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While the unemployed actor Dieter "Did" Stricker keeps his head above water as a barker, his old acquaintance Rainer turns up, who now works as a PR strategist for the radical right-wing NSDU party. Did's rhetorical talent and his great poses would suit the faceless party well. With a few tricks, Rainer persuades his former colleague to run for office. With success: the popularity of the party increases, as do Stricker's fees. But suddenly his conscience speaks out.

What are these two strange things above my nose I'm supposed to see with? They can't be my eyes. No! They'd never have let me see such a thing. And yet there's no denying it : I clearly see a knife in the fork compartment. A knife among the forks!

A man murders his dying lover. He drowns him in a tub of water. We drift through the man's mind in the hours after the death. He falls more and more deeply into layers of memory. La mémoire de l'eau is a tale of fear, love and grief set in a world of uncertain boundaries.

The "lost" documentary of the Scottish music group The Blue Nile's tour of the US in 1990. In 1990, the film-maker Bernard Rudden made this documentary "Flags and Fences", which followed The Blue Nile on their tour of America. It's long been thought "lost", but writer, adventurer and all-round-gentleman, Trevor Ward, located and forwarded this copy, which captures Blue Nile as they seemed on the cusp of world success.

The German homosexuals to whom the third film "Feuer unterm Arsch" is dedicated are visibly less enthusiastic about safe sex, let alone safe sex 'with Mother Earth', which Allen Ginsburg envisions for dealing with an AIDS-like contaminated earth. In Berlin, the gay capital of Germany, Praunheim encounters a party atmosphere during his research. "There's no one who thinks safe sex is good," say some of them, yet they plead for reason, "you also have to have the freedom to fuck yourself to death," is the extreme response of the boys, who do not want their painstakingly acquired identity as gays to be reduced to an AIDS identity through voluntary restrictions. Praunheim has also tracked down politically active people in Germany, but according to his observations, they are identified with the unpleasant truth and avoided according to the Cassandra principle.

A digitized mountain stream.

Sonic Youth's Blood on the Beach is comprised of two shows and interview clips recorded in November 1985 in Brighton, UK.

The compelling story of an officer in the Royal Air Force who struggles against the British military establishment, her lover’s betrayal, and her court-martial trial for being a lesbian.

Contemporary dance company Adventures In Motion Pictures' triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake, with its cast of male swans, has turned tradition upside down and has taken the ballet fraternity by storm. Never has such a contemporary re-working of a traditional ballet thrilled both ardent critics and modern dance enthusiasts in such equal measure. Originally broadcast on the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 26, episode 15).

When pop artist Peter Blake confessed that his fantasy was to be the mysterious masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki, who never speaks and never removes his mask, little did he know what the consequences would be. Poet and television producer Paul Yates, also fascinated by the persona of Nagasaki, read the article and proceeded to research the possibility of Blake painting Nagasaki's portrait as a centrepiece for a film which would also, he hoped, include an exclusive interview with Nagasaki himself. Does he exist outside the ring and, if so, who is he?

The film shows the spatial distribution and the behaviour of the Mediterranean demoiselle Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis on typical reproduction waters. The great importance of suitable perches becomes obvious. These perches, e. g. single rush stems, are used by immature, hunting individuals as well as by reproductive males that are controlling territories from these sites. The latter chase all other individuals, the result being a spatial segregation between immature and reproductive specimens during the day. Typical behaviour, such as threatening, courting, copulation, and oviposition is shown in different film speeds.

In 1997, Channel 4 called on cult couch-potatoes Adam and Joe to look back over its first 15 years of groundbreaking television. And take the p*ss out of it...

Bionda Salvatore, an 83-year-old farmer's wife from a small village in Abruzzo, had to leave her house and garden and now lives in Switzerland with her daughter-in-law and son. What is her everyday life like in emigration, how does she cope with homesickness and what must real gnocchi taste like?

Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar move into a shared apartment after divorcing their wives. What was well-intentioned quickly turns into absolute chaos. While Oscar doesn't take order very seriously, Felix is a meticulous, almost pedantic fanatic when it comes to cleanliness.

A sequel to Klopfenstein's movie "E nachtlang Füürland" (1981).

A grouchy bear doses Santa Claus with a sleeping potion in order to ruin Christmas in this animated feature.

After the sudden accidental death of her husband, Ursula blossoms, takes over the business of the deceased and goes out again.

The employees in the software department allegedly lack "creative power". At least that's what high-flyer Dr. Heller suspects. The new head of the media company wants to make a name for himself. This includes ignoring specialist Georg Meier's software and preferring cheap US products. Suddenly, Georg, who was once so successful, is left with nothing. What's more, he has fallen head over heels in love with Heller's employee Sylvie. Georg has only one choice: to strike back...

The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th- and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which paintings, when viewed from different angles, mischievously revealed hidden symbols.

A very stylish young man is at a bus stop waiting for his date to arrive. Yes - he has a bad look but he is also very impatient; and his date is late. BANG! goes their meeting.

A lonely night watchman, whose quiet routine revolves around stargazing, faces emotional upheaval when his girlfriend reveals she's pregnant and leaves him, while a troubled young man records a farewell video to his ex.

