Uxbal is not an admirable man: he's a criminal middleman. But in the thick of his corrupt and compromised world, Uxbal strives to do some modest good: he demands heaters for the cold basement where illegal Chinese laborers sleep and he carefully scrapes together money for his children, whom he deeply adores. When Uxbal himself is diagnosed with severe cancer, he desperately tries to leave behind something better for his children.
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This Academy Award-nominated film charts the revolutionary tactics that a small media outpost, Democratic Voice of Burma, has undertaken to smuggle video footage out of their country. The narrator describes the current political climate in Burma with gentle intelligence, while his video footage, shot from an unbelievably pathetic selection of what seems to be about five coveted video cameras and cell phones, illustrates his points.
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Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town.
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Told with humour and sensitivity, The Bodybuilder and I is a feature documentary about success, failure, shame and family. It is a journey into the strange subculture of geriatric bodybuilders and into the life of a man who is determined to regain his status as champion. And it is the journey of an estranged son trying to discover who his father really is - in hopes that he can learn to love and respect him for the first time.
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An Egyptian police band travels to play at the Arab place. When their bus takes a wrong turn they end up in a desolate Israeli village where they discover the universal bonds of love, music and life.
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A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, the artistic crime of the century. imdb |
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman to India to train his replacement. imdb |
Seventeen-year-old Farley has led a sheltered life, raised on a diet of home schooling, organic living and trips to the art gallery. To his parents' dismay, Farley loves to play shinny with the local rink rats. To their even greater dismay, Farley is scouted and signed by the owner of a junior league team, where he becomes an instant star. But Farley discovers that stardom comes with a price-including the expectation to fight on the ice. Throw in a changing relationship with his best friend, and Farley finds himself losing his way. |
Rita O'Grady finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the limelight when she becomes the leader of a strike by the women who sew the upholstery for a Ford factory in Dagenham, England; a strike that, thanks largely to the efforts of management and unions alike to dismiss it, turns into a struggle over equal pay for women. It's funny, sad, and genuinely stirring.
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A mother who died in a fire five years ago appears to her daughter, explaining that she has returned to set right her daughters' troubled lives and to reveal shocking secrets.
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In 1984, hundreds of thousands of Africans from 26 famine-struck countries find themselves in camps in |
John Lennon, raised by his aunt Mimi, seeks out his birth mother. Julia welcomes the opportunity to reconnect with her son. She introduces John to rock and roll and teaches him how to play the banjo -useful information when he switches to the guitar -but she also suffers from mood swings and can't always meet his emotional needs. Torn between the mother who raised him and the one who gave him life, John funnels his frustrations into music.
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Teenager Hubert haughtily regards his mother with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters and kitsch decorations. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parent's cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of adolescence - artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, and ostracism. The turbulent relationship between mother and son unfolds with a compelling combination of savage fury and melting affection. The stunning, semi-autobiographical directing debut of 20-year-old actor Xavier Dolan. imdb |
