Theater Institute. Author of the docudrama “rudolf nureyev. island of his dreams” (2017), which won the grand prix of the “window to europe” festival and the special prize of the russian guild of film critics. director and scpiptwriter of “turbulence zone” (2009), “mamai’s burial mound. memories of generations” (2014, doc.), “the name of rokossovsky” (2015, doc.), “just sergey” (2018, doc.), “vera” (2022, doc.), “legendary cinemas of the world. house of cinema” (2024, doc.).
We are one and we all dream the same dreams. Through a chorus of reoccurring dreams tracing impossibility, unpreparedness, self-consciousness, and loss, Your Dream is my Dream explores ancestral memory, shared identity and the collective unconscious.
“Facing the Rook” is a film about the contemporary Iranian artist, Ali Akbar Sadeghi. It is a free interpretation of his dreams and poems. the story revolves around the artist's latest piece, an artwork with a clear violent expression that is different from his other pieces given the artist's past struggle with depression, the family is concerned about his emotional state and his sons decide to hire a team of psychoanalysts the process sparks an idea in their mind to make a film about their father.
Transcending beyond the social constructs, a ray of hope and acceptance always pushes through the inner self tends to revolt, voice out and discover the unwanted reflections, breaking all norms while still confined within the four walls of reality. nirvana depicts the stories of the shadowed lives, hidden among us, struggling to reach out to that light. three souls on a breathtaking cross journey through the abstracts of being human, unearthing the true meaning of inner peace.
After dating for eight years, best friends Jordan and Danny have broken up and no one knows why. It is clear they still love each other, but they are not willing to admit it to each other. When Jordan realizes she is pregnant and Danny has a violent outburst in Jordan’s honor, she has to confront not only her feelings but Danny’s too, finally being honest with each other.
In New York four years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a bible-carrying drifter who witnesses the rape and murder of a black woman is framed and pursued by locals while left as the sole protector of the woman’s young son.
Lim Kah Wai, director of Your Lovely Smile, embarks on a similar journey as the protagonist in his film, visiting dozens of mini theatres from Okinawa to Hokkaido. Lim is not pitching his new film, but meeting the staff and owners of the theatres to make a documentary about how they struggle in the shrinking market. In empty cinema houses, the people speak of the common and personal challenges they encounter. Although they might have made different decisions – whether to hang on or move on, they share a pure love for and a genuine belief in cinema that they wish to pass on to the next generation.
When Coos was smoking weed with his friends on the edge of a canal 25 years ago, when he was 13, he passed out and came to a moment later with a coke bottle in his ass. Joking from his friends. The incident marks his life, because it continues to haunt him for years. Why did his friends do that? Coos, now 38, wants to be able to turn this dark page in his history and he does so by confronting his friends from the past with his pain.
Along the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladuša, bomb disposal experts, migrant families and locals cross paths. Director Nicole Vögele approaches the people she encounters in this territory, opening up the wounds of the war and meeting the refugees of today. This telluric film depicts a kaleidoscope of landscapes haunted by the fury of the past and present.
Did a UFO fly over O’Hare Airport? How did the alligator later named "Chance the Snapper" suddenly appear in Chicago’s Humboldt Lagoon? Is Hull House haunted? Why don’t Chicagoans put ketchup on their hot dogs? WTTW award-winning host/writer/producer Geoffrey Baer sets out to solve these and other puzzlers in WTTW’s CHICAGO MYSTERIES.
Highschool history teacher Mrs. Sarah Davis struggles to control her Year 12 class, meanwhile her student Robert Clark, attempts to get a date to the school formal.
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