Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.
Teenager Jamie moves with his mother, sister and grandfather to an island off the South Australian coast where mum has a job running a marine research station. To his discomfort, Jamie discovers he's a "selkie" - half human, half seal - that explains the webbing on his hands and also why he changes completely into a seal as soon as he hits water.
A seal in water and human on land, the mythical selkie cannot return to their true home in the sea if their seal skin is stolen. In this modern adaptation a selkie woman trapped on land in human form, longing to return to her underwater realm, unwittingly falls in love with a young fisherman.
The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.
According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.
During a moonlit night, Sine vanishes after childbirth, leaving her husband Magnus devastated. A haunting exploration of Sine's past, unearths the traumatic events that connected her to the selkie realm - a world of mythical creatures who transform from seals into humans by shedding their skins. This poignant journey delves into the profound ties between folklore and the human experience.
A documentary in which retired industrial workers reflect on the promises and anxieties of retirement. Beginning with the Budd Company’s “Retirement Ceremony” in Philadelphia, the film explores how leaving work can mean the loss of routine, identity, and a sense of accomplishment, even as it marks a long-anticipated milestone.
On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she is a selkie, a seal that turns human while on land. Syracuse is afraid to hope again.
Guns N' Roses Opening For Aerosmith 04 August 1988 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA, USA Tracklist: 1. It’s So Easy 2. Mr. Brownstone 3. Out Ta Get Me 4. Patience 5. Band Introductions 6. Instrumental Jam 7. Sweet Child O’ Mine 8. Welcome To The Jungle 9. Used To Love Her
In 1976 with the Cold War raging, the Philadelphia Flyers took to the ice to play the unbeaten Russian Red Army team. What happened that day went down in sports history.
A twentysomething spends a year closer and further from friends. A unique look at the Philly scene in the year 2021.
Two old college friends reconnect in East Falls Philadelphia, testing their friendship, artistic integrity, and patience with each other.
Cora Glenhelm, heiress to a powerful fishing empire, travels with her journalist boyfriend to the remote Scottish island of Cralaig to investigate her family’s dark past—only to uncover a deadly connection to a bloodthirsty Selkie lurking offshore.
Failing high school student Bobby Barber convinces school principal to let him play in a breast cancer awareness ice hockey game which means a lot to him both on and off the ice.
After a plane crash strands two brothers on a lost continent where dinosaurs and humans live together in harmony, they disagree over escape plans. (Condensed cut of original mini-series to be a feature length as seen on Peacock).
1999. The Future. Water is scarce, gas is fifty bucks per gallon, and the the last good cop in Los Angeles has stumbled across an underground death race that pits psychos against each other in a gory road trip through America's dystopian heartland. He is forced to join forces with a dangerous femme fatale who wants to win the race at all costs and together they must find a way to escape the clutches of the Blood Drive as they careen through a sci-fi landscape filled with monsters and mutants. A theatrical re-edit of Blood Drive episodes "The F---ing Cop" and "Welcome to Pixie Swallow" which premiered at Hollywood's famous Egyptian Theater courtesy of American Cinematheque. This version screened across the country at various Alamo Drafthouse locations.
Sang Ziming returns to his hometown, Qilin, seeking to find his lover, Lianxiang, to consummate their marriage. He is also on a secret mission to locate the "Qilin Jade Pearl" and to investigate whether its disappearance is related to a rumored fox demon. However, upon meeting Lianxiang, Sang Ziming discovers that she is not the same person he once knew; she is always accompanied by a white-haired fox demon as she searches for the truth.
An Egyptian princess rises from the dead and goes to California for the amulets she needs.
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After the events of Humuq 1: Do Not Sleep at Dusk, a new main character called Aurora appears to try & save Ling-ling from the danger she's in. But then as time goes, she slowly discovers secrets that lies within her surroundings.