In the Distance 2015
It's calm and peaceful above the clouds. But in the distance is chaos, and night by night it advances...
It's calm and peaceful above the clouds. But in the distance is chaos, and night by night it advances...
Painter Jean-Pierre Bellan has filmed his garden as others send postcards. As a counterpoint to his videos, family memories sketch his portrait in absence.
After a recent breakup, two women sit beside a fire and contemplate the universe.
Boxhead and Roundhead are a pair of innocents in a land of monsters, hostile natives and appalling weather. This 8th stressful adventure is a tale of obsession and paranoia.
The story centres on Ako and San, two women who live in the same house, and who live in, visit and leave the house. This omnibus effectively uses the stage of the house to challenge various approaches to the expression of time and space. Interesting the minor misalignments between people that unfold in the house!
Andrea is a 29 year old german woman who is an employee at a book store in Berlin. Piero is a 45 year old italian man who is conducting a radio show focused on Mediterranean music. One day they eventually meet each other in a cinema. They stare at each other without saying anything at all but feelings arise from their sights. After this first encounter Andrea and Piero will begin to figure out a love affair in their respective inner self between both of them. They do not know anything about each other.
A documentary that addresses the still unfolding struggles of this vulnerable sex workers population. It is particularly urgent now, as attempts to mitigate the Trump administration’s failures regarding the pandemic are being drafted with gaps that prevent aid to some of the most vulnerable Americans. As the pandemic continues to unfold, the vulnerability of sex workers acts as a litmus test for all vulnerable groups experiencing the fallout of a mishandled crisis. It investigates how the pandemic has directly impacted sex workers by way of interruption to their work, increased personal risk, and financial destabilization. The film also explores the contrast between the US response to the pandemic and the responses of other nations.
The director documents the events leading to a reunion with her estranged father.
A group of Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers talk about their situation at a Serbian refugee camp. The dramatic differences between their perceptions and the reality of asylum are inescapable.
Aurore, 16, is sent to the countryside so as not to see the physical decline of her dying father. In this strange interlude, she meets Loup, a charming and solitary teenager who seeks refuge in his dreams to find Joshua, an imaginary lover.
It is the story of a moneyless middle-aged magician whose life takes an unexpected turn when a little girl who seems to have supernatural abilities, truly "magical" powers, begins to appear frequently in his garden, causing him to rethink his profession, his vision of magic and, ultimately, his life.
Mado wakes up in the morning finding all the people disappeared. Hearing a strong typhoon might strike, everyone has escaped the disaster. She checks her school, but no one is there. She meets her classmate, Fujii, unexpectedly. Fujii asks Mado to find a shelter together. He doesn't want to leave her alone. Both start looking around to see if anyone's left behind: An empty theatre, a movie is still running on the screen. A young girl stands by a desolated pool. A strip show theater with a retired stripper. An old man brushes his shoe in a bowling center continuously. Both guys search everywhere. And finally in the heavy rain, they find shelter in a factory. This is a factory where Mado's father had died in.
We approach to invisible details for our eyes, figures disappearing as we move away from them, diluted in space. Parts that are integrated into the whole landscape. The remoteness as disappearance. The human figure betrays us here negligible small in the vastness of the territory, the voracity of the active vacuum that surrounds him. Images captured in the Atlas region in Morocco.
A twenty-four-year-old former college student decides to wander the city streets after he's left homeless by his father, his only close relative. There he struggles to find a new home through random people he runs into and old acquaintances while suffering from the torments from his past and a strange disease that seems to be damaging his health quickly.
Loyalties are revealed in the wake of a mugging.
A heavily sweating man, returning from a long trip, is telephoning from his car to speak to his wife. But he gets his daughter on the line. Lisette is constantly asking questions and tells about a drawing she made, but all the man is asking for is to get her mother. It seems he desperately wants to speak her, for what might be the last time. When Lisette is getting her mother out of the backyard, the man is still talking, telling Lisette should say to her mother he loves her. The sound of an approaching ambulance can be heard. When his wife finally gets on the phone, it's only a remarkable short conversation. She's asking him about his flight and to come back soon because Lisette misses him much. What is going on?
