Iqbal, a Tale of a Fearless Child (2015)
Genre : Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Drama
Runtime : 1H 27M
Director : Michel Fuzellier, Babak Payami
Writer : Paolo Bonaldi, Lara Fremder, Michel Fuzellier
Synopsis
In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of various townspeople to win their favor. Tensions flare, however, and Grace's status as a helpless outsider provokes vicious contempt and abuse from the citizens of Dogville.
Housed inside a vault in the basement of an abandoned school lurks an evil that has been locked away for over a hundred years. When a teacher and 5 students visit the school to archive any memorabilia before it's torn down, they mistakenly free the horrific spirit, turning the school into a deadly prison. Now they must face the evil and banish it to the vault once again before it kills them and escapes to destroy the world...
Travel across four continents, through 19 countries, and into dingy Cambodian karaoke bars, Amsterdam’s infamous red-light district, Moldovan orphanages, legal Nevada brothels, and the street corners and alleyways of metropolises worldwide for more than a glance at the fastest-growing organized crime industry in the world with the groundbreaking, tell-all Nefarious: Merchant of Souls.
A girl whose heart beats faster than normal and so loudly that it bothers the neighbors seeks both acceptance and escape.
An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.
The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
One summer in the land of rabbits, Loulou the wolf suddenly finds himself all alone. Wondering how he will survive in this new world he makes friends and discovers a new life.
In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.
A trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West.
The true story of Chong Kim—abducted into the sex trade as a young teen—and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.
Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona a 14-year-old girl tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton and the Incoherents of club Hydropathes, the film, with all its wild transformations, sees our protagonist materialize a movie theatre, meet an elephant and escape from jail; A morphing, stream-of-consciousness delight.
Gwen is a young girl adopted by a nomad tribe in a desert post-apocalyptic world. When Gwen's friend is kidnapped, she and an old woman called Roseline embark on a trip to bring him back.
A study of human anxieties about beauty, youth and objectification.
The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapids, past a Maroon village on the Upper Suriname River, in a rehearsal of the voyage undertaken by their ancestors, who escaped from slavery at the hands of the Dutch 300 years prior. A path still traveled to this day, its changing topography bespeaks a diverse history of forced migration.
Two kids travel to a city where silence is kept sacred.
