Cinematic Era: 2005 Vintage

From headwaters in Canada, the Columbia River flows over twelve hundred miles to the Pacific Ocean and for many of those miles it marks the boundary between the states of Washington and Oregon. Cutting through the Cascade Mountains, the river slices through an 80-mile stretch known as the Columbia River Gorge where the basalt mountains tower up to 4,000 feet above the water. Nearby dormant volcanoes such as Mount Hood and Mount Adams add to the incredible beauty of the Gorge area. Following the north bank of the river between Vancouver and Pasco, Washington is Burlington Northern Santa Fe's Fallbrook Subdivision. This is a prized site for railfans, offering spectacular vistas and nonstop railroading. Journey with Pentrex from Vancouver east to Maryhill along this scenic route and experience the variety of trains and motive power that ply this famous line.

Two crows disturb a badger's hibernation. The badger climbs out of its hole once to try to silence the crows. When that doesn't work, fate intervenes and the hill on which are the crow's tree and the badger's lair becomes an underground missile silo. The badger investigates, and events move beyond its control. Is sleep in the offing?

Ten original video clips, as well as colorful narration by former literary agent John Hodgman in the role of The Deranged Millionaire.

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.

The story is of terrorism that’s plaguing different parts of the Northeast as the backdrop. Shilajeet Majumdar, a militant on the run, takes refuge in a dilapidated mansion. Rupa Ganguly stays there with her father-in-law Soumitra Chatterjee and his father Haradhan Bandopadhyay who’s confined to bed and is unable to speak. This film focuses on the friction and undercurrent of tension between the lady of the house and the terrorist.

Thodorakis, the film's hero, has a happy go-lucky attitude about life and women, but this all changes when he is forced by his uncle to train as a chef. He soon becomes a top chef and is so impressive that he enters a 'secret society' for chefs, who battle it out to see which one is the best. To his detriment he becomes so obsessive that the women in his life find him obnoxious and nothing seems likely to save him until the news of his patron's death slaps him in the face like a cold fish. In the end, the shock reminds him to keep his life in perspective.

Keith Allen joins Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed as he jets between Paris, London and his Scottish castle retreat, and holds forth on various subjects, from New Labour to the car crash in which Princess Diana and his son Dodi died.

One night, two burglars break into a large isolated villa. A burlesque crossover then settles between the two thugs.

Heavily based off a novel published in 1678 by John Bunyan, the film follows a man named Pilgrim, who goes on a journey to be cleansed of his sins and enter the celestial city. Along the way, he encounters hardships and red herrings.

Satya, a college student, falls for peer pressure and ends up eve-teasing a few girls who later on lose their lives due to an unfortunate accident.

Pakdee is a reporter who happens to witness a car accident that lead to the death of the driver by decapitation. He starts acting funny and is hung up on deaths of people whose heads were cut off. His boss starts to complain about his work but it soon improves when he begins covering a spate of murders by decapitation in Bangkok and he even gets an award for his reporting. But he is still acting strange. What's going on? Is he haunted by the ghost from the car accident? Does he know more than he says about these deaths?

A married couple are preparing to set up August Strindberg's Miss Julie at a theater festival.

A young filmmaker named Dato has no money to make a movie, so he hangs out drinking and brooding all day in the capital of the former Soviet republic, Georgia. He is also writing a screenplay. Excerpts from his script, shot in black-and-white, are cut into his story. All the stories, including the framing story about Dato and his friends, are interwoven so that they become one long narrative about contemporary life in Georgia.

Viewed at its seams, a National Geographic slideshow from the 1960s and '70s deforms into a bright white distress signal.

Two-part historic drama about a difficult love affair between a German woman and an American soldier during the Berlin Airlift. After her husband Axel is declared dead, Luise Kielberg must survive as a single mother of a 12-year-old boy in post-war Berlin. At the beginning of the Soviet Blockade in 1948, she waitresses at the Tempelhof Airport and gets to know General William Turner, one of the most influential aides of General Clay to organize the American airlifts. Luise becomes his personal secretary and falls in love with him, but suddenly Axel returns.

A man comes to a tram stop. He's sad and lonely. He sees a girl. He's happy. The girl leaves. Repeat from the start.

These women are the unsung heroes of the sport. They keep the show on the road and their men at the oche! They always give 180%, without them the players would be lost and darts would be... just another game.

