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- Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.
- This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
- A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative hustler / petty criminal that he meets at a train station.
- A film exploring performance, poetry, and music amidst war. It examines the search for meaning and freedom in ongoing suffering and echoes of the past, focusing on people's experiences of oppression and military force.
- Look at 40 years of war through the eyes of those who suffer most from it - the women of Afghanistan. The documentary begins in the 1960s, when peace reigns in the Kingdom of Afghanistan. When the communists take power, an endless war begins that changes the face of Afghanistan. Women become pawns in ideological battles. After September 11, 2001, Afghan women hope for the return of peace. They want to take their fate into their own hands, but the spiral of violence continues to this day.
- A belly dancer and prostitute falls in love with a famous doctor who asks her for marriage, but for the sake of her lover's social standing, she decides to abandon him and return to her life of sin, and in order to forget him, she meets another man but also discovers that he has a family he loves. The dancer feels that she is not made for marriage life or to establish a normal family life, so she moves from A man to another after she lost all faith in love.
- Serbian drama "Wounded Eagle" is a true-love story of a young woman and her passion, long-forgotten romances--and new ones, happening in a very romantic time between two World Wars.
- An inexperienced American lieutenant and two American prisoners are the only force standing between advancing German troops and an Italian town that was "freed" by the trio.
- Jerry Bines is trying to live down a past that includes killing a man (in self-defence), theft and an alcoholic, abusive father. He sees hope for redemption by providing life-giving bone marrow to his leukemia-stricken son. But time is running out because an escaped killer (Gary Percy Rils) is coming to town to exact revenge for ancient sins. And like the old buck in a backwoods tale he spins for his kid, Bines must stop running and turn to face his hunter.
- A man and a woman are on their way to a pool party. The apparently harmless situation shifts into a dance macabre.
- His father's death forces David to take charge of his legacy. Among their belongings is something unexpected: letters of love of another man. Baffled by the discovery, he decides to visit the alleged lover of his father and discover the truth.
- Jogi Thakur (Govind Namdev) is the power behind the ruling party ministers in Bombay City, and not only rules over the underworld, but also over the law-makers; the Home Minister (Anant Jog); the Police Commissioner (Virendra Saxena), and police officers all over the city. The Police of the City are on the look out for an escaped convict Tanya (Seema Biswas). The police are assisted by Sarja (Mita Vasisht), who is the Warden of the prison that Tanya broke out from. Tanya has confessed to killing her husband, Jayant (Pankay Berry). At every encounter with Tanya, in prison or out, Sarja severely and mercilessly beats up Tanya to a pulp, but Tanya keeps eluding the law, and with the help of Journalist Pooja (Gulrez), her friends Rahul (Rahul Bhatt) and Vicky (Deepak Tijori) hopes to unravel the mystery behind the death of her husband Jayant (Pankaj Berry); find her missing sister-in-law Guddi (Gayatri); and seek justice. Finally, the Commissioner to rogue police inspector Gautam (Om Puri) and instructs him to bring in Tanya dead or alive. Nobody is what they appear and Tanya soon realises that Vicky is amongst the people who had perpetrated the injustice against her.
- Criminologist Dr. Dan Philipp has devoted his career to treating sex offenders and sex workers. His professional life has involved an encounter with evil, insanity, and transgression. Dan contends that society's attitude towards sex offenders is hypocritical and fearful of meeting the perversion that lurks inside us all. Dan's routine is interrupted when he is invited to his native city of Aachen, to a memorial ceremony for his childhood friend Gisela. The return to Germany reveals a dark secret from Dan's past, compelling him to face formative events experienced as a child fugitive in the woods. His journey sheds new light on his professional choice and obsession with human evil.
- The story of a brave young man fighting against a gang that raids a shipping company and prevents drivers from going on an expedition.
