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“A conversation with a friend – Ahmed Akbar. A short interview-type film portrait with Akbar, a black filmmaker and former student of mine at Kent State. Akbar expresses an unusual and exciting view of himself/blacks in America/and such varied subjects as ‘this moon race shit!’ A friendly, lively, exciting portrait of a very extraordinary person from Akron, Ohio.” –Richard Myers. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Amar, Akbar and Anthony are close friends living in Kochi. They enjoy a carefree life. Their perceptions and beliefs get shattered with an unexpected event and the resulting story forms the plot of the movie.

A man with dissociative identity disorder takes revenge on four businessmen for the murder of his family.

Prior to the India-Pakistan war of 1971, the RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) trains an Indian banker in espionage and martial arts, and sends him to Pakistan for an undercover operation where he finds himself sinking between emotions and violence.

The story of Anarkali and Saleem retold.

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

Bollywood action comedy film with a lost and found theme, about three brothers separated during their childhood who grew up in three homes, adopting three religions. They meet in their youth to fight a common villain.

The video focuses on fasting during the month of Ramadan, one of the five pillars of Muslim practice. Through testimonies made by Muslims from three Islamic communities in São Bernardo do Campo, we seek to understand the meanings of fasting, its breaking, the licit and the illicit, the Night of the Decree and, finally, the end of Ramadan with one of the main festivals of the Islamic calendar, Eid al Fitr.

Akbar, after completing his period of exile, goes to Tehran to attend the wedding ceremony of his brother Habib and Maryam. But when he arrives, he finds that a mourning chamber has been set up for his brother instead.

Akbar has just lost his job when he meets a foreign tourist woman named Catherine and starts working as her guide. This proves to be troublesome since his wife and his former co-workers try to end his new relationship.

The Emperor Akbar breeds animals in captivity, to honour his first born son. His unsettled cheetah fails to breed. Akbar experiments with the enclosures he has built for his collection in order to induce the cheetahs to mate. After many frustrated attempts, Akbar gains a greater understanding.

Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic consequences, the brotherly bond shared by the trio is forced to come to terms with some unexpected challenges. Interracial marriage, near fatal accidents and stints in prison will test old friendships and family values. A coming of age comedy drama showing the absurdities of life can also be the most amusing.

Zaid, recently released from prison for an unknown crime, tries to reintegrate into his previous life, only to find that the arms of the state can control what he says and does

Jonny Wilken is an ageing lion trainer in a circus. He is in love with his younger colleague Jutta Sarris. On her wedding day, Jutta's favorite Bengal tiger attacks her out of jealousy and kills her. Jonny, full of pain and out of revenge, enters the cage to kill the animal with his bare hands. However, the tiger bows to him without any resistance.

Siti Akbari has a happy family life until her husband deserts her for another woman. But Siti Akbari remains unshakeable. Her devotion leads to her eventual fulfillment.

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.

These 10 animated stories tell classic tales of Mughal Emperor Akbar and his beloved courtier Birbal, who serves the emperor well with his witty wisdom and steadfast loyalty. The collection includes "Young Birbal," "God's Own People," "Birbal and the Begum," "Flawless Judgment," "The Mango Tree," "Birbal's Journey to Heaven," "The Wise Answer," "The Sweet Reply," "Witty Birbal" and "The Corrupt Official."

Created in 1571 by Akbar, the greatest of the Mughal Emperors, Fatehpur Sikri, laid the foundations of a culture whose impact still reverberates in North India. His free thinking, open minded and innovative attitude is expressed in the design of the main mosque, in the innovative roofscapes, and in the unique composition of the palace complex, based on a delicate system of a series of balancing axes. Exquisite Miniature paintings from the imperial atelier evoke the court and the events linked to the creation of Fatehpur Sikri. Three Hindustani classical ragas, which are said to have been composed by Tansen, the legendary ” jewel ” of Akbar’s court, go with the images.

