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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.

Between Brighton and Berlin, between his existence as an artist and part-time jobs, between being a man and a woman – the 27-year-old Alexander Norton leads a courageous life somewhere in between, characterized by melancholy and the beauty of self-discovery.

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.

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.

An adaptation of William Shakespeare's drama by Orson Welles, who was the producer, director and the main role actor. The film was awarded the Golden Palm in Cannes in 1952. Otello is Maur and the commander of the Venetian army, who has married Desdemona. Although she is faithful to her husband, he begins to suspect her of treason. Othello's envy is still deliberately ignited by the vengeful Jago. And it leads to a tragic finale.

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.

True smile is the story about a trip through the empty glance of an autist and blind boy who crosses 1.300 kms in tandem bycicle with his brother. This documentary inmerses us into the Sergio's unreachable world, that seems to the desert, the destination of their trip.

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.

Sometimes the maid of honor not only takes care of the flower's color in the wedding.

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.

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.

A woman is tormented by strange dreams of astronauts on the moon. She visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her although she does not know them.

Soon after the end of World War II Karen, a young refugee from Lithuania meets Antonio, an Italian fisherman in a camo for displaced persons. They marry and settle down on the volcanic island of Stromboli. The woman feels very lonely and alienated but her husband refuses to let her leave. Roberto Rossellini who directed the film and Ingrid Bergman who played the lead female part had an affair during making of the movie which ended up in a scandal once the actress decided to leave her husband and a child in order to marry the Italian filmmaker. "Stromboli" was nominated to the Golden Lion award in Venice.

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.

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.

Narges, a public toilet cleaner, has to wait for 5 minutes to see what the result of her pregnancy test is. In this 5 minutes, she dives in her dream. The dream that makes her separate from reality.

Buster Keaton has built a boat in his house and called it Damfino, meaning ""damn fine."" By the end of the film, he has successfully demolished his house, drowned his car, sunk the boat, and Buster and his little family are lost, washed up after a storm at night on a deserted beach. A short film with very little dialogue screens.

Classic horror film in humorous version. Seymour is a clumsy young man working in a florist shop. One day he managed to grow a new variation of a bloodthirsty plant. When the man forges a strong bond with it, it turns out that the plant doesn't eat insects but a human flesh. The plant forces Seymour to feed it, committing many crimes.

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.

Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.

Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.

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.

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.

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.

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 teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family – wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer – and lives/ works in local inn.

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him. But Simon recognizes him everytime. So the Devil takes him to a nightclub in New York of the 1960s.

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books after failing to stop death; Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust, first with insight into treating the plague and then with a day's return to youth. Mephisto is clever, timing the end of this 24 hours as Faust embraces the beautiful Duchess of Parma. Faust trades his soul for youth. Some time later, he's bored, and demands on Easter Sunday that Mephisto take him home. Faust promptly sees and falls in love with the beautiful Gretchen, whose liaison with him brings her dishonor. Is there redemption? Who wins the wager?

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?

No One Can Brush My Hair Like the Wind, a film that portrays the lives of many lonely souls in a desperate search for company. The difficult relationship between a woman writer who lives in solitude and a young girl who comes bursting into her life.

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.

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

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.

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 few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a young, smart boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to other people's needs, she will end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza.

A young fossil hunter makes a groundbreaking discovery, challenging the worldview of 19th century England.

A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

A sound journey accros the mountains, deserts and forests of Ethiopia and its cultural universe. Roaring Abyss will take you through an inedit collection of music recordings of unvaluable importance for the transmission and preservation of the African heritage.

A stirring film, that won the Special Award at the Venice International Film Festival, tells the story about Martin and Gwen love. Two young people fall in love with each other, not knowing that they have more in common than they can imagine. Their lives change when she gets pregnant and he is accused of a murder.

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.

John Wayne burns up the screen in this thrilling tale of vengeance in the Wild West. When his father is gunned down by bandits, John Mason (Wayne) hatches a plot to catch the killer. Little does he know the killer has plans of his own! Featuring a thrilling gun battle with famed Wayne collaborator Yakima Canutt, Cold Vengeance has been beautifully restored and is in color for the very first time.

