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Coordinates: 43°06′N 0°03′W / 43.1°N 0.05°W / 43.1; -0.05
Lourdes (Gascon Occitan Lorda or Lourde) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in south-western France. The former regional language of this area used to be Gascon Occitan (or Gasconha, Occitània which was the spoken language at the time of Bernadette Soubirous), but has been largely supplanted by French as in many regions of France.
Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees, famous for the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes said to have occurred in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous. At that time, the most prominent feature of the town was the fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its centre.
Following the reports that Our Lady of Lourdes had appeared to Bernadette Soubirous on a total of eighteen occasions, Lourdes has developed into a major place of Roman Catholic pilgrimage and of miraculous healings. The 150th Jubilee of the first apparition took place on 11 February 2008 with an outdoor mass attended by approximately 45,000 pilgrims.
Actors: Mary Kearns (producer), Sílvia Aranda (actress), Gal Soler (actor), Álvaro Gago Díaz (editor), Mireia Graell Vivancos (producer), Mireia Graell Vivancos (writer), Mireia Graell Vivancos (director), Joan Sureda (actor), Carlota Masvidal Bofill (costume designer), Eduard Amado Moles (actor), Marta Font Pascual (producer),
Genres: Drama, Family, Short,Actors: Spike Lee (actor), Arthur French (actor), Spike Lee (director), Spike Lee (producer), Randall Balsmeyer (miscellaneous crew), Spike Lee (writer), Clarke Peters (actor), Isiah Whitlock Jr. (actor), Nate Parker (actor), James Ransone (actor), Tim Stacker (producer), Thomas Jefferson Byrd (actor), Kecia J. Benson (miscellaneous crew), Colman Domingo (actor), Steve Bono (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Célio Dutra (producer), Célio Dutra (editor), Célio Dutra (director), Célio Dutra (writer), Leo Pyrata (actor), Luciana Tanure (producer), João Borges (actor), Julia Violeta (actress), Sarah Assis (composer), Lucas Miranda (composer), Leo Moraes (composer), Mateus Matta Machado (actor), Dudude Herrmann (actor),
Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Short,Actors: Juanma Lara (actor), Sebastián Haro (actor), Gervasio Iglesias (producer), Juan Motilla (actor), Juan Motilla (actor), Marta Velasco (producer), Álvaro Begines (writer), Álvaro Begines (director), Gloria de Jesús (actress), José Chaves (actor), Marisol Membrillo (actress), Paco R. Baños (miscellaneous crew), Jesús Carroza (actor), José M. G. Moyano (editor), Juan Carlos Sánchez (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Cherry Pie Picache (actress), Johnny Delgado (actor), Jerrold Tarog (composer), Ama Quiambao (actress), Armando Lao (miscellaneous crew), Allan Paule (actor), Gamaliel Viray (actor), Angel Aquino (actress), Liza Lorena (actress), Rita Magdalena (actress), Coco Martin (actor), Ferdinand Lapuz (miscellaneous crew), Brillante Mendoza (writer), Brillante Mendoza (director), Brillante Mendoza (producer),
Plot: The story is set in Guagua, Pampanga a decade after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo which ravaged the province with lahar. It follows the lives of Rodolfo "Mang Rudy" Manansala, a woodcarver, and his three daughters and their relationships with the people close to them in the span of seven summers. Grace, the youngest daughter, marries the mama's boy Conrad, and has to face the reality of leaving the ancestral house, to which she is deeply rooted, to go and live with her in-laws. Much against her will, to the point of staging a escape, she yields to the dictates of tradition. Yet she manages to cope up with married life, and on the fourth year of her marriage gets pregnant with her second child. Lourdes, the middle daughter and married to the weakling Andy Pineda with whom she has a daughter, goes into an illicit affair with a bank manager, for which reason Mang Rudy succumbs to a heart attack and becomes bedridden. For a while numbed by the infidelity of his wife, Andy later realizes his insignificance and retaliates by beating up and nearly killing Lourdes. Lourdes atones for her guilt by ministering to Andy's wounds after he joins the rituals of the flagellants during the Holy Week. However, they both decide to separate. Jess, the eldest daughter, is a lesbian whose bitter luck in life is being unwanted by her own father. Yet she serves Mang Rudy to the hilt after he gets bedridden and makes the common sense of allowing her girlfriend Rowena to move in at the Manansala house, not so much for their own convenience as lovers but for Rowena to help in looking after Mang Rudy and in helping out with the household chores. But when a conflict arises between Lourdes and Rowena, Mang Rudy sends Rowena away. A year later, Mang Rudy succumbs to a second attack and when he dies several months later, Rowena sets foot on the ancestral house once more to pay her last respects. At the wake, Rowena comes to the realization that, like Andy, she never belonged and finally decides to leave Jess. Rowena realigns herself with normal procedures by getting married while Jess, along with her sisters, moves on with life. The story is told in three segments, with each segment told from the point of view of the three daughters. Attached to each segment are social occasion popularly observed in the Philippines, with a symbolic motif for each, represented by the elements sun, fire, water, air, blood, moon and earth. With Rowena's wedding at the end of the film, as in Grace's wedding at the start, a full cycle of life transpired.
