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Thousands of foreign workers support today the most known Italian excellence: agri-food production. A docu-musical shows their daily exploitation.

Ichiro Aoye, a young painter, encounters a famous singer, Miyako Saijo, while on holiday in the mountains. He gives her a ride and coincidentally stays at the same inn. A tabloid magazine specializing in scandals blows this encounter up into a huge falsehood designed to humiliate Miyako, who has been uncooperative with the press. Ichiro sues, but his lawyer, needing money for his sick daughter's treatment, accepts a bribe to throw the case.

A man wakes up in a world where the water has disappeared. There's no water in the pipes nor in the bottles. Not even one drop falls from the clouds. The sea itself has become a desert. However, everyone acts as if nothing happened. In the bars they sip from empty glasses, from a springboard a diver falls into a dry pool. Alone, the protagonist realizes the incredible disappearance – and nobody pays attention to him.

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field; she dies protecting a G.I., but the Yanks think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from a G.I. who tracks him to a shanty town. A G.I. meets a woman the day Rome is liberated; in six months they meet again: he's cynical, she's a prostitute. A US nurse braves the trip across the Arno into German fire in search of a partisan she loves. Three chaplains, including a Jew, call on a monastery north in the Apennines. Allied soldiers and partisans try to escape capture in the marshes of the Po.

Jaume, who was once a passionate young man, has become a disillusioned middle-aged man who has lost his desire to write and can't remember the last time he fell in love. On another boring summer day in Barcelona, he receives a surprise visit from Elisabeth, a romantic interest from the past. The encounter brings back the Jaume of yesterday, turning his monotonous life upside down.

The tycoon in cattle breeding, George Washington McLintock, respected by local farmers, is the richest man in the territory. Wealthy rancher uses his influence to keep peace between them, Indians and corrupt government officials. The predictable life of McLintock changes unexpectedly when come to him his teenage daughter Becky and wife Katherine, with whom he has split up a long time ago.

A universal parable about differences, told in three colours. A story about the natural and the excluded, the normal and the uncommon; a duel between learned binary oppositions. The film reflects on an important issue: If our nature isn't a threat to anyone, then who or what prevents us from living our life – possibly the only one we have – to the fullest?

Harold Ramis's remake of the 1967 original stars Brendan Fraser as Elliot Richards, the office nerd who might as well have the word "loser" tattooed on his forehead when it comes to courting his colleague Alison Gardner (Frances O'Connor). Then the Devil (Liz Hurley) appears and offers the regular contract: the granting of seven wishes in exchange for his soul. What could go wrong? Well, everything, since the Devil's job is to add a twist to the wishes so they never quite turn out as Elliot expects, as each one takes a comic turn for the worse. Edited for language and content.

Stefan is an overworked surgeon who's just worked a thirty-one-hour shift. A last minute patient comes in and, as he is the only surgeon available, he goes in for one last operation before going home. Things do not go as planned though, and he loses the patient on the operating table. Starts a saga of deontological issues, where the corrupted Romanian health system comes under close scrutiny.

Five thirty-something men in as many separate segments struggle to grapple with the relentless absurdity of their respective existences.

Kelly, a prostitute, traumatised by an experience, referred to as "The Naked Kiss," by psychiatrists, leaves her past, and finds solace in the town of Grantville. She meets Griff, the police captain of the town, with whom she spends a romantic afternoon. Kelly finds a job as a nurse in a hospital for handicapped children. The work helps her find her sensitive side in the caring and helping of her young patients. Kelly's path towards happiness is thrown amiss, when she witnesses a shocking event, which threatens not just her happiness, but her mental health as well.

Imagining love and relationships in the near future.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room... and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals...

When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.

Filmed in 20 countries 20 years in the making – A stunningly filmed portrait of life. Richard Wawman's unique film mesmerizes and transports us to the most remote areas of the world untouched by civilization, exploring the deep and intimate relationships between gender and sex, family, death, food, rituals and the rhythm of life that is universal With no voice-over and direction for the viewer, the experience is personal and challenging: what seems to be a looking glass into a disappearing world and diverse cultures turns out to be a mirror reflecting back to us the follies and short-sightedness of our own pre-conceived ideas and prejudices

Nutsa lives with her two small children in suburb of Tblissi, Georgia. With her Goga, they would bee today a regular family if he hadn't been arrested. Between the wedding in prison and the monthly visits, a routine sets in. Wil they be able to overcome this double reality?

