尚不满24岁的清洁工安妮(Sarah Polley 饰)被确诊为癌症,只剩下两至三月的寿命,安妮的丈夫是她生命中第一个也是唯一一个男人,丈夫让她在17岁、19岁时分别生下女儿,入狱的父亲无法为她提供庇护,同母亲的关系又不甚良好,一家四口居住在拖车里,所幸丈夫最近得到了修建泳池的工作。安妮决定将病情隐瞒家人,并写了十条身故前的愿望,包括找到又一个爱自己的男人,为女儿准备未来生日的祝词并和一个继母,跟父亲见一次面和享受余下的人生。安妮在洗衣房里偶遇从阿拉斯加归来的测量员,两人彼此摩擦出了爱的火花。但她将满脑子只有节食计划的女同事介绍给丈夫时却遭遇了失败,不久一名与安妮同名的女邻居到来,她似乎是安妮理想的人选。所有事情在按步骤实现,还有安妮的死亡…… 本片获2003年大西洋电影节最佳加拿大电影等多项褒奖。
当咪咪生病时,梅格·汤普金斯 (Meg Tompkins) 搁置了她在波士顿蓬勃发展的房地产事业,接管了她母亲在楠塔基特岛的书店“咪咪读书角”。咪咪几年前就去世了,梅格有一个缺席的沉默伴侣,她的阿姨蕾妮,只是为了在经济上帮助梅格。当梅格得知蕾妮姨妈想要在退休后开启新的生活阶段并想出售她在商店的权益时,她必须决定该怎么做,梅格不确定她是否能够或愿意自己承担经济负担尤其是当这家商店落入她的怀抱,而不是她曾经追求过的时候。梅格最近在这家书店的一项举措是她所谓的“与读书俱乐部相亲”,她希望推广不知名作家的作品,在当地就更好了,她只销售她策划的书籍,只用简短的口号在描述这本书的情况下,买家对这本书一无所知,他们会在下周返回,在读书俱乐部中讨论这本书。NPR 电台主持人雷娜·布雷姆 (Raina Breem) 就读书俱乐部的情况采访了梅格,雷娜主要对俱乐部成员之间真正的相亲感兴趣。尽管无意,梅格确实意识到俱乐部可以将人们以浪漫的方式聚集在一起,与书籍建立联系。听到采访的人之一是格雷厄姆·斯特林(Graham Sterling),他是青少年系列的畅销书作家,目前正在努力写该系列的第八本书,这是他当前合同中的倒数第二本,因为他想写他伟大的美国小说。他已经完成了这样的历史浪漫史,他的出版商不想出版这份手稿,因为它不符合他的品牌,他们认为它很好,但不是很好。因此,格雷厄姆决定以迪伦·特纳的笔名自行出版这本书,并希望梅格为读书俱乐部策划这本书,以获得真正读者的公正意见。在与“迪伦”的会面中,梅格最终得知了他的真实身份,并决定将其纳入读书俱乐部以帮助他,尽管她对这本书的看法与迪伦的出版商相同。在此过程中,两人开始互相倾心。他们之间发生的事情受到俱乐部中这本书的命运的影响,这可能会无意中影响商店。—哈戈
14-year-old Ella is determined to travel the length of the Inside Passage, along the shores of the Great Bear Rainforest by kayak in order to testify against a proposed pipeline that would see oil tanker traffic through her beloved homeland waters. She's prepared to handle all of the challenges the wildlife, the weather, the water, and her gear have to offer up. The most challenging of all is that she has to bring her dysfunctional family with her. Her neurotic aunt, her cranky uncle, her wayward cousin, and the memory of her late uncle all come along for the ride to make it a fun and amazing adventure. From Tla'Amin to Klemtu, BC, this family navigates their blend of cultures and desires, while their spirits honour the coast as a place for each of us to call home and protect.
