Trine refuses to fly. When the 18-year-old environmental activist and trumpet talent only has a few days to travel 1500 km from Lofoten to Oslo in order to reach a crucial audition at the Opera House, she is forced to hitchhike, despite great time pressure. Suddenly, her passion for music and environmental idealism is set against each other. Å ØVE (TO PRACTICE) is a film that explores resistance in passion, a deeply intimate encounter with music and the practice of listening to oneself.
The Goddess (1934) is remade once again. In this version, Zhu Shilin tackles the anxiety concerning the clash of 20th century Chinese traditions and modern Western culture. Despite her father’s strict discipline, Fun still manages to have a boyfriend secretly and give birth to twins. After leaving her son to her father, she takes off with her daughter. Twenty years later, Fun has become a streetwalker. The three generations finally come face-to-face at the police station. Her father laments that his generation should be ousted while Fun’s generation has been sacrificed, leaving the future for the next generation to establish. Zhu carefully depicts the shame of selling one’s body without passing judgment while he finds balance and reflects on the pain in the age of progress. Even though the production was far from lavish, Zhu’s astute handling of the narrative and mise-en-scène makes this a vivid and exciting film to watch.
A lonely engineer is intercepted by a young thief, to whom he offers to give all his money with the condition that they share a dinner together. This leads to a conversation that will put their thoughts and faith in life to test.
The neon sign ‘Circus’ illuminates the wide street of Naples’ suburbs: four circus families were abandoned by the institutions, and now they’re awaiting the pandemic will disappear, like a magic show. The circus has stopped, but their lives go on.
Milanese policeman Peppino and Neapolitan florist Ambrogio celebrate Christmas in the same ski resort town along with their families. After they discover that both their sons are dating, but have never met their girlfriends in person, the parents embark on a private war against those dating apps that seem to have reached almost everything and everyone.
Marco, a shy teenager, learns that he has... what it takes to be a great porn star, but he doesn't know how to tell his parents. Hell breaks loose when a neighbor finds a porn video of him and leaves it in his parents' mailbox.
Stone by stone, Imrich is building a small house for his daughter Eva almost entirely on his own. But for Eva, who is about to graduate from school, the prospect of moving into the house is about as appealing as being imprisoned in a jail she herself has helped to build. She has very different plans for her future...
A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges.
Frank and Kamminke study informatics in Leipzig and have developed a program that enables a computer to automatically find and correct errors in its software. Freshly graduated, they are relocated to a remote Thuringian village after causing a computer breakdown. There, they are supposed to work in a small company that has no clue of economic management. The rather helpful computer system from West Germany plainly lacks compatible software. But Frank and Kamminke are not allowed to work with the hardware, although it is them who could make most out of the complex system. Eventually, and with the help of consultant Petra whom both are in love with, they break into the system control room on New Year′s Eve and start up the computer with their special program.
Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
Quand une femme rend visite à un médecin chinois, elle découvre que sa douleur est due à la colère accumulée, et le seul remède est de s'exprimer pleinement, quoi qu'il arrive.
Bien qu'il ne connaisse rien au soccer, le jovial vendeur de vitamines Phil Weston devient l'entraîneur de l'équipe de son fils de dix ans, pour tenir tête à son propre père, le très compétitif Buck, qui dirige une formation adverse.
Silvio (Silvio Muccino, le jeune frère du réalisateur) ne s'intéresse pas à la rébellion étudiante qui se déroule dans son lycée. Sa fascination repose sur Valentina (Giulia Carmignani), la plus jolie fille de l'école. Cependant, Valentina a déjà un petit ami jaloux, Martino (Simone Pagani). Après que Silvio a finalement un moment seul avec Valentina (où ils partagent un baiser), il fait l'erreur de dire à son meilleur ami potins, Ponzi (Giuseppe Sanfelice). À la fin de la journée, toute l'école connaît le baiser, y compris un Martino très en colère.
Un grand-père, un père d'une vingtaine d'années et son fils de sept ans se retrouvent à l'occasion de l'enterrement du doyen de la famille. Une famille heureuse, normale en apparence, qu'Henry le grand-père, sait entachée d'un lourd secret. Mais les erreurs du passé peuvent être corrigées... et pour cela il a un plan...
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.
Vienna, 1957: Head waiters Gustav (Paul Hörbiger) and Franz (Hans Moser) are working for the stinted Cafétier Panigl and are close friiends despite of their different characters. Franz is happily married and a good family father, Gustav, a relaxed charmer, is living a calm single life. Overnight both of them become jobless, because Panigl decided to sell his Café which was not successful anymore. Right in this moment, Franz' brother is sending 20.000 Dollar from USA. Money, he once peculated and now wants to pay back.. Gustav and Franz are buying half of the Café for each from the unexpected money. One half they develop as the modern Musicbox-Espresso «Pinguin», the other half as a traditional old style Vienna Café . Misunderstandings between guests and generations are inevitable and stretch the long term friendship of the two waiters.
Rabinowitz, chantre d'une synagogue, souhaite que son fils Jakie lui succede. Mais celui-ci prefere le jazz. Chasse par son pere, il devient celebre, maquille en noir, comme vedette de jazz, sous le nom de Jack Robin. Remake du premier film parlant de l'histoire du cinéma.
Claudia Larson voit arriver avec une forte appréhension Thanksgiving, fêté par des millions d'Américains. Son licenciement, sa fille qui décide de se faire déflorer dans les quarante-huit heures ne font que cristalliser un peu plus son angoisse des fêtes familiales. Pour affronter cette réunion et sa famille, Claudia lance un SOS à son frère Tommy, qui doit la rejoindre à Baltimore chez leurs parents. Mais ce qui s'annonce comme une corvée apportera finalement à Claudia une délivrance inespérée.
Sarah Morton, auteur anglais de polars à succès, se rend en France dans le Lubéron, dans la maison de son éditeur, pour se reposer et travailler. Mais une nuit, Julie, la fille française de ce dernier, débarque dans la demeure et vient perturber la quiétude de la romancière…
Twenty years have passed since those two apartments in the heart of Mexico City were the battlefield of a war of the sexes between Ana, Carlos, Andrea, Miguel, Tomás and María. All that is left of those apartments are memories and the image of Tomás' dead body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Their lives have changed, their families have grown and new and unexpected characters have come to unsettle their daily lives and trigger a chain of events that will make them realize that modesty has been replaced by public disclosure; sex is only an app away; but love...love is still something elusive that everyone in today's banal and chaotic world is seeking.