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Carmen
The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
Box
A doomsday pepper is surprised to find a mysterious box appear in his living room with no trace as to how it could've gotten there.
Hotel Kalura
A woman walks into a hotel bar on the romantic island of Sicily, waiting to be lit.
Man Called Amen
A very unlikely trio join forces in order to rob a bank: an ex-bandit called Smith, now a cheerful reverend, a nomadic artist and a pickpocket. Their plan is successful, however, and the three make off with the money from the bank's vaults, only to find themselves robbed of their newly-acquired wealth by a young schoolmistress.
...und es leuchtet die Pußta
A 1934 film directed by Heinz Hille.
East of Main Street: Milestones
The Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple had an opportunity to take part in an episode of East of Main Street, an HBO documentary series that has been produced for the past three years to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. This year’s episode, Milestones, focuses on how different groups of Asian Americans mark the milestones throughout their lives.
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. She is joined by three men; all of them want to marry her. The story of her pregnancy and her rise to stardom are told in flashback.
The Way to the Heart
Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to find herself to save her menu and her job. She returns home and finds little to inspire her, but when she reunites with her childhood friend Logan, Ava has to get her head out of the clouds and her foot out of her mouth to rediscover her passion for food.
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced by a young lawyer, the brother of the accused
Sky Song
A postman endeavors to fly to the moon in one breath so he can deliver a package.
Change
I was somewhere between the beggining and the end of life. After winter became spring, and summer became fall, and fall winter again. I always knew change would be constant.
The Voice of Others
Rim, a Tunisian woman, works in France as an interpreter for asylum-seekers. Every day, she translates the stories of exiled men and women whose voices question her own history.
Bugarach
It is December 20th, 2012, the eve of the "end of the world". Pascal drags morose Thomas to the Pyrenees and the village of Bugarach, which is meant to be the one place where human life will not altogether disappear. As their wait drags into idleness, they spend the night around a fire.
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)
A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mutter Museum housed there. This short film represents the first to be made by the internationally recognized Quay Brothers in the United States. While not a stop-motion animation film, a form for which the Quays are best known, the entire film is vibrantly constructed and 'animated'. Musical score by composer Tim Nelson and voice-over provided by Derek Jacobi.
Adela
The Musician Killer
A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with it.
Una extraña mujer
L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?
Dihya
Dihya reveals her world, her secrets, her stories. She reigns in this dehumanized world, like a queen, a warrior.