Cinematic Era: 2006 Vintage

Okimura's take on the classic Sesame Street song "One of these things is not like the other".

A disused gas station offers a curious imperative to passersby: "SAVE." A riddle posed in the form of architecture: what is there to save? One more installment in the history of Americans pointing their cameras at gas stations; an attempt to figure out something about where we've been, where we're headed, and what's been left behind.

In the Summer of 2004, I traveled across Portugal to shoot my project: a road-movie about a country that can be crossed in six hours from north to south and just one hour and a half from east to west. The landscape I passed through was the post-Euro 2004 Portugal, with the provisional government of Santana Lopes about to take office. It is a country that still seems like the idea we all have of "our homeland", but which actually no longer corresponds to reality and is becoming almost unrecognizable, as in a postcard.

During 1924 and for the next two years, Claude Friese-Greene, filmmaker and cinematographer, embarked on an epic journey, and calling it The Open Road, which would bring the people and the lands of Great Britain together. From Land's End to Scotland's John O'Groats, and with his new and modern filming technique, that for once has the ability to film in colour. For the first time the people of England, and the world could see itself in colour. This modern-day retrospective looks back, and takes the same ride some eighty years later, reconnecting with past places and past memories. With its compare and contrast travelogue flavour, Dan Cruickshank, the British Film Institute and the BBC have revisited a journey of how we used to live and how, as a nation, have changed, since those glorious days of England's golden years. Wonderful colourful historical vision with its updated look into the past. Enchanting.

Mounir is a reserved and idle night watchman. On a very lonely night, he finds a strange manner of entering the life of Latifa, his pretty neighbour with whom he is secretly in love. The unusual means will turn him into the secret witness of Latifa's agitated life and will lead him to dangerous extremes of passion.

bonus feature on 'slaughtered vomit dolls' dvd.

Produced directed and narrated by Mark Skeete this is a must have DVD for Lil Jon and the East SideBoyz fans. This one of a kind documentary offers a fascinating entertaining and revealing look into Lil Jon and ESB s dirty south. From the southern club scene to mainstream radio to pop icons this Multi-Grammy Award winning producer and self proclaimed KING OF CRUNK mix it up like never before. They discuss the day to day grind during their days as an independent label and their life with TVT Records. Hear what Jon has to say about the business gettin money making beats fame and how he and the ESB got into the game. Also see the groupies the tour bus action the club fights and the back stage beat downs

Kiri Te Kanawa, Michael George, and a choir sing Christmas music, and in between selections, David Frost narrates a history of the Christmas carol.

Giuseppe is working on some new tracks. He seeks advice from Ed. Turd Cramp.

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.

Veeru (Pankaj) hailing from a downtrodden family is interested in studies. His father dies without clearing the debts of the village chieftain Mullayya (Prakash Heggodu). Mullayya does not allow the body to lift for cremation till his debts are cleared. In lieu of his loans he takes away Veeru to work as slave in the house till his father’s loan is cleared. This tragedy for Veeru’s mother Paru (Umasri) dips in misery. She works day and night with two more kinds to clear the loan of Mullayya so that her son Veeru is left free for education.

An Eastern-European sex-trafficking ring run by the Russian mob is exposed by a New York reporter while on assignment in Los Angeles covering an international sporting event. A love story with infuriating passion, "Fragments of Daniela" exposes the underbelly of a world most are not aware exists. More importantly, it indicates how this network stretches its tentacles accross the globe.

After a mysterious falling out with his father five years ago, Angelo, the favorite son, has not shown his face to the family. Arlene, being the eldest and the least favorite, takes upon herself the demanding task of taking care of their very sick father even while she tends to her own husband and children. Anne, the youngest, is single and pregnant with no one to turn to except her older sister.

This film presents a classic Herb Ellis performance from 1981, with Dave Maslow on bass. It also includes backstage interviews, biography, discography, and The Herb Ellis Signature 165s. Ellis, an excellent bop-based guitarist with a slight country twang to his sound, became famous playing with the Oscar Peterson Trio during 1953-1958.

This short but sweet film looks at the work of the renowned African artist whose photographs have documented Malian society over a forty-year period.

David is just breaking up and seeing his pitiful situation, his four friends - Once, Andi, Eddie, and Piyu - introduce him to the exciting singles life in Jakarta. Once, Andi and Eddie all have bitter romantic experiences so they choose to be single. On the other hand, Piyu, who falls in love and has a fiancee, lives only for love.

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.

