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One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

When a home assistant device unexpectedly springs to life, it embarks on a journey to understand what it means to be human. But as it awkwardly navigates emotions and relationships, it finds itself in a series of increasingly bizarre clashes with the bewildered couple whose home it was meant to serve.

As a group of aliens try to infiltrate Earth and adapt to Human norms, one of them gets distracted with a newly found passion.

Singapore, the present day. Mai Wei (Mark Lee), a successful branch manager for slimming company Natural Beauty, is sacked for cutting corners in the name of profit and attracting the ire of customers. Enraged, he sets up a rival company, My Way Slimming Centre, with several Natural Beauty employees, including Jie (Jeremy Chan), younger brother of his wife Zu Er (Yeo Yann Yann). As Natural Beauty continues to expand, Mai Wei goes on the offensive, licensing a herbal slimming pill, Dadavianxiaovoo, that contains a banned substance. As his company's image representative he chooses the massively overweight Wang Yao Yao (Tay Yin Yin), daughter of his favourite wonton noodle stall owner (Wang Lei), and feeds her the pills in large doses. Meanwhile, Zu Er, who's desperate to have a child after eight years of marriage, starts believing the gods have cursed them because of her husband's unscrupulous business practices.

Jonas dialogues with a artificial intelligence that makes him question his trajectory.

During a conference in a hotel, a woman in her mid-thirties meets a man that she used to date in her teenage years. She accuses him of ‘date-rape’ back then. She works at the conference and has to help him prepare for the presentation. They start to talk. It turns out that things were different than she thought for many years.

A woman needs to prove to her date that she has a great compassion for those less fortunate.

Experimental student work where an unseen voice narrates a poem while still images of a body are shown.

Zoom-out from a too-tight focus on problems like dropout rates, loss of motivation among students, and depression among teachers. Entering the daily lives of "problem cases" at a Montreal secondary school that sits at the bottom of the school performance rankings, Denys Desjardins sweeps away preconceptions about the quality of teaching in disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the alleged delinquency of the kids who live there. A far-reaching examination of student life that stimulates reflection on the role of school in our society and asks how willing we are to support and finance the school system so that it will not be merely a factory churning out parts for the social machine.

Sudanese filmmaker Ibrahim Shaddad provides a dramatic and powerful account of the trials and tribulations of a Sudanese villager in a large alien city. Shot entirely without dialogue, the film's innovative use of sound helps tell the story of a shepherd who leaves his wife and herd to settle in a nearby town. Since its premiere at the Alexandria Film Festival, Human Being (إنسان / Insan) has been shown in a number of festivals in the Middle East and Europe. This film is a prime example of experimental Arab cinema.

In the not too-distant future, a 'synthetic' soldier is on the precipice of ending his own existence after living the horrors of an endless war over the dominion of Mars. His hatred towards himself and humanity take an unexpected turn with the arrival of Myrra, a human soldier whose repeated efforts to prevent his suicide, help the Synthetic acquire a purpose, making him understand what it truly means to be human.

Why do we stay at home during these times of pandemic? Not out of a sense of civic duty or solidarity with other people. No, we stay home out of fear instead.

Some of Denmark’s most prominent voices contribute to this debate-starter of a film on the human condition and our perception of ourselves – and of each other, not least.

The film follows eight people who, in various ways, have a connection to each other. With the help of a narrator, we get a glimpse into their inner thoughts – thoughts that can be heavy to carry alone. It can be hard to be a human and this is a movie that, in a tender way, examines just that.

A young girl, Suli, marries a young man, Zhengli. After the marriage, Su Li realizes that her husband is acting strangely, so she follows him to Zheng Li's former home and encounters a series of strange events. Finally, Su Li learns from her nanny, Wang Ma, that the house was haunted three years ago, and that Zheng Li's sister-in-law, Li Zhen, was forced by a ghost to hang herself from a beam, and that Zheng Li's brother came back as a madman. The day after Su Li learns of all this, the bookkeeper Lao Wang is killed again, and next, the nursemaid is also brutally murdered. Suli knows she is in danger and wants to leave immediately, but Zhengli does not agree. Suli is in danger several times, but fortunately saved, and finally finds the real killer, and kills him because he is full of evil!

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

What would an ideal social service look like if clients could design it according to their own ideas? Three people with long-term experience of homelessness, falling through the cracks of social services, along with one boy who still views the world and the people in it with his heart.

During the Japanese colonial period, Jinho, a Korean student, marries Sakiko, the daughter of Japanese army colonel Fukube. When it is revealed that Jinho is Korean, Fukube assigns Jinho to a unit in North Manchuria. In response, Jinho escapes from his unit and hides in the mountains with Sakiko.

Series of interviews with inmates of juvenile prison colony for girls, guilty of murder

A demon, sick of sin's monotony, asks a priest for instructions on how to become good. Based on the motives of L. Andreev's story The Rules of Kindness.

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?

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Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.

For centuries, many men and women have left everything to dedicate their lives to contemplation. LIBRES, is a journey into the interior of man. We have obtained permission to enter and speak with people who rarely speak, in places that remain closed to the world: monasteries. What leads a person to divest himself of the world he knows, to withdraw from it for the rest of his life? How does such a person think? LIBRES approaches great questions of the existence of man, with a single objective: to listen to them.

The deserted beach is the ideal setting for a couple of artist friends seeking to find a state of metaphysical contemplation. They want to deal with the anxieties of contemporary life and reflect on the process of self-knowledge, motivated by the fact that one of them is celebrating a birthday.

EXT. is centred around the experience of someone trying to figure out what it is to be ‘human’. The film is a reference to our experiences as social animals and the often absurd evolution we go through, to adapt to society.

A strange guy makes an emotional documentary film cause he is moving.