The Apology

Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, a recovering alcoholic is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration when her estranged ex-brother-in-law arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret.

Apologizing for something terrible can be a dangerous game. Espeicially if you don't mean it.

Sometimes a choreographed figurative dance routine expresses apology better than words ever could.

William Bullock is an elderly college professor of English Literature and Composition. In class he's impatient, controlling and unforgiving. When a female student complains he made a grotesque request of her, nobody seems to believe him. The cynical department chairman is titillated by the fact that this ancient stalwart model of fidelity and morality has revealed a too-human part of himself.

"The Apology" explores the lives of former "comfort women," the more than 200,000 girls forced into sexual slavery during World War II. Today, they fight for reconciliation and justice as they struggle to make peace with the past.

Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis.

Suellyn thought the Department of Community Services (DOCS) would only remove children in extreme cases, until her own grandchildren were taken in the middle of the night. Hazel decided to take on the DOCS system after her fourth grandchild was taken into state care. Jen Swan expected to continue to care for her grandchildren but DOCS deemed her unsuitable, a shock not just to her but to her sister, Deb, who was, at the time, a DOCS worker. The rate of Indigenous child removal has actually increased since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the apology to the ‘stolen generations’ in 2008. These four grandmothers find each other and start a national movement to place extended families as a key solution to the rising number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care. They are not only taking on the system; they are changing it…

The dramatization of Socrates' trial for spoiling the Athenian youth which resulted in his death sentence.

Based around the creation of a real-life 'apology line' where members of the public can anonymously confess to absolutely anything, over the telephone.

Rafael Müller is an acclaimed conductor; Rafael Jiménez is an old rock glory who refuses to hang his ax. Both will fight to continue fitting in a fast and young world that insists on taking them out of the game.

A cabaret puppet play in a suitcase, as an epic biography of the life of the legendary famous cartoonist, Albert Batch.

Rafa, a young trans and gay man, has already resigned himself to the fact that he will never find another boy who accepts him, until he meets Henrique.

Erkin, who works as a watchman at the lighthouse, is a lonely man in his mid-thirties. Erkin, crushed under his credit debts, one day receives the news of his grandfather's death. A big surprise awaits Erkin, who immediately goes to his grandfather, who is staying in the nursing home. He asks his grandfather Erkin to apologize to his brother Koray and ex-fiancee Merve, whose heart he broke years ago. Having to fulfill his grandfather's wish in order to get rid of his loan debts, Erkin finds himself in a great adventure in this process.

Victoria turns 23 today. She can no longer stand the distance that exists between her and the rest of the people. She has found the solution that will remove her from soul-destroying human interactions. Today is the big day. Everything looks the same, she has not doubted her decision. Is a chance encounter enough to bring her closer to humanity? Change everything? The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.

As a family of siblings and their spouses gathers at their father's deathbed, old jealousies and new angers and liaisons lead to an inevitable climax.

The director explains the concept and shooting method used in the film “Direct Light”.

The picture consists of two parts, the characters of which are busy commenting on what is happening to them and in the whole world. In the first part ("A Babysitter for a Boy"), the author plays with a literary character and a plot. In the second part ("Commentator for the Poet") The author plays with a fictional Poet (in turn, also with the author), who is portrayed by the Author-commentator. However, this Author is not the last in the hierarchy of similar characters.

An experimental documentary film that delves into the intricate facets of the issue of human dignity humiliation in Russia. The directors provide audiences with an unconventional perspective on situations where individuals are compelled to issue on-camera apologies for their words or actions. Through this experimental narrative approach, viewers will witness how it has become commonplace in modern Russia to extract apologies on camera. Some instances will evoke genuine sympathy as people grapple with public scrutiny. Simultaneously, other scenes will unveil the darker side of this trend, where apologies devolve into mere puppetry, extracted under the threat of personal and professional repercussions. The film incorporates a range of videos capturing moments of sincere apologies driven by a genuine acknowledgment of one's mistakes.