Three stories which each focus on one of three types of relationships: family, friendship, and love. The first story is about conflicted manager on a business trip who is intrigued by an elderly worker and investigates his life. The second story is about a young father who receives a letter that brings him to a foreign land, where old emotions come unburied. The last story is about a visiting professor from overseas who sets a student's heart fluttering, while having to deal with his own.
Night, national road. Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking the 22 euros he needs to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.
A distressed young woman, possibly on the run is surrounded by nothing but barren landscapes of forests and fields. As she progresses to an indiscernible denouement, the film contorts shape into a circular series of pulsating images that touches on the horror and the metaphysical.
The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life of the place, leading eventually to a murder.
Miyako participates in a 1 night and 2 days hiking tour of Mount Fuji. Ryoichi Nozawa is the guide for the hiking tour team of Miyako, Shintaro Kondo, Someno Aoyama and Ai Mitsuke. While hiking through Mount Fuji, Someno looks back and sees Miyako is crouced down and has her hands covering her face. Ryoichi tries to talk to Miyako, but she is frozen. Miyako sees the faint shape of person. Miyako realizes that she has a daughter named Natsuki.
Li Rui, a principled surgeon, challenges medical corruption, clashing with Ling Yuan, a pragmatic hospital director, while inspiring Yu Ningxin, a privileged colleague, to embrace true medical ethics. Meanwhile, Liao Kenan, a veteran obstetrician, struggles with the changing doctor-patient dynamic, revealing the conflicts in modern healthcare.
A coming of age story about young people in their twenties and the problems they face in university. Nam Soo-hyun and Yeon Joo, two boys with contrasting personalities, unexpectedly become friends when they work on a project together.
Qin Yun Sheng is an emergency doctor, who has a house that needs to be renovated and Su Ying is a focused interior designer. They meet because of their participation in a house renovation reality tv show. As they get to know one another, Su Ying gradually opens her once closed heart to Qin Yun Sheng, only to find out that he still missed his girlfriend who had passed away. In order to bridge the seemingly farthest distance between them, Su Ying took the initiative to fight for Qin Yun Sheng with a love that just might be strong enough to heal them both.
This drama depicts the hardships and challenges couples in a long-distance relationship have to live through. Professor Fang Zuo returns from England to his home town, where he meets the 29 years old leftover woman Shi Nan who behaves like a man. Later, he finds out that she’s the one who saved him in a car accident before. The two slowly turn from foes to lovers. (Source: CdramaBase)
The series manifest the lives of war veterans, and addresses subjects such as love, hope and life after war. There is also the ugly side of war such as organ trafficking and arms dealing.
Long Distance is a romantic comedy that explores the complications of long distance relationships in the digital age. Gaby (Chachi Gonzales), a career-driven Latina, and Chris (Cayden Boyd), her Irish-American boyfriend, are college sweethearts who struggle to maintain their relationship while living 2,000 miles apart after Gaby lands a job as the social media manager for Latin heartthrob Rafa (Josh Leyva). While it seems like a dream job, soon Gaby realizes how much work it takes to keep her relationship going - especially battling the miscommunications and technology fails of modern romance. Love is hard. Long Distance is a b*tch!
It is early summer in 2020 at a time when social interaction is restricted and many people are spending time at home. Six people living in an apartment building meet and find themselves relating to each other. Two of them are a couple who have been married for three years – Takiguchi Miwa, a magazine editor who works from home, and her husband Akira, a video producer. They look forward to each day despite the changes in their lives. Akira’s daily routine is to watch the videos of a popular trio on NewTube. The three members actually live on the same floor of the apartment building. Asano Chiaki, a young photographer who lives next door, lost his job due to the coronavirus. He has been spending his days taking photos from the rooftop or verandah, capturing beauty amid the mundane daily life. One day, when he steps out onto the verandah, he sees Miwa watering her flowers on the verandah next door and is attracted to her.
A Portuguese series, dealing with terrorism, crime, and the economical crises in Portugal.
'1km Distance Between Us' is a romantic comedy drama that captures the process of two main characters who meet through the chat application '1km' and fall in love. The 1km app is a meeting app where you can talk and meet people who are 1km away from you.