Vernon Parrish, a retired mayor of a large suburb just outside of Chicago, had moved to the small town of Livingston, Montana, for peace and solitude and to get out of the public eye. After six years, Verne's past returns to haunt him, driving him into a self-imposed exile at his cabin in the woods, hoping to ride out the media storm. While he is away, a storm of a different form rolls in, drastically changing the world as he knew it, culminating in a tale of a man who is both a victim and a beneficiary of circumstance.
Inspired by the poetry of Nikos Kavvadias, Beachcomber is a tale of hope and resilience, where a dreamer’s quest to build an impossible vessel forces him to confront the toxic masculinity masking his true self.
The monotonous and stressful daily grind as a food delivery driver is wearing down 23-year-old Luca. His passion and dream of owning his own restaurant are slowly fading due to a lack of opportunities. But then, a door opens — that of his regular customer, Mike. He promises him a job as a cook in an upscale restaurant. Without realizing it, Luca's final delivery turns out to be a dangerous handoff. He soon discovers that Mike is not who he thought he was, and now the time has come for Luca to take his chances into his own hands.
The origins of "cangaço", armed brigands in the Northeast between 1935 and 1939, interviews with some survivors of the fighting, police and outlaws movement. Interspersed with testimonials, authentic sequences of films made in 1936 by Benjamin Abraham, an Arab peddler who managed to film the famous band of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, the "Lampião".
The young rich kid, Chyna, got carried away with his glamorous lifestyle and decided that he could do anything he wanted. Desperate to set his son straight, his oligarch father takes extreme measures. Together with an eccentric psychologist, he devises a unique project: somewhere in the steppe, they recreate the atmosphere of a 19th-century Kazakh village. Chyna ends up in this village, believing he has traveled back in time.
An eclectic bunch of individuals gather on Xmas eve to ring in the festive season. There's beer, bickering, breakdowns, cops and runaway cats to contend with, whilst trying to understand what this time of year means to them - one and all!
More than 3.4 million children live on the streets of Bangladesh, where they represent the lowest level in society, enduring violence, abuse, and lack of access to education and healthcare. The film is told from the perspective of street children, former street children, and social workers.
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