In 2011, Alison Chow participated in the 38th Berlin Marathon. She finished the marathon in 2 hours 49 minutes and 57 seconds, 7 minutes slower than the Olympics entry requirement, thus the name of this documentary, Breaking 7. Alison gave up on her stable teaching job and left her comfort zone at the age of almost 30 just to follow her dream. She went through countless challenges with her coach, good friends and family, and was further inspired in life.
After being drafted to a pro track team, a midwestern young teen needs to decide between his future career and his dementia-ridden grandfather.
There Is No Finish Line is a testament to the power that running can bring to our lives. The film celebrates the life and spirit of Joan Benoit-Samuelson, the first woman Olympic Gold medalist in the marathon.
As we run, the layers of responsibility and identity we have gathered in our lives, the father, mother, lawyer, teacher, Manchester United-supporter labels, all fall away, leaving us with the raw human being underneath. With nothing but our own two legs moving us, we begin to get a vague, tingling sense of who, or what, we really are.
Short animation by Yoji Kuri
Colin, from the North East of England has been an inspiration to thousands, raising money by running marathons in Big Pink Dresses. The documentary gives an insight into Colin’s fundraising journey, the highs and lows he has faced along the way, and why it may be time to hang up the dress.
One of the best Bulgarian mountain runners – Kiril Nikolov, known as Disl, attempted to set a new record – to run through the longest and legendary Bulgarian mountain route – 600 km from the mountain peak of Kom on the west border to cape Emine on the Black Sea coast, in less than 5 days. Through steep mountain paths, pouring rain, and sticky mud, the glorious adventure takes him beyond the barriers of his own consciousness, facing hidden fears, pain and exhaustion. Tо the point where he has to make a tough choice – to quit or to push his will to the ultimate challenge, beyond his own limitations.
A teenage boy who finds himself being stalked by the mythical being 'Slender Man' over a period of days. Heavily inspired by the game 'Slender' by Parsec Productions.
An ex-pro athlete runner and his wife find a strange boy in the middle of nowhere along with a murdered couple. He runs to a nearby town for help while she keeps the boy company. Meanwhile, escaped convicts are heading to their location.
Running Movie is a documentary film that focuses on Israeli long-distance runner Ayele Seteng (a.k.a. Haile Satayin), the oldest marathon runner to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and his efforts to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Satayin has been a long-distance runner since he was a young boy in Ethiopia, but he only became a marathon runner after immigrating to Israel in the early 1990s. Now, at the age of 55, he keeps on running. We follow him as he practices in Ethiopia, far from his wife and eight children, and witness his moments of victory and defeat, as he competes in marathons around the world—from Berlin, Germany, to Tiberias, Israel.
Story about a runner whose bulimia and anorexia threatens both her dream of competing in the Olympics and her marriage to Denver's mayor.
Charlie is 12 and trapped inside with a bully. An unexpected connection with a neighbour broadens his world view in the most contained of circumstances.
A young boy who still wets the bed finds escapism from his abusive mother and his own embarrassment by going running after school.
일련의 이상한 사건으로 아름다운 젊은 여성이 병원에 입원하게 되고 영리한 심리학자는 그날 밤 실제로 일어난 일에대한 진실을 알기위해 트라우마요법을 통해 그날 무슨일이 일어났는지 알아보기 시작한다.
20세의 육상 선수인 사라에게 유명 대학에서 육상팀에 들어 오라는 제안이 들어오지만 딸의 변화가 걱정되는 엄마는 사라에게 학비를 보태줄 수 없다고 한다. 이에 굴하지 않고 친구인 앙투안느와 함께 무작정 대학으로 떠나는 사라, 정부의 보조를 받기 위해 앙투안느와 정략결혼을 하게 된다. 그러나 결혼으로 인해 그들의 갈등은 깊어 가기만 하고 특히 팀 동료 조이를 만나게 되면서 사라의 대학 생활은 예상치 못한 방향으로 흘러간다. 단지 육상선수로 뛰고 싶었던 사라, 본의 아니게 자신의 선택으로 인해 자신을 아끼는 사람들에게 상처를 주게 되는데...
캐나다 감독 클로에 로비샤드의 장편 데뷔작인 는 한 어린 여성이 청소년에서 성인으로 성장하는 과정을 그린 영화이다. 각 인물의 연기력이 돋보이는 드라마로, 특히 매우 결단력 있는 소녀 사라 역을 맡은 소피 데마레의 연기가 주목할 만하다. (박도신_2013년 제18회 부산국제영화제)
멕시코 원주민 로레나는 도시에서 먼 산악 지대에 살며 달리기에 눈을 떴다. 남들이 러닝화에 운동복을 입을 때, 샌들과 전통 치마 차림으로 울트라마라톤에서 우승한 그녀. 목가적인 삶과 마라톤 선수로서의 삶, 두 일상을 담아낸다.
Superstar Nicole Kidman (Days of Thunder) stars in Room to Move, one of the star's earliest roles. Kidman is Carol Trig, a high school track star whose life changes dramatically when she meets and befriends Angie, a troubled dancer whose life directly affects Carol's. Pretty soon, Carol realizes her life has become more than she can handle, and she must learn to balance her time between running, the family she neglects, and her social life: particularly Angie. Originally intended to be one part of a larger miniseries, Room to Move features one of the world's biggest stars in one of her earliest roles. With its straightforward plot, this is a film everyone can enjoy!
팀은 육상에 소질을 갖고 있는 수줍음 많은 소년이다. 어느 날 가장 사랑했던 친구가 자살을 하게 되고 그걸 계기로 학교 내에서 팀이 게이라는 소문이 돌기 시작한다. 친구의 죽음에 슬퍼하던 팀은 자신이 게이라는 것이 아니라는 것을 증명하기 위해 국가대표 선발전에 나가기로 하는데...
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.