"HLS" (Sweat)
The Swedish director and screenwriter Magnus von Horn was inspired to shoot the drama "Healthy Lifestyle" by watching a popular fitness blogger on social media.
The director was struck by the number of materials that the girl posted.
From them it was possible to learn everything about her life: from physical and emotional problems to shopping.
The director wondered what was behind such publicity.
“She has 600 thousand followers on Instagram;
her photographs were printed on the covers of bodybuilding magazines;
she has released a couple of workout DVDs.
Her job is to publish and talk about her private life.
She is self-employed and the product she offers is her physical form.
But who is she just before she starts recording a new video? "
- quoted by Variety of Magnus von Horn.
The film covers three days in the life of the fitness motivator Sylvia, a celebrity with hundreds of thousands of social media followers.
One day the girl says that, despite her popularity and general admiration, she is very lonely.
Shortly after this confession, Sylvia discovers that someone is following her.
This tape became a festival hit last year.
She was presented at film screenings in the USA, Belarus, Poland, Spain and other countries, and also entered the program of the Cannes Film Festival.
Mortal Kombat
The Mortal Kombat franchise began with a series of video games, the first of which came out in 1992.
To date, more than twenty of her sequels and spin-offs have been released.
The game has been filmed several times.
Among the most famous adaptations - the feature films "Mortal Kombat" by Paul W.S.
Anderson and Mortal Kombat 2: Annihilation by John R. Leonetti, released in 1995 and 1997, respectively.
The new "Mortal Kombat" is not a continuation of previous film adaptations, but an independent project associated with other tapes only by some of the most striking characters in the franchise.
Among them are Sub-Zero, Sonya Blade, Scorpio, Liu Kang and others.
Events unfold around a new character - Cole Young.
Sub-Zero is on the hunt for the hero.
Concerned about the safety of his family, Young gathers a team of the best fighters chosen to protect the Earth kingdom from enemies from the Outside World.
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Minari "(Minari)
The drama "Minari" by the Korean-American director Lee Isaac Chun is largely based on real events.
It reflects the director's childhood memories of the times when his parents moved to the United States.
The tape, previously presented at the Sundance Film Festival, found a response, among other things, from an audience unfamiliar with the problems of immigrants.
According to Lee Isaac Chun, this is due to the fact that the film primarily touches upon the universal theme of family relationships.
“I saw people working on the film who are not Korean immigrants also had a lump in their throats and had strong emotions because they were thinking about their families.
Immigration stories are family stories.
What is often overlooked in this story is that much is done here out of love, out of the very desire to make sacrifices for each other, ”the director told NPR.
The film takes place in the 1980s.
7-year-old American David, the son of Korean immigrants, moves with his family from the West Coast of the United States to Arkansas, where his father plans to build a farm.
The boy tries to get used to the new environment and way of life, while his parents strive to fulfill the so-called "American Dream".
The film received six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Screenplay and Director, and was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Picture.
Persian Lessons
During the Second World War, a young Belgian Gilles ends up in a concentration camp in Germany.
The man avoids execution by lying that he is not a Jew, but a Persian.
Soon, the hero is tasked with teaching the Persian language to officer Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran after the war.
To survive, Gilles decides to compose his own language and pass it off as Farsi.
The film was co-produced by Russia, Germany and Belarus.
His characters speak German and French, and on the site communication was built in English.
At the same time, as the producer Ilya Stewart notes, the issues monitored by the film are universal and understandable to everyone.
“This is a human story, a story about mutual understanding, about relationships.
The things that are spoken about in this film are understandable in all countries of the world, in all languages, "RIA Novosti quotes Stewart.
The film was directed by Vadim Perelman (Yolki 5, Buy Me), and the main roles were played by Lars Eidinger and Nahuel Perez Biscayart.
"Be my Kirill"
At 32, Sasha still cannot arrange his personal life and for this reason he constantly listens to reproaches from relatives.
Once Sasha finally gets tired of such pressure, and she decides to deceive her relatives: to pass off a running coach for her young man.
As the scriptwriter and creative producer Anna Makarenkova notes, the topic touched upon in the tape is relevant for many modern girls, dependent on the opinions of others.
“In our society, for some reason, it is so customary to go into personal life and ask questions, as if if a person is alone, then it is somehow wrong.
At such moments, women themselves begin to believe that something is wrong with them - as happened with my heroine.
It seems to her that she is somehow different, since after 30 she has no relationship and family.
And it seems to me that it is not important at all.
Life can turn out in any way: you may not find your love, but you can find it - but completely unexpectedly.
And all this does not characterize a person in any way, ”says Makarenkova.
Comedy “Be My Kirill” is the debut full-length work of director Alla Eliseeva, who previously worked on the TV series “Street”.
The roles in the film were played by Vitalis Semyonovs, Anastasia Evgrafova, Sergei Stepin, Irina Rozanova and other artists.
"Book of the Sea"
This documentary project by Alexei Vakhrushev continues the theme of the life of the northern peoples, which the director often touches on in his work.
In the center of the plot are the sea hunters of Chukotka.
Every day they go out into the waters of the Bering Strait to get food.
Despite the technological progress, the life of the heroes of the film does not change: in their work they use traditional approaches from year to year and find themselves in the same conditions as their ancestors.
It is this unchanging course of life that the authors of the tape sought to show.
The documentary footage is complemented by animation inserts, filmed by the transfer of sculptural plasticine.
Their plot is based on the myth "About the woman who gave birth to a whale", which is well known to the locals.
In the film, this story is also told in the Eskimo language of Naukana, which today only about 20 people know.