Cinematic Era: 2006 Vintage

The Who perform in Grand Rapids during their 2006 North American tour.

The film follows alcoholic Leja, who has grown isolated. But things change when she meets Lukas.

A poem is read and emotions are unleashed. A book is signed and pets pampered as this tour of talented talkers weaves its way through Provincetown and New Jersey (with a turbulent exit in Manhattan). Enjoy the leisurely portraits and view young and old as they chew the fat in cozy habitats. Features John Waters.

Atan and Tina are brother and sister. They live surrounded by love in a comfortable house. They play and fight as siblings often do and their parents have no qualms about leaving them alone for an evening while they attend a wedding feast. Tonight, Tina pushes Atan to the breaking point - taking advantage of him as she tends to do too often. Atan's reactions will have disastrous consequences.

The sexual revolution of the '70s has allowed women to claim their right to pleasure and to better know their body. However, 30 years later, the female orgasm remains mysterious to a lot of people - both men and women. During the 1970's the sexual revolution enabled women the ability to lay claim to a right of pleasure in the bedroom; for the first time in public society, women were able to better understand their own bodies and discover what it actually is that enables/causes the orgasm. However, we are now 40 years since that revolution and for many men the onset and occurrence of feminine orgasm remains a total mystery.

Every day, come rain or shine, Theodore used to bike the seven kilometres from his house to the centre of the village to sit and drink beer in the bus stop. For him, no doubt, this place was the centre of the Universe. With his death, the centre has moved elsewhere, and the bus stop is just a bus stop again.

During research for a series focused on the greatest scientists of the past, a TV producer, following a hypnosis experiment, finds herself catapulted into the 19th century, participating in the last years of Ludwig Van Beethoven's life.

A man kidnaps people and imprisons them in a well for no apparent reason.

A chilling portrait of loss and redemption when men create their own gods.

Alexa, a young policewoman, is assigned to capture the drug kingpin, Ricardo Monte Carlo. The police try to find the key witness, but he is missing and only his daughter, Casandra, knows his hiding place. Then Alexa has to go undercover as a college student to get close to Casandra, but when the latter also goes missing, Alexa gets her fellow classmates mobilized to help.

Spoof documentary. Thespian Nicholas Craig looks at "one of the most ferociously demanding of all acting periods, the 18th century". Tips on how to have a Georgian hissy fit, foppishness and acting with your bosoms.

A documentary about the life of Brazilian footballer Ademir de Guia (o Divino) who played his whole professional career for Palmeiras.

But it is a devastating expose of party-n-play culture. It's hard to depict methamphetamine use with any sensitivity, but this movie's dry and frank style bring this plague into startling focus. It's very compassionate and gives a lot of context and insight into how Gay culture and drug culture meet. It is heartbreaking to know that the majority of the men interviewed for this movie are HIV-positive. This movie includes graphic sexual content and vivid depictions of drug use, but it serves a very valuable purpose. it is an eloquent call for social responsibility.

Welcome to The Great Happiness Space: Rakkyo Café. The club's owner, Issei (22), has a staff of twenty boys all under his training to become the top escorts of Osaka's underground love scene. During their training, they learn how to dress, how to talk, how to walk, and most importantly, how to fake relationships with the girls who become their source of income. Join us as Osaka's number one host boy takes us on a journey through the complex and heartrenching world of love for sale in the Japanese underground.

A small group of college students decides to film a documentary on the twenty-year-old murders of two sorority girls for their senior thesis project. Each student carries a secret that threatens to sever the seams of the film's production and, even worse, their friendships. But one student's secret verges on deadly, and soon the group finds themselves running for their lives from a maniacal killer intent on hiding the past.

Gein. Bundy. Dahmer. Ramirez. These were real people. These were the ones that were caught. There are others that never get caught and their victims never found. Imagine going to bed on Friday, and waking up on Saturday, a prisoner ... a victim ... a statistic.

Rene di Rosa is smitten by art. Rene is unusual because his goal is neither about interior decorating nor increasing his social status, but about the pure joy of discovery. He has the world's largest (over 2,000) and most notable collection of Northern California art; at times colorful, figurative, humorous, rebellious, political, and radical. "It is my greatest pleasure. Without it, I can't function." -- Rene di Rosa

After suffering her third miscarriage, a young woman desperately struggles to sustain her health as well as her marriage. When she is haunted by bizarre visions and strange voices from beyond the grave, she discovers that her unhappiness is rooted, not in the present, but in the past.

