The Eye Above the Well (1988)
Жанр : документальный
Время выполнения : 1Ч 34М
Директор : Johan van der Keuken
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A poetic depiction of life and ritual in the south Indian state of Kerala. We see how knowledge is passed down from generation to generation: within the family, through the village economy, and especially from teachers to students. Performance footage shows how song, dance, martial arts, and religion constitute the building blocks of a culture.
Фильм демонстрирует нам красоту планеты и последствия разрушений, нанесенных деятельностью человека. Незаживающие шрамы, нанесенные Земле промышленными производствами, последствия войн, экологических катастроф, раскрывают зрителю реальную ситуацию на планете.
Телефонный звонок следует после просмотра некой загадочной видеокассеты, после чего каждый посмотревший ее умирает. Жертве дается лишь одна неделя, а дальше следует неминуемая смерть. Главная героиня Рэйчел — журналистка, расследует эти страшные события, и случайно кассета попадает к ее сыну, над которым также нависает смертельная угроза. Теперь ей предстоит гонка со смертью в попытке хоть что-то изменить и найти объяснение всему происходящему…
Вы узнаете историю подростка Иккинга, которому не слишком близки традиции его героического племени, много лет ведущего войну с драконами. Мир Иккинга переворачивается с ног на голову, когда он неожиданно встречает дракона Беззубика, который поможет ему и другим викингам увидеть привычный мир с совершенно другой стороны.
Когда в городке Дерри, штат Мэн, начинают пропадать дети, несколько ребят сталкиваются со своими величайшими страхами и вынуждены помериться силами со злобным клоуном Пеннивайзом, чьи проявления жестокости и список жертв уходят в глубь веков.
Метеорит из глубин космоса принёс на Землю нечто жуткое и необъяснимое. Именно на ферме неподалеку от места падения селится Нейтан Гарднер, рассчитывающий отдохнуть от суеты большого города.
On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.
1981 год, Индонезия. Когда-то бывшая популярной певицей мать четырёх детей несколько лет назад слегла и доживает последние дни. Семья о ней заботится, но сводить концы с концами становится все труднее — в звукозаписывающей компании говорят, что записи больше не продаются, поэтому комиссионных нет, и семья продаёт всё, что может. Когда женщина умирает, то сразу после похорон отец семейства отправляет в город, чтобы договориться о продаже дома, а оставшиеся с бабушкой дети начинают видеть и слышать призраков. Вскоре старшая дочь узнаёт о матери нечто странное.
Воин-одиночка Каин странствует по бескрайним просторам планеты Ура. Острая нехватка воды лишает обитателей Уры всякой надежды на счастливое будущее. Местные сюзерены ведут ожесточенную войну за контроль над источником воды. Каин предлагает свои услуги в качестве наемного воина одному из двух владык, но он не собирается помогать кланам в их войне за колодец...
After stealing a huge stash of drugs, speed freaks Hector and Dorena plan to cook up an enormous batch of crystal meth and get rich quick. Hector's old buddy Merle has the perfect hideout/meth lab: an old, abandoned farmhouse in the woods where no one will ever find them. Unfortunately, no one will hear their screams either. Turns out, they may not be alone after all. It seems this farmhouse is the site of a horrific urban legend. Now, holed up together with nothing to do but snort, smoke and shoot up, the strung-out "cookers" fall prey to paranoia, private demons and terrifying visions which, whether they are hallucinations or hauntings, are equally terrifying and just as deadly!
The film tells the story of eleven Turkish Cypriot workers who left their homes in a bus in 1964 that never came back. Their remains were found in a well in Cyprus in October 2006.
The story of a cat who, legend has it, longs to become human.
Виола и Никола переживают не лучшие времена в связи с смертью их сына. Они решают провести выходные в домике затерянном посреди леса. Но они и представить не могут что тихие выходные превратятся в смертельный кошмар.
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
Fatma is kidnapped several times by a wild man because she cannot be persuaded to marry. A third attempt at forced submission ends tragically for both, due to the young girl's fatal rebellion.
Разъехались сыновья, зарос колодец - и решил старый Сердюк, что пора умирать. Сколотил гроб и лег в него. Но приехали сыновья - встал старик, очистил колодец, разбил гроб и починил досками надколодезный сруб…
Бедная девушка Тина работает в прислугах. Её хозяйку, Грехтен, сватают за бургомистра. Но Грехтен любит другого. Чтобы помочь Грехтен, Тина меняется с ней одеждой. Заезжий ловелас, охотясь за приданым, обольщает Тину, думая, что это Грехтен.
Two men are stranded at the bottom of a well. One, with a serious injury to his head, thinks his has fallen in is own back garden in present-day Britain. But the other tells him they are really prisoners in a medieval dungeon. Who is right, and where are they really?
An injured woman trapped in a deep well must outsmart a manipulative stranger with keys to her dark past to save her daughter from a terrifying ordeal.
My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note, ‘that without a thing changing, everything is different.’ The film exists. The fiction is set up, and we believe in it. The justness of the agreement leads us to believe it, because everything plays equally at being a sign. That’s the arrangement of the elements. It’s an act of faith. La vallée close is just this: elements treated above all as if in a documentary that, without being changed, portray the story and reveal between them the elements of fiction. But above all seen as they are, insignificant. And then in the relations they set up, they can satisfy our desire for a story. -- Rousseau
Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990).
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Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.
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H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge...
Jay De Feo started painting THE WHITE ROSE in 1957. When the unfinished painting was removed eight years later it weighed over 2300 pounds.
Which image is real - the one staring at us from the mirror or the one standing in front of it? In hallways filled with illusions, a simulacrum behind the looking glass, he is trying to find out if he is looking at a stranger or a hidden part of himself.
Akiko is the heiress of a lumber business family that spans many generations. She married Hiroshi, a company man, and was leading a plain and happy life. But dark clouds overcast Akiko’s happy life when Hiroshi starts an affair with Michiyo, an underclassman from the school Akiko attended. Then Shinji, who used to work in the family lumber business, enters her life the turmoil of men-women relationships becomes tempestuous.
Деревенская девушка Лин Лин и её двоюродный брат приезжают в Шанхай в поисках лучшей жизни. Вскоре они находят только отчаяние. Она изнасилована и становится проституткой, в то время как он вовлекается в революционную борьбу. Лин Лин рискуя своей жизнью спасает своего двоюродного брата, который был приговорен к смертной казни за сокрытия врага.
When everything was ready for my death, I began to write of what I know precisely, which you’ve never understood, knowing you would never understand … I have made a film out of your absence.
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate. A brief encounter with a pair of epicureans on a bridge fails to garner them any of the gluttons' feast due to a language barrier. Eventually their party begins to die, and the survivors ration their meat among them, attaching a religious-type ritual to its dispensation.
Seneca’s Day is set in the year 1989, the final period of the Soviet era in Lithuania. Eighteen-year old buddies establish the Seneca’s Fellowship with the motto “Live each day as if it was your last”. A love triangle breaks up the fellowship right at the time the nation experiences an exceptional sense of community via Baltic Chain.Twenty-five years later, the main character who at first glance appears to be accompanied by good luck, is disillusioned with himself. He has betrayed the ideals of his youth and become a cold observer of life.
A performance artist works tirelessly to fulfill her dream of adopting Sudanese twins, placing her marriage and career at risk in this documentary.
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