Detention 101 (2023)

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge...

Best friends David and Morten work as gym instructors at Jarle's gym. Jarle is a sadistic small-time criminal whom, together with his son Lars, purchase and distribute anabolic steroids.

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.

The story of August who loses his beloved sister Christina, a former porn star known as The Princess. He adopts Christina's five-year-old daughter Mia. Weighed down by grief and guilt, August breaks down and with Mia in tow, he embarks on a mission of vengeance to erase Christina's pornographic legacy.

A partir da polêmica decisão da Suprema Corte de Justiça americana concluindo que uma corporação, aos olhos da lei, é uma "pessoa", são analisados os poderes das grandes corporações no mundo atual. A exploração da mão-de-obra barata no Terceiro Mundo e a devastação do meio ambiente são alguns dos fatos explorados, que entrevistam presidentes de corporações como a Nike, Shell e IBM, além de Noam Chomsky, Milton Friedman e Michael Moore.

Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan) saiu do pequeno vilarejo na Índia, onde ele nasceu e foi criado. Viaja para os Estados Unidos, onde trabalha na NASA. Mas depois da morte de seus pais, Mohan torna-se nostálgico e pede uma licença para visitar Kaveri (Kishori Ballal), uma mulher que ajudou a criá-lo. E no processo redescobre suas raízes.

Katharina Blum e Ludwig Göette se apaixonam à primeira vista em uma festa de carnaval e passam a noite juntos. Na manhã seguinte, o apartamento da jovem é invadido pela polícia. Ludwig desapareceu, mas Katharina é levada presa. Ela não sabia que tinha acabado de se envolver com um dos suspeitos de terrorismo mais procurados pela inteligência alemã. De um simples caso de polícia, a história de Katharina vira um escândalo nacional quando o repórter Werner Töetges, do jornal sensacionalista Zeitung, passa a cobrir o caso. Sem escrúpulos e em busca apenas de fatos chocantes para publicar – sendo verdade ou não – o jornalista passa a perseguir todas as pessoas que faziam parte da vida pessoal da jovem.

Inge (Elizabeth Reaser) veio de Minnesota para um casamento arranjado com Olaf (Tim Guinee), um discreto fazendeiro que imigrou da Noruega. Como é alemã Inge enfrenta um forte preconceito local, decorrente do clima pós-1ª Guerra Mundial, e com isso o pastor proíbe seu casamento. Apesar dos problemas, Inge e Olaf se apaixonam perdidamente. Quando Frandsen (Alan Cumming) tem sua fazenda ameaçada por um banqueiro Olaf decide ajudá-lo, reunindo em torno de si a comunidade local.

Em virtude de terem cometido pequenos delitos na escola, cinco adolescentes são castigados a passar o sábado na escola, onde devem escrever uma redação de mil palavras sobre o que eles pensam de si mesmos. Apesar de serem bem diferentes uns dos outros, enquanto o dia transcorre passam a aceitar-se uns aos outros e várias confissões são feitas entre eles.

Uma adolescente agradável e gordinha ensina a Baltimore de 1962 uma coisa ou outra sobre integração depois de se tornar uma estrela num show de dança da TV local.

A pre-teenager servant boy dies of carbon monoxide poisoning on a cold winter night. He was employed by a young working Calcutta couple with a small boy of their own. Taking money from a neighbor's friendly daughter, he slipped away to watch a movie on a cold winter night. Finding his usual sleeping corner below the stairs too cold, he bolts himself inside the kitchen, where a fire was burning. The next morning we witness a powerful discovery scene like on the morning after Macbeth's murder. The door is forced open and we see the commotion in the apartment block which is the stage of the drama. Who is responsible?

On a stormy Saturday afternoon, six students from Crestview Academy begin to meet horrible fates as they serve out their detentions. Is a fellow student to blame, or perhaps Crestview's alleged ghosts are behind the terrible acts?

The advocate for a young Iranian refugee held in detention. Amir Ali claims to be an Iranian student persecuted by the government but the Department of Immigration dispute his identity. When Julia meets Amir, he is severely depressed and close to deportation. Julia throws herself obsessively into Amir's case, causing friction between Julia and her husband, Peter. Julia eventually frees Amir and the young Iranian man moves in with Peter and Julia. As Julia helps Amir adjust to ordinary life, she finds herself increasingly attracted to this handsome, damaged young man. But she also starts to see the subtle cracks in Amir's story. Is he really who he claims he is? Or does he have a darker, more dangerous history?

A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.

A pregnant woman arrested for frustrated murder is sent to the Manila City Jail where she meets several women with shocking pasts.

Documentary presenting the theory and application of the Theology of Liberation via interviews to priests from humble parishes in the slums of Lima. A fruitful labor of a Catholic Church sector committed to address social issues.

This documentary delves deeper into the racism issue addressing many discriminatory practices in Peru, researching their origins and their hurtful consequences.

The amendment in the law, making it compulsory for one-third of the Gram Panchayat representatives to be women, is not received favourably by the ruling Sarpanch of the village, Thakur Ratan Singh. Although he puts up a front of being in favour of the idea, along with his son Inder Singh, he conspires to field wives of friends, whom he hopes he can control through their husbands and through the caste network. Vidya, wife of Bhanwar Singh who is indebted to the Thakur, is one of the newly elected women Panchayat members. Vidya, who is educated, notices that the political empowerment of women is only on paper and in reality decision-making still continues to be with the manipulative old guard. Vidya decides it is time for a change.

In the 1980's, Pilar, an ordinary woman, married, about forty years, discovers that one of their three children are addicted to heroin. After an initial period of uncertainty, Pilar contact with other parents in similar situations who come to a precarious Civic Center helps the addict, but soon realizes that many things have to change in and out of home so your child can be saved. Thus was born the desire to do more than complain and starts along with other parents, but especially mothers, an arduous journey of withdrawal of drug trafficking in Galicia.

A squad of Libyan terrorists infiltrate the city of Kokomo, Indiana, with the goal of car bombing a nuclear power plant. While attempting to escape local law enforcement, a massive car chase ensues, terrorizing the entire town before the terrorists end up at the local high school and take the detention class hostage. Will they escape? Will the crafty delinquents foil their plans? Will Chuck Connors step more than two feet away from his car? Watch and find out!