Three men, each named Michael Smith, are linked in various ways to a mysterious murder: the victim, the killer, and the homicide detective who's forced to try and sort it all out.

A documentary about entertainer/actor Peter Alexander by Birgit Kienzle. Peter Alexander doesn't appear in this film, but he was well at the time of the shooting.

Mac Dre is back, and in this sequel to his 2003 hit Treal TV, hip-hop fans get a behind-the-scenes look at life in the Thizz Nation to see what really goes on after-hours in the Bay Area courtesy of Keak Da Sneak, Baby Bash, Mistah FAB, Yumouth, Money Gang, San Quinn, and some of the biggest names in the West Coast game.

Htoo Htoo, a 10-year-old orphan who lives with his uncle. One day, Htoo Htoo sneaks onto his uncle's plane, leading to an unexpected adventure on a mysterious island. There, he befriends an ogre named Mr. Strong, and together they confront and overcome challenges posed by hostile sea creatures.

The film is a drama about three, four memories in one night that three, four (the fourth is physically absent, but no less present at the same time) spend together, with no obligations, free of all bonds, as the night before they finished all relationships. The story in the film is happening from the morning, where/when the film starts until the night of the previous day, where/when the film ends. Everything that happens in the film is about what happened before that, before the beginning (end) of the film, when we, the spectators, entered the story, just like we were a substitution for the Fourth after his disappearance. The film is a story about remembering, three views in the same night that are trying to review its variety. The film turns the memories into dreams and reflects the surrealism of our own memories and realities.

A playful and challenging mixture of fiction film and documentary. Lina´s lusty longing for her lover receives an absurd and musical twist during an unexpected encounter in a coconut cake factory.

Fourteen were sentenced to death and shot at the castle on September 8. Designed to honor their memory, the documentary denounces the manipulation of information surrounding the recent history of this country and reflects on historical memory and social amnesia.

Our story begins with Rindin being the target of a joke, just for being different. However, when the bullies meet up with a hungry barracuda, Rindin saves the day! Rindin the Puffer, shows the importance of being yourself while respecting individual differences in others.

A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by tradition. Beyond Honor is an emotionally resonant meditation on gender roles and the dynamics of power within a small community.

Based on the best selling book, Angels Don't Play This HAARP, narrator Dr. Nick Begich presents a compelling discussion of one of the important military advances of the United States Government. The technology is designed to manipulate the environment in a number of ways that can jam all global communications, disrupt weather systems, interfere with migration patterns, disrupt human mental processes, negatively affect your health and disrupt the upper atmosphere. The U. S. military calls this new zapper the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program or HAARP. The rest of the story is revealed in the patents, technical papers and other documents that continue to emerge regarding this project. Begich has presented on the subject as an expert witness for the European Parliament, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense Policy Subcommittee on Security and Disarmament, GLOBE and others.

A woman is walking in the empty streets of London but she starts to sense that she is being followed.

In May 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famous Bed-In For Peace event. It was attended by many of their close friends, including Timothy Leary. This is a record of the event. Part of the cycle of The First 40.

The making of the movie.

A chronological compilation featuring clips from Dave McKean's films, from his earliest art school bumblings and false starts, to his feature length films Mirrormask and Luna. Includes interviews and commentary by Dave McKean.

Two women take a dying man on a road trip in search of a miracle.

On set interview with John Glen.

A young boy playing in the woods discovers a dead body by the edge of the river - leading to devastating consequences.

For all the wrong Bona did to his younger brother Daniel, he still made peace and forgave him. Daniel wants peace to prevail between his brother and the community so he decided to have a reconciliation party for them. Bona's friend Ekwedike advised him against having the party because he believed his brother is a ritualist. Where does this insinuation lead them? [parts 3-4 of De Prof]

Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people

Various facts prophesy the coming of a curse, but a man will realize it late enough to be able to do something about it.

