Având la bază o producţie japoneză, Midnight Sun este povestea lui Katie, o tânără de 17 ani obligată să stea închisă în casă încă de mică din cauza unei boli foarte rare care o pune în pericol de moarte la cea mai scurtă expunere la lumina soarelui. Soarta intervine atunci când fata îl cunoaşte pe Charlie, cu care trăieşte o frumoasă dragoste de vară.
Bazat pe una dintre cele mai bine vândute cărți pe plan internațional, filmul spune povestea adevărată a lui James Bowen care încearcă cu disperare să scape de dependența de heroină prin intermediul unui program. S-a instalat într-un centru special pentru dependenții de droguri din Tottenham. Într-o seară, Bowen găsește o pisică cu o rană la picior. O duce la veterinar pentru a beneficia de tratamentul necesar. Pisica a început să îl urmeze peste tot. Realizând că nu va reuși să scape de ea, Bowen îi pune numele de Bob. Cei doi vor călători împreună cu autobuzul prin oraș, Bowen cântând la chitară pentru a-și câștiga existența. La scurt timp, cei doi devin un veritabil fenomen pentru turiștii care îi filmează și îi aplaudă. Legătura cu Bob este cea care l-a încurajat pe Bowen să renunțe încetul cu încetul la viciile sale.
With one coin to make a wish at the piazza fountain, a peasant girl encounters two competing street performers who'd prefer the coin find its way into their tip jars. The little girl, Tippy, is caught in the middle as a musical duel ensues between the one-man-bands.
James Bowen este ținta unei investigații privind bunăstarea animalelor care amenință să-i ia motanul iubit, Bob, de Crăciun.
A queer lady holiday movie that follows the lives of three very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set right before Christmas through New Years.
Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the subway. In addition, she is a skilled shoplifter and has never been caught.
A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his otherwise colorless life
The Hollywood musical is brought to a Glasgow street. Amidst the crush of city life, two street musicians provide the backdrop for a girl meets boy story, with a spark of purely Glasgow magic.
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
The amazing and inspiring journey of Mexican guitarists ‘Rodrigo y Gabriela’ who at a very young age decided to do only what they loved the most: music.
Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the pedestrian tunnel below, trying to earn a living. But her earnings are meager, and to make things worse, the new security guard, Joe, is trying to confiscate her fiddle. While Betty dreams of fame and fortune, Joe dreams of earplugs – something’s got to give!
"The Pitch" takes a look at the world of international street performing buskers to find out why these men and women have chosen to "pass the hat" to make a living, along with the challenges they face.
Roy Payamal is the wildest busker of a country ranked the world’s most emotionless society. He takes his undermined line of work as a serious art- but is his faith impossible idealism or an admirable conviction? Singapore Minstrel is an invitation into his beautiful mind, a magical, trying universe where art and life dialogue in a tropical dream.