A down and out stand-up comedian finds refuge at Hotel Bleu, forging an off-beat partnership with a charismatic trumpet player half her age.

A sound journey accros the mountains, deserts and forests of Ethiopia and its cultural universe. Roaring Abyss will take you through an inedit collection of music recordings of unvaluable importance for the transmission and preservation of the African heritage.

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.

Edith' explores how we move on from bereavements. How we make peace with our past and find something worth living for.

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.

An weird but witty old woman is forced to deal with an ambiguous future after her country, family and the entire system of values are ruined. She is trying to solve her existential problems catching d trying to sell a rewarded war criminal as he was a rabbit in a wood. The only thing she did not know if he is really him.

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.

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

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 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.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

True smile is the story about a trip through the empty glance of an autist and blind boy who crosses 1.300 kms in tandem bycicle with his brother. This documentary inmerses us into the Sergio's unreachable world, that seems to the desert, the destination of their trip.

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.

Set in 1990's England, Daniel is an 8 year old boy who dreams of being an Ice Cream Man. Daniel takes us on a short journey of what it is to be an Ice Cream Man and how he will one day be one.

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.

Shot in his hometown of Fort McMurray before it was ravaged by wildfires, Cody Bown's drama draws on real-life events to capture snapshots of a community teetering on a precipice and a collection of twenty somethings whose seemingly directionless lives have intersected.

'If you drink this juice, you'll make it to a hundred' says the young man to his old neighbor, who replies: 'I got to a hundred without this juice, didn't I?' Humor and wit form the basis of a friendship that bridges a huge age difference and allows the centenarian to resume: 'For me the best part of life is being old'. A travelling artist, painter and filmmaker has a centenarian neighbour. The relationship between this man in his forties and the solitary old lady with a wicked sense of humour gradually becomes a kind of elective kinship. Their discussions, interrupted and picked up again over the years, form the fabric of this personal, tender and surprising film. A calm observation on the inescapable power of the passage of time.

We've all waited for 'the one', the one who catches our eye, the one who keeps our interest, the one who won't expect us to trudge down that conventional path. Annie Waits tells the story of lust and disappointment as a twenty-something waits for her adult life to begin.

Greece 1986-1987, a little before the fall of State Socialism and just at the end of the Cold War. In front of Anthi's eyes the country is changing, the world is changing and with them Christos seems to be changing too.

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.

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

When Lili starts losing her hair one morning as a result of cancer treatments, the hospital-provided wig only increases her anguish. Her friend Laura decides a radical makeover is called for. The film by Julie Voisin was presented at a few dozen festivals and was also broadcast by major film channels including TV5 Monde, OCS, Ciné +.

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.

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.

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.

Lucia is an aging Italian actress and director (beautifully portrayed by Antonioni's and Fellini's actress Lucia Bosa), decides to come back to the small town where she had spent her happy childhood. She wants to bring the TV where television has never been seen before. She reaches out to the women in the local community with a project that might change their lives forever.

A scientist extracts gland fluid to keep wife young.

Set in 17th century France, film tells the life story and follows the adventures of Cyrano de Bergerac, swordsman and poet with big charisma and even bigger nose, who is madly in love with beautiful Roxanne. When he discovers that she is in love with handsome but shy Christian, Cyrano decides to help him court her, by writing love poems that Christian will give to Roxanne and gain her affection. Cyrano sets up an innocent deception, but the results will be shockingly tragic.

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.

A teenager's efforts to reconnect with her estranged father forces them to confront a secret in their past.

Four teenagers hang around in a shopping mall during the last days of school. They try to find their identity in the middle of the consumer world. \"Last Days\" say the labels on the t-shirts on sale. \"Last Days\" – that's how they feel between an apocalyptic fear of the future and pure lust for life. Last Days: Sounds liberating, because afterwards something is over. But something new has to come.

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.

Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.

