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Brilliant and hilarious punk mockumentary, containing faked interviews with young "antisocial elements" from Berlin.

A long time ago, there lived a tailor in Selva who was highly regarded for his good work. However, he was a crook who often cheated his customers. This is what happened to Hans, a carver, whose wedding suit turned out to be too small because the mayor's son was dressed in the fabric he had taken. Then Rübezahl intervened. The magic power of the mountain spirit caused all the cloth, which the tailor had wrongly acquired, to dissolve into nothing. Some people, including dignitaries, stood there in their underwear and the tailor felt the wrath of those who had been cheated. Hans received a new suit and shoes from Rübezahl and was now able to marry his Marie.

Mary Ocky, a beautiful girl from Mondonedo, Ohio, comes to seek the help of the famous PI Philip Marlboro in order to find her boyfriend Macho Jim who went missing three months earlier under obscure circumstances. Marlboro’s investigations take him to Shit City, a grim place devoured by sin and corruption where punk gangs have taken over.

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

A hard-working peasant begins his day by praising Saint Martin, who descends from the heavens and rewards him by granting him and his cruel, browbeating wife four wishes.

A former journalist begins to experience distressing flashbacks, to the alarm of people close to him.

Mo lost her heart to Tom, but left him nine years ago for no apparent reason. Now she lives together with son Benjamin in Hamburg. Mo has another man, Tom has been living with another woman for some time. When Mo learns that she is terminally ill, she returns to her great love, Tom. Both feel instinctively that they still love each other. But Mo reveals nothing of her illness and their child.

From Palazzo Barberini in Rome, flutist Marzio Conti and pianist Gloria Belli will perform: “Cantabile et presto” by George Enescu; “Fantaisie, Op. 79” by Gabriel Fauré; and “Suite Paysanne Hongroise” by Béla Bartók.

In Africa, small jobs survive as resistance to the invasion of consumer goods. In compiling five shorts directed by the Senegalese documentary filmmaker, the film details the stages of making handicrafts from garbage dumped at landfills.

Childéric, a rich (but virgin) heir, is being kidnapped by two punk/vixen girls, who demand a ransom that the parents are willing to pay... to keep their boy at bay! Fortunately, with the punk girls, Childéric learns how to have good sex.

A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on gambling and begins to neglect her husband and children.

In the middle of the crisis of rapeseed oil, the protagonist of this peculiar film, contagious, appears a side effect the less curious: when she gets horny she turns into a pink monster, a kind of Incredible Hulk.

Paris, October 1948. Nino, Gilles, Donald, Barbara and their friends are a new breed of spectators. They discover the cinema as art, they are moviegoers. They will try to realize their grand project: to found a film club. "My film first wants to be a testimony of young people who have lived for a passion. Cinema"

A short directed by Lina Romay as Rosa Maria Almirall.

14.05.1988

After the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who happens to be the man who directed his mother's last film.

A cop suspects his wife's infidelity, only to become the prime suspect when she's murdered. A criminal psychologist believes the real killer is a presumed-dead serial killer, as more murders unfold.

A group of fervent right wing French nationalists plan to finance a government coup and smash communists by pulling off a daring bank robbery.

The film explores the abrupt transition between tradition and innovation within the context of carnival. In this work, Xavier Villaverde creates a video narrative about the rapid shifts in the Hispanic mindset during the 1980s, intuitively foreshadowing the new virtual theater of appearances.

A movie about little Marianne's life in a little German village 1943-1950. The peace comes in the shape of an American soldier who brings chewing gum to all the children, a soldier they call Mr. Frieden. Marianne's head is filled with fear of war and belief that the war will come back.

After losing the ferry that should bring her to Greece by her husband, an Italian-French journalist finds herself in her native country in Puglia and ends up involved in a violent passionate meeting.

Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?

Four kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the lion, Aslan.

Harry Clark is a social worker on the verge of cracking up. His job is to help other people: who is there to help him?

The dwarf Ogar lived alone and abandoned. He lived in a small, cramped cave and fed on garbage. One day, a prince rode by and wanted to free Ogar from his fate.

The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.

A year has passed since Matthew said goodbye to his alien friend, and in the summer holidays he meets Albertine, a mathematical prodigy, with whom he discovers he can communicate telepathically. One day Chocky returns to warn Matthew that they are both in danger. When he returns to tell Albertine, he finds she has disappeared.

