Cinematic Era: 2008 Vintage

Second "Kai" film in Junji Inagawa's "The Most Fearful Stories" series.

The impossible love story between an aging writer who discovers he has a fatal disease and a young woman who studies flamenco.

Finnish singer songwriter J. Karjalainen creates a new artist character called Lännen-Jukka. As Lännen-Jukka he goes to the USA to find the origin of Finnish American folkmusic. He meets Finnish Americans and performs with them and to them.

A group of store clerks get stuck working Christmas Eve at Xmas-O-Rama.

A Tibetan girl, who’d be a bride, could sing the traditional folk song Ganglamedo magically and elegantly. Her name was the same as the name of the song. But she disappeared in the night of her wedding. 60 years later, An Yu, a singer of Han nationality, became hot for singing Ganglamedo. But she lost her voice in a performance and then she disappeared, too. Is Ganglamedo a beautiful curse?

Written, directed and produced by independent filmmaker Young Antonio, this gritty urban tale centers on the bullet-riddled exploits of a group of hard-core thugs and a crime spree that launches an all-out war in the streets of Newark, N.J. J.D. Williams of HBO's "The Wire" joins a cast made up of a host of noteworthy hip-hop personalities, including Naughty by Nature's Treach, the Outlawz' Hussein Fatal and 3LW's Naturi Naughton.

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

Alvaro is gay, but he has a girlfriend to disguise it. The idea of her discovering his lack of desire makes him anxious. The next day, at the neighborhood swimming pool, playing soccer with his friends...

After observing his strange behavior, wealthy, self-obsessed socialite Meriam is convinced her son Edric is gay. Edric's friend Ry convinces him to frame a photo from a magazine and pretend that he has a girlfriend. The photo he chooses turns out to be up-and-coming model Shareefa, and Meriam sets out to find the girl to find out if she is an appropriate match. Meanwhile, Shareefa has three other suitors after her- Daus, a con artist who is already married to a hugely obese wealthy woman, Kiwil, the con artist's assistant, and a socially inept admirer who keeps trying to find a way to give her a rose.

A young man visits a church, only to find a parishioner whom he doesn't approve of.

Short documentary revealing how the sound effects were created for Maddin's film "Brand Upon the Brain".

Easy-to-learn propositions and challenges to astound, impress and win you drink after drink. Alex Conran, Jessica Clement and Paul Wilson (of the Real Hustle) demonstrate a selection of startling and astonishing bar bets and challenges. Looking to get out of your round down the local? Scamming a drink from a bar full of strangers? Or just getting your own back on that uncle who never bought you a present? Alex, Jess and Paul show you a series of classy, easy-to-learn challenges using everyday items from wine glasses to bank notes, playing cards to eggs. The experts perform these proposition bets in a real bar, up against real punters. Facing an expensive round at the bar their "marks" are determined to win the bet - and even when they inevitably fail, the viewer still gets the chance to rise to the challenge. Then, in close-up, with slow motion sequences, they explain just how it's done - Perfect for you to practice and cash-in by bamboozling your mates on your next night out!

A young couple, Kalene and Roman Rice, move into a new home while they anxiously await the birth of their first child. But things are not as they seem in their beautiful new house. Soon, Kalene becomes troubled by nightmares and feelings of being cold. Then, she discovers that the house has a death curse and that a woman was murdered on the grounds twenty years before it was built. Since then, every couple who dwells there must face the unspeakable evil. Will Kalene and Roman become victims in this house of madness and mayhem?

Gombo, a young boy, lives in a tiny village on the banks of Lake Baikal in the Buryat Republic. He dawdles on his way home from school and doesn't get back to nightfall. No one is at home but sweets have been left next to a Buddha shrine on the wall. As he is about to steal one he hears a voice.

Concert film includes footage of her February 2007 "Minami Kuribayashi Live Tour 2007 fantastic arrow" performance at the Nakano Sun Plaza.

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Interview with actress Jenny Agutter concerning her performance in Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film WALKABOUT.

A timid and sensitive man quits his 9-5 job to pursue his dream of becoming a watercolor painter. However, his neighbors and love will not agree with his new endeavor.

As punishment for fighting with a superior officer, Grigory Vlasov is exiled to a small unit located in the Urals, where almost everything is led by women. However, the heart of the exiled major has not yet recovered after the last romance, so he ignores flirting of local ensigns until the beautiful Natalya, the leader of the local women, warms his frozen heart. But office romances are not welcome in the army ...