A short French film directed by Armela Hostiou. Vincent (Vincent Macaigne, who is also the co-writer) follows his beloved Barbara (Kate Moran) to New York. But they're not getting along anymore. Stubborn man in love is trying to do everything to get back his girlfriend.

The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.

Paul (Yvan Attal) and Claire (Anne Parillaud) are two lonely people who meet because of a cell phone call to a wrong number. Claire send a message and Paul receives it. The man believes that Claire goes through a breakdown and she might commit suicide. Philippe Andre's picture won prizes at festivals in Palm Springs and Nevada.

Thousands of foreign workers support today the most known Italian excellence: agri-food production. A docu-musical shows their daily exploitation.

Charlie Chaplin's tramp boards a steamship and immigrates to America only to fall into all sorts of trouble, while also discovering love. During his travels, he is frequently accused of pickpocketing and fraud, although his intentions remain pure throughout.

The neighbor's dog won't stop barking. Emilio and Susana can't sleep. They can't stop fighting either. The barking and howling of the dog and of the couple itself will lead to inevitable rupture. Emilio wrongly pours out his anger, sadness and insecurities, and makes an unsuspected choice.

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

The Phantom Father tells a story of an American professor Robert Traum, who takes a sabbatical from his teaching job to trace his roots in Romania. Traum soon discovers that he comes from a wealthy family involved in organized crime. He manages to reestablish contact with the sole remaining link to his otherwise deceased family—Sami. Rocco Castoro, the editor-in-chief of VICE magazine called the movie 'the best Romanian movie he's ever seen.'

The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the life they left in Sweden.

Noriko, is a young woman with a stable extended family, lots of friends and a good job. She seems to be very happy but everybody worries because she is 28 and has not married yet.The film is a part of a thematic trilogy in which the stories take place in separate universes but are linked together by actress Setsuko Hara playing a single woman named Noriko in post-war Japan. An insightful look at 20th century Japanese life by master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu.

Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until taken under the wing of an older and wiser detective, Sato. Together they track the culprit.

A 12-year-old boy tries to reunite with his father after a tough divorce.

Incorporating more than 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang's science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz's 1927 score (presented here in 5.1 Stereo Surround), the film's dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever. And the integration of scenes and subplots long considered lost endows METROPOLIS with even greater tension and emotional resonance, as it dramatizes the conflict between wealthy über-capitalists and rebellious subterranean laborers—orchestrated by a diabolical scientist capable of destroying them both.

In one Paris divided militarily into two like was the former Berlin Est-Ouest, Ines Raymond receives from the right bank people who ask for a visa for the left bank. Each have their reasons and dreams for crossing the Seine, but, Ines must follow the new instructions.

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

Bernard and Claire Boiko won enough money on TV game shows to escape debt and rebuild their lives. From Tic-Tac-Dough in 1956 to Jeopardy in 1967 to Trivial Pursuit in 1993, they competed on national television 28 times -- probably the longest-running record of individual TV game show appearances by husband and wife in the world. Daughter Patricia melds 10 different TV game shows and a snappy soundtrack with vivid motion graphics and vintage footage to paint an intimate portrait of her quirky parents, paradigms of 20th century family life. Yet -- as their poignant romance and ribald experiences reveal the fascinating historical context of their times -- the winning couple also come to be seen as curiously-relatable outsiders to mainstream culture. Themes of love, hardship, and achievement add emotional weight to Bernard's parting words, 'If it's a lucky life, it's mine.' Quick cash and fabulous prizes, the thrill of winning and the lasting joy of this different family make this a wonderful story of dreams unexpectedly fulfilled.

Catherine and Alexander, wealthy and sophisticated, drive to Naples to dispose of a deceased uncle's villa. There's a coolness in their relationship and aspects of Naples add to the strain. She remembers a poet who loved her and died in the war; although she didn't love him, the memory underscores romance's absence from her life now. She tours the museums of Naples and Pompeii, immersing herself in the Neapolitan fascination with the dead and noticing how many women are pregnant; he idles on Capri, flirting with women but drawing back from adultery. With her, he's sarcastic; with him, she's critical. They talk of divorce. Will this foreign couple find insight and direction in Italy?

The action proceeds along two tracks and two time frames. We meet the boy, who lives with his mother in a Budapest apartment house, in the summer of 2012. Another boy is spending his vacation with his grandparents in the same building in the summer of 1982. The house unveils its mysterious secret to both of them.

