At the break of dawn, a covert operative is sent to recover a mysterious alien mineral with the power to change humanity. When his mission draws him into a deadly game with a brilliant and ruthless scientist, betrayal and danger lurk around every corner. He must fight to survive and protect the one person who has been with him through it all.
In 2004 the Oregon State Hospital, former site of the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, revealed the existence of thousands of corroded copper urns, each containing cremated human remains. Photographer David Maisel captured these beautifully unique urns of forgotten souls on film. Exhibiting their photos revealed secrets, influenced political decisions and reunited families. This film will show how art can stimulate social change and will document the ongoing controversy surrounding a proper memorial for these institutionalized casualties.
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.
There are six places on Earth believed to be actual entrances into Hell. They include a volcano in Iceland, a cave in the jungles of Central America, and a lake of fire in Africa. According to ancient myth and Christian legend, each is a passage to a terrifying underworld for the damned. Even today, some believe they are still portals. Eerily, they share striking similarities. Visit these six locations, and discover how the concept of Hell emerged in history and why it still evokes fear today.
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.
La rosa dei nomi
Three boys and two girls go backpacking from the city to a paradisiacal island. There they rent motorcycles, travel around the prettiest and most remote spots, camp out in the woods, on a coastal cliff, get drunk and swim in the sea. The following day they enter a deep, maze-like cave to explore it and get lost inside.
A poetic tale directed by Elena Petkevich for children on a small grasshopper, which is trying to learn the secret of life.
editing experiments with backdoor blinds, more dancing
Jen Ni Estas
A new team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, only to uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Do you remember your first trip? Not the one you made at 5 years old with your parents to the East Coast of the United States. I mean the first time you traveled alone!? The great adventure. In 1991, I was a 21-years-old student. I went to Europe. Not because I wanted to visit all the great capitals, but because I wanted love... I wanted Marie-Ève Bernard.
A story about the music in us.
In Arnarstapi (Iceland), during a cabaret number, a mistress of ceremonies proposes to us a journey into the center of her organs to go and meet the original being. During the journey, the public enters into a trance to reach the ecstasy.
A man spends the day frolicking. What is there not to be happy about?
A young man approaching his 20s can either work for his mother in her restaurant or carve his own path and join his friends in Montreal. Before making this decision, he encounters Sara and Léa, two enticing young women who may derail his plans of becoming the greatest chef in the world.
The most talked about musical event of the summer of 2000, that almost didn't happen, feturing extreme musics' biggest and brightest. This plastic terror contains an in depth adventure covering three days worth of heat, frustration, joy, triumph, chaos and unity.
A new documentary on the tragic battle at Beaumont Hamel, a documentary that traces the activities of the Newfoundland Regiment from enlistment in St. John's and training in Europe to combat in the Mediterranean and, finally, to the battle in France that virtually destroyed the entire regiment. The uniqueness of this documentary is that it is told exclusively through the words of the soldiers and their loved ones, words lifted directly from actual letters, diaries and memoirs.
Joined at the Heart