Soo-ha leaves the city and goes to the roadside rest stop inherited from her father. The rest stop, however, is losing business as much as Soo-ha’s life is losing vitality. Because of a new road, few people pass this way and there are two employees who don’t really fit in. Even worse, her brother comes and passes his partial ownership to her and leaves his daughter behind. As Soo-ha gradually wears down, a South American band ‘Kawsay’ drops by the rest stop in the middle of their trip. Soo-ha welcomes them thinking they might attract more visitors.
In Javanese culture, Sengkolo is a negative entity that often haunts humans, brings bad luck and brings disaster. On the first night of Suro, Sengkolo moved to target several weton who were his prey.
Through the eyes of a young girl uprooted from Yugoslavia to Denmark, we watch a family navigate a new world and rebuild their lives while holding on to what they left behind. Home speaks to belonging, sacrifice and the generations shaped by displacement. Maja is six years old when most of her family moves from the Yugoslav SFR to Denmark, leaving her two brothers behind for the time being, waiting to follow the rest to the promised land. Denmark proves to be far from the welcoming haven they imagined. There is a new language to learn, new customs to navigate, new skies to understand. Did they really want to stay? Maja grows up in Denmark, builds a life and a career there as an artist, yet she cannot forget all that her parents left behind. Actress-turned-director Marijana Janković was the same age as Maja when her own family left Ivangrad (today Berane) for the European north, and that is only the most superficial similarity between the two. As two of her leading men, fellow Ivangradian Dejan Čukić and Osijek’s one and only Zlatko Burić, will surely know, the details of Maja’s or Marijana’s story may be specific, but the larger flow of things has remained the same across generations and countries of origin.
The script centres on Marianne, the wife of a wealthy industrialist, envied and admired, model spouse and devoted housewife. She’s about to turn 40 and the comfort of the large family home has slowly closed its merciless trap on her. The prisoner of an inextricable network of social, family and marital obligations, accomplice of her own erasure, she has denied herself, without ...
A young American woman with health challenges finds unexpected romance with a charismatic local during her summer in Majorca, forcing her to weigh her heart's desires against family obligations and her planned return home.
A young American woman with health challenges finds unexpected romance with a charismatic local during her summer in Majorca, forcing her to weigh her heart's desires against family obligations and her planned return home.
When a covert rescue mission goes wrong, four former Navy SEALs are captured and thrown into an underground death match. Watched by depraved billionaires, they are forced to fight in a brutal tournament. With no weapons and no way out, the team must rely on their training and unbreakable bond to survive the bloody arena, dismantle the entire operation and reclaim their freedom.