Cinematic Era: 2004 Vintage

A young guy's home is taken over by his girlfriend's parents and their doughnut business.

DVD featurette about the making of “The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.”

Herbert West's half brother continues his bid to conquer brain death.

Founded in 1954 as the “Deutsche Hochschule für Filmkunst”, today's “Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen” is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The documentary traces the history of the university. Graduates of the school have their say and excerpts of student films from five decades are presented.

An aged comedian tells the story of his early days and lack of success with women.

In this follow up to 2000's under ground video "Static," filmmaker Josh Stewart (One Step Beyond) brings you anther completely independent and completely unique skateboard video experience. When you pop Static II in your DVD player, don't expect to see circus acts, school yards, blue skies, or tricks requiring parachutes before takeoff. Expect skating that connects to the reasons you stepped onto a board in the first place. Expect a video you'll want to watch every dat before you go out skating. Expect inspiration.

Everyone remembers the classic sounds of rock and roll great Mark Farner! You'll have front-row seats to Tennessee's four-day rockfest, where Mark Farner, formerly of Grand Funk Railroad, returns to the stage to rewrite rock and roll history one more time while singing his greatest songs live! Songs: 1. Are You Ready? 2. Rock & Roll Soul 3. Foot Stompin' Music 4. Hooked on Love 5. Judgement Day Blues 6. He Sent Me You 7. Call Yourself a Man 8. Mean Mistreater 9. Some Kind of Wonderful (duet with Adriana Lima) 10. Loco Motion 11. I'm Your Captain (performed by Mark Farner & Adriana Lima)

Immanuel Kant Hospital in Neukölln, Berlin. Midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the spot. The beginning of a story that tells itself. - And a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media.

Enchanting story about five hip and hilarious children, who just happen to be Little Angels, who live to help children in need. In this very special Christmas story, a little boy named Daniel is left in charge of his younger brother and sister whilst their father goes out and looks for work.

This film offers a picture of the tense situation in which the Sahrawi people have lived for more than 30 years. The yearly celebration of a marathon in the Sahrawi refugee camps serves as the central focus of the story.

Followed by a man she claims she does not know, a woman tells her tale to the police, but she is hiding the truth and when it catches up to her, past deeds will come back to take their bloody revenge.

A young woman reflects on the evolving complexity of romantic love since the 1970s...

Three wordless rituals: birth, between, and rebirth. A woman lies at the bottom of a swimming pool, alone. The camera pans her body. She starts to rise, then sinks; convulsions follow and then she rises and hovers above the pool. A shirtless man in white pants stands in an asphalt lot, a car visible on either side. Convulsions begin. The cars back up, still facing him and each other. They pause; they race toward him. He leaps. A youth, shirtless and in white shorts, stands in front of a tall building. Doors open, he enters and walks to an elevator. Convulsions strike him as he rides to a top floor, exits the elevator, pauses, and runs toward a window. He crashes through.

See the inspirational documentary that captures the true stories of people who have been radically and miraculously changed by God as a result of having seen Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ. In their own words, people give accounts of relationships restored, diseases vanquished, the dead resurrected, atheists coming to faith and even a confession to murder. These are profound messages of hope and redemption you won't want to miss!

As Tariq and Laila, a married couple, shop for a gift for her mom, Tariq buys shoes he likes, then evades visiting the mother whom he hates. In the morning, two men attack Tariq, who suffers a respiratory arrest and dies at the age of 40. Laila recalls her memories with Tariq and hallucinates about him.

The story of a family magnate and Mrs. Ying who has a big father as a consultant. The incident happened when a beloved son named Woak Wak who likes to play with girls, has mysteriously disappeared in order to return safely to the charming child, the magnate does not dare to report to the police, but let bodyguard er with his minions looking for Woak Wak by paying unlimited compensation They also hired a peaceful investigator and Petchtae, the nephew of a peaceful investigator. who had just finished an investigation course from abroad by collaborating with Oung, the older sister of Woak Wak who learned martial arts from Japan and had to fly back from outside to find his younger brother

Frankie's new girlfriend will do anything to keep him from his former love.

This award-winning documentary explores the changing face of right-wing politics in India through a study of the 2002 Gujarat Riots. It specifically examines political tendencies reminiscent of the Nazi Germany of early 1930s. Final Solution is anti-hate/violence, as 'those who forget history are condemned to relive it'.

