Tsotsi

This film took place in In Johannesburg, Africa. A rebellious teenager named Tsotsi lives in a small village. Tsoti is a cold hearted boy who is living a extremely tough life. Has committed many crimes. He killed a a man with his gang during a robbery. He harasses a crippled beggar man. Then one night he forces a women out of her car, shoots her in the leg and steals her car. During the car ride he hears a baby crying. Gets out and starts running but he ends up running back and kidnaps the baby. He brings the baby back to his home and tries to figure out what to do with the baby. The more he spends time with the baby the more he gets attached to it. So for the next couple days the baby changes Tsoti, the baby makes him a different person, like in a good way.

Tsoti is starting to feel sympathy and remorse. So he soon realizes that he cant raise and take care of the child alone. So he goes to a women and forces her to feed the baby. The women showed Tsoti compassion and kindness with the time that she is forced to spend with him and he starts to catch on to it. The women soon finds out the he was the one that shot and kidnapped the baby when he lied and said it was his own. So she tells him with kindness that he should turn himself in and give back the child. And the one thing he asked of her when he does is if he could come back to her home.So Tsoti returns the baby safe back to the house he robbed and shot the women. He then accepts the consequences what learns compassion, love, kindness and care.

This film helped me understand everyday in a different person's shoes. It helped me understand the different culture that other people live in. I would give this five stars out of five. It was a very unique and understanding film.

Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite was an american film that showed many different aspects of a teenage life. This film was about a boy named Napoleon Dynamite who is in high school and lives with is grandmother and brother. Napoleon's grandmother leaves for a while out of town. So she called Napoleon's Uncle to watch him and his brother. Napoleon's uncle is stuck in the 80's where he thinks and lives his life as if he was still in high school. He wants to go back in time to change this play that would let him get a full ride to college with a football scholarship. His uncle owns a weird selling items company. Where he goes to houses and tries to sell items that are already owned.

Napoleon is sorta a socially awkward kinda kid. He doesn't have many friends and is in the sign language club. Napoleon befriends a boy named pedro who just moved to town from Mexico. Pedro teaches Napoleon the ways of getting ladies in mexico. So they can get dates to the school dance. So pedro bakes a cake saying will you go to the dance with me and gives it to the most popular girl in school. But Pedro is denied. So he told Pedro to draw a picture for one of the girls he thinks is pretty out of the yearbook. So he gives it to her mother and her mother forces her to go with him. Reason being is that her mother is one of his uncles clients and he told her mother this sympathetic story making her go to the dance with Napoleon.

Napoleon then goes to the dance but takes him awhile to get there because he asked his uncle to give him a ride to his dates house but takes a while with a client. So Napoleon decides to walk to her house. On the way to her house, he runs in to Pedro's gangster cousins. They ended up giving Napoleon and his date a ride to the dance. Napoleon and his date get to the dance and his date ditches him. So he ends up dancing with Pedro's date.

Pedro soon after decides to run for president. Napoleon and this girl help him. They came up with a campaign and made posters and such. The day of the speeches and the election Napoleon dances in front of the whole entire school to motivate the school to vote for pedro.

This was a very interesting movie. It showed a different aspect of a high school student and

Cinema Paradiso

This film took place in Italy. A country in Europe. The main characters consist of a boy named Salvatore Di Vita, and Father Adelfio, Maria Di Vita. The film started out in Salvatore Di Vita's childhood. He was a young boy who enjoyed causing trouble such as take the money his mother gave him to buy milk with and instead spends the money on a movie ticket. The boy enjoyed watching movies and seeing the production of movies. His mother then catches his walk out of the theater and he gets spanked by his mother. The owner of the movie theater sees whats going on and helps the boy out. He gives the boys mother money and makes up an excuse of how he lost it.

The boy works at a church with father Adelfio. The boy does a poor job managing the bell ringing at certain moment of the sermen. The boy is always spacing off and sleeping. He does a very poor job of it. The boys dream is to become a film producer or a film maker. He bothers the man that owns and works at the cinema in Italy. He takes the blocked scenes of the films and brings the home the film strips and makes up a story about the scenes.

