O Arrependido (2013)

Ten-year-old Axel lives with his mother and three sisters in a flat in Buenos Aires. They’d be a perfectly normal family if only the mother weren't imprisoned in one of the rooms.

Albert (Andreas Lust) cresceu isolado em uma fazendo nas montanhas dos Alpes. Mesmo com 30 anos, sua mãe ainda controla as rédeas da sua vida. Por pressão dela, ele deixa a fazenda e passa a morar em um vale próximo e a trabalhar em uma mina de mármore. O desejo de Marianne (Ingrid Burkhard) é proteger o filho de levar uma vida solitária e pobre nas montanhas, estando disposta a romper com as tradições da fazenda. Quando o pai de Alvbert morre acidentalmente, Marianne teme que o filho passe a assumir o pai dele na fazenda. Ao invés de avisá-lo, ela enterra o corpo nas montanhas e decide esconder a verdade de Albert.

HIGH SCHOOL II is a film about Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a successful alternative high school in New York's Spanish Harlem, 85-95% of whose graduates go on to four year colleges. The film illustrates the school's emphasis on the “Habits of Mind” program (weighing evidence; awareness of multiple points of view; seeing connections and relationships; speculating on possibilities; and assessing values.) Sequences illustrating the school's approach to learning include: classroom activities in the humanities and sciences; family conferences; discussions of race, class, and gender; faculty meetings; disciplinary problems; sex education; conflict resolution by students; and student council meetings.

A girl learns music from her courtesan grandmother and breaks into the burgeoning show business industry of 1930s Bombay, which eventually leads to decades of superstardom as well as romantic entanglements.

Tudo começa quando uma família normal e friorenta é bafejada pela sorte. Jesus, assim se chama o filho do casal, encontra um tesouro escondido e proibido: a riqueza da Terra. No mesmo dia dois padres decidem fechar as portas da sua igreja por falta de crentes e fazem um leilão de imagens dos seus queridos santos. E partem à aventura.

At Uz, an isolated hamlet in the northern mountains of Portugal, four generations live together in a group of around fifty people. When life is rough, solidarity is of the highest order. Everything else is left in God’s hands. They could have emigrated, like so many others, but chose to stay and keep their ancestral way of life, away from the racket of modernity.

U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself...