Cinematic Era: 2006 Vintage

A documentary on the Russian Koreans. The lives of 8 individuals of Korean descent all of whom share the name Victor Tsoy, which is also the name of the biggest Russian rock star of the 1980s, are explored.

College Freshman Gil realizes that he is more likely to find love in the bottom of the ocean than in a classroom.

The Who perform at the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo during the summer of 2006.

A story about an extraordinary 11 year old boy and his community.

Documenting the influence of Japan on the American Media and it's worth.

A young man living in Dar es Salaam meets an old man who takes him in as his son and eventually sends him off to Nigeria to look for his three children. The only link to finding them is a set of negative films and an address. The story is about his adventures in a foreign land and how he finally meets them and reunites them with their father.

West Side Connection delivers again with a Wake-flick worthy of a sequel! Delta Session II (produced by Jason Buffalow and Sean Branecki) surpasses your expectations with professional level talent and big-budget quality in a regional video. Every aspect Delta Sessions has improved this time around starting with film quality, inspiring camera angles, fantastic cinematography, and most importantly, the stepped-up technical riding! DS2, The Summer of Style, has something for everyone. The West Side Connection team brought the regional riders you would expect, with the addition of a few Florida guests back to the Delta.

Remix of previously unreleased material by Guy Maddin.

Two friends meet, drink and try to sleep with women.

A daily newspaper is in a huge crisis. Keszeg, the editor in chief charges his best journalist, Rezso to find a recently kidnapped accountant, who worked for the local mob before. Keszeg expects that this guy can debunk many famous politician very easily. Andras is a bung and alcoholic character, but he's the only one who can help Rezso on his desperate search. Rezso and Andras doesn't like each other, but they're forced to liaise for the purpose. This is only a one day story, because the evening and the deadline are approaching.

Plehouse Films is proud to announce its fourth 16mm film, Skimatic, the eagerly anticipated follow up to 2005s White Shine. Escape with us as we take you around the globe on a quest to discover the different cultures that surround skiing. People, mountains and breathtaking scenery will be the backdrop to the best newschool skiing offered by the elite athletes of the freeskiing world such as Phil Belanger, Phil Larose, Charles Gagniers, JF Houle, Josh Bibby, Woddie Bouma and Laurent Favre. Skimatic will be a travel document a freeskiing film and an insight into what drives pro-skiers to live their lifestyle, all captured through engaging film and video.

Recorded Live at The Mean Fiddler, London, England.

Two disk documentary presented by Oregon Public Broadcasting about the birds of Oregon. Disk one is an overview of bird species. Disk two is an overview of bird habitats and the people working to conserve and enhance them.

Three youths in a supermarket, trying to waste their time. The game they play is to tell a story's missing beginning, but the story told might hold more truth than fiction. One girl, two guys. That is one too much. So naturally there is mistrust, murder, suicide and some supermarket shopping.

Thomas, a young programmer, leads an uneventful life. He suffers under his irascible boss and spends his lonely evenings watching videos. However, his monotonous life changes when he meets Tamara at the video store, who brings new color into his life with her open and warm-hearted nature. Despite initial difficulties, a loving romance develops between the two.

A mexican filmmaker brings his movie to a Latin American festival. The problem is that the movie is spoken in english and the copy comes without subtitles in spanish. The reaction of the participants, press and jury is not expected.

Yu Guangyi's stunning debut explores a grueling winter amongst loggers in Northeast China as they employ traditional practices through one last, fateful expedition. For generations, the lumberjacks of Heilongjiang, China have made their living harvesting timber amidst a barren, wintry landscape. These woodcutters confront the elements, living in makeshift cabins surrounded by snow and ice. Hand tools, sleds and horses are the only technology they employ to drag massive trees down the perilous slopes of Black Bear Valley. At constant risk of injury and death, they attempt to appease the mountain gods with ancient rituals and sacrifices. Despite their heroic efforts to subsist, the deforestation caused by their decades-long customs may lead to their ultimate demise.

Independently-produced horror anthology.

