As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
The story of a young man who, in 1991. receives order to report to a military drill, and finds himself on Vukovar front, where he spends five months. Returning from there, he discovers changes within himself, but within his home town also. Totally lost, he finds no way to make contact with the environment, and suddenly experiences love with the girl who survived all horrors of that war...
In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievous and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.
The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young people facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
An aspiring singer leaves his pregnant bride a radio for company when he is drafted into the army; unfit for military life, the man goes AWOL and joins a pop music troupe but soon after his wife tracks him down his life spirals out of control.
In the wake of a draft coming off the heels of a newly begun war in the Pacific, families must now decide how best to navigate this difficult situation on the home front. The men and boys of America must make a choice: Go to war for globalist banking interests and crony politicians, or fight back against the greatest threat to their families' freedom; their own government.
Sir! No Sir! is a documentary film about the anti-war movement within the ranks of the United States Military during the Vietnam War. It consists in part of interviews with Vietnam veterans explaining the reasons they protested the war or even defected. The film tells the story of how, from the very start of the war, there was resentment within the ranks over the difference between the conflict in Vietnam and the "good wars" that their fathers had fought. Over time, it became apparent that so many were opposed to the war that they could speak of a movement.
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
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Despite an initial outburst of patriotism, Daffy is terrified to learn that "the little man from the Draft Board" has a letter for him, and tries his best to hide.
A son is accused of involuntary manslaughter while his younger brother is put in a foster home... .
A tragedy told by an American visiting Lapland about Aila, daughter of a reindeer herder, who falls in love with Reino, a reindeer thief.
1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister Maria, called Mariù. It is a journey of national mourning, with people from all social classes paying homage to the poet. In Mariù’s recollections, we learn how Giovanni lived: his father’s assassination, his poverty as a youth, his political activism and fraught ties to Giosuè Carducci.
“Urban Motives 4.1” is an anthology film consists of 5 short movies by 5 Azerbaijani directors. The first, by Anar Abbasov, is about a relationship between a man and women who live next door; second, by Ru Hasanov, is about a life of a musician who is different from others with his mentality; third, by Teymur Ismayilov, tells a story of a young worker who has his own dreams; fourth, by Jafar Akhundzade, is about traumas caused by war; and the last one, by Vugar Islamzadeh, is a story about a criminal group and an officer who wants to take revenge.
A TV film adaptation of the book Paskvelija by renowned Macedonian author Živko Čingo.
Salah, an Israeli-Arab enterpriser, strives to bring happiness for the children of the Arab sector in Israel by opening a new chain of candy stores. 'The Firm', an Israeli corporation headed by Klausner , that controls Israeli candy market, resent Salah on his former business move - taking control over the Israeli market of Turkish coffee. Klausner sees the new business initiative of Salah as a real threat, not only a business one but also a cultural and a political one, even a real challenge against Zionism itself. In a disguise of a Business struggle the story reveals moral dilemmas and a cultural struggle: the Arab businessman trying to integrate in Modern Israel against the dominant Zionist culture.
Vasya is an elderly cloakroom attendant who has worked at the Moscow Art Theatre for many years. Posing as an actor, he tries to help two teenagers who love the theatre as much as he does get into the Moscow Art Theatre School. However, everything changes when a new female ticket collector learns of his secret.
Nobody knows what's waiting for us around the corner. On the last day of her 13th birthday, following a rabbit into a St. Petersburg gateway by a strange attraction, Alice suddenly finds herself in a mysterious forest. A place where everything is the other way around. To the wild sounds of a piano, which is driven along country roads on a tractor, Alice meets a wild company that, instead of St. Valentine's Day, celebrates the feast of St. Tryphon the Mouser, unable to leave the festive table from winter to summer because of the curse of the Elder, who punished them for "blasphemy." Helping to solve this problem, Alice receives a motorcycle as a gift - both a dream and a means of transportation - and sets off on a journey. Where will it lead her? What awaits her, a lonely and strong girl? And most importantly, why did she tag along with the white rabbit? Who are her parents? And who is she really...
At the end of September 2023, several people went into the forest to make a film about the end of the world. They lived in tents for ten days as the cold weather approached. Each person came up with a character. How would they like to meet the end? What scares them and what can give them hope? Collective life in difficult conditions led to the stories intersecting and the boundaries between people and characters disappearing.
Unlucky university teacher Valentin finds an outlet in leading a student film club, where he makes amateur films with young talents. Valentin believes that a bad streak cannot last forever and that he will definitely get lucky someday. Fate favors the unlucky but talented teacher, and Kirill Kyaro agrees to take part in his new film. While Valentin tries his best to grab luck by the tail, the students of the film club grow up, find themselves and make important life discoveries.