Zwei an Krebs erkrankte Männer, die nicht mehr lange zu leben haben, wollen das Leben noch einmal richtig genießen.
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Der Meisterkoch Chu hat mit seiner Lebensfreude auch seinen Geschmackssinn verloren. Jeden Sonntag bittet er seine drei erwachsenen Töchter zum Festschmaus. Doch die Tage dieses Rituals scheinen gezählt, denn die jungen Damen streben nach Selbstständigkeit. Die jüngste Tochter jobt in einem Fast-Food-Restaurant und wird vom Freund einer Arbeitskollegin schwanger. Die mittlere Tochter hat eine steile berufliche Karriere geschafft und wird von ihrem Freund verlassen. Die älteste Tochter ist Lehrerin und findet bei einem Kollegen die große Liebe. Angesichts der dramatischen Veränderungen serviert der Herr der Kochtöpfe eines Tages eine große Überraschung. Gourmetkoch Chu will die Tochter seiner Nachbarin, eine Geschiedene mit Kind, heiraten.
A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
Unable to meet all the demands of his job and family anymore, Mathieu feels he's in a mid-life crisis and hurriedly leaves for the forest. His relatives are left by themselves, faced with his sudden departure and their choices.
'Alan Smithee' is a film about a boy growing up. It delves into the darker side of what 'growing up' sometimes means: growing into your flaws, inevitably being met with the errors of your parents, and the necessity to make room for the pain. While Alan is surrounded by what is thought to be the American ideal, all the material comforts that should equate happiness, he learns that sometimes all we are is lost in the woods.
A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The lights go out. After that, he is not able to see anymore. His optic nerve is severed, from now on the young stage-director Jakob is blind. His life will change and nothing will ever be the same. Jakob cannot handle the idea of never being able to see again and screams at the only woman who is able and willing to help him, Lily. A rehabilitation teacher, she helps the blind deal with the darkness. Lily has been living with it since birth, she too is blind.
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.
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The world is a wonderful stage, but its characters are disgraceful.
Office worker, Adam, quits work to return to his childhood home and settles into the comforts of his parent's backyard. A chance meeting with a friend from his past leads to them making a "Things to Do" list so they can fulfill some of their childhood dreams.
One day in the life of the girl Lena, looking for reasons (not) to get acquainted with men, (not) to have a family and children, (not) to love.
A poetic tale directed by Elena Petkevich for children on a small grasshopper, which is trying to learn the secret of life.
In this short documentary, filmmaker Aidan Porier asks his friends what it means to be human. Here's what they said...
