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A short film about the relationships between father and son.

Marie is driving on the highway and needs to pee urgently. But the toilet at the rest stop is broken. And an increasingly absurd odyssey through this toxic male biotope begins for Marie - and ends in blood.

Nina is pregnant with Jakub. Today, he introduces her to his family. They’re all gathered in the hospital at the bedside of his grandfather. Just as the young lady tries to put on a brave face, she is faced with the surprising reaction of the dying relative: he wants to see her breasts. This sparks a debate to which she is not invited – should the patriarch’s last vow be satisfied?

What's this coffee obsession everyone's going through?

Nakajima (Yoshimi Tachi) returns to the office for the first time since the end of the self-isolation period. He urges everyone to sanitize and keep social distance, but the other members act like nothing’s changed. Unable to hide his frustration, Nakajima is further thrown off by Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), who also seems completely unfazed. In the midst of this, a letter arrives for Himuro—from Hayato Omiya, currently serving time in prison.

Danish film producer Peter Aalbæk is a self-proclaimed patriarch. Now his daughters are sending him to therapy—but can he really change?

A documentary told by seven protagonists, who share their personal and political point of view by expressing the reasons and the purposes for their advocacy as members of the Buenos Aires LGBTQI+ Community. Each one of them narrates personal processes and experiences which constitute their social and political identity as well as the motivation for their struggle for an equal and fairer future.

The director dreams of making a 16mm masturbation film guided by her grandmother — according to an old recipe. With great displeasure she has to realize that her subconscious makes use of a male gaze and old gender roles.

In the darkest time for the faith, Patriarch Tikhon managed not only to resist the revolutionary government, not only to stay with the people and help those in need when the church itself was subjected to unprecedented persecution, but also to stop the split of the church. What was Patriarch Tikhon like?

Fed up with being bullied, demisexual and asexual best friends Bex and Wren strike back with a bit of magic that has unintended consequences.

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Marga is a forty-two-year-old actress who seems to have already passed the peak of her career. After starting her career in theater on the country's major stages (Volksbühne Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Maxim Gorki Theater), it is becoming increasingly difficult for her to find work. Not only in theater, but also in film, it seems to be getting harder to get roles as she gets older and as a woman, especially a woman with a migrant background.

In the chancellorship of Konrad Adenauer, the course was set for democracy. None of his successors had such difficult decisions to make, and none exercised power as autocratically as he did.

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"Jaffa Gate Is Ours!" screamed the headlines in 2005. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos was accused of selling church property to Jewish settlers. He denied all the accusations. But for the first time in the church's 2000-year history, its leader was ousted. For 11 long years, Irineos was imprisoned in his chambers. In this first-person account, filmmaker Danae Elon unravels what really happened to the former Patriarch. With unprecedented access to the inner workings of the church, a riveting, mysterious, disturbing, and often humorous story is revealed about an unknown world within the walls of Jerusalem's Old City.

Patriarch Michel Sabbah: An Arab, Palestinian and Christian believer from Nazareth. In 1987, Pope John Paul II appointed him as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1987, to be the first Arab Patriarch to hold the office in the Catholic Church's history. He made an honorable history during his work as a Patriarch. His work marked significant milestones in the struggle against injustice and oppression to bring peace to the country of the Prince of Peace. He is still active in many initiatives and activities to spread his human and spiritual message in Palestine and the world. The film is a humble contribution to honor the Patriarch and shed light on some crucial moments in his life, his thought, and his constant obsession with the consolidation of love, justice, and peace.

Embers is a teaser for the feature horror film PATRIARCH - this short film help get the project green lit. At the beginning of the Patriarch script, it mentions 2 of the security team (who were split up from the rest of the team) have gone missing. This is what happened to them. —David A. Roberts

Dr. Neiman reads from the chapters of Genesis that deal with the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abimelech, the birth of Isaac and the covenant of the circumcision. His lectures on the Book of Genesis were delivered in 2000 at the University of Judaism in Bel Air, CA.

Short film by Serge Bourguignon

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the 300 million-member Orthodox Christian Church, feels crucified living in Turkey under a government that he says would like to see his nearly 2,000-year-old Patriarchate die out. But Christianity was born in Turkey, and the Patriarch says he is not leaving. Bob Simon reports this captivating story steeped in the history of Christianity.

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.

The patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.

Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.

André and Vera are a young entrepreneurial couple. They get the opportunity to pitch their female health app at a prestigious competition. Before going there, Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking. From this point, her attitude changes and André starts to behave unexpectedly.

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer working on a major contract for Robert ...

Working extremely hard to keep his hotel afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to see every male guest as a potential threat. What follows is Paul's downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy where he finally discovers that hell is not a state of mind – hell is himself.

Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.

As a family clashes over their late father's land, an eerie painting appears and releases something sinister during the nine-day funeral ritual.

A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.

12-year-old Fabi has to finally prove himself as one of the family - by getting his first scar.

Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?

The Church of the Resurrection of Christ located in the Moscow district Sokolniki is one of the most remarkable churches in Moscow. Built a few years before the revolution, it has a history that reflects the fate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th century. Its walls remember the First World War and two revolutions, the confiscation of church treasures and the restoration of the patriarchate. The film features the builder and first dean of the church of Resurrection, father Johann Kedrov who was persecuted and exiled under the Soviet regime. The parishioners of the church will always remember this man.

The film tells us about the history of the Moscow Donskoy monastery and the personality of Patriarch Tikhon. During the difficult years of persecution of the Russian Church, from November 1917 to April 1925, he led it, trying to keep the Orthodox faith pure.

When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret heroes of history, travel the world saving and copying texts, threatened by the madness of censors, with the noble purpose of preventing the ultimate loss of human knowledge.

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A tribute about the life, personality and work of Archbishop Stylianos of blessed memory; a gift from our local Church to the Christ-loving flock and all those who loved the great former Hierarch.

Pseudo-scientific documentary film that expresses a number of para- and pseudo- scientific views on the properties of water and so-called the memory of water, which are presented by its authors as scientific.

In 1967, as the Vietnam War raged, a Vietnamese revolutionary guerrilla team became the U.S. military's top target—charged with safeguarding a secret group of intelligence agents at all costs.