- The Gift is a feature-length film exploring a major transformation in peoples' relationships with animals. Humans, who have long considered animals inferior, are increasingly recognizing them as emotional equals, as creatures endowed with individual spirits and personalities. The Gift will reveal how our growing awareness of the gift of the animal spirit is inspiring our relationship to animals, through portraits of the animal 'rescue' movement and incorporating an ancient fable about a wounded crane, rescued by peasants, who repays them with a miraculous gift. The film will pay special attention to the animals' perspective through the inventive use of Super Slow Motion using the latest technological developments.
- An unflinching true story of one woman's life battling addiction, PTSD and mental illness in a search for redemption.
- A couple tries to mend old wounds, but realize it's not about fixing things - it's about true empathy.
- Ali gets out from prison more recently. He needs money to go to Germany. Therefore, he accepts the offer to kill a businessman. When he completes mission there is a huge trickery: money is fake.
- In a godforsaken Kazakh village four adolescent teenagers try to find their place in the world.
- Nihal, who is waiting for the day when she will receive her inheritance, is devastated when she loses the inheritance case. Failure to receive the inheritance causes Nihal's bankruptcy. After this incident, Nihal's daughter Sermin is abandoned by her fiancé Ekrem.
- In this moving documentary, Artist/filmmaker James Picard directs us to acknowledge the demons that are within ourselves, the history we have with it and the decision to either move forward towards healing these deep wounds as individuals or continue on a path that may just lead to the destruction of the world in which we live. In The Dark and The Wounded we see the world at its tipping point between ruin and recovery, a point of no return.
- 34-year-old Maksim Poverenov is the lead architect with a major construction company. For some time, however, as he has not been coming up with any new and exciting plans, he has been acting as manager of the company's small staff of employees. Maksim has a fiancée, Tamara, but the truth is he is still in love with his first school romance, Larissa who did not have the patience to wait for his return from military service and married his best friend instead. In the midst of an important deal Maksim learns that his beloved Larissa has died, and so he leaves for his home village to bid farewell to her. There he learns that he has a teenage daughter, Zhenia. Maksim decides to take her back to the city to live with him, because there is no future for her in the village. However, Zhenia does not relate well to her father or his fiancée, and, when she starts school, she cannot get on with her classmates and teachers either. Her life takes a rapid downward turn. Desperate to help Zhenia, Maksim invites Victoria, her teacher and friend from the village school, to come to the city. Victoria is a wise and kind individual who soon finds a way of injecting a zest for life into the girl. But then, quite unexpectedly, Maksim starts to fall in love with Victoria. Suddenly he realises that, for all this time, his life has been going in the wrong direction and that he has always been surrounded by the wrong people and busy doing the wrong things. So Maksim makes a life-changing decision to drop everything to win the heart of the woman he really loves.
- Documentary, biography and essay that follows the creative process of the last five years of the playwright Emilio García Wehbi. In parallel, a series of fiction scenes, represented in performances and installations, dialogue with the poetics of one of the creators of The peripheral of objects.
- Eduardo Peña and Angel Ruiz are two Spanish actors who are on tour in Argentina. They try to achieve success there with a play that speaks of man and his passage through life, but the spectators are becoming increasingly scarce. One day his old car breaks down and they stop at Zapallares, a lost town. There, on the eve of the municipal elections, they meet an old friend, Professor Roberto Tolosa (Dario Grandinetti), critical of the construction of a new hotel and with the political class of the place and that will try to reopen a theater with the help of their fifth-year students, despite opposition from politicians.
- Lightning Digital Entertainment is proud to present the feature documentary "The Wounded Blue", a film which tells the powerful stories of six Police Officers who inspired the creation of Lieutenant Randy Sutton's The Wounded Blue Foundation. The story explores several critical and important issues facing law enforcement professionals today including PTSD, Police Suicide, and the financial ruin a Police Officer can incur after suffering a career ending injury in the line of duty. Solutions are also put forth, as the film examines the importance of peer counseling, as well as the need for several legislative changes within a system that is clearly broken.
