"The+descendants"
Descended from heaven
Two lovers, Sergei and Masha, have to face their losses several years after the war has ended.
Orpheus Descending
Eurydice is a singer in a group that plays in country fairs. The group is not successful and Eurydice gets convinced by a rich farmer to follow him to Athens, where he promises her that he will make her a famous singer. Things do not turn out as promised, and Eurydice returns to the band, which is very successful now, due to Orpheus, a mute clarine..
Letter To Descendants
Children answer the question, what is Russia. A difficult question, interesting and laid-back answers, developing into a kind of letter to future descendants.
From Our Grateful Descendants
Ce documentaire suit un professeur d'université à la retraite qui passe son temps à restaurer les pierres tombales d'icônes nationales au cimetière de Sofia, en Bulgarie.
Descending the stairs with a flute
In the audiovisual composition, not only do the sounds of the solo flute overlap and unite with those of the wooden stairs and floors of the Habichtshorst Old Forester's Lodge, but also the visual impressions of the video images with the acoustic ones.
The Land That Rises and Descends
We tend to see our geographic map as static. On the contrary, this work full of subtlety shows us that life in an archipelago is by nature affected by the winds and tides which constantly change its shape. As the film says, "the sea will be land, and the land was once sea."
The Street Descends to the Sea
At the heart of the story is a middle-aged man with a wife and family who essentially feels stifled. He is a landowner who has made different attempts to go beyond his provinicial environment and in the end, the call of a more active existence in hopefully greener pastures induces him to abandon both his family and his home.
Two Girls Descending the Stairs
Adri is a young woman newly formed arts in college who divides her time between the single friend, employment and therapy. One day she meets Mona, a well-connected architect and money. On the stairs of a building in Porto Alegre, a passion born of two very different people.
Blackbird Descending - Tense Alignment
A brilliantly constructed, melancholic ode to the passing of time by Malcolm Le Grice.
Avant la nuit
In conversations with passionate sociologist and political thinker Jean Pichette, the filmmaker views the forced downtime stemming from the current crisis as an opportunity to rethink our modes of existence and our relationship to others, nature, science, the economy, art, politics—in short, everything that makes us human.
Dog Star Descending
Images and objects warp under the scrolling gaze of a scanner bed. Photographs, shredded and reassembled, spark reminiscences in the artist’s voiceover, which relates the intertwined stories of a family trip to the island of Imbros and of his education at a bilingual German-Turkish public school. The coiling timeline of present experience overlap..
He Descended Only Once
A human family is visited by an extraterrestrial.
Descendants of Cain
Peu de temps après l'indépendance de la Corée du Japon (1945), les Nord-Coréens décident d'extorquer les biens des civils au nom de révolutionner leur terre et de régler les luttes de classe pour les prolétariats. Le film dépeint un concept anti nord-coréen, détaillant la situation du pays après l'indépendance.
The Descendant Of Wing Chun
Fierceful fighting displays the Wing Chun style of kung fu in this tale of revenge. Evil bandit Ma Lung escapes from prison and seeks revenge on retired Wing Chun teacher Lam Chan, who had helped to imprison him. Ma wreaks havoc on Lam's Wing Chun school and kills a few of Lam's students. Lam has no choice but to avenge his students' deaths at a fi..
Stanimir Descending
An aging highlander from the village of Kremna, on Tara mountain, heads for Belgrade accompanied by a ninety-three year old war veteran. He wants to find out what happened to his request for the reconstruction of his water mill, which is 300 years old and was destroyed in a storm a while ago. The two old men wisely and calmly accept their losses.
Heavens Will Descend The Dragon
Ao You, the ninth son of the Dragon King, is a gifted and intelligent man who has been admonished not to reveal his true form at will since he was a child. Later, when he accidentally showed his true form while drunk at the Queen Mother's banquet, he was found by the Heavenly Court to be a dragon, and was thrown down to the Heavenly Court with his ..
Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enter..
L'amour descend du ciel
A Pau sont cantonnés les fameux « Bérets Rouges ». Parmi les hommes, quatre d'entre eux ont noué des liens d'amitié : Dominique, un Corse qui a le grade de sergent chef, Julien, un paysan ; Dédé, un Parisien déluré ; Jean, un provincial timide. Les soirs de quartier libre, chacun des quatre amis se retrouve dans un bar dont la serveuse in..