Soldiers in cars drive around the city day and night, erasing or covering with paint any drawing on the wall, even one that does not have political overtones. But for two “spontaneous protestors” - a writer who is refused to be published, and a young artist-photographer, whose art is also now not in honor, a kind of exchange of painted messages becomes the meaning of their existence in an era that seems to be not conducive to creativity.

A lonely exchange student meets and falls in passionate love with a dancer. A girl who falls into madness when she learns her lover is going home to make his life.

Sam Peckinpah's younger sister Fern Lea Peter recalls days from their childhood and details about the Peckinpah family. Footage of her interview is intercut with scenes from Peckinpah's movies and the landscape of the area of California where he grew up. Fern Lea draws parallels between members of the Peckinpah family and characters in Peckinpah's 1962 feature, "Ride the High Country."

A young couple with Downs Syndrome are on their first date out at a restaurant.

Darryl Nepinak documents his mother as she teaches him and shares stories of how she learned how to make Bannock. A step by step way of teaching others about what is Bannock and how to make it.

Cops busting a riot, men having sex, optically-printed abstract forms: a dialectical struggle between desire and repression, black and white, yes and no.

Husband and wife dance couple separate when she pursues a career overseas. He stays behind to raise their daughter with his mother.

Men and women, all dressing up, awaiting, tempting, enjoying the bliss or sadly unsuccessful. Delights of the body, yearning, excitement, luxury, decadence, erotic of the common day. The erotic as frivolous, mischievous, frolic, comic and sometimes also slightly serious animated musical erotic fantasy. Much like the modern dance art, the film is marked by interplay of the visual and musical components – picture, rhythm, color, motion. The film consists of separate sequences, each of them accompanied by individual musical movements of Mr. Saint-Saens’s compo­sition.

After semi-truck driver Teri Horton bought a large splatter painting for her friend for $5, she was forced to sell it in her own garage sale when her friend said she had no place for it. Eventually someone commented on the painting stating it might be an original Jackson Pollock. This documentary follows Teri, her son, and a forensics specialist as they attempt to prove to the world, or more specifically the art community, her painting is a true Jackson Pollock

The morbid passion of a mysterious man, or just a friendly neighbour who takes great pride in his toolshed?

A psychic documentary that introduces ghost photos submitted by ordinary users and explores the haunting truth behind them.

Dennis O'Sullivan is a 40 year old depressed widower who is wasting his life drinking and watching videos of his dead wife. One day on the computer he meets a shadowy Nigerian named Barrister Albert who informs him that he is inheriting a fortune from a great uncle who has perished in a tragic accident in Africa. When the Barristers Niece shows up in New Jersey to meet Dennis his life is changed more than he could have imagined.

Orson Welles Biographer Simon Callow discusses the making of "Mr. Arkadin" (aka "Confidential Report.")

A short feature-documentary film dedicated to the bright memory of Andrey Tarkovsky - the great master of world cinema. In 1965 A. Tarkovsky visited Armenia, Geghardavank. It is hard to say what he has been looking for and what he has seen there. Fortunately has fixed (on occasion) several frames (6min., 35mm, b/w) from the visit of the greatest master in Geghardavank. Anyway, such frames provide an opportunity for connecting the past and the present by making new shootings and fulfilling the "gaps" which have been missed by the camera 45 years ago. What is the ideology? Indeed, what was Andrey Tarkovsky looking for at the church of the XIII century in such a rocky place? Probably, he was looking for God. ... because nothing else is significant in Geghardavank and around. Only the presence of God is felt in that place.

a young man faces a horrible dilemma: help his dad with the daily yard sale, or help his mom secure her trailer home. The catch? In order to satisfy his mother, he has to kill his father! (After School Specials cut of Wiggly Harris)

The sixth documentary in the Jordbro suite. The "children" are now around 40 years old. Old and new footage together forms a portrait of a whole generation.

The film tells the story of Wilhelm Brasse - a pre-war portrait photographer, participant and witness of the most tragic chapters of 20th century history. "Portraitist" is the story of a photographer whose work became a curse and salvation at the same time during the war. Photography was Wilhelm Brasse's lifelong passion, and he had already learned its technical and artistic secrets before the war. He worked in a large atelier on the main street of Katowice, where he was famous for his beautiful portraits. At the time, he didn't even imagine that he would soon be making several thousand portraits a month. Brasse ended up in a special reconnaissance commando of the Political Department, known as the camp Gestapo. Here, under the supervision of the SS, he kept a photographic record of the camp from its inception to evacuation.