Rosario lives with his ill grandmother in the suburbs and is spending most of time on the streets. He's not interested in school. The teenager knows only poverty and violence, and aspires to be like his older peers who are already involved in criminal activities. Certi bambini is an engaging story of a wasted youth in Naples, Italy. The movie won the Crystal Globe at the 2004 Karlovy Vary International Festival.

A light and humorous exploration of one couple's marital problems.

Pedro decides to maintain his daily routine, in spite of some adversities which are causing him some instability. These new events will force him to venture towards anuncertain future

Twin brother returns from grave for revenge.

Having recently returned from military service, Emrah refuses to socialise, and strolls alone on highways. He hides two letters in a drawer: one that he has written when he was in the army to his former lover, Sevgi, and another that he has found by the side of the dead body of a guerrilla whose life he has taken. Following the address on the letter, Emrah reaches the house of Zeynep, the soldier's lover. Emrah finds a job as a night watch. Forced to spend the whole night in a small room, he reminiscents which makes him feel even more confused.

Two people who have never had a relationship before are on their first date together. Both long passionately for a relationship, but this first date is a nuisance for both of them. They try, they really do, but one accident after another occurs and nothing goes according to their expectations.

In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of madness.

When 30-year-old Faustine comes back home to prepare herself before meeting her date she finds herself face to face with a stranger who has made himself at home in her apartment. What if apps became real people and actually lived in our homes ?

A young woman returns to Turin, after years in Rome, to open a boutique. The building is still under construction, and Clelia finds herself at once attracted to Carlo, the architect's assistant who reminds her of the working-class background she's worked hard to leave behind. Antonioni's fourth feature is one of his most memorable films, in which multiple plot strands, character psychology, and a masterful control of the camera are perfectly fused.

Secluded for ages inside his tower, an immortal Knight is awoken from his slumber by a mysterious whisper and sets off on a perilous journey to find and confront an elusive enemy.

A horror from 1963 directed by, among others, Roger Corman and Francis Ford Coppola. The action of the film takes place in the 18th century in France. A young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.

Photographed and produced by both Jackson Leighter...and his wife...and, while not wishing to disillusion those who state this has only been seen at film festivals, this clinker of a ...

THE QUIET MAN is a 1952 American film directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond, and Barry Fitzgerald. A polite, soft-spoken American named Sean Thornton (Wayne) travels all the way to the small Irish village of Innisfree. He's come back to his ancestral home to buy back his father's house. During his journey Thornton caught a glimpse of beautiful redhead Mary Kate Danaher; the two fall in love. The film was well received on its release and has remained one of the more popular romantic comedies in Hollywood history.

One of Fellini's least remembered films, ""Il Bidone"" is a dark story about three con men who pursue some deeply appalling schemes to bilk people out of their savings. The New York Times called it: "an obvious cheap-crime picture, very much on the sentimental side." Fellini's true fans will enjoy the typical ensemble of Fellini characters—peasants, crooks and Roman paisans.

Dieyi and Xiaolou meet as boys when both are apprenticed to an opera school in the mid-1920's China. Crucial events in the friends' lives coincide with great public events that, in turn, shape their destinies. ""Farewell My Concubine,"" shared the top prize at the 1993 Cannes International Film Festival with ""The Piano,"" by Jane Campion.

A drama from 1968, directed by Pier Pasolini, an iconic Italian artist, author of (among others) ""L'evangile selon saint-Mathieu"", "Medea" and ""Oedipus Rex"". The enigmatic and symbolic film is considered by many to be one of the director's best pictures, showing his views on politics and society. A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father, before leaving a few days later. After he's gone, none of them can continue living as they did. Who was that visitor? Could he be God?

An enthusiastic and amateur theatrical group finds the opportunity to perform abroad which is a great success. Sheherazad, a desperate girl, joins the group and takes the leading role in the play. She decides, unlike her other fellow actors to tell the truth to her father. He is against this trip. The group is now in a dilemma: replace her or…. "Bending the Rules" is the story of the third generation of the Iranian Revolution that does not want to compromise on their principles and rights with their parents.

A film adaptation of the novel by Agatha Christie, in which the structure of the story refers to the popular children's enumeration ""Ten Little Niggers"". Ten people come to the island at the invitation of its owner, who turns out to be absent. Each guest has committed a crime and has to pay for it with his own life. When everybody dies one by one, the police arrives and the question must be answered: who is the killer?

