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James Roberson on Superstition (1982)

A ballet dancer struggles to deal with pressure.

My therapist once asked me to visualise my child self sitting next to me, sad and crying. “How would you treat her?” my therapist asked. “With compassion, love and care” I answered. “Then that’s how you should treat yourself now, as an adult” she replied.

A body from a research facility has been stolen by two lab employees. They wait at a seedy motel for a cash exchange. As they wait, the body they assumed to be dead...is not quite.

From 9- to 90-year-olds, the people of a County Antrim village help Bafta award-winning director Alison Millar explore the real meaning of creativity and culture.Returning to the landscape of her childhood, she uncovers the story of a visionary teacher, and celebrates the extraordinary artwork and writing created by poor country children almost a century ago.Against the backdrop of her home village of Cullybackey and the surrounding countryside, the story unfolds across the seasons as Alison follows the 'Carryin' Stream' of memory from the small country school that her father attended in the 1940s to the children of the present day. Along the way, she connects with a cultural legacy that she has never really known about and learns about her own Ulster-Scots heritage.

Mr. and Mrs. Spencer were set to enjoy a romantic evening in celebration of their anniversary. However, the evening had other plans for them as it took a turn down homicidal mystery lane

A dancer enters the liminal spaces between history and emotion to retell the story of her ancestral Māori meeting house Hinemihi o te Ao Tawhito.

Conspiracies and regattas form the backdrop to the fortunes of a young singer. Harassed by a heartless spy, she sacrifices everything to save the man she loves and the woman he prefers over her. Ponchielli based his flamboyant opera on Victor Hugo’s play Angelo, tyrant of Padua. An expert on Hugo, director Olivier Py offers us a dream-like version of this dark Romantic tragedy, presided over by sex and death. Paolo Carignani conducts an exceptional cast in the six demanding main roles.

Katie, like most of the kids, has been receiving the idea of a couple suppose to be composed by a male and a female from her parents, Bill and Carol. However, as Katie grows up, she finds out that she is a lesbian. In order to fits into the “society”, Katie hires a boy, James, to pretend to be her boyfriend and to satisfy her parents.

We get up, go to work, eat and go to bed. Is our life about daily rituals or is there a deeper, more inscrutable meaning of life? Kjeld lives surrounded by nature in his small house and soon becomes a father. He seeks satisfaction in the simplicity of life in nature. Anna is a young artist looking for answers in her poetry and music. A philosophical documentary essay in which the search for the core of life is central. How should we live if there are no answers anywhere?

Holly hates Christmas and has made a getaway from husband, family and cooking on Christmas Eve, but after a strange encounter with a store security guard she receives the best, and most cosmic, Xmas present ever. A darkly comic tale with a touch of magic realism.

Weaving together scenes from the movie Contact with 16mm footage shot at the Very Large Array — the radio astronomy observatory in New Mexico, as well as three Mayan pyramids across the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico—Calakmul, Uxmal, and Cobá, Pyramids and Parabolas I is the first of a multi-episodic infinite film series that imagines how geometric forms can function as portals into parallel dimensions. The parabolic shape of modern day radio telescopes—made to listen to signals emitted by celestial objects and events, and similarly the pyramidal shapes of ancient Mayan monoliths—where priests communed with forces beyond the human realm, can both be understood as ways of transiting into alternate universes.

Two men must meet and play a short game of war to pay a debt to a powerful group, with only the winner walking out alive.

"All is not what it might seem after Troy inherits his family home and decides to turn it into a BnB. On the very first night he has guests, Troy finds out just how ready he is to take on the responsibilities of running the house and his life. "

To protect his rich and strategic lands in France, the English king, Richard the Lionheart, decided to build an impregnable castle to bar the route along the Seine, thus asserting his supremacy in Normandy. Four years later, France’s King Philip besieged the site at the head of an army of 6,000 men.

A young girl is tormented by a dark presence after indulging in immoral activities with her sugar daddy.

Using portraits of people and landscapes, Sofia is a short documentary that examines the social reality of living in Bulgaria.

Anyone who has ever skied or snownboarded Jackson Hole knows just how nerve-racking it can be to send it into the infamous Corbet's Couloir, even in the best of conditions. Doing it in icy conditions on mountain bikes is nothing short of insane, and that's exactly what be did.

From formidable opponent to laughing stock in the space of two short years: this is the story of Brexit Britain as told by the European politicians tasked with negotiating an exit deal. With exclusive access to the European parliament’s Brexit Steering Group, this revelatory fly on the wall documentary captures the internal workings of European negotiators as they deal with an increasingly beleaguered Britain. As Europe contends with a decidedly un-United Kingdom, the austere corridors and dim-lit offices of Brussels become the stage for a human drama of epic proportions; a fractured tale that is by turns exasperating, tragic and hilarious.

Little Steven and his powerful 14-piece band The Disciples of Soul performing live around the world!Includes guest appearances from Bruce Springsteen, Richie Sambora, Peter Wolf, and Jerry Miller!

Here the latest DTS Demo Disc from the CES Show in Vegas this year. We are now at number 23 from that Demo Discs. Again as the past Discs you can find the latest Movie Clips on that Disc, also some Explanation Clips and some DTS Trailers. The running time is around 57min. and the Audio is DTS:X, DTS-HD MA 7.1 and DTS Headphone:X. A nice Disc from that series.

A Los Angeles detective discovers the unbelievable while searching for a missing child and in the aftermath his life begins to unravel.

Cops from the future investigate an unsolved murder mystery. The case? A Halloween party in the desert crashed by monsters, ghosts, and creepy killer guys.

Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story is a documentary film on the heroic efforts of the soldiers from the 2nd Battalion 14th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division (2-14). These men demonstrated extraordinary courage, skill, and discipline as they fought their way into a “baited ambush” to rescue the special operations forces pinned down at the crash site of Super Six-One while also attempting a rescue at the crash site of Super Six-Four. Two soldiers from the 2-14 were killed and eighteen wounded in what many have described as the most ferocious urban combat since the Battle for Huế during the Tet Offensive in 1968.

This technology has horrific consequences.

The two best friends, Helene and Theo, travel to Crete to reunite Helene with a past holiday romance. Life is great and the sky is the limit. But when the plan capsizes, the girls are faced with a new reality that they have to enter into together. Whether or not there is magic in the world is not important - what matters is whether you choose to believe there is.

A documentary that explores the power of biomimicry as an answer to design and environmental issues, and the potential for botanical gardens to impart these solutions.

Much handled things are always soft unearths the unwritten and undocumented histories of public sex culture in the south-side of Chicago. Through conversation with longterm survivor Patric McCoy, the film traces the height of activity in the 1970s, the downfall of cruising culture in the 1980s, and the prevailing summer heat, which continues to linger. Together, McCoy and Woods-Morrow reflect on their relationship to cruising, to photography, and to each other; attempting to bridge the gap between what was, and what still remains to be explored. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2019 as part of STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven short videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic.

In 1978 Gus and Ben, two teenagers, are abducted by an alien force. Forty years later they are still living with the effects of that night. Ben has become an alcoholic and Gus has been hiding his true origins. Both have tried to cope in their own way, but nothing has worked. Flashing between 1978 and 2019, our protagonists are challenged at every point by friends and family, some of them still demanding to know what happened to the duo that night all those years ago.

When neon signs become larger than life, only blinking helps. A surreal night in March 2019 in Las Vegas.

Life Masks is part of an ongoing series of photographic works and video portraits of political activists and artists in their homes or places of asylum. These works demonstrate mutual trust between the artist and subjects who appear in plaster masks to maintain their anonymity.

"Mal De Ojo" or "Evil Eye" is a widespread superstition in Latin America. The idea behind the superstition is that a look or glare can literally curse or kill someone. When one looks at another with envy, it is believed to inflict injury or bad luck. This film tells the story of a former white nationalist, who has to visit his dying mother after years of abandoning his family's beliefs and being branded as a traitor.

Kafka's Supermarket is an experimental surrealist science fiction dystopian horror film that concerns the issues of a current capitalist America, focusing on the alienation and dehumanization of commercialism. Market obsessions are rendered to their most primal states, flooding a present-day utopia with a nihilistic fixation over death and sexuality, rendering the whole city as a conceptually cannibalistic market of flesh. Market researchers and psychoanalysts watch in indifference as the mental states of their subjects quickly collapse into depressive torpor.

