Heaven

A day like any other Robert's earthly existence comes abruptly to an end. In his way to eternal life he discovers that there is no promised paradise but a cold and impersonal bureaucratic organism: his arrival comes during a system's failure and is forcefully assigned to share his new existence with "Coquito" -a misfit who attends against his eager for tranquility-, in the midst of the corseted mechanisms of the heavenly bureaucracy.

A modern take on the classic Cinderella tale.

The film talks about the resistance in Palestine against the Zionist occupation, by addressing a family from the West Bank, at the end of the eighties of the last century, that is, during the period of the Intifada.

The violent mother left a long-term psychological shadow on the girl, and even after her mother passed away, she couldn't let go for a long time. One day, she finally unexpectedly found a way out for reconciliation. This film is Wen Qi's directorial debut, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Female supporting role for "Blood Avalokitesvara". She, together with post-90s director Zheng Ziyi, borrows Qu Yuan's "Tianwen" to raise girls' painful questions about their original family and growth experience. In the film, the repeated appearance of mirrors and water extends the camera space, and scenes from different time and space interweave with the imagery of water, revealing a mother daughter relationship of love and hate.

A Canadian television director is hired to salvage an international fishing show in Scotland. The only hitch: his ex-wife is the host. What he finds in Scotland is love in the form of a local fishing guide (called a ghillie) and the chance to repair his life and his friendship with his ex-wife with whom he had a child who died.

On a far off, rural island in Japan, hundreds of cats roam a secluded fishing village, home of an aging, beautiful, and fading culture.

Maria grows up in a seedy 1960s working class neighborhood, the daughter of an ambitious emigrant father and soon caught up in her own dangerously one track-minded pursuit of a violinist's career. A rich gallery of highly original characters contribute, for better and for worse, to Maria's coming of age. Based on Kirsten Thorup's critically acclaimed 1982 novel, filmed by Morten Arnfred.

This Petersburg you will not see on the covers of glossy magazines and advertising brochures. This city is ghosted and brutal, and it is inhabited by very different, often very gloomy people.

İstanbul’s religious music scene has always been tremendously assorted and colourful since the city was not only the capital of empires, but also the heart of main monotheistic religions. On this scene, Hellenes, Jews, Armenians, Syriacs, and Muslims contributed to and significantly nourished each other. Regardless of whoever influenced or affected whom, followers of different religions have had a convergence, a common art and style of expression throughout history. Music that brings humans together and connects them with the divine, despite different languages and religions, has been the most essential, effective, and dominant expression throughout history. Art, in that respect, happens to be our common cultural heritage as the most virtual product that humanity has brought forth.

Love triangle in an acrobatic trapeze act results in a missed catch and a death, but was it on purpose?

Sami and Sara, a Tunisian couple in their thirties, lead a peaceful life and seem happy, until a tragedy befalls. BORDERS OF HEAVEN is the story of an ordinary family whose life takes a dramatic turn. Between despair, guilt and the desire for life, how does one reconstruct a life when faced with the unacceptable?

11-year-old Nina and her mother Birgit move to the countryside. But while Birgit seems to cope very well with the upheaval, the shy young girl only feels accepted when she joins a girl guide group. Nina's new teacher for Religious Education, the organizer of the group, and the parson belong to the fanatically pious "Legion Of The Holy Angels", a sect preparing its members for the final battle between demons and angels. As Birgi's behaviour doesn't conform to her daughter's ideas, Nina sacrifices a black kitten which allegedly has a bad influence on Birgit. But this only makes things worse, for Birgit eventually forbids her daughter to go to the scouts' sessions and thereby loses her trust. Nina's friend Miriam is having a hard time being accepted by the scouts and leaves them when she isn't allowed to participate in an important ceremony. Nina is faced with a difficult decision...

A story about the Macedonian rebellion of 1901.

A well-intentioned novice priest tries to stay out of two older clerics' criminal scheme. Until money and a girl come into play.

A Henan opera based on the complete recording of a lawsuit filed against the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau by Ai Weiwei's Fake Cultural Development Ltd, which had been fined a sum of RMB15.22 million in tax penalties for alleged tax evasion.

If there has ever been pure and undestroyable love, this is it. That is how Imre and Vera feel. The talented chemist loses his best friend for the girl's sake, then gives up his profession, only to be able to stay in the capital with Vera. But the young actress at the beginning of her career is neglected. Imre accepts an uninteresting, but well-paying position. They seem to be happy together.

Michael Pilz's 285-minute Himmel and Erde is an essay film or an ethnographic documentary. It contemplates the finite lot of individuals as part of a continuum of human experience in the natural world. Himmel und Erde, translatable as Heaven and Earth, was recorded between 1979 and 1982. The documentary invites the viewer to contemplate the disruptive effects of technology on economic and social ties through circumscribed vignettes of village life which are oft repeated either as recycled footage or variations on a theme.

Animated short.

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.