Anna, una studentessa inglese, si trasferisce a Los Angeles per frequentare il college e lì si innamora di Jacob, un suo compagno di classe americano. Dopo il diploma, nonostante il suo visto di soggiorno sia scaduto, Anna decide di rimanere negli Usa. Costretta a rimpatriare a Londra, non potrà più vedere Jacob per un lungo periodo: il loro amore romantico viene messo a dura prova dalle difficoltà e dalle tentazioni della lontananza.
Nel 1986, Ruben Vandevoorde, un doganiere belga animato da un fervido odio anti-francese, vive con disperazione l'annuncio della chiusura delle frontiere europee. Sette anni dopo, alla vigilia della definitiva cancellazione delle dogane sul confine fra Francia e Belgio, Ruben trascorre le ultime ore di vita della frontiera dando sfogo a tutto il suo spirito nazionalista e tormentando i frontalieri francesi. Dall'altra parte del confine, tutti i vigilanti francesi odiano e temono a loro volta il razzista Vandevoorde e la sua pericolosa indisponenza. In modo particolare, lo teme il mite poliziotto Mathias Ducatel, innamorato di sua sorella e determinato a sposarla. Nel momento in cui viene deciso di creare una pattuglia di dogana mobile franco-belga per debellare un ingente traffico di droga, Mathias decide di far squadra con Vandevoorde per conquistare un posto nel cuore dell'arcigno francofobo e ottenere il suo beneplacito a entrare a far parte della famiglia.
Kirill ha una vita perfetta: è un giovane che lavora come programmatore di giochi, ha genitori che si prendono cura di lui e una fidanzata fantastica. La sua esistenza non potrebbe essere migliore fino al giorno in cui tutto viene cancellato all'improvviso...
When Matt Booth sets off to meet his fiance for a foreign wedding he couldn't have imagined the dangerous world he was about to step into. Betrayed and set up, Matt finds himself on the run from the CIA and hired mercenaries, all looking for a package that he has supposedly smuggled through customs. Hunted on all sides, Matt is aided by Agent Adriana Vasquez, a femme fatale with orders of her own to follow.
Il film racconta l' escalation che un emigrato ungherese, giunto negli Stati Uniti all'inizio del secolo, compie da umile minatore a capitano d'industria. Al successo del lavoro non si accompagna però un'altrettanto fortunata vita familiare. Un figlio muore durante la prima guerra mondiale, un altro diventa sindacalista e gli mette i bastoni fra le ruote.
Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
A strange Romanian trying to enter Canada is confronted by an overzealous customs officer and his curiously cooperative colleague.
To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.
The lead character Raman (Dileep), is an employee in a rice mill in Pune. He used to carry the rice to the mill for processing on a bicycle. Later he decides to buy an auto rickshaw and goes to his village to borrow money from his mother to buy his dream vehicle. But once he reaches his village he is shocked to find a gang of people waiting there to kill him. The rest of the event forms the crux of the plot.
The Woven Path: Perempuan Tana Humba is made up of two short movies that highlight the role of women in Sumba culture. The first part of the documentary, The Woven Path, is a 10-minute movie featuring picturesque footage and images that serve as a backdrop to two poems centering on the theme of mothers. The 30-minute Perempuan Tana Humba is a much more straightforward documentary, focusing more on Sumba culture and women in three short chapters: “Marapu”, “Belis” and “Perkawinan”.
A testimony to the performance of ritual dances. Although they were performed only during the so-called “unbaptized days”, the 12 days between Christmas and Epiphany in the Orthodox Christianity, these dances are associated by some researchers with the Roman rosaries, the cult of the dead. Ritual clothing and the use of wooden swords to disperse the demons are important props in the dances that are believed to protect the folks from temptations and demons until they are baptized.
Life, customs and the fight for survival in the desolate wastelands of the Venezuelan plains.
Bosnian Croat writer Miljenko Jergović and Serbian writer Marko Vidojković replace one another by the steering wheel of Yugo, a symbol of their common past while driving on the Brotherhood and Unity Highway that stretched across five of six republics of Yugoslavia.
The film is taken from a comedy theatrical play and it shows the customs of the traditional society in Seychelles.
After the Kyrgyzstan Independence in 1991, the ancient practice of Ala-Kachuu ("grab and run") returned. Some women escape the men that kidnap them, but many remain married because of tradition and the fear of scandal.
Children parade through the streets of Hinton St George in Somerset on the last Thursday of October. Children have hollowed out pumpkins or mangelwurzels, a type of animal fodder turnip to make lanterns following a tradition in this part of West Somerset that coincides with Halloween. Punky or Punkie Night is thought to date from the turn of the 20th century or perhaps medieval times chanting rhymes and following a Punkie King and Queen.
Documentary that exposes the secret world of these unknown tax havens. There is a global network of tax-free storage facilities valuable goods, catering to the super rich - and it's virtually unknown, until now. Freeports feature highest security levels, confidential record keeping and an offshore legal status and are a huge potential for tax savings. The film investigates their rise, who is using them, and why.
Another very isolated region, Mariovo, appears as a setting of the customs that must be performed before, during and after a wedding for the couple to fully unite.
Traditions during Easter holidays in the remote village of Grešnica. The film was a research project of the newly opened Ethnological Museum to preserve the disappearing customs at least on film for future generations.