A high-rise roof somewhere in Berlin. From the rooftop you can see the whole city. It is summer. On the roof is a group of refugees from Syria. The depth below reminds them of the depth of the sea. Above them is only sky. On this roof, they feel like they are back on their journey across the Mediterranean - lost on a small rubber boat. They begin to reenact the most dramatic situation they have survived during their flight: crossing the Mediterranean between Turkey and Greece. They try several times but the Turkish Coast Guard prevents them. During an attempt, water begins to swamp the boat - the refugees save themselves by swimming for hours.

After an accident, a young man begins to experience blackouts and gaps in time, which appear to hold a dark secret.

Edward Said's wife and daughter telling a stories and scenes of his own life.

Joe Strummer was one of the most memorable figures of the 80's as singer for The Clash. His angry on-stage energy made him stand out as one of the most inspiration frontmen of all time.

Escape Velocity II is an experiential experiment that brings the wild ethereal voices of Singaporeans to life through animation and sound visualisation. The film seeks to bridge human and non-human worlds.

A man follows a woman through a mysteriously empty world towards a profound discovery that alters his sense of reality.

I Miss Jamie When She's Gone is a millennial, coming of age story. It centers around two sisters returning to the suburbs of Chicago ten months after their father's sudden death.

Fly along for a buzz-tastic learning adventure with Zip and Zap, as they quench their thirst for knowledge with the help of the smartest bee they know: Queen Buttercup! No topic is too sticky, and no answer escapes their never ending curiosity! Some bees live to make honey, but these young bees live to learn! Join Bee Geniuses Zip and Zap for their most fun and educational experience yet!

Morris, a recent widower, struggles with his loss while being forced to move out of his lifelong home. With the help of Tabitha, his lively sister-in-law and best friend, he must learn to find humour in the darkest of places and begin coming to terms with his new life and identity.

Jamie Deetz faces terrifying fate while making morning coffee.

Journey of a young girl through various relationships in her life.

A troubled boy seeks the aid of his favorite super-hero to combat his bully problem.

When a gay male South Asian couple propositions their Indian-American actress best-friend to become their surrogate, their new arrangement creates more problems than it solves.

Two quarreling brothers set out on an adventure in their neighborhood and discover what it means to be a hero.

You'll never guess.

Two young girls and their mother struggle to navigate the oppressive restrictions imposed upon them by a Patriarch who's taken his faith too far.

Two actors begin to rehearse for a play.

Eddie Perfect and his family go on an adventure, as they experience the iconic Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. From rides to stage shows and the best culinary delights, we uncover what truly makes this the most magical destination.

The binary interplay of light and shadow as experienced through the sculpted form.

Unity in an art form (music), no matter genre or age.

A short film about the creator of the infamous I Heart NY logo and his struggle to find love for the city in a trying time.

A musician duo reflects on their newfound fame.

In 2013, before most people understood what it meant to be transgender, there was 71-year-old Phil, just a regular dad who finally told family and friends that she is Stephanie, a secret she had kept hidden all of her life. Filmed by her daughter and son-in-law over the next five years, My Dad, Stephanie is an intimate documentary capturing the triumph, heartache and humor of Stephanies transition from living as a man to living full-time as a woman.

After serving in the Vietnam War, author and naturalist Doug Peacock spent years alone in the Wyoming and Montana wilderness observing grizzly bears. His time in the wild changed the course of his life. With the protection of Yellowstone grizzlies now under threat, Peacock reflects on the importance of habitat and why he continues to fight for wild causes.

Best friends Jack and Yaya celebrate their 30th year of friendship in their hometown in South Jersey alongside a motley crew of extended family and neighbors. While they party and reminisce, Jack and Yaya support each other as they both fight for acceptance as openly trans people.

Maria visits Jake before their mothers second wedding. She tries to convince Jake to join the family again, despite his troubles and previous issues.

Sue McConnell and Kristyn Weed are best friends and Vietnam-era veterans. Although they didn’t serve in the war together, they share a story of courage — on and off the battlefield. They met at a transgender veterans’ support group and became inseparable members of a powerful, enduring sisterhood.