Mali (2014)

Mali 2: People Like "Her"

Mali is Back in MALI 2! What's in the future for... A heartwarming dramedy with a powerful message written and directed by Malky Weingarten ––––– Like other girls her age, Mali (Mimi Friedman) wants to get engaged too. But- Her aunt (Sarah Hurwitz) thinks she's not ready... Her mother (Malky Weingarten) thinks it's all too overwhelming...... Mrs. Tweezers (Malky Knofler) thinks she just needs to push a little more and she will be a big shadchan..... Hold on for an emotional and fun ride, as our lovable Mali learns that balancing life's challenges, is harder than balancing on high heeled shoes.

The Song of Names

A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

Barren

A childless young ultraorthodox couple faces a crisis after a traumatic treatment for barrenness. When the difference between good and bad is unclear, the family must deal with unresolved secrets that raise fundamental questions about religion and faith.

One Winter Night

An Orthodox Jewish mother and her daughters fall prey to the malevolent forces that preside over a rural community.

The Wedding Plan

Michal is 32 years old. She became religious 12 years ago, and only now is she getting married. A month before the wedding, while checking out the catering for the event, the groom has a change of heart and the wedding is called off. Michal feels she’s unable to go back to ordinary life, to the usual course of matchmaking. She feels this is the moment to change something very basic in her personality. A simple belief that God is good and sweet; that He wants to give and is only waiting for her to wish it. Michal goes on a month-long journey lasting up to the planned wedding day: “I have the venue, the dress, the apartment; God can easily come up with my groom.”

Disobedience

A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.

Run

Sanju life goes topsy-turvy as he loses his job. He takes loan from a dreaded loan shark named Vaddi Raju. He is very notorious and has his own style of getting back his money. Finally the day arrives where Sanju has to return the money he took from Raju. While Sanju's friend helps him to get the amount, a thief nabs the money from Sanju and run away. Sanju has to find a way to repay the loan by 5 PM. Meanwhile his girlfriend (Anisha) is kidnapped by Raju for another reason.

Selfie Raja

Selfie Raja is a carefree young man who marries the daughter of a police commissioner. However, things take a humorous turn after a criminal creates problems in his marital life.

Allegiance

Inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei, Allegiance follows one family's extraordinary journey in this untold American story following the events of Pearl Harbor. Their loyalty was questioned, their freedom taken away, but their spirit could never be broken.

Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, two humble teachers during 1963, discover a genius student's grandfather, simply known as "the Doctor", and his police box time machine. Deciding that the pair knows too much about his otherworldly origins, they are whisked away on a journey through time and space.

Ivan's Woman

Ivan keeps a 15-year-old Natalia hostage since she was a little girl. The repressive regime seems not to refrain them from forming a sort of family bond. They begin struggling with each other when the girl's sexuality awakens. Ivan desires her love and companionship.

Bénie soit Sixtine

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Different Paths to Holiness

“Close your eyes and look at your fears each for yourself. everyone is allowed to be. Any fear of a person coming from another space. Everyone is afraid of some person who lacks something and wants to come from somewhere." Five types on which the heroes meet their most common ailments and obsessions. Body, religion, politics, eco-activism, shamanism.

Slow Vine

SLOW VINE is a series of short comedic vignettes, collected into a singular short film, linked by a specific tone and pace. They're absurd, slow, and warm - sketch comedy at reduced speed.

Da Scaramouche or se vuoi l'assoluzione baciar devi sto... cordone!

Scaramouche, a skilled swordsman, goes to the Este court to steal a letter.

Parallel Shadows

Based on the short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - A Gentle Creature - written in November 1876. Farhad is an isolated antiques dealer who has no communications with the outer world but his few customers. After he gets into a relationship with Nazanin, one of his customers, suddenly everything falls apart.

Muse of Pasig

It is a supernatural melodrama of a woman's misfortune and suffering interwoven with the legend of the Pasig. The legend itself is inspired by the immortal kundiman of the director's brother, Nicanor Abelardo.

Badnaam Gali

A single pregnant woman living without her husband or any man, alone, in a society of people where everyone questions her character and mysterious lifestyle. Reluctantly, Divyendu Sharma finds himself involved in her life. His aunt, played by Dolly Ahluwalia, is a woman who lives in Badnaam lane (name of the residential complex in Delhi) and keeps track of the society she lives in and keeps her nephew informed about the whereabouts of its residents, particularly the Bengali surrogate woman, Patralekhaa.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.

Snafu

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.

The Gentleman Misbehaves

After his first attempt to obtain cash fails, a Broadway producer turns to a gambler to raise money for his show.

Sport of Kings

Two brothers from the North try to gain favor in the South after they inherit a horse farm in Kentucky.

Befriending the Grouch

Olav Hintz, a retired teacher who loves only himself, needs care as he sits in a wheelchair. The nurse, the single parent Trixi has several jobs to complete and gives the care to her 3 children. Chaos is on.

The Climbers

May 1960. Mount Everest, the second step under the cliff. The four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando are attacking the most difficult and most difficult "second step". This is their fifth assault. The first four failures have cost them too much physical strength - finally, the wind and snow stop the gap.

Behind the Scenes

The film guides us behind the scenes of the theatre and film productions. The film and theatre actors live the lives of the made up characters on stage and on camera, while also living to the fullest off-stage. Some episodes from their real lives are funny, some are scary, but all of them are exciting to witness.

Loveless

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

Cleaning Up

A laconic nurse gets sentenced to community service where she has to clean the filthy house of a wildly impulsive recluse.

Face the Music

The film follows a man’s desperate trek down a river as he is continually hindered by strange figures trying to convince him to turn around or stop.

End of Contract

A seafarer normally spends 9 months working at sea, isolated from the rest of the world. But during a pandemic, a signed contract means nothing.

New Year's Eve Taxi 2

A year has passed, and characters of New Year’s Eve Taxi are counting hours until New Year’s Eve once again. All of them have experienced many changes... Andrejs is willing to stay at home with his fiancee, but as Ilze is expecting a baby, she has a lot of cravings, and Andrejs is ready to drive again to get her a burger, scallops, or strawberries. His neighbor, policeman Jēkabs, has been blackmailed throughout the year, but this time, by help of his new friend Anna, he returns to the “crime scene” to redeem his reputation. Innocent drive to the shop turns into a kaleidoscope of events and surprises jeopardising a family gathering.

Blind

A brutal cat and mouse game between a blind ex-cop Gia Singh and a psychopathic serial killer, who likes to torture and kill young women.

The Wolf and the Lion

After her grandfather's death, 20-year-old Alma decides to go back to her childhood home - a little island in the heart of the majestic Canadian forest. Whilst there, she rescues two helpless cubs: a wolf and a lion. They forge an inseparable bond, but their world soon collapses as the forest ranger discovers the animals and takes them away. The two cub brothers must now embark on a treacherous journey across Canada to be reunited with one another and Alma once more.

Cleopatra

An early retelling of Cleopatra’s story.

Balls of Fury

Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he's down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in Vegas; when the FBI turn up and ask for his help to take down Feng... who just happens to love Ping Pong.

Three

After a yachting accident, a millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked on a desert island along with their former deckhand, Manuel.

Il grande salto

Nello and Rufetto are life long friends, and also a team of criminals who dream to make the big shot and set themselves for live, being punished with bad luck.

Norbit

A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.