Vi befinner oss i 1500-talets Japan. Bönderna i en liten by är trötta på att ständigt bli överfallna och rånade av banditer. Byns vise man råder bönderna att rekrytera samurajer, professionella krigare, som kan skydda dem mot de allt vanligare överfallen. Det tar inte lång tid innan sju stycken väldigt olika samurajer har ställt sina tjänster till förfogande.
En semi-biografisk berättelse om Wing-chung kung fu-grenens skapare Ip Man och hans liv i det japanskockuperade Foshan i Kina.
Thriller av Bong Joon-ho som gjorde den Oscarbelönade succén Parasit. En kvinna hittas mördad på den sydkoreanska landsbygden. En ung man döms för mordet, trots svaga bevis. Hans mamma är säker på hans oskuld och börjar jaga den verkliga mördaren.
Detta är den sanna berättelsen om den legendariske Huo Yuanjia, kinesen som i början av 1900-talet stred mot utländska stormakter och med sin formidabla kampsportsteknik försvarade Kinas ära.
En filmupplevelse utöver det vanliga. Den flerfaldigt prisbelönade thailändska filmen Bang-Rajan, bygger på en legend som berättats i flera århundraden. Storslagna krigsscener filmade i en exotisk miljö, berättar en historia om de tappra krigarna från byn Bang-Rajan som sätter sig emot de gigantiska krigsherrarna från det Burmesiska imperiet.
‘Anna’ means rice. A family in a village cannot afford rice and a boy just wants to have it.
Meet Rubel, fourteen years old boy smuggling rice from India to Bangladesh. He has to cross the river Ganga acting as the international border. The same river eroded his home in mainland.
Mansarra is a specific species of rice. According to legend, it doesn't sprout alone; its seeds are typically mixed with other rice species before planting. A couple’s marriage is tested by fertility issues and by the husband’s growing bond with a single mother and her son.
Engkom has a very long life because of an action in the past, until one day his biggest fear arrived. Engkom's unstoppable sadness revealed the regret she had buried deep inside. Unlock secrets from the past that will lead her to face reality.
Tenei village is located in Fukushima prefecture's beautiful surrounds. It is 70 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. When the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant failed in March 2011, radioactive particles fell and contaminated the rice fields. But the farmers couldn't just abandon their land as they live on the land and wanted to protect it for future generations. The farmers decided to pursue scientific methods to secure food safety. They were on their own without Government assistance. This film documents their determination and efforts in overcoming an environmental crisis that had never been experienced before.
This official travelogue of a royal tour follows the Prince on a series of regimental displays and a tiger hunt.
A poor, rural Cambodian family slowly disintegrates during the cycle of a single rice crop.
The Great Lakes and connecting waterways have remained the center of traditional and contemporary economies for centuries. Meet the Ojibwe and a tribe that was relocated to this region—the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin who care for these lands. Natural resources are the Tribes’ main economy, including the famous Red Lake walleye and wild rice lakes.
During the rice sowing season, Jun, a young Catalan of Chinese origin, works as a seasonal worker in the Ebro Delta. This ancient labour will make him confront his own roots and the distance that separates him from his family.
Kevin Bridges: The Story Continues... sees Kevin return to The SECC to perform a record-breaking run of ten sold out nights to over 75,000 ecstatic fans. Recorded on a Saturday night in Glasgow, Kevin is in his element, as this home town gig shows off his no nonsense approach to comedy. He cuts through the niceties with his Glaswegian man in the street charm to the next chapter of his epic comedic journey.
Care work, awareness-raising, waste reduction. Thieboudienne, chaufa, paella. What do these recipes have in common? Who cooks them? Where?
It is quickly becoming the most populated country in the world, but India holds a dark secret. Men and women who make their homes in the poor villages throughout the central region of the country are forced to make decisions that no parents should ever have to make. Sell a child into slavery or watch your children starve to death.
The future Edward VIII enjoys a stately procession and visits the Taj Mahal before meeting senior Indian royalty.
A short documentary about the Ojibwe Native Americans of Northern Minnesota and the wild rice (Manoomin) they consider a sacred gift from the Creator. The film tells the Creation and Migration stories that are central to the tribe's oral history and belief system while showing the traditional process of hand-harvesting and parching the wild rice. Biotech companies are currently researching ways to genetically modify the rice and the community is fighting to keep it wild.