The film shows the different stages of the little boys life. The film shows the boy's childhood, the adolescent year of him going into the army and fighting in the war. It also shows Salvatore in love. Then his years after. The boy is now a grown man who owns his own cinema and shows films. His love is off at a university and visits occasionally.

Salvatore goes back to his hometown after Alfredo passes away. He sees that the cinema that he grew up with had passed away also. He is very sad about this matter. So he decides to take after.

This was a very interesting film. It showed many different aspects of the movie. And how people in italy live their lives. It is very similar to people in the United States. I learned how people in the 40's watched movies. They would have to wound the film by hand. But as time went the technology progressed, so people didn't have to do everything by hand accept entering it. I would give this film a couple stars out of 10.

The Host

This was a film that took place in Korea. It was a film about a monster that lives in the sewers of the city. The monster is huge, it can swim and climb. It can live on land and in water. A family that lives in a little food shack near the river where the monster lives. The monster comes ashore and terrorizes the town of Korea and kills, eat and holds captive people in a ditch tunnel. The monster takes the life of a little Korean girl and the family goes on the mission to save her. But the family is accused of having a disease that they might have caught from the monster. So their taken to a facility to get cured. But the family finds away to escape because they know she's still alive.

The family then teams up and tries to rescue the little girl. They get guns and bow and arrows. and get suited up. They buy a van and go back to their food shack. The family eats and reminisce about the little girl. Soon after the father spots the monster and tries to shoot it. He shot it but it didn't do much damage. The monster come charging and rams over the shack. The family climbs out of the shack and tries to kill the monster. The monster ends up taking the life of the father. The rest of the family is now being chased by the Japanese doctor and army people and start heading to the van. One of the family members gets caught and ends up taken back to the research facility.

The little girl is still alive she trys to escape the sewer tunnel ditch. She soons befriends another person that was taken by the monster. He's a little boy and they both try to escape. But unable to because while the monster was gone they made a rope made out of cloths of the victims. They get caught and try to escape again while the monster was sleeping but gets caught and the monster eats them.

The Family and the monster unite at the middle of the city were the monster is poisoned by the air fumes that are shot at it. They all soon find out that the precious daughter, niece or girl died and the little boy that accompanied her is still alive. The family try to kill the monster but fail. The monster ends up going back to the river sewers. The little boy ends up living with the family.

This was a very unique movie that scared me at times. It was a very interesting comedy and horror movie. The movie gave me a good sense of how japanese consider scary. From the background information that i know. it that the Japanese, Chinese and all asian cultures are very well known for their technique for making horror movies. i would give this movie six stars out of ten.

Triplets Belleville

This is an animated film that takes place in France. A boy named Champion is trained, night and day for the tour de France. His grandmother trains in non stop. Champion lives with his grandmother and overweight dog named Bruno. When the big race comes, Champion and a few of his fellow racers are kidnapped by some box-shouldered thugs who spirit them off to Belleville where they are forced to pedal as part of a gambling operation. Bruno and Grandma set out across the sea in a paddle boat to rescue him. When they come to ashore their automatically lost.

They are hungry and have no money. So one night by the shore they meet the Triplets of Belleville. The three were former scat singing jazz performers. The one thing that brings them all together is how that can use anomonious objects and make music. The Triplets take Burno and the grandmother to their apartment and feed them frogs and show them the way they live. The Grandmother, Burno the dog and the triplets work together to make music and perform and to rescue champion.

This was a very interesting movie. It taught me differnt cultural things about the French. It had many stereotypical examples of the french such as eating frog legs, crazy and what not. The film would earn five stars out of ten because of the humor, animation and structure.

Fargo

A man named Jerry lives in Minnesota with his wife and son. He works at his father in laws car dealership. Jerry is struggling with financial issues. He tries many different schemes to come up with money. Jerry urgently needs the money. So Jerry makes up this elaborate plan, so he hires two criminals to kidnap his wife because her father owns a lot of money. The two criminals then take his wife to an abandon house up north near Brainard Minnesota and hold her captive till the plan falls through. So the two culprits write a ransom letter saying they wanted $40,000 for the return of his daughter.

