The Weight Of The Nation

A teenage girl, in an every day routine, takes the same old bus from her house to the beach and back again, on her back she carries a small container in which she collects fresh sea water. When she comes back in the house the door closes behind her, leaving us confronted with the closed door. During the movie we will witness this daily route, we wont have a glimpse of what's going on inside the house, not until the last moment.

Through a letter, a son narrates the disappearance of his mother on the night of October 2, 1968, as well as the search that his father undertook until death without finding it.

Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother...

Who knows Berthold Beitz? Fewer and fewer people. He shaped the history of Germany like no other, be it as the leading industrial manager of Krupp or as the rescuer of numerous Jews during National Socialism.

A film about a paradise through the eyes of those who live there. From the weight of Leve Leve to the sour of Doce Doce.

The past of a legendary bounty hunter catches up with him and haunts the memories of his young son.

Everyone carries something, some burden that weighs him down. Some are crushed, others are freed, others just carry on. Eleven characters cross each others paths, unveiling their fears and desires, during the world weightlifting championship

Rio de Janeiro. Suburbs. Karaoke. Dawn. Smell of beer and piss.

As an impending cosmic catastrophe looms, a father and daughter set out on a final, emotional journey to release their cherished pet terrapin into the wild. The adventure becomes a reflection of love, loss, and the fragility of life as they confront their deepest fears and unspoken feelings. As the world teeters on the edge of destruction, they have to come to terms with the inevitability and absurdity of the situation and existence.

The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice.

A high school student must struggle to secure a job because of her undesirable appearance. Discusses discrimination against women.

In February 2020, a group infection of COVID-19 occurred in Daegu. This film shows people with disabilities whose daily lives were threatened by the group infection and activists who support them, and talks about the support needed for people with disabilities in disaster situations.

In the year of 1996, a national weightlifter coach called A-Fu, founded a female teenager weightlifting team with three Bunun girls from the "Taoyuan Tribe". They're either orphaned or raised by a single parent or grandparents. Despite their success in weightlifting, they are confronted with the harsh reality of their family situations, career development and love lives.

Erik is totally blind and is solo kayaking the length of the Grand Canyon. In Lava Falls, a large dangerous rapid, he discovers that despite what people might say, barriers can be real and they hurt .. a lot.

One morning, a man opens the window of his apartment and sees in the opposite building a presence which he had never noticed before. This unattended event triggers a tormented series of introspective reflections. The man is indeed accustomed to voyeurism and to have a sharp look over his surroundings and the characters that inhabit them, but driven by the desire and the attraction towards the male nude, this time he could decide to dive into action.

Kindergarteners make numerous attempts to lift a pumpkin.

Adrian is a classic outsider. His playful, dreamy imagination distracts him from everyday life, for the reality he lives in could not be more different. Neither his chronically depressed uncle nor his overworked grandmother understand the ten-year-old’s games. His mother abandoned him when he was very young and he is bullied at school. Just as news arrives that three children are missing, a new family moves in next door. Adrian develops a close relationship to their tomboyish, ten-year-old daughter Nicole and believes he is getting close to solving the mys- tery of the missing children. New Zealand forms the backdrop for this universal story for adults and those who have never wanted to grow up. It is a story about friendship and loneliness, emotions which Adrian already feels so poignantly as a child. The Danish first-time director’s expressive visual language dramatically merges water and air, reality and a hint of fantasy.