Ali Akbar Khan was one of the first Indian musicians to introduce Hindustani classical music to non-Indian audiences, swiftly building a reputation as master of the sarode (an Indian hybrid of the banjo and ode). This compilation of live concert clips captures Khan in his musical element in a variety of venues, and includes bonus footage of the making of Khan's Grammy-nominated "Legacy" album with singer Asha Bhosle.

An American sitar player battles for acceptance in the world of Indian classical music as he vies for the championship at the largest music competition in Rajasthan.

Maharaj Singh is a proud owner of several derby-winning stallions, and lives in a palatial farmhouse with his wife, Rukmini and young son, Chimpoo. One day dacoits attack his farmhouse with a view of stealing the stallions.

A group of teens, with a fetish for stealing cars and retagging them for profit, takes on a job that leads them to steal from the wrong person.

As India faces a militant attack in Kashmir, the country’s best combat aviators join forces under a reckless yet brilliant squadron leader to form 'Air Dragons', faces mortal dangers and their inner demons.

The wealthy doctor Shashikant marries a servant girl, the much-loved Gauri. When an old flame makes makes contact with Shashikant, pride jeopardizes their marriage and the lives of their children.

This story tells about the murder case of Viona, a female dancing student at SMAN 5 Kaler, Zara, Dina, and Ghifar as new students in the 2023 school year often received terror from Viona while they were at the LDKS CAMP at the school, what happened their fate?

A documentary film about how people that are living in the city are willing to live in the country sides or villages and the people that are living in the villages want to live in a big city

Behula is a 1966 Bengali film directed by Zahir Raihan and stars Razzak and Shuchanda as lead pair. It was based on the Hindu mythology of Behula, who fights vehemently to goddess Manasa for her husband Lakhindar's life.

Prakash (Nani) is a streetsmart Sherwani model in the old city who believes that money rules the world. His dream is to earn 1 crore and settle. Noor (Catherine) is a girl in the neighbourhood who loves Prakash to the core but he doesn’t acknowledge her feelings. One day Prakash comes across Sweety (Siddhika), daughter of a wealthy politician (Charan Raj) and feels she is his ticket to settle in life. But one incident happens and that ends up with Prakash and Noor on the run along with huge money bags belonging to Sweety’s father. How that happens and where it leads forms the rest of the tale.

Unemployed slacker Nawab lives a poor lifestyle in Chaqu-Pura, Hyderabad, with his elderly parents and refuses to find employment. He spends his time with another slacker, Baba, and are financed by their Auto-Rikshaw driver friend, Abbu. Both also indulge in petty theft and act as con-men to make money. His fed-up father asks them to leave, and they end up at Abbu's house. Not satisfied, they con Abbu's landlord, Jango Pathan, to lend them Rs.25000/- which they lose in a Carrom game. They decide to break into a wealthy man's house, steal, sell the goods, and then re-pay their debt. But the hapless duo comically end up being caught by the police and their plight is telecast on TV. Watch what impact this news has on Jango, Abbu, and Nawab's parents.

The plot follows a familiar track of the not-very-well-off protagonists getting caught up in a money-related SPIN. The film, this time, ambitiously plonks double roles into the lead - not one face being featured twice, but two of them.

The film is about the stepmother who tried to be a real mother of a boy. But she could be a real mother only after some difficult events for her and child.

The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.

The film is about two fishermen who went through difficult ordeal during the shipwreck.

This is a story about Doni, a school teacher who has a pitbull named Marley

It's late night in a burger bar in Wales...

Boys On Film showcases short works from around the world that challenge genre, initiate discussion and explore issues of sexuality in beautiful ways. Volume 11: We Are Animals contains eight complete films: Dominic Haxton's "We Are Animals" starring Daniel Landroche, Clint Napier, and Drew Droege; "Burger" from director Magnus Mork; Shaz Bennett's "Alaska Is A Drag" starring Martin L. Washington Jr., Spencer Broschard, and Barret Lewis; Carlos Augusto de Oliveira's "Three Summers" starring Morten Kirkskov and Simon Munk; Nicholas Verso's "The Last Time I Saw Richard" starring Toby Wallace, Cody Fern, and Brian Lipson; Eldar Rapaport's "Little Man" starring Daniel Boys, Darren Evans, and Jamie Thompson; Rodrigo Barriuso's "For Dorian" starring Ron Lea and Dylan Harman; and Bryan Horch's "Spooners" starring Walter Replogle and Ben Lerman.

