Melting Point (2022)

A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

Global political figures such as The Pope, Kim Jong Il, George W. Bush and recent Japanese Prime Ministers play riichi mahjong against each other.

During breaktime, Dara and Nader have a fierce argument about a torn exercise book that the former has given back to the latter. There are two possible outcomes, which the film shows one after the other. One is that Dara wants to get his own back, and the two boys start a violent fight; the other is that they work together to mend the exercise book with a little glue.

Atual e profético, as preocupações e alertas de Pino Solanas nesta trilogia em 1968 não foram ouvidas e se transformaram nas calamidades que conhecemos durante as décadas seguintes. O conjunto de documentários mostra a História Moderna da América Latina. Dividido em três partes: 1 - “Colonialismo e Violência”; 2 - “Ato Para a Libertação”, o qual é dividido em dois grandes momentos: Crônica do peronismo (1945-1955) e Crônica da Resistência (1955-1966); e 3 - “Violência e Libertação”

Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought an appetite for experimen­tation to Thai cinema with his debut feature, an uncategorizable work that refracts documentary impressions of his homeland through the surrealist concept of the exquisite corpse game. Enlisting locals to contribute improvised narration to a simple tale, Apichatpong charts the collective construction of the fiction as each new encounter imbues it with unpredictable shades of fantasy and pathos.

O respeitado juiz Costa Makantasis morre ao cair do topo do Palácio de Justiça de Buenos Aires. No mesmo dia, seus três filhos, Alejandro, Nicolás e Pablo declaram-se, separadamente, culpados pelo assassinato de Ana Muro, filha de um grande empresário. Cabe agora à juíza Beatriz Teller resolver esse sombrio quebra-cabeças, que envolve dinheiro, sexo e uma grande disputa pelo poder.

Sweet, chubby, theatrical Billy was never cut out to be a farmer or a rugby player, but as the only son of a ‘good kiwi bloke’ he’s obliged to try. The cows are stubborn and the chores gruelling but Billy finds escape in a fantasy world playing Lana, heroine of his favourite TV show Adventures in Space. Not everyone approves of Billy's transformation. On the brink of adolescene, he discovers growing up is more complicated than he could ever have imagined.

A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lorena becomes pursued by some mysterious killers who want to take the negatives from her at any price. The solution of this mystery is very unexpected...

Rome, 70s. Rocco and Antonia, high school students, meet during a political rally. The two young people share age, political ideas, dissatisfaction with their parents. Moreover, by attending, they realize they have fallen in love. It is the discovery of sex and passion. After some time, however, their relationship goes into crisis.

Carmen conhece Hussain, um jovem poeta afegão. Eles se apaixonam e se tornam inseparáveis. Pouco depois, ele descobre que seu pedido de asilo foi recusado, obrigando o casal a se esconder. No entanto, Hussain começa a se sentir sufocado e precisa sair de casa.

A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto.

A young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.

"Engwkentro" follows two teenage brothers attempting to escape an unnamed city controlled by an iron-fisted mayor. They must first break away from the cycle of crime, while trying to run from rival gang leaders and the state's murderous vigilantes.

In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.

The film – documentary “Shooting vs Shooting” presents a group of astonishing stories about journalists who were afflicted in the Iraq war, by following a journalist’s journey in Baghdad in 2009 and the story of a mother who seeks for an answer to the question why her son got killed while his only weapon was his camera. “Shooting vs Shooting” narrates incredible moments and adventures, reveals unknown sides to the facts and shows the dramatic stories of media workers who lost their lives, trying to freely broadcast the truth to the public opinion. Through the documentary, we witness the absurdity of war, the responsibilities of governments and armies and the atrociousness of blinded fanatics.

Durante a campanha presidencial nos Estados Unidos em 2008, o candidato do partido republicano John McCain (Ed Harris) se viu em apuros ao ter que vencer o favorito Barack Obama. Sem muitas cartas na manga, ele é convencido por seus conselheiros a chamar uma mulher para o posto de vice-presidente. Tentando mudar o jogo a seu favor, McCain convoca a polêmica governadora do Alasca Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore) para a função.

Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a university scholarship, an apartment, and a job as a spokesperson. But her bright political future falters when she befriends a group of liberal journalists who are critical of the government, including blogger Oleg Kashin, who calls Nashi a "group of hooligans," and she's forced to confront the group's dirty – even violent – tactics.

Numa manhã de domingo, Salvador vai trabalhar em sua plantação de milho e dá de cara com uma montanha de cadáveres. Assustado, vai até a cidade para alertar as autoridades sobre o massacre. Mas é dia de eleição e o prefeito e o chefe de polícia decidem não fazer alarde. Com medo de um escândalo nacional, eles vão tentar resolver o problema discretamente. Enquanto isso, o calor vai aumentando e o cheiro dos corpos na plantação de Salvador vai ficando cada vez mais difícil de se ignorar. Vencedor do prêmio de melhor direção de fotografia no Sundance Film Festival 2011.

Requiem for Dominic powerfully portrayed the upheaval in that liminal space between revolution and order. This drama is captured partly on film, partly on video adding to the gritty reality of the time, place and events as they were unfolding in Eastern Europe as the "Iron Curtain" collapsed.