Gito is a young African intellectual returning home from France with numerous academic degrees and ministerial ambitions. Gradually his ambitions are crushed by the daily realities of his country. Gito is tested further by the alliance between his French girlfriend and his old sweetheart who join forces to teach Gito an unforgettable lesson.
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A series of interviews are conducted concerning people’s beliefs towards the possibility of an afterlife. The interviews are filmed against a set of strange backdrops, and are intercut with clips from classic films and a variety of stock footage.
A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He’s preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them.
The marriage of Les and Katie Bingham is in big trouble. They’ve already split up once, and now they’re giving it one more try, but the bedroom of their New York apartment is not a happy place. Les finds her too cold. Katie finds him too fast.
‘Three lemons are just lemons. Three lemons together are a jackpot.’ Atlantic City, 1959 – cue ragtime music, the seaside, boardwalks, childhood friendship. Sound familiar? This is a cheery version of the ultimate girly weepie, Beaches. Lifelong pals Grody, Keaton and Kane have ambitions to own a nightclub where they can perform their quirky singing act. But money isn’t the only obstacle: friendship has its pressures too.
In crisis-stricken 1999 Argentina, Ariel—a young man from Buenos Aires’ Jewish community—grapples with his mother’s illness, a lonely night-shift job, and his own coming of age. He crosses paths with Santamaría, a middle-aged man adrift after losing his job and marriage, who spends his days returning stolen wallets he finds in the trash. When Ariel recounts Santamaría’s story to Laura, a TV reporter he desires, their lives begin to intertwine. As Christmas and Hanukkah near, each searches for connection amid uncertainty.
Based on the traditional Portuguese tales A Donzela que vai à guerra and A Mão do finado. In Portugal during the Middle Ages, the elderly Dom Raimundo decides to marry off his daughter Silvia to a rich neighbor. He goes to the royal court to invite the king to the wedding. But in his absence, Silvia disguises herself by becoming a soldier named Silvestre.
A ten-year-old boy, son of a soldier who stayed in England after the war, cannot count on a peaceful childhood in Stalinist Poland. So his mother sends him to be raised by a friend as a war orphan. The company of his aunt, a horse-riding enthusiast and woman of unflagging spirit, becomes a unique school of life for the boy.