Cinematic Era: 2006 Vintage

Andres and Sara have known each other for a short time. Felix and Silvia have been together for five years. The two couples spend a summer day around a swimming pool.

Art, activism and disability are the starting point for what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrait of five surprising individuals. Director Bonnie Sherr Klein (Not a Love Story, and Speaking Our Peace) has been a pioneer of women's cinema and an inspiration to a generation of filmmakers around the world. SHAMELESS: the ART of Disability marks Klein's return to a career interrupted by a catastrophic stroke in 1987. Always the activist, she now turns the lens on the world of disability culture, and ultimately, the transformative power of art.

Candide is an operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein, based on the 1759 novella of the same name by Voltaire. In 2006, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the creation of Candide, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris produced a new production under the direction of Robert Carsen. The production transforms the proscenium into a giant 1950s-era TV set, and has Voltaire, appearing as the narrator, changing channels between certain scenes. Carsen sets the action in a 1950s/1960s world, with an American slant commenting on contemporary world politics. This production was filmed and broadcast on Arte.

After all the stars had fallen, only a few people remained. A small family of former circus performers live in an old, Antebellum mansion surviving off the land and each other. Ezra, a former clown, meditates upon the troubled times faced by he and his family. Ezra lives with his sister, Benny, and his 'mamma'. As Ezra's world falls apart, the landscape, the home, all is in a state of crumbling and deterioration. As the cold winter sets upon them, food becomes scarce. All the animals are dying away. Primitive cannibalism becomes their only hope for survival. Even if it means their own blood, their own kin... - Written by Gé

A young African American, Jake Jackson, is a happy, honest, law-abiding citizen who through many unfortunate events, experiences a full array of prejudices until he captures single-handedly the serial killer, David Fletcher, and his luck changes.

The volatile issue of illegal immigration and the continued conflict taking place at the U.S.-Mexico border are brought to life in the documentary BORDER WAR. Border War takes viewers into the smuggling tunnels of Nogales, Arizona, to the migrant halfway houses for deportees in Tijuana, Mexico as well as the Congressional corridors of power in the nation's capitol.

Part of a series of films produced by Vme TV that features aerial videography shot from a helicopter of points of interest. This film in particular features points of interest in Puerto Rico.

It is the winter and the inhabitants of central Switzerland head for the mountains. They arrive in cars, trains, boats and buses, queue for the cable car, and then ski, snowboard, toboggan, eat, drink and fall asleep in one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. In the evening the workmen come out to prepare the snow for the next day. It is the weekend of 11 and 12 February 2006 at the ski resort of Klewenalp and the film-maker has captured the portraits of Swiss men, women and children using a time lapse camera whilst all around them an extraordinary activity takes place.

HIGH TECH SOUL is the first documentary to tackle the deep roots of techno music alongside the cultural history of Detroit, its birthplace. From the race riots of 1967 to the underground party scene of the late 1980s, Detroit's economic downturn didn't stop the invention of a new kind of music that brought international attention to its producers and their hometown.

Hostage-taking, deadly bombings in Paris, lobbying, media and judicial machinery. This is the story of a carefree little girl, suddenly confronted with death threats, the bodyguards, to fear ... until the final drama, one winter evening in 1990.

A young Palestinian girl will do whatever it takes to buy a birthday cake.

The story of the gruesome death of 12-year old José Rafael Llenas Aybar, who was stabbed to death by his own cousin in May 1996.

The long-awaited sequel to Wreck & Roll Tree is here! The best in back country insanity! Take a trip into the back country boneyards of British Columbia, Colorado, Alaska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Newfoundland, and many more locations as we follow a tall list of well known riders such as Geoff Kyle, Cody Borchers, Rob Alford, Dane Ferguson, Brian Hennek, Chris Burandt, Jimmy Blaze, Ryan Britt, Chris Brown and too many more to list. The best crash film yet.

“A Darkness Swallowed opens on a pair of faded photographs showing an old dented car, one with a child standing beside it and the other without. Speaking in voice-over, Bromberg references a past event, one that will forever haunt her although it occurred before her birth. The film then sinks downward, dipping below the surface of the rational world to mine the seemingly infinite layers of the past stored within the fleshy entrails, chalky bones, sinewy spider webs and gnarled ligaments of both the body and the Earth. Noises – of clanging metal, bells, heartbeats and jazz music, to name only a few – combine to create a dense sound environment, a seemingly immense, three-dimensional space for contemplation." – Holly Willis, L.A . Weekly

The rise and fall of Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association, starting from the 1960s through its glory years in the 1970s to its self-destruction in the 1980s.

A series of bizarre, often funny and occasionally disturbing images.

Archival dailies and rushes footage of the karate girls fighting sequence from the James Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun".

Two guys fall in love with two different girls. There were a lot of obstacles in the relationships

The virtual world generated by the real world of the twentieth century is growing exponentially, like an organism in a Petri dish. Crossing its own borders in to new zones, it absorbs its founders and mutates in to something absolutely new. In this new world real wars look like a game on americasarmy.com. Prison torture appears more like the sadistic exercises of modern-day valkyries. Technologies and materials transform the artificial environment in to a fantasy landscape of a new epoch. This paradise is a mutated world where time is frozen and the past is neighbor to the future.

Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska is home to the largest bear on earth, the Kodiak Bear. At least 2,500 bears live on the island and the animal is regarded as the world’s biggest land predator, reaching an impressive four meters in height when standing on its hind legs. Film maker Stefan Quinth spent three years filming the Kodiak Bear and the wildlife of Kodiak Island. His film is a dramatic story about bear and salmon, beavers and eagles. But it is also a film about the thrill of meeting the giant bear eye to eye in its natural habitat.