Set against the backdrop of the magical White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, SACRED STAGE explores what the Mariinsky Theater has meant to Russian and Soviet culture and how it has somehow maintained its artistic excellence through tumultuous times.

Love can be difficult at the best of times, and the remarkable Blacktown is a disarmingly honest tale of love-against-the-odds. Office secretary Nikki (Nikki Owen) is disillusioned with her fraught, ‘sometime’ relationship with her married boyfriend, Peter. Emotionally scarred by the dysfunctional relationship, she all but gives up on the possibility of finding anything more meaningful. But in the wake of a torturous and disturbing blind date, Nikki meets Tony (Tony Ryan), a “black fella on a white bus”. Despite their obvious differences and Nikki’s disillusionment, the charismatic Tony shows Nikki that there is indeed room for love and romance in the desperate world of Blacktown. (Madman Entertainment)

Love can be difficult at the best of times, and the remarkable Blacktown is a disarmingly honest tale of love-against-the-odds. Office secretary Nikki (Nikki Owen) is disillusioned with her fraught, ‘sometime’ relationship with her married boyfriend, Peter. Emotionally scarred by the dysfunctional relationship, she all but gives up on the possibility of finding anything more meaningful. But in the wake of a torturous and disturbing blind date, Nikki meets Tony (Tony Ryan), a “black fella on a white bus”. Despite their obvious differences and Nikki’s disillusionment, the charismatic Tony shows Nikki that there is indeed room for love and romance in the desperate world of Blacktown. (Madman Entertainment)

"Willkommen im Club" shows the influences of unemployment (actually the number one theme in Germany) on daily life. What happens within the families, what happens with the self-esteem of people who unexpectedly lose their work? By choosing different points of view, we wanted to find out what happens beyond the daily news.

Jagapati (Jagapati Babu) is an orphan and also a loyal henchman of local MLA Goud (Pradeep Rawat). Jagapati loyally protects the interests of Goud and also provides security to him. Incidentally Jagapati turns out to be the local Sub Inspector of Police. He turns the police station into a bar and makes the constables serve liquor. He happens to meet a beautiful girl called Lavanya (Rakshita) and falls in love with her. And Lavanya turns out to be a widow of Murari (Sai Kiran) whom Jagapati kills. The rest of the story is all about how Jagapati mends himself.

When two horror-crazed effects artists are blacklisted for using REAL effects, they shoot and star in their own film. Bloodied and beaten, they find the one executive willing to distribute the movie. But there's one condition... They must find a climax that KILLS.

After 20 years of wandering taiga weather stations searching for a suitable place for having a life, Nataliya and Yuri Usovy settled on Olkhon island, on a remote weather station. They thought to find happiness here.

In 1976, a nuclear reactor near the Italian town of Seveso explodes, leaking highly poisonous dioxin into the atmosphere.

Michael and Jim collect money for a debt collection agency owned by LC. It's not exactly their dream job, so they're looking for something more exciting to do. Unfortunately, they end up killing a debtor who owes half a million. The brutal LC believes that Michael and Jim must now come up with the missing money. But the two unfortunate guys don't have that kind of money.

"Every year thousands of tunas fish migrate to the Mediterranean sea. Man chase them in a ritual of death and blood. Images of nature. Abused and overwhelmed"

The story of a young racing driver who dreams of going to USA to live there. He goes to Turkey so to travel to USA from there but faces many troubles and difficulties to do so.

New Zealand, 1986. The zombie apocalypse is here and three mates are stranded. The trusty Holden is out of gas. With only fast food scraps and a few cigarettes for sustenance, surviving each other may prove harder than facing the undead outside

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“Navigation” is the name of a documentary film directed by Hossein Rajabian, the Iranian filmmaker.It was produced for an anthropological NGO in the Middle East, but was never released due to censorship in Iran.The movie is about a group of children between eight and twelve years of age who had not left their village before the production of the work in 2005. They had not even gone to nearby villages because of the impassibility of the roads in their place of residence. However, one day, their teacher decides to take them to the sea. Their trip accidentally coincides with the travel of Anousheh Ansari, the first female Iranian astronaut, to space. The movie simultaneously narrates both events.

Fimmaker Tina Mabry's short drama about a woman who loses her life partner in a tragic accident, then must rebuild her fractured relationship with her estranged teenage son.