A team of an entrepreneur, an athlete and a student from Taiwan arrived in the Arctic Circle. Through their participation in the 2008 Polar Challenge – a 600 km race to the Magnetic North Pole, they’ve realized their dreams. They experienced hypothermia and attack from polar bears en route.

Most societies consider incest to be the ultimate taboo. Yet, a strange phenomenon called ‘Genetic Sexual Attraction’ has been known to affect adults who meet long-lost blood relatives for the first time. This program features several brother/sister couples (along with one mother/son couple) who’ve developed sexual relationships and insist on maintaining them in spite of pressure from society and, sometimes, criminal prosecution.

As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter losses and, according to Praunheim, lesbian women have now placed themselves at the head of the so-called queer movement. The female protagonists in the film represent two different generations; they also incorporate the past and present status of homosexuals in society.

Enrico Russo rapes and slaughters children. A magistrate, a policeman and a psychiatrist try to arrest him, but it’s too difficult to identify a cancer that hides itself behind a normal life. Then, one day, Enrico meets Andrea, a 7 year old child, and falls in love with him. He wants to be Andrea’s good father, the good father he himself never had. But his emotional delirium isn’t able to hold back his animal instinct. By pure ‘chance’, the detectives find the monster in the act of his last execution. On time?

Two outcasts, a suicide bomber and an Israeli girl, fall in love during a desperate weekend in Tel Aviv.

Go beyond the mystery and discover the first serial killer to reveal the dark underbelly of London's Victorian East End. Investigate one of the most talked about criminals of all time - Jack the Ripper. Take a walk down the streets that Jack once stalked and visit the pubs and brothels his victims frequented. Computer graphics and expert examination will help to recreate life as seen through the eyes of one of the most infamous and blood thirsty murderers in recorded history.

When the adult survivor of sexual abuse meets her lover, she struggles to remain present. She must remember that the hands of her lover are not the hands of her childhood abuser, and so, the separation between past and present begins to blur. Narrative and experimental, "Blue Covers" is an emotional, psychological and spiritual journey. A compelling look at the effects of sexual trauma, this short film is for survivors of abuse and those who care for them.

Swing, Sing and Think is a chronicle of the young French pianist David Fray's recording sessions of three of Bach's famous clavier concertos. Each chapter features a few minutes of Fray at home in Paris explicating his interpretation of the score at his piano, followed by rehearsal and recording sessions he conducts with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, one of the finest chamber orchestras in Europe.

Two car thieves get into an argument as the alarm goes off. For several minutes they continue to argue when they should be making tracks.

Max Pavlov - talented, confident and a little ... desperate. He does not like ordinary life and quiet work. Max is an extreme climber who single-handedly conquered the peaks of the Pamirs and the Himalayas. He is successful in business and in love, loyal to his girlfriend Marina. He has a best friend and partner - Lyokha.

A coming of age story about fourteen year old Hanna and her full of romance summer.

An adaptation of the opera 'The Eternity Man'

Two inseparable friends, Pepe and Víctor, fall in love the same girl, Patricia. Bibiana, is a woman of career, who meets obliged to choose between the success and the maternity. Sandra, a faithful wife, finally dares to face the infidelity of his husband. Arturo, a homosexual neighbour, shelters a secret. Matilde doubts about the sexuality of her son. A reflection in key of comedy, on the life and his circumstances, where the hopes and dreams converge on a supermarket of neighborhood.

A film about a generation of four friends who grew up together in Sarajevo. They are the friends of filmmaker Lidija Zelovic-Goekjian, now living scattered across the world. What has happened to them over the past 13 years: how did they survive the war, how do they live now, how do they look back on their former lives, on Sarajevo, and on their old friends?

Ravi and Jaggu are friends who are good for nothing and get kicked out of their houses. Hilarious events follow when a politician sends them on a mission to get a secret code from two girls.

This film documents the youth groups personalities, interests and what they like to do for fun. It also highlights important and relevant issues facing young travellers and their peers in East Cork and Cork City. A film the by the Connect Youth Project. Directed and filmed by the members of the Connect Youth Project in East Cork.

Stolen Kosovo is a Czech language documentary by director Václav Dvořák (b. 1948), about the Serbian–Albanian conflict in Kosovo. The documentary describes the situation, first in a short overview of the history of the area, followed by the 1990s conflicts and bombing of Serbia by NATO forces in 1999 and ending with the situation after the Kosovo War. The documentary focuses on the 1990s in the time of Slobodan Milošević's rule as well as on numerous interviews of Serbian civilians and, less, of Albanian insurgents against the Milošević regime.

