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On Your Way, Riley!
Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.
Carry On Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
In the Doghouse
A family dog is pushed into show business and into taking on the role of breadwinner, as the man of the house loses his job and takes the dog to auditions secretly while his family is unaware of this unemployment.
House of the Frights
Half-dozen comic actors in a spooky house.
Queen of the Ring
Documentary about the rise of the female German boxer Regina Halmich.
Gladius
During ancient Greece, Marcus, a winemaker, was haunted by his past as a gladiator.
Motodrama
An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer.
Searching Nafta
Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond their immediate surroundings. In the fragments of conversations captured in the Maputo market, a recording studio and on coconut trees, we find daily routines and tedium lead to chit-chat on desire, money and hope. In the interplay between performance and document, poetry emerges from fleeting everyday moments.
Essay
A boy writes an essay about a bad day.
Frauds and Frenzies
The story is of two convicts always trying to escape, until one day when they actually manage to. They meet up with a girl and become rivals for her charms.
Countess Dora
A pseudo biography of Dora Pejačević (10 September 1885 - 5 March 1923), a Croatian composer.
Burning Hope
Zeineb, Elyssa and Houssine, a trio unlikely to ever meet, see their fates cross paths on the night of January 14, the historic date when Ben Ali fled and the Tunisian revolution transformed the face of the nation. The individual lives of these three characters represent the frustrations, challenges, hopes and dreams of the entire country, with their tragic encounter proving to be one that will bind them together for life.
My Younger Brother
Based on the novel of Vasiliy Aksyonov "A Ticket to the Stars". School is over, final exams are behind — and Dimka was the first to think of waving away from home. The convictions of his elder brother Viktor about a serious attitude to the future life only more “warmed up” the four friends, and for the first time they went to Tallinn for the first time without the bored care of adults...
Bogdan Boner: Ajronwejder
Maximus
One young warrior's fight for his life, told through the eyes of his little sister. Infused with imagination, tragedy and magic, Maximus is a journey seen through the lens of a child.
Eric van Sauers: Ontroert
TV adaptation of the seventh comedy special by the Dutch comedian Eric van Sauers.
In Conversation with the Moon
Two amateur filmmakers decide to interview the Moon in order to understand what its life is like. This leads to a new perspective and a changed reality.
Fire Under the Snow
Palden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959. He spent the next 33 years in prison for the "crimes" of peaceful demonstration and refusal to denounce his apolitical teacher as an Indian spy. He was tortured, starved and sentenced to hard labor. He watched his nation and culture destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed under Chinese occupation. Fire Under the Snow reaches back to Palden's birth in 1933 and follows him through the Orwellian nightmare that began with the Chinese invasion. We cut back and forth between the past and Palden's present as an activist, living in exile. Our P.O.V. becomes a "third eye" hovering over Palden’s current life, haunted by his memories of the past. We explore the escalating cycle of interrogation and physical violation during his years in prison that ended decades later with Palden's escape from Tibet and a cathartic meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.