Another Yesterday
Availability ended 12/6/2020 EDT
A Japanese-American high school student spars with his father while forging a close bond with two social outcasts — one of whom is bullied because he is gay, while the other claims she is being followed by a spirit.
Akira is a high school transfer student with a deteriorating relationship with his father. When he arrives at his new school, he stumbles onto a classmate being bullied. His intervention triggers two new friendships — one with the victim Scott and the other with Elizabeth — the classmate who aids him after he is knocked out. Scott has a worse problem than the bullies — he has not come out at home yet. But Elizabeth may have an even bigger problem: she is a social pariah because she keeps acting as though someone or something is after her. Meanwhile, Akira’s home front situation is going from bad to worse.
Adamstown
Availability ended 12/6/2020 EDT
The movie Adamstown is based on the graphic novel by Verena Braun.
In a town out in „the West“ (shot in the flatlands of Northern Germany), animals and humans a struggling and fighting about power and influence. A bank must be built, bullets must be shot and a curse has too be broken.
Behind the scenes on the other hand, people of different cultural and religious backgrounds, refugees, people with and without disabilities, old and young were working together to crush borders and show respect.
Intercultural work, inclusiveness and human rights where the driven forces for the educational project around the movie and our message we wanted to deliver with the movie … embedded in a fantastic story with a divers (and fantastic) cast.
The Hollywood Reporter:
„If Wes Anderson. adapted a German Comic book filled with talking animals and then cast amateur actors – many of them recent refugees – to play the leading role, the result might. look something like Patrick Merz and Henning Wötzel-Herber's Adamstown. Oh, and it's a musical, too. “
BRAHMI
Availability ended 12/6/2020 EDT
BRAHMI is a story of facing life-changing challenges and the journey to fight it. The protagonist of the film is a popular musician who is at the peak of her career with her unparalleled musical skills. This world-renowned artist now meets with an accident. This fateful incident makes her lose hope and infuses insecurities in her. And the fear of losing everything. Due to this fear, she gives up everything and settles in a village closer to nature. As days pass by, a young girl, claiming to be her ardent fan follows her with a guitar in her hand. She forces her to play it only to be shunned and chased away as the singer thinks it is an embarrassment and a sheer mockery on her. The girl wouldn't give up. For her surprise, the singer finds out that the girl has a hearing impairment and yet plays the guitar effortlessly. Now that she's got her attention, she teaches her to feel the vibrations of everything. Having realized that any art should be sensed, felt and enjoyed, the musician now begins to fight her own fears. Will the girl succeed in bringing back her idol? Will she be successful? Will she go on stage again? Can she perform? How? The film has answers to all these questions.
Harmonie (La Reina de la Noche)
Availability ended 12/6/2020 EDT
The identity of a human being reflects the intricacies of his soul. Being a transsexual is a condition of complexity and courage that few other human conditions express so eloquently. Harmonie tells the path of transformation since the childhood of a woman imprisoned in the body of a man and her slow and painful journey. A story of courage and difficulty faced at high levels with sometimes sensual and touching colors, but above all of great humanity. Many nodal events that are addressed in the narrative through the use of flashbacks that reveal the consequences of childhood traumas, such as the violence suffered by a relative. Growing up Diana faces different situations of danger such as being used as a middleman for an illegal trade that starts from Cartagena ends in a great and personal standoff. She faces an obsession with a client who tries to kill her and is convicted by an Austrian court for false accuse. During the narrative arc, there is also told an important love story she had with an Argentinian woman who reveals that she had a child from her. A film fresco of a powerful personality in his masculine and feminine energy
Corona
Availability ended 12/6/2020 EDT
Fear is the virus !
When unlikely neighbours are trapped in an elevator with a Coronavirus suspect, fear and racism spread among them faster than the virus.
The Color Rose
Availability ended 12/6/2020 EDT
Seven girls from a religious private school start a cult where each of them must embody one of the seven deadly sins. They realize there's more to their town when they go missing one by one.
The Year of Innocence
Availability ended 12/6/2020 EDT
‘The Year of Innocence’ is a contemporary tale about the destiny many young women from the Chinese countryside still face today.
In a rural village in present-day China, a young married woman (Rain) becomes the victim of scandalous gossip concerning the life she led a few years earlier in a much bigger city where western values are fast replacing traditional culture. Her husband (Guo), a teacher, refuses to believe her pleas that she's not guilty of rumours she traded sex for money. Ashamed, and unable to cope with the humiliation and his rejection, Rain takes her own life. Following her tragic death, Guo becomes convinced of her innocence. Wishing to atone for misjudging his wife, and to find those responsible for the spreading the lies, he sets out on a journey to retrace the path she took seven years before. At that time, Rain was just a naive small-town girl with honorable dreams for a better life by earning money in the city to support her family. Seeking to learn what really happened to Rain and why slanderous falsehoods about her were spread, Guo tracks down three of the people closest to her during that time; an old uncle (Sanshu), who helped her get settled and find work, a childhood best friend (Lily), her roommate and co-worker, and her first love (Lu), a musician and student. As the truths about Rain are revealed, Guo strives to get those who started the rumours to take back their accusations. In this way, he hopes to make up for his broken trust and redeem Rain’s honour, dignity and good name. ‘The Year of Innocence’ is directed by Zhang Li and is a production of the Canadian Fair King International Media Group.
Pink Opaque
Availability ended 12/6/2020 EDT
A story of love, family, hardships, and life in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles film student struggles to graduate while navigating a budding romance against his girlfriend's older brother's wishes and reconnecting with his estranged uncle leading to an unfamiliar look at his family history and renewed uncertainty of his future.
Home Away
Availability ended 12/6/2020 EDT
Mr. Zhou, in order to purchase the VIP membership of a nursing home, wants to seize the opportunity of the relocation of his house by arranging a fake marriage with Mrs. Dong to acquire more money out of the compensation.
But Mrs. Dong, fearing karma, has her doubts all along. Zhou Ping, Mr. Zhou's son, on the other hand, sees the relocation as an opportunity to buy a school estate for his daughter.
Yun, Mrs. Dong's nanny who's from Sichuan Province, is suddenly informed that her brother has been hit by a car in her hometown, and, therefore, in urgent need of 100,000 RMB to pay for the operation. When she comes to know of Mr. Zhou's plan of the "fake marriage", she offers to help him out but asks for 100,000 RMB in advance. Having learned about her father-in-law's intention of marrying Mrs. Dong, Huang Lili, Zhou Ping's wife, has stolen his household register. As a result, Mr. Zhou, when he is about to give the bankbook with a deposit of 100,000 to Yun, finds that his household register is gone in which the bankbook is tucked.
In the meantime, Mrs. Dong is suffering from a fall after an eye operation and her daughter finds out that Yun has been seeing doctors using her mother's Medicare card.
Unable to get in touch with her, Yun's husband who has been in the countryside has also arrived in Shanghai...