So Jerry agrees to keep this kidnapping scheme on the down low. Just between him, his wifes father and some friend. The two crminals commit a few crimes on the way to the abandon house. They shot and killed an officer that pulls them over for tabs, a couple that drove by and saw the scene, Jerry's wifes father and one of the crminals killed his partner and took his body and through it in a wood chipper machine.

A pregnant officer is called in to investigate the crime of all the murders.She then figured out that all the murders have a connection to Jerry and his missing wife. She then finds one of criminals and figures out the whole scheme.

The connections I have with the movie is that I do live in Minnesota and i can relate to the movie without all murders, killings and kidnaps and such.

Noi Albinoi

Nói Kristmundsson is a 17 year old living in a small unnamed remote fishing village in Iceland with his grandmother Lína. His father Kiddi, an alcoholic taxi driver, also lives in town. Since Noi is Albino he appears different from the other teenagers in Iceland. He spends most of his time wondering the town, at the towns bookstore, or in a hidden cellar at his grandmother's house. The town is a sort of purgatory for Nói, surrounded by mountains and attainable only by boat. But when the seasons turn to winter the living aspects of life are a lot more difficult then its supposed to. Noi is a very smart kid but he has no interest in school. Noi and his math teacher have problems with each other. Noi is then expelled from school. Noi cuts class to go to the local gas station, where he frequently breaks into the slot machine and rigs it for an assured jackpot.
Noi doesn't really fit in with the people at his school, the town or at home. He's kind of an outcast or the black sheep of everything. Noi is in a relationship with the girl that works at a diner. Towards the end of th movie there's a huge avalanche and everyone dies.
This movie helped me understand the differences between the different cultures of Iceland people and people here in America. This was a very interesting movie.

Run Lola Run

The film begins in Germany and lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He was supposed to bring 100,000 DM from a diamond peddler to his boss by noon.Manni tries to keep an eye on the money but is distracted by the ticket patrols so he panics and gets off the subway. Soon after Manni realizes that he left the money on the seat and a homeless man finds the money on the seat and takes it. Manni then finds a nearby phone booth and asks a blind women for her phone call so he can call Lola. Manni asks if Lola can pick him up.But Lola fails to pick Manni up because her scooter was stolen earlier that morning.

So after the phone call with Manni, Lola imagines three different cisneros of acquiring 100,000 DM's. Every cisnero starts out with her running out of the apartment building, too her father's bank. On the way to the bank everything she does effects the aftermath of someone elses life. So after fixing the mistakes in each case it ends up with Lola gambling and winning 100,000 DM. So Lola then runs to meet up with her boyfriend Manni, to prevent him from stealing from a grocery store. While Manni was waiting he just so happens to run into the homeless man that stole his money. He ends up trading a gun for his money and giving the money to his boss in time. So in the end Lola and her boyfriend end up keeping the 100,000 DM that she won at the casino.

This movie was a very well put together action movie. It defiantly shows the difference of what would happen if you did a certain action. It shows good decision making and the consquences of certain actions.

The color of paradise

The film takes place in India. It's about a blind boy named Mohammed. He is released from a special school in Tehran for summer vacation. Mohammed's father is ashamed and feels like Mohammed is a burden. His father picks Mohammed late and tires to convince the head principle to keep Mohammed for the summer. The head principle believes that its a bad idea and forces Mohammeds father to take him home.

Since Mohammed's father is a widower. He now wants to marry a local girl and has been preparing for the wedding. He comes to the girl's parents with gifts. So they approve. He tries to hide the fact that he has a blind son because he fears the girl's family will shame him.

Mohammed roams around the hills of his village with his sisters. He touches and feels everything around him, counting the sounds of animals, and imitating them. Mohammed goes to the local school with his sisters and reads the lessons from his textbook in Braille, which amazes the children and the teacher.

The father fears that his brides family with be ashamed of this "bad omen." So his father takes him away and leaves him with a blind carpenter who agrees to make Mohammed like him. The blind carpenter mentors the boy who wants to see God. Mohammad says God doesn’t love him and thus made him blind and tells him how his teacher told him that since they are blind, God loves them more. He also tells him that God is everywhere and that you can feel God. The carpenter then just says that he agrees with his teacher and walks away.

