Urda: The Third Reich is an original net animation written and directed by Romanov Higa. The story takes place circa 1943, during World War II.
Facing a losing war, the Nazi Party discovers a marooned spaceship capable of time travel, thus enabling them to alter the outcome of their fate. Enter Erna Kurtz, a newly hired spy who stumbles upon the Nazis' plot. With the help of her fearless friend Janet, Erna must face her past in order to secure her future.
Hu Yong'er gains a fragment of the Heavenly Book to help the poor but becomes a fugitive pursued by Zuo Chu. She discovers the Sage Mistress is her mother and Zuo Chu, her brother, has betrayed their sect for power. To stop his plan to revive the fox clan and endanger humanity, she masters the Heavenly Book and joins forces with Jin Tai to defeat him.
The rise of new cultivation techniques that embrace technology has led to the gradual decline of ancient, millennia-old cultivation arts. Wang Xuan, a prodigious young master of the old techniques, accidentally joins the mysterious organization Mi Lu. Through seizing treasured artifacts, battling new techniques, and confronting celestial beings in a series of thrilling and exhilarating adventures, he uncovers the profound secrets hidden within the ancient arts. To confront the impending great crisis, Wang Xuan dares to delve into the starry sky, pushing the limits of his own growth.
Phat, a young aristocrat from Bangkok, is sent north on a political mission but, after a mysterious lunar eclipse, awakens in the present day. There, he meets Namping, a free-spirited musician deeply rooted in Lanna culture. Between two worlds and under the gentle sound of the salo, Phat embarks on a journey of newfound freedom and feelings he never knew existed in his time.
When Chu Sheng followed his master doing funeral services, many strange cases happened and reminded him of his mother's murder. Back then, it was said that his father was bewitched by the fox demon and then killed his mother. Was the demon real, or was there a different truth behind this murder?
Eight participants are placed in an underground bunker for a psychological experiment. In a twist of irony, the world ends and they are now trapped in the bunker with nowhere to go.
Joe Bob, Darcy, and the whole Drive-In crew gather around the yule log for some reindeer games and a triple feature of classic holiday horror films and deep-dive trivia.
This three part French TV serial for children (alternate versions exist as a feature, Manoel’s Destinies, and a 4 part Portuguese TV serial, Adventure in Madeira) is the favourite of many devotees of Raúl Ruiz. This is because it ties the enchantment and mystery of Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi and the Brothers Grimm to the filmmaker’s experiments with narrative strategies and what he calls the pentaludic model of storytelling (where characters are thrown dice-like into combinations and situations governed by the play of Chance and Destiny).
Shown as part of Channel 4's Video Fantasies series, a selection of four innovative dramas deploying state-of-the-art visual and electronic effects. This was the only one of the four that had a futuristic basis. It was set perhaps a couple of decades ahead in a world being slowly drowned by technology, a world in which traffic jams are the norm instead of the exception, and where the people avoid getting caught in the rain for better reasons than simply not wanting to get wet. The Rachel of the title is the younger sister of an up-and-coming marketing executive who has just secured a contract with a wealthy but repulsive millionaire who is into toxic waste, which he stores in secret for large sums of money. Rachel finds that, through a large bank of video screens in her sister's apartment, her wishes can come true when she brings to life the image on an anti-pollution poster. This new friend helps her to make up her mind about her own future. The style of the production was fresh and colourful, the pace slow and mo