In present day Jerusalem, a city increasingly dominated by religious fanaticism, Naomi, a secular young woman seeks refuge from the pressure of her life as a concert pianist. Despite her intentions to stay alone, however, Naomi quickly makes two unexpected connections- one with a musically gifted Ultra-Orthodox young boy who lives in her building and the other, with Fabrizio, a charismatic Italian monk and organist. While these relationships allow Naomi to reconnect with her love of music and sense of meaning, they also make her a target in her new community. Faced with escalating isolation and violence, Naomi must learn to use music as a bridge to overcome towering religious barriers.
September, 1945. Sebastian impatiently waits for the return of his friend Angelina, whom he has not seen for two years. When the plane carrying the young woman to her small village in the Alps is reported to have crashed in the mountains, Sebastian is convinced that Angelina is still alive. Along with his faithful dog Belle, Sebastian embarks on the most dangerous adventure of his life.
Micha works with her father who owns a shoe repair shop. Like every Friday evening, he goes to dinner with his parents. That evening, his brother Samuel is there too. Samuel is younger than Micha. He is passing through, he lives abroad. He is the favorite son. What Micha never put up with...
A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian
Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23, 1983, when he hears a radio report about suicide trucks exploding on both an American base and a French base, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers. Seduced by a gifted and enigmatic photographer, Julia Muller (Anne Parillaud), Randal finds a capitol torn by civil war, where political, financial and strategic interests intertwine.
Ludi Boeken (born 1951 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch film producer, director and actor. His daughter, Julia Levy-Boeken, is an actress. He was born in Amsterdam. He attended the London Film School from 1970 to 1973, and Tel Aviv University from 1973 to 1976. He started his career as a war correspondent for the BBC and for Dutch television in the Middle East, South America, Central America, and Africa. He is a partner at Acajou Films, a film production company, with Pascal Judelewicz. In the years of 2004 and 2007, he was executive director of Terranova, a German TV station. Source: Article "Ludi Boeken" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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