Malai

An idle teenager with a bad attitude kidnaps a neighbor's baby.

ShoXC was a mixed martial arts series produced by the mixed martial arts organization EliteXC, Showtime and Proelite.com. The purpose of the show is to highlight up and coming MMA fighters. The fifth edition of ShoXC took place on March 21, 2008 on Showtime at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California.

Pastoral Malaise is a short film about the absences within rural pastoral environments, often framed by romanticism and picturesque conventions, constructed as tourist sites and refuges in rural landscapes across Britain.

Budi, an autistic person, and his family come to Jakarta to try their luck. He tries to keep his promise to buy new clothes for his children, Ratih and Iyan, if they are able to fast for a full month during Ramadan. Fate speaks another. The bicycle used to go around selling ornamental fish was hit by a car carrying a rich man. As Eid was approaching, Iyan suddenly fell down with dengue fever and had to be treated at a health foundation. Budi still believes he can keep his promise. Budi got a job as a construction worker tens of kilometers from his house. When he returned to the health foundation to pick up his wife and children and at the same time complete the payment.

A woman, who already has a lover, is forced to marry someone else. Tragedy then piles up when the husband has an affair, their baby dies and her former lover goes to prison. The woman falls ill due to her suffering and yearning for her former lover. When she is about to die, the lover that she has been longing for appears. This gripping moment is interrupted by jokes made by Oemar, the comedian. The woman's illness is cured when she hears actor M.S. Ferry sing keroncong songs. The film ends with a scene of Oemar courting the maid on top of a rubber tree.

When Vino's life falls apart, he has to make tough decisions to save his younger sister. But when he meets Mura, he begins to regret the choices he has made.

The island of Sumatra is famous for its tobacco, as all lovers of the weed know. Its preparation, its growth and the various stages through which the fragrant leaves must pass, before they are ready for the smoker, form the interesting theme of this beautiful colored picture. The first scene shows the young plants growing close together, and the transplanting as they increase in size. The soil is poor for anything but tobacco, and one wonders how a good crop may be obtained in such poor land. We are shown, successively, the natives picking the largest leaves the inspection of the picking, and the natives carrying bundles of green tobacco to the tallying room.

This film focuses on the people of Lau lagoon in the Solomon Islands who live on artificial islands near the island of Malaita. These islands are built of coral rubble and the people moved to them in an attempt to escape the dangers of malaria and enemies, and to find better fishing. The film focuses on change and conflict. The concept of 'custom' is vital to the islanders' identity, yet this is being eroded, particularly by Christian missionaries. The conflict between Christian and Pagan now pervades daily life, creating divisions in families and eroding knowledge of traditional life.

Clinging to the middle of the mountain like so many spiders, a dozen filmmakers and mountain guides busy themselves above the abyss to film Christophe Profit's ascent of Le Dru. Little by little, the director finds himself dreaming of the tranquil seaside holidays he might have had, like so many other nice people.

The life and times of a Casablanca cafe waiter.

Created as Daniel Beaulieu's final animated project at Vancouver Film School, Malaise was an animated short created to pay tribute to movies including elements of Solaris, Barbarella and Alien. It's quite obvious thanks to the chunky retro-futuristic look he captured with the interior design of the ships, which pay homage to that era of scifi. Beaulieu chose to marry a more stylized look for the characters with more realistic animation, which actually ended up working pretty well within the confines of this mini narrative.

An African elephant wanders into the lives of four wide-eyed children and all pandemonium breaks loose.