Mohammed's grandmother is heartbroken when she realizes that the father has given Mohammed away to a blind carpenter. So she then gets sick. She leaves the family home but the father Hashem tries to convince her to stay back, questioning his destiny, wondering why he lost his father as a young boy, asking why God has taken away his wife and cursed him with a blind boy, and asking his mother what she did for him. Mohammed's grandmother faints on her way so Hashem carries her back home. Eventually Mohammed's grandmother dies. The bride's family sees this as a bad omen and the wedding is called off.Mahammed ends up dieing and his father realizes that he loves him.

This was an inspiring movie that teaches you to love and treat everyone as you wanted to be treated and not to send them away ungraciously. The movie helps people to understand others that aren't like them.

Persepolis

The film begins in an airport, with a female character named Marjane Satrapi. She is unable to board a plane to Iran. She lights up a cigarette and starts to remember her childhood from the age of nine in nineteen seventy eight.As a child, Marji is a young girl living in Tehran with dreams of being just like Bruce Lee. But can't because of the conservative society and family she lives in. She goes to a school for girls and learn the proper ways of being a woman in this society and she eventually gets kicked out and runs away from home and now is living in the street. She lives with friends and couch hops from time to time. She fell in love with a man but he cheated on her and she gets very upset. Soon after living on the streets she catches bronchides from smoking cigarettes. She then realizes that she needs to go home.

She goes home and learns about the communist society and gets depressed she takes anti-depressants and she attempts to commit suicide but fails. She realizes that she has a good life going for her so why screw it up. She then gets up and goes back to college and meets a man who she has a liking too. She gets got for public displays for affections and has to spend time with him in private. She then gets married to him and then divorcing him because she isn't happy.

This was a very good movie. It helps others to understand what happens in other countries and the circumstances they have to put up with. Everything in Iran is stict and its a good way to show how others live and deal with life.

Maria full of grace

In a small village in Colombia,is where a seventeen year old girl named Maria resides. Maria lives with her mother and her sister who has a child. Maria and her family struggle with financial issues. Maria works at a flower company where it does not pay well. Maria is involved with a boyfriend, who soon later gets her pregnant. Maria quits her job at the flower company and tries to figure out different ways to support her family.
Maria runs into a boy named Pacho. Who she met at a party. Maria tells Pacho her struggle with financial issues. She told him that she could get a job as a maid with a friend a couple cities away from where she lives. Pacho offers her a better deal. He tells her that she can become a Drug Mule.
A drug mule is someone who gets paid five thousand dollars to smuggle drugs into the United States. Maria goes through this process of becoming a drug mule. She meets the drug mule dealer and he said he could take care of her and her paper, passport and money issue. Maria takes up this offer and runs into a woman named Lucy who also is a Drug Mule. Lucy has smoggled drugs into the U.S twice already and soon with be her thirf.
Maria must be able to swallow sixty two pallets of cocaine in her stomach. She must fly out to new york. Once Maria arrives to new york. Events start to happen that was unplanned. Maria gets caught for smuggling drugs because they found it in her x-ray and she ends up getting out.

Shall We Dance.

John Clark is a man with a wonderful job, a charming wife and a loving family, who nevertheless feels that something is missing as he makes his way every day through the city. Each evening on his commute home, John sees a beautiful woman, staring with a lost expression through the window of a dance studio. Haunted by her gaze, John impulsively jumps off the train one night, and signs up for dance lessons, hoping to meet her. At first, it seems like a mistake.

His teacher turns out to be not Paulina, but the older Miss Mitzi, and John proves just as clumsy as his equally clueless classmates on the dance-floor. Even worse, when he does meet Paulina, she icily tells John she hopes he has come to the studio to seriously study dance and not to look for a date.

But, as his lessons continue, John falls in love with dancing. Keeping his new obsession from his family and co-workers, John feverishly trains for Chicago's biggest dance competition. His friendship with Paulina blossoms, as his enthusiasm rekindles her own lost passion for dance. But the more time John spends away from home, the more his wife becomes suspicious. With his secret about to be revealed, John will have to do some fancy footwork to keep his dream going and realize what it is he really yearns for.

