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Study of the passengers of a steamship during a Mediterranean cruise. (uniFrance)

A horror film director, now forgotten, invites a young author who wrote the screenplay for a film, “Effetti speciali”. As long as he is remembered, the director is willing to do anything.

'.....invites us to experience a level of connection and intimacy between two people.' - Sam Dunn (Head of BFI Video Publishing)

While a bachelor party is being held in an apartment, the death of one of the hired girls exposes the fears of men.

The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all the horrors of war in the period 1916/1917 - brings a fundamental change of consciousness for the academic from Berlin. The intellectual devoted to bravery by fate develops into a disappointed but rebellious being. He sees more and more the injustices of warlike conflicts and their social causes.

Stories of Italian emigrants in Berlin declined without an ethic of sacrifice and goodism but through a sense of the ferocity necessary to wrest survival from the miserable life that capitalism has offered and continues to impose on us.

Through D'un roig encès: Miró and Mont-roig Joan Miro Explains the genesis of his work and the inspiration that came from spending long seasons, for 65 years, in Mont-roig (Baix Camp).

Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel construction of boats. Footage of ferries, fishing boats, power boats, and sailing boats.

BBC documentary on street games and songs in Belfast. The footage of children playing is contrasted with the violence of the Troubles and poverty of the city's working-class districts.

When a married woman decides to leave her husband for a much younger man she incurs the wrath of her family. But is this her only chance of happiness?

Woman with American accent reads German phrases and words from a study book on manipulated and degraded film stock.

History of the development of the sports in Puerto Rico and its insertion in the idiosyncrasies of our people.

Two wise guysmanage a messed up underground casino and brothel. A "hunting club" as a cover up. The place is frequented by all kind of characters, from the Neapolitan upper class to the petty criminals, who use it as a base and such is the turmoil that it will not take much to blow the cover up.

A young sex worker in search of love...

Produced for the Tourism Department of the Province of Matera, with the executive collaboration of Istituto Luce-Italnoleggio.

A young German man who has just arrived in America, hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. However, he soon discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him.

A survival, silent black & white film shot with a hand camera, a journey into Philippe Garrel's intimate family album featuring the two women who counted in his cinematographic life: Nico and Zouzou.

After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the building, the 81-year old woman is thrown out of her flat and is put in an old people′s home. There she meets 84-year old Gustaf. Together, the lively seniors come up with a plan to trick the bank with a smart credit fraud and take their revenge. They need the money to buy a country house on Sardinia and leave Germany for good. Although their coup proves to be successful, the bank soon finds Lina. But due to her old age she cannot be tried anymore.

Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato's work, directed by José Luis Cuerda Juan Pablo Castel, a moderately famous painter, visits Larrea's office to tell him how he met María Iribarne at a painting exhibition. He recounts why he followed her upon realizing she understood his painting, and why he killed her after months of searching, finally establishing contact with her and experiencing a passionate and tumultuous love affair.

Travels in Sicily, Stromboli and Vulcano

A portrait of a woman presented by herself as she tells her life story to a timid young female neighbor. Banalities and horrors, a painful separation from a man she once loved.

Santo goes to Ecuador to sit in nightclubs and watch stage shows, also to crack a counterfeiting ring.

The renowned director Franco Zeffirelli interviews Eduardo De Filippo to discuss the famous Neapolitan mask Pulcinella.

Depicts the birth of an independent TV station.

The invention of the cinematograph by Louis and Auguste Lumière in 1895 marked the culmination - synthesis, standardisation and industrialisation - of various research carried out in previous years on the decomposition and illusion of movement through a series of fixed shots (Demenÿ, Reynaud, Muybridge, Londe, Marey...). These images are now being reworked by the generation of "post-structuralist" filmmakers, for whom the magic of the device lies in the articulation of two images, which in no way are neutral.

Documentary from British Transport Films

From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust. Freely intersperses documentary language with fiction, embodied in the figure of a visitor in search of the places and faces that Proust loved, from the Illiers-Combray of his childhood to the longed-for Venice that he never got to know.

Gale Parsons was loving, intelligent and – according to everyone who knew her – had much to offer; everything to live for. But, aged just 19 and a drug addict, she was found dead in the basement of a derelict house in Chelsea. One of the first documentaries to draw attention to young homeless and drug addicted people, Gale Is Dead was nominated for a BAFTA in 1971.

Two friends meet up to talk about themselves, about the violence perpetrated on women, the assaults they have suffered and rape as well as their own alienation. They talk about justice and repression with three lawyers.

In a parallel universe, where a sauna bath represents the policies of ancient Rome, the poet Gómez Rojas and a group of Socialist men try to free their fellow prisoners from the judge, tyrant and teacher, Astorquiza.

A middle-class public employee becomes obsessed with the investment alternatives offered by the neo-liberal economic model that Chile has implemented in the late 1970s. Years later he shall face the consequences.of his past decisions.

"This film is a consequent continuation and contraction of my film work, research which began with Room (1967). The film is not a translation of anything, it is not a representation of anything, not even of consciousness."

Report shot with workers laid off from the Hennebont ironworks in Morbihan. Speaking to other working-class communities, they tell the story of how they were cheated by government and management promises. Workers at the L.I.P. plant in the Besançon area broadcast the film throughout France.

Silent footage of dancers is visually manipulated in a variety of ways.

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory. The footage consists mostly of vertical landscape features, such as trees and posts, shot in the English landscape.

Impressions from the wedding of two young Chileans in the German Democratic Republic.

The kids decide to earn money by making jam from damaged apples, but disaster occurs.

An experienced but aging captain in command of the Sofala must hide the fact that he is becoming blind.

A sculptor, in the company of a disciple, isolates himself in an underground room, no longer able to identify with a society without any value. His personal revolution is no longer to create anything, but simply to wait. However, he is forced to receive unwelcome visits that keep him in touch with the absurdities of the outside world. When he finally decides to go out to the surface, he will find a world worse than when he left it.