The Wandering Plants (2019)
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 30M
Director : Yurina Kaneko
Escritor : Yurina Kaneko
Sinopse
Kanako, who wants to be a plant, has met Koh in a botanical garden. Gradually Koh started growing his root... their curious friendship becomes something more than the human relationship which is based on language.
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
Based freely on the play of the same title by Tennesee Willams. Some fragments of the original play are restaged frame by frame by new botanical performers.
Ibogaine is a plant extract that stops drug addiction. In this documentary, a 34-year-old heroin addict undergoes ibogaine therapy with Dr Martin Polanco at the Ibogaine Association, a clinic in Rosarito, Mexico. In Gabon, where use of the iboga root is traditional, a Babongo woman's tribe uses the plant to help her recover from a depressive malaise. Director Benjamin De Loenen interviews people formerly addicted to heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, who share their perspectives about ibogaine treatment.
A documentary about the study of plant sentience with original music by Stevie Wonder. Utilizing time-lapse photography, the film proposes that plants are able to experience emotions and communicate with the world around them.
Seemingly at random, the wings and other bits of moths and insects move rapidly across the screen. Most are brown or sepia; up close, we can see patterns within wings, similar to the veins in a leaf. Sometimes the images look like paper cutouts, like Matisse. Green objects occasionally appear. Most wings are translucent. The technique makes them appear to be stuck directly to the film.
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant grows to monstrous proportions and starts a reign of terror and bloodshed in the hospitals abandoned wing.
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left alone with his only friend, a potted plant. As the hand's request gives way to bribery, demands, and threats, the potter becomes more desperate to escape its clutch, leading to tragedy.
Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Siba tries to help them, working with dedication and love that goes beyond his duty. It is difficult to satisfy everyone and achieve more in this scorching city and Siba makes mistakes, carried by desire to achieve the impossible. With great effort, the builders manage to overcome the maelstrom after the dam burst, and while the first iron runs from the new furnace, Siba, dismissed because of errors committed, leaves a boom town of Zenica.
Geologist Ian Stewart explain in three stages of natural history the crucial interaction of our very planet's physiology and its unique wildlife. Biological evolution is largely driven bu adaptation to conditions such as climate, soil and irrigation, but biotopes were also shaped by wildlife changing earth's surface and climate significantly, even disregarding human activity.
Um tripulante de uma nave espacial que abriga as últimas reservas botânicas da Terra se rebela quando ele é instruído a abandonar seu projeto e voltar para casa, mergulhando na escuridão espacial após sequestrar a nave.
Em um campo de concentração durante a Segunda Guerra, dois prisioneiros morrem ao tentar escapar. J.J. Sefton, um sargento americano também preso, é acusado de ser um espião devido à suspeita relação que mantém com os guardas. Para convencer a todos do contrário, ele precisará achar o real delator.
Um homem que acorda no fundo de uma caverna sem ter a menor ideia de como foi parar lá. Junto a ele encontra um homem sem vida. Mas ele não está sozinho… a única maneira de sair daquela caverna é escalar para a superfície através de uma série de túneis e caminhos sob a atmosfera de um estranho cemitério, abandonado por uma misteriosa organização chamada Eden Log.
Seymour Krelborn é um órfão que trabalha na floricultura do Sr. Mushnik. Ele passa seu tempo sendo explorado pelo patrão e sonhando acordado com Audrey, uma colega de trabalho. Um dia, após um eclipse solar, Seymour encontra uma planta estranha. Ele a compra e passa a chamá-la de Audrey II. Ao cuidar dela, ele acidentalmente corta o dedo e percebe que Audrey II tem um grande apetite por sangue. Com o tempo, a planta cresce cada vez mais, forçando Seymour a encontrar pessoas que possam servir de alimento para ela.
A breathtaking adventure across five continents and through time to reveal nature's most vital secret. Watch a flying fox gorge itself on a midnight snack of figs. Climb into the prickly jaws of insect-eating plants. Witness a mantis disguised as a flower petal lure its prey to doom.
Em 1963, o diretor inglês Steve Sekely adaptou para as telas o clássico livro escrito por John Wyndham. É a história de uma chuva de meteoritos que causa cegueira na maior parte da população terrestre, além de afetar um determinado tipo de flores (as triffids), transformando-as em plantas carnívoras com a capacidade de locomoção.
Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an exploration of the human relationship with the plant world -- seen from the plants' point of view. Narrated by Frances McDormand, the program shows how four familiar species -- the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato -- evolved to satisfy our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication.
Jovem de mundo paralelo, Kaena está em perigo. As plantações não geram mais frutos. Ela precisa descobrir o que aconteceu com os deuses e evitar o fim de sua aldeia. Para isso, se lança em um mundo desconhecido para descobrir se seus rituais e crenças são reais ou um perigo iminente.
Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger) é uma poderosa e ambiciosa executiva, apaixonada pelo estilo de vida que leva em Miami - roupas, sapatos, carros e belos homens. Quando surge a chance de reestruturar uma fabrica, no meio do nada, no gélido estado de Minnesota, Lucy vê a chance de uma promoção e aceita num estalar de dedos. Mas, o que seria apenas mais um trabalho se transforma numa tremenda roubada. Com seu modo de vida arrogante, a recém-chegada executiva, enfrentará situações hilárias ao ser recebida com frieza pela população da pequena cidade e em especial pelo bonitão e sindicalista Ted (Harry Connick, Jr.)
David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no unaided eye could witness. Each episode in this six-part series focuses on one of the critical stages through which every plant must pass if it is to survive:- travelling, growing, and flowering; struggling with one another; creating alliances with other organisms both plant and animal; and evolving complex ways of surviving in the earth's most ferociously hostile environments.