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The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
A newlywed couple disappeared in 1974, their 8mm tapes reveal one of the most horrifying events in Mexican history.
Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, is hopelessly doomed to be conquered, Sultan Yusuf I undertakes the construction of a magnificent fortress with the purpose of turning it into the landmark of his civilization and his history, a glorious monument that will survive the oblivion of the coming centuries: the Alhambra.
Mariquilla is a beautiful gypsy who is in love with Lucas, a soldier of the garrison in the Alhambra, but her father wants to marry her with Don Cosme, a rich old clerk for the service of the mayor. Soon, the girl asks for help to the governor of Granada, a gentleman who has always had a great adoration for the girl.
It is springtime for everyone. However, Prince Ahmed - a fine young boy living in the most wonderful palace existing, does not rejoice over it. On the contrary, he drags along languidly from one lesson by Eben Bonabben, his wise tutor, to another. Today, it cannot be denied that Ahmed is very learned: he knows everything about everything, including talking with birds. No, not everything mind you. There is ONE realm that is not his: the kingdom of the heart. The reason is obvious, although unknown to the prince himself. On the day of his birth, the astrologers of the court predicted that terrible disasters would arise if Ahmed should ever find love.
Arun finally finds love in Swati after a long luckless search. They get married and soon their parents and their massive egos start interfering with their life. The problems worsen when a huge cupboard arrives as a gift from Swati's parents.
Since the collapse of the communist regime in 1989, Bulgaria has experienced the most extreme population decline in the world. Low birth rates, high death rates, and two large waves of emigration have pushed many villages to the verge of extinction. Altimir explores life in one of Bulgaria's disappearing villages, haunted by the promises of communism and capitalism. Yordan Dimitrov is our guide to the life that remains.
The play revolves around the doctor, Nashat, who meets a naughty girl on one of his nights who drives him home after losing consciousness and sleeping in his house in red pajamas. The comic events begin when his uncle comes to visit him after a long break and thinks that she is his wife and invites them to his daughter's wedding party to rob this girl of the minds of everyone present.
Memories of Alhambra
kuwaiti comedy play
Altamira is the paleolithic and post-human experience of the bloom of cinema. The cinema in a cave, the lightning of his presence, the fire of his birth. The paleolithic and post-human intermittence of the life of cinema. The sacred and contingent permanence of cinema. Part of the Hyperkinetic and Hauntology series.
A documentary to 'rediscover' the so called Sistine Chapel of Rock Art and to tell the story of the discovery of a cave and some paintings that astonished the world 138 years ago. Filming this documentary lead its director, José Luis López Linares, through many rock caves around the world, grasping information about the life of the Magdalenian man -who lived twenty thousand years ago- and about an art form, the paintings, that make Altamira "the Prado museum of prehistory".
Estamira is a 63-year-old woman who suffers from schizophrenia. She leads a tough life and has supported herself for the past 20 years by picking through garbage at the Jardim Gramacho Disposal Area in Rio de Janeiro. The film follows her starting in 2000, the year she begins treatment in a psychiatric clinic. At first, it is hard to understand her in her stream-of-consciousness sentences, delusions and obsessions. Gradually, however, we get to know her as a woman who can have quiet and lucid moments despite her illness.
A 1940 film.
After 18 years of regular trips to Australia, Jean Charbonneau and Dong Wei take you on a discovery of a lesser-known, wilder, and more grandiose Australia. In Western Australia, the largest Australian state (5 times the size of France) you will live the dream of large red, semi-desert spaces, a paradisiacal coastline and unique natural curiosities where the largest iron and steel mines are hidden. gold of the world. Perth is the capital, young, rich, isolated. Tasmania is the smallest Australian state, and offers you just the opposite: green, hilly, refreshing landscapes where the tallest trees in the world grow, hiding an extraordinary fauna, such as wombats, pademelons and especially the famous devils . Like Switzerland in Australia, traditions and the art of good living are cultivated there.
In the military academy of the Nisida Air Force a new course begins which sees among the new recruits called "chicks": Giorgio, forced by his father after he squandered millions at the gaming table; De Montel son of a general, Mario who wants to follow in the footsteps of his father who died in combat; Antonio who declares himself Neapolitan while coming from the province and Ugo who comes from the north.