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).

Light fiction writer Robert David has completed a novel. He is pleased with his first ambitious work - until one day the main character steps out of the book and disrupts his life.

A behind-the-scenes documentary designed to preview/promote the then-about-to-debut syndicated adventure/fantasy series about the "game of the immortals" as seen through the eyes of one Scottish participant.

This home video release features two episodes from the Wondrous Myths and Legends series, in which schoolgirl Lisa and her brother Nick accidentally discover the Cavern of Mythos, which allows them to travel into another world where the great myths of history are fact -- and they've become active participants. In "The Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster," Lisa and Nick are transported to Scotland, where they encounter the famous Loch Ness monster and discover he's not the menace they expected. And "The Valor of St. George, the Dragonslayer" finds Nick and Lisa in medieval days, where Nick is believed to be a valiant knight and is sent out to do battle with a ill-tempered, fire-breathing dragon.

Robin is 16 and has had enough: permanent trouble at school and at home. On the run from his dull everyday life, he joins a group of skinheads. The clique strengthens their sense of belonging by beating up foreign youths. This is how the "apolitical" boy slips into the right-wing scene, and it's not easy to get out of it. When they injure a Turkish girl during a robbery, Robin, of all people, is questioned by the police.

With her green bow in her hair, a naïve Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz embodies an aspect of the artist’s own personal context. She is dreaming about going beyond the confines of her urban surroundings, amongst thousands of flickering windows in apartment blocks, to travel somewhere over the rainbow. As she stumbles upon her yellow brick road, a bedside telephone, her communications take her far far away, becoming entangled in her obsession with connecting to this far away place. Swept into a cyclone of dizzying imagery, she becomes somewhat more realized, sceptical about who she is and her dreams. Much like the ubiquity of television, her dreams are nothing more than commodified imagination that has nonetheless shaped her life. In this fairy-tale land, she desperately tries to find her way back home.

In musical terminology, the term " study " designates pieces to approach a specific problem : study for arpeggios, for the left-handed etc. The question here is how to merge dancing footage with elements of fiction. What is the right tone, the golden proportion to tell/dance the stories without resorting to techniques of a musical or a ballet ? New ways of telling a story: this is, without a doubt, a critical challenge for dance today. Twenty-one micro fictions by four Cie Michèle Anne De Mey dancers in witch the educational aspect of experimentation soon gives way to the pleasur of joyful poetics: an original blend of tender insolence and srtict elegance.

Shortly before her wedding, Ella learns that she has leukemia. A bone marrow transplant from a blood relative is the only way to save her life. But her mother confesses to her that she was adopted as a baby. Ella sets off in search of her biological mother and begs her: “Mother, I don't want to die!

An arid landscape in which various people move around: a girl walks along holding a goldfish in a glass of water, children have fun with an empty bath tub, people at their window observe what’s happening. And finally, rain. Drought is treated with realism and oneirism in the filmmaker’s first work, made when she was still a film student.

The death and burial of the patriarch of a Vega Baja family provokes the reunion of all his sons and wives, who have been estranged for six years. They all gather for his funeral with ulterior purposes, but attend the meeting amidst a hurricane alert for Puerto Rico.

The Stranglers perform live in London during there 1994 tour.

Victim of a train accident, a man regains consciousness in the house of the woman who shared his compartment.

A surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection Dirty Faxes, refracted through the neurosis of a middle-aged writer.

In this wonderful hybrid of fiction and documentary, we become the close companions of Ali Baba Nour, a Chadian cab driver who explains his hopes and dreams, his challenges in a difficult and often violent society, and his optimism for the baby he and his wife are expecting. In this urban poem, we are treated to the color and movement of Ali Baba Nour's city. It is a generous postcard that one might send to a friend, telling of an unforgettable acquaintance and place.

In 1991, just a few months after the racially motivated murder of Amadeu Antonio, Ralf Marschalleck documents the small town of Eberswalde, its violence, and its resignation.

The lower level of Lichtenberg Station in Belin in early October 1989: the beginning of the end for the GDR. In the snack bar, the staff are catering for travellers of every kind while in the background the authorities maintain a flow of triumphal statements, but those months between August and October come to feel like sitting out the death throes. Careful observation of people and their work as the current of history suddenly becomes perceptible.

Portugal, at the beginning of the century. The suffering of a peasant and his daughter. The lack of communication and the emptiness of mechanical lives. A third character, a mysterious woman to whom the peasant pays courteous visits... abyss of bodies. Petrified figures, eternal wandering. Death roams in a declining world where words have given way to gestures, sounds and lights.

Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles Armstrong from his humble beginnings in New Orleans through his career as America's Ambassador of Good Will. Film clips, vintage photographs and interviews with family, friends, fellow musicians and Armstrong himself are woven together to tell the story of this legendary personality.

Mixing documentary and fiction, Mi firma en las paredes is a portrait of the early days of Grafitti in Spain.

A tragic story of two sisters and the object of their desire, inspired by a well known traditional folk song.

Bahij Hojeij’s documentary studies the infamous Green Line between east and west Beirut during the civil war.