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A short film about a girl in the gym.

The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization used by ordinary working folk to rid the city of criminals through secret executions. Woodworker Leo Stoychev goes to the organization for help because his boss Branco won't repay a loan and may have had something to do with the accident that crippled Leo. The Mordbüro is responsible for the death of a crooked lawyer, and Inspector Raoul becomes suspicious.

Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys - opinionated, bursting with anecdotes and contradictory reminiscences – and Eden, his eight-year-old daughter with Joubert syndrome, as they take a zig-zagging 6,000 mile trip in their campervan around Britain's coastline.

Bill Hicks in the height of his genius. Recorded at the Dominion Theatre in London, Hicks opens our eyes and minds to the hypocrisy and ludicrousness of the world around us.

In the autumn of 1995 Frank McKue returned to his old haunt, the execution chamber of Barlinnie Prison, before its demolition. This award winning documentary takes us on a dark journey into the world of capital punishment without making judgments. Shot entirely on 16mm black & white film stock using an Arri16BL and Bolex cameras. Edited entirely on a Steenbeck flatbed film editing suite at Glasgow Film and Video Workshop 1996-7. Sound dubbing at BBC Scotland studio in Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow. Best Doc Award Reel to Real Festival 1998. Selected for Edinburgh Film Festival 1998. Tx. Channel 5 2001/ BBC Schools 2005. Most Watched film on Shooting People filmmakers network. Selected for 4Docs website. Neg stored at Scottish Screen archive.

Jon Ronson investigates the world of critics in this fly-on-the-wall documentary

Elle (Isabelle Gélinas) wants to make a film about African wildlife. Adrien (Eric Métayer) is obsessed with the idea of making love to Elle in a very peculiar and theatrical imaginary bedroom. Perhaps following a principle of sympathetic magic, he arranges for a crew of eccentric friends to help create the bedroom of his dreams. If one part of his dream comes true, perhaps the other one will.

In 1922, Max Ernst produced a painting entitled “The Rendezvous of Friends”. In surrealist style, it shows his friends from Paris - including Robert Desnos, Hans Arp, Paul Éluard and André Breton - all avant-gardists. The documentary follows the painting's journey from the artist's easel to the Museum Ludwig.

Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisit her unconventional life there and to share with her daughter the experiences which inform all her writing.

This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945 around the Mauthausen concentration camp. 500 Soviet officers form death block 20 attempt to escape, but only 150 of them actually succeed. Following the tally-ho of the SS, a barbaric manhunt begins. Only very few fugitives survive. With a lot of good luck, the two young officers Michail and Nikolai reach the Karner family's farm. Frau Karner persuades her husband to hide the two escapees.

170 kg Vienna. This chaotic-autobiographical video treaty has only one content: the homosexuality and the weight problems of its author.

Relaring motherhood with death rather that life, infanticide is an extreme act and an excruciating mirror

A brief, fictionalized time period in the life of Professor Kant. The story is set in his hometown, Konigsberg, chronicling his last few years prior to his death in 1804 at the age of 79.

To avenge the murder of her husband, Mirna dedicates herself to the destruction of the beautiful but villainous Sura who ships arms to the Middle East in exchange for drugs. Aiding her in this task is handsome undercover agent, Marc.

A small creature travels through a well, hanging on a bubble and encountering various other strange life-forms.

The 27 years old Nozha comes home with a sense of failure and despair following a long absence after marrying against her family's will.

A young Hispanic-Creole captain spends six months captive among the Mapuche, learning that the supposed “barbarians” were more human than the “civilized” ones.

Copywriter Lorenz is gay and has a relationship with his boss Adrian. The two are happy together until Lorenz meets secretary Nina one day. Nina has just been abandoned by her husband Kai, who is now with a man. Lorenz also suddenly develops new, unknown feelings. He falls in love with Nina, a woman. Of course, he does everything he can to keep that from Adrian. But that does not hide Lorenz's emotional chaos.

