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A young man convicted of murder awaits execution, while a conflicted judge, an aging hangman, and a morally torn jailer confront the weight of justice, guilt, and humanity in the final hours before dawn.
Following the railway privatization of the 1990s, the train was stripped from Argentina's communication and cultural landscape. Through archival footage and photography, this work portrays the struggle to preserve an identity that resists oblivion.
In Cinque Terre on Italy’s northern Riviera, fewer than 3,000 locals endure over four million tourists each summer. Across one chaotic season, six very different lives play out in parallel, revealing a sharply funny and surprisingly tender story of paradise under pressure in the age of social media driven tourism.
Daseon and Heesoo, a lesbian couple, decide to divorce. As their two children struggle to choose which mother to live with, the family sets out on an unexpected trip together.
On the morning of her childhood dog’s 13th birthday, Florrie is hard at work in the kitchen, preparing the perfect surprise for her senior terrier, Coco Merrytail - one final, wordless celebration of a bond that’s nearing its soft, inevitable fade.
After surviving a horrific car crash and losing his arm, an unstable family man develops a bizarre fascination for augmenting his body with bionic prosthetics.
Lola, a young animal rights activist, mysteriously travels to Paris during the Salon de l'Agriculture. As she settles into her hotel room, where nothing works, she calls on the room boy, Felix, a whimsical young man who is having a panic attack on his bed.
A small town legend returns from the dead to serve vengeance on Thanksgiving night.
On 26 October 1929, Palestinian women launched their women’s movement in Jerusalem and protested at the British High Commissioner’s bias against Arabs in the Buraq uprising.
A shocking act of terror carried out by ten stateless militants unfolds in a place no one ever imagined could become a hostage site. Over 100 lives are taken captive in exchange for three uncompromising demands.
A painter has the worst night of his life after leaving his violin artwork in the back of a taxi in Macao.
May Day! is a feature-length documentary which follows Oxford's thousand-year old tradition of May Morning, the largest celebration of its kind, regularly attracting over 15,000 people each year. It is a collage-like portrait of the tradition, attempting to find out how the celebration has survived the separation between the land and its people, what the pagan festival means thousands of years after its inception, and how it shapes and contributes to our nation's sense of self.
About writing music for Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker.
June 1999. Bogdan has to buy alcohol for his wife's 50th birthday. His job is made much harder by the Pope's visit in Poland and the resulting prohibition. A simple search for vodka quickly turns into a metaphysical odyssey.
