New anime film project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the manga.
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After finding some relics in an open grave, two young siblings share an up-close experience with death at the cause of their own hand.
Je vous ai compris : De Gaulle, 1958-1962
A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special Buddhist sutra sent by her father who has been absent on official business for years. While gazing out her window one late afternoon, the setting sun creates a vision of a holy figure in the distant mountains.
Amu is the story of Kaju, a twenty-one-year-old Indian American woman who returns to India to visit her family and discover the place where she was born. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju stumbles against secrets and lies from her past. A horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins.
With boundless perseverance and ingenuity, aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright work to bring their vision to the skies, culminating in the first successful manned flight in December 1903. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and John Glenn read aloud from the brothers' writings as dramatic flight footage illustrates their famed accomplishments.
After the death of Napoleon, colonel Montaner plots to restore the Empire, but falls in love with Lise, a beautiful dancer.
A fiction based on true events, which happened at the end of the Federalist Revolution in 1895, in the south of Brazil. When Gumercindo Saraiva was killed in an ambush and buried at graveyard at some roadside, the legalists discovered it, unburied the body, and cut its head off so it would be taken to the Governor as a war trophy. Major Ramiro de Oliveira and two men were chosen for the unusual task. The film tells the saga of the Capitan Franciso Saraiva, son of Gumercindo, and his team of five riders in the attempt to recover his father's head. The moments of approximation and distancing between the pursued and the pursuers, the confrontation and the conflicts, the duels that happened on both sides until the final encounter, when there are only Ramiro and Francisco left standing; all these events are thoroughly narrated in the film. The lessons learned in the journey blossom at end and both men, due to everything they went through, decide for an honorable outcome for them both.
14 yr old Sarah Jones portrays the daily struggles of a little slave girl until she sees the light! Sarah will be compared to all the greatest female abolitionists of our time!
The story of the road to women's suffrage in Sweden featuring interviews with relatives of the main characters.
"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dismantle this stigmatization, other images must be presented or we need to reveal what the existing ones seek to cover up. The slum is usually represented from a limited and deceitful visual panorama. This representation has an intention. Cinema and television are two image-producing devices that strengthen the stereotypes that we have about the people who inhabit these spaces. And what happens in the field of painting? Do clichés reign there too? This visual essay seeks to confront various works by national painters and sculptors, belonging to the Palais collection, with the kinetic images of current cinema and television, to reflect on both the differences and the similarities in the meanings and discourses that both regimes of images can produce." César González
Feng Menglong was a Chinese historian, novelist, and poet of the late Ming Dynasty. The film tells the story of his legendary move from Suzhou to to Shouning, where he entered politics for the sake of writing. During Shouning's tenure as an official, he fought against Japanese pirates, killed tigers, banned female infants, advocated culture and education, loved the people, was pragmatic and honest
A year after the death of their father, life can begin again for Macha, Olga, Irina and their brother, Andrei. But the unpredictability of life destroys their hopes and certainties. The sisters of failed dreams now live in an idle city where everything has to start again. Chekhov's drama about loss and regaining meaning.
De Gaulle et Pompidou : jusqu'à la rupture
Produced by Elena Sangro and funded by the Commitee of Motenegrin Exiles (including the former Queen Milena), the film tells the full story of the heroic conduct of Montenegrin people during the First World War.
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
A retelling of the legend of Hua Mulan, warrior woman of China, who disguised herself as a boy to serve in the army in her frail father's place.
Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.