The Newspaper (2020)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 43M
Director : Kumara Thirimadura, Sarath Kothalawala
Sinopsis
A small poor family in a remote village at dry zone who faced a series of miseries due to a wrong news report published in the national media stating that their son is involved in a suicide bomb blast carried by L.T.T.E terrorists.
En un intento desesperado por alcanzar Europa y agazapados ante una pista de aterrizaje en Camerún, un niño de seis años y su hermana mayor esperan para colarse en las bodegas de un avión. No demasiado lejos, un activista medioambiental contempla la terrible imagen de un elefante, muerto y sin colmillos. No solo tiene que luchar contra la caza furtiva, sino que también tendrá que reencontrarse con los problemas de su hija recién llegada de España. Miles de kilómetros al norte, en Melilla, un grupo de guardias civiles se prepara para enfrentarse a la furibunda muchedumbre de subsaharianos que ha iniciado el asalto a la valla. Tres historias unidas por un tema central, en las que ninguno de sus protagonistas sabe que sus destinos están condenados a cruzarse y que sus vidas ya no volverán a ser las mismas.
Una universidad asistida por el gobierno, la Universidad RK, está a punto de completar su jubileo de oro, pero un evento extraño la clausura indefinidamente. ¿Restaurará la Universidad RK su gloria perdida?
Un hombre huye de la guerra civil en Sri Lanka y, para conseguir que Francia le conceda el derecho de asilo, hace pasar por su familia a una mujer y a una niña. Una vez allí, encuentra trabajo como guardián de un edificio en un barrio problemático de las afueras. A pesar de que no hablan francés, se adaptan progresivamente a su nuevo país. Al mismo tiempo, el hombre y la mujer acaban enamorándose. Finalmente, el tráfico de drogas impulsará al hombre a salir de su aislamiento y a tomar partido.
A community in Zion Creek, Utah, is turned upside down when a popular high school girl disappears in the midst of her father's political campaign.
(Eka Dawasaka Api / එක දවසක අපි) The day Parami appeared on Vimukthi’s eyes he found out that she is the one who he needed to his life. Later, a day with a tension mood these two soul mates get into a train with tears on their faces to ride their last train journey together. But Vimukthi’s family is strongly against to approve Parami as their daughter in law. The reason for disapproving Parami is her cast and status.
After getting through the O/L Examination with outstanding results, Anuththara with his friends eagerly look forward to experience their final years in school as seniors in the A/L class. They befriend Ahinsa and the other new girls who join their school. Ahinsa draws everyone’s attention for her smartness as well as her cheerful yet mysterious behaviour. Her irregular school attendance and the rumours circulating about her, make the others suspect that there’s a hidden story behind her cheerfulness.
Follow a small group of elderly “Peeping Toms” through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality, they crash against a torn and frayed America.
An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.
El patrón, radiografía de un crimen, se enfoca en un hecho criminal real sobre un hombre rural que llega a Buenos Aires en busca de trabajo y termina explotado por un siniestro patrón que lo obliga a vender carne podrida y que lo somete a una verdadera esclavitud, en el corazón de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y en el siglo XXI.
Keshav y Jaya son de dos pueblos donde escasean los aseos. El primer día de su matrimonio surge el conflicto cuando Jaya deja a Keshav tras descubrir que no hay baño en su casa. Keshav intentará recuperarla luchando contra las tradiciones y los valores tradicionales de su país.
Rangana is a young musician from the working classes who dreams big. His aim is to rise above his station, even as he toils the low-rent barroom circuit with his band, playing night after night to under-appreciative crowds to make a frugal living. Tanya is the love of his life, the woman whom all this will be worth achieving. She is just finishing school. As he toils through the nights, his need of a mode of transport - a motor bicycle - becomes more and more apparent. He dreams of one day collecting enough money to buy one, finally buying a second hand motorbike despite his mother's great protest. He now wants to taste his new found freedom with his beloved Tanya, along the city streets of Colombo. As Rangana and Tanya embark on this motorbike journey across the city, questions about their present, challenges to their future and the very essence of their lives is brought to the fore, in "Motor Bicycle."
Goal is the story of bunch of ordinary village children who challenge the impossible with the help of a teacher who refuses to see them fail.
After a white couple inexplicably gives birth to a black child, the purest bonds of trust, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate test.
Una bella y joven recién casada (Elizabeth Taylor) se va a vivir con su marido (Peter Finch) a Ceilán, donde tienen una enorme plantación de té, llamada "la senda de los Elefantes". La mujer se enamora del capataz (Dana Andrews), pero este asunto queda relegado a un segundo plano por otros acontecimientos más graves: se desata una epidemia de cólera, la sequía causa estragos y hordas de elefantes enloquecidos por la sed amenazan con devastar la plantación.
Young Oksana puts her newly born Denis in a baby box. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children's home, intent on making amends for her maternal neglect, and to exploit him to earn money in a corrupt legal system.
Suryam, the son of a great musician wishes to change society through his music but the father does not like his ways and Suryam leaves home only to be felicitated by the Govt.of India for his efforts.
Chandar is a black leopard who lives near the beach of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) together with his mother and his sister.
Four ordinary women, inflicted by silly societal norms, have to steal, lie, cheat and hide in order to lead the lives that they rightfully deserve.
Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness is not to everyone's liking and repercussions soon follow.
A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.