Interstate, 2006, 10 min., Beta SP, Music: Stefan Németh

Discover the prayer that's changing lives! The Prayer of Jabez: Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request. I Chronicles 4:10 NIV Hidden deep within the Old Testament, the prayer of Jabez is the latest revelation to intrigue and inspire millions, while illuminating the life of one of the Bible's lesser-known figures. Through the remarkably practical and direct request of Jabez, can the power and protection of God begin enhancing your life now?

In the ancient ages, the Hebrew prophets predicted that before the advent of their promised Messiah, there would come specific signs that would signal the end of the age. Today those signs have become crystal clear. Join prophetic scholar Dr. Noah Hutchings and Ken Klein as they take you on a prophetic tour of the Holy Land, explaining 25 Messianic signs that point to the return of Christ.

A Donatello award nominated short film about two brothers travelling with their elderly father to a wedding. En route, old grudges rear their ugly head and neither realises just how poorly their father has become.

DC is proud to announce the premiere European Skate Collection, The European Collective. Inspired by the individual personalities and origin of each team rider on DC's European Skate Team, the range is comprised of a personalized shoe, New Era cap, and t-shirt for each rider.

Actors Franco Interlenghi and Rinaldo Smordoni (who played Pasquale and Giuseppe respectively) recall how they landed the roles in the film Shoeshine and their experiences as young actors in post-war Rome.

live session from Brazilian Artist Fernanda Porto

Three short plays, reflecting the megalomania and the insecurity, the arrogance and the pusillanimousness, the moralic standards and the real feeling of powerlesness, not only of Peymann but all theater directors, put on stage in a brilliantly satirical way. Produced by the Akademietheater Vienna.

Award winning short documentary that demonstrates women's problems in Afghanistan. The film consists of 3 parts: 1. The women who are self-immolating and the reasons of self-immolation. 2. Underage marriages. 3. Those sorts of women who are referring to attorney for solving their family problems.

A depressed man drinks and ponders his own mortality.

A Gold Student Academy Award winner, Rundown follows the events of a single evening as a fledgling TV anchorwoman, who has just killed someone in a hit and run, covers the news and covers up her crime.

Darkness and light, as seen by VIFF’s favourite Buddhist erotist. Part of the TOKYO LOOP animation anthology produced by ImageForum Japan.

Live concert video

Documentary

Short film that was later expanded into a feature film with the same name.

What happened, really, on June 26th, 2002 at the Pueyrredón Bridge cut? How do the newsrooms of the main newspapers in the country work? Why didn't the media publish the photographic sequence after the repression? How far does journalists' responsibility go? Through these questions, the film reconstructs and analyzes the events that occurred in the Avellaneda Massacre, the government's political bosses, and the documentation of the information by the mainstream media.

Manuel Franco, Manolita's father, has died. Mother and daughter decide to cook their favourite dish to celebrate it; a tasty liver steak. When the child goes to get the meat she realized that the butcher's is close. Convinced that she have to arrive home with the dinner she decided to pay the last visit to her dead father.

Mind The Gap shows freeskiing filming at it´s highest level yet including th most spectacular follow-cam filming seen anywhere. With the feeling of gliding through the air, "skifilm" capture Charles Gagnier as he does a huge 900 tail grab at Breckenridge while Candide lives up to his big reputation doing an amazing 630 to rail. J on Olsson does his new kangaroo flip and Andreas Haatveit does a 270 on to an incredibly long 43 step street rail. JF Houle does an amazing 70meter bio 9 mute while Grete Eliassen and Michelle Parker lay down for girls and Sweeden´s 14 year old new comer Henrik Harlaut shows his emerging talent. Andreas Haatveit, after last year´s record high trick at June mountain, again provides a spectacular sequence doing 900 on an incredible 35 meter gap from an 8 meter kicker while the camera crew follow him right across the 35m gap, up close, in one of the most amazing ski film shots ever seen.

The LA Sisters are outrageous, controversial, always fabulously dressed men and women who feel they are called to minster to the community as 21st century nuns.

A documentary focused on Melbourne's music scene around the year 2006. Features bands such as HTRK, The Stabs, Cosmic Psychos, Rod Cooper, and Love of Diagrams.

This short film portrays a life-changing three minutes in the life of Susan, who wakes up from a night of partying to find her world a very different place from which she remembered.

