Cinematic Era: 2004 Vintage

The story is about a planet named Sumarai, damned by devil, so the king and his daughters have been changed to cats. But the youngest girl has time to save her life and her family; she ...

Lonnie’s roommate is determined that his best friend is not going to spend the night alone.

In April 2002 the White Stripes played four sold-out shows in a row at NYC's landmark Bowery Ballroom. This documentary chronicles those performances and offers an all-access pass (warts-and-all) to the backstage chaos surrounding the limelight-shy Jack and Meg White.

In the eighties, Hito Steyerl shot a feminist martial arts film on Super-8 stock. Her best friend Andrea Wolf played the lead role, that of a woman warrior dressed in leather and mounted on a motorcycle. The engagement expressed in the formal grammar of exploitation films later became Wolf’s political praxis: She went to fight alongside the PKK in the Kurdish regions between Turkey and northern Iraq, where she was killed in 1998. Now honoured by Kurds as an “immortal revolutionary,” her portrait is carried at demonstrations.

Hong lives simply with his wife and his daughters Ngek and Gim. Japanese invade Thailand and the village is bombed and Hong's house goes up in flames even after she has prayed to the "Goddess of Mercy" to prevent that from happening. Ngek almost loses her faith in religion and the "Goddess of Mercy" as she has met her every night in her dreams and had long discussions seeking advice on her problems and fears. Many years later the two girls become attractive women. She is thrown out of the house by her father. Somsak and her try to start a new life with the help of the "Goddess" and with her help get a successful clothing business running. Her life changes from bad to good as she continues her dream world meetings with the "Goddess" and she plans her life according to the advice given. To help, her husband becomes a monk as well. Can their faith in religion cure her illness? Can they ever be happy again?

Filmmaker Nina Davenport is working in California the day the World Trade Center is destroyed. Trying to understand that she won't be able to see the familiar building from her apartment in New York anymore and afraid of getting on a plane, she sets off for a road trip that is therapy and art performance in one. She has six weeks to get back to New York, and she spends them driving through a country in shock and talking to people she meets along the way. All of them share a strange sadness - not only about the attacks - and a surprising willingness to open their hearts and lives to this young woman with a camera. And by taking us on a trip through her country, she ends up leading us into the very soul of it.

Peter Jacobs returns to Fairview Falls to uncover the truth behind his family’s murder. Every step he takes brings him closer to the Black Rose Killer, Ethan Fernier. Peter gets more than he bargained for when he discovers that Ethan is dying and his chance to bring him to justice is slipping away.

Michael Blanco arrives in Los Angeles. He dreams of becoming a movie star. There are 900,000 others like him in this city. Michael Blanco is Belgian. He is in his early thirties. He does not speak English perfectly. He is not very tall. He is not very handsome. As an actor, he has no experience worth mentioning. But he still has his courage, his candor, and his generosity. Michael Blanco is the story of a desire that is constantly thwarted.

Comfortably Numb shows us Jake's struggle to overcome his alcoholism in a rehab center, Promis. After early difficulties, he starts to make progress when he forms a relationship with a fellow patient, Emma. But they are forbidden to see each other after Jake is confronted about his "sex and love" addiction in a group counselling session. This creates more problems, as Jake doesn't understand that his dependence on the relationship with Emma is actually a barrier to his rehabilitation. A night of excess sparked by drugs makes things get out of hand. Jake decides to leave the center and fight his addiction on his own terms. But almost immediately he goes into a pub. It seems as though Jake will fall back into being an alcoholic, but as the film ends, we see that he has returned to Promis, and is determined to make a full recovery this time.

A documentary by and about Swedish artist Carl Johan De Geer. A followup to his 1980 book with the same name.

The proceedings of a Paris courtroom are the grist for this documentary. Drawn from over 200 appearances before the same female judge, the director chooses a dozen or so varied misdemeanor and civil hearings to highlight the subtle details of human behavior. In the process he draws attention to issues of guilt, innocence, policing and ethnicity in France.

Sequel of the legendary "El Clon de Hitler" where Hitler's daughters decide to avenge their father's death with an army of goths.

Instructional Skateboarding Video

Pachamama is a modern interpretation of the earth, the human body as a metaphor for the earth.

Recorded live in May of 2004 at the Olympia in Sao Paulo. Features new songs along with some of their greatest hits.

