Homecoming (Original title: Heimkehr) is a 1928 German film directed by Joe May.

Tadine is a long way from home and wants to return to Kosova and her beloved Dog, Kostandin. Alone and adrift in a new country, her mother tries to hold the family together as her father sinks deeper into his own despair, unwilling or unable to help his only child. Tadine's desperation to get the family home, and the friendship of the boy next door finally forces her father to confront his demons, heal his past and help his daughter find peace in their new home. Written by Emma Farrell

The movie tells the story of Abigael Edades (Alessandra de Rossi) who returns to her Philippine hometown from her five-year stint as a nurse in Canada. Her town mates rousingly welcome her as a hero, the crass moniker ascribed by the government to hundreds of thousands of Filipinos working abroad. She finds her family in tatters, her parents (Elizabeth Oropesa and Bembol Roco) estranged and living apart and her brother Jepoy (Llester Lansang) living the life of drugs. But she basks in the welcome of her mother and youngest brother Noel (Bryan Homecillo) and the devotion of her boyfriend (James Blanco), who proposes marriage. Her happiness is short-lived. She is diagnosed with SARS and contaminates Noel. They cause a national scare, are quarantined in Manila and are shunned by their own townspeople and the municipal government. Even her boyfriend leaves her. The hero becomes a heel. "Just a month after my return, my views on life and the people around me have irrevocably changed," she says at the start of the movie. Written by Cinema Partners

Newport, Oregon. In a coastal town, Jeff and his wife Mattie work together facing the economic shifts. One son Chris, is unemployed; the other, Steve, is away on military service. Chris is lackadaisical and shiftless, Mattie perhaps drinks on the sly and tried to help her son, Jeff keeps his nose to the grind-wheel. Chris is dumped by his girlfriend, Jamie. Jeff scrambles to stay afloat. During a therapy session it is revealed that Chris is Jeff's step-son. Steve returns, but in a "transfer tube". Following his funeral, the family meet; an argument erupts, revealing the depths of the division between Jeff and Chris. In a counseling session Chris breaks down and is comforted by the counselor. Mattie and Jeff, lost in their grief, each lose their way. Chris visits the counsellor at home, and is sexually seduced. Then he visits Jamie, hoping to resume their relationship. She is sympathetic about his brother's death. She refuses him, though, saying she's "doing well by herself". Chris throws himself off an ocean bluff, and Mattie and Jeff have another funeral. Written by jon jost

Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home. Written by Daniel Bubbeo

HOMECOMING is a short film about Drew, a young war vet returning home from Afghanistan. Still processing his horrific experience overseas, Drew contacts his parents to discuss his homecoming. While his mother eagerly anticipates his return, his father holds onto the valiant expectations he has had for his son as a soldier. Ultimately, they are all forced to deal with the dark side of post-war trauma. Written by MCD

HOMECOMING is a short film about Drew, a young war vet returning home from Afghanistan. Still processing his horrific experience overseas, Drew contacts his parents to discuss his homecoming. His mother eagerly anticipates Drew's return, while his father holds onto the valiant expectations he had for his son as a soldier. Ultimately, they are all forced to deal with the dark side of post war trauma. Written by Connie Diletti

Coming home can be the hardest part of war.

Exile and betrayal can test the best of friendships

The Forgotten World of America's Orphanages

The first movie which was produced by Lietuvos Kinostudija.

Documentary recounting the secret deportation of 1/4 of the Lithuanian population by Stalin during 1940, 1941 and 1944 to Gulag concentration camps. Follows the survivors as they retrieve the remains of their loved ones who perished in the Gulag's at the expense of the Soviet state (part of Gorbachev's glasnost period just prior to the dissolution of the USSR. Written by SindyMac

A girl never forgets her first love...

x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: Mind you, she wasn't such a bad woman. Even though it made me sick just to look at her rotten stinking face, she wasn't such a bad bitch. I gave her the best bleeding years of my life, anyway. nny: Plug it, will you, you stupid sod, I'm trying to read the paper. x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: Listen! I'll chop your spine off, you talk to me like that! You understand? Talking to your lousy filthy father like that! nny: You know what, you're getting demented.

nny: What did you say? x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: I said shove off out of it, that's what I said. nny: You'll go before me, Dad, if you talk to me in that tone of voice. x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: Will I, you bitch? nny: Oh, Daddy, you're not going to use your stick on me, are you? Eh? Don't use your stick on me, Daddy. No, please. It wasn't my fault, it was one of the others. I haven't done anything wrong, Dad, honest. Don't clout me with that stick, Dad.

x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: Look what I'm lumbered with. One cast-iron bunch of crap after another. One flow of stinking pus after another.