10 o'clock, Saturday morning. A group of elderly women and men carry plastic lawn chairs across the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem. In the shade of an old pine tree, they sit down, in a circle and discuss matters sublime and elevated. For over two decades, the "Mt. Herzl Academy has held its weekly meeting at this cemetery. Seated between the graves of the nation's dignitaries, they debate the history of modern philosophy, read poetry, eat lunch and determine the fate of the Jewish nation. Director Tali Shemesh has been following the "Academy" for the last 5 years, focusing on two members: Minia, the director's grandmother, and Lena, her great aunt. The film unravels the jagged, intense, almost impossible relationship between these two extremely different women, who each bereaved of the man she loved remain bound together by history and Fate.

On the 14th August 1969 the British Army were deployed onto Northern Ireland’s streets for the first time, to relieve an exhausted RUC in the wake of the Battle of the Bogside. As they entered the city the troops were confronted with a ring of barricades surrounding the Bogside area and manned by the rioters, presenting them with an instant dilemma – to attempt to remove the barricades and provoke a confrontation, or to leave the barricades intact and allow the Bogside to remain beyond official law & order?

A young videographer is fascinated with filming a hunky skateboarder.

A successful American family retreat to their summer home on the banks of Lake Erie to find meaning in life, illness, loss, and change this Christmas. With a successful career in the wine business, and two amazing children, what more can a family ask for. But this Christmas will change the Austin family forever with Suzie falling ill. With Andrew struggling over his wife's ill health and the children trying to find peace and solace on their own, only a miracle can help them through this Christmas.

The story of the last sheppards of the Star Mountain Range in Central Eastern Portugal.

A thought-provoking documentary on the current and historical causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement.

2006 release

The play is based on a real event that happened in Osaka in 1703. It tells the story of a forbidden love between a clerk Tokubei and a famous courtesan Ohatsu which ended in their suicide.

The latest in the Up series, which follows 13 Japanese children every seven years.

Two old pals lose their work as boatmen on the Elbe river. While down-to-earth Gero tries to get back on his feet, reckless Kowsky keeps gambling with friendship and life time and time again. For all that, they set out together from Dresden for Hamburg, hoping to find new work, a new love, a new life.

The Legend Arrives to Argentina to Tango!

The search for the Secret Book of the Bogomils brings Guy Chevalier (Thierry Fremont) to Macedonia. There, he is haunted by the spirit of the Gardian of the book and followed by unknown forces. Little by little, he starts loosing his mind and his identity.

A mental patient recounts the events of the night his wife was murdered.

Experience an adventure of counterculture, psychedelia, and an abundance of peace and love with Angeli’s beloved comic characters, the hippies Wood & Stock. As the euphoria of the 1970s fades, it's time to focus on family and work. However, a new rock band might just rekindle the spirit of those iconic years.

Tells the story of punk in the GDR.

Documentary filmed on the occasion of the “2003, Odyssey in Space Zero” operation inside the Spazio Zero Theater in Rome. The document, filmed between 21 October and 30 November 2003, recounts the representation of Fotofinish not as a single and continuous work, but as the evolution over time of the moods and movements of the actors who, replica after replica, have developed an awareness of the space and arrived at the joy of staging.

Koko, whose constitution improves her competitiveness when she soaks in hot springs, and Tamano, a plain virgin, are rivals about to compete in the Women's Shogi Championship. However, Tamano's skills improve after experiencing a man for the first time, putting Koko in a difficult position.

Ute Aurand films Maria Lang in her daily activity as she cares for her mother. The presence of the filmmaker is visible in the camera movements and in the editing rhythm. Admiration and discretion are sensed. We enter into the intimacy of mother and daughter through the eyes of a friend. The silent images create an occasion for attentive observation and balanced awareness.

A lonely man receives a baby in the middle of the night. He is ill prepared to care for this mysterious infant. He develops an attachment.

A home-movie portrait of an ordinary American family, taken over many years and framed in the porch of their house.

Two illegal Georgian immigrants struggle to get their lives together in Brooklyn, New York.

Examines how a team of doctors saved Ronald Reagan's life after an attempted assassination in 1981.

Filmed during the shooting of the Sin of Jesus 1960, this film includes Robert Frank, Dick Bellamy, Mary Frank, and others.

Concert film from The All-American Rejects an American rock band from Stillwater, Oklahoma, formed in 1999.

Tracy Morgan’s star continues to shine with several upcoming 2006 movie releases and a pilot for NBC, written by the Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. Tracy Morgan’s philosophy on Life, Love & Lust is hilariously captured in the highly anticipated upcoming DVD release. Tracy’s "over the top, in your face style" of standup performance featured in the upcoming Tracy Morgan: Life, Love & Lust DVD is sure to leave you asking "Did he really just say that?"

Two youngsters turn a game into a lesson on martial arts techniques in a fight that takes the form of a minimalistic cinematic duel.

April 2nd is the Autism Awareness Day and therefore Jacob Frey thought he'd share one of the first video projects he created. In 2006 Jacob Frey applied at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and as an application exercise had to create a video to "being locked in a room". His skillset back then was very limited and he just started to dive into video software. Even though Jacob Frey got accepted to their course he instead decided to gamble and wait for the application results at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg. Luckily he managed to get one of the few spots and started his path towards becoming an animator.

A character-rich portrait of life and love among late twentysomethings living and working in New York City.