¿Y si encontraras algo que te hiciera preguntarte si realmente conoces a tu padre? Al trazar la búsqueda de Kattaka para responder a esta pregunta, "Wintertochter" se convierte en una road movie (desde Berlín hasta Polonia) sobre la amistad entre distintas generaciones y naciones y el valor para afrontar las dificultades de la vida. A través de su inspirador viaje, Kattaka se da cuenta de que la historia puede moldear la identidad, que la familia no siempre es biológica y que las decisiones que tomamos ahora pueden mejorar nuestro futuro.
Set in scenic but strife-ridden Kashmir, “Tahaan” tells the story of an eight-year-old boy who tries to gain back his beloved pet donkey that has been sold along with his family’s possessions to pay the family debt. He wanders village and countryside, navigates border checkpoints, negotiates with merchants and money lenders on his quest – and is recruited to hurl a grenade into an army compound. Lush cinematography and a recurring chorus of Sufi singers add texture to this tender fable.
Wadjda, una niña de diez años, desafía las arraigadas tradiciones saudíes con la firme intención de comprarse una bicicleta. Cuando todo va en contra de sus planes, ve una última oportunidad en el concurso de recitación del Corán de su escuela y en el cuantioso premio en metálico para el primer clasificado. Wadjda", la primera película rodada íntegramente en Arabia Saudí, es la historia de una niña decidida a luchar por sus sueños.
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"Se trata de la primera película dirigida por una mujer saudí. La película presenta los hechos de la vida de su heroína con serena autoridad y devastadora eficacia. Con una agilidad impresionante, WADJDA encuentra espacio para maniobrar entre el realismo duro y un tipo de narración más esperanzadora. En el mundo de Wadjda hay calidez y austeridad, bondad y crueldad, y la posibilidad, modestamente esbozada y ardientemente deseada, del cambio. Estimulante". -AO Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"La película supone un enorme triunfo para su directora... una película notable por partida doble". -Kenneth Turan, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Siempre es fascinante descubrir lo que puede hacernos felices, tanto como cinéfilos como ciudadanos del mundo. WADJDA lo consigue... divertida y conmovedora a partes iguales". -Joe Morgenstern, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
** USA PREMIERE**
While attending a super-cool summer camp where campers compete to build the highest multi-story, self-standing structure possible using scrap wood, a best friendship between two adolescent boys is greatly tested. A series of misunderstandings and hurtful slights, some intentional and some not, creates a building tension that grips the viewer’s attention—and empathy—to the end. Director Marien Rogaar has constructed a film with an amazingly caring hand. Don’t miss this USA PREMIERE!
This documentary follows three girls and their lives at the martial arts school Shaolin Tagou, China’s largest Kung Fu School. Far from their families, they fight an everyday battle of discipline, rules and hard physical training. Kung Fu provides them a chance to provide for their parents in the future and lead a better life—but at what cost?
The Shaolin Tagu Kung Fu School, located next to the Shaolin Temple Monastery—the birthplace of Kung Fu—is home to some 26,000 students. In a breathtaking display of skill and precision, the entire student body practices their discipline en masse and in perfect unison, captured beautifully by Inigo Westmeier’s camera. DRAGON GIRLS follows three young female students living far from their homes and families. They sacrifice the luxuries of childhood, like days off, playtime and seeing their parents, for the honor and success they will gain from their training. The physical and mental exhaustion and constant drive for perfection weigh heavily on the young warriors in training, yet it’s hoped that by graduation the gain will have been worth the struggle.
Sometimes not standing out can be a good thing—at least this is what nine-year-old Ulises and his two best friends have come to believe in their elementary school. The bullies don’t bother you, the teachers won’t call on you and classmates don’t realize you’re missing when you want to be. It’s smooth sailing until Ulises wakes up one morning with an enormous mustache. Going from anonymity to celebrity will test good friendships and lead to a hairy adventure.