Pipanya” by Shubham Ghatge reiterates the social, economical and personal struggles and hardships faced by folk artistes from rural Maharashtra. Pipanya is a folk artiste who has played Pipani his whole life however his life along with many other folk artistes is increasingly threatened by a fall in demand due to the rise of other kinds of contemporary music systems in traditional occasions. This film however sheds light on the Artiste Pension Schemes but highlights it’s fallacies due to inefficient bureaucracy.
Director Sidharth Chauhan's craving to dive into the world of religion and unravel it’s mysteries lead him to create an esoteric yet absorbing film “The Infinite Space”. The film deals with a young Buddhist monk who dares to believe in a secret which was revealed years ago in an old scripture and strange events follow after then. This film is truly an imaginary wilderness that proposes dilemma, conflict of mind and unrealistic thinking. FEATURING EXCLUSIVELY ON CINEMAPRENEUR
Beauty of Life”, a beautiful yet brave documentary presented by Ashish Verma on the lives of four acid attack survivors impart that as a society how we need to evolve and stand with these survivors to eradicate the social stigmas, humiliation, gender discrimination and other hindrances, faced by these brave warriors in their day-to-day life. The film also depicts the dolour of these warriors in dealing with the rest of the world and finally how they settled contendedly in their respective married lives.
Vimal Pandey and Sandeep Mishra spews a captivating tale with “ The Holy Fish” that reflects Indian lore and beliefs. This film features two interconnected stories that compliments each other – an old man rising from his death bed, realising Moksha as his ultimate desire and begins search for a fish depicted in folklore and the next story speaks of a newly married bride facing pain of being away from her husband, wants to go to the same for materialistic purpose. “The Holy Fish” is a matrix of desire, material cravings, penitence along with beliefs and scepticism. Shot in the town of Allahabad this film evokes an authenticity to its theme and is a worthy watch.
Laden with undertones of an insatiably innocent grief, this film follows the journey of a child protagonist into the darknesses of life. Centering around their first encounter with something as grave as death, it seeks to pose questions onto the varied mythologies of death created by humans. While death remains to be a natural cycle, the film's psychological interventions make for noteworthy filmmaking.
Caught in the middle of China's most chaotic time, a man desperate to save his wife must sacrifice everything he has... And everything he will ever be.
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
A white boy lives in a racially divided town. The only thing he cares about is playing his drums. A popular black band from school needs a drummer and he joins them, but being colour blind in this town makes life very difficult.
An 18th century couple separated by war gets a second chance at love when a present day singer becomes mixed up in their story.
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The hero of the film, slightly satiated with life, and therefore suffering from its hopeless grayness, was made an extraordinary offer and, what's more, a very lucrative one: a job in bed. The new employee of the firm "Branch" was given a code number - 13. And then love came. And the hero began to have troubles...
Jacob is tired of living on the family farm, submitting to the rules of his father. One day he demands an early inheritance from his father, who shocks his young son by agreeing to give it to him. So, he heads to the big city doing things his way without restraint, and for a while he does well-surprisingly well. He takes huge business risks and converts his small fortune into a big fortune, despite his extremely flamboyant lifestyle that attracts the wrong women, including seductive Laura, whose rich boyfriend Frank is often dangerously nearby. Jake had it all: money, ladies, prestige-but then-he loses it all and just when he things he's hit bottom the bottom drops some more- until he is eating out of dumpsters and eventually ends up living in a literal pig pen. Coming to his senses he heads home, determined to work in an entry level position for his dad, who surprises him once again by running to him-but is it to kiss him or kill him?
88 days before his scheduled release from a state mental hospital Lucky O'Donnell returned home on the journey of a lifetime.
A Kafkaesque docudrama of an actual case involving a Christchurch small businessman and the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department. Most people can relate to running up against a bureaucrat (especially the tax man), who knows he can cause you trouble if you say something he doesn't like and then proceeds to use his power to hurt you. In this case, the businessman, Dave Henderson refuses to give in and, for the most part, kept his sense of humour.
The unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her ambitious driver, and their eccentric boss, the legendary billionaire Howard Hughes.
Reporter Muriel Manning succeeds in rounding up Mrs. Madison who murdered gambler Howard Trimble. But after listening to her story of Trimble’s degradation and threatened blackmail of her which drove her to an attempt at suicide during which she shoots him in error Muriel decides never to reveal her identity in print.
Raised in a broken family, Cat runs away from home as a teenager to escape her stepfather. In high school, she begins living with boyfriend Liam, but puppy love eventually ends in betrayal. While Liam is in the army, Cat, feeling lonely and poor, meets an older man through the Internet; Xiao Gu is looking for sex, Cat is looking for money. From lust comes love, until Cat discovers Xiao Gu is actually married. After ten years of ups and downs, Cat begins anew at age 28 when she meets the rich and kind-hearted Sunshine, but is he really her heart's final home?
Due to his gambling addiction, farmer Hans Sværke has brought his farm to the brink of bankruptcy, thereby opening up the opportunity for the wealthy landowner Karius to achieve his goal of taking over the farm. However, parish bailiff Mikkelsen vouches for Sværke and saves him for the time being, and Sværke then leases the farm. Sværke dies, and his talented son Niels takes over the lease. He and the farmer's daughter, Grethe, are happy together, and Niels manages to get her hired at the farm. But Karius' daughter, who is in love with Niels, burns with jealousy and persuades her father to take advantage of Niels' difficult financial situation and take over the farm. Things look bleak for Niels, who has been cornered by the wealthy landowner. But one day while plowing, he sees something glinting in the soil...
This is the story of Sejr, a tenant farmer, and his conflict with the dictatorial lord who stubbornly refuses to grant him the farm he needs in order to get married. However, the nobility and the peasants find common ground when a common enemy arises: the Robbers, a group of thieves who kill and rape, but also call for rebellion against those in power.
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.