A striking interpretation of Mozart's opera that became a sensation at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. This is not only a rethinking of the place and time of the opera, but also a deep disclosure of the characters' characters, their ambiguous inner world. A simple, at first glance, plot is turned by the creators of the play into a dynamic psychological thriller.

A camping weekend, takes a left turn when college seniors encounter an evil from the past. The evil spirit of the explorer Marco Polo makes their next 24 hours hell on earth.

A young gay man who's recently lost his lover to a hate crime faces the same situation from the other perspective.

Forced to move to Florida with his eccentric parents in order to establish a stereotypical Mexican restaurant, a young teen, Carson Lind, must confront them when he begins to suspect that there is an eerie presence in their old historic Spanish Casa.

The 50 year struggle between rock pioneers and powerful business/government interests for the soul of music radio, told by America's favorite deejays and the artists they made rock stars.

A look at the year in the life of R&B musician Andre Williams.

New Horizons was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH). It took place on July 26, 2008 from the Michigan State Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Detroit, Michigan, and was first aired on September 26.

Documenting the shadowy world of illegal trade that in this era of globalization spans the entire planet with a growing web of criminal networks. Counterfeiting is not just about knock-off brand handbags or pirated DVDs; these global supply chains also carry much more dangerous items: drugs, weapons, fake pharmaceuticals, knock-off car and airline parts, and more.

In a dark room illuminated by flashes from the screen, we hear a son pleading for his mother to return home. An experimental-style video touching on families separated by working conditions, Daddy was screened at The Substation’s First Take 2010 and competed at the Very Short International Film Festival.

Watchmaker Erika Backström runs the family business with an iron hand. But her life is turned upside down when she meets the gardener Otto during a short stay at a castle hotel.

Man-eating body doubles and predatory party girls stalk the suburban streets of Melbourne in three taboo-defying tales dredged from the heads of Australian creative team Pleasant Productions. The collection opens with the traumatic story of an elderly lady who picks the wrong party to crash, moves to a fantasia about a practical joker and his disturbed doppelganger, and ties it all up with the tale of a guy looking for love at the Snuff Machine.

The story of hopelessness, which is independent and politics. Symbolic little people are faced with the absurdly large accelerated world. Resolutely themselves taken up the challenge, bravely struggling against fate ...

UNIVERSALOVE is a global love story. Six episodes in six different places of the world are told in a symbiosis of modern story-telling and popular music. UNIVERSALOVE is an experiment - a global love story. The interwoven storylines are located in Brooklyn, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Belgrade, Marseille and Luxembourg. The laconic narrative style captures moments that set the viewer on a journey around the globe and deep into the emotional worlds of very different characters affiliated with different cultural spheres and languages.

A documentary about Soulwax: Director Saam Farahmand filmed Soulwax on their recent international dates, capturing all the excitement, chaos and humour of the world tour. Where the Beastie Boys filmed one gig with 50 cameras, Soulwax filmed 120 shows with one camera, in Europe, Japan, US, Latin America and Australia. The result is a snapshot of life on the road with one of the most exciting live bands in the world, and features their friends including 2manyDJ's, James Murphy & Nancy Whang (LCD Soundsystem), Erol Alkan, Tiga, Justice, Busy P, So-Me, Peaches, Klaxons and many more in interview, as well as behind-the-scenes footage, and LOTS of music.

Taking language, the most important means of social interaction as his starting point, Mellors has created a visual spectacle which leads the viewer through the various phases of a script. As theatrical as it is absurd, the script relates the course of an expedition that set out in the year 1213. A band of starving explorers is trapped within a giant's body. Sent off by his followers the group's spiritual leader, The Father, attempts to find a way out through the giant's entrails. The Father returns to the group 'born-again', having survived by cannibalism and coprophagia (eating faeces). He 'recycles' himself and becomes potentially everlasting. This leads to reflections on his ontological situation and has bad implications for his followers as he becomes increasingly cultish and manipulative, claiming the group is not lost inside the body of a Giant, but inside the bowels of God...

The residents are busy with the preparations for the school musical. Among the collected chests they find an ancient Inca treasure: The Grail of Eternal Friendship. Noa accidentally liberates the spirit that resides in this grail and gets stuck inside a painting. One by one they meet the same fate. Only by solving the riddles and fulfilling dangerous assignments can the mysterious curse be undone. But is their friendship strong enough?