On The Wings Of Men

Trofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.

Jam has been raised by the monks at a temple. He's in love with a girl but her mother doesn't think so highly of him because he's just a temple assistant. In order to allow her daughter to marry, he must get her some peculiar items from Thai folklore ghosts; the claws of phi pob, the intestines of phi krasue, the pestle of phi krathang, the eyes of phi pret, the fangs of a vampire, the head of headless ghost, and the placenta from the ghost of a pregnant woman. Jam is determined to find these impossible items for the love of his girl.

A family of Lumad keeps their eldest daughter's 'adhikain' (aspirations) by immortalizing her into a myth, blurring the line between reality and folklore.

Scientific research of ancient Chinese craft: fishing with the help of birds. Cormorants are found in Russia and other countries, but only in China have people turned them into winged fishermen capable of catching fifteen kilograms of fish in a day! Only in China do these birds respond to the name. That's probably why they are often called "Chinese dogs". The film reveals the secret of how the ancient Chinese managed not just to tame a free bird, but to make it literally a "dog" that faithfully serves its master…

This story is about an astronaut who, as a child, dreamed of flying and being free. And now he seems to be flying in the sky, but he is actually locked in the capsule of a spacecraft. One day, minor problems lead to bigger problems, causing the spaceship to lose control and collapse on Earth. And now the astronaut will once again spread the wings of his dreams and return to childhood.

Stuck in a week-long institutional quarantine, Nidhi finds comfort in a charming stranger next door.

11-year-old Olesia from Ukraine is growing up under the wing of her mother, away from home. Dance and touch are her ways to release anger and adjust to the reality of Brussels. Every evening Olesia waits for dad's call from Ukraine. The family's extreme closeness nurtures the strength of this young girl whose fragility is exposed to constant war-related anxiety after the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A documentary about the amateur municipal team of Itabuna-BA, a team that, during the 1950's and 1960's set a record that, until today, remains unbeaten. The film focuses on the media research and on the ones who made that history.

In the 1970s Dr. Gary Seaman made a series of ethnographic films featuring village life in a Taiwanese mountain village. This film merges images from Taiwan with verbal ethnographic description from Fujian to provide the audience with a multimodal integration of visual and written ethnography of Chinese social life.

Even if you’re born to fly, it's not an easy thing to learn. And not everyone succeeds.

Crime story about a notorious gang of criminals and the policeman who went for broke to catch them. The gang were radical left-wing activists. In 1989, seven of them were charged with being behind a series of the most professional robberies in the history of Denmark. The many millions stolen in the gang's activities were transferred to the terror organization PFLP with the aim of supporting anti-Israeli Palestinians. The assumed leader of the gang, Jan Weimann, never revealed his double life to his wife or friends, and police superintendent Jørn Moos, who was in charge of the investigation, staked his career to catch the gang members.

Maud, 13 and devilishly charming, is the leader of her group of girlfriends in 8th grade. After a morbid conversation over lunch, the girls meet in the bathroom to play their favorite game. But when Maud abuses her power and takes the game too far, her world starts to crumble...

The children living in a Philippines ghetto grow up too fast, dealing with the cruel world where they have to be responsible for their own lives. But they have bright, innocent and good dreams in their hearts. The reality on the streets of capitalism is, however, too harsh to hold on to these dreams.

Workers from the aviation factory near Prague set up a racing club for young people that will take part in the international sailing competition for Czechoslovakia.

The young front-line soldier Ando, who has just returned from World War I to his native village, inspires his villagers to fight against "class enemies."

The main character of the film - Ayaal-a deaf-mute guy with no particular occupation, a racketeer. The anticipation of love, the realization of beauty, a bright flash of feelings and experiences, the world of beauty and sounds, goodness and light caused in his soul a meeting with beauty in the image of a ballerina. Love allowed the hero to rise above himself, above his deafness, above his dumb, gray world. Hence the associations: wings, flight, a new, bright, unreal world.

A love-action comedy about Hyun-chul, a man who expresses his love in earnest to enter a full-fledged relationship, and Hee-bon, a woman who believed that love was all lies.

An author travels to a remote library in search of inspiration.

The time is Northern Italy in the Middle Ages. Vittorio, the lord of Il Lago, who is vying for supremacy with his neighbor Bolzano, demands that Giulio, the new lord of Bolzano, make peace with him by marrying his half-sister Clarice. On the night of the wedding, Clarice takes advantage of the opportunity to put a dagger in Vittorio's eye. This is the story of how two enemies are united by true love.