Movies and TvShows featuring "air-balloon" theme.

Thank You, Life is a French drama film that follows a teenage girl as she navigates various challenges in her life, including exploring her sexuality, dealing with infidelity, and grappling with the themes of AIDS. The film also features a subplot centered around a film-in-film concept. Set against the backdrop of France, the movie provides an introspective look at the protagonist's journey of self-discovery and sexual exploration.

Dodo Rozak, a mentally ill man, is wrongly accused of murder by a corrupt politician in Indonesia. Despite his limited intelligence, Dodo is a caring father to his daughter, Kartika. When Dodo is imprisoned in a violent cell, he manages to smuggle Kartika into his cell, spreading happiness to other inmates and guards. The inmates and guards start to question whether a loving man like Dodo could commit such a heinous crime.

The film focuses on the thoughts inside the head of a man, an astronaut scheduled to go to the Moon. As he ponders the flight, he laments having an “ordinary” name he fears will not resonate throughout history. His thoughts lead him to consider some of the pioneers of flight-Icarus and his wings, the Montgolfier brothers and their balloon and the Wright brothers and heavier than air flight.

Life Is to Whistle follows three interconnected stories featuring characters who are struggling with love, loss, and their own identities. The film explores themes of surrealism, sexual repression, and the power of human connection. It takes the audience on a journey through the streets of Havana, where eccentric and diverse characters navigate a whimsical and unpredictable world.

This Gaston Velle movie from 1904 was a fairly venturesome piece of film-making for the era. First, its credits include Jules Verne: his second after the Méliès TRIP TO THE MOON a couple of years earlier. Second, it uses a dozen cuts, irised lenses -- the balloonists' views through their telescope -- panning shots, combined images and tints. The tints were standard for the era, but everything else had to be achieved with great difficulty. In an era when most movies still lasted a minute with a stationary camera and a single set-up, this was pretty much state of the art.