad rap since inception. Be that as it may, many who have been impacted by a wide variety of enervating conditions have come to rely on the output of heavy artists to successfully assist them through severe illness, weighty medical conditions, as well as debilitating mental health challenges. Heavy Healing seeks to dispel rumors and shine a much-deserved light on the healing powers of aggressive music. You will hear directly and candidly from artists, fans and industry types; remarkable individuals who have leaned on (or even become) “controversial” music makers in order to inspire and be inspired through the grueling process of recovery from the grips of cancer, anxiety and depression, strokes, heart attacks, cerebral palsy, complex blood diseases, juvenile diabetes and HIV/AIDS to name a few.
Big trucks face various challenges, make new friends and learn to work as a team. They overcome their fears and weaknesses to achieve a common goal and prove that together they can overcome any difficulties. One of them, overcoming internal and external obstacles, changes himself and changes his life, becoming what he always wanted to be.
Evelyn, a down-on-her-luck Maid of Honour already on thin ice with the wedding party, must go to extreme lengths to save the Big Day after learning of the Best Man's plan to sabotage the ceremony and profess his love for the bride.
