The Importance of Tying Your Own Shoes (2011)

Немая короткометражная лента, в ироничной манере повествующая об одном дне жизни свинки Руби. Радостная суета и приподнятое настроение, заставляющие свинку напевать без устали веселые песенки, были прерваны страшным инцидентом. Происходящее заставило главную героиню укрыться от чар большого города, чтобы в тишине пережить потрясение. «Когда весь день испорчен» — номинант на «Оскар», победитель Каннского кинофестиваля (за лучший короткометражный фильм) и обладатель множества других наград других фестивалей.

Эмануэль — язвительная и в то же время чувствительная девушка-подросток, живущая со своим отцом и мачехой. Приближается её очередной день рождения, однако Эмануэль безразличен этот праздник с тех пор, как её мать, подарив ей жизнь, умерла при родах. В это же время по соседству с ней поселяется загадочная Линда, обладающая поразительным сходством с покойной матерью Эмануэль. Заинтригованная данным фактом, Эмануэль начинает работать няней для новорожденной дочери Линды и постепенно втягивается в хрупкий, вымышленный мир своей соседки, в котором самой Эмануэль отведена роль привратника.

Завязка сюжета могла прийти в голову только человеку с кинематографическим стажем: Лэйк играет тренера по речи и специалиста по озвучке трейлеров Кэрол. Отец ее героини Сэм Сото — звезда цеха и домашний тиран, отказывающий Кэрол от отчего дома, дабы освободить место для своей 30-летней подружки. Война отцов и детей переносится на оба фронта — личный и профессиональный — когда Кэрол вступает в бой за право озвучивать трейлеры «Амазонских игр».

Ли — тридцатилетняя репортерша, которая бросила свою жизнь в Нью-Йорке и возвращается домой, где она вступает в опасную связь с 16-летним правонарушителем.

A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds herself confronted with the aftermath of her parents’ divorce.

18-year-old Anna finds out she's terminally ill and has only a few years left. Fragile girl changes her mindset, starts living out the remaining time as intensively as possible and marries Piotr, a student whom she just met in sanatorium.

The courtship rituals of animals and plants are compared to those of contemporary society, with educational and frequently humorous results.

Matej and Jenda, two of the eight children of the poor Pelc family in the Giant Mountains, help in a glass works where the oldest brother Francek works. They hide into a tub not to be seen by supervisors checking on the ban of children labor. They miss the Epiphany carol (songs and treats door-to-door) and all neighbor village boys again on them in all the neighbor houses. On their way home they are passed by a fast moving big man with a large backpack. The boys send the customs officers, who are pursuing the strange man, to the opposite direction. The man then thanks them and rewards them the next day. Based on fairy-tales and legends the boys think the man is Krakonos (the giant living and ruling in the Giant Mountains).

"Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child. But, some forty years and four sons later, nothing is happening like it should be during this month of August: as she arrives on Greek soil to organize her traditional festival with her tribe, Jo learns that the latter has been cancelled, courtesy of the economic crisis. The hour seems to be tragic but the maternal instinct grows stronger, she is ready to do everything for the happiness of her sons. Between squabbles and blood and destiny blows, this summer will be like no other.

After her own daughter abandons her child, an ambitious and orderly publisher has little choice but to raise the grandchild as her own.

The surprisingly intricate, nimble plot is about a couple of kids who play amateur detectives one summer in the hopes of collecting a $5,000 reward offered to anyone able to find a missing 17 year old girl. The girl and boy are best friends who have a great, unforced camaraderie with each other. None of the tiresome sniping and bickering that goes on in so many other films of this ilk. And they are given some wonderfully smart, observant dialogue, tons of it. In fact, the film is overflowing with it, much of it tricky and the two actors handle it all like a couple of seasoned pros.

Follows three young, committed Public Defenders who are dedicated to working for the people society would rather forget. Long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads are so common that even the most committed often give up.

Progeria is a rare, fatal genetic condition that causes accelerated aging in children; its young victims rarely live past 13. This moving documentary explores the remarkable world of Sam Berns and the relentless pursuit of a treatment and cure by his parents (both doctors) to save their son from the disease.

On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during first period. When Larry died two days later, his murder shocked the nation. Was this a hate crime, one perpetrated by a budding neo-Nazi whose masculinity was threatened by an effeminate gay kid who may have had a crush on him? Or was there even more to it?

The story begins with an experiment. A filmmaker in the country of Georgia posts an ad inviting youth to audition for her film. Facing the camera, the hopefuls confess their struggles and dreams. These raw interviews unfold seamlessly into cinematic slivers of Georgian life.

In her feature directorial debut, Kalyanee Mam, the cinematographer for the Academy Award–winning documentary Inside Job, explores the damage rapid development has wrought in her native Cambodia on both a human and environmental level.

When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were Salma’s salvation. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and, through an intricate system, was able to sneak them out of the house, eventually getting them into the hands of a publisher. Against the odds, Salma became the most famous Tamil poet: the first step to discovering her own freedom and challenging the traditions and code of conduct in her village.

Площадь, новый фильм Джехана Нуджаима (Control Room; Rafea: Солнечная мама), бросает взгляд на на суровые реалии, с которыми сталкиваются изо дня в день люди, работающие для построения новой демократии в Египте.

Fredrik wants to impress his cousin Klara by being Harry Houdini, but Klara wants to keep Fredrik on the leash. They compromise by making up a game called ”The Houdini-slave”. The Houdini-slave has to do dangerous things, and gets buried in the sand on the beach. There is no way he can get up. But when Klara comes back, he is not there.

Director Christina Voros and producer James Franco pull back the curtain on the fetish empire of Kink.com, the Internet's largest producer of BDSM content. In a particularly obscure corner of an industry that operates largely out of public view, Kink.com's directors and models strive for authenticity. In an enterprise often known for exploitative practices, Kink.com upholds an ironclad set of values to foster an environment that is safe, sane, and consensual.