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Much to the dismay of residents of Tepoztlan, Mexico, where they still speak the indigenous language of Nahual, foreign investors have brought globalization to their village - building factories, shopping malls, and, most egregiously, a golf resort with 1500 vacation chalets and a country club. The newly elected Tepoztlan mayor sneered: “We don’t play that sport here,” because, he explained, maintenance of a large golf course “would sap badly needed farming water; pesticides and chemical fertilizer to maintain the grass would pollute the town’s aquifers.”

Based on historical and sociological studies, this film reconstructs and illustrates, through documentary and fiction techniques, the story of an Acme model film projector used by Mexican-American businessman and filmmaker Edmundo Padilla during his forays along the northern border of Mexico. between 1920 and 1937, as well as those transhumant film exhibitors who worked in brothels.

The touching romance between a middle-aged single guy and a woman with bipolar disorder. Iwata abandons his dream of becoming a guitarist, and works as an apartment building janitor. He spends his days living modestly as he deals with his unglamorous work. One day, he meets tenant Yumi when she returns home wasted.

Learn the tale of Joshua's leadership and his determination to follow his God. Joshua leads the Hebrews through a battle with the Canaanites, who built a wall to prevent them from passing through to the Promised Land.

A man and a woman meet in a waiting room and immediately get close to each other. They commence a game that gradually gets more and more ferocious. Their faces resemble masks while shapes slowly lose their integrity. Bodies are formed like clay, embracing each other up to the limits of impossibility. III is a portrait of a woman in an exhausting relationship with a man, which allures and repulses at the same time. The film is the third part of the triptych Impossible Figures and other stories.

Three Russian women in their 30s who all seek the same: security, a higher social status and eternal happiness. Not an easy wish to fulfill in today's Russia, where the patriarchy dominates. So our heroines take matters into their own hands and join a course in the art of seducing a man - preferably a rich one. Seven years of recordings paint a sometimes tragicomic picture of gender roles and femininity in Putin's Russia.

This film is put together by three city ghost stories that occurred after midnight. The first story describes a loud mouth slacker cop encounters after being ordered to guard a murder scene alone. The second has a couple accidentally hit someone while driving but could not find the victim's body. The third is about a bad son who is afraid his late mother would return for revenge, so he would rather spend nights playing mah jong with friends and wouldn't dare to go home, unfortunately things in this world have a way to go the opposite way......

Mahonri, the brother of Jared, is a righteous man in wicked Babel. After the tower of Babel is destroyed and the language of the people is confused, the Lord shows Mahonri how to build barges to carry the righteous across the sea to the Promised Land. When the brother of Jared asks the Lord to touch stones to light the barges, his faith is so strong that he receives a great revelation.

In His final days, Jesus cleanses the Temple, but He cannot cleanse the hearts of the people. Even His disciples struggle to understand Him and His mission. Following Jesus’ death, He visits His disciples on the road to Emmaus. Afterwards they finally gain understanding: Jesus delivers all from the bondage of sin and death, giving hope of eternal life through His atonement.

Three transgender Mexican immigrants navigate different stages of political asylum in Los Angeles - all striving to establish stability and support systems in a foreign city.

Part of the Scholastic Video Collection, "Is Your Mama a Llama?... and More Stories About Growing Up" brings 5 classic coming-of-age story books to life on the screen. 1- Is Your Mama a Llama? (by Deborah Guarino, illustrated by Steven Kellogg, narrated by Amy Madigan) 2- "Leo the Late Bloomer" (by Robert Kraus, illustrated by Jose Aruego, narrated by Mary Beth Hurt) 3- "Elizabeti's Doll" (by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, illustrated by Christy Hale, narrated by Lynn Whitfield) 4- "Goose" (written and illustrated by Molly Bang, narrated by Laura Dern) 5- "Five Creatures" (by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Tomek Bognacki).

Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Puss in Boots, and the rest of the Far Far Away Kingdom battle it out in a singing competition.

Classic Japanese ghost stories for children.

Fredrik is a happy man; he has a girlfriend he loves, a business running smoothely and he is going to be a father. But his happiness proves false. At a party, his girlfriend declares that she will leave him for her true love. Frederik is distraught. But his biological clock has started ticking, and his desire for a child is overwhelming. At an adoption agency he meets Milla, a woman who has also been treated unfairly by love. Could Milla be the answer to Frederik's dream?

From Moonlight Films YouTube channel: "Graveyard Stories 3" - Scream Queen Mel Heflin presents 4 sinister tales that will send a shiver down your spine. 1) "VHS": A young woman (Katie Harbridge) receives a mysterious tape in the mail and fails to heed the warning that by watching it, she could in fact become another resident of the graveyard. 2) "Slay Bells": On a cold Christmas Eve, a woman (Patti Danner) ventures out into the night to buy some eggs, despite reports of a bloodthirsty killer that may be on the loose. 3) "Frank": Deron Morgan stars as a down-and-out meat packing plant worker who decides to wreak havoc on the lives of three people when they snub his party invitation. 4) "Eye of the Serpent": When a young scientist (Tara Bixler) is wrongly accused of malpractice and then is accidentally infected by radiated snake venom, she uses her newfound abilities to seek revenge.

Three women from different backgrounds wind up sharing the same luxury apartment in New York City while looking for rich husbands.

In the Atayal mythology, the souls of the deceased arrive in Heaven by way of the rainbow, yet only the ones who have the traditional face tattoo would be welcomed by the Ancestral Spirits. Seeing the decline of this Atayal tradition, the filmmaker interviews tattooed tribal elders, capturing their longing for lost family, friends and homelands, as well as their feelings about their impending return to the rainbow.

Sequel to the 1995 film Haunted School aka Gakkou no Kaidan. Similar to the first, in that it's about a group of youngsters that get stuck in a haunted school and have to deal with an assortment of ghosts.

The Nativity is seen through the eyes of three young visitors from the 20th century who are transported back through time to the Holy City