Please Vote for me 2007

A class of third graders at Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China have been asked to elect a class monitor. The teachers Traditionally pick a student. The class monitor holds a powerful position, helping to control the students, keeping them on task and dealing out punishment to those who disobey. The teacher has chosen three candidates, Luo Lei, the current class monitor, Cheng Cheng, and Xu Xiaofei. Each candidate is asked to choose two assistants to help with his or her campaign.

To prove that they are right for the position of the all monitor. Each of the candidates must perform in three events. First is a talent show, where each candidate plays an instrument or sings a song. Second is a debate, in which the candidates bring up personal qualifications of their opponent.And finally, each candidate must give a speech, an opportunity to appeal directly to classmates and ask for their votes.

Each candidate is coached at home by his or her parents. Each one of the candidates are pushed and supported to memorize and continue the duties as required. Each child feels pressured and scared because of all the attention and work of the election. Tears were most likely present through out the movie.

CAST:
Luo Lei
Cheng Cheng
Xu Xiaofei
Staff members and students of Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China

Betrayal (1983)

Betrayal is Harold Pinter's film adaptation of his semi-autobiographical 1978 play Betrayal. The 1983 film was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by David Jones. It was critically well received, praised notably by New York Times film critic Vincent Canby and by Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert.

Pinter based the documentry on the clandestine extramarital affair in which he engaged for seven years, from 1962 to 1969, with television presenter Joan Bakewell, who was married to the producer and director Michael Bakewell, while Pinter was married to actress Vivien Merchant.

The storyline of Betrayal follows significant moments in the seven-year extramarital affair of art gallery owner Emma (Patricia Hodge) with literary agent Jerry (Jeremy Irons), the best friend of her husband Robert (Ben Kingsley), a London publisher. With titles such as "Two years earlier" and "Three years earlier," nine sequences are shown in reverse chronological order with Emma and Jerry meeting for the first time at the conclusion of the film.

In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert writes:
“ The absolutely brilliant thing about Betrayal is that it is a love story told backward. There is a lot in this movie that is wonderful -- the performances, the screenplay by Harold Pinter -- but what makes it all work is the structure... The Betrayal structure strips away all artifice. It shows, heartlessly, that the very capacity for love itself is sometimes based on betraying not only other loved ones, but even ourselves."

CAST:

Jeremy Irons ... Jerry
Ben Kingsley ... Robert
Patricia Hodge ... Emma
Avril Elgar ... Mrs. Banks
Ray Marioni ... Waiter
Caspar Norman ... Sam
Chloe Billington... Charlotte Age 5
Hannah Davies ... Charlotte Age 9
Michael König ... Ned Age 2
Alexander McIntosh... Ned Age 5

Gran Torino

In Michigan,a grumpy widower named Walt Kowalski is a Korean War veteran. He is very prejudice and makes many dderogatory comments and jokes. He just lost his beloved wife Dorothy. He is one of the last Caucasian Americans in his neighborhood and does not have good relationship with his sons and their families When an Asian family moved next door a boy named Thao Vang Lor is being bothered by his cousin Smokie to join his Hmong gang. Thoa then is assigned to steal the Gran Torino of Walt as part of his initiation in the gang.

However, he is surprised by the old man and his traditional family feels ashamed with the incident. Later Walt saves Thao first and his sister Sue Lor from gangs and he has the gratitude of his next door neighbors and the neighborhood. On the day of his birthday, Walt is invited by Sue to join her family reunion and he begins a relationship with his neighbors, helping Thao to get a job.

However, he realizes that the Hmong gang disturbs the neighborhood and after an attack of the gang, Walt decides to take action in this matter emotionally and realizes that he cares about his Asian neighbors. Walt always seems to come to the rescue. No matter where Sue and Thoa are at. While Sue was on a "date", she and her date are ambushed by a group of males that are verbally harassing them and walt comes to the rescue with a gun in his hand.

CAST:

Clint Eastwood ... Walt Kowalski
Christopher Carley... Father Janovich
Bee Vang ... Thao Vang Lor
Ahney Her ... Sue Lor
Brian Haley ... Mitch Kowalski
Geraldine Hughes ... Karen Kowalsk
Dreama Walker ... Ashley Kowalski
Brian Howe ... Steve Kowalski
John Carroll Lynch ... Barber Martin
William Hill ... Tim Kennedy
Brooke Chia Thao ... Vu
Chee Thao ... Grandma
Choua Kue ... Youa
Scott Eastwood ... Trey (as Scott Reeves)
Xia Soua Chang ... Kor Khue

Like Stars On Earth

Ishaan Awasthi (Darsheel Safary) is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate; colors, fish, dogs and kites are just not important in the world of adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks and neatness. And Ishaan just cannot seem to get anything right in class.