Sequel to the 1998 film Steetwise.

Castro has outlived generations of US Presidents, Soviet General Secretaries, CIA Directors and would-be assassins. This film offers a psychological profile of the Cuban revolutionary, and a deeply intimate account of his life based on private letters, correspondence, speeches and interviews. It features interviews with some of Fidel Castro's closest relatives, close friends and committed enemies.

S*CKMYP drops the spectator in a world continuously bombarded with digital fragmentation bombs. People wander through a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of trembling bodies and mutating buildings until they are swallowed by a yawning void. (...) S*CKMYP is a pixel-soap: drama is generated by the morphing of the images and the attraction of pixels through image manipulation. I wanted to make a movie where the effect is the message, but without loosing emotions.

A collection of 10 short films made by known Argentine directors on the AMIA bombing of July 18, 1994.

A look at the rise and fall of Adam Ant. From his early 80's success, to his struggle with depression.

Insane Tuesday debuted in São Paulo in 2001. The project was dedicated to the study of Brazilian comedy, to the transformation of actors into authors of their own characters and texts, and to the promotion of original productions of contemporary adult humor.

Across the Border is a polyglot portrait of ideas about borders at the beginning of the 21st century. In an episodic journey five directors from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia, present their view and vision of nation, identity and Europe: By placing their personal cinematographic imprint on multifaceted portraits of their home countries, they open up a broad space for encounters with the strangers next door.

Thirteen years ago, a young girl drowned due to adult neglect, in present day, this little girl's memory will spark a plot of retribution that will leave each person involved quite unwell.

Franky is a unique street sweeper who cleans his neighborhood in Munich every morning at 4:30. In addition to his work on the streets of Munich, he is also a painter and hobby philosopher.

In 2058, two apathetic friends run the night shift in a 24-hour convenience store. Robert likes the Japanese girl who works the day shift, but in spite of encouraging signs from her, he won't - or can't - act. Instead, Robert and Steve discuss their views on life. Winner of Gold Hugo for best short film at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival.

Mouvement de lumière (Motion of light), which is comprised of noise music and lines hand-painted directly onto the film, attempts to break free of a visual and sound-based order through abstraction, thereby initiating a process centred on inner sensation. A radical proposition of power inherent in film. Music by Olivier Borzeix.

A filmed performance of The Rapture at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City.

A unique portrait of immigrants, feeling like outsiders, struggling to survive in America. Michael an Armenian-American in his 30's is feeling a growing oblication to take care of his aging father, Leon, who had left a good job in Soviet Armenia to raise his children in the land of freedom. Michael has risen to become an assistant supermarket manager, but feels caught between family traditions and the outside world. His friends earn easy money on the wrong side of the law forcing Michael to face tough choices in finding his footing in this poignant, universal portrait of multi-generational immigration family's caught between indentifying with the past and the present.

In May of 2004 Beth Hart gave a performance at Paradiso in Amsterdam, Beth and her band were ready to shake things up and did not disappoint. Live At Paradiso is a bone-chilling concert film that faithfully captures the magic of that very evening.

Os mais recentes sucessos pela primreira vez em DVD. Incluindo: Nosso Amor É Ouro, Pra Mudar a Minha Vida, Pra Sempre..., O novo hit "Eu Amo" e ainda grandes clássicos e novas canções! Você vai se sentir "na estrada" com Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano neste show histórico! * Pelo 2° ano consecutivo, vencedores do Grammy Latino (2003 e 2004)

In the well-known "Sanatorium for the treatment of childhood obesity" - on the banks of the Danube, Ilko, Emil and Yaroslav are again together with the rest of the kids, subjected to starvation and salad diets by the head doctor Stoyanov, the nurse Denitsa and the gym teacher Ponchev. In the difficult moments, the old fisherman Bai Angel gives food and support to the little braves.

A Grass Shack Productions first release, is an up-close and personal look at Bruce Irons and the Kauai Boys, both at home and abroad. This movie proves that there must be something in the water, literally, of this Hawaiian island that breeds world-class surfers. Bruce, Andy, Dustin Barca, Kamalei Alexander, Reef Macintosh, Adam Guy and Chava are just a few of the boys holding it down in macking barrels and outrageous free-surf sessions. Just for kicks, Kelly Slater, Mick Fanning, Sunny Garcia, Taj Burrow, Joel Parkinson and Cory Lopez join the fun from Tahiti to Pipe to Indo, while Bruce and Andy steal the show. Crossing The Line serves notice that the younger of the Irons brothers is ready for his moment in the competitive spotlight!

