A Woman's Place (1967)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 16M
Director : Colin Low
Sinopse
Two women discuss the roles and problems of women, education, and shopping on Fogo Island.
Orca, uma baleia assassina, testemunhou a trágica morte de sua companheira prenha por Nolan, capitão de um navio pescador. A intenção era capturar um tubarão branco, mas o arpão acabou atingindo com tudo o animal. Inconformado, o macho levará toda a sua fúria e poder de morte para o porto de pescadores. Sob a pressão dos aldeões, Nolan terá que fazer alguma coisa para expulsar o animal das redondezas.
Jor-El, um renomado cientista, prevê a destruição do seu planeta e alerta o governo, que não lhe dá credito. Assim, decide salvar seu filho, mandando-o ao planeta Terra, onde terá superpoderes. Na Terra, ele usa o nome de Clark Kent e, já adulto, trabalha como repórter em um jornal, não demonstra ter superpoderes. Mas quando uma situação inesperada põe em risco a vida de Lois Lane, uma colega de trabalho, ele é obrigado a se revelar para o público, ficando conhecido popularmente como Superman. Descontente com o surgimento de um super-herói na cidade, Lex Luthor, um gênio do mal, o obriga a se desdobrar para evitar a morte de milhões de pessoas.
Um jornalista volta com a filha à sua cidadezinha natal depois de viver uma experiência traumática no casamento, descobre segredos da sua família e se envolve com uma mãe solteira que também tem o próprio segredo a guardar.
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him.
A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains. Together, the two of them manage to get through their days while wearing old jerseys left by a deceased grandmother. The following summer, the two once again leave the stifling heat of Tokyo, as if escaping to the mountain cottage. However, the next summer is very different...
The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.
At the death of his father, Paulo, the youngest son, will have to be in charge of his mentally handicapped brother Daniel. Based on the novel by Bernardo Atxaga.
Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.
Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.
Cinco mulheres presas em um elevador confessam suas amargas experiências com os homens e a sociedade.
A young girl, who struggles with her pilot father's death in a plane crash years before, visits her grandmother in Newfoundland. While there, she encounters the ghosts of two pilots, who are condemned to Earth to constantly re-live their own crash that occurred in 1927. The girl decides to help the pair by helping them re-build their airplane and complete their flight so they may be released and, in turn, deal with her own emotional bondage.
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.
A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the melancholic knight Don Quixote of La Mancha and his judicious squire Sancho Panza, the immortal characters of Miguel de Cervantes, which offers a candid depiction of rural life in Spain in the early 1930s and illustrates the first sentence of the first article of the Spanish Constitution of 1931, which proclaims that Spain is a democratic republic of workers of all kind.
Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was from - to eke out a better life for her and Bayo. She even leaves her big black packed trunk in the middle of the foyer as a symbolic gesture that that move will soon be happening. She equally hates her fisher father, Phillip Longlan, for subjecting her and her mother to life there. Phillip, who spends most of his time on a commercial fishing boat, only provides Sharon enough money to survive but not to achieve that dream of leaving. Bayo, however, doesn't want to leave, especially leave his grandfather behind. He wants to live and die by the sea, much like his deceased father, who he never knew.
The big whale round-up at Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, is brought to the screen with a realism not often found in fish stories. Cameras are on hand to record the annual sea drama as herds of pothead whales are driven inshore by fishing boats and killed in shallow water. There is tense excitement as, their escape cut off, the marine monsters fight for their lives. Reporter Fred Davis is told about the commercial uses of whale meat and whale products, particularly in mink farming.
Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and son, confronts a local loan shark and is imprisoned as a result.
Oscar é um adolescente emocionalmente instável e traumatizado, porém muito criativo que deseja fugir das memórias de sua infância complicada e dolorosa. Certo dia, algo extraordinário muda sua vida por completo e o ajuda a descobrir sua identidade.