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- A country girl comes to the city in search of her father, but secrets and mysteries will force her to re-evaluate when a family needs to stay together and when it needs to let go.
- An old Laotian hermit discovers that the ghost of a road accident victim can transport him back in time fifty years to the moment of his mother's painful death.
- Laos. In a land ravaged by war and exploitation, a boy whose family believe he is cursed must redeem himself by taking part in a dangerous rocket competition.
- A 4 year investigation into South Africa's rhino poaching crisis involved going against some of the most nasty criminal networks. And alongside the rangers in South Africa's rhino sanctuaries the filmmakers move directly into the firing line. Then to Asia where Stroop asks whether there's any basis to the horn's popularity as a cancer cure? This epic investigation exposes a unique panorama of the global trade in rhino horn.
- Stories told along the river: a woman reunites with her old lover at a hydroelectric plant; meanwhile, a young man travels downstream to a temple with his girlfriend in search of a cure for his insomnia.
- When a bomb endangers the Pha Tang temple, 'Satu' an orphan child laborer decides to head north through the rich and feral landscape of Laos in search of his long lost mother with his new photojournalist friend 'Bo'.
- A naive dreamer attempts to circumnavigate the world on his motorcycle, surviving only on the money he makes along the way.
- A village girl travels to the Lao capital, Vientiane, to care for her rich cousin who has lost her sight and gained the ability to communicate with the dead.
- This Little Land of Mines is an independent feature documentary about the resilience of the Lao people as they live among and work to clear 80 million unexploded bombs from when the United States secretly bombed Laos more heavily than any country on earth.
- MEKONG 2030 is an anthology film comprising five short stories that envision the future of the Mekong River from different cultural perspectives.
- A Thai photographer is sent to Laos by his boss. He had originally planned to travel to Japan to pursue his photography. Little does he know he begins to fall in love with his Laotian tour guide.
- Bangkok, 2015. Ozawa, a Japanese man who had nowhere to go, meets Luck, a woman has reached the height of her glory on Thaniya Street, a place that flourishes by servicing only Japanese men.
- Phim and Naree, a couple seeking a fresh start in Laos, find themselves trapped in a nightmarish ordeal when Phim's deranged ex-girlfriend, Linda, resurfaces with a malevolent agenda.
- When backpackers visit a small village in remote northern Laos in search of a traditional experience, the inhabitants of the village discover the attractions of the West. Two worlds meet at the crossroads of their respective desire; the one longing for authenticity, the other for modernity. In this micro-cosmos, their encounter leaves no one unchanged and tells a poetic story of friendship and how we relate to each other in a rapidly changing world.
- In this 5-channel video work shot on location in Laos, Serbian artist Marina Abramovic addresses the topic of violence as it is portrayed in contemporary media.
- Jack White flies to South East Asia to start a new life. However, he soon finds his life being threatened on arrival by events beyond his control or understanding, until his grip on reality begins to spiral dangerously out of control.
- Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) is the first feature-length documentary by Decipher Films. The film charts the lives of both humans and non-humans who have experienced animal testing first-hand, with hauntingly honest testimony of scientists and lab technicians who's ethics demanded they choose a different path, as well as the simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking stories of animals who have seen both sides of the cage. MTD aims to re-ignite the debate about animal testing by bringing these rarely-heard perspectives to the fore.
- 3 years of shooting, 30 countries, over 250 hours of raw material provided the basis for the investigation documentary «IVORY. A CRIME STORY» about the causes and consequences of an unprecedented demand for ivory. The investigation was carried out by the well-known former Russian politician Sergey Yastrzhembskiy, spokesman for Boris Yeltsin and Aide to Vladimir Putin. After leaving the Kremlin, he has dedicated his life to filmmaking, mainly throughout the African continent, and shooting a series of documentary films on the endangered traditional African peoples. Passionate about trophy hunting, he ran directly into the heinous scale of the elephants extermination in Africa. This film is a challenge to the civilized world, which is unable today to stop the bloody business of ivory. This film is an accusation of the inefficiency of many non-governmental organizations, engaged in the preservation of rare plants and animal species threatened with extinction, but in fact appearing to be dormant. This film is an exposure of African corruption, which erodes the continent like a cancer. This film takes the masks off the Catholic Church and the Buddhist monks encouraging the demand for ivory. This film disconcertingly shows the role of China, the main culprit for the death of African elephants, whose avid demand for ivory has brought these animals to the brink of total extinction.
- In a distant future a new society of peace and order comes under attack from an ancient Evil force. Only a young newsreporter and her high flying ninja friends can save the city from the evil Ninja Attack. Moon City is the first Lao language Superhero movie.
