简介:Emma is a businesswoman coming from Australia to the U.S to sign a controversial oil contract. On her way to a press conference, she jumps into a taxi. Soon after, to her surprise, she is attacked and drugged by the taxi driver. She wakes up tied to a chair in a filthy cabin. Emma soon learns she's the night's amusement for a man named Jim and his loyal associates Pete and Shir...
简介:"There's a better life waiting for us. Who? Somebody else... Where? Somewhere else..." Brand New-U is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare. It tells the story of a man - SLATER - who pursues the woman he loves - NADIA - through a series of parallel lives
简介:在1890年之前,作家契科夫(尼古拉斯·吉劳德 Nicolas Giraud 饰)创作的多为富有喜剧和讽刺色彩的轻松作品,他的作品因为诙谐幽默又浅显易懂,深受民众的喜爱,俄国科学院为了表彰他给世界带来的精神财富,将“普希金奖”颁发给了契科夫。1890年,契科夫孤身一人跨越了千山万水,来到了库页岛,这里曾经是政治犯的流放地。库页岛上宛如人间地狱一般的景象深深的撼动了契科夫的内心,他开始意识到,在自己熟悉的世界之外,还有这么多人生活在苦难和贫穷之中。从此,契科夫一改文风,以库页岛之行作为素材,开始撰写揭露沙俄专制制度的作品。
简介:Cuba, the mid-80s, anyone diagnosed with HIV/AIDS is sent to a military-run internment camp. Former boxing champion Horacio Romero is assigned to be a personal warden--companion--to troublemaker patient Daniel. Despite their initial distrust and ignorance, the two form a platonic bond that leads them to be better men. The Companion shows the stigma associated for those with HIV/AIDS in the early days of the epidemic--gay and straight. This eye-opening drama finds friendship and compassion during a little-known chapter in Cuban history.
简介:We are in the year 2001, a temporary ceasefire brings a much-needed break to a small war-torn village in Northern Nepal, bringing much joy among the residents. Prakash and Kiran, two young close friends, are also starting to feel the change in the air. Though they are divided by caste and social creed, they remain inseparable, and start raising a hen given to Prakash by his sister, with hopes to save money by selling her eggs. However, the hen goes missing. To find it, they embark on a journey, innocently unaware of the tyranny brought by the fragile ceasefire.