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The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields. It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2×1030 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. The remainder (1.69%, which nonetheless equals 5,628 times the mass of Earth) consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon and iron, among others.
The Sun's stellar classification, based on spectral class, is G2V, and is informally designated as a yellow dwarf, because its visible radiation is most intense in the yellow-green portion of the spectrum and although its color is white, from the surface of the Earth it may appear yellow because of atmospheric scattering of blue light. In the spectral class label, G2 indicates its surface temperature of approximately 5778 K (5505 °C), and V indicates that the Sun, like most stars, is a main-sequence star, and thus generates its energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium. In its core, the Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen each second. Once regarded by astronomers as a small and relatively insignificant star, the Sun is now thought to be brighter than about 85% of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy, most of which are red dwarfs. The absolute magnitude of the Sun is +4.83; however, as the star closest to Earth, the Sun is the brightest object in the sky with an apparent magnitude of −26.74. The Sun's hot corona continuously expands in space creating the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that extends to the heliopause at roughly 100 astronomical units. The bubble in the interstellar medium formed by the solar wind, the heliosphere, is the largest continuous structure in the Solar System.
Actors: Alexander Powell (writer), Alexander Powell (director), Alexander Powell (producer), Brad Kester (actor), Allan Duan (editor), Allan Duan (actor), Jason Phillips (actor), Pierce Brenner (actor), Pierce Brenner (actor), Pierce Brenner (writer), Pierce Brenner (director), Alex Waxler (miscellaneous crew), Alexis Mickens (actor), Alex Waxler (actor), Zachary Brown (producer),
Plot: Personifications of the seven deadly sins all live under the same roof and they can't stand each other. When things get out of hand, a demon dog arrives to bring them an ultimatum: they must shed their sins or receive a punishment worse than death. Each confident they will succeed, the mortal sins each get more than they bargained for.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Kyriakos Chatzimichailidis (producer), Aesop (writer), Thanasis Neofotistos (writer), Thanasis Neofotistos (producer), Thanasis Neofotistos (director), Thanasis Neofotistos (editor), Alejandro Cabrera Zuniga (composer), Iro Adrakta (producer), Sevi Xeini (costume designer), Georgios Drosinis (writer), Orfeas Haralabous (actor), Grigoris Skarakis (writer), Aiolos Haralabous (actor), Maria Economou (actress),
Plot: A woman is walking carefree in the fields, collecting flowers and windmills, completely clueless about what is going to happen to her when the sun and the wind fight over who is stronger. They will both attempt to undress her. Each one uses his strongest assets. The first one uses his force, the second one his warmth. Who will be the winner?
Keywords: experimental, fable, fairy-tale, independent-film, narrative, poemActors: Louis Mendiola (producer), Louis Mendiola (actor), Louis Mendiola (writer), Gareth Van Niekerk (writer), Gareth Van Niekerk (producer), Gareth Van Niekerk (editor), Gareth Van Niekerk (actor), Gareth Van Niekerk (director), Roberto Nascimento (actor), Hans Edward Hammonds (writer), Hans Edward Hammonds (producer), Hans Edward Hammonds (actor), Hans Edward Hammonds (director), Hans Edward Hammonds (editor),
Genres: Action, Comedy, Short,Actors: Emma Windsor (editor), Emma Windsor (writer), Dennis Braunsdorf (composer), Emma Windsor (director), Emma Windsor (producer), Lisa Vigour (actor), Chloe Shannon (actress), Ashley Bond (actor),
Plot: There's a belief in Nordic countries that witches steal cream with a Mjolkhare or Milkhare, a creature bought to life with the witch's own blood. MiLK HaRE is a unique stop-motion short that uses a number of techniques including pixilation and timelapse to tell its macabre tale.