Van is a homeless young man, living in a car park. When he encounters a free-spirited Carla, he senses the opportunity for friendship and connection. Des is homeless as well but faces different issues: a pregnant girlfriend and trouble with a neighbourhood gangster. Tommy is a junkie trying get his life on track and get a job after personal tragedy. These three young men endure an impoverished existence in Southwest Sydney, Australia.

Concert registration, recorded in June 2001 during the International Jazz Festival in Montreal.

In a dark room, fantastic beings appear like specters from an old cinema. Frightened, the insomniac is the only one to witness the cyclical nocturnal spectacle.

Ramone Solitaire (David Lee) attacks and murders a young girl (Dawn Murphy). He´s captured, tried and convicted, and sentenced to death. But while on death row, the woman (Terri Lewandowski) who testified against him, the DA (Clancey McCauley) who prosecuted him, and the public defender (Debbie D) who did the best she could to save him, are all found savagely assaulted and murdered. Alicia Roberts (Tina Krause), an expert in the occult, is hired by the government to look into how Solitaire could have killed them. Will Alicia learn his secret or will she become his next victim? Also starring Dean Paul and GW Lawrence.

Career woman Somiya (Diana Hayden) meets her dream man in Karan (Shawar Ali). They soon wed, and for years all is blissful … till Somiya learns of her spouse's affair. Crushed, she confronts him -- but regrets it after Karan gets physical. Unable to endure his abuse and adultery, Somiya escapes with their daughter. When the irate Karan hunts them down and threatens to kill them, can Somiya summon her mettle and teach him a lesson he won't forget?

2004 release

David Lama - a name every climber will run across sooner or later. Why? The young talented boy with a Nepalese farther and an Austrian mother is the first human being to climb a 8b+/5.14a rated route at the age of 12! The boy's extraordinary talent is opening doors to a new generation of climbers. The film is not a typical hero biography, it instead portrays a normal 12-year old boy who turns into an adult when climbing

Dokter Vogel is a short surrealist film with computer animations and special effects in which a boy comes round too soon after a tonsillectomy and mistakes the throat specialist for a cacodemon from his narcosis dream.

A psychiatric patient, guided by disturbing dreams and visions, attempts to reunite an abducted child with her mother.

Celebrated graffiti artists 'Heir' and 'Vain' are superstars in the underground world of San Francisco's Mission District; urban outlaws always on the run. After a clash with the law, they find their lives spinning out-of-control with explosive consequences.

A story about 33 years old Tel Aviv D.J. Manny who has a problems to adapt to regular life during the first Gulf War in 1991.

Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins where it all ended, in New Caledonia, with images of the ruins of the penal colony where many Commune insurgents were deported, including Louise Michel. The director thus tracks down all the still visible traces of the insurrectional movement, in the South Pacific but especially in Paris, by following Alain Dalotel, author of numerous works on the Commune (and who died on May 29, 2020 in Bagnolet). He also tracks down all the archives, allowing us to understand, with the means of communication and information of the time (and with a voice-over by Bernard Langlois), what contemporaries experienced between March and May 1871: their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their anger.

Short film directed by Mariano Peralta.

A man covers his head with several headscarfs, one by one... .

A documentary concerning the detention of Muslim-Americans in the wake of 9/11.

The screenplay was written immediately after the bombing of Novi Sad, 1999, but it was only a motive to speak up about the people that were humiliated for more than ten years in various ways, and that way became the victims of wrong politics, not only Milosevic's, but Western as well. The title of the movie was born there. In the second book of Moses it is written: " An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings." The people who suffered most in the wars on this territory are the ones that had no influence of what so ever on the development of situation on the Balkan. But, at the same time. there was ambitious youth, that the sense of their life in these stormy time. The film is about them and that is why it sounds optimistic. Film is about the fact that we will always have the energy to survive senseless time and live normally after that.

One summer’s day, Jayde and Wiremu tag along with their older siblings on a trip to a local swimming hole; young passions ignite by the Rotorua hot pool. Later, tragedy occurs and Jayde faces lost innocence and the ritual of tangi while bearing a secret.

