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ACT! Wer bin ich?
Documentary about the Berlin-based organization ACT and its unusual educational program. Founded by former schoolteacher Maike Plath and two other women, ACT’s aim is to motivate students with troubled backgrounds and to help them learning by engaging them in a drama class.
Pixinguinha: Um Homem Carinhoso
The life of legendary Brazilian musician Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, better known as Pixinguinha.
PWG Sells Out: Volume 3
Can someone (or in this case, PWG, the best professional wrestling organization in the known universe) really "sell out" on three different occasions? Well, apparently it can happen!
Jean Sénac, The Blacksmith of the Sun
By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would silence him forever. They were wrong since his voice is a little louder every day. Witnesses to these craze: the publication of the complete works of this great poet, the countless conferences and radio broadcasts devoted to him and finally the production of films such as "Jean Sénac, the blacksmith of the sun". The moving and overwhelming testimonies of those who knew him, the unpublished film archives, the generous voice of the poet on the radio, the discovery of his travels in the territories of poetry and politics make this film a precious document on the life of Jean Senac.
The Aviary
A collaboration between Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, Aviary is an impression of Union Square. The location held a particular fascination for Cornell who wanted to establish a foundation for artists and art therapy there. In the film, he treats the park as an outdoor aviary.
May Morning
A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at Oxford University, England, in the early 1970s.
Sweet Taste of Imagination
An imaginative dreamer university named Garoos professor falls in love with a student who resembles her teacher in this manner. Love story is endangered when a business competitor sets Garoos up for unethical behavior.
Beastie Girls
About the life in the celebrity and prostitution world. Only those who have been there know what it's like with the relationships with people, misunderstandings, conflicts, worries and sadness.
Beyond Paper
At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collective memory. Blending the intellectual with the poetic, she embarks on a personal quest with universal resonance, navigating the continuum between paper and digital—and reminding us that human knowledge is above all an affair of the soul and the spirit.
Voice
When a man has insomnia, he thinks he can't fall asleep, but why can't he fall asleep, does he hear something disturbing that keeps him awake? Or is there something else?
Schwestern
The happening of a ceremonial robing of the youngest daughter as a novice in a Swabian convent screws up the values of a modern family. As if life wasn't complicated enough anyway. And how are you supposed to be happy without new clothes?
Matones a sangre fría
The president of the United States is planning a visit to Mexico, and some local Islamic terrorists are going to be ready for him; they've kidnapped a nuclear scientist and a bomb expert to help them. Their leader (Eleazar Garcia, Jr.) goes head-to-head with the chief of the Mexican Secret Service, who has a secret weapon of his own in a beautiful Russian Special Agent ((Gabriela Del Valle). The fate of North America lies in the hands of this dynamic duo as they race to beat the clock in this harrowing tale featuring three of Mexico's favorite stars.
Lore
A woman searches for her missing son in a remote wilderness with the help of her estranged husband and a Native American friend. When an evil creature starts to hunt them, their journey becomes a fight for survival.
Home on the Range
A cow and her calf are bedding down for the night. The calf is frightened by a shadow, until it's revealed to be a jackrabbit. He follows the rabbit deep into the woods. Neither of them notices the wolf following.
Now or Never!
On March 15, 1848, a young firebrand poet, Sándor Petöfi ignites the Hungarian Revolution with his passionate 'National Song', prompting the Austrians to dispatch a ruthless secret agent to assassinate him and suppress the uprising.
Kipling Jr.
Short by Koji Yamamura
Papá Iván
Dad Iván, is the testimony of the daughter of a Montonero guerilla leader that died during combat: Iván Roqué, the Iván in the title and father of the director. The documentary exposes in a moving way the difficult relationship between a daughter and her heroic, mythified father. At the same time it also becomes not only the reflection of a daughter but of an entire generation, about the feelings of abandoment, abscense, the tragedy, the exile and death. Feelings, ideas, dreams and facts are confronted. Tears are shed as much as admiration is expressed for the father, he is questioned as strongly as he is veneered.
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead he supports himself by arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinu's patron and lover, and falls directly into disfavor with the yakuza.
Weekend Reflections
College-age girls recall their weekend of partying and friendship.