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escape

A dreamlike depiction of fleeting aspirations.

Small Displays of Chaos

Rayanne struggles with her eating disorder.

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Yuri, Moeko, and Ai are best friends from high school. Though their twenties were about to end, they believed their eternal world would remain forever. In spite of their will, some misfortunate events such as love, betrayal, memory, regret, and one book with its secret exam their friendship. Those girls get lost in the unveiled story, which is filled with meeting and parting. Scattered life = scattered story will move on any further? A little journey begins now.

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8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Une histoire vraie

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.

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The execution was scheduled and the last meal consumed. The coolness of the poisons entering the blood system slowed the heart rate and sent him on the way to Judgement. He had paid for his crime with years on Death Row waiting for this moment and now he would pay for them again as the judgment continued..

Merry Christmas Octopus

Eva and her younger brother Johnny own two sentient octopuses made out of strange matter. Will their parents divorce and ruin Christmas? Will a scientist find a way to use their pets as fuel? Live action film with stop-motion octopuses.

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.

Huggable Guys -97

A live performance by Lennie Norman and Claes Malmberg, two of Sweden's top notch stand-up comedians. Taped live by Kanal 5 in Louis De Geer-hallen in Norrköping, Sweden in 1997, during their highly successful 'Kramgoa Killer 97' tour.

Petersburg. Noir

Moscow writer ordered a story for the collection. At this time, his wife is going on a business trip to St. Petersburg. Writing imagination awakens jealousy in the main character.

A Thirty-Point Murder

An argument between a crime boss and a lowly businessman spurs a mystery that challenges a police detective and his partner to find the truth; the boss won't let them find it easily. Translation credits go to Nathan R. and Frank Lee

Drishya

Rajendra is a family-oriented man and tries to keep them happy. However, when his family commits an accidental crime, he does everything to keep them out of harm's way.

Arlette et ses papas

Arlette was born in 1918. Her mother made her lover and godchild named Pierre believe that he was the father of this child. Having become a beautiful young woman, Arlette falls under Pierre's spell and he offers to marry her to get her out of poverty.

Young Swallow

Despite opposition from the gymnastics team director, a coach proves the success of a new training plan.

Aoi-chan Won't Let Me Do It

In front of a man who wants to be a movie director, Shingo, the ghost of Mr. Kawashita, who was a senior in the college film research department who committed suicide a year ago, suddenly appears on his death anniversary. Mr. Kawashita says that he was revived because he wanted to have sex with his junior, Aoi, who had a crush on him when he was in college. In order to fulfill his desire to work with Aoi-chan, Kawashita-san and Shingo will travel back in time on that day when he was in college, which was probably the only chance for Kawashita-san to work with Aoi-chan. There was a nostalgic college Aoi-chan there. Can Mr. Kawashita redo the past and do it with Aoi-chan? It's funny, but a little sad time slip love story begins.

Daniel

Developed in urban Guadalajara, Mexico, this film tells the story of Daniel. He was abandonded at a reformatory center when he was twelve. Now, he's fifteen and someone is trying to kill him. In the murder attempt, things take a sharp turn, and now Danny must run from the implacable force of the media, a powerful radio anchor, a politician who's corruption is freightening and the authorities that are after him. Using his skills and patience, Danny must try to stay alive and tell the truth to anyone who wants to listen. But he's alone and on his own... through Hell.