A three-part documentary film (Russian Roulette, Lords of the Kremlin, and The Last Battle) directed by Alexander Gentelev based on the events that took place in Russia in 1991-2000.

Two youths get involved in a get rich quick scheme but the plan backfires on them.

The work and times of American artist, Leon Golub from 1985 to his death in 2004, taking us from images of interrogations and torture to the ironies and dark humor of old-age.

Christmas Eve is approaching, parents are preparing gifts, and little Anežka longs for a doll from a shop window. She has no idea that her dream doll, Dorotka, is under the control of a mysterious puppet. He has transformed himself into a Whisperer who appears to the girl, tempting her to lie, talk back, and be insensitive. Every time Anežka hurts someone, his power grows stronger. The doll moves further and further away from her. But Anežka also moves further away from herself. In the end, it is up to her whether the fairy tale will have a happy ending...

Savour the top gastronomic delights that every diner should sample in their lifetime, as voted for by members of the public. It's a mouth-watering journey through childhood favourites, exotic dishes and bizarre but delicious fare.

Helen Campbell is the new girl in town, lost in the hallways of a new school. Reaching out to the 'In-Crowd' she finds only rejection. Walking home from school she encounters the Rock & Roll Girls- Mabel, Fifi and Roxanna. All it takes is one 45 rpm slab of vinyl, and Helen is hooked! And so the depravity begins... Teaming up with the Rock & Roll Girls, Helen sets off a deadly path of self destruction fueled by her addiction that infectious jungle beat! Criminal Behavior! Satan Worship! Switchblade Cat-fights! Catholic Brainwashing! Unspeakable Acts of Violence! This is the Sicko Set...

How do we tell the story of a life? What cruel reduction of an image will stand (in the obituary, the family photo album, the memory of friends) for the years between a grave and a difficult birth? Public Lighting examines the current media obsession with biography, offering up “the six different kinds of personality” (the obsessive, the narcissist) as case studies and miniatures, possible examples.

Devi lives alone in a bunker with one precious window to the war-ravaged world outside. One day, Devi hears a sound outside her window, and she sees a real live person for the first time. It's a woman named M, the leader of a group of Outsiders, vagabonds and outcasts.

Franck, an aspiring actor who prefers hanging out with his mates and girlfriend to working, is waiting for fame to come his way. His life is turned upside down when a casting call brings him closer to his dreams.

Documentary film commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Mexican team.

When a young couple's car breaks down on a country road, they must learn to walk together.

When two down-on-their luck thieves are tricked into protecting a 3000 year old magic Chinese artifact, they think they've hit the jackpot. But there is an army of martial arts killers who will stop at nothing, anything to get the artifact back and harness it's power. Now these bad guys have to become good in order to save the world.

When a respected school principal is elected president, his supporters feel betrayed by his efforts to improve living conditions and cease corruption and cronyism.

2004 release

Nuns have underground clubs too!

A babysitter is brutally murdered. The Calw trio of investigators Jäger, Kraft, and Hoffmann soon make a shocking discovery: an apparently psychopathic killer is imitating famous movie murders. And the list of role models is long... At the same time, blind Alex meets shy painter Daniel, who soon comes under suspicion. But is the shy artist really a brutal murderer? The investigation ultimately leads the detectives into the world of the German Armed Forces and culminates in a spectacular showdown involving a tank on a rampage.

Produced in 2004, Samba Trance & Rock'n Roll is producing and directing Rafael Mellin, with artistic direction of Marcellus Viana, Mellin and Julio Adler and soundtrack of Tony Mazot, Mulato Beat, Siri, Mugomango and home meal. The main stars are athletes Danylo Grillo, Marcondes Rocha and Bernardo Miranda. Mellin spent a year traveling with them to places like Indonesia, Hawaii and Mexico, and explore the Brazilian coast from north to south, including the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. The production brings together the best highlights of the trip, highlighting the characteristics of each athlete and emphasizing the profile and testimonies of three comrades, drawing a parallel between different musical beats, styles and waves - and also rely on images from competitions.

The Son of God Visits a tough British high School disguised as a fourteen year-old... and sparks soon fly. The King Of The Jews meets The Lord Of The Flies.

Juliano Mer-Khamis' documentary on his mother, Arna, an activist against the Israeli occupation who founded an alternative education system for Palestinian children.