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

Milano, nowadays. Cristian is a 30's employed at an agency as graphic-designer until short time ago, who has decided to quit due to his creative uneasiness and various intolerances, and who is now trying to look for his own way. Just this is the problem: he's living such a moment considered by most as a limbo, when he doesn't know neither how to make a choice nor what might he expect for the future. Steady and still in such a precariousness, Cristian lives day by day on a shoestring, he meets some friends attending the usual bar, drinking and philosophizing into the night: Willy, a dandy old comrade, joke always ready, who's lifestyle is hearted; Sergio, an actor, a bit frustrated but highly cultured and a good close friend. In the middle of this suspended situation Cristian falls in love with Greta, a girl speaking with Spanish accent, a little bit younger than him, who spreads a light and enthusiasm quite different from Cristian's. He lives his love affairs, but, as often happens, "love is not enough", and soon Christian himself calls into question his whole life and people belonging to it, in order to find serenity.

Following the bombardment of Kosovo in 1999, the Rahmanis and their three children emigrate to Switzerland. After years of living in their new homeland, the family faces the prospects of deportation. "No one is proud to be a refugee, but when it comes to me, I am not ashamed of who I am" says Rasim – the father of the family and an ex music teacher. Desperate to stay he invents an Albanian Dance Troupe in order to garner signatures of support from the community… The intimate narrative explores the experience of forced migration: the fraught decision to leave; the process of integration and adaptation to a new country; the impact on the family; and always, the yearning for the homeland.

Classic cinema of the 50s with Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak in the main roles. Frankie Machine, the king of poker addicted to heroin, leaves prison. He's left the addiction and has discovered his new passion – playing the drums. He also wants to start a new life with a beautiful woman, but his wife is waiting for him at home and she needs money for rehabilitation. To get them, Frankie gradually returns to his old life.

An allegorical tale about a man fighting the good and evil within him. Both sides are made flesh – one a sophisticated woman he is attracted to and the other his wife.

"It was an era, it was the start of a new vision" says Amha Eshete, the first Ethiopian music producer back in the Golden Age, the days of Swingin' Addis. The album releases that have crossed Ethiopian borders are mainly recordings from the 50's to the 80's, however, the contemporary music scene from Addis remains, bar a few exceptions, unknown to the rest of the world. Is Addis still swinging as it used to? Music in Addis is present in actions and sounds spread out on differentiated spaces, it is an expression of the everyday urban life and its processes of transformation and adaptation in the city. New Voices In An Old Flower explores this vitality of music looking at the plurality of the city and its people. Drifting in unplanned tours through the urban landscape of contemporary Addis Ababa, this film is shaped by encounters, dialogues and collaborations with musicians and other inhabitants of the city.

After a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in post-war Japan. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster's tuberculosis, and convinces him to begin treatment for it. The two enjoy an uneasy friendship until the gangster's former boss is released from prison and seeks to take over his gang once again. The ailing young man loses his status as gang boss and becomes ostracised, and eventually confronts his former boss in a battle to the death.

Summertime. Everybody is excited to go on vacation to Italy. Everybody but Jasmin. Jasmin is yearning something. She wants to be with Eva, her mother, from whom she had to live seperately for a long time. For weeks, Jasmin is trying to get close to Eva. She does not give up, even if she's rejected. After an argument, Jasmin runs away from her fosterhome and convinces Eva to leave the city together and go on a trip. The two get closer -- sometimes as friends, sometimes as mother and daughter. A first joint cigarette, a dance in the village disco, wanderings through the woods. But expectations and needs of the girl and her mother are diverging repeatedly, especially when a man attracts Eva's attention and disturbs the growing closeness between mother and daughter.

Andrew is not dealing well with the recent death of his mother. After leaving therapy, he goes with some friends on a desert vacation. Despite having his own loyal companion in Hannah he believes that the way to healing is by having a 4-way with Hannah, Emily, Zoe who are his best friends' girlfriends.

Fanni has had enough of money and Anna has had enough of pigs. Fanni leaves the city and her pearls behind, while Anna is stuck wearing muddy overalls. When they finally cross paths, they embark on a punk adventure towards Marxist liberty.

