The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly (2009)

Puccini: La bohème

Puccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has moved generations of opera lovers since its 1896 world premiere. It has also proved incredibly popular with the Met’s global HD audiences and has been featured in three live high-definition transmissions since 2008. The most recent, presented during the 2017–18 season, includes a cast of celebrated young artists. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva is the fragile seamstress Mimì, who instantly falls in love with the passionate poet Rodolfo, sung by tenor Michael Fabiano. Soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone Lucas Meachem trade both spars and kisses as the on-again-off-again lovers Musetta and Marcello, with bass Matthew Rose and baritone Alexey Lavrov rounding out the rambunctious gang of bohemian friends. Maestro Marco Armiliato takes the podium to lead Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque staging.

O Jeca e a Égua Milagrosa

In the hunt for votes, two farmers do everything to be elected mayor in a interior town. The colonels, Liborio and Afonso have religious communities and use the spaces to influence the upcoming elections.

The Juggler

We live in the same house, but in different apartments, jobs, situations, convictions, visions, fooling ourselves that this is the only world that exists. This film is about an unfamiliar and frightening side of life, one that we never really grasp but feel it somewhere close.

Iznik, les mystères de la basilique engloutie

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Fanko

A driver named Bhakti Thapa is assigned a job to transport 1 crore rupees from Pokhara to Kathmandu. But people having this secret information are behind him to rob him when the chance comes.

Don't Expect Praises

On the day he was supposed to graduate from elementary school, a precocious boy runs away from home and goes with his best friend on a journey to his friend’s faraway home. He encounters diverse, interesting people and discovers that “precocious” isn’t what he had once believed.

The Dog Who Loved Music

In Paul Grimault's satire of the arms trade, the dealer is alerted to the breakout of war by a signal on his map, so travels in turn to each of two warring countries (his journey is traced for us on the map), selling to each the means of destroying its neighbour. —The Cine-Tourist

Mega Mindy - De bende van Big Chief

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The Yapori Show

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The Big Red One : The Reconstruction

A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It includes forty-seven additional minutes which was not utilized in the film's original release. Supervised by Richard Schickel, Peter Bogdanovich, and editor Bryan McKenzie.

Evenings on a farm near Dikanka

A fantasy film on the theme of the early works of Nikolai Gogol, tightly interwoven with his personality and biography.

La rosa di Washington

Bart Clinton, giovane elegante che vive d'espedienti, conosce Rose, una cantante di un caffé concerto e se ne innamora a prima vista. La ragazza decide di mettersi assieme a lui. La loro relazione però dura lo spazio di un mattino, perché Bart, ricercato dalla polizia è costretto a fuggire. Rose confortata da un amico, che l'ama segretamente, non se la sente di rinunciare alla sua carriera. Una sera però incontra ancora Bart, che si scusa e le dichiara ancora il suo amore.

Frogmen Operation Stormbringer

Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him back--alive.

A Mother's Sonata

It’s just another weird and ordinary day for Nesrin and her mother. As the evening comes, they face the same issues they face everyday again but the next day their ordinary flow of lies is about to be broken.

Grandpa's Glasses

A naughty boy paints his grandfather's glasses while he sleeps. Upon awakening, the grandfather is frightened by the imagined blindness, creating a series of confusions in the house. Brazil's first fiction film which was destroyed. Only a few fragments are available.

The Cross Roads

A melodrama about a girl who has to marry the landlord in order to save her parents’ home.

Moominland Tales: The Life of Tove Jansson

The life and work of Tove Jansson, mainly known for creating the Moomins but also a writer and painter.