一名17岁的少女在她计划自杀的当晚被绑架,她必须为活下去而战斗。她设法说服袭击者放过她,在经过26小时后等来了生机。但当她回家时,除了一名怀疑凶手为连环杀手的侦探外,没有人相信她的故事。 影片改编自可怕的真实事件。
戈弗雷是一个深受个人悲剧创伤和内疚的人的故事,他以一种深刻的方式来处理这个问题:他决定成为除了他自己以外的任何人。一天,他扮演了一个英国艺术评论家,然后是一个诗人,接下来是一个城市涂鸦艺术家,一个古巴萨尔萨舞者和许多其他诙谐的角色。戈弗雷的应对机制让他保持清醒,但他是一个完全不知道自己是谁的人。萨拉·达什是一位聪明、有见地的作家,有着作家的障碍,她与自己的自我意识斗争,在画廊开幕式上偶然发现了他。莎拉对自己的性格很感兴趣,她试图揭开戈弗雷的神秘面纱,同时利用他写了一部新小说。两人之间建立了一种脆弱的友谊,这种友谊的特点是幽默、辛酸、自我反省,以及两个受伤的人能够帮助彼此疗伤的决心。
昆虫是生生不息的自然界中重要的一员,昆虫本身就蕴藏了无穷的奥秘。昆虫与环境的适应关系是亿万年来长期进化的结果,同时多数“害虫”却有很强的适应能力,人类的不适当的活动只能增加人类的悲剧。我们生活的周围生活着无数的昆虫,人类对它们的生活习性及在生态系统中的作用研究清楚的不多,多数还处在无知状态,有的只仅道它们的名字而已。理解昆虫,探索昆虫,并与昆虫共存,这样才能使我们赖以生存的地球更加充满生机。 第一集 世界尽头的昆虫 Insects at the End of the World 第二集 捕虫之玄奥 Entomology is Catching 第三集 神秘的蝎子 Scorpions 第四集 沙漠中的生命 Life in the Desert0 第五集 昆虫交响乐 Symphony.of.the.Hexapods 第六集 织工岛 Weaver's Island 第七集 一树一世界 Life in a Single Tree 第八集 昆虫商品 Insects for Sale 第九集 大联盟 The Grand Alliance0 第十集 水生昆虫 Aquatic Insects 第十一集:化装舞会 Masquerade 第十二集:时间旅行者 Time Travellers 第十三集:不法之徒 Outlaws
A tenuously linked group of nobodies trudge through their woeful existence in dreary Winnipeg. A sickly middle-aged man in a failing marriage, a stand-up comedian whose sets are met by utter indifference, a stoner couple who share only trivial exchanges, and a young loner unsympathetic to his caring mother are each living lives lost in translation, detached from their surroundings and the people around them. -- from viff.org
“THE INVISIBLES” is a visually stunning story about an alternate dimension that exists in the same time and space as our own. Charlie (Tim Blake Nelson) and Hanna (Lucy Liu) are in crisis and facing the end of their marriage, when Charlie literally starts to disappear. As he fades from the world, he discovers a new world of INVISIBLES; people who have disappeared just like him and who now exist in an alternate reality that shares the same physical space as the real world, but have no ability to impact it. Invisibility offers Charlie many benefits. Money is no longer required, there are limitless opportunities to eat and drink anything and everything where and when he wants and being invisible he gets to behave however he likes. But better than that, he lives in a place where emotional pain and personal trauma are now forgotten. Yet Charlie keeps being drawn back to his old life, visiting his wife Hanna even though she no longer sees him. As he starts to see their marriage from her point of view and face the tragic loss of their six-year-old son, he soon realises that he must fight to return to reality, and learns that living in the present and looking to the future is the key to life.
A Lifetime Network movie: Stacey, is a police officer who works child abduction cases, and is suffering from PTSD due to her last case. Shortly after returning back to work Stacey's teenage daughter Sarah is abducted. Even though Stacey is too emotionally involved she may be the best cop for this case...or is she? With a glory-seeking co-worker hindering her every move and her family worried about her mental health will Stacey be able to do her job and rescue her daughter from an emotionally unstable abductor.