ARIMA It is the story of four women and a girl who- se existence is disrupted by the sudden arrival of two strangers. One of them is fleeing from the other, sneaking around town like an elusive being, a ghostly presence of uncertain existence. The other character --an injured man carrying a gun-- will disrupt the women's way of life in different ways. The whole plot takes place on the fine line between reality and imagination, between dreams and nightmares, fear and desire, within a story shrouded in mystery ARIMA is something you glimpse through the mist, something you can sense but still fail to see clearly. A dream, a memory, a desire.

A drama set in China in the 1920s. After the death of her father, 19-year-old Songlian is forced to marry a wealthy man, 50-year-old Chen Zuoqian. She becomes his fourth wife and must compete with the first three wives for the husband's favor. Each night Chen Zuoqian chooses one of them. His choice gives his wife power and privileges – that's why women take different approaches to attract their husband. Film directed by Yimou Zhang, the creator of such blockbusters as: ""House of flying daggers"", ""Hero"" and ""Empress"".

Listen presents several different issues through a singular conflict: a petrified mother, trapped in a violent relationship looking for protection from the police; a translator who isn't properly translating; and a son who just wants to go home, insisting that: "I'm big now. I can defend you." The film also offers a religious conflict for the mother and audience to reflect on: contact the imam and pray, or seek refuge? The decision has been made for the mother, and she must live with the consequences.

There is not much fish left in the Mediterranean Sea, and both fishermen and dolphins are fighting for surviving. This film shows the consequences of overfishing and unsustainable tourism in the island of Stromboli through two of the last guardians of a world that is disappearing. This is a story of extinctions of fish population and local traditions. But there is hope for the next generations.

The film tells a story of Doris, an English language teacher at the University of Montana, and a class of foreign students. Throughout the movie, Doris and her students examine how they fit into a new town and a new life.

In one Paris divided militarily into two like was the former Berlin Est-Ouest, Ines Raymond receives from the right bank people who ask for a visa for the left bank. Each have their reasons and dreams for crossing the Seine, but, Ines must follow the new instructions.

A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society through the verite camera used in most scenes.

The story of Iron Island takes place on an abandoned oil tanker in a port in South Iran. Dozens of homeless families are living on the vessel under the rule of Captain Nemat. Everything works OK, as long as everyone operates according to his instructions. The ship, a complex metaphor for political and personal tensions in Iran, begins to sink but certainly not with the hopes of its people. Iron Island is Mohammad Rasoulof's second feature film. Rasoulof was arrested after the disturbances following the 2009 Iranian presidential election. In 2010 he and major Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi were sentenced to six years in prison and a 20-year prohibition from leaving Iran, talking to the press, or participating in filmmaking.

Charlie is in boot camp in the "awkward squad." Once in France he gets no letters from home. He finally gets a package containing limburger cheese which requires a gas mask and which he throws over into the German trench. He goes "over the top" and captures thirteen Germans ("I surrounded them"), then volunteers to wander through the German lines disguised as a tree trunk. With the help of a French girl he captures the Kaiser and the Crown Prince and is given a statue and victory parade in New York and then ... fellow soldiers wake him from his dream.

Five thirty-something men in as many separate segments struggle to grapple with the relentless absurdity of their respective existences.

Two people who have never had a relationship before are on their first date together. Both long passionately for a relationship, but this first date is a nuisance for both of them. They try, they really do, but one accident after another occurs and nothing goes according to their expectations.

Nutsa lives with her two small children in suburb of Tblissi, Georgia. With her Goga, they would bee today a regular family if he hadn't been arrested. Between the wedding in prison and the monthly visits, a routine sets in. Wil they be able to overcome this double reality?

In post-war Italy, Antonio is offered a job that requires a bicycle. Selling his bed sheets, he manages to buy a bike. On his first day it is stolen forcing Antonio, and his son, to search the city. One of the best-known and most widely acclaimed European movies considered the neo-surrealist Italian masterpiece. The movie received a special Academy Award as ""most outstanding foreign film"" seven years before that Oscar category was officially introduced.

A pregnant girl and her childhood friend leave the city to seek help. That takes them on an unexpected coming of age journey of self-discovery during which they reflect on their lives and are faced with decisions that will determine their future.

Poor Charlie lives in a vacant lot. He tries to get a job but when he gets to the head of the employment line the jobs are gone. Back "home" he rescues Scraps, a bitch being attacked by other strays. Together they manage to steal some sausages from a lunch wagon. They enter a dance hall where Edna is a singer and unwilling companion to the clientele. He is thrown out when he can't pay. Back "home" Scraps digs up a money-filled wallet buried by crooks. They return to the dance hall to find Edna fired. The wallet goes back and forth between Charlie and the crooks. Charlie, Edna and Scraps end up very happily.

Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) wants to divorce her husband, but before she takes any steps in this direction, it turns out that he is dead. In addition, just before his death he had sold all the things from their home. Moreover, he is accused of stealing 250,000 dollars and various people are looking for it now. Regina meets CIA staff and Peter Joshua (Cary Grant), who is also involved in the case.

A man leaves a woman, a woman leaves a man. Both meet for a short while. Great changes await them at the end of this journey.

The most personal film by Andrei Tarkovsky. A dying man wonders about the meaning of life and remembers his past – childhood during World War II, adolescence and a painful divorce in his family. The personal story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.

A coming-of-age and social drama of two marginalised youths who take refuge in groups they do not understand. The neo-Nazis ambush the fugitives, with fatal consequences for one of them. Before they take revenge, a way out appears in a dialogue between the two boys.

The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the life they left in Sweden.

The location: Nazi occupied Rome. As Rome is classified an open city, most Romans can wander the streets without fear of the city being bombed or them being killed in the process. But life for Romans is still difficult with the Nazi occupation as there is a curfew, basic foods are rationed, and the Nazis are still searching for those working for the resistance and will go to any length to quash those in the resistance and anyone providing them with assistance. War worn widowed mother Pina is about to get married to her next door neighbor Francesco. Despite their situation – Pina being pregnant, and Francesco being an atheist – Pina and Francesco will be wed by Catholic priest Don Pietro Pelligrini. The day before the wedding, Francesco's friend, Giorgio Manfredi, who Pina has never met, comes looking for Francesco as he, working for the resistance, needs a place to hide out. For his latest mission, Giorgio also requests the assistance of Don Pietro, who is more than willing as he sees...

One night, as Nour restrains herself from throwing to the bulky waste her old bed, she finds buried in her mattress a picture bearing the promise of a forebear. This discovery propels this young woman overflowing with desire and her bed in the streets of the city. Le Lit is a generous and gently quirky short film about the city and the poetic ride of a young woman filled with desire. The unusual odyssey of the heroin on her old-style bed and all her unexpected encounters trigger a deep nostalgic longing and leaves you ready to explore new horizons.

Paul Schoolman, a filmmaker from South Africa chose to portray the early years in the life of Julius Caesar through a story told from three prisons (Pollsmoor, Cape Town, Cardiff in Wales, and Drumheller in Canada). While he hired such great actors as Derek Jacobi, he also engaged a cast of real inmates. The movie was screened at several film festivals including Moscow and Chicago.

Alsemberg, December 1975, Sarah, 8 years old, lives in a Catholic foyer. One day, her biological father, whom she has never met, comes to take her for a week- end in Paris. But it is in Morocco that Sarah wakes up, in a little town lost in the middle of the Atlas. Very soon, her father leaves, abandon- ing her without any explanation. She then slips into the life of a little Moroccan girl where the only schooling she is offered is that of knitting. Nine years later, we find Sarah, 17 years old, a teenager like all the others... At least, almost. We are in 1984, in the mid- dle of a hunger revolt (The Revolt of 'Aw- bach'). Sarah's father has never sent the money he had said he would, and for the family where she is staying, each mouth to feed accounts for more and more. Sarah will have to find a way to earn her board. But then, there is also her wish of leaving, to going back to the Belgium of her childhood, the school, the books and a life that Sarah imagines free…

In 1944, in WWII, Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki cuts his finger with the scalpel during a surgery in a field hospital and is infected by spirochete from his patient Susumu Nakada. After the blood test, he realizes that he has contracted syphilis, but he does not have the necessary medicine to treat the disease. He advises Nakada to seek medical treatment for his disease. In 1946, after the war, he breaks off his six years engagement with his beloved fiancée Misao Matsumoto but he does not tell the truth but lets her go and find another man to get married. The hopeless apprentice, nurse Rui Minegishi, witnesses Kioji injecting Salvarsan to treat his syphilis, and first she misunderstands why the doctor is sick. Later, after discovering the truth about his disease, she changes her behavior and becomes the confident listener of the doctor's inner feelings.

