Year 2016 - 498

Thomas & Friends Christmas movie, 2016.

Tucked in the trees of Oregon’s Mount Hood, an introspective young snowboarder camps alone, anticipating a winter of adventure and self-renewal in this experimental, moody documentary.

While Thomas spends his last weekend in Chile with his family, before traveling abroad for the first time, a flaw in the sewage system produces a flood of smelly water. The problem shows the essence of family relationships.

In this parable, a shy wolf tries to connect with a group of hip, party-loving bunnies but finds her body is in revolt

Gus and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are on holiday. During their nightly walk to a spot near the water, Anna makes a confession. Can the couple, amidst the wildness of nature and under a full moon, overcome the conflict? Will they reach their idyllic spot?

Joe and Caspar are upping the ante, with a new bigger and braver road trip across the United States. This time the boys will travel 2,000 miles competing against each other on a bigger scale, but can they really earn their stars and stripes with the challenges they face along the way? From American footballers and ranch hands, to astronauts and muscle men, who will be crowned the all-American winner of Hit The Road USA?

Hitler, Nazi propaganda and 1936 Berlin Olympics are put under the microscope to uncover hidden truths and the historical legacy of those games.

German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York. Her flowing forms were in part a reaction to the rigid structures of then-popular minimalism, a male-dominated movement. Hesse’s complicated personal life encompassed not only a chaotic 1930s Germany, but also illness and the immigrant culture of New York in the 1940s. One of the twentieth century’s most intriguing artists, she finally receives her due in this film, an emotionally gripping journey with a gifted woman of great courage.

A tour of the development and unravelling of a relationship. A beautiful and hypnotic visual representation and journey of the make up and break up of a relationship.

Vlad, 38, works as a tour guide on cruise ships. When he started work ten years ago, he left behind a failed relationship and a small child: Max, his son, who is now almost a teenager. Vlad happens to come back to Romania for a week and tries to connect with his son and make up for the lost time.

20:15 is a drama-mystery, sci-fi thriller in which we follow the lives of a mysterious man and a loving couple. Their lives will forever be changed once their two worlds collide.

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The director, Roland Schwab, has created his version of Hell. The set is like a high iron walled hanger and the stage is continually occupied with people who look like fugitives from Mad Max and who interact with Mefistofele. The orchestra and choir are wonderful. Rene Pape gives a nuanced interpretation with a certain amount of sardonic humour under the evil. His singing and acting are first rate, as is that of Kristine Opolais and Joseph Calleja.

In a small, run down motel in the middle of Nowhere, America, Mike, a commercial real estate broker with a hidden agenda, arrives in search of something far more valuable than this shambles of a property. Sam, the sexy young woman who owns the joint, does not have much else in the world and a guest is exciting. But with an ex Special Forces turned policeman brother constantly controlling her and her place, she is a serious obstacle in Mike's search, until she becomes a welcome and dangerous distraction. As their plans escalate and their world narrows, a shattering moment of violence will forever change their futures and reveal the truth behind Mike's arrival and Sam's motives.

This "Making of" documentary is an exemplary sample of the genre, observing the ideas and experiences involved in making the feature film, TRAPS, directed by Pauline Chan.

A scientist looking to cure the many symptoms of aging gets into some trouble that forces him to self his drug on the black market.

A pseudo-musical, queer adaptation of a tale of love at first sight and all the inexplicable, operatic confusion it brings. As a hopeless daydreamer falls for a mysterious young man obsessed with his former lover, he finds himself compelled to help — and in doing so, falls madly in love.

After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the streets of Toronto. The result is an episodic love letter set against the city's intimacies and haunts, populated by old and new acquaintances, while the disembodied voiceover weighs in on gender, animal, and the end of literary culture. Beginning from the position of the body in fugue, Incident Reports traces the most intimate of daily life changes through chronicling a back beat of the city's endless transformation.

Seda, whose life has been shaken by a series of events and whose mental state has deteriorated, has lost all hope for the future. She wants to pay back the price for the pain she has suffered and the experiences she has endured. What she experiences at the moment of death is far beyond what she experienced while alive. The heart massage needed to bring Seda back to life is the beginning of unexpected events. During the CPR, her soul repeatedly leaves and returns to her body. During these comings and goings, Seda, who is drawn to the other world, falls under the influence of dark forces. Unable to understand the reason for what she is experiencing as she forms connections beyond her control, the woman finally confronts the truth.