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- During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
- At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
- Mel Brooks raps as Adolf Hitler reminiscing on his life.
- A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
- Anik a young girl is in desperate need to heart implement. She with the help of her doctor goes to a hospital where a young guy Amir is in a coma. On his wedding night he had an accident and is half dead in a coma. The doctor wants to use this young man's heart for Anik but his father is refusing. Meanwhile another customer for the heart is coming to the hospital and proposes a lot of money to the father. Finally the doctor manages to convince them to use the heart for Anik.
- In the future, population control has solved all of humanity's problems. The catch? Someone has to die in order for another person to be born. Based on the short story of the same name by legendary author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Follow Toby's two housemates as they ride the ups and downs of having an actor as a housemate.
- A conflicted man must choose whether to be or not to be.
- Young couple Jane and Henry find out, that Jane is pregnant. Henry wants to have a child, whereas Jane thinks it's too early for her to become a mother. This movie is a philosophical discussion about abortion, between pro-life and pro-choice people.
- A scientist has built a humanoid robot that has been tasked with an important mission. The scientist has hired a drama instructor to teach the robot how to be more human-like... that is until the instructor encounters an ethical dilemma.
- [Tokugawa Treasure] In 1853, at the end of the Edo Period, Japan opened up after years of self-imposed isolation. It is believed that an enormous amount of the government's gold was buried by Tokugawa Government in Mt. Akagi in Japan. [Mizuno's famiry] In 1886, a former samurai Tomoyoshi Mizuno was left a legal will by a man who was suspected to have taken part in hiding the Tokugawa treasure. The will said 'The burred treasure in Akagi is not a made-up story. The amount of the treasure there is 3.6 million ryo [roughly 350 billion dollars]'. Mizuno invested a vast amount of his wealth to buy Mt. Akagi. Since then, Mizuno's family has been excavating the hidden gold for 3 generations, 120 years. [This film] At Mt. Akagi, Tomoyuki Mizuno was into a government gold excavation project as a 3rd generation owner. The story starts where Tomoyuki Mizuno finally came to a discovery of a place with potential of gold after 40 years of thorough investigation. His discovery was led by deciphering old maps and a scroll handed by a samurai. (highlight) -Mizuno's strong character & behavior. -The history of the Mizuno's family and digging miles of tunnels. -Eccentric people who come for the golds. -The story follows to Mizuno's full-scale gold excavation project and finally his death. This film conveys his way of life and philosophy as his lifelong theme, 'To be given or not to be given' and how he fights against the fate that invited him into this unrealistic project.
- There is a big gap in the understanding and acceptance of the LGBTQI community in Asian families. Lack of awareness and education regarding sexuality, makes them believe it is something that can be "cured".
- The documentary Gentilly Or Not To Be is a reflection about the state of the Quebec' nuclear power plant Gentilly-2.
- Dutch, Surinamese, African, Catholics, Muslims, Jews: young people from all over The Netherlands come to ITS DNA, a unique international, multicultural theater school in Amsterdam. Under the leadership of Loes Hegger, they make creative use of their different backgrounds in adapting the Sholem Aleichem's 1907 novel The Bloody Hoax into a poignant production that explores issues of identity and tolerance. In the Aleichem story two students, one Russian Christian and the other Russian Jewish, exchange identities, exposing entrenched antisemitism and discrimination. One hundred years after Aleichem's story, in a culture that prides itself on openness, the students' goal is to celebrate diversity while producing meaningful art. The camera's rapid motion and jump cuts echo the energy of these young actors.
- The story behind the translation and performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in Klingon.
- A Shakespeare fanatic attempts to win over his community, and the biggest theater director in town, with his one-man production of Julius Caesar.
- A thief who realizes that he's not alone in the house he enters for robbery, encounters a blind female host who watches a classic Turkish movie in the hall.
