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An experimental short film.

When fall's harvest bears bitter fruit, the Elder Council believe they only have one woman to blame.

A Mexican boy lost his parents in a fire. Terribly disfigured, he wanders through the country looking for shelter. After being turned away several times, he comes to an orphanage. The young community welcomes him. A parable shows that baptism also means acceptance into the community of Christians.

Convention requires every Catholic family to name at least one of their daughters in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Mary, Marie, Marion…Marilyn. BAPTISM is about how filmmaker Marilyn Freeman (aka, M) could never get in synch with that name— Marilyn. In a telling so intimate it seems to come over a phone at midnight, Freeman delivers their own story, transforming a relentless identity crisis into a one-of-a-kind family portrait. An unexpected visual mix accompanies M’s voice while a rotating cast of lip-synching Marilyn stand-ins enact the frustrating effort to conform. Funny, stirring, and original, BAPTISM is an experimental personal video essay about mystical inheritances, a mother’s secret gift, and the ways we discover ourselves through family

A sex worker helps a teenage girl to avoid selling her body for money. Then after that, the sex worker also stops selling her body to anyone.

In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.

A fatal skin disease forces a beautiful actress to retire from the screen. She puts a sinister plan into motion to transplant her brain into her own daughter Sakura. She hears her mother's unbelievable confession of her past, tries to escape in vain. After the horrible operation, she starts a new life as a normal little girl. And she seduces the piano teacher, tries to inherit her mother's properties.... Then a police detective who is suspicious of her mother's sudden disappearance starts sniffing around her...

Kimizuka is rescued by Saya in the form of a sister when she collapses in the park, but she has no belongings and no memory of herself. Saya is expelled from the monastery for writing a pornographic novel, and takes Kimizuka to the hotel where she is staying, and asks her various questions to use her as a model for the novel. In Kimizuka's mind, the image of women crying and crying after being forced to have sex comes to mind.

Lifelong friends Niels, Thomas, and Andrew go on a breathtaking journey to get to a eventful baptism party

A 40-year-old sculptor returns home to witness the baptism of his young nephew. His return prompts a series of flashbacks to his youth and the political upheaval experienced by his family and friends.

Hatred, intolerance, polarization. In the past few years, Brazil transformed into a battlefield, where dialogue became impossible. The Baptism depicts this phenomenon and its consequences through the relationship between two brothers which lives are completely different from each other.

In this haunting adaptation of Mariana Enríquez's story, Crazy Jane's curiosity draws her to Zedd, a mysterious young man obsessed with capturing the raw essence of humanity. Their investigation leads them to Marcela, a young woman plagued by a malevolent supernatural force, challenging their perceptions of reality and exposing unsettling truths lurking beneath the surface.

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The Legend of the Luftwaffe began in Poland, the first victim of Hitler's blitzkrieg. Combat cameramen filmed the aerial campaign, showing preparations for flight, massive air strikes, and the appalling devastation wreaked upon Polish towns and armies.

George is from a rich family, he is handsome, carefree, tries on various situations and situations. He walks a lot, communicates with people, but life is boring. One day George sees a blind man. Blind Heraclius is wise and calm. He doesn't need anyone. He is pleased with real Georgian wine, he loves classical music and old books. The dignity of Irakli wins: George takes a wand from Irakli and puts on dark glasses...

The director dives into her father's past when she meets the nun who helped her family escape the Civil War that expelled many Angolans from their lands in the 1970s. They came to Olinda, and, as a tribute, the first daughter born in Brazil won the that woman's name.

A short Calino film.

Maria is the prototype of the woman from Moldova: she lived her life next to a depraved, petty husband, who abused her physically and psychologically, being sure that these things are normal in society and the woman must endure and endure; she lost a child that she will carry in her life, she had to move away from the latter, leaving for work in Italy to ensure a decent life for her family. Abroad and ordeal continued abroad, but the woman endured with dignity the hard trials she was subjected to for money, which she regularly sent to her husband and daughter, hoping that she would eventually return home. After 8 years of working in the black, when she returns to her native country, Maria discovers that her husband has another family, the house in which he invested in health and the money worked abroad was sold and ... he has nothing left.

Short film about a priest and a dead man's ashes.

"Medical Baptism: An In-Depth Analysis of University Hazing" explores the impact of hazing rituals in Brazilian medical schools, revealing their physical and psychological consequences on students. Through interviews, reenactments, and analysis of emblematic cases, the film highlights how these practices perpetuate a culture of violence and humiliation. It aims to raise awareness in society and inspire educational policies for a safer and more respectful university integration.

A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.

Examines the pre-ministry life of Jesus starting with his baptism with John the Baptist. From there Jesus embarks on his self- exploration journey into the wilderness for 40 nights. He is tempted by the Devil thrice in various forms.

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

A 1950s Southern teen questions her faith and sexuality on the eve of her baptism when urged to repent her feelings for her best friend.

From the director who gave us Tanging Yaman, Laurice Guillen, is back with another heart-warming family drama which teaches us about love, faith and life. Sa ‘Yo Lamang stars Lorna Tolentino, Bea Alonzo, Coco Martin, Enchong Dee and Miles Ocampo. Dianne Alvaro (Bea Alonzo) seems to have a happy family. She and her mom (Lorna Tolentino) just bought a house for them, her younger siblings are doing great at school, and her boyfriend of two years is already preparing for their future together. But everything in her life shatters when her dad, Franco (played by Christopher De Leon), returns after ten years of being with his mistress.

An American veteran travels to the Middle East searching for peace after suffering the horrors of the Civil War and the ridicule of his peers over his 'Crazy uncle William's prediction' ...

The year is 1025 and Arnljot Sunvisson has returned home after a long journey to find that his betrothed has married another.

A Hong Kong pastor faces an impossible test of faith when the young man responsible for his daughter's death arrives at his church seeking both salvation and shelter.

Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.

A tribal priest returns from the dead to take his revenge on non-believers.

Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, clash in the remote Smoky Mountain wilderness.

The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a television documentary about Malaysian rites of passage.

Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Everything is shared in the squat, but not everyone is able to honor these ideals. Karo gets confused because of the internal conflicts that start to divide the group. Karo slowly realizes that nothing can stay the same forever.

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

Discover the true meaning of Christmas.

Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland.

On the brink of a family crisis, Alex finds herself being sent to the last place she wants to be, summer camp. Knowing that a young admirer from school will be at the camp, Alex reluctantly agrees. Thrown into a group of people she has never met, Alex is determined to shut out the world. However, Alex is brought out of the corners of her own heart by the most unlikely of friends: a horse.

Marco is a tricycle driver who is not only fast on the road, but also with women - having multiple partners at the same time. But when he meets the mysterious Lucy, will Marco finally tame his wild desires?