Pedro, a 25-year-old young man, enters a financial institution to ask for a loan. He is sent to the basement, where an endless, twisting staircase drags him into a spiral with no way out. Just as he is about to lose hope, he finds some hallways that lead him to the office of a former employee, who makes him sign some papers. Pedro agrees and, unknowingly, signs his sentence to an eternity at the company.
After several unsuccessful performances, the theatrical project based on Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" seems doomed to oblivion. The desperate actors persuade the director to call on a constellator who can unlock the energy and summon the audience. During the constellation, the roles are reversed: the one who directs is directed, the one who acts is acted upon, and the one who assists is assisted... The participants' personal problems emerge, revealing new ways of understanding themselves and the play. Ultimately, we are all actors in our own lives.
A samurai arrives at a shrine in search of the person responsible for mysterious disappearances. There, she finds Byakko, the white tiger, but fails to harm him. Some flowers save her and guide her to a destroyed shrine, replaced by prey. She discovers that Byakko is a furious deity. While he tries to kill her, the samurai must calm his anger and purify him. Following the flowers, she destroys the prey, restores the shrine, and returns peace to Byakko.
The film begins with dreamlike footage of an exotic dance performance, leading the way into the emergence of butterflies from their cocoons, overlayed with a striking light show.
A man begins to suspect that his partner has bewitched him when he discovers he's fulfilling certain requirements. (1-minute project made by students in the Editing and Filmmaking 1 course at the Faculty of Arts in La Plata)
10 News First takes you behind the scenes on the making of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Angela Bishop chats with Tom Cruise for all the inside info.
With over 30 years of marriage, Vânia and Valéria are a passionate couple who embrace whatever life has to offer. Residents of Parelheiros, in the far south of São Paulo, they fight for the right to healthy food in the outskirts of the city and for a lifestyle in harmony with nature. They are also the mothers of Turma do Nino, which has already rescued over 100 animals.
Long before the iPhone, another inventive device allowed everyone to instantly chronicle their lives — the Polaroid camera. The product, and the company’s unique culture, would launch not only instant photography mania but also become the model for today’s Silicon Valley tech culture. It all began with the Polaroid Model 95, first offered for sale in the fall of 1948. Its revolutionary power to allow the photographer to see the picture then and there would change the country, then the world. Mr. Polaroid tells the little-known story of the man behind the camera, a Harvard dropout named Edwin Land. Over a half century ago, before the smartphone, Land was dreaming up “a camera that you would use as often as your pencil or your eyeglasses.” He would also come to believe his company was “on its way to lead the world — perhaps even to save it.” Hubris, technology, brilliance, and a billion photographs a year are all part of the rollicking Polaroid story.