Sonika Gill plays an innocent virgin girl (Kachchi Kali as the title indicates) who is tricked by her lover (Ajinkya Deo) who is a blue film maker and sold off in to prostitution. Her brother (Alok Nath) tries hard to search for her in every brothel but in vain. Will he succeed in finding her?

When a popular R&B singer's career takes a turn, she returns home for the holidays and ends up directing her family's church choir to help them win a Christmas competition.

About a rockerstar from USA falling in love with a good girl.

While celebrating their children's birthdays, Mae and Rendy received shocking news. Sophie announces that she will get married to Kim Bum Park, a Korean man whom she just met for 3 weeks when holidaying in Korea.

Cindy, a provincial girl studying in Jakarta, tries to live on her own though her mother is worried that she will be deceived by men. Panji, who has the same birthday as Cindy, pretends to love Cindy but deserts her whenever convenient. Panji is a mystery to Cindy. Cindy is tortured but also curious. She believes her love is not unrequited. She’s sure Panji feels the same as she does, but why in the world does he always crush Cindy’s hope. Every time Cindy tries to rise and forget him, his image keeps on haunting her. But the guy even dashes all Cindy’s hopes.

Tony, an American journalist, is assigned to assist the investigation team of Berita Satu. In Jakarta, Tony immediately attracted to cover street children and Acil is his choice. Interviews are initially go smoothly, but it turns into a mess when Acil steals Tony’s camera. Tony pursue Acil mightily to get into the area of the fishing village. There he meets with Anggun, who is a teacher for street children. Then Marni, a mother who has to be prostitute, and Jampang, the head thug in the fishing village. Through them, Tony goes into marginal lives of the people of Jakarta with all their problems.

Sugunan is the typical male chauvinist who thinks a wife is meant to cook, clean and take care of the house. His wife Bindu suffers silently for many years when an incident makes her take a drastic step.

Solomon was practically raised by his teachers Anna and Mari. He mysteriously shows up one day years later when they are both retired in a hill-station, offering to live with them and take care of their affairs. The teachers are elated, and Solomon quickly works his magic to liven up things, in the process starting a little romance with the teachers' nurse . Unfortunately, a turn of events brings out the real reason behind Solomon's sudden migration to the hills.

Vellaripravinte Changathi is based on the story of film-maker Augustine Joseph who made a Malayalam film in 1966. However, due to some reasons, the film did not make it to the theatres. The 1960s-70s was a period dominated by Prem Nazir, Sathyan, Sheela and others. Unluckily Augustine Joseph was not able to get the film released. Later he commits suicide due to the debts from the production of the film. After years his son revels the original prints of the film from Gemini Lab and sees it. Later he goes on with releasing the film and tries to find the people who did the characters. The film is well appreciated for the way of narration and picturisation which makes the viewer feels that they are actually watching an old Black and white movie of the 60-70s

When his business partner is hurt in a car accident, happily married Mahmoud (Fariborz Arabnia) must travel to Tehran, where he falls for the beautiful Sima (Hedye Tehrani). The two agree to a "temporary marriage," but problems arise when Sima doesn't want the arrangement to end. Sima's reluctance to play her expected role in this common Islamic practice soon turns to obsession in this smash hit from Iran.

An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.

A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…

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A story of childhood memories, love, and family. A story where Honda plays a part in every twist and turn as a family journeys through life, where childhood friends find true love only to find that fate seems to have other plans...

A father with supernatural abilities clashes with his son, a physics master's student who always thinks logically.