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Jahan-Nama Palace
This rarely screened early short made for The Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults documents the complete restauration of the Jahan-nama Palace, one of the Shah's traditional residencies.
Down to the Bone
A man is wrongfully buried alive, and starts to descend to the Underworld.
The Last One of the Six
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable promise.
Born2Race
The story of motor racing legends Bobby and Al Unser and their domination of the Indy 500 and Pikes Peak from the 60's through to the 90's.
Just 1 Day
Mosaic, an urban sketch artist suffering from motor neurone disease, meets an old school friend, Angelfish, at a class reunion. As his illness takes a tragic hold, he asks her to fulfil one wish - to be his girlfriend for just a day.
Bad Omen
A child's creepy behavior makes a young mother fear for her life.
Paradoxical
"Paradoxical" is an independent science fiction film from the makers of international documentaries "Design & Thinking," "Maker" and "Hanzi."
Terrorists in Retirement
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
Erbarme dich - Matthäus Passion Stories
Erbarme dich - Matthäus Passion Stories is a labyrinthine narrative in which notables such as Peter Sellars, Emio Greco, Simon Halsey and painter Rinke Nijburg explain their special relationship with Bach’s St Matthew Passion to Ramón Gieling (Johan Cruijff: en un momento dado). They speak against the backdrop of a church which has fallen into disrepair, while a choir of homeless people and Pieter Jan Leusink’s Bach Choir & Orchestra rehearse the Passion. Leusink isn't just the conductor, he is one of the main characters himself, with a painful past in which this musical piece has played a dominant role. Stories from the others alternate seamlessly with this. We learn how the St Matthew Passion played a decisive role in the relations between men and women, fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, mothers and their unborn children, and finally that in spite of our differences we all find a common denominator in the secret of Bach's music.
Detective Mashimaro
Lucifer'e and The Great Controversy
LUCIFER'E dreamed of introducing her new magic world in the Earth and wished all the men and earth dweller creatures will bow down to witchcraft, that didn't succeed because Angel Joe came to the rescue.
Equator
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Europe. Sometimes described as frustrating and self-centered, reactions to this film swing across a broad spectrum of complaints -- not the least might be whether or not Gainsbourg is using a clichéd and stereotypical view of "dark Africa" to convey what he sees in his characters.
Namie Amuro FEEL Tour 2013
Namie Amuro's 13th tour, (FEEL Tour 2013) covered 44 venues in Japan. The set list featured only songs released after 2011: Alive, Hands On Me, Sit! Stay! Wait! Down!, Hot Girls, YEAH-OH, Poison, Ballerina, Rainbow, Go Round, make it happen, La La La, Let Me Let You Go, Wonder Woman, Damage, Higher, In The Spotlight (TOKYO), ONLY YOU, Love Story, Supernatural Love, Big Boys Cry, Stardust In My Eyes, UNUSUAL, Neonlight Lipstick, Let’ s Go, Heaven, Fight Together, Can You Feel This Love, and Contrail.
The Shock Punch
Dan Savage prepares his son, Randall to fight in the business world by having him trained as a pugilist. Randall shows a flare for fisticuffs, so he is taken to the Ironworkers Ball to try out his infamous "shock punch."
Our Second First Date
A woman is magically forced to repeat the same date over and over again until she can make it go perfectly.
Small Boat
The photographs of two elderly people used in this work were taken during a train journey in the first half of Ishii's previous work, "Wind crossing" He uses it as a photograph. There is no doubt that these two are particularly memorable for Ishii, but how should we as an audience perceive these acts? Then something occurred to me. In my work "Guiding Star", there is a part where I walk through an underground passage at night during a trip in Hokuriku. That place was Kanazawa. Lately I've been visiting Kanazawa every year for the Maki Asakawa live video screening, but most of the time I travel from Kansai to Kanazawa, or vice versa, by express bus. Then, the bus always passes through that underground passage. Ah, it was here. With that thought in mind, I play with the memories of that trip for a while, no longer happy or sad, but dry and dry. It might be something similar. However, in my case, unlike Ishii's narration in the story, I feel like "it somehow continued to live." M.Yamazaki
1895 in Formosa
"1895" tells the story of the resistance against the Japanese invasion in 1895.
Com sempre
Brother
Eleven-year-old Lauren is house sitting with her older brother Wout and sister Marit when their parents are away for the weekend. Lauren thinks the world of her sixteen-year-old brother, who, like fourteen-year-old Marit, seems to move in a magical world that is still obscure to Lauren. Lauren’s silent admiration and her feeling of being shout out battle for precedence.