Io Capitano is a Homeric fairy tale that follows Seydou and Moussa, two boys from Dakar who set out to reach Europe. Their journey takes them through the treacherous desert, horrifying detention centers in Libya, and the dangers of the sea.
In this animated short, the Big Bad Wolf tries to trick the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood, leading to comedic adventures and a lesson about honesty.
Loving tells the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple who fought for their right to marry in the face of societal and legal discrimination. Set in 1960s Virginia, the Lovings must navigate racial tension and fight for their love in a segregated America.
In Lilies of the Field, a wandering construction worker offers his services to a group of nuns who are hoping to build a chapel in the Arizona desert. Despite their initial doubts, the worker's perseverance and the nuns' determination bring them together to fulfill their shared goal. The film explores themes of faith, resilience, and the power of community.
La Maison en Petits Cubes follows the story of an old man who reminisces about his life as he builds new floors onto his house to escape flooding. The film explores themes of memory, loneliness, and resilience.
Wait Until Spring, Bandini is a movie about a young boy named Bandini who navigates the challenges of growing up in 1920s America. With a focus on family, relationships, and the immigrant experience, Bandini must learn to find his place in a changing world.
Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.
Based on the comic strip by George McManus about the adventures of the social-climbing Maggie and her long-suffering husband Jiggs. In this film, one of Maggie's society friends enlists her help in evicting an undesirable tenant, who turns out to be Jiggs.
When a wealthy stockbroker hires a rough builder to renovate the wine cellar underneath his country house, the two men fall out with chilling consequences. A Gothic suspense thriller inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and hailed by David Fincher as 'a morbid yet classy take on a morbid classic'. A tense thriller about wealth, wine and the art of bricklaying, BRICKS updates Edgar Allan Poe's classic revenge tale 'The Cask of Amontillado' for our times. Rich stockbroker William (Blake Ritson, DA VINCI'S DEMONS) hires rough builder Clive (Jason Flemyng, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON) to renovate his wine cellar. The two men couldn't be more different: William is rich and refined; Clive is tough and uncouth. But in the shadowy cellar they find common ground. At least at first...
The narrator tells of the three sides of health represented by a triangle with the physical side at the bottom, the mental side on the left, and the social side-the subject of this film-on the right.
In this short silent comedy, John Fericano plays Charlie Chaplin's beloved tramp character. Jobless and hungry, the tramp and his faithful dog, Qiu Qiu, set out to look for work. The tramp comes across a help wanted sign for a brick layer, and he eagerly accepts the job, but gets more than he bargained for when he comes head to head with his stubborn and ornery brick foreman played by David Raufeisen.
This film makes clear for the layperson the whole pattern of building construction for a brick home, from the moment that the architect prepares working plans to the completion of the house itself. It was originally intended as an instructional film to be shown to Australian servicemen taking courses in the building trades as part of their rehabilitation for civil life after World War Two.
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