The Pinoy vampire - a bloodthirsty Aswang - stalks the streets of Quezon City in search of fresh victims while attempting to stay one step ahead of a dangerous human predator. Gruesome and grisly murders are our entry point into the psyche of the Aswang of Quezon City. More a meditation on the workings of a disturbed mind than a detective thriller, it nonetheless shows us a cat and mouse mind game. We watch and squirm in terror as the Pinoy vampire strikes again and again.

The last month of the oldest store in the Little Italy section of New York City. It is a portrait of the Rossi family, of the neighborhood that used to be, and of the way the city changes in a blink of an eye. The tiny store contains small treasures belonging to a part of Italy that does not exist anymore - not even in Italy.

A documentary about the painting of a portrait of Elizabeth II.

One guy films himself walking in the dark to a friends house only to realize no one's home

It's been almost a year since Alexandra and Andrei haven't seen each other. He fulfilled his dream and became a famous actor, she has become, since taking over Grigore Varlam's company, a recognized businesswoman and threw herself desperately into work to forget and leave everything behind. Mihai is expecting a child with Maia and, head over heels in love with his wife, is far too preoccupied with his family to help Alexandra. As a result she has hired an assistant, Gabriel Duma, a man always ready to help her. She does not notice his advances and treats him as a friend and colleague.

The German actor Manfred Zapatka broadcasts in full, in an unusual reading form, the two sermons of the imam of the Hamburg mosque Mohammed Fazazi delivered in January 2000.

From July 2, 1952 to April 7, 1953, Ramón Gaya made several visits to Venice. In those days he was making entries in his diary. Almost fifty years later, in 1990, Murcia, Ramón Gaya read for some friends some of his notes about Venice, which were part of his book Diary of a Painter, published in 1984 by the Pre-Textos publishing house. This short is a tribute to the thoughts of Ramón Gaya and to that emotional reading, and also to that mysterious city that “is not just a city, a place, but an existence.”

mtvU—MTV's college network—spent over a year documenting the journey of Roller Palace from concept to completed pilot. Camera crews followed students from Boston University's Department of Film and Television and School of Theater Arts as they developed, wrote, starred in, produced, and edited the sitcom pilot.

The story of a young man who does not understand what he says or does. At least that's what he says.

The three parts of the documentary are connected by the scenery of the Boka Kotorská bay and the human will on a mountain trail. Three men hike along the narrow paths on steep slopes above the coastline. The camera follows their steps and without words or music, the film asks about the purpose of their walk. A man's paces are counted by the tower clockwork. In the Watchman episode, the second man descends to the coast to night-watch a bankrupt factory. In Smoke, the third man sets fire to the last inhabited house in a mountain village.

This documentary observes the conversations, primping and camaraderie that take place in the women's bathroom of a nightclub over the course of a night.

Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank, the stars of AMERICAN MOVIE, host George Romero's classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD from lawn chairs parked in a suburban front yard on the northwest side of Milwaukee.

This exquisitely shot film takes us on the hypnotic voyage of a beautiful young woman through a playful and sensual collage of broken dreams.

On the eve of the school ball, Sebastian and Philip get more than they bargained for.

In this rockin' performance filmed live at the Orange Peel in Asheville, N.C., in September 2005, one of America's most lionized alternative country bands, Son Volt, takes the stage. Ranging from quiet folk and country ballads to energetic roadhouse rock, the 31 tracks add up to more than two hours of classic Son Volt, Jay Farrar and Uncle Tupelo standards. Special features include a new interview with Farrar.

Starring Macy Gray, Rickey Mino, and Bob Ezrin. In order to break the boring mold of their everyday lives, a group of twentysomething girls enters a high-stakes karaoke competition.

Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Michael Wood explores the scientific life of the remarkable man.

Starring Jereme Rogers, Torey Pudwill, Justin Shulte, Lamar Hemmings, Eli Reed, Daryl Angel, and many more friends.