Social & External
The people behind it
Israel Perea Rosado
Samuel
Elizabeth Castilla Carbajal
Agua
Natalia Trejo Isla
María
During a water crisis, two neighbors who hate each other go to war when the man builds a water reservoir and the woman begins stealing from it. What starts as a hostile dispute takes an unexpected turn as secrets and vulnerabilities come to light, forcing them both to rethink their differences.
An old gardener goes out to dig up dirt on a Holy Thursday morning. During his excavation, he discovers the remains of his son who disappeared three weeks ago, taking them home with him. Meanwhile, the murderer, the young owner of a hotel with a swimming pool, serves his clients without any apparent concern. In a town without water and that lives off tourism, this is an open secret that the citizens and the authorities are willing to keep quiet. During the following days of Holy Week, the gardener and the hotel owner will be pushed by guilt and revenge until they come face to face.
During a birthday party, Luca, a sensitive and lonely boy, begins to feel out of place among the other children. As tensions rise, he takes refuge in the fantasy of being a mermaid, imagining a place where he can breathe.
Story about a honest police man and his fight against politicians.
A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and Oxford and was awarded the Newton Mantle for his work. Timiriazev, one of the few outstanding Russian scientists who (publically) backed the Soviets in their revolutionary campaign, was later elected a delegate to the Leningrad Soviet by the sailors of the Baltic fleet. There he denounced his fellow scientists for failing to aid the Soviets and predicted that such aid would come.
A neglected and frustrated wife looks for satisfaction outside her marriage and gets involved with a group of hippies.
Wannabe actor Joon-cheol is living with his girlfriend who wants to get married. He tries to convince her to get married after he's made his debut but she breaks up with him in the end and kicks him out. Joon-cheol has nowhere to go but a friend of his has to go on a business trip and asks him to take care of his pet cat. However, what's waiting for him is not a cat but a girl with aphasia. Joon-cheol quarrels with his friend about calling the cops and comes out of the house. He goes back to his girlfriend but she doesn't accept him so he starts living with the cat girl.
Siva is fascinated by cinema and runs a rundown movie theater. With his theater in financial trouble, he goes to Chennai to meet his childhood friend Madankumar, who is now a film director, and seek his help.
A poetic drama, spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a waifish fisherman and a highborn lady-of-the-manor.
Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.
A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.
During an evening performance in the an urban multiplex cinema the spectators of a social drama are suddenly torn from the film Reality: Karsten, charismatic leader of a group of starry-eyed idealists, interrupts the running film, steps before the white screen and starts a talk about structural violence and global injustice to the protesting audience. When the first spectators want to defend themselves against this intervention in her evening plans and go it becomes very clear that Karsten is not anlone and is supported by some armed comrades. As the first shots fall, the audience realizes that they are held hostage in a seriously menacing situation and there seems to be no way out from the obstructed cinema.
High school is almost over and four friends are going their separate ways as they go to college. But they have one more chance to spend some time together: Inspection 12, their favorite band, is playing one last concert in Jacksonville, FL.
It all began on a couch. He watched her undress and they made love for the first time.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends decide to take pictures of the body of Anna Fritz. They decide they could make love to her and nobody would know. They are in front of Anna Fritz ... and can do with it what they want.
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
After being falsely accused of a terrible crime, Hector, a man with a neurological disability, goes to a secret prison. His goodness conquers the prisoners, who plan to prove their innocence.
In the Bolivian altiplano, Virginio and Sisa, an elderly Quechua couple who have lived a quiet life for years, face an impossible dilemma during an unusually long drought: resist or be defeated by the hostile environment and the relentless passage of time.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