Les Arts Florissants, led by William Christie in performance and masterclasses of two masterpieces from their repertoire, Actéon by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell

In 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she provokes turns her name in a common expression. The film uses passages supposed to be about her to criticize modern Brazil, the dictatorship period and also a homage to filmmakers like Rogério Sganzerla.

An appreciation of composer Ennio Morricone, Il Maestro, by film music expert John Burlingame.

A documentary about the creative process of Gurcius Gewdner.

Deep inside a bizarre industrial abattoir, a blood-stained worker systematically hacks through... meat. A darkly comic Grand Guignol depiction of numbed desensitization from one of Britain's most twisted creative minds.

A journey that takes you through unchartered waters to locations never surfed before…Exploration, epic waves and award winning performances by some of the world’s best surfers. Featuring incredible footage by world renowned cinematographer Jon Frank and directed by Brendan Macaloon, INNERVISIONS from The Search takes a look at the search for perfect, uncrowded waves in remote corners of the globe.

As a reinvention of the documentaries made by Pasolini, Vezzoli pushes the public of a fictitious italian tv program to talk about love and relationships

After a good drawing in the lower formulas (British Formula 3 champion in 1983), he made his debut in Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix in 1984 at the Toleman-Hart. During his first season has been proven to be an exceptional talent for capturing the small British team results ever recorded before, of all the sensational second place in the Monaco Grand Prix, held under a deluge incredible ...

Dress rehearsal for the annual show runs smoothly until a disgruntled deaf girl named Meghan storms into the cafe pursued by her frustrated and furious hearing father, Jim. Meghan has just learned that, instead of spending time with her similarly deaf friends in Indianapolis, she and her family are all going to Colorado for Christmas vacation! But no one there is deaf, and she feels left out. Carlo, Mark and Rebecca offer some valuable and timely advice that results in an unusual and heartwarming Christmas gift.

Two criminals, one wounded, decide on a home invasion in order to self-perform a bullet-extraction surgery with a fork. The homeowner turns out to be a writer of horror stories, who soon shares his ideas with the criminals.

Are there really such things as vampires, demons, zombies, witches, and werewolves? Anthony Head—better known as Buffy’s Watcher Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer—travels the world, talking to experts and eyewitnesses, while terrifying true stories are brought to life through startling dramatic reconstructions.

In an era when Dick, Jane, and discipline ruled America's schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade public school classroom. Through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play, Cullum championed an unorthodox educational philosophy that spoke directly to his students' needs. Many of Cullum's projects were recorded on film by then novice filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. Weaving stunning black and white footage and rare archival television broadcasts together with interviews of Cullum and his former students, this is a portrait of a maverick teacher who transformed a generation of young people by enabling them to discover their own inner greatness.

Is the notion of a real Matrix plausible? An investigation of the technologies that inspire the metaphor of the Matrix trilogy.

The Black Mages held a concert to promote their first album on April 26, 2003, in the Shibuya-AX concert hall in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. This overnight concert features the full setlist from the album.

"The greatest danger of the sin of gluttony is that it leads us to the sin of lust." (Sister Sourire) An insatiable glutton faced with succulent delicacies.

Previously unscreened and therefore unseen, this is the deep sea trench of Dirty Sanchez. We're going all the way down. And these are dark and dangerous depths.

Body Language Live is the DVD recording of Kylie Minogue's promotional concert Money Can't Buy. Minogue performed tracks from her ninth studio album, Body Language, alongside her biggest hits.

The tale of a young man's struggle to establish a racial identity. Blending elements of '60s agit-prop political theater with surreal storytelling, the film provides a glimpse into the mind of its protagonist during an intense psychological and emotional breakdown. As an elaborately constructed fantasy world clashes with a past that haunts him, he suffers through a downward spiral as he loses a grip on reality.

Hamid is a journalist, in his late thirties and he sees his celibacy with his petty bourgeois family as an escape route so as not to resemble his own. His family wants to marry him at all costs to his neighbor Rym (30) to put an end to his hesitation, and the bad tongues that do not spare hardened single people. Not daring to oppose his family's decision to marry, Hamid prefers to avoid the atmosphere of preparations.