简介:Set during the Blitz in 1940s London. After writing twelve Poirot novels in six years, Agatha Christie should be a rich woman. Instead she’s struggling to make ends meet. As the money runs out, Agatha concocts a plan to kill off her most famous creation and sell the manuscript to a superfan. When Agatha’s would-be-buyer suffers a heart attack, it seems unfortunate but benign. When her manuscript is stolen, a wider conspiracy begins to take shape. As the bombs fall and she investigates, the danger of her situation becomes apparent; Agatha herself is the killer’s next target.
简介:Akilla's Escape weaves the present and past in a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier. Set in Toronto and New York where over 450,00 Jamaicans reside, the story speaks to the historical criminalization of black boys that modern society overlooks.Akilla Brown is forty-years-old and for the first time in his life, the clandestine cannabis grow operation he runs is legit. Only one year into government approval legalization, the pendulum of hypocrisy takes a toll and Akilla decides to cash out. While making a routine delivery on a cool, summer night, destiny takes an unexpected turn when Akilla confronts a firestorm of masked youths in an armed robbery.In the aftermath of the heist, Akilla captures one of the thieves, a mute fifteen-year-old boy named Sheppard. Upon leaning the bandits are affiliated with the Garrison Army, a Jamaican crime syndicate his grandfather founded. Akilla is forced to reckon with a cycle of violence he thought he escaped.
简介:Concert pianist Anat’s waters break while she is playing. Devastatingly, her son proves deaf. The Baby Mozart CD her father gives her can go straight in the bin. However, Anats will to raise a piano genius who would befit her respected musical family only becomes stronger, and she takes drastic measures to make this happen. Composed as a moral parable with a touch of thriller, God of the Piano tells the story of a mother – played with great reserve by Naama Preis – whose obsessive behaviour and mile-high expectations threaten to crush her child, just as she was once crushed. While focusing on mother-son relations, the film also explores the uncertain nature of prodigy. Is talent inherited? Is there a secret tension or even an interplay between giftedness and averageness? And – most importantly – what price does a person, be it adult or child, pay for being labelled a genius?
简介:An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather's oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
简介:获得奥斯卡最佳女配角奖的演员雷吉娜·金将执导电影《迈阿密的一夜》( One Night in Miami),改编自肯普·鲍尔斯处女剧作的舞台剧。现在肯普·鲍尔斯已经将原本的舞台剧剧本改写成了电影剧本。?故事发生在1964年2月25日的夜晚,年轻的卡修斯·克莱击败了桑尼·利斯顿成为世界重量级拳击冠军,却因种族隔离法律无法留在迈阿密的岛上,只能在市郊的汉普顿旅馆与三个朋友激进分子马尔科姆·艾克斯、歌手山姆·库克和足球明星吉姆·布朗共同庆祝和过夜。