An ingenuous film about the eternal, about the meaning of human life on earth. In a word, about what has been said a thousand times and a thousand times retold. The famous hero of Eastern legends, Hodja Nasreddin – a serious joker, thinker and truth-seeker – by the will of the authors became a foster brother and a friend of youth, no less famous, but in everything opposite to him – the tyrant and autocrat Timur Tamerlane.
Category: Family
Family
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A Son’s Promise
An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terry O’Kelly is fatherless and his remaining parent, his mother, is dying. Anguished, the soon-to-be orphan makes a surprising grown-up decision: Terry promises to care for his six brothers and vows to keep the family together. Steadfast to his word, Terry takes on the struggles of parenthood, which yields some difficult and unpleasant surprises.
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About Good and Evil, and About a Long Tongue
Because of the talkativeness of the village gossip girl Osan, who does not know how to hold her long tongue in time, a beautiful apricot tree died. It was cut down by a greedy, envious neighbor. But the good old man Khachatur and his granddaughter managed to grow a new miracle tree from a magic stone overnight, to the delight of all the village poor.
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Barney’s Campfire Sing-Along
After listening to a story about camping read by her mom, Tina wishes that she could go camping someday. After Tina falls asleep, she dreams about a camping trip with Barney and the rest of the Backyard Gang. Barney takes the gang through different fun experiences from pitching tents to having a snack. In the mist of things, a storm comes around and Tina gets lost in the woods. Thanks to Barney’s advice earlier of “Stay where you are, hug a tree and blow your whistle,” everyone finds Tina and they continue onto more campfire fun. They even explore a cave where a bear lives. Back at the campfire, songs are sung around it and everyone learns how to make S’mores. After the trip is over, Tina wakes up and realizes it was all just a dream – and a magical one at that.
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Nils Karlsson Pyssling
Based on the novel with the same name by Astrid Lindgren. Lonely little Bertil befriends the tiny Nils Karlsson-Däumling, who lives in a mouse hole under his bed and teaches him a magic spell to shrink down and share wondrous adventures in his secret world. Their idyllic fun, however, is threatened by the sinister rat Schofeline, forcing Bertil to summon all his newfound courage.
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet
A mysterious pink fog takes Nobita, Doraemon, Shizuka, Suneo, and Gian to a planet populated by animals. Legend says that the ancestors of this population used to live on the moon, but were transported out of there to escape from the voracious creatures that lived there too.
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In the Moonlight
Based on the fairytale of the same name by Marcel Aimé.
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Revolting Rhymes
Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.
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Call me Rockefeller
In the absence of their parents, the Malinowski kids are robbed. Instead of going to the police though they decide to regain the stolen money themselves.