Portraits Of A Nation Five Faces Of Identity

Two martial artists are brutally killed by a team of assassins, leaving their wards, a young boy and girl, defenseless. A martial arts master dispatches of the assassins, sparing their lives, and decides to take them in. He raises them and teaches them martial arts.

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

A bored teacher, bold caretaker, passionate art dealer and young maverick meet through a bizarre road accident. At first they don't seem to have much in common, but they soon develop a genuine interest in each other, and as their pasts unravel, forge odd alliances and friendships.

The story took place in two parallel universes named Yuan and Yi, where people shared the same life and death. Nian Yangxiao, came from the Yuan World to save his true love Kong Linghui, crossed the border to the Yi World in search of the killer who assassinated his love. In the Yi World, however, he and Kong Linghui were enemies. Kong Linghui tried everything to kill him. At the same time, the mysterious girl Yong'er, the romantic street gangster, the cold-faced police officer Nuo Dun and others appeared one after another, each accompanied with a complex case. The involvement of Nian Yangxiao made the cases more complicated and confusing. A suspenseful, thrilling, blood-burning and fantastic adventure in different time and space was launched in "A Portrait of Jianghu: Double Life".

A young woman experiences the worst life has to over in this depressing but worthwhile Colombian drama tinged with a hint of magical realism. Paola Baldion plays Marina, a withdrawn teenager whose abusive grand-dad houses her in a dilapidated shed. When the old fart pops his clogs, Marina passes into the care of cousin Jairo (Julian Roman), a cheesecake photographer who "hires" her to help him with his gear, and the two end up taking an episodic road trip as they travel to reclaim grandpa's legacy. Unpleasant flashbacks to Marina's tragic childhood ensue. Yep, the good times never end in this one! Known in English as Portraits in a Sea of Lies, this meditation on the 50-year long Colombian civil war - as seen through the grueling experiences of our heroine - won the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 14th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival.

After the demise of the feudal dynasty and half a century of war and turmoil, the ancient land of China finally ushered in a long-lost peace. The founding of New China has greatly changed the fate of the most ordinary people in the imperial city. The upright and honest Wang Mantang is a craftsman who grew up in the old society. With his unique skills in restoring ancient buildings, he leads his partners to shoulder the revolutionary task of restoring ancient buildings for the new society.

Human beings can be divided into two kinds: ordinary people who work for the living, and the undead who work for the dead. For the undead, their lives are dedicated to fulfilling the final wishes of ghosts who died with regrets. As for Baili Dengfeng, he has one and only one destiny in this world: to find his long-missing wife Ruyan. During his quest, Dengfeng makes acquaintance with Jia Xuan, whose family was murdered and is yet to be avenged, Liang You who is cute, naughty and adores him very much, and Liang Yuan, who simply doubts everything neurotically. After a series of events, he also learns of the existence of Spirit Masters and Spirit Slaves, and gets in touch with a mystical organization named "Spirits Expelling Order". With more and more mysteries being unveiled, the truth is drawing closer and closer to Dengfeng, who perhaps would rather not face the whole of it.

Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom over the span of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.

What happened to Shotaro, Philip, and Sokichi Narumi on the night that "Kamen Rider W" was born? Based on the Begins Night arc from the live-action Kamen Rider W series with new scenes that expanded said events not seen in the original series, it is a powerful experience that only anime can provide.

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Eiri works at his uncle's antique shop, and one day stumbles across a glass. Upon touching the glass, he receives visions from what he finds out to be a girl, Cossette, haunting the glass. She's been searching for over 250 years for someone who could see her, and now she needs his help.

Posthumous film by Jorge Acha, whose narrative axis focuses on the journey undertaken by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimée Bonpland along with three indigenous people in the Orinoco basin and which will be told in the book by the German botanist entitled Viaje a los equinocciales del Ecuador.

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

Receiving important news about her father, whom she has not met for years, Nisan returns to her father's house with her husband and daughter. There are strange things happening in this mansion where she escaped away years ago. What is happening in the mansion.What is the mystery of the woman in the picture. Encountering her nightmares, Nisan has to illuminate this mystery as soon as possible in order to protect herself and her family.

In the Mexican narco-war, thousands of mothers search for their missing sons and daughters. In Portraits of a Search, the stories of Natividad, Guadalupe and Margarita intertwine to convey the different forms of confronting the search and uncertainty: one turns to the FBI, another obtains the Nation´s president´s personal promise, and the other tries to return to her routines so as to save her grandson. A portrait of Mexico today.

When the pandemic first struck, Argentinian filmmaker Virna Molina was working on a documentary about the struggle for equal rights for female workers at the Buenos Aires subway. The project came to a standstill, but then Molina decided to go ahead with her film after all—however, it turned out very differently from the original plan.

A mother confesses to her son what she remembers about the experience of being raped as a child. By painfully recalling this traumatic event, she reflects on the sexual abuse of children and the scars it leaves on a person’s life.

Your eyes. Big, round and black. Later on they were still stuck on me. Like buttons.

A documentary on the life of Filiipino filmmaker and National Artist for Cinema Lamberto Avellana, produced by the Cultural Center of the Philippines.