- Paths is a vibrant trip across the globe, painting an atypical portrait of humanity.
- When Coen gets a disturbing call from a clinic in Bangkok informing him that his brother David is seriously ill, Coen decides to follow the footsteps of his brother to find out what happened to him.
- AT THE HORIZON is about two different worlds colliding: the wealthy influential people on the one hand and the poor and honest on the other hand. Sin, a wealthy boy had been spoiled by his parents and has never realized the importance of self-dependence and how to become a responsible man. The boy lives his life relying on his parents wealth and power,making him even more arrogant and pompous. Lud, a mute middle-aged man came from a rural area to be a motorcycle mechanic in Vientiane. His wife worked as a market woman and they had a six-year-old daughter. Though Luds life was simple, his family was warm and loving. One day Lud unexpectedly faces the greatest loss of his life caused by Sin.
- By the Lake Nam Ngum, in North Laos, France is a young woman desired by two diametrically opposed men. Her fate brings her to cross the path of Hugo, a French man, in search of the woman who left him a year ago.
- What is the most heavily bombed country in History? A country that never formally entered a war, Laos.
- Bombie is the story of war, the people living day-to-day through its lasting effects, and those trying to make a difference, all through the lens of the most-bombed country on earth: the small landlocked nation of Laos.
- Five candidates are applying for the same job with a high-powered corporation. They are informed they will be tested, only to find themselves trapped in a room fighting for survival, as only one candidate will get the job.
- A young couple leaves their apartment and jobs at NYC to travel around Asia for 6 months, and test if they are meant to be together. He is an alcoholic and she is facing cancer. During the existential journey they face their biggest enemies: themselves and each other.
- A sickly young woman experiences visions of her dead mother. She struggles to determine if the apparition is simply a side effect of her daily medication, or her mother actually reaching out to her from beyond the grave.
- After twenty years apart, two former friends fight over the custody of their shared daughter.
- Westerners young and old arrive in Laos, and so do their cameras. They document a fragile and deceptively brutal world, revealing themselves in the process. CAMERA, CAMERA quietly calls upon viewers to ponder the multifaceted and often ambiguous impacts of travel and photography on citizens of two worlds.
- Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.
- For a long time reluctant to open up about haunting childhood memories of war, a former Hmong refugee embarks from Detroit on an unlikely and emotional epic journey to confront his troubled past and revisit sites of those memories in France and Laos.
- Ray McDonald is a photographer who is down on his luck when he travels to Pakse in Southern Laos to take on an assignment as a wedding photographer. There he meets a beautiful Lao woman who becomes his inspiration to write a movie script about a Thai-Lao romance. In real life, however, the photographer has a slim chance to win the heart of the woman who may already have a boyfriend.
- An examination of the history of relic veneration in Buddhism including interviews from a number of prominent Buddhist scholars and contemporary teachers of Buddhism. The program consists of a historical survey of the most important Buddhist relic sites throughout Asia as well as a discussion of the important role that relic veneration and enshrinement continues to play in the ongoing history and dissemination of Buddhism.
- A Hmong immigrant is convicted of killing six white hunters in a violent confrontation during deer hunting season in northwestern Wisconsin. Was it a racial incident? Was it the random act of a madman? Part courtroom drama, part intimate portrait, OPEN SEASON looks at the root causes and the reverberating impacts of this tragedy, bringing into high relief the simmering tensions -- racial, cultural, economic -- that lurk in America's heartland.
- I have seen our human footprint from the great glaciers of the Himalaya, to the powerful rivers of the East and the West, to the depths of the underworld. I watched it as it spreads over our forests, jungles, tundra, and plains, poisoning the wind and the rain, suffocating our Ocean. It is always the same story, ONE story. My art and resolve are for the next generation. For them, I will illuminate the damage, transcend the breakage, bridge the disconnection. I will repair it. My art is about resilience. If I can make it beautiful I can make it ONE again.
- Love story about a man with an unnatural talent for seeing the end date in relationships. It's not instinct, it's nose hairs. Kai's nose tells him it's time to get out of the relationship he's in just as an old school mate comes back into his life. They take to the road and lead us on a wild and charming journey through the Lao mountains of Vang Vieng.
- The revolutionary party held its conference in Vientiane for the first time.
- A Lao village finds harmony through music. Hongfa - a mysterious and beautiful young woman arrives in a Khmu and Hmong village in Northern Laos and becomes trapped between the two cultures. In her efforts to bring the villagers together through their music, she creates a melody of change.