The Captive City
A small town newspaperman’s investigation into a local bookie operation turns up a web of organized crime.
A small town newspaperman’s investigation into a local bookie operation turns up a web of organized crime.
Based on Edwin Abott’s book “Flatland”, this is an animated film about geometric characters living in a two-dimensional world. When a young girl named “Hex” decides to “think outside the box” (in a world where such thought is forbidden), her life becomes
Alejandra is a young mother who works her in-laws’ candy factory and raises her two children, along with her husband Ángel, in a small city in Mexico. She has an unhappy marriage. Her brother Fabián is a nurse at a local hospital and lover of her husban
In 2011 Portugal began the so-called “year of the Troika” (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to rep
Daffy’s flag-waving patriotic fervor is stopped cold when he gets an unexpected visit from the little man from the Draft Board. The duck’s frenzied attempts to escape from or eliminate his egg-headed nemesis culminate in a rocket ride which, instead of ta
It’s morning and Bugs Bunny is awake. It doesn’t look like he had enough rest though. He looks around and sees he is high up in the sky. Bugs’ hole has become part of an construction site and a bulldozer is ready to move his hole to destruction. Bugs make
In a story set during the Hundred Years War, a student who has abandoned his studies in Paris, pairs with a young noblewoman with whom he has fallen in love.
Tom Crick, a high school history teacher, is having trouble connecting – with his class, with his wife. He ventures into telling his class stories about his young adulthood in the Fens district in England. The emotional wounds from his younger life wash o
The judge in a Danish town sees his illegitimate daughter facing a trial for the murder of her newborn child, and is rather sure that she will be sentenced to death. She became pregnant from an aristocrat who didn’t want to marry her. The same fate happen
Veronica (Hermila Guedes) has just finished med school in Recife and is facing the gap between the theory of books and the harsh reality of Brazil’s public health system: enormous lines, unhelpful colleagues, and disgruntled patients who refuse medical pr