In 2011 the young married Swiss couple Daniela Widmer and David Och got kidnapped while being on a long trip along the old Silk Road in Pakistan. They were hand over to the Taliban and were held as hostages for 8 months under the most precarious conditions.
At 38, Seiu marries Masako, who is emotionally distant and attempts suicide. Masako’s past includes being sold into servitude and an unrecognised pregnancy. Seiu learns the truth and accepts Masako and the unborn child, embracing his roles as husband and father. He also reforms a troubled youth at his institution. In a climactic speech, Seiu inspires his students with resilience and love.
A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.
Social democracy propaganda film about future dreams for Denmark in 1960. Although Denmark is free again, the former opponent and worker, Svend, is disillusioned: "It is all something soft". The dream of the future is incarnated by a young woman, Karen, who shows Svend the visions of a better life in the 'youth's land'. There are homes and a nuclear-powered car for everyone.
Christian, a young man overlooked by society, burdened by a dark past and escalating madness, finds himself trapped in a world of violence and despair.
Kassovitz revisits the story of his cult film by adapting it for the stage and highlights the film's eminently contemporary nature. Recorded in December 2024 at La Seine Musicale in Boulogne Billancourt, in the Hauts-de-Seine department.
2031. Climate change has been faster than expected. On the canopy of an island submerged by rising waters, a team of young scientists collects seeds and insects in the hope of saving what can be saved... Between sky and ocean, at the edge of treetops and skin, they evoke the world of yesterday... and that of tomorrow.
Hae-Gon, Joon-Hyung and Hak-Rak are everyday guys, working at a local taxi company. Men of marked individuality, many wonder how they keep company with each other. After a bulky day of work, one and only diversion they can share is drinking in a local bar with silly jokes. Discontented with their miserable life, they finally decide to do something big, which they believe this is very and last opportunity to take an abrupt turn of their life. However, their plan makes a wrong turn, just like their pathetic life.
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Weed with Flowers
The 1905 law proclaiming the separation of church and state is 120 years old. This law affirms freedom of conscience and religious freedom. It is considered the founding text of secularism. Secularism is the subject of endless controversy and debate.
In a society of the future, a conformist falls in love with a fugitive who forces him to rethink his attitudes about the society he lives in.
Two women in their fifties. Everything sets them apart: their social standing, their life experiences, their backgrounds. Despite their differences, they will join forces for the same deeply personal and visceral goal: to gain custody of their grandson upon his return from a jihadist prison camp. Two women, one child. Three destinies inextricably linked.
Two young American patriots, fed up with a nation divided for far too long, decide to step up. Their mission: reunite the people and set a beacon of hope for the rest of the world. But the road to unity is paved with shadows... and things are about to go south. Fast.
Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho
Decorated Vietnam hero, Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It's not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter bus makes him a local hero where he's suddenly celebrated once again. But his good fortune suddenly turns for the worse when his best friend is murdered and the police aren't doing anything about it.
Hvorfor stjæler barnet?
After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.
Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of ash. 17 years after abandoning them, Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family.