When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a boarding school to be disciplined. Things are no different at his new school, and Ishaan has to contend with the added trauma of separation from his family.

One day a new art teacher came into the boarding school, Ram Shankar Nikumbh (Aamir Khan), who helps the students in a energetic way. He also works at a mentally disabked day care center. He breaks all the rules of how things are done by asking them to think, dream and imagine, and all the children respond with enthusiasm, all except Ishaan. Nikumbh soon realizes that Ishaan is very unhappy, and he sets out to discover that Ishaan has delexia. With time, patience and care, he ultimately helps Ishaan find himself.

CAST:
Darsheel Safary ... Ishaan Awasthi
Aamir Khan ... Ram Shankar Nikumbh
Tanay Chheda ... Rajan Damodaran
Sachet Engineer ... Yohan Awasthi
Tisca Chopra ... Maya Awasthi
Vipin Sharma ... Nandkishore Awasthi

Chak De India!

Kabir Khan lives a middle-class lifestyle along with his widowed mom in Delhi, India, and is the Captain of the Indian men's hockey team. He fails to score at the last tournament resulting in Pakistan winning the World Cup amidst allegations that he was more inclined toward his opponents due to his religion. Kabir and his mom move away and virtually disappear for seven years. Thereafter Kabir surfaces to be a Coach for the women's hockey team, consisting of 16 players from all over India, some of who do not communicate well. Kabir's disciplinarian style ends up offending the players, lead by the militant Bindia Naik, who decide not to participate unless he resigns amidst allegations that he is having an affair with soon to-be married Vidya Sharma, who he appoints as the new Captain. Things change after a brawl with eve-teasers at the local McDonald's, the girls accept Kabir, however, the Chair of the Indian Women Hockey Association, Tripathi, decides to pull out of the World Cup but decides to give them a shot after Kabir challenges the men's team. The women lose by a goal but their performance compels the Association to revise their decision and dispatch them to Melbourne, Australia. In the very first match against six-time winning team of Australia, the Indian team lose 7-0 to, but manage to struggle back to the semi-finals after defeating Great Britain, Argentina, and Korea. On the eve of the final match Kabir will meet secretly with two rival players, Preety Sabharwal (who is engaged to be married to Cricket Team Captain, Abhimanyu Singh), and Komal Chautala, and during this meeting he will tell them that two of his hockey players will be playing for the Australians.

CASTS:
Shahrukh Khan ... Kabir Khan
Vidya Malvade ... Vidya Sharma
Tanya Abrol ... Balbir Kaur
Chitrashi Rawat ... Komal Chautala
Arya Menon ... Gul Iqbal
Seema Azmi ... Rani Dispotta
Nisha Nair ... Soimoi Kerketa
Sandia Furtado ... Nethra Reddy
Masochon V. Zimik... Molly Zimik
Kimi Laldawla ... Mary Ralte
Shilpa Shukla ... Bindia Naik
Shubhi Mehta ... Gunjun Lakhani
Anaitha Nair ... Aliya Bose
Sagarika Ghatge ... Preety Sabharwal
Kimberly Miranda... Rachna Prasad

Mongolian Ping Pong

In Mongolia an Asian boy named Hurzbileg and his friends Dawaa,and Geliban believe that a ping pong ball found floating in the river is a miraculous gift from heaven. They called it the "The Glowing Pearl." The three boys go on a little journey or quest to figure out the wonders of the ping pong.

First they bless and pray for the ping pong ball, hoping it holds or symbolizes some great signficance of life. The Three boys then go to a town get together to watch s flim about life and came to the concultion that "The glowing ball" was just a plain old ping pong ball. And that it doesn't hold any signficant meaning.

Mongolia is a very beautiful place, it holds many true wonders. Mongolian Ping Pong truly states and shows the wonders of the culture.