Ester finds herself sexually attracted to her newly divorced friend Adele. When Ester admits another love to her hot-headed husband, he searches manically for the rival, who he never suspects is a woman.

A whimsical depiction of the Hamburg city port (life?).

"Spring Symphony" is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier composer, if that, never rising to the heights of a Beethoven or Mozart. In contrast, Clara Wieck was a master technician in the playing of the piano, a composer (probably not at Schumann's level), and was a child prodigy.

Adrien does not see eye to eye with his patrician father about much. It is 1912, and the old man still believes in the old rules which strait-jacket "men of class." He believes that the elite have the right to conquer where they can, that they should refrain from publicizing their improprieties, and he is rabidly pro-military. Adrian, kicked out of his military school for his own improprieties (and hiding that from his father), is naturally drawn to Vicky a beautiful divorced woman and friend of the family who is staying at their mansion. The family tutor, a man of ordinary background (with some ideas which seem radical in this household) is similarly smitten. On the basis of their shared attraction, the two men form a friendship. Meanwhile, the object of their affection finds it diverting to toy with them.

Experimental short by Teo Hernández.

Santa Claus, expelled from the Heavenly Council because of his alleged failure, finds work on Earth as a stoker in a children's hospital. His willingness to help soon makes him indispensable.

Despite being penniless, Antonino Scannapieco possesses a convincing eloquence. Having obtained money from friends to travel to Rome to consult a luminary about his dandruff problem, he sets off for the capital, where various misadventures await him.

February 1980, Plogoff. A whole town refuses the installation of a nuclear power station close to the Pointe du Raz, overlooking Sein island in the bay of Audierne opening onto the Atlantic Ocean. Six weeks of daily struggle led by local women, children, fishermen and farmers, determined to preserve the soul of this Finisterian land. Six weeks of joys, tenderness and drama... This is the historic epic of the people of Cap Sizun face to face with the pressures of modern society.

Documentary film about a research project that is promising at its time, with which the prerequisites for the production of a new generation of computer modules should be created. Especially in the case of common user computers, the introduction of the "X -ray lithograph" in the semiconductor technology can lead to an even unmistakable upheaval. The film describes the research work and reflects on the importance of such a development insertion. An unusual documentation about a work that has little external in itself. - from 16.

Bernd Upnmoor's Dom the title refers to the famous funfair at Hamburg - varies an increasingly meaningless shot of a few minutes on a carousel by exploring all the possibilities of colour film techniques and succeeds (in Upnmoor's words) in "making the viewers' senses tremble and flutter."

Janie, daughter of Commander Jackson, the head of D15, has been kidnapped and there are only two men who can save her - former agents Bonehead and Foyle.

Recorded at the Barrowlands in Glasgow New Year’s Eve 1983/4

A couple return home to find a man inside who claims to be friends with the previous homeowner. He seems a friendly at first, but all is not as it seems.

Giacomino, tired of living at home with his parents, goes to his own place, but his neighbour, mr. Giuseppe, convinces himself to teach Giacomino about sex...

On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens a selection of his favorite shorts

Molinat is assigned to the case of a man found with a bullet in his ear on the shore of a little Atlantic coast resort he knows well. Indeed, he used to live there before his wife disappeared at sea, never to be found again. As the ocean rejects a new corpse everyday, the mystery thickens and the list of potential suspects grows longer. This slows Molinat's progress as much as the cumbersome Leroyer, sent in to spy on him and hopefully impede his progress. The tension mounts and the ring involving the three young ladies in the grey mansion, the village idiot and the real estate agent starts spinning out of control.

Based on Annette Kolb’s autobiographical novel of the same name, THE SWING is a lavish, breathless reconstruction of life in Munich towards the end of the 19th century. The deceptively simple story centers around the Lautenschlags, a Bavarian-French Catholic family overflowing with artistry but short on practicalities like financial acumen.

A very surreal video shot behind the scenes during the production of Blue Velvet in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1985 by Peter Braatz.

A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Stingray. When aquatic aliens plot to take over the planet, the world aquanaut security patrol are called in to battle the aliens.

A boy reads about the attacks of a unknown animal on livestock in the town. He plans to run his own investigation. The so called beast however is also used as a metaphor for every day problems the townsfolk face.

Marcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long trip abroad), while being pursued by two corrupt cops (one of whom bears a longstanding grudge against him) for drug money he's alleged to possess.