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A teenage boy realises the hopeless meaning of his life, and struggles to break free from the mental prisons that hold back his repressed dreams.

A guileless Japanese girl gives up everything to marry a lieutenant in the US Navy. But when he suddenly leaves the country, she is determined to wait patiently until he sails back into harbour. The last of Puccini’s ‘big three’ operas, Madama Butterfly is as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian sings the title role in this colourful production from the Royal Swedish Opera set amongst the glitz and kitsch of postwar Japan.

In 2012, the Hamburg State Opera presented a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece Madama Butterfl y. The internationally renowned director Vincent Boussard stages the opera, collaborating with star fashion designer Christian Lacroix and set designer Vincent Lemaire. Together they succeed in bringing to life the moving tragedy of the young Japanese geisha Cio-Cio San in a stylish and sophisticated production that focuses on the title role, impressively portrayed by Greek soprano Alexia Voulgaridou. Subtly conducted by Alexander Joel, the dynamic cast includes Romanian Tenor Teodor Ilincai as Cio-Cio San’s love interest, B.F. Pinkerton and Estonian baritone Lauri Vasar as Consul Sharpless. Madama Butterfl y contains an enormous wealth of psychological poetry. Through his music, Giacomo Puccini lends his characters extremely rich and complex profi les and created an extraordinary explosive force.

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

A three-minute fantasy of butterflies and dragonflies cavorting amongst the pussywillows, Japanese-inspired animation accompanied by two variations on keyboard works by the Baroque composer.

A child prodigy lives through corruption with his father who seems to be part of a criminal underworld. "Butterfly Child" is a film that tells the story of the need to escape a life that offers nothing but death. It is a story that explores the will of a child through the convoluted world of crime and deception. Alex a 12 year old child prodigy lives in an abusive home with his father. He reveals the real cause behind his mother's death as he learns about his father's involvement. Now the child must do whatever he can to escape a life of danger. Is he facing reality alone or is someone out there observing his every move?

A socially awkward, neurodivergent youth struggles to adapt at a social gathering that quickly takes a turn into the uncanny and surreal.

Weaves together the music, art, poetry and history of the children imprisoned by the Nazis in the ghetto at Terezin in Czechoslovakia from 1941 to 1945. Features The American Boychoir performing in concert "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" with the Prague Symphony Orchestra.

The American Boy choir made a trip to Terezin Concentration Camp in 1991 to deepen their understanding of a work they performed there called I Never Saw Another Butterfly, using texts from the children's writings from Terezin. Ten years later, the boys--now men in their 20's--are reunited with the survivors they met earlier. They engage in thought-provoking discussion on the nature of music and Holocaust and the effect the earlier experience has had on their lives.

A couple returns home from their honeymoon to their seemingly normal household. However, things change when they notice something off that shouldn't be.

Wild Butterfly is true crime documentary that follows the tragic story of 24 year-old Claire Murray and her desperate search for a life- saving liver transplant that became a trial by national media. Depicted as an ungrateful junkie who recklessly destroyed her first transplant, Wild Butterfly investigates the true story behind the events that lead to Claire's death in 2010 including new criminal evidence. Catholic institutional cover-up, medical negligence, missing police records, and trial by mainstream and social media, are all at play in this heartbreaking and gripping documentary. This is not just the tragic story of one young woman and her family - this story opens our eyes to the impacts of universal social injustices and prejudices, that could befall any family and anybody's daughter.

A short nature documentary about the four stages of the papilio zelicaon (anise swallowtail) by the inimitable Sid Laverents.

Documentary - This is a film about post-Soviet Russia seen through the eyes of the filmmaker, as she returns to her home town (Vladivostok, Russian Far East) after a decade of absence with the intention of resettling there. Unusual places, unusual characters, unusual ways-about, unusual mentality becomes a colorful and contrasting carousel of her welcome-home. - Sonya Borovskaya

A Collection of PJ Masks Episodes Episode List: Catboy and the butterfly brigade, Clumsy Catboy, Gekko's stay at home sneezes, Owlette and the battling headquarters, Owette of a kind, Gekko and the Mayhem at the museum

A love story between two young women set against the backdrop of Chinese Opera.

Craft demonstration - how to make butterfly hair accessories from beads. (British Pathé)

A woman and her transgender ward try to survive a dying world that adheres to strict ‘male and female only’ guidelines.

Starving, Sadness, No Butterfly

Genre: Blues

Mother stands in for a runaway bride and marries the groom by proxy, then both set out to convince her daughter to reconsider. Later they mistake the missing bride and her companion for two escaped convicts and pursue them with a sex obsessed teenage boy in tow. All paths cross at a remote motel run by a jilted church deacon.