Italian director Pupi Avati contrasts his 2007 English-language thriller The Hideout with this sentimental, distinctively Italian comedy concerning a failed actor who can't help but obsess over his lackluster career. After the depressive thespian makes a half-hearted suicide attempt, his three daughters flock to be by his side and organize a surprise dinner party designed to set him up with a potential mate. Later, as dinner gets underway, the situation takes an unexpected turn.

Having recently returned from military service, Emrah refuses to socialise, and strolls alone on highways. He hides two letters in a drawer: one that he has written when he was in the army to his former lover, Sevgi, and another that he has found by the side of the dead body of a guerrilla whose life he has taken. Following the address on the letter, Emrah reaches the house of Zeynep, the soldier's lover. Emrah finds a job as a night watch. Forced to spend the whole night in a small room, he reminiscents which makes him feel even more confused.

A Confederate veteran living in the Yankee North struggles with his son's shock induced muteness and the hate of the Northerners.

A short French film directed by Armela Hostiou. Vincent (Vincent Macaigne, who is also the co-writer) follows his beloved Barbara (Kate Moran) to New York. But they're not getting along anymore. Stubborn man in love is trying to do everything to get back his girlfriend.

An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau (Sunrise, Faust, The Last Laugh). Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok (as portrayed by Max Schreck) is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws -- perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned. Nosferatu was an atypical expressionist film in that much of it was shot on location. While directors such as Lang and Lubitsch built vast forests and entire towns within the studio, Nosferatu's landscapes, villages and castle were actual locations in the Carpathian mountains. Murnau was thus able to infuse the story with the subtle tones of nature: both pure and fresh as well as twisted and sinister.

Ed decides to leave his life in Barcelona to take a trip to the United States to follow his childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker there. Close to turning 40, and with his wedding just around the corner, he realizes that his life has not worked out as he had planned. An identity crisis begins which makes him leave everything and try to make his childhood dream —the American dream— come true. With the script of a film he wrote a few years ago under his arm, and the idea of trying to make the project a reality in the United States, Ed embarks on a road trip from New York to Hollywood, on which he meets diverse characters with whom he reflects upon the pros and cons of following our dreams, while at the same time he tries to achieve his and seeks a more precise definition of happiness.

Set in Vilnius, a modern city still in search for its relation to the past, three parallel stories with three average people marooned in a state of change, looking to the future with hope, but not letting go of constricting and reassuring fears of their past.

Teenagers Myriam and Acha live in the social housing projects and feel bored, until the leader of a juvenile gang asks them to guard the door to one of the buildings. The girls feel honored and believe they are now part of the exciting world of drugs distribution.

Set during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Kaige's third film, King of the Children, concerns a young man who is sent from the city to the country for his scheduled tour of farm labor. Upon arriving in this remote mountain area, he -- much to his surprise -- is asked to become a teacher even though he lacks all the customary qualifications. Confronted with the apathy of his students, the young man decides to throw out the Maoist textbook, which includes such tedious exercises as copying all the characters out of the dictionary, and teach his students to think about the world around them. Just as he begins to connect with his pupils, the authorities catch wind of his pedagogical departures and severely reprimand him. Shot on-location in the Yuan province, King of the Children features some beautiful landscape photography of the region's forested mountains and precipitous river valleys.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

Harold Ramis's remake of the 1967 original stars Brendan Fraser as Elliot Richards, the office nerd who might as well have the word "loser" tattooed on his forehead when it comes to courting his colleague Alison Gardner (Frances O'Connor). Then the Devil (Liz Hurley) appears and offers the regular contract: the granting of seven wishes in exchange for his soul. What could go wrong? Well, everything, since the Devil's job is to add a twist to the wishes so they never quite turn out as Elliot expects, as each one takes a comic turn for the worse. Edited for language and content.

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Armel Hostiou's haunting study of urban alienation follows three characters—a woman, a man, and a child—over the period of a single day in Paris. They don't know each other and they won't cross paths, but they share an insidious feeling of confinement. Because of an external event, each of them will leave their environment and undergo an experience that confronts them with the uncomfortable and dangerous dimensions of their shared urban space. Through its patient observation of the quotidian, of the passage of time from morning to night, Day reacquaints us with the strangeness of everyday life.

A man wakes up in a world where the water has disappeared. There's no water in the pipes nor in the bottles. Not even one drop falls from the clouds. The sea itself has become a desert. However, everyone acts as if nothing happened. In the bars they sip from empty glasses, from a springboard a diver falls into a dry pool. Alone, the protagonist realizes the incredible disappearance – and nobody pays attention to him.

