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a photographer keeps a close connection with her hobby but it doesn't seem as great as she thought
In De Indische Tafel, men in their nineties, who meet weekly for an Indonesian lunch, reflect on their Indonesian childhood, a childhood they never spoke about, but which profoundly shaped them. Using never-before-seen footage from Japanese propaganda films, they revisit their youth in the Japanese camps during World War II. Born in the colonial Dutch East Indies before the war, they reflect on how their lives changed during the Japanese occupation, their existence in the camps, their liberation by the atomic bomb, the struggle of young Indonesian freedom fighters, and how the old colonial power returned in the form of new capitalist companies that were more profitable than ever.
Ramoncito, Don Acacio's son, has disappeared. Just like his grandfather and his great-grandfather behore him.
After losing his hat, a man goes to great lengths to get it back.
The Gamers: Dorkness Falls concludes the storyline that began with Dorkness Rising and continued through Hands of Fate. At the end of the last film, The Shadow—the nemesis of the players since the original Gamers —pulled the players into the game world itself. What have the gamers been up to since then? Who is The Shadow*, and what are his plans? How have they managed to survive without powers or class levels? And will they ever find their way home? The answers, and so many familiar faces, will be found in Dorkness Falls. * (The Shadow? The Shadow! The Shadow...)
On a cold December night, Tom is left home alone after his parents leave for a wedding. His night of carelessness is interrupted when he learns that a killer is on the loose in his town. Can Tom survive the night and be in bed by midnight?
In Winter follows a tired and isolated Goan immigrant in the UK, who starts to yearn for home, after a song from his childhood starts following him around. His longing to go home starts to affect reality..
Is it possible to forgive the most terrible act done innocently?
A man who’s dealing with loneliness and identity issues is taken hostage by two masked figures who attempt to brainwash him.
A rookie spy right after his first mission must grapple with if someone could have followed him to his safe house to steal his precious cargo
The director returns to an exclusive Lima beach club in three moments of his life, each visit revealing new contradictions beneath its unchanging surface. Centuries earlier, a European naturalist collapses on the same shore and is visited by the vulture he has just reclassified. What happens on that shore exposes a bias that will outlast them both.
On the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, I made a documentary about Álvaro Cunhal. Now, on the centenary of the 1926 military coup, it seemed only fitting to make one about Salazar. Conceived as a diptych, the film brings together figures such as the housekeeper, the cardinal, the minister of propaganda, the nurse, and the shoeshiner, who—through their memories—recount stories we all believed had not been forgotten.
The ordinary life of a young mechanic unexpectedly changes after a mysterious encounter that gives him a chance for incredible luck — at a price he does not yet understand the meaning of.
A film By Behailu Engida
For generations, the Samburu people and their livestock have had a deep connection with water, depending on the rains for their survival. The Land Smiles Back is the story of the Samburu community in Westgate Conservancy, who made the land “smile” again by returning to ancient hydrotechnology.