Waichi OKUMURA, a 80- year-old WWII veteran and other 2600 ordered to stay on in China and fight along with the Chinese nationalists in the post-1945 civil war. Racing against the time, he powerfully campaigns to expose the secret military orders that kept them in China years after Japan had surrendered. His journey starts from the hot spot of Asia, the Yasukuni shrine. His quest takes him to China, where he had once become the killing machine, and finds truths about the Japanese military as well as himself under the long spell by it. During his journey, he meets a Chinese old lady who was kidnapped, raped, and confined by the Japanese soldiers. From her, he hears a story of human evils - and even forgiveness.

This is the DVD version of the video event held at Loft Plus One in Shinjuku on September 10th, supervised by Chiaki Konaka. 5 presenters gathered with "truly scary films" they had discovered. The DVD includes "Home Movie", "Honeymoon", "Blue Film", "Psychic", "Telekinesis Experiment" and "Reverberation".

Live concert footage of The Sugarcubes from 1988 and 1989, mixed with short interview segments.

Live in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Director Susanne Ullerich had often asked herself, “How will I earn money [as an artist]?” Because she couldn’t easily answer this and many other questions, she decided to interview other like-minded people. The interviews all take place in a studio, where the goal was to place the interviewees in a sort of job interview situation. The interviewees have many different nationalities and backgrounds and were subjected to a litany of questions covering the themes of work, art, satisfaction, wishes, creativity, study and their personal life situations. The goal was not to build a personal profile of each individual, but rather to present a forum to discuss each of the questions.

In Dublin’s industrial wastelands, pre-teen Kylie drives around in a stolen car, indulging her troubled imagination.  Her grieving mother is distant and unaware until a young Guard apprehends and brings her home. He is lenient in his caution, acknowledging the family has been through a difficult time.

The father of two kidnapped girls pursues her killers.

A short film about the origin and making of the 1968 film Petulia.

Life's always been easy for trust-fund baby Sasha Childers (Kinsey Packard), who spends her nights with her glitterati friends at the hottest clubs in town. When a sex tape surfaces that puts Sasha in the tabloids, she takes revenge on the club owner who leaked it. But her crime puts her on someone else's hit list, sending Sasha and her friends someplace they've never been: on the run. Deanna Dozier, Monterey Salka and Robert Berson co-star.

Disposable Hero documents Brian's journey from hospital beds to podium tops!!! No one in freestyle has had it as good and as bad as Brian Deegan. Brian has collected more X Games and Gravity Games medals than any other competitor. He's appeared on the cover of Racer X Illustrated, Transworld Motocross & FreeriderMX. Features of him have appeared in not only these motocross industry related magazines but in FHM, ESPN The Magazine, DUB and Rolling Stone. Yet at the same time, he's accumulated more X-Rays, Pins, Rods, Plates, Casts, Gashes, and screws than most freestyle motocross riders. To top it all off, he most recently lost a kidney and severely injured his spleen while filming for MTV's Viva La Bam. "Disposable Hero motivates you to throw away your crutches and kick the weak in their ass, The Grim Reaper was at the door and Deegan did not answer." - Jerry Bernardo

Crackheads Gone Wild is a documentary about cocaine users in Atlanta.

One Long Summer tells the story of Vroni who, as the summer slowly unfolds, experiences her first love in a small Bavarian village. Apart from the daily monotony of farmhouse chores and shy conversations about boys and sex that she has with her friend Gerti, Vroni finds herself drawn, again and again, to the woods, to the caravan of Ales, the young Czech puppeteer.

A prostitute tries to escape her fate by corrupting others in order to save her soul.

Barbara is a teenager overwhelmed by her parents' relationship, by the contradictions between her desires and the society she lives in, by love, heartbreak, and misunderstandings. One early morning, she drives 100 kilometers back from a party in Villa Mercedes with her boyfriend Federico, two friends, and a lot of alcohol. Amidst death, helplessness, and incomprehension, her 80-year-old grandmother Olga's story appears at the perfect moment, with the precise wisdom and understanding of a family history of Italian immigrants that repeats itself through generations; with the perfect magic and timing, and a bridge between life and death: the perfect beauty to drain so much pain.

In this psychological thriller, a desperate mother tries to protect her daughter from a dark bitter past. But when a determined husband joins in their daughter's struggle to resist, motives turn deadly when the mother's inner tempest threatens to destroy the entire family.

A Donatello award nominated short feature about a small and thin man who, try as he might, cannot put on weight until one morning he finds has scales saying 121kg!