Social & External
João H. Vigário
Agosto
Inês
The closing of a comic book store begins the end of the teenage years of two friends. Memories and fiction once again embrace memory.
A young woman falls in love with a man but refuses to marry him.
What happens to a typical America family when the government collapses? How does a family stay together through bad water, food shortages, power outages, and burgeoning civil war? Can they fight back? Or it is too late?
This is the story of Janardan who lives in Mumbai with his friend Rahul. Janardan is a simple boy who does pupa and his friend Rahul is exactly opposite to him. Rahul also has a girlfriend. Their romance plan fails because of Janardan. Because he is not ready to leave both of them alone in the room, hence Rahul and his girlfriend make a plan to make Janardan's friendship with Heena and convince Janardan to be in a live-in relationship with Heena. Next day after Heena comes with Janardan, Janardan's Daddu comes to his place to check his eyes. Now even Heena cannot be called, so that Daddu does not know that both of them live together, his struggle and excuses are shown.
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.
Borderline, a film version of the novels Borderline and La Brèche, tells the story of Kiki at various stages of her life. With her mother institutionalized, she is raised by her grandmother, where left to her own devices, she takes refuge in school. Her life before 30 is a far cry from fairy-tale. Sex and alcohol are her only outlets and her daily reality. She goes through men one after another.
Truth is shadowed when a man is wrongfully accused of killing his lover.
The dancer, Azza, breaks down on the road, and Hazem, the commando officer, helps her, and they fall in love. But then he is called to participate in the front, and she receives the news that he has died, and she is sad about him.
Love hurts.
A group of five veteran hunters tries to mold two young boys into one of their own, but this takes a wrong turn.
Insight comes from an alien place.
Peeing shouldn't be so problematic.
Lesbians Until Graduation.
Catholic wedding with a twist.
Movie mash-up comments on prop 8.
Small town transvestite shops for love.
Sex worker and client find a surprise.
A grieving man strolls into a mysterious pumpkin patch.
After the fatal accident of his parents and older brother, Jason leaves his life behind to write about art in the field of anthropology. However, the publisher who attracts him by recognizing his writing talent requires Jason to change some points to become more commercial. Jason at first refuses but after the advice of the psychologist he changes his mind and accepts. But in the presentation of his final idea he reviews and leaves the bookstore.
After an affair with a queen leads to his demise, an eager traveler encounters a mystical bird with the power to give him another life.
On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on the reservation list. However, she is granted the chance to return to Earth as an "angel in training" with the requirement to help a soul in need. Sarah has the 12 days before Christmas to secure her place on the list leaving her in the race for her after-life.
Vincent, an artist with unresolved inner demons, meets a mysterious girl who helps him come to terms with his creative legacy… and eventual death.
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of his hotel. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.
Almost as soon as Jake and Cassie decide to get married on Christmas Eve, complications arise.
Cryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about, and reaches for the moon. Although music abounds and the children of the wood are there at play, Pierrot is melancholy and alone. Harlequin appears, brimming with confidence and energy. He conjures the lovely Colombina. Pierrot is dazzled. But can the course of true love run smooth?
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which is in his backyard. Until one day he meets Portuga, a man who begins to help him and soon becomes his best friend.
The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of herself and her life, piece by piece, in order to win his love. At the same time she enters a mythic journey in the theater. One that forces her to face the many abuses endured by women around that world and that blurs her performance, her dreams and her real life and results in a provocative and powerful confrontation that frees her. -- from official website
A poor young boy goes on a field trip and dreams of escaping to a land beyond the sunset.
In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.