- Russia, 1999. The last year of President Yeltsin. The crash of market and of the Soviet ideology make a simple worker, a metallurgist, reconsider his place in society. The role of Hamlet produces a turn-over in his mind and helps him find his own answer to the question 'To be or not to be?' His personal interpretation of the Shakespeare's drama helps to realize that the 'sea of troubles' of our existence is not just bad luck, but the hand of God, leading people to the acceptance of divine love. The film is documentary evidence of time and a trip around the small world of a representative of the 'lost generation' at the turn of the millennium.
- Jimmie and his wife quarrel after a week of life. They get letters from Tom and Bessie, who have become engaged. Jimmie goes to his office and leaves his wife in tears. Each reads the letter that has come, and Jimmie calls up Tom and warns him, while Jimmie's wife does the same for Bessie. Tom calls on Bessie and they call the engagement off. Meanwhile Jimmie and his wife make up. Tom and a party of friends have gone to a café to celebrate the breaking of the engagement, and Bessie and some of her girl friends have happened into the same café for the same purpose. Jimmie and his wife go to the identical café to celebrate their making up. All three parties meet. Jimmie tells Tom that there is nothing like being married, and all hasten off to be present at the hasty marriage of Tom and Bessie.
- A park ranger's pregnant wife is waiting for her husband to celebrate their wedding anniversary. The park ranger was faced with a hunter. He either kills or gets killed. Finally, it is clear that all these scenarios are actually her own thoughts.
- Ryan goes on a journey as she discovers her dream to become a famous actress.
- Ignatius Jenkyns is the world's greatest Shakespearean tragedian. He admits it, yet he plays on the "ten-twent'-thirt'" time. He and his company leave Waitsburg about midnight, much to the consternation of the hotel keeper who is not aware of their departure until the following morning. Arrived at Spudsville, the next town on their circuit. Ignatius at once proceeds with the rehearsal of his role, but members of his company, rebellious at the "all work and no pay" life they are leading, make forceful demands upon the lanky tragedian as to "when the ghost will walk." Then the Waitsburg hotel keeper and sundry constables arrive, intent on procuring money from Ignatius or taking it out of his hide. In undignified haste, the great tragedian flees. He takes refuge in the home of Mrs. Frummerly, in whose blue veins flows the red blood of the long lamented Sir Archibald Ladykiller. Mrs. Frummerly and her daughter Bella are standing in front of a portrait of their revered ancestor. They have discovered a mysterious parchment which professes that when the ghost of the late Sir Archibald shall appear, fortune shall smile upon his descendants, namely, viz. and to-wit, Madame Frummerly and Bella. When Honorable Ignatius appears, the Frummerlys are wide-eyed, for the long haired Hamfat bears marked resemblance to their feudal ancestor. As Ignatius approaches the portrait, he stumbles over his sword and falls. Frantically he grasps at the painting, which tumbles down upon his head. A cache is revealed in which is a hoard of jewels and money. The Frummerlys. discovering that Ignatius is flesh and blood, and not a ghost, agree to split their good fortune "fifty-fifty" and Ignatius returns again to trod the boards of Spudville. Placating the irate hotel man, the great Hamfat lifts aloft his lance, and in deep stentorian tones he bellows: "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse."
- Terrified from waking up next to a man with no recollection of what happened, David seeks help from his psychiatrist friend.
- Zipse Productions rethinks one of the most popular monologues of all time, To Be or Not to Be, from William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Erin Zipse stars as Hamlet, a prince who has lost so much, leaving them questions losing the last thing they have left: being.
- Off-screen, the drama unfolds: About to wrap production, does a rookie director, contending with a cast of loose cannons and a distracted crew, give in and spoil his own ending?
- In Frank Scheffer's new film, the Dutch director follows his friend, the Iranian composer Nader Mashayekhi, a re-emigrant back to Tehran, while he struggles with the foundation of his Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra.
- A satirical look at Albanian history as told through the story of Hamlet.