A Desert Is An Ocean

Based on the award-winning play and popular Israeli short story, this poignant family drama follows Rivka, 19-years-old and strong-willed, who struggles to follow the conservative lifestyle of her ultra-orthodox parents in Jerusalem. Determined to break free from her parents’ rigid worldview, she runs away to a secular farming community in the desert. The decision pushes the two generations to confront the chasm between their stringent views of tradition and modernity.

It's the summer of 1993, six months since the death of Wang's wife, Chuen-Ying. His son, Chi-Shiung, has just come home from Taipei in order to take care of his father's Baozi (steamed buns with stuffing) business. Although he didn't want to take over his father's store, Wang insisted he wanted to keep it. Chi-Shiung suggested to his father that he hire some extra staff and so Ying, a Vietnam woman, is hired. In the mean-time Wang can't get over Chuen-Ying's death and begins to burden Ying. —Jean Huang

Through his frustrations, an obsessed novelist connects with a dimension where a walking girl encounters weird characters in a mysterious urban world, slowly driving to the peaceful nature of the desert. In this trip between light and shadow, hope for finding an inner mental peace will prevail. This movie is characterized for an experimental language, with purposed technical and performing imperfections, wrapped in an organic fantasy effect.

Five young Qatari men, used to Twenty-first Century life in the Gulf, take on the ancient desert traditions of their forefathers. They’re physically and mentally pushed to their limits by a wise Desert Sheik in some of the most severe desert conditions on the planet. Learning ancient desert skills; they will face specific tests as individuals and as a group, and they will live through the same adversity as their ancestors. How will they survive?

A squad of PLA traces bandits in the desert.

During a family dinner, a young woman recounts her experience as a member of a humanitarian organization in Iraq.

When her mother Wendy’s body was found in the Grand Canal in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2009, Katherine Clary had few answers about what had brought about the tragic end to Wendy’s tumultuous life. Mining her mother’s letters and a rich archive of family photos, Katherine and her co-director Emily Sternlicht weave an elegiac narrative about addiction, grief, and family.

While an exodus of migrants waits to cross the deadly Altar Desert towards the US, the last Natives of the desert survive a diaspora that has them on the verge of vanishing.

Lost in the Desert, Hungry for Friendship. A freshly-bitten zombie gets stranded in the desert. Unaware of the zombie apocalypse, two girls get lost on the way to Coachella. Their paths cross in the most unexpected ways. Samuel Beckett meets Jim Jarmusch... but with zombies.

Namib, an incredible spot is home to the highest sand dunes on Earth, along with 3500 species of plants of incredible diversity, all adapted to the arid climate. Elephants, antelopes, lions, giraffes and rhinoceros roam freely in the Namib with neither fence nor enclosure, as if at the dawn of time. Management of the protected areas has been entrusted to the local people and in particular to the Himba, the dominant tribe of the desert. Underground there are hidden treasures, diamonds, uranium and iron. From the beginning of the 20th century the Namib has attracted miners from all over the world, with an increasing appetite. Today, new mining projects threaten the ecosystem of the region. Olivia crosses the desert from the South to North, sharing the difficult everyday lives of the people of the desert. Exploring this rich but fragile garden of Eden, she attempts to understand why the survival of the desert is so important to the people and animals that live there.

Getting out from the jail, Young-kwang comes back to his hometown. In the meantime, his mother diedand the family do not welcome his visit. With the money, his mother has bequeathed to him, he buysthe real estate, gets married to a widow and starts a fish-peddling. But both the anxiety for theredevelopment and the doubt about the fidelity of his wife lead him to an extreme choice.

A live concert event featuring Starlight Kuku Gumi held at Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall on December 22, 2018.

The documentary observes and presents for the first time from the perspective of historical geography and anthropology Dunhuang and Venice, two great cities in human history.

Joyful love story of two people - intergalactic policeman Avril and earthling scientist Ping Fan

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.

The story begins with a thief trying to sneak into an expensive-looking urban house to steal valuables. As he is about to leave, he is caught by an old man. The old man offers the thief his freedom for an exchange: He has to help the man die and be buried with his wife, who had passed away years ago. The old man is so deeply in love with his wife that he had put her remains in a plaster statue and has been sleeping with the statue ever since. The thief refuses at once, but as he witnesses the old man’s love for his wife, he starts to change his mind.

Ukrainian Mockumentary about a Canadian film director arrived to the biggest European country and discovered that everyone had left.

Khalaf is 10 years old, and he is from the desert in Kuwait in the past. He goes with his father for a trip to find a new water well for their tribe, but something happens to them that changes course of events.