In The Name Of The Emperor

Early 1970s. Latin America was under a military dictatorship. Some political groups opted for armed struggle to confront the regime. Boni, an engineering student of humble background adheres to the armed struggle, but carries doubts and fears as to whether this would really be the best way, as he fears for his family, his girlfriend and the future, which seems more uncertain every day. Like so many, he is arrested, tortured and banished from the country. In exile in Chile, together with his partner Cecilia, he comes to understand society in a different way. He begins to work and live with the Chilean people, realizing that to change reality it is first necessary to understand it.

As an early exponent of a new wave of auto-fictional writing, Tomas Espedal has established himself as one of Norway's most influential contemporary writers. We follow charming Espedal through life and writing, from hiking in the french mountains, journeys to Gran Canaria and Provence and at home with his aging father, always via his typewriter at home in Bergen. A portrait that lives up to Espedal's self-proclaimed goal, to see what is beautiful.

How much can one imagine, feel, and how many times can one gain trust and lose trust, within only 4 minutes and 33 seconds? Using as a starting point her desire to represent a certain kind of silence, the director plays with the spectator's need for reliability. The film is never what one believes it is - until the last revelation. "The Last Name of John Cage" acts as still dialogue between a loud inner tension and the silent one all around.

A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..

In the ravaged north-east of Sri Lanka, a nun and a servant struggle with the aftermath of a war that never really ended. Traumatised and haunted, the two must reconcile with their past, present and each other.

Two soldiers. One french, one german. Just for a moment, they encounter one another right in the middle of the hell of 1918.

"CODE NAME: Nagasaki" tells the story of Marius and Fredrik, two young men who forged their friendship through filmmaking and decided to put their skills to a unique challenge: finding Marius’ long lost Japanese mother.

This is a her story lie to me

Yasemin hits her sister's face with the comforting lie they believed at her uncle's funeral. He knows he cannot heal, so he will stop treatment and will not torture himself. The sister, who refuses to accept this, realizes that she is struggling with the sense of ownership after a while. Her dilemma will be resolved with Yasemin and her relationship with the cactus they picked up from the funeral home.

Saburo Sugimura (Kotaro Koizumi) works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada tasks Saburo Sugimura with work regarding a man named Nobuo Kajita. A complicated story unfolds from the request.

Told in a whisper, this quiet and diaristic film explores toxic masculinity through personal narrative, family legacy, and video games. El nombre de las cosas speaks aloud the unspoken and unspeakable, to give a name to traumas in order to heal them. Deeply poetic and disarmingly honest, director Diego Escobar uses his own story to address a widespread problem of inherited male aggression and all the ways families – and society – cope with and adapt to its toxicity.

During the 1996 Gangneung Armed Forces Infiltration Incident, secret agents from the North Korean People's Armed Forces secretly installed a nuclear weapon, Phoenix, in Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea. Once caught in the vortex of war. The North Korean coup d'etat forces set off a nuclear bomb in Seoul to take over the entire North Korean regime, wreak havoc in South Korea, and then try to start World War III. At that time (1996), Lee Myung-cheol, the son of Dr. Lee, the developer of the nuclear weapon Phoenix, who learned this fact, secretly infiltrated South Korea and struggled to prevent World War III with the National Intelligence Service of the Republic of Korea. What will be the fate of Korea...

A documentary overview on the life and work of the writer Mia Couto.

The plot unwinds in the Soviet time Sukhumi of the 70s. A young guy Makhaz comes over to the city, and thanks to his brilliant drawing skills easily enters the Sukhumi School of Art. However, as the character claims, he couldn’t make it to graduation because of falling in love. The movie tells a story of hardship he goes through after meeting his beloved one.

The story of Senaga Kamejiro, an activist and politician who advocated for the return of Okinawa to Japanese governance in the aftermath of World War II.

A story about a young hero of the Great Patriotic War, scout Yasha Gordienko. A short, stocky boy who dreamed of becoming a military sailor was a liaison of a partisan detachment in Odesa occupied by the Nazis. Captured on the denunciation of a traitor, he was shot by the Germans Nazis.

This place is where my grand parents, my parents, and I once lived. Even though I lose my memories and feelings of it, it does exist there and keeps to be in existence.

Soviet WW2 film about operation that resulted in liberation of.Romania and Moldova from the Nazis.

Winnie is desperate and doesn't know what to do next. She is about to marry her lover Paul, who has returned from war captivity. Both want to emigrate to America short after marriage. But the young woman has an illegitimate one-and-a-half-year-old son, whom she has kept secret from her fiancé. The short-tempered Paul would never understand that. When she is on her way to the orphanage, the grumpy senior civil servant Hieronymus Spitz and his little dog Tobby get into her train compartment. After a short observation, Winnie is certain that the misantrope actually has a good heart, because he lovingly takes care of his dog. Without further ado she leaves little Niki with the tax accountant and disappears from the train. Only a note with a request remains. The overwhelmed old gentleman initially wants to get rid of the child, but then takes it home and takes care of it together with his housekeeper. Both take the bundle of joy to their hearts. But then everything turns out differently.

The life in Morocco of an officer of the Foreign Legion, Colonel de Joyeuse.