The Friend (2008)

Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast steppe grasslands. The magnificent landscape here has changed little since the days of Genghis Kahn. But life in the middle of nowhere can be exciting for a young boy. The smallest of details become big events for curious Bilike and his best friends Erguotou and Dawa. The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them, as well as innocent mischief.

The story of Toña and Paquita, the housekeepers for the aristocratic González-Dubois family. These domestic employees have been mistreated for quite some time and they are tired of their situation. So when the family plans a shopping trip to Miami, the maids have a plan of their own; to take control of the mansion. Unexpectedly, they will also discover a family secret.

Brazilian director Julio Bressane directs this religious biography on the life and work of Saint Jerome, the monk who first translated the Bible into Latin. Set both in the desert and in the posh confines of the Vatican, Jerome (Everaldo Pontes) agonizes over which Latin word would best fit its Hebrew counterpart. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

Ferding, Santos and Willy only drink in despair. One day, a Canadian woman’s visit changes everything.

In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a night shift surveillance camera monitor, and wonders when he'll discover sex. Santamaria, middle aged, loses his bank job and is dismissed by his wife; he finds stolen wallets in dumpsters to return to their owners. Ariel tells Santamaria's story to a TV reporter who profiles lives on the street. She's Laura, in a relationship with another woman, but perhaps available. Ariel desires Laura, while Santamaria courts Elsa, a washroom attendant who's husband is in prison. Christmas and Hanukkah approach; can anyone connect?

A young man in Uruguay has trouble expressing himself verbally. As the lead singer in a band, he interacts with the world through his music.

A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.

Robert Castle is the idealistic pastor of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem, and also the cousin of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. Demme's affectionate portrait of his cousin traces Castle's story, beginning with his first parish assignment, in New Jersey in the early 1960s, in an increasingly African-American-populated neighborhood rocked by violence and civil rights protests. The film raises intimate discussions of race, faith and family, while also showing Castle's daily routine as a pastor.

'Bruce' goes to head with bandits who are terrorising and murdering villagers.

Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world… On a Christmas night, his cousin John is mysteriously shot in a street in the Lowlands and disappears into the night. Weeks later, while Luiza spends days alone in the apartment where he lives with his mother in Rio de Janeiro, a mysterious visitor comes knocking on your door: John, as a ghost, asking to hide there.

Ustanička ulica is a Serbian political thriller. Dušan Ilić (Gordan Kičić), employed at the Serbian state prosecutor's office, gets a top secret case to investigate a war crime committed by a disbanded paramilitary unit. He manages to find Mićun (Uliks Fehmiu) who's the only surviving witness.

Film material is subjected to biochemical processes by burying it in the garden, storing it in a pond, or overheating it. The results of these natural processes of decay or aging are then copied back onto film and thus conserved in the state of their dissolution. - Lightcone

남부 이탈리아 해안 지방인 고향 류린을 여행하던 성공한 사업가 루이지는 먼 친척 로자리오에게 덮친 비극에 마음이 아파 온다. 십대인 로자리오의 어머니는 살행당했고 아버지는 현재 감옥에 수감되어 있다. 그는 도우려는 마음에 루이지는 카리스마적인 존재인 돈 로렌조 신부가 북쪽 지방에서 운영하는 불우한 십대들을 위한 보호시설로 로자리오를 보내게 된다. 루이지는 음울한 분위기를 가진 아들 마테오에게 로자리오와 친하게 지내도록 강요하고, 이 두 소년 사이에는 서서히, 그러나 강렬한 우정이 싹트게 된다. 로자리오는 혼라스러운 마에토에게 영향을 주게 되면서 마테오는 아버지의 권위에 저항하기 시작하고, 루이지의 마음 속 깊이 자리잡고 있던 자기 출신에 대한 콤플렉스가 표출되기 시작한다. 문화, 계급 그리고 세대 간의 감정적 장벽이 더욱더 확연해지면서 이들 사이의 미야간 믿음은 위협받기 시작한다.

천진난만한 아홉살짜리 애기스님 도념과 외모에 엄청 관심이 많은 사춘기 총각 스님 정심, 그리고 때론 할아버지처럼 자상하고 때론 무지(?) 폭력적인 큰스님이 한솥밥을 먹으며 도란도란 살고 있는 산아래 고요한 산사. 올해도 어김없이 꽃들이 피었고, 빠알간 단풍이 졌고, 함박눈이 내렸지만 어린 도념이 기다리는 사람은 오지 않는다. 절에 나무를 해주는 아랫마을 초부 아저씨는 분명 도라지꽃이 활짝 피면 엄마가 오신다고 했는데... 이번에도 내 키가 저 나무만큼 자라면 오신다고 하겠지? 형처럼 나를 이뻐해주는 정심 스님은 왜 허구헌날 절에서 폭력(?)을 휘두르는 세상에서 제일 무서운 큰스님 뒤를 쫄쫄 따라다니며 돈을 달라고 조르는 걸까? 스님이 어디에 돈이 필요하다고. 이발할 머리도 없고, 샴푸도 필요 없고, 옷도 필요 없는데... 포경수술 때문이라나? 그게 도대체 뭘까... 급기야 항복한 큰스님은 정심과 도념에게 쌈짓돈을 쥐어주고, 난생 처음 유쾌한 세상 나들이를 나선 둘은 맛있는 피자를 먹고 바닷가도 놀러가고... 근데 그렇게 조르던 포경 수술도 했는데, 정심스님은 왜 저렇게 시무룩할까? 얼마 전부터 절에 들르는 그 이쁜 아줌마가 오늘도 또 왔다. 저 아줌마가 우리 엄마면 얼마나 좋을까? 이쁜 아줌마는 큰스님한테 나를 입양하겠다고 하지만, 큰스님은 막무가내로 안된다고 하신다. 미운 큰스님, 도념의 마음은 또다시 설레이기만 하는데.

An "extra" shown in two parts at the movie theater, before and after a feature: part one gives the clues to six words in a crossword puzzle, part two gives the answers. In addition to the visual clues, which are clips of a party, an Asian country, a European city, table games, winter, and bullfighting, there are montages of street scenes and spinning objects. A simple cartoon character, Mr. Rebus, walks the audience through the clues, and title cards encourage the participation of the theatergoers.

Former political activist receives compensation from the Brazilian government for the disappearance of her husband, victim of the repression triggered by the Brazilian military dictatorship. With the money, she can buy her an apartment and free herself from this dreadful condition she lived for decades. At the moment of moving to the new home, however, a visit arises that forces her to review her entire life.

프랑스로 유입되는 아프리카인 이주자들를 향한 차별을 중심으로한 사회적 문제를 다룬 다큐멘터리 영화.

SOMETHING NECESSARY is an intimate moment in the lives of Anne and Joseph. A woman struggling to rebuild her life after the civil unrest that swept Kenya after the 2007 elections claiming the life of her husband, the health of her son and leaving her home on an isolated farm in the Kenyan countryside in ruins, she now has nothing but her resolve to rebuild her life left. A young man, troubled gang member who participated in the countrywide violence is drawn to Anne and her farm seemingly in search of redemption. Both, Joseph and Anne need something that only the other can give to allow them to shed the painful memories of their past and move on.

Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.

As a child he was kidnapped by gypsies that raised him, without he ever knowing his parents. As a young man Tonho leaves the gypsies and go live by himself, meeting in his way a beautiful woman, who lost her brother, and a dangerous gang of violent criminals.