A bushman living in the Kalahari Desert encounters a Coca-Cola bottle, which leads him on a journey to the modern world and a clash of cultures.
Set in 1930s Ireland, 'The Field' follows the story of a wealthy American widow who intends to purchase a piece of farmland through a public auction. The film focuses on the intense struggle for ownership of the land, involving greed, guilt, and intimidation. The protagonist, a farmer, finds himself caught in the middle of a tragic series of events that escalate to murder.
Gran Casino is a melodramatic movie set in a casino in Mexico. It revolves around the business and criminal activities of various characters, including a kleptomaniac dancer, an oil tycoon, and a missing brother. The story involves identity-swapping, oil companies, cabarets, and roulette. The plot also features melodrama, murder, and explosions.
Cleanflix tells the story of a Utah-based movie editing company that aimed to provide edited versions of Hollywood films to conservative audiences. The film explores the clash between freedom of speech and the battle over censorship, as well as the moral and legal implications of altering artistic works. It highlights the rise of Cleanflix, its legal troubles, and the effect of the controversy on the company's founders and employees. Through interviews and archival footage, the documentary presents a nuanced portrayal of the conflict between values, personal convictions, and artistic expression.
Nasser, a 30-something Parisian with a troubled past, returns to Paris after some jail time. Margot, his probation officer, urges him to work at LE PRESTIGE, his brother's bar located right next to the Moulin Rouge, in the heart of Pigalle - one of Paris’ most diverse and rawest neighborhoods. But deep wounds between the two brothers make this collaboration difficult from the start, and even more so when Nasser decides to get back in the game by throwing exclusive parties against his brother's will.
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Sami dance students Birit and Katja Haarla dance through the villages and lost woods of Sápmi all the way to where the important decisions are made. The polarity of Nature and the Western way of life is filtered through sharp humour.
Thanasis (Giannis Gionakis) succumbs to the pressure of his wife (Kati Lambropoulou) and buys an old car that turns out to be a shame. Until he can get rid of it and take back his money, there will be a number of misunderstandings and confusions, comic situations, and emotional fools.
Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
The film follows a peasant couple, Zhao Deshan and his wife Xiuzhi, living in rural Yunnan province near Zhaotong in southern China. Their lives are thrown into upheaval when the local mayor “rewards” them with two foreign sheep donated by a former villager, now an official in Beijing. The couple is then tasked with breeding the sheep for their wool and to bring prosperity to their small community. Much to their chagrin, the sheep do not take to their new environment and the couple are forced into ever more ingenious ways of making the sheep appear greater than they really are. As they do so, they also come to value the sheep as companions in their family. When it becomes clear that the two “great” sheep are not the boon they were thought to be, the local authorities repossess the animals.
Somewhere on earth, at this very minute, a child is beginning its journey through life. Two-hundred-and-fifty babies are born every minute, 15 thousand an hour, 132 million a year - each and every year. Among them may be the potential to cure disease, or to change the course of world history, because people are the world's ultimate resource.
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