Time of Favor (2000)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 42M
Director : Joseph Cedar
Sinopse
Is today's fanaticism tomorrow's policy? In a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Meltzer has a grand design: he's building a movement "to pray at the Temple Mount." His yeshiva has scholars, and the settlement is getting its own military company to be commanded by Menachem, a disciple of the rabbi. He also wants his daughter, Michal, to marry Pini, the yeshiva's best scholar. Michal has no interest in Pini, but she is attracted to Menachem. When she rebuffs Pini, he hatches a bold and secret plan. Is jealousy the motivation or something else? Meanwhile, the army and Moussad are closely watching the rabbi's activities and Menachem's military training. Who is trustworthy?
Bound together by the voice of Lamont, a young black man pushed by the constant surveillance of his everyday life to discover the real power is off-screen. Lamont uncovers a living and breathing New York City with his new found power. At the same time, actress Iris refusal to die in an audition spurs her to get out of the pretentious grind of being in. She becomes the focus of Lamonts camera as he follows Iris into her psychological descent, while her roommate Mira, is desperate for fame no matter the price.
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Whateverest is a documentary about the unlikely inspiration behind a dance tune produced by Todd Terje called 'Inspector Norse.' 'Inspector Norse' is the Internet alias of Marius Solem Johansen, a failed musician living in a small town, producing dance videos and drug recipes for YouTube.
Michale is a thirty year old woman. She works with her father in a Tel Aviv accounting office providing services to important religious institutions. She divides her time between her child, her husband, her work and the man with whom she is having an affair. When Michale learns of the tragic death of her lover, her life is shattered.
While the french ambassadress to Afghanistan is in the middle of disarmament negotiations with a Kuchi Nomad tribe, her daughter, Cleo, is Kidnapped by Afghanistan's only female warlord.
Aos quatro anos de idade, Nana vive com a mãe em uma região isolada do interior da França. Certo dia, ao voltar da escola, ela encontra a casa vazia e percebe que sua mãe desapareceu misteriosamente.
A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments.
Crime Thriller with Helmut Qualtinger as Chief Inspector who investigates a Murder in 1961 Vienna. The murder is based on a real murder, the "bathub murder", which gained quite some media attraction in austria in the 1940's.
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
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An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
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Efterklang goes to an old Russian mining town, Piramida, to get inspired for their new album.
Filha de refugiados europeus no México nascida com paralisia cerebral que afetou o corpo, mas não a mente, Gaby é encorajada pelos pais e pela babá a jamais desanimar com a deficiência. Ela vai à universidade e se torna uma aclamada escritora.
Charles is the owner of a photo-shop. He is not too friendly and spends his evenings alone, and one day he finally decides to get a social life. He meets elderly Florence, who is tormented by her gambling husband Lester and longs for the son Willie she hasn't seen or heard of for 20 years.
Uma mulher enfrenta uma variedade de crises emocionais enquanto passa o verão interagindo de diferentes formas com amigos, familiares e amantes. Valerie é uma escritora de trinta e poucos anos que acabou de se mudar para Berlim, enquanto sua melhor amiga Sophie passará o verão em Roma.
A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.