A teenager's party takes a brutal turn when a mask brought home by her archaeologist father turns out to have been carved by the devil himself.

The story of the artists, rebels, and bohemians who came to New York’s Greenwich Village over many decades, and changed the face of American culture through their art and politics. The film portrays important political and social movements that started in the Village - such as the first interracial jazz club, the earliest Socialist newspapers from before World War I, and the Stonewall rebellion that sparked gay liberation.

Highly outspoken comic D.L. Hughley takes on race, politics, marriage, and the whole "Soul Plane" thing.

Franciszek finds out from a doctor that his mother is on the verge of death. Unable to watch over her, he hires a village wise-woman, Palchowa, to tend to his Mother in her last moments.

The live performance video recorded at Tokyo Kousei Nenkin Kaikan on August 22nd, 2005 promoting the new album San.

A look at the search for the fabled Northwest passage, the legendary path through the ice across the Canadian Arctic, and the attempts made by wealthy British explorer Sir John Franklin and penniless Norwegian Roald Amundsen.

A young filmmaker is given a order to shoot the real murder, two sisters are going to the big city with the aim to rob the money-bags, and the mysterious hero is going through the streets and searching for a new victim.

Based on the letters written by Jonathan Hacke, an artist and mental patient at a psychiatric institution.

An experimental documentary short about the terrorism in Peru in 1986. Using archive footage, the director deconstructs the massacre in a successive historical actions choreography and an atmospheric sound mix alternating the imminence of both the massacre and the oblivion.

A man forcefully tries to terminate his daughter's pregnancy without success. When she finally gives birth to a set of twins, one of them turns out to be a miniature. [parts 1-2]

Street children exist, but nobody wants to do anything about them. This drama follows several kids willing to do whatever it takes to survive living in their tough and dangerous neighborhood. They take drugs to forget their worries, but this leads them to commit terrible crimes and face even worse problems. This glimpse into the harsh realities of street life is infused with dark humor that helps lighten the film's intense mood.

Kumiko Manguchi, a hot-blooded teacher in a red jersey miniskirt, is assigned to the private Hami Kin Gakuen, where the students who have fallen out gather

Rajesh and Suna agree to meet to discuss their marriage suitability. Is there marriage on the menu, or just coffee?

Mrs. Leyli intends to marry a younger person. But since that person is already married and hides it at the first meeting, their love does not happen.

Documentary and interviews with the cast of Petticoat Junction and stories of the show's production.

The last of four shorts from artist and director KatieJane Garside's 'Lalleshwari' project; a woman is observed through her kitchen window by an unidentified voyeur.

A short comedy on the filmmaking process.

A girl gets what she wants for Christmas.

A tribute to producer Irving Thalberg.

Against the terrifying backdrop of a biological apocalypse, a Native teenager, Brian, comes out to his older sister, Faith, and homophobic brother, Charles. Conflict erupts among them as desperate survivors from the city seek refuge on the rez from the horrors of a 'megapox' epidemic that is quickly devastating urban populations across North America. Through a perilous journey to the city for food, where they rescue Brian's 'friend' in the process (an outrageous drag queen named Tonya), the hungry and frightened youth reach acceptance by facing down their fears.

A well-dressed killer is on the loose in the woods of Spain.

Sarah (Rachel Emmers, God's Army 2) misleads her parents about her whereabouts and goes rock climbing with her friend Cameron (bobby Swenson, The Singles Ward). When tragedy strikes, Sarah must help, as we as come to terms with her dishonesty.

Alison, a young dancer, suffers an accident and is unable to dance for a while. When she returns, she has to fight an envious rival trying to steal her position for the dance company of the university and her great love.

The spirit of the old west lives on in South Central Los Angeles, and filmmaker Marquette Williams captures all of the energy and enthusiasm of an urban subculture that may take some folks by surprise. Urban Cowboy isn't just a movie starring John Travolta; just outside of Compton, it's a true reality. Most people associate horse riding and rodeos with country ranches and wide-open plains, but four young cowboys from the inner city are out to shatter preconceptions about what it really means to be a roughrider. Twenty-three year old Lil Ron, eighteen year old Yah-Ya, eighteen year old Mike, and eighteen year old Jazmine are a learning what it takes to win on the rodeo circuit, and Lil Ron has his eyes locked on the Rookie of the Year award. Follow these four young pioneers as they set out to find that perfect balance between inner-city toughness and wild-west determination.