Cristina (49) has spent her life taking care of her mother Carmen. Single and without a trade or friends, she grows older, year after year in her hometown. A few days from her birth- day, Cristina reconnects with Sandra, a former schoolmate who will show her other ways to live, freely and without prejudice.

Marseille, today. Aminata works as a hairdresser in an Afro hairdressing salon, Badara works as mecanich. When they meet, their love story will change their lives.

Summertime. Everybody is excited to go on vacation to Italy. Everybody but Jasmin. Jasmin is yearning something. She wants to be with Eva, her mother, from whom she had to live seperately for a long time. For weeks, Jasmin is trying to get close to Eva. She does not give up, even if she's rejected. After an argument, Jasmin runs away from her fosterhome and convinces Eva to leave the city together and go on a trip. The two get closer -- sometimes as friends, sometimes as mother and daughter. A first joint cigarette, a dance in the village disco, wanderings through the woods. But expectations and needs of the girl and her mother are diverging repeatedly, especially when a man attracts Eva's attention and disturbs the growing closeness between mother and daughter.

The film delves into the life of a young girl as her perception of the world as she knows it falls completely apart in just over a night in London, when her sister goes missing.

Luca arrives by plane to visit his dad and his new family in Sweden. Luca is eager to make a good impression and to be accommodating, but the visit does not go as planned and a stressful situation releases the underlying tensions.

July 1944. San Miniato, Italy, is occupied by the Nazis. Paolino, the local tailor, receives a visit of the SS officer Rudolf Schmidt, who commissioned him a suit.

THE QUIET MAN is a 1952 American film directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond, and Barry Fitzgerald. A polite, soft-spoken American named Sean Thornton (Wayne) travels all the way to the small Irish village of Innisfree. He's come back to his ancestral home to buy back his father's house. During his journey Thornton caught a glimpse of beautiful redhead Mary Kate Danaher; the two fall in love. The film was well received on its release and has remained one of the more popular romantic comedies in Hollywood history.

A young girl wakes up one morning to find that she has turned completely blue.

Jaume, who was once a passionate young man, has become a disillusioned middle-aged man who has lost his desire to write and can't remember the last time he fell in love. On another boring summer day in Barcelona, he receives a surprise visit from Elisabeth, a romantic interest from the past. The encounter brings back the Jaume of yesterday, turning his monotonous life upside down.

Although tensions are constantly boiling between two brothers who live together in a Toronto housing project during the early 90s, 11 year old Scott deeply wants to help his older brother get through his isolation and ultimately bring his fractured family together.

In 1933, in Kyoto, the academic freedom is under attack and the spoiled daughter of Professor Yagihara, Yukie Yagihara, is courted by the idealistic student Ruykichi Noge and by the tolerant Itokawa. When the academic freedom is crushed by the fascists, Professor Yagihara and the members of the Faculty of Law resigns from their positions and Noge is arrested. Five years later, Noge visits Professor Yagihara and his family under the custody of the now Prosecutor Itokawa and tells that he is going to China. Yukie decides to move alone to Tokyo and years later, she meets Itokawa in Tokyo and he tells that Noge is living in Tokyo. Yukie visits Noge and they become lovers. In 1941, Noge is arrested accused of ringleader of a spy network and Yukie is also sent to prison. When she is released, she decides to move to the peasant village where Noge's parents live and are blamed of being spies by the villagers. She changes her lifestyle and works hard with Madame Noge planting rice and earning...

To make her lover jealous, a beautiful socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.

Jeremías Gallardo, a prominent Chilean journalist who, on January 29th, 1986, covers the last death sentence in the country, which was carried out in the prison of Valparaiso. That same day, his wife is giving birth to her first child at a clinic in the capital. Gallardo's return to Santiago becomes an inner journey where he will relive moments from his dark past, linked to the intelligence services of that time. The film is structured in fragmentary flashbacks and reconstructs Gallardo's character and personality.

The future is easy to predict for Tony (David Proval) and Michael (Richard Romanus) – as the owners of a small bar in the New York city's Little Italy. Charlie (Harvey Keitel) doesn't know what tomorrow will bring him. The boy works for his uncle, who belongs to the local mafia. Charlie is too kind to succeed and his uncle disapproves his girlfriend (because of her epilepsy) and her cousin Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro). A failed attempt to escape to Brooklyn moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future.