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Hunger
Aoy is in her twenties when she inherits her family's rat na and pad see ew restaurant in Bangkok's old quarter. Then she's plucked up by team 'Hunger', the country's leading luxury Chef's table team. In her new environment, Aoy gets to know the dark side of genius Chef Paul and the high-end food industry.
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The Ballad of the Wood
"The Ballad of the Wood" reveals the traditional architecture of the houses of the Western Black Sea region for centuries has been passed down from father to son, from master to apprentice through secrets and a technique known as "canti". Some of the houses shown have been standing for the last 100 to 150 years. The film honors the great craftsman of the past who utilized the "dizeme" technique through an emphasis on structures that are 300 years old. These examples are some of the most unique to be found in the Western Black Sea region. This craft has been passed down from generation to generation. Now only a few old and tired practitioners are left and they reveal to the camera their anti-earthquake construction techniques. The average age of the craftsmen is 80 years old.
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Hunger
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
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Games of the Heart
A woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday.
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TV
The Games
The Games is a British reality television series that ran on Channel 4 for four series, in which 10 celebrities competed against each other, by doing Olympic-style events, such as weight lifting, gymnastics and diving. At the end of the series, the contestants with the most points from each round were awarded either a gold, silver or bronze medal. The show was mainly filmed in Sheffield, at the Sheffield Arena, Don Valley Stadium and Ponds Forge. In later series, the English Institute of Sport – Sheffield, iceSheffield and in series 4 the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham were used for the first time.
The Games was presented by Jamie Theakston for the entirety of its run, with track-side reports from Jayne Middlemiss in series 1–3 and Kirsty Gallacher in series 4.
The Games also had an after-show called The Games: Live at Trackside, aired on Channel 4's sister channel E4. The first series was presented by Dougie Anderson, whilst the second was hosted by Gamezville presenters Darren Malcolm and Jamie Atiko. Justin Lee Collins and Caroline Flack took over as presenters for the third and fourth series. For the final series an extra one-hour show was added on E4 in the afternoon called The Games: Live at the Heats, and the evening show changed title to become The Games: Inside Track.
MOVIE
Hunger
The picture tells about the mass famine that swept 35 provinces of Soviet Russia with a total population of about 90 million people in the early 1920s. The Volga region, Ukraine, Bashkiria, Kazakhstan and Western Siberia suffered the most. The film tells not only about this disaster and its causes, but also about how citizens of different countries tried to help the hungry.
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to perform excerpts of the writer's work.
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The Ballad of Bessie Mae
The Ballad Of Bessie Mae is a documentary about escapism. It's a space where adults can play, where they can create worlds that appease their imagination, taking them away from the everyday and putting them into characters and environments that they have composed. Allowing a sense of freedom.