Genres: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Short,Actors: Thomas Bennett (actor), Thomas Bennett (actor), Victoria Fellows (actor), Victoria Fellows (editor), Victoria Fellows (actor), Victoria Fellows (producer), Victoria Fellows (writer), Victoria Fellows (director), Timothy Walton (actor), Eddie Rodriguez (actor), Claire Smith (actor), Sean Lowton-Smith (actor),
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Aylam Orian (writer), Aylam Orian (producer), Aylam Orian (composer), Aylam Orian (editor), Aylam Orian (actor), David Amito (editor), David Amito (director), Marvin Gronen (actor), Tomomi Imai (actress), Yuki Kawahisa (actor), Nadia Rahman (actress), Dagmar Spain (actor), Roy Aialon (actor), Sylvia Milo (composer), Hazuki Homma (actor),
Plot: A boy and a girl randomly meet, separate, and reunite, under a series of bizarre circumstances. As we follow them together and alone in their interactions with other people, we learn a few lessons about loneliness, human contact, cruelty, beauty, and the interconnectedness of everyone and everything.
Keywords: ensemble, filmed-theatre, interconnectedness, loveActors: Ernst Gossner (director), Carmen Gratl (actress), Konstanze Dutzi (actress), Franz Weichenberger (actor), Thomas Gassner (actor), Maria Gundolf (actress), Robert Neuschmied (actor), Thomas Ursula Hostettler (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Michael Palin (actor), Terry Jones (writer), Victoria Wood (actress), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor), Graham McTavish (actor), Terry Jones (actor), Bernard Hill (actor), Steve Coogan (actor), Nigel Planer (actor), Eric Idle (actor), Stephen Fry (actor), John Cleese (actor), Don Henderson (actor), Charles Bodycomb (miscellaneous crew), Terry Jones (director),
Plot: Mole's underground home is bought by the Weasels from wealthy landowner Mr. Toad and Mole is thrown out. He and Rat start to fight to get his home back from evil Weasels.
Keywords: badger, based-on-novel, car-salesman, detective, fable, judge, lawyer, mole, policeman, ratActors: Tuncel Kurtiz (actor), Maurice Bénichou (actor), Jean-Claude Carrière (writer), Clifford De Spenser (miscellaneous crew), Andrzej Seweryn (actor), Sotigui Kouyaté (actor), Jean-Claude Carrière (writer), Vittorio Mezzogiorno (actor), Ciarán Hinds (actor), Georges Corraface (actor), Peter Brook (writer), Nicolas Gaster (editor), Bruce Myers (actor), Bruce Myers (actor), Michèle Hollander (editor),
Plot: In ancient India the five Pandava brothers, Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, are cousins of the sons of king Dhritharashtra, known as the Kaurava. The five are the sons of the wives of king Pandu, who seceded in favor of his blind brother after he was cursed. The men are raised together, but from the beginning there are difficulties. They are prone to fight and when Arjuna becomes a great archer, the Kaurava are both jealous and afraid. Is it the kingdom the Pandava are after? Yudhishthira, the eldest of the Pandava, strives after it as he is told by the deity Krishna that he will become king. The hatred and jealousy of the Kaurava grows even stronger when the Pandava turn a barren wasteland Dhritharashtra gave them into a great court. This can't go on forever. Inevitably a war will follow, a war that will shake the foundations of the Earth.
Keywords: based-on-play, battle, dead-boy, epic, massacre, mythological, religion, tv-mini-series, vedaActors: Izzy Sparber (director), Jack Mercer (actor), Jack Mercer (actor), Jack Mercer (actor), Sid Raymond (actor), Sid Raymond (actor), Sam Buchwald (producer), Seymour Kneitel (producer), Izzy Sparber (producer), Larz Bourne (writer), Jack Mercer (actor), Winston Sharples (composer), Larry Riley (writer),
Plot: This all-animated Paramount Screen Song (production number X9-2) has the story of a group of animals building an Ark in assembly-line fashion in preparation for the Big Flood. The setting is in darkest Africa and features the jungle animals. They finish just before the Bouncing Ball comes along and asks the audience to participate in singing "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More."
Keywords: africa, assembly-line, audience-participation, bible, boat-building, bouncing-ball, carpenter, construction, elephant, flood