Narrated [not only] with puppets, a dramatic vision of Latin America throughout the 20th century with its constant ferment of dictatorships, hunger, corruption, civil wars, heroic episodes and spilled blood.

A surreal view of religion.

Follow Ben Moon as he ticks some of the Peak's most classic boulder problems, including Ben's Extension (f8A), Pinch 2 (f8A+), and Pump Up The Stamina (f8B+). Filmed and directed by Ben Pritchard with appearances from Jerry Moffat, One Summer has become a fly on the wall account of hard bouldering in the early 1990s.

On the occasion of the 30th birthday of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin, founded in 1966. Graduate Barbara Teufel accompanies a camera seminar led by director Elfi Mikesch. The students are to produce three short films on the subject of blindness with "real" blind people. Absurd, you think at first...

The Ballad of Kid Divine: The Cockney Cowboy is a very funny spaghetti western-Peckinpah-Leone pastiche that sees Michael Elphick's charlatan elixir seller, Neil Morrissey and Martin Clunes as the notorious and the not so notorious Irish bounty hunters all in pursuit of Kid Divine (Jesse Birdsall) a baby faced killer with a $25,000 price tag on his head.

In the light of the moon, a young terero leaves his village to go and fight “Toro.” An accomplice, dreamlike confrontation, where the interplay of shadows and silhouettes bring back the splendor of bullfighting mythology.

Four thieves have obtained one hundred and fifty million pesetas in a robbery. Too much money for them to be content with handing it out. Each one of them wants to keep everything and the war between the four begins. The most daring tries a pact with the police. You will be free if you hand over to your companions. Things will happen very differently.

Goldie, the godfather of drum and bass takes us on a roller coaster ride through his frenetic life. A journey that takes us from Wolver Hampton to Tokyo, Miami to Hong Kong; through his years in council care and his life as a musician and international pop star. Along the way we meet his family, his collaborators and his celebrated friends, David Bowie and Noel Gallagher.

A reconstruction, through the testimonies of those who participated in it, of the history of the construction of the Cinema Teatro Nuovo in the Emilia municipality of Cavriago.

This fantasy experimental short film was made for ‘The awakening of the spring’, a spectacle staged by Bruno Lajara presented at the Festival of Avignon. It was shot, edited and forged in beta SP ; then kinescoped into 16mm. This film has also been screened into a part of the decoration set of the theatre piece. "After the suicide of his best friend, one of the characters, Melchior, is haunted by the ghosts of his companions and his first love." This is a silent film, without any credits. During a screening, it is planned to accompany it live by the musicians of Debout sur le Zinc.

The film takes the form of an ecorchee: an anatomical drawing in which the outer layer of skin is pulled back to reveal an embryo. Images flicker and pages are turned creating an unfolding of layers in time. The film is entirely hand processed.

The Doctor, Ace, K9 and Cedric are taking part in a game show to see who can win The Ultimate Challenge — the biggest game show in the universe. The contestants are forced to answer fairly basic questions about space, with severe punishments if they get it wrong.

Scientists battle mutant zombie creatures. Shot on video German splatter at its very best!

Short documentary about cinematographer Jack Cardiff.

Claes Olsson’s first film about M.A.Numminen. Numminen sings Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s most famous phrase from his book Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: “Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen (What we cannot speak about we must consign to silence).”

Berlin painter Banuscher has been rather moderately successful so far. He has only been able to keep his head above water thanks to the financial support of his girlfriend Francis. She then organizes his first exhibition, which is finally a success. Instead of gratitude, however, Francis is given the boot by Banuscher. She doesn't want to put up with this and swears revenge. And what could be better suited for this than the artworks of the vain Banuscher?

Self-styled supervarmint Harry Hill is back with another live video - what were the chances of that happening, eh? Harry offers his bizarre observations on life, ably assisted by his backing band, the Caterers, his chief scientist, Finsbury Park, failed chicken-catcher Burt Kwouk, Stouffer the Cat and, of course, the badgers.

