Negli anni '40, una ragazza arriva nella cittadina costiera di Seabrook, nel Nord Carolina, per trascorrervi l'estate con la sua famiglia. Ancora adolescente, Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) incontra un ragazzo del posto, Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) in un Luna Park. Immediatamente, Noah sente che lui e Allie sono fatti per stare insieme. Benchè lei provenga da una famiglia facoltosa e lui sia un semplice operaio, nel corso di una appassionata e spensierata estate del sud i due si innamorano profondamente. E la loro vita cambierà...
Orfana di madre, la diciottenne Lucy è mandata dal padre in Italia per una vacanza estiva, ospite di una coppia di inglesi che abitano in una villa di Gaiole in Chianti (Siena). Alla fine del soggiorno Lucy avrà avuto felicemente la sua prima esperienza sessuale e scoperto senza traumi l'identità del proprio padre biologico.
Un ragazzo timido che si esprime attraverso l'haiku e una ragazza allegra ma insicura si incontrano in una giornata di sole e trascorrono una breve, magica estate.
Due giocatori di una squadra di baseball di provincia (il trentenne Crash e il ventenne Nuke) sono concupiti da una professoressa, da parecchi anni l'ape regina della compagine. Nuke fa carriera e se ne va. Crash si aggiudicherà la ragazza. Commedia tutt'altro che priva di spirito e di acutezza, anche se il canovaccio è troppo tenue per fornire un significato al di là del puro divertimento.
Evelyn (Julianne Morre) ha dedicato la vita ad aiutare le persone in difficoltà, ma fa fatica a connettersi con suo figlio Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard), aspirante star di internet disinteressato ai problemi del mondo.
Tra un impiegato degradato nel fisico, un immigrato violentemente attaccato per strada e un mago in drammatica crisi di abilità troviamo Karl, un uomo con il volto ricoperto di cenere, simbolo della difficoltà della condizione umana.
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
The thing that waits under your bed, hides in the closet, stalks your dreams… is waiting for you. At least Emma Wright knew that at the age of 7 when she was wrongly accused of murdering her sister. Emma knew it was the Stickman. After years of isolation she finally has her demons under control and is released.
About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
Un racconto animato della poesia del titolo di Kobe Bryant, che segnala il suo ritiro dallo sport che lo ha reso famoso.
Pooja Mathew, a spirited young girl, wants to have a love marriage in her life. Thus, she stops at nothing to impress Giri, who saved her once from a group of unruly men.
Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.
A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.
Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.
Emma approaches adulthood, she tries to live an ordinary life and keep up to her late mothers expectations. However her anxiety weighs over her, stopping her from enjoying the last few youthful years.
An adaptation of a children's poem called Chanson des escargots qui vont à l'enterrement by Jacques Prévert, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Filmed in Paris, France and Los Angeles, California.
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.
This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.
A conceptual art project exploring poetry in an alternative, modern way. Similar to a collection of short stories this project assembles a series of video clips - each one entering the distinctive universe of a poem. Seven poems told in seven unique ways.
