Ava

A young teenager escapes a gay conversion center to rescue her friend.

After many years, Ava finds his terminally ill father who is one of the artists who suffered a mental breakdown in the eighties when the revolutionary extremists harassed artists and most of the art activities especially music were banned. Ava, an artist with a great voice, faces the same challenges as a woman.

A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ava Gardner never stopped loving those she loved. She turned women green and made men sweat. And rejected with all her force the bulwark of normality.

Sparks fly after Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s tenants whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness while Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. As the pair begin to form a deep connection they have to find a way to keep their newfound passion from being overshadowed by the stresses and struggles of their separate lives and histories.​

A destitute Frank Sinatra pursues sultry starlet Ava Gardner while campaigning for the lead in 'From Here to Eternity'.

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.

This is a fantastically lovely, modern computer animation for little childrens.

Unwanted by the other members of his family, Theri, a scrap yard worker, turns an alcoholic after the death of his mother. However, his life undergoes a sea change after his sister-in-law delivers a girl child. He turns a new leaf, the reason for his transformation being his belief that his mother has reborn as his niece. He promptly assumes the responsibility of protecting and providing for the child. It is under these circumstances that his brother ends up having a fight with a sex worker. The spat turns ugly and results in a tragedy...

Malik and Elsa play a game of riddles. The beginning of their unique relationship, Elsa is lost and punished to treat Malik for seven consecutive days. Those seven days are able to unite Malik and Elsa.

A silent short about a home invasion.

Stavros, having just finished his military service and fearing that he will lose his beloved Rita, decides to imitate the fortune teller in his neighborhood. He succeeds with great success, convincing even Rita's parents that the man they were matchmaking her with is not suitable for their daughter.

Die Geschichte wird aus der Sicht des Protagonisten Ben Borgman erzählt, der zu Beginn jeder Episode eine andere Rolle annimmt. Die Ereignisse werden somit aus drei verschiedenen Perspektiven aus Sicht von ein und derselben Person erzählt. Das verbundene Element ist dabei eine Geldübergabe, an der vier Personen beteiligt sind und die nachts in einer abgelegenen Lagerhalle stattfindet. In jeder Episode wird durch das Tauschen der Rollen eine andere Wendung herbeigeführt, die den jeweiligen Verlauf der Geschichte in eine andere Richtung lenkt

In a futuristic world where people wear masks, Lua tries to break out of the norm and show her true face.

Mirai Takatsuki is a seemingly normal teenager, but when he was a child his life was saved from a terrible illness thanks to magnanimous donations from the local community that paid for his medical bills. Ongoing media attention and the pressure to excel have prompted Mirai to have suicidal tendencies.

Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.

Ein alter, an Aids sterbender Homosexueller sucht seinen Ex-Lieblingsstrichjungen auf, um in seinen Armen zu sterben.

A direct animation short from Chris Knudsen featuring music from his old noise band Al-Qaeda. https://vimeo.com/127684658

A fishing boat comes back to the port. Fishermen are crestfallen, as they have caught only one very little fish. To save face, they fib they have 300 kilo of mackerel on board the boat. In their will to report a success, the port administration decides to pad out the weight. So, the very little fish is grossly exaggerated into tons of belted bonito, then into dolphin and ultimately, into a whale. Which results in celebrations, honors and awards... There, naturally, is no any whale. Instead of brilliant display of an unprecedented success, the white collars make a brilliant display of their unparalleled foolishness.

The Dominican group Aventura, won with the romance of their songs, the rhythm of the bachata, the thousands of spectators who enjoyed their show on the second night of the Festival of Vina del Mar and wiped out all the contest prizes given Aventura , at the head of its charismatic leader, Romeo Santos, opened with a Poupurri which included hits like for a second, contempt and its venom, which were echoed by some 15,000 spectators that filled the amphitheater of the Quinta Vergara, which is held every year the Festival of Vina del Mar.