When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several orphan African refugees for a month during their visit to Paris, the exuberent, well-meaning youth immediately offers his own abode. His classmates cheer and he feels happy until he broaches the subject with his parents. Daniel, the boy's father is delighted by his son's humanitarianism, but still says no. Not wanting to lose face at school, Tonin decides to take the visitor anyway and just keep him hidden for the next few weeks. This family-oriented French comedy follows his efforts to keep his new African guest, Moussa, a secret.

The Maniac Killer, is brought back to life by his mother by means of a mysterious voodoo spell. The ruthless butcher immediately resumes his cruel mischief. Who will stop him? The stupid sheik or the police?

Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her home in Wimbledon on 29th December 1969 and her body was never found. The media was enlisted to try and help the police to find her. But the police blamed the media involvement for their failures.

Jaffar methodically takes photos of everything that happens around him in his city. Sonia would like to run away despite being fifteen years old, “while there is still time”.

During World War II, 8 million people from abroad were forced to work in Germany, making up 30% of the workforce. By 1993, when a film on this topic was completed, there was little public awareness in Germany of this massive mobilisation of slave labour. The film explores the victims’ perspectives and the perpetrators’ motivations and methods, detailing how the system evolved from recruiting Italian volunteers to deportation, racist oppression, and slave labour. Director Wolfgang Bergmann used archive material from 10 countries and eyewitness accounts from 8 European states. Forced labourers were a visible part of German society, yet their legality and the guilt of those responsible were rarely questioned, even after Germany’s surrender. This chapter of history was largely repressed and forgotten. The film was made after the 1989 changes, during a time when xenophobic crimes were rising, with West German right-wing extremists gaining followers in East Germany.

A crane, a high-rise building and a water house meet on the Main.

Womanizer and proud Manta driver Manni Kowalski wants to be a musician, like his idol Roy Sanders. When Manni's sister is expecting a child, Manni has an accident and his life is in danger. Does this mean the end of his dream of a career in music?

This was a special episode of the italian broadcast channel Canale 5, commented by Gialappa's band and conducted by Felice Caccamo (the character played by Teo Teocoli in Mai dire gol) in which the sporting events of 1993 were commented.

Film made entirely from slides. Images of bodies distorted by overlays, filters... leading to highly abstract shots... fantasies?... eroticism?...

It is Christmas Eve. Max is excited. Because he has wished for something very special – but only quietly – he did not dare to wish aloud. At last, it is time for the presents. Max is overjoyed. How did his parents know what he had wished for? And the present is even better than he imagined. The craziest adventures can be experienced with it. And what he does experience, how he makes Kimba the lion his friend, or why he gets splashed soaking wet by Dicki the elephant, you can witness in the animated story of “Max and his wonderous present”. Do you already know what kind of present it is?

Thomas is an up-and-coming actor. His proud and loving father is watching him in a Shakespeare performance. Not long afterwards, his father dies, Thomas accidentally kills a bicyclist with his car, his girlfriend leaves him, and he develops a disorder of the inner ear. As a consequence of these and other misfortunes, he becomes depressed, attempts suicide, and has a psychotic break which lands him in a mental hospital.

After getting fired from his job cleaning the streets of Hamburg, Eule is fed up with big-city life, steals a moped, and sets off with his slot machine-addicted buddy Daddel on a trip to Hong Kong to visit Bruce Lee's grave. However, they only make it as far as Berlin for the time being...

A boy has an unusual upbringing in a romantic setting, the household of a former film star, who reminisces about his past.

After 5 years, a young Montreal couple's marriage begins to collapse.

In the last four days of his life, fear took over the figure of the poet Federico García Lorca.

A women is confused for a sex worker while waiting for her boyfriend.

Borderline is about a woman, victim of the cruelty and violence, and a man, Gabriel, a fifty-year-old director in search of celebrity.