Keywords: adultery, daughter, death, driver, elements, extramarital-affair, female-nudity, heart-attack, independent-film, infidelityActors: María Álvarez (actress), Ana Wagener (actress), Ginés García Millán (actor), Blanca Apilánez (actress), Miguel del Arco (director), Miguel del Arco (writer), Javier Bermejo (miscellaneous crew), Vanessa Marimbert (editor), Israel Elejalde (actor), Aitor Tejada (producer), Miriam Montilla (actress), Patricia Luna (miscellaneous crew), Arnau Vilà (composer), Cristina Torrecilla (actress), José Luis Martínez (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Ernest Blasi (editor), Julio Fernández (producer), Leonor Watling (actress), Martin Samper (miscellaneous crew), Andréa Ferréol (actress), Núria Casanueva (miscellaneous crew), Óscar Ladoire (actor), José Luis López Vázquez (actor), Luis Miñarro (actor), Eduardo Albaladejo (miscellaneous crew), Carme Elias (actress), Joan Potau (writer), Joan Potau (director), José María Calleja (producer), Ángel Alcázar (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez (actress), Ofelia Guilmáin (actress), Yolanda Ciani (actress), Manuel 'Flaco' Ibáñez (actor), Celia Cruz (actress), Diana Golden (actress), Raúl Meraz (actor), Sergio Jiménez (actor), Juan Ferrara (actor), Claudio Brook (actor), Verónica Castro (actress), Juan Peláez (actor), Verónica Castro (actress), Alicia Montoya (actress), Norma Lazareno (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Eulàlia Ramon (actress), Teresa Gimpera (actress), Blanca Portillo (actress), Claudia Gravy (actress), Fernando Cebrián (actor), Pascual Cervera (director), Andoni Ferreño (actor), Virginia Mataix (actress), Nacho Martínez (actor), Rafael Rojas (actor), Lorena García (actress), Beatriz Santana (actress), Francisco Montolío (director), Laura Aparicio (actress), Lara Corrochano (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Carlos Savage (editor), Félix González (actor), Miguel Manzano (actor), Carlos Riquelme (actor), Guillermo Álvarez Bianchi (actor), Elsa Cárdenas (actress), Cecilia Leger (actress), Inés Murillo (actress), Diana Ochoa (actress), Rogelio A. González (writer), Gonzalo Curiel (composer), Rogelio A. González (director), Miguel Ángel Ferriz (actor), Patricia de Morelos (actress), Matilde Palou (actress),
Genres: Drama,I am an Arbian princess I'll do whatever you like
I'll be all naughty and no nice take you to paradise
I'm an Arabian dancer I'll shake my boodie all night
I'll be a hot hot leb chick so you wanna get with me
Nobody else can move it like I can move it
All the girls are jelous of what I've got
They try to shake their ahhh
Like I shake ma ahhhh
Wnna be something that their not
When I'm dancing in the club everybody turns around and looks at me
The girls give me the look the guys give the look
But I don't care what people think because
CHORUS
When I walk into the street all eyes are on me
The way I move my hips it's hipnotysing
I go into the club and I'm doing thing
And OMG you should see the guys surrounding
All the other girls are trying to get attention
Wanna be like me cause they know I'm perfect
I come from the middle east and shake it like a belly dancer
No one else can do it quite we can do it
CHORUS
I'm arabian
I'm a princess
I'm everything you wish you were
I'm a young girl
I'm a hot girl
I'm better than you and you know it
I'm perfect
I'm a bad girl
You know you'll never be like me
CHORUS