家族を不慮の事故で失ったダニーは、大学で民俗学を研究する恋人や友人と共にスウェーデンの奥地で開かれる”90年に一度の祝祭”を訪れる。美しい花々が咲き乱れ、太陽が沈まないその村は、優しい住人が陽気に歌い踊る楽園のように思えた。しかし、次第に不穏な空気が漂い始め、ダニーの心はかき乱されていく。妄想、トラウマ、不安、恐怖……それは想像を絶する悪夢の始まりだった。
エイブラハム・リンカーンが、大統領に再選された1865年。アメリカを内戦状態に追い込んだ南北戦争は4年目に突入したが、彼は奴隷制度を永遠に葬り去る合衆国憲法修正第13条を下院議会で批准させるまでは戦いを終わらせないという強い決意があった。そのためにも、国務長官ウィリアム・スワードらと共に憲法修正に必要な票を獲得するための議会工作に乗り出す。そんな中、学生だった長男ロバートが北軍へと入隊し……。＜スティーヴン・スピルバーグによる、第16代アメリカ合衆国大統領エイブラハム・リンカーンの伝記ドラマ。奴隷制の廃止と禁止を強固なものにし、泥沼化した南北戦争を終結させるため、憲法の修正に挑むリンカーンの戦いを重厚なタッチで映し出していく。ダニエル・デイ=ルイスがリンカーンにふんし、国と人民の未来をめぐる理想と現実に苦悩する彼の胸中を見事に体現。ジョセフ・ゴードン=レヴィットら、脇を固める実力派の妙演も見逃せない。＞
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
What happens when a group of international artists travel to North Korea to create art like the regime have never seen before? While the world is on the verge of nuclear war, a group of Western contemporary artists are invited into the eye of the storm. The aim is to collaborate with North Korean artists in a creative exchange project displaying new and challenging art in a country where abstract art is forbidden.
Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn't received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yang learns about the Congolese way of making deals.
This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and illustrated by John Fadden: "Who were the ones who bid you welcome and took you by the hand, inviting you here by our campfires, as brothers we might stand?" The song expresses bitter memories of the past, of trust repaid by treachery, and of friendship debased by exploitation upon the arrival of European colonists.
British sad sack Gary is a failed entrepreneur who has just arrived in Beijing's stylish Sanlitun district, allegedly to start a business. There are other reasons why he has uprooted himself — he's followed his ex-wife and young son, for one — but he soon finds out that China isn't the easiest place to succeed. Blissfully untouched by self-awareness, and only fitfully in tune with reality, Gary sallies forth to make money, armed with faith in himself and little to no knowledge of Chinese culture. He soon hooks up with Frank, a trust-fund kid from Australia who offers to mentor Gary in Eastern ways, although Frank's pedagogical method is restricted to yelling at Gary for being a Westerner and not being as "Chinese" as him.
Lost love and politics: three episodes from three Baltic nations. In Estonia a political prisoner leaves the jail, only to discover that his best friend had stolen his girl. In Latvia a Russian soldier has a Latvian girlfriend. Her Latvian friends accept her boyfriend. But other Russian soldiers use coarse violence against them, even threatening to rape the girl. The couple realise that they cannot continue their relation. In Lithuania an old priest had spent 15 years in Siberia and may still be secretly watched by the police. His nephew is a priest student but he will accept if the nephew decides not to become a priest. And – the nephew and an Estonian stripper fall in deep love. The couple sleep together and agree to meet at the railway station the next morning. But when the student comes home his uncle has died. With great pain he abandons the girl and take care of his uncle's body. On the train the girl weeps because of her lost love. - Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden
Ibrahim, a Moroccan soldier, is sent to a deserted island off the Mediterranean coast of Morocco to monitor the movements of smugglers and illegal immigrants. One day, Ibrahim finds a Sub-Saharan man, Mamadou, washed up on the beach. While the unlikely pair tries to survive on the miniscule island, they inadvertently trigger a diplomatic incident that crescendos into a regional military crisis.
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum. Rewi persuades the others to let him put his own, more daring plan into action. Tensions build and international media interest broadens when a sniper's bullet hits Peter.
A comedy drama that played the festival circuit before vanishing without trace. Forsythe, Sweeney and Miranda are the trio of stepbrothers accompanying paralysed father Fuller on a jaunt to Normandy, where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war. Jennifer Beals, a regular in husband Rockwell's movies, plays a transvestite.
