A successful film artist plans to go to his hometown for his sister’s wedding, accompanied by a movie star. With his arrival, he is going to humiliate his hated fiancé, the fat man and the slacker Shurik. But a quarrel with the actress ruins not only all his plans, but also radically changes his life. A true story of a selfish macho's reassessment of values.
August 23, Little John’s Farm: 10 years after they last played at the site, the iconic trio bring their signature blend of crude humour to the stage, alongside a new sense of reflection
In a world where freedom is constantly under threat, democratic societies are always on the lookout to ensure that the hard-won conquests of the historically recent past are not rolled back, but rather evolve towards individual and collective freedoms of expression and coexistence. (Khalil Charif)
In the beginning of 1990s Finland was faced with the most serious financial crisis of its history; recession. Over 400,000 unemployed persons, almost 200 000 bankruptcies and a whole national offspring of insecurity were born in a country with around 5 million in population, all within a few years. How does the childhood during depression look like from adulthood?
A solitary assassin, looking to escape his occupation and pursue a new life, finds a glimmer of hope in an enigmatic woman he encounters whilst navigating his final job.
The Buryat returns to his homeland to his father to sign his renunciation of the inheritance of his late mother. But the father has other plans for his son. Aldar is Buryat, but grew up with his mother in Moscow. After his mother's death, he learns that he cannot receive the inheritance because his parents were not officially divorced. He flies to Buryatia. The father agrees to sign the documents, but on the condition that the son spends one day with his father, during which they will have to go to the datsan, perform a shamanic ritual and visit the family tree.
The film opens on a tale with animated figurines in miniature settings reconstructing Fida’s childhood during the war. It then shifts to a documentary style with a series of real confrontations between Fida and ex-militiamen manipulating the small figurines. The miniature material becomes a bridge between different subjective stories, infusing the collective history with individual details. The experience of this confrontational space turns out to be cathartic. The narrative moves around between realities and temporalities.
Sergione, a fifty-year-old tattoo artist weighing 260 kg, has lived all his life in the working-class Palermo district of Bosco Grande. He was one of the city’s legendary punks, rebelling against the mafia culture of the 1980s. Thirty years later, he’s still sitting outside his mother’s house, doing drugs and partying with his street friends. Every time Giuseppe Schillaci returns to his hometown, he goes and listen to his tragicomic anecdotes and longings for escape. As the seasons go by, he watches Sergio deteriorate. In mortal danger, Sergio goes to a specialized center for super-obese people, from which he flees a month later. Back in Bosco Grande, true to his punk mantra: “Live fast, die young,” he once again gets bogged down in the morbid spiral of his addictions.
Ten days before Halloween, shy paramedic George is dumped and he thinks the world has ended - but he doesn't bank on the outbreak of a disease that turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies.
A short documentary on bipolar disorder, Taurewarewa explores the highs and lows of tides and emotions in a sequence of insightful kōrero framed against a backdrop of Aotearoa's turbulent oceans.
At a crowded airport, Ahlam, a 14-year-old mother, is running away from Baghdad, the only place she’s ever known. As she fights the shadows lurking around her, she reflects on her journey to reclaim her life.
Tootsie and Taffy are competitive siblings who already fight for everything and have trouble sharing. While playing cards, they decide to make the game interesting by putting candy on the line.
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