th: Have a sip. Go on. Have a sip from my glass. Sit on my lap. Take a long cool sip. Put your head back and open your mouth. nny: Take that glass away from me. th: Lie on the floor. Go on. I'll pour it down your throat. nny: What are you doing, making me some kind of proposal?

x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: I worked as a butcher all my life, using the chopper and the slab, the slab, you know what I mean, the chopper and the slab! To keep my family in luxury. Two families! My mother was bedridden, my brothers were all invalids. I had to earn the money for the leading psychiatrists. I had to read books! I had to study the disease, so that I could cope with an emergency at every stage. A crippled family, three bastard sons, a slutbitch of a wife -- don't talk to me about the pain of childbirth -- I suffered the pain, I've still got the pangs -- when I give a little cough my back collapses -- and here I've got a lazy idle bugger of a brother won't even get to work on time.

m, brother of Max: You go and ask my customers! I'm the only one they ever ask for. x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: What do the other drivers do, sleep all day? m, brother of Max: I can only drive one car. Thay can't all have me at the same time. x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: Anyone could have you at the same time. You'd bend over for half a dollar on Blackfriars Bridge. m, brother of Max: Me! x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: For two bob and a toffee apple. m, brother of Max: He's insulting me. He's insulting his brother. I'm driving a man to Hampton Court at four forty-five.

nny: Take a table, take it. All right, I say, *take* it, *take* a table, but once you've taken it, what you going to do with it? Once you've got hold of it, where you going to take it? x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: You'd probably sell it. nny: You wouldn't get much for it. ey: Chop it up for firewood.

ddy: You wouldn't understand my works. You wouldn't have the faintest idea of what they were about. You wouldn't appreciate the points of reference. You're way behind. All of you. There's no point in my sending you my works. You'd be lost. It's nothing to do with the question of intelligence. It's a way of being able to look at the world. It's a question of how far you can operate on things and not in things. I mean it's a question of your capacity to ally the two, to relate the two, to balance the two. To see, to be able to *see*! I'm the one who can see. That's why I can write my critical works. Might do you good... have a look at them... see how certain people can view... things... how certain people can maintain... intellectual equilibrium. Intellectual equilibrium. You're just objects. You just... move about. I can observe it. I can see what you do. It's the same as I do. But you're lost in it. You won't get me being... I won't be lost in it.

nny: It's funny, because I'd have thought that in the United States of America, I mean with the sun and all that, the open spaces, on the old campus, in your position, lecturing, in the centre of all the intellectual life out there, on the old campus, all the social whirl, all the stimulation of it all, all your kids and all that, to have fun with, down by the pool, the Greyhound buses and all that, tons of iced water, all the comfort of those Bermuda shorts and all that, on the old campus, no time of the day or night you can't get a cup of coffee or a Dutch gin, I'd have thought you'd have grown more forthcoming, not less. Because I want you to know that you set a standard for us, Teddy. Your family looks up to you, boy, and you know what it does? It does its best to follow the example you set. Because you're a great source of pride to us. That's why we were so glad to see you come back, to welcome you back to your birthplace. That's why.

x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: I mean, you needn't tell them she's your wife. nny: No, we'd call her something else. Dolores, or something. x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: Or Spanish Jacky. nny: No, you've got to be reserved about it, Dad. We could call her something nice... like Cynthia... or Gillian.

nny: No, what I mean, Teddy, you must know lots of professors, heads of departments, men like that. They pop over here for a week at the Savoy, they need somewhere they can go to have a nice quiet poke. And of course you'd be in a position to give them inside information. x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: Sure. You can give them proper data. You know, the kind of thing she's willing to do. How far she'd be prepared to go with their little whims and fancies. Eh, Lenny? To what extent she's various. I mean if you don't know who does?

th: How many rooms would this flat have? nny: Not many. th: I would want at least three rooms and a bathroom. nny: You wouldn't need three rooms and a bathroom. x, father of Lenny, Teddy, and Joey: She'd need a bathroom. nny: But not three rooms.

Jordy Rembrandt is a big-city tough guy with an attitude and a history of bad decisions. When he's sent to a small-town high school to complete his senior year, he discovers "fitting in" takes on a whole new meaning. Like any of us faced with peer pressure requiring choices, Jordy yearns for acceptance . . . in spite of his rough exterior. He tries the ususal ways to get it - he plays football, goes to parties, dates a cheerleader. But it isn't until he's faced with the love of Christ that he begins to understand the meaning of true acceptance. Written by Anonymous

Some crushes never fade...

What if the girl of your dreams said yes fifteen years too late?

Tells of a band of children who are forced to fend for themselves when their mother apparently abandons them. They eventually meet their grandmother, a loner who is reluctant to take them in. Written by Anonymous