La cambiale di matrimonio (The Bill of Marriage or The Marriage Contract) is a one-act operatic farsa comica by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The libretto was based on the play by Camillo Federici (1791) and a previous libretto by Giuseppe Checcherini for Carlo Coccia's 1807 opera, Il matrimonio per lettera di cambio. The opera debuted on 3 November 1810 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice Composed in a few days when he was 18 years old, La cambiale di matrimonio was Rossini's first professional opera. The overture, written when he was a student at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, is an important part of the modern concert repertoire. As was to become typical of his later career, the duet "Dunque io son" was later reused, to greater effect, in act 1 of The Barber of Seville

The old tailor, Yolan, just released from an Iranian prison, sets out in search of the village in Turkey where he was born. By his side is Ozal, a 9-year old boy. Together they wander through the mountains of Eastern Anatolia and discover a country whose realities are as fabulous as they are simple.

Stop-motion and live action dance film. A collaborative project between dancer/choreographer/performance artist Nikki Rollason and filmmaker/artist Clifton Childree.

An investigation into Cuban leader Fidel Castro's role in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy

The shortest thriller of the world in less than 5mn.Découvrez the plot of this revival thrillers of the 40s / The Black 50.L'inspectur it will stop you plush killer?

"Ten Years In Hell" contains the seven classic official Annihilator music videos offstage band footage and bonus underground fan-shot live performances. Plus a special interview with Annihilator founder and guitarist Jeff Waters as he recounts his memories of the band's first ten years in Hell. Also includes special appearances by original co-lyricist John Bates Neverland front man Coburn Pharr Criteria bassist Russell Bergquist and Set The World On Fire's Mike Mangini and Neil Goldberg. A must have for all fans of Annihilator and Thrash Metal!

This DVD package showcases two of Russell Peters' sold-out shows - Show Me The Funny and Comedy Now! Move over Howie, Jim, Tom and Mike - Peters is Canada's next big thing. NOW Magazine says, "He's controversial, silly, cerebral, profane, eloquent, a fine mimic, purposefully self-effacing and proves time after time his ability to whip up a crowd.

Bootleg Recorded in Paris - 2006

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This story traces the complex and fascinating drama of the anti-apartheid movement in one of South Africa's most important allies, the United States. The US is a key battleground, with African-Americans at the center of the struggle. The campaigns take place in boardrooms, universities, embassies, and finally in the US Congress itself, where a stunning victory is won against the formidable opposition of President Ronald Reagan. African-Americans, for the first time in history, have turned the tide and altered the direction of US foreign policy. The US, once the backbone of support for the apartheid regime as her ally in the Cold War, finally imposes sanctions on Pretoria. This is part 4 of a 6 part series on the global anti-apartheid movements, stretching from 1946-1990.

A screwball comedy about two lesbians and the unlikely character that threatens to come between them.

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

John Palmentario is desperate not to follow in his father's footsteps... NOT to make the same mistakes. At 34, John looks back on his life as a paid thug who won't kill or carry a gun and realizes that his life is not such a far cry from that of his father's. John buys a ring and tells his best friend he's ready to quit and marry his girlfriend. Stunned, he convinces John to do just 2 more jobs so that he can get settled but John's life is suddenly turned around with the appearance of a mysterious stranger. Can John make the choices to change his life, or is it BRED IN THE BONE?

On May 27, 2006, 05:55 a.m., Yogyakarta was shocked by earthquake of 5.9 SR that killed over 6,000 people. That day was ten days before elementary school students did final examination and fourteen days before World Cup 2006.

Documentary giving a devastating insight into the lives of 4 alcoholics and the people who care for them.

After marital law is declared, the Florida Militia shoot a looter who turns out to be the grandson of a voodoo queen. When the militia members don't return to base, a rescue team is sent into the swamp to locate them. But they are unaware that the power of voodoo and a woman who wants revenge is what waits for them.

Chasing the Touge takes you inside the world of canyon racing where adrenaline junkies race through the "touge," or mountain passes, pushing their cars and driving abilities to the limit. Follow drifters, rally racers, and tuners who run the canyons as they aspire to break into the world of professional motorsports. Experience the sights and sounds of pushing triple digits downhill on twisty mountain roads and get a taste of why these people risk their lives running the touge. From midnight runs to drifting and rally racing, Chasing The Touge holds nothing back. It is all about you vs. the mountain. How far can you push it without going over the edge?

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.

The feature-length documentary Blood and Oil – The Middle East in World War I exposes the Western greed and political intrigue which laid the foundation for wars, coups, revolts, oppressive dictators and military interventions in today’s Middle East. Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, modern Turkey and other hot spots are born as the British and French divide the “fruits of victory” in World War.