A young man, who feels constrained living with his father takes drastic measures to liberate himself.
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The people behind it
Saleh Bakri
Noor
Tarik Kopty
Noor's Father
A man with arachnophobia buys a poisonous bird spider and sets it free in his apartment.
A hard story about two comrades who share a lot of bad memories, a lot of bad conscience and mountains and mountains of cigarettes.
Shabbat Dinner is boring as usual for William Shore. His mother has invited two crazy hippies and their son and is doing her best to show off, his father is drunk and berating their oddball guests, and he doesn't have much in common with their son Virgo. That is, until Virgo tells him that he has just come out as gay.
Mairy, a thirty-year-old woman from Philippines, works in a village in Cyprus. She takes care of Mr. Michalis, an eigthy-five-year-old man with arteriosclerosis. Mr. Michalis spends his days in front of the television, watching time and again a soap opera with a heroine named Anna. He soon becomes obsessed with this heroine, to the point of calling Mairy 'Anna', despite the remarks of his daughter Melpo. When Mairy finds some old photographs she makes an important discovery...
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Vadim, convinced his girlfriend Simona, to make an abortion. His way to the clinic is interrupted by a range of obstacles. Once arrived at the doctor, Simona doesn't find Vadim. Suddenly, Vadim finds himself between life and death. In the end, a miracle happens and resolves everything.
Hedi, a young man in his thirties, moves into an old apartment where he's going to make an amazing and life-changing discovery.
Two guys are arguing about the meaning of life and the purpose of humankind's existence. 'Why do we exist and who are we?' - this is the question.
When the big guys make their deals, all we can do is watch the consequences.
Moma is a young man who dreams of being an architect to build a better life for himself and his family.
Saved from shipwreck, a little girl is taken into the protection of the North-African tribal chief and named "Zohra".
Mrs. Anthoula, an elderly lady with hearing problems, is in danger of being evicted out of her flat. Mrs. Dafni, a social-worker, will try to help her.
Alone in his kitchen in Bucharest, Dorel prepares for what seems to be a party. Actually, it’s his son’s wedding which takes place in the United States. Dorel is going to watch the wedding through a webcam, together with two of his son’s friends. On a small screen, they are about to meet the bride and her father, and witness the ceremony.
A day in the life of a shoe shine boy, an international economist and a sex worker. It is about women. The ones out there, or lack of. The ones inside us, or lack of. In this world of men, we are still awaiting her.
Jesus buys and sells little girls and hates himself for it. Frank abuses little boys even though they are his family, and the Judge tries to stop it all. We know them all, they are our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters ans friends, and yet it all remains such a big secret known by us all.
A look through a hipster photographers lens as he embarks on a project to capture the faces of desperate souls discovering planted treasures in the city's foraging hot spots. The photographs captured make up a trendy exhibition, where the gallery goers gorge themselves on hors d'oeuvre and champagne. This is a story of the photographers success until we are gently reminded of the stars of the show and their exploitation
Pierre is a very shy man in his sixties, with no family or friends and who just retired. What will he do now?
In the prosperous and chic apartment of the Christiansson family there are odd things going on. While Niclas is in the kitchen preparing dinner, in the bathroom an adultery is being committed through new technologies. Maja is exchanging kinky messages on her mobile phone from the bathtub while her husband and daughter are impatiently waiting for her to have a family dinner. Even when her phone is out of battery, she cannot bring herself to stop.
A doctor mysteriously discovers that he is required urgently at the village to offer his services. He arrives there after a long and difficult journey, only to discover that the village is empty.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman comes to town.
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.