From Spikes to Spindles (1976)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 46M
Director : Christine Choy
Sinopsis
This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely depicted, a vibrant community whose young and old join forces to protest police brutality and hostile real estate developers. With bold strokes, it paints an overview of the community and its history, from the early laborers driving spikes into the transcontinental railroad to the garment workers of today.
Mona is a young woman, engaged to a man who never shows up. She relies strongly on her supportive friend, Anne. Mona suspects that Anne's psychologist, Dr. Lark, is acting funny towards her friend, and decides to investigate. Mona and Anne will find themselves embroiled in a strange world of psychiatry and fanaticism, in which both young women's lives will be endangered.
Tough Bond is about our irrepressible need as humans for family. We follow 4 kids who find family and a new identity as Survivors, living together on the streets of Kenya, huffing glue to endure the hell of street life. Recorded over 3 years, Tough Bond illustrates the alarming trajectory of the new generation of Kenya's indigenous tribes that has abandoned its broken villages in search of a new life in the nearby towns and exploding city slums.
THE LIFE OF A GRIZZLY IN A CANADIAN NATIONAL PARK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DATA POINTS AND SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS PRESENTS A FASCINATING LOOK AT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE WILD IN THIS INTERACTIVE FILM FROM THE NFB.
Telugu romantic comedy film written and directed by Nandini Reddy under the banner of Sri Sai Ganesh Productions.
El jugador de fútbol americano Terry Evanshen (David James Elliott), casado con Lorraine (Wendy Crewson) y padre de tres niñas, sufre un terrible accidente a raíz del cual queda sumido en un coma. Tras una temporada de gran sufrimiento para su familia, Terry despierta convertido en un hombre con una mente primaria, de un niño de 5 años, y sin recordar nada de su vida pasada.
Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to get away. Both need each other, yet there is mutual distrust. One night Gregor finds his doubts confirmed. In the end only hope is left.
Lucía tiene 14 años pero parece más joven. Es flaquita y tiene cuerpo de niña. Sus papás están divorciados. Ella y su hermano viven con su madre. Alberto, su padre, es quiropráctico y ve a sus hijos en pocas ocasiones. Ha alquilado una cabaña en el campo, las vacaciones van a ser cortas y el cielo amenaza con llover. Cuando llegan, el panorama es desalentador. Meterse en las piscinas está prohibido por una tormenta eléctrica. Alberto intenta distraerlos para arreglar el fracaso en que se ha convertido esta excursión familiar, pero cuanto más lo intenta, menos lo consigue. (FILMAFFINITY)
In 1989, together with a group of female friends, Su Friedrich rented and renovated an old loft in Williamsburg, an unassuming working-class district of Brooklyn. In 2005 this former industrial zone was designated a residential area and the factories, manufacturers and artists’lofts were priced out by property speculators lured by tax breaks. Friedrich spent five years documenting with her camera the changes in the area. She shows the demolition of industrial buildings and the construction of trendy new apartments for wealthy clients, watching old tenants leave and new inhabitants arrive. As she keeps meticulous record of developments, the extent and speed of the upheaval becomes clear. Her own tenancy agreement expires too and so her documentary images and trenchant commentary become the tools of her growing anger. A documentary of small changes evolves into an historical record of New York, a case study of the rapid gentrification of our cities.
Kat y Sam han pasado siempre las navidades juntos, pero este año el joven le presenta su novia a Kat. La joven no encaja bien que su amigo del alma tenga pareja y se pone celosa. (FILMAFFINITY)
In the Lifetime® movie, THE FANTASIA BARRINO STORY: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE, a single teenage mother overcomes all odds - sexual abuse, poverty and illiteracy - by relying on her spectacular singing voice. She ultimately gains national prominence as the winner of a hit talent show. Fantasia Barrino plays herself in this modern true Cinderella story. Also starring Loretta Devine, Kadeem Hardison and Viola Davis.
Lorenzo del Escorial (Madrid), donde normalidad, protección y superación son mucho más que palabras. Un relato sobre miedos y angustias, sueños e ilusiones, juegos y diversiones, cargado de la nostalgia y la crudeza de una realidad que no siempre fue feliz. Acompañar a un niño en su crecimiento es un camino difícil, casi imposible cuando hay que ayudarle a rehacerse y encontrar su camino. Aldeas Infantiles SOS lo hace cada día. Para ser adulto, primero hay que ser niño.
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita (Tyne Daly) predicts that one of the three couples present at the party will break up by the end of the year. The guests don't take her seriously. Arnita doesn't tell them that she can see a fourth couple at the party, the long dead Mae (Samantha Mathis) and Edward (William Hurt). As days go by, Katharine grows increasingly jealous of her lover Rick (Harry Connick, Jr.), and his flirting with her neighbor Sandra (Cindy Crawford). Sandra is married to Paul (Jamey Sheridan). Marta (Monica Keena) and Billy (Dylan Bruno) are rock musicians who live in the same building as Katharine.
On Christmas weekend in a quaint Texas hotel, JOE BINGHAM, runs into the love of his life, AMY WALKER, the one that got away, she's visiting home for the holiday. The kick is, it's on the eve of Joe's white-winter wedding nuptials to DAISY SPUR, the girl next door who he's settling for. So, Joe has one night to find out if there's a chance he can get back together with Amy before he marries Daisy with no regrets.
Elang, who lived in the flat, is often haunted by images of bizarre murders involving a killer with a rabbit costume. His efforts to solve the mystery and save the lives of the people he presumed in danger, has in turn trapped him in a downward spiral and he became a suspect himself. In proving his innocence, he will be forced to unveil a horrible and long-buried secret.
Cuenta la historia de Scott (Sam Eidson), un gamemaster de treinta y tantos que cuida de su abuela enferma y que ha hecho del rol su manera de vivir, si bien su mundo se pondrá del revés cuando conozca a Miles (Garrett Graham), con quien se enfrentará en la vida y sobre el tablero. (FILMAFFINITY)
Set among the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky, 'Passenger Pigeons' is a story about finding hope and beauty in the dark hills of Appalachia. The film quietly interweaves four separate story lines over the course of a weekend as the town copes with the death of a local miner.
Historia sobre la búsqueda de la identidad y un imbricado camino hacia ese encuentro.
Analía, una chica de provincia de 20 años de edad, viaja a la ciudad de Buenos Aires con el fin de repartir unas artesanías. Mientras cumple su tarea, llega por error a un velorio musulmán. Desconcertada, aunque fascinada, participa del rito y recibe pertenencias de la difunta.
Sin terminar su trabajo, Analía dilata su regreso. La ciudad la hace sentir una extranjera y despierta en ella una sensación de libertad adormecida.
Guiada por el camino de su curiosidad y deseo, Analía comienza a frecuentar una Mezquita. Al azar elije el nombre, “Habiba Rafat” para sí, y bajo esta identidad vivirá nuevas experiencias.
Consigue trabajo en un supermercado árabe. Vive sola por primera vez. Acompañada de su amiga Yasmín llega a ser parte de la comunidad islámica y se enamora… pero…
¿Cuál es el límite de sentirse uno mismo bajo una identidad inventada? (FILMAFFINITY)
A través de la historia de Assaad Shaftari, un ex alto cargo de las milicias cristianas que fue responsable de numerosas matanzas durante la guerra civil en Líbano, y de Maryam Saiidi, madre de un joven que fue secuestrado durante la contienda, este documental de Eliane Raheb profundiza en las heridas del conflicto y se pregunta si la redención y el perdón son posibles.
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.