Genç bir Amerikalı çift Dani ve Christian, üniversite arkadaşlarıyla birlikte, geleneksel Midsommar festivaline katılmak üzere İsveç’in bir köyüne tatile giderler. Ayrılmak üzere olan çift, bu çılgın tatili ilişkileri için son bir şans olarak görür. Zamanla, huzurlu ve yemyeşil bir cennete benzeyen bu yerde, yerel kutlamaların ve pagan ritüellerin göründüğü kadar masum olmadığını anlarlar. 90 yılda bir gerçekleşen gizli bir ayin, onları kaçışı olmayan bir korku labirentinin içine çekecektir.
Film, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nin 16. Başkanı olan ve kuzey eyaletlerinde 1861-1865 yılları arasında yaşanan iç savaşa öncülük eden Lincoln'un son dönemlerine ışık tutuyor. İç Savaş'ın hararetli günleri geride kalınca, Abraham Lincoln ile kabinesi arasında fikir ayrılıkları da su yüzüne çıkacaktır. En ciddi görüş ayrılığı ise kölelik konusunda yaşanacaktır...
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn't received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yang learns about the Congolese way of making deals.
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum. Rewi persuades the others to let him put his own, more daring plan into action. Tensions build and international media interest broadens when a sniper's bullet hits Peter.
In Estonia a political prisoner leaves the jail, only to discover that his best friend had stolen his girl. In Latvia a Russian soldier has a Latvian girlfriend. Her Latvian friends accept her boyfriend. But other Russian soldiers use coarse violence against them. In Lithuania an old priest had spent 15 years in Siberia and may still be secretly watched by the police.
Faslı bir asker olan Ibrahim, kaçak mültecilerin girişini ve uyuşturucu tacirlerinin hareketlerini gözlemlemek için Fas’ta ıssız bir adaya yollanır. Bir gün sahile kadar sürüklenmiş bir mülteci olan Mamadou’ya rastlar. Ibrahim ve Mamadou, bu ıssız adada birlikte günlerini geçirmeye başlarlar. Ancak bir süre sonra yaşanan diplomatik bir kriz, askeri bir sorunu da beraberinde getirecektir.
British sad sack Gary is a failed entrepreneur who has just arrived in Beijing's stylish Sanlitun district, allegedly to start a business. There are other reasons why he has uprooted himself — he's followed his ex-wife and young son, for one — but he soon finds out that China isn't the easiest place to succeed. Blissfully untouched by self-awareness, and only fitfully in tune with reality, Gary sallies forth to make money, armed with faith in himself and little to no knowledge of Chinese culture. He soon hooks up with Frank, a trust-fund kid from Australia who offers to mentor Gary in Eastern ways, although Frank's pedagogical method is restricted to yelling at Gary for being a Westerner and not being as "Chinese" as him.
What happens when a group of international artists travel to North Korea to create art like the regime have never seen before? While the world is on the verge of nuclear war, a group of Western contemporary artists are invited into the eye of the storm. The aim is to collaborate with North Korean artists in a creative exchange project displaying new and challenging art in a country where abstract art is forbidden.
When a northeastern brazilian worker, Filismino, is forced to move to the big southeastern metropolis of São Paulo, the northeastern grim reaper is forced to go there and kill him.
Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vietnamese refugees have built the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam, in Orange County, California. In 1999, "Little Saigon" burst onto the national stage when a store owner displayed a poster of Ho Chi Minh, triggering protests by Vietnamese Americans struggling to reconcile their past demons with their present lives. Saigon, U.S.A. uses this moment to examine this community's changing identity and growing empowerment.
This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and illustrated by John Fadden: "Who were the ones who bid you welcome and took you by the hand, inviting you here by our campfires, as brothers we might stand?" The song expresses bitter memories of the past, of trust repaid by treachery, and of friendship debased by exploitation upon the arrival of European colonists.