Una Nochebuena, en un orfanato, un bebé gatea dentro del saco de regalos de Santa Claus y acaba en el taller de éste en el Polo Norte. Aunque allí es adoptado y educado como un elfo, al crecer, se hace tres veces más grande que los habitantes de la región. Parece claro que nunca encajará en el mundo de los elfos; lo que necesita es encontrar a su verdadera familia. Con esta intención viaja a Nueva York, donde descubrirá que la vida no consiste sólo en patinar y comer dulces; así que vuelve a sentirse otra vez fuera lugar. Consigue, no obstante, encontrar a su padre, Walter, un editor de libros infantiles adicto al trabajo y al dinero que figura en la lista negra de Santa Claus. Buddy también encuentra a una nueva madre y descubre que su hermanastro de diez años no cree en los elfos ni en Santa Claus ni en las Navidades. En realidad todo el mundo parece haber olvidado el verdadero significado de la Navidad.
Un antiguo sicario debe proteger a una joven mientras trata de escapar de la tríada a la que pertenecía. En su fuga, desatará una violenta batalla en las calles de Djakarta. Una hiperbólica cinta de acción urbana, indispensable para cualquier fan de la adrenalina.
100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" to race against Reodor's former assistant Rudolf Blodstrupmoen, who has stolen one of Reodor's inventions to become a world racing champion.
This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang province, China. Zhili is home to over 18,000 privately-run workshops producing children's clothes, mostly for the domestic market, but some also for export. The workshops employ around 300,000 migrant workers, chiefly from the rural provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and Jiangsu.
Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting with Étienne, a young cabinetmaker with whom she falls in love, turns her dismal existence upside down. Not wanting to reveal her condition to her lover, she pretends to be a modest maid, employed by the Voisin-Larive. At the end of a weekend spent with her lover, Irène discovers that she is pregnant. The fragile balance of their existence is suddenly broken. Taking the initiative, she reveals her affair to Jacques and tells him about her desire to divorce. But her husband has no intention of giving her back her freedom...
In only 15 minutes with some 30 people Jane Elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society today with all its phenomena and feelings. As already known from the ill reputed Milgram experiment, even participants who knew the "rules" are unable to remain uninvolved. What starts as a game turns into cruel reality which causes some participants' emotions to erupt with unforeseen intensity
Documental que se centra en los perfiles personales de un grupo de veteranos y soldados en activo que se reúnen para enfrentar juntos traumas pasados y actuales a través de la fuerza de la palabra escrita, compartiendo sus experiencias en un taller de escritura organizado en el Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
A youth workshop in Derry is mounting various projects, including a dramatized enquiry into the death of a soldier. But when a squaddie is shot on the doorstep, then real life intrudes in the shape of the police and security forces.
While the humans are away, the shoes in a cobbler's workshop engage in a number of activities, including flirting, kidnapping and a gunfight.
Amir Hossein, Manouchehr, and Shahkar are young and unmarried who decide to go to Emirates in order to find well-paid jobs. Unfortunately, Shahkar gets mugged by a motor rider and they lose all of their money. Shahkar's uncle suggests them working in a workshop owned by a young lady called Ms. Arabshahi. She has one condition though, that they should pass her tests.
The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.
Bikes for Africa is an entertaining, insightful and moving documentary following the life adventures of Hap Cameron and Mandy Todd, and their attempt to help implement a self sustainable bike workshop in rural Namibia with a container load secondhand donated bikes from Melbourne. The film investigates how a bicycle can fundamentally change the lives of rural Africans, and brings to focus the great works of two-wheeled charities Bicycles for Humanity and the Bicycling Empowerment Network Namibia.
The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.
Acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, delivers a film workshop in Bogotá, the filmmakers conclude by proposing a short film in 10 days. Diego, one of the directors of the workshop, as scouting, meets a young shy librarian named Vida , who dreams of being an actress.
A filmmaker and rapper duo revive Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” protocols - a set of filmmaking “rules” with which groups of strangers can conceive, shoot, and screen a film in just two and a half hours. Against the grim backdrop of the stringent Shanghai lockdown, the event soon turns into a sanctuary for individuals to forge collective dreams.
With 4 weeks and a budget of $5,000 IF Media approached filmmaker Nash Edgerton and Blue-Tongue Films to produce video insert material for the 2005 Lexus Inside Film Awards. Edgerton agreed. But wanted the $5,000 in cash.
An exploration into the benefits of music in uk youth culture. Understanding the comfort it can provide.
A un pueblo de Chiapas llegan dos individuos sin escrúpulos que roban al santo del templo. Los pobladores los persiguen a través de la región para recuperar lo que les arrebataron. Dominique Jonard realizó este cortometraje junto con varios niños de Zinacantán, un pueblo tzotzil de los Altos de Chiapas.
A workshop film made with a group of students of the Pietro Zorutti School in Palmanova, Esercizi di Cinema is an experimental adaptation of Raymond Queneau's book Exercises in Style.