- Blandine arrives at the Charles de Gaulle Airport, seeking a reunion with her husband Papi in Paris. Despite articulate claims for asylum, she is held in a cramped cell along with a number of fellow Africans, humiliated, mistreated and told that they can expect immediate deportation. Papi enquires of her whereabouts at Arrivals, and is met with disinterested, misleading responses. When Blandine is hurt in a skirmish on the runway as the authorities try and force her out of the country, circumstances and a sympathetic employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs save her from expulsion. She is finally reunited with Papi in a communal squat, its inhabitants sharing harrowing stories of their time in France. With work, money and food scarce, and her confidence shaken by her less than warm welcome to the country, Blandine cannot find the enthusiasm to leave her damp mattress. Nicolas Klotz's poetic, poignant and compassionate film was made after three years of conscientious research by himself and scriptwriter Elisabeth Perceval. The result is a determinedly political and beautifully composed work, a convincing portrait of the injustices black immigrants face as they seek to find homes in the West.
- American Indians and government officials discuss poverty, racism, domestic violence, child abuse, inadequate health care, and drug and alcohol problems that besiege the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in SW South Dakota. Pine Ridge is home to the Lakota Tribe of the Sioux. The Sioux produced some of the greatest North American Indian leaders the world has known including Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud and Russell Means.
- Julia takes care of her paraplegic mother. After the tragic accident, the father had abandoned the family.
- A detailed making of Mel Gibson's epic film "The Passion of the Christ", presenting from its script conception and initial ideas brought by Gibson all the way through its long shooting, all the technical aspects worked behind the scenes and then its release.
- A counselor teaches a better way of life to troubled youths. The lessons are put to the test when they encounter a cult of death in a field trip to the woods.
- A man wakes up bleeding from a hole in his chest.
- Since the Vietnam War, battlefield medicine and America's care of wounded warriors have changed profoundly. Illustrated with compelling documentary footage, leaders of these transformations explain why and how these changes are taking place. The film focuses on Vice Admiral John Mateczun, the man selected to lead the consolidation of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Bethesda Naval Hospital, the crown jewels of Army and Navy medicine. The Vietnam War Memorial provides the backdrop for Adm. Mateczun's reflections on lessons he learned as an Army Explosive Ordinance Demolition specialist in that war. Change in the military's approach to rehabilitation is illustrated by how the paradigm of sports medicine is helping warriors with limb loss to overcome their handicaps.
- Working in her Bronx studio, artist Firelei Báez creates a series of paintings that draw upon the rich folklore and colonial history of the Caribbean, where she was born and raised. Exquisitely detailed and vibrantly colored, Báez's paintings of dramatically shape-shifting figures assert the power of the female form and challenge fundamental ideas around beauty and agency. Shot primarily on film and featuring original choreography inspired by her paintings, this film is a portrait of an artist in creative transition-like the figures in her work-and in constant motion, traveling her surrounding Bronx neighborhood as well as to her glass mosaic commission at the 163rd Street-Amsterdam Avenue subway station in Manhattan.
- A group of college students hiking through a sprawling wilderness are threatened by violence when a disturbed local teenager leads them on a path of his past.
- An alien invasion leaves the world in smoking ruins and seemingly devoid of humans. But Everett has managed to survive, and now he roams the blighted landscape of Los Angeles, hiding from hunter/killer drones as he embarks on a desperate quest to find his wife and child, who he has not seen since the invasion began. But instead, he finds Sadie, another hardened survivor, holed up in an empty building. In this new world, trust among strangers is hard-earned. But these two will have to learn to work together when they are discovered by an alien patrol.
- Two men in a black van in the midst of a night-long journey. The driver is a taciturn young man with his right hand bandaged up and his talkative companion, an old laborer. With their inner fears and emotional wounds they draw each other closer while pushing each other away, mimicking a typical father-son relationship. Along with a heavy emotional burden, they carry no less heavy of a physical load in the trunk of the van. Both are eager to get rid of the burdens of the past and heal their wounds. But for what price?
- 'Stigma is killing people' Dr Ahmed Hankir says in his passionate crusade fighting for those with mental health issues. Through his personal journey in a life as both 'the wounded' and 'the healer' the film takes us into the subjective experience of 'The Wounded Healer' and Hankir's moving campaign to fight stigma.