How do you phrase desires clearly in front of a magic mirror? When wishes become reality, annoyance turns into despair. Are four attempts enough?
O Peso da Banalidade
Two children stare into a mystery box for a minute.
A young man spends one evening chasing an idea that won't come, crumpling page after page until even the light in his room starts to give up with him.
Ophelia goes for her daily run dressed in black, hidden behind sunglasses and absorbed in the familiar rituals of contemporary running culture. Exhausted, she stops in a lush park that seems strangely familiar. She lies down, changes the music in her headphones, and slowly falls asleep. As her body settles into the iconic pose of Millais’ Ophelia, flowers begin to grow around and from her, transforming an ordinary post-run collapse into a living recreation of the painting. Part of an imagined series of everyday episodes — Ophelia Runs, Ophelia Sleeps, Ophelia Shops — the film playfully combines the seriousness of art history with the slightly absurd rituals of modern running culture, reimagining Ophelia as a contemporary figure moving between daily life and painting.
Sem Sinal
A tight-knit family is suddenly torn apart when their sister is brutally murdered. When the man responsible is found innocent of the crime, two brothers find themselves facing an impossible decision. Observe the law and do nothing, letting the killer go free or act on their own and risk everything to get justice.
An adventurous young boy, Albert, is diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a matter of weeks to live. While undergoing aggressive medical treatments Albert befriends a laboratory chimp, Simon, at the company his mother works for. Through this newfound friendship with the gifted chimp, Albert finds new hope and courage, and a strength that leads him to undertake one final great adventure. With the help of his brokenhearted mother, Albert breaks Simon out of the laboratory and embarks upon a journey that teaches Albert and all those around him a valuable lesson about compassion for all living creatures, and the powerful healing effects that this can have on our lives.
Professor Leônidas Jau is an enemy of football, and in conferences and articles he throws all his hatred against the sport. Friendenreich, his son, however, loves the sport. Leonidas then has a falling out with his son, which may be saved.
Seongjong who history remembers, earns a reputation for appreciating the motto 'making the people feel comfortable and putting political affairs right'. He is known as the king who led his country in the most peaceful and steady way during the Joseon times. However, was Seongjong really a wise king? Seongjong was enthroned by Queen Jeong-hee, Queen In-soo, Han Myeong-hoi and his supporters. The 13-year-old king made 73 of his supporters his retainers! Numerous noblemen were happy that he became king. However, some of his people had to cry blood because he became the king. "Is this country run by phantoms like you My Lord?" Seongjong, the puppet who dreamt of a reign of peace, wishes to behead the king who dominates the people!
Lars interrupts his studies in mathematics at Uppsala University. Instead he takes a job as a teacher in an industrial community. When he discovers that one of his students is a mathematical genius, his desire for studies awakens.
Katootje lives in Droogbaak, a very neat municipality. And the neatest people in the whole town are Katootje's father and the neighbor. Katootje, who is almost eight, would like a pet, but she is not allowed to have one, especially not when the queen is visiting Droogbaak and the mayor is organizing a cleanliness competition. So it is not very convenient that her anti-authoritarian aunt Gazeuse and her fiancé, the feisty inventor O.J., unexpectedly come to stay at the Loire. Fortunately for Katootje, things become more fun and exciting at home, and O.J. helps her father in the fight against the cheating neighbor. Still, it takes a while for her father to learn his lesson: there are more important things in life than peace, cleanliness, and regularity.
Mud Angel
A Fábrica de Camisinhas
An adaptation of “The Courier for Hell” (“Meido no Hikyaku”) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725).
Police officer Cheng (Michael Wong) gets into a brawl with another man while he's off duty out of town. When the other man is found murdered the following day, Cheng assists the local authorities in their investigation, despite their drastically different crime-solving methods.
A 2007 English language comedy film written and directed by Daryush Shokof, starring Souzan Alavi, Blondine Costaz and Taies Farzan.
Airing on Christmas Day, 1950, this holiday special was the first Disney TV production. It features Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd at Walt Disney's Christmas party. The show includes clips of movies and animated shorts and the first appearance of the Fire House Five Plus Two jazz band.
When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...