CAST:
DAWA: Dawa
GELIBAN: Erguotou
YIDEXINNARIBU: Bilike’s Father
BADEMA: Bilike’s Mother
WURINA: Bilike’s Sister
DUGEMA: Bilike’s Grandmother
JINLAOWU: Truck Driver
BUHEBILIKE: Dawa’s Father
SARENGAOWA: Dawa’s Mother
JIRIMU: Little Lama

Flirting - The movie!

In the year of 1965, In two gender seperated boarding schools, a socially awkward boy named Danny Embling, and an African girl named Thandiwe Adjewa fall madly in love with each other. They do whatever it takes to be with each other. They would sneak out late at night to see one another. They would lie, sneak in each other to be with one another. Everyone soon after, tries to break them up but their love for each other prevalis through it all.

Nicola also appears as a sexually repressed senior at Thandiwes' school. Danny fights for Thandiwe and gets seriously beat up. Danny and Thandiwe lie to their schools and runaway with each. They go to a motel. Make love. Then Danny and Thandiwe get caught, and forced to go back to their boarding schools.

Danny is now expelled and works at his dad's pub, serving alcoholic drinks. Thandiwe went back to Uganda, to retreive her siblings and sends Danny occasional letters descrbing what's going on and her love for him.

CAST:
Noah Taylor ... Danny Embling
Thandie Newton ... Thandiwe Adjewa
Nicole Kidman ... Nicola
Bartholomew Rose... Gilby' Fryer

The Weeping Camel

Springtime in the Gobi Desert, South Mongolia. A family of nomadic shepherds assists the births of their camel herd. One of the camels has an excruciatingly difficult delivery but, with help from the family, out comes a rare white colt. Despite the efforts of the shepherds, the mother rejects the newborn, refusing it her milk and her motherly love. When any hope for the little one seems to have vanished, the nomads send their two young boys on a journey through the desert, to a a backwater town in search of a musician who is their only hope for saving the colt's life.


CAST:
Great Grandfather: Janchiv Ayurzana
Great Grandmother: Chimed Ohin
Grandfather: Amgaabazar Gonson (Amgaa)
Grandmother: Zeveljamz Nyam (Zevel)
Father: Ikhbayar Amgaabazar (Ikchee)
Mother: Odgerel Ayusch (Odgoo)
Older Brother: Enkhbulgan Ikhbayar (Dude)
Younger Brother: Uuganbaatar Ikhbayar (Ugna)
Young Daughter: Guntbaatar Ikhabayar (Guntee)
Mother Camel: Ingen Temee
Baby Camel: Botok

Rabbit Proof Fence

‘Rabbit-Proof Fence’ is a lot like ‘The Incredible Journey’, only with three little girls where the lovable domestic pets should be. It’s the true story of Molly, Daisy and Gracie, three young Aborigines who escape from a detention centre to embark on a 1500-mile journey home. Their only hope of finding the way back. A ruddy great rabbit-proof fence, stretching the full distance from one side of Australia to the other.

CAST:
Everlyn Sampi ... Molly Craig
Tianna Sansbury ... Daisy Kadibill
Laura Monaghan ... Gracie Fields
Jason Clarke ... Constable Riggs

Artist Statement

My photography reflects my vision of the world.The exploration of movement also seemed a natural evolution from a previous investigation of duality. I've been driven to take photos as a way of investigating realness. I speculated that the speed of the mark, as an element in itself, might generate a disturbance of sorts that could allow some essence of realness to hatch out.The work in this series evolved from a previous body of how the object is viewed that was an investigation of motion.
I enjoy taking photos of nature, graffiti, bridges, trains, strets of the city, expressions of peoples movement, facial expressions, anything that catches my eye. Photos with a certain lighting, texature, and a visual eloquence is worth taking a photo of. Photography is my key to the secret garden, my way down the rabbit hole, my looking glass. I like turn the objects into a human creation such as the differnt point of views of the senery, the way the light hits an object at a certain angle and the way I percieve it's beauty. I feel as if m photos help me ubdrstabd the world in a more orgainzes and vivid way. My photos all unite from where it's started. From every basic reaction to and exploration of form.

Winter photos

I took this picture out at my cabin. My cabin is located in Brainard Minnesota.

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