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Does the mask of the Makonde really have magic powers and can it settle the terrible quarrel between Johanna and her best friend? Johanna desperately needs the mask, but before her eyes it is stolen from Leipzig's Grassi Museum and Grandpa Kito is considered the prime suspect! Kito has just appeared from Tanzania and wants the mask, brutally stolen in colonial times, to return to his village. For Johanna, there is more at stake than unmasking the real thief - she must find her own identity.
Rain is a young painter crippled with deep-seated violent tendencies who confronts his demons after an unexpected meeting with a therapist living one floor above him. The therapist conceals her own malignant vices behind smiles and warmth, and the two share secrets that neither is prepared for.
A sadistic pedophile mall Santa is arrested after a group of kids alarm local adults and police of his activity. Years later, the pedophile escapes from prison during a blackout. Donning his Santa Claus uniform and wielding a fire axe, the pedophile begins hunting down the now grown-up children one by one.
Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly.
As advanced dementia erodes an older woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interests, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy.
Reboleira, a suburb of Lisbon. The loot from a robbery has mysteriously vanished. Within the neighborhood cordoned off by the police, everyone dreams of getting their hands on it
Ma Ago Timi Pani is a Kumude Hidto Hero Banna movie song
A hermit’s decaying refuge on the edge of civilisation is shattered by his estranged son’s arrival.
After his stand-up routine goes awry, Luka goes to drink his sorrows away in a bar. There he meets a mysterious woman in a bar, with the two immediately hitting it off and deciding to go to the former's apartment together. However, as the night goes on, what was supposed to be a one time hook-up leads to the two discovering much more about themselves and they form a powerful spiritual connection.
Shy and sometimes naive schoolboy Sashka lives with his grandmother and confides his secrets to a smart speaker because he has no friends. But Sashka has a special power - faith in miracles, thanks to which he gets into a whirlpool of extraordinary events. In the company of a witty genie from a jug and a smart speaker that has come to life, Alisa, Sashka sets off on a dangerous journey across half the world to find his parents, who after a sandstorm in Uzbekistan ended up in a magical city, captive to Shah Zaman. Sashka and company will face the machinations of the evil sorcerer Yusuf, battles on flying carpets, hot air balloon trips, chases across endless steppes, crossing the desert and meeting people who are ready to help the boy find his family again.
Zac Power’s position as the top teenage spy is compromised after a brilliant new agent arrives. When his recklessness allows an ostentatious supervillain to steal a high-tech weapon, Zac is forced to confront his own flaws and team up with his rival.
After a glittering playing career in England, where he played in the Premier League, and a not-so-glamorous coaching stint in London, Kengur returns to Serbia with his dark-skinned fiancée Elektra. He arrives in style, full of plans and patriotic fervor.
Sixteen-year-old Ilay drifts through the summer on the outskirts of Berlin while a palliative nurse accompanies his ailing mother during her last days.
Two sisters, Bethânia and Laura, reunite to discuss a family matter. They travel the roads of the Pernambuco hinterland in search of their father's body, Seu Lauro. At home, Bethânia's daughter edits a video in which the living and the dead become intertwined in a game of silences and revelations. Ao Sabor das Cinzas (Led by the Ashes) is a magical realism piece about the collapse of communication and grief conveyed in real time.
An actress is cast to bring Paula Modersohn-Becker, one of Germany’s most influential painters, to life. As she immerses herself ever deeper into the artist’s world, encountering key figures such as Otto Modersohn, Clara Westhoff-Rilke, and Rainer Maria Rilke, the lines between role and reality, portrayal and identification, begin to dissolve.
