New Yorkin JFK:n lentokentälle saapunut Viktor Navorski joutuu tietämättään byrokraattisten ongelmien keskelle: sotatilan takia hän ei voi palata kotimaahansa eikä toisaalta jalkautua Yhdysvaltoihin. Viktor joutuu siis jäämään lentokentälle elämän odotustilaan, jossa hän kaikkien odotusten vastaisesti saa uusia ystäviä, uuden työpaikan sekä kokee elämän lahjoista suurimman - rakkauden.
Temppeliritarien aarre on tunnettu legenda, mutta jotkut ovat valmiita vaarantamaan kaiken löytääkseen oikean aarteen. Seikkailija ja arkeologi Ben Gates etsii maailman suurinta ja myyttisintä aarretta, samoin kuin hänen isänsä ja useat aikaisemmat sukupolvet hänen perheessään. Mutta hän ei ole ainoa etsijä. Ben joutuu huomaamaan, että aarteenetsinnässä ei voi luottaa kehenkään. Vai voiko?
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.
A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.
This documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh) situated in Ukraine as we are exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession.
Historical idioms garnish our language but are often hard to translate. This comedy helps to illustrate them and tells the story of two Austrian neighbours, who become enamoured. “Foam-beater" (boaster) Hanspeter throws an eye after an addleheaded Annemarie, but she just "shows him the bird" (indicates that he is chuckoo). He must "jump over his shadow" (take the plunge) and get a foot in her door. Amusement for proverb fans who love to make whoopee, gaze into the pale blue yonder, or get to the point.
Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible into English, which made him a threat to the authority of the church and state.
The film follows Bill’s adventures as a child of a bank robber, raised in a gilded household, who turned his back on American devotion to materialism and went off to live in monasteries and mountains in Taiwan. He pursued a fascination with Buddhism and poetry and traveled to remote regions of China to rediscover an ancient tradition of mountain hermits vital to Chinese culture.
Maverick underground American/Lebanese musician and ethnomusicologist Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls and Sublime Frequencies), lands as a stranger in Cairo, soon after the 2011 uprisings, and teams up with three young Egyptian musicians for the translation of his old songs into Arabic. Under Bishop’s mentorship, this unlikely collaboration transforms into a band, The Invisible Hands.