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.

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

Afraid of losing herself, a woman meets with an old friend to discuss a difficult decision.

Jean Barreau leads a spiritual commune on the countryside with the promise of a second life. When their doubles arrive at the house, his followers learn that Jean meant this promise quite literally. However, not everybody is as easily swayed by their capricious leader, who eventually starts to question his own beliefs.

A stirring film, that won the Special Award at the Venice International Film Festival, tells the story about Martin and Gwen love. Two young people fall in love with each other, not knowing that they have more in common than they can imagine. Their lives change when she gets pregnant and he is accused of a murder.

Ali learns through medical documents the sudden recurrence of his son's incurable genetic disorder. Deciding to hide the matter from the rest of the family, he finds himself helpless and starts behaving strangely.

Twin brother returns from grave for revenge.

A sound journey accros the mountains, deserts and forests of Ethiopia and its cultural universe. Roaring Abyss will take you through an inedit collection of music recordings of unvaluable importance for the transmission and preservation of the African heritage.

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.

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.

The film follows Kiara, 17, who lives with her mother in an isolated house on the edge of a large forest. However, as time passes, we come to find that both are bound by a secret that's been buried for years.

A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.

In the port of Cagliari, 16 Moroccan workers are governing a ship. They govern their work. They renounce, voluntarily, on their freedom, hoping to preserve their work and to recover the wages in arrears. The ship is their temporary home, where they sleep, eat, pray, observe Ramadan. In Rome a University teacher has "forced" a young student to follow this story. For reasons of study, but also for reasons of "life". Maybe Salvatore will learn something by this affair. Or maybe not…

Nicole is pregnant.

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.

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.

John Wayne burns up the screen in this thrilling tale of vengeance in the Wild West. When his father is gunned down by bandits, John Mason (Wayne) hatches a plot to catch the killer. Little does he know the killer has plans of his own! Featuring a thrilling gun battle with famed Wayne collaborator Yakima Canutt, Cold Vengeance has been beautifully restored and is in color for the very first time.

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.

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.

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.

The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.

Set in 1990's England, Daniel is an 8 year old boy who dreams of being an Ice Cream Man. Daniel takes us on a short journey of what it is to be an Ice Cream Man and how he will one day be one.

Two German-Argentine sisters break free from the world built by adults. The baptism into a new life takes place in the family bathtub, the Virgin is carefully washed and Christian girls dance to mark the end of childhood.

A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.

Terrified of being buried alive by mistake, a woman puts a phone in her crypt to be able to call home if she needs help. She dies and nothing happens. One day, the phone suddenly rings. Paranormal investigator Nelson Orion is brought in.

The story is set in 1968, when a Romanian-German family from the city of Arad starts a journey to the German Democratic Republic, where the older son, Mihai, hopes that surgical intervention for his ailing father will restore the family's harmony.

A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.

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.

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

Classic horror film in humorous version. Seymour is a clumsy young man working in a florist shop. One day he managed to grow a new variation of a bloodthirsty plant. When the man forges a strong bond with it, it turns out that the plant doesn't eat insects but a human flesh. The plant forces Seymour to feed it, committing many crimes.

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.

Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.

A down and out stand-up comedian finds refuge at Hotel Bleu, forging an off-beat partnership with a charismatic trumpet player half her age.

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.

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.

John Wayne explodes across the screen in this action-packed tale of deceit – and revenge. In a dilapidated ghost town, John Blair (Wayne) runs afoul of the villainous Drake who attempts to cheat him out of a lucrative mail delivery contract. It all leads to a thrilling race in the gorgeous Sacramento Valley. Stagecoach Run has been beautifully restored and is in color for the very first time!

Sometimes the maid of honor not only takes care of the flower's color in the wedding.

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

Murdered young women have finger severed off.

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 teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

True smile is the story about a trip through the empty glance of an autist and blind boy who crosses 1.300 kms in tandem bycicle with his brother. This documentary inmerses us into the Sergio's unreachable world, that seems to the desert, the destination of their trip.