The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (2008)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 45M
Director : Stephan Komandarev
Escritor : Yurii Dachev, Stephan Komandarev, Dušan Milić
Sinopse
The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.
A jornada do iguanodonte Aladar para encontrar outros seres de sua espécie. Devido a uma série de acontecimentos, o ovo em que nasceu foi separado de sua raça e Aladar precisa agora encontrá-los em meio uma chuva de meteoros flamejantes e cada vez maior escassez de água.
Peng (Jim Gaffigan) é um ganso solteirão imaturo. Em uma de suas travessuras ele separa os irmãos patos Chao (Lim Lance) e Chi (Zendaya) do resto do grupo de migração. Agora ele precisa descobrir como cuidar de crianças e levá-las de volta para casa.
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
O filme captura a vida da ilha de Lampedusa, na costa sul da Itália. O local se tornou linha de frente na crise imigratória europeia, e virou manchete mundial nos últimos anos por ser o primeiro porto de escala para centenas de milhares de imigrantes, da África e do Oriente Médio, que tentam fazer uma nova vida no continente europeu.
Abe é uma espécie de homem-criança. Aos trinta e poucos anos é incapaz de fazer parte do mundo dos adultos. Ainda vive na casa dos pais, trabalha sem qualquer entusiasmo na empresa do pai e passa a maior parte do tempo no eBay à procura de brinquedos antigos. Os únicos aliados de Abe são a sua superprotectora mãe e a secretária do seu pai, que de boa vontade acaba os trabalhos que ele deixa em atraso. Na sequência de um primeiro encontro incrivelmente desajeitado num casamento judaico com uma jovem chamada Miranda, Abe decide continuar a procurar a sua nova amiga, apesar de uma evidente falta de interesse mútuo.
Baseado em uma história real, este romance de décadas entre um aspirante a chef e um professor segue sua jornada traiçoeira do México a Nova York com sonhos, esperanças e memórias a reboque.
A história começa quando a irmã Tse (Shuya Chang) paga um snakehead, um contrabandista de humanos, para levá-la para a cidade de Nova York para que possa procurar sua filha, que foi adotada por uma família sino-americana enquanto estava na prisão. Desinteressada em trabalhar em uma casa de massagem para pagar sua dívida astronômica de contrabando, Tse ganha o respeito da matriarca da gangue Dai Mah (Jade Wu) por meio de sua rebeldia. Ela rapidamente sobe na hierarquia, perturbando o filho mais velho imprudente, porém ambicioso de Dai Mah, Rambo (Sung Kang).
The story of Masoud, who is trying to emigrate to Europe to make a better life for himself, his mother and his fiancé. After embarking on a difficult and dangerous immigration journey with his best friend, Masoud meets a pregnant doctor and an old man on the way and they band together. Having to flee because of war and terror, Masoud tries to reach his goal with a hopeful but painful journey.
A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline's rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.
The story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.
The story of the Indian immigrant community in Detroit, where a garage mechanic gets unwillingly involved in the criminal world as a getaway driver.
Gabriela Cámara, estrela da gastronomia mexicana, abre o restaurante Cala, em São Francisco, com um menu e uma cultura de trabalho surpreendentemente singulares.
Este documentário captura a alegria e a tristeza de famílias separadas pela fronteira entre os EUA e o México, compartilhando uma reunião curta e agridoce em 2018.
Ramin é um jovem iraniano, de 30 anos, que fugiu de seu país, Irã, de navio, clandestinamente, com destino à Turquia. Mas o navio toma caminho diferente e ele vai parar em Vera Cruz, no México. Ramin fugiu do Irã por ser homossexual. Sem dinheiro, e sem saber falar espanhol, Ramin se vira em um trabalho clandestino em uma obra, onde conhece Guillermo, um Salvadorenho que deseja fugir para os Estados Unidos, e por quem Ramin irá nutrir desejos platônicos. Enquanto lida com a saudade de seus entes queridos, ele começa a descobrir uma vida mais livre, longe do Irã.
Culture-Clash-Comedy about Turkish brides importet into Germany.
A young Aji Mathew is a communist who goes the whole nine yards for the ideologies he believes in. When the girl he loves leaves to the US out of the blue and her parents fix her wedding, Aji is left with just a fortnight to reach the country albeit with no passport or visa. How far he is willing to go for love forms the plot.
The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.
Released from prison and terminally ill, Parvis Karimpour is determined to be reunited with his daughter, Nasrin, who fled Iran for Europe many years before. Crossing the Mediterranean only to be unceremoniously dumped on the Spanish coast, Karimpour makes for Madrid in search of his erstwhile only child. Along the way he meets failed Italian pianist Fabrizio and spoilt German dreamer Almut – fellow migrants struggling to make their way in a Europe beset by economic turmoil. The search for Nasrin lends Karimpour’s new friends a sense of purpose, and the unlikely threesome take up her trail.
Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs. LA CAMIONETA follows one such bus on its transformative journey: a journey between North and South, between life and death, and through an unfolding collection of moments, people, and places that serve to quietly remind us of the interconnected worlds in which we live.
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.
Dois irmãos distantes são reunidos quando desempenham papéis opostos em uma surra racista: enquanto Georgi, que recentemente se juntou a um grupo neonazista, participa da violência, Hristo testemunha e resgata uma família turca. Georgi, agora convidado a participar de eventos maiores, começa a questionar sua implicação no movimento e Hristo se pergunta se a linda garota turca que ele salvou poderia ser sua passagem para a triste vida de Sofia. Somente reunindo os dois irmãos serão capazes de avaliar o que realmente querem da vida.
After a night of partying with her friends Lora has to get herself together and attend an important meeting. At her office she finds two packages which contain two mysterious dice. The sides of one of them are all marked with the number two and of the other - with the number five. In the course of the day Lora will have to find out the truth behind the magical properties of a set of six dice. She'll be betrayed and helped, chased and abducted. She'll fall in love and help a friend deal with a complicated relationship. After this roller-coaster ordeal she'll come out stronger and happier having reasserted the importance of true friendship.
Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien world - the totalitarian Sofia of the 60s. His first night of freedom draws the map of a diabolical city full of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets and a bizarre parade of characters.
A Macedonian family from Bitola at the turn of the twentieth century tries to survive, preserve its roots and remain together.
Writer Martin Sestrimsky and Secret Service agent Boyan Tilev got to know each other on the day when Martin gave Tilev a special dossier of grave consequences, which the writer has tried to surmount. With the ousting from power of Todor Zhivkov’s totalitarian regime, their relations take a new turn, when Tilev’s stepdaughter, Nevena, a mysterious young woman of double identity steps in. While Tilev is making a fortune from illicit deals, Sestrimsky, encouraged by Nevena, is doing his best to reconcile to his past. The truth of the two men’s shared past will come to light.
The Yakimanka Center for Contemporary Art is one of the most important institutions of contemporary art in the 90s in Moscow. It was here that the first open platform for all forms of self-expression was created. New artists, gallery owners and curators appeared here, the main events of the artistic life of the last decade of the twentieth century took place.
The film consists of fragments of feature films of the twenties. They reflect the life of the country from a variety of sides: we see how people work, eat, drink, have fun, suffer, love.
The waste of the toy factory "Ogonyok", clumps of multicolored thermally deformed plastic, turn into a new biological species, then into a new direction of modern art, then into an isolated language of a native tribe discovered by linguists in the jungle, where words must be carried silently with you and shown if necessary, then into heroes of crazy phantasmagoric news.
Rado, an orphan from a poor Sofia neighborhood, has been in and out of school for troubled youth for years. Although he is approaching adulthood, he is yet to finish 8th grade. He cannot reconcile his pride and sense of justice with the kind of education provided by people who are deprived of sensibility and human warmth. Rado asserts his right to freedom by frequently running away. During one of his escapes he meets the love of his life, Albena. She is a good student, and comes from a well-educated, sophisticated family. This new and unexpected connection intensifies Rado's desire for freedom and independence, and leads them both into uncharted territory.
A group of crotchety codgers attempt to revive the punk-rock band they all played in 17 years earlier in "Punk Is Not Dead".
Atanas Burov (played by Assen Blatechki) is considered as the most influential politician in Bulgaria's history. The movie is about him and his love story with Dilyana Popova as the main female character.
Adela Peeva explores the national origin of a song common amongst a set of countries, and finds that the answer is not as simple as one might think.
A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the revolutionary period.
The memory of World War II is the only thing that makes a small Russian town alive. Like a great treasure this memory is preserved here in every home and is passed on from generation to generation. Yet exactly this memory prevents people from understanding that despite their own will they are getting involved in a new war.
Para evitar que a família seja arruinada, Yogesh precisa se casar com a mulher de seus sonhos em apenas 10 dias. O segredo pode estar na astrologia.
Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...
Um lobo entre as ovelhas "nos leva a uma terra mágica agora, em um prado calmo onde ovelhas podem viver sem preocupações". Mas os problemas começam a aparecer quando um bloco de lobo está instalado nas proximidades.
Em Stip, uma pequena cidade na Macedônia, todo mês de janeiro o padre local joga uma cruz de madeira no rio e centenas de homens mergulham atrás dela. Sorte e prosperidade são garantidas a quem a recupera. Desta vez, Petúnia mergulha na água e consegue pegar a cruz antes dos outros. Seus concorrentes ficam furiosos: como uma mulher ousa participar desse ritual? A situação sai do controle na comunidade, mas Petúnia se mantém firme. Ela conseguiu sua cruz e não irá desistir.