Cinematic Era: 2008 Vintage

He is a miner, everyday tries to go with the river flow. She dreams of escaping too, but she’s trapped...

A father and son reunite ten years after switching bodies.

The stopped time of the entrerriana siesta. The songs of a woman like suspension bridges. A lost foreigner with desire to be. A day, an encounter. Almost like a documentary, the film introduces to us in this place; a news article to the Earth, the landscape; where a small one, but deep fiction history is shown with simplicity, the intensity and the love of the rural atmosphere that contains it.

There's an uncompromising clarity to Blu-ray audio and video that really does bring the splendour of grand opera right into the living room. So it's all the more frustrating to get a compromised production as the final product. Jules Massenet's 1894 tragedy about a sex goddess humbled by an insistent Cenobite monk isn't produced very often, because of a demanding lead role and some difficult staging issues. But the music is gorgeous from beginning to end. When you have a great diva at centre stage, the three acts go by in a flash.

A meteor is heading to the Earth and it will be destroyed in 90 seconds.

How does the Vatican finance its conservative propaganda? What are the background and ideology of Pope Benedict XVI? Can we still consider Italy as a secular State? This documentary tries to answer these questions, and pays tribute to Alfredo Ormando, who burnt himself to death in January 1998 in St. Peter Square to protest against the homophobia of the catholic hierarchies.This film also investigates the privileges of the Vatican. Furthermore, The Vatican Rules explores the thorny debate about the draft law on civil unions that troubled Italy in 2007.

A couple’s relationship is narrated through their memories as Flashbacks.

Ah Shui returns with her sister to a remote mountain village in Hunan (Western China) by car(an S.U.V.) and remembers episodes of her life that are related to a water project. Despite being a foggy and sometimes rainy area water is scarce and poverty is omnipresent.

The making of the album, Pretty. Odd. by the band, Panic! At The Disco.

An Australian woman is haunted by her mother's past love-life in Paris, and decides to visit the magical city.

Secret number... secret shape... knower of the secret name... God of the realm of night - I summon you, 'Son of Sin'... arise!

Something in the Water explores the rock phenomenon that is music in WA. How can the most isolated city in the world have exploded with so many successful bands over the years? Across decades and genres, Something in the Water asks "what is responsible for the sparkling talent pool?"

The movie depicts the last days of life of photographer Gabriela Liffschitz, who went into a coma the following day after the shooting and died two days later, on February 13, 2004, as a result of breast cancer. Liffschitz, who knew that he was affected by a terminal breast cancer film project along with Enrique Piñeyro, assuming you had a few months to live.

Chip and Ovi met in an orphanage near the city of Kluj-Napoca in Romania during their teenage years. Ovi was born with disabilities in his arms and Chip has a severely damaged leg from polio. Both were abandoned shortly after birth to be raised in the care of the state. Despite their difficult situation, they dare to dream big: Chip wants to be an oilman in Texas and Ovi a professional cameraman. With humor and charm, they struggle to overcome their disabilities, social discrimination and poverty while dealing with the inevitable ups-and-downs of their relationship.

Judge Judy Sheindlin, a former judge from New York, tackles real-life small claims cases with her no nonsense attitude in which damages of no more than $5,000 can be awarded. Also by her side is bailiff Petri Hawkins-Byrd who keeps order in the court. Then after a case is closed, the defendant and plaintiff briefly confront each other outside the courtroom.

This 2008 version of Puccini's LA RONDINE (The Swallow) features acclaimed conductor Carlo Rizzi and polished theatre-direction from Graham Vick, recorded at the Teatro La Fenice, in Venice.

Set in the 1970s, Tart tells the story of Seán, an Alzheimer’s patient, who is remembering his life through flashbacks.

Intrepid adventurer Hank Danger races to discover the location of the legendary Fountain of Death! Along the way he battles a sly traitor, a seductive vampire jungle queen, a tribe of jungle warrior women, and an assortment of ferocious monsters!

The first short by Ali Abbasi, a fiction shot during his studies at The National Film School of Denmark.

A young circus performer spends five solitary days carting a horse across the wintry Hungarian landscape in this Neorealist documentary short.

Signos (1984) is a Super 8mm film documentary that was a true product of its time, a collaboration by film artists and writers, who, in spite of varying political persuations, were united by one common goal – ousting the reviled Marcos regime. It features interviews of courageous personalities who challenged the autocratic rule of the Marcos family.

Taking sauna is the Finnish people's national obsession, so there are two of the per five Fins, and they build theme everywhere, even on military operations and aboard vessels, but preferably near a lake, to dive in even on ice days, with trees to cut whisking birches from. Weekly, usually on Saturday, is considered a hygienic minimum, daily the good life, especially in summer and holidays. It's a family and/or social activity, relaxing and removing social barriers, but also linked to sports and all kinds of bonding.

Six-year-old Andong is obsessed, and nothing, not even his mother’s disapproval and constant nagging can help curve his, somewhat, persistent infatuation. So it didn’t come out as a surprise to anyone, when, one fateful day, the precocious little boy went into a mad frenzy over the prospect of, finally, landing the, much-coveted, love-of-his-life. or a poor boy who only yearned for one thing - and nothing more, in his life, this break was, without a doubt, the answer to all of his prayers. Now, if only he can convince his mother to give him twenty pesos. It was harder than he thought.

Despite record salmon runs in the state of Alaska, wild salmon fisherman struggle to stay afloat in the flooded salmon markets of the world. This documentary is a journey aboard an alaskan salmon seining vessel, exploring the lifestye and adventure of a dying breed of men, the last of hunters and gatherers who dare to take on monther nature to earn a living.

Sequel to The Night Shift.

When Staniel, an assassin's assistant, takes on a job solo it has unintended consequences for himself and his boss, Red Cobra.

A man who is so pathologically careful that he ends up making one of the worst mistakes any human can make.

Precarious Lives mixes archival footage of women’s labour over the past century with contemporary portraits of Romanian women. The video challenges the dominant discourse about precarity and its disregard of differences based on gender and economic disparities between the first and third worlds of Europe.

A horrible secret is hidden in a remote lodge, in this low-budget short film made in a workshop in the 2nd Festival Motel X, horror film festival in Lisbon.

Ratna is the daughter of Mr. Barkah Bin Sadeli, a cosmetics scientist who uses plant extracts in his products. When Ratna accompanies her father and his assistant, Tiga, to find the "monkey palm" leaf for preventing wrinkles; she is kidnapped by Arde, and his henchmen, Kutil and Tumpal, who also wants the "monkey palm" leaf. But Ratna manages to hide in a cave. Then she finds a long haired man sleeping with a leopard. Unexpectedly, the unkempt man is kind but he does not understand human language. Suddenly the man hits his chest four times and then says "Tarzan". Tarzan then takes Ratna back home to the city on a horse. Arde, who has changed his name to Mamahi (shortened from Master Mata Hitam or Master with Dark Eye), discovers Tarzan’s arrival in the city.

Two young men participate in a radical left-wing demonstration in Berlin. Afterwards, they cruise the streets on their bikes. When they pull up next to a luxury car, it looks like the night isn't over for them yet.

Frontline examines the war in Iraq and offers an inside look at a number controversies surrounding the war including September 11, al-Qaida, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraid, WMDs, and Fallujah.

The Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens (1898-1989) received the honorary title 'Old friend of the Chinese people' from the Chinese communist regime. One of the reasons was the fact that in 1938 he gave the communists the camera that captured the first footage of Mao Zedong. Ivens made several films about China, notably the twelve-hour picture Hoe Yukong de bergen verzette (How Yukong Moved the Mountains), a tribute to Mao's Cultural Revolution, which China itself called a 'catastrophe' shortly after. Actor Jeroen Willems follows in Ivens' footsteps, in an attempt to understand why Ivens never reconsidered his positive coverage.

Satire branding unhealthy interest in the lives of others and gossip.

The muse performs Dog Eat Dog. In altered and real-time he presents a dark and light side of innocence.

Terrific collection and review of Eric Clapton’s decades-long music career, from his time in Cream and The Yardbirds to solo superstardom.

Linde and Thomas had a one-night stand last night. Today, the day after, they spend a morning together.

It takes the Earth 24 hours to rotate around its axis, 7 rotations in a week, and 365 spins to make a ski film. The making of a ski film is not a hobby for us, but a way of life. Our talented group of athletes train year round, work odd jobs, and dream throughout the off season of what the upcoming season will bring. The filming season begins at the first sighting of snowflakes in November and comes to conclusion with the summer heat waves mid June. In 2008, Rage Films witnessed an unbelievable year that was unsurpassed by others as Rage won award after award, including Best Core Film at X-Dance and Best Film at IF3. This is a reflection on the dedication, perseverance, loyalty, and excitement the crew works for all year. Such is our lives. Such is life.

Not since ‘99 have Manchester United fans witnessed a season like this one. Entertaining as no other team can, the Reds produced some stunning, sublime football, scoring goals for fun to secure their 17th League title on a tension-filled final day at Wigan, before travelling to Moscow for a night of the highest drama imaginable to complete an incredible double. In a nail-biting, hearts in mouths finale, with United just one penalty kick away from defeat, their prayers were answered. Just one more slip was needed for Fergie’s brave warriors to take advantage and capture the European Cup for a third time and fittingly, almost as destiny decreed, 50 years on from when the English pioneers of European football suffered the terrible tragedy of Munich.

An old woman is sitting with motionless and two eyes closed. Suddenly, a visitor shows up in the courtyard of the house while she is looking at the sunlight through a window. The turtle and a door open onto her memories and it makes her think of a memory about a rosary. The images of an unforgettable past remain in her mind with longing about her missing son.

Documentary featuring interviews with director Guy Madden and his collaborators

Arthur and Ellie are petty criminals and best friends. This is one of their adventures.

The story of a rich powerful man who an accident cause his life to change forever.

The village artist Jangarh Singh Shyam left home and became a well-known contemporary painter. He committed suicide in 2001. Through his art, places and stories, the filmmaker explores the traces he left on his path.

The film follows, Darren, cold and calculating mob hitman, attempting to have a normal life with his unsuspecting girlfriend, Theresa, inadvertently comes across the path of another killer: a brutal and sadistic serial killer only known as the Angel of Mercy. As the walls of his perfect facade begin to crumble, he must face a killer hellbent on destroying his very existence.

The purpose of the work is to illuminate the human process in the 21st century. In times of personal independence and immense opportunities relationships have become non-relationships. The nature of being human thus becomes a complex navigation through dangerous waters where everyone feeds on their neighbor and the possibility of love is blocked by a constant emotional distortion, yet there are no boundaries; the field opens up a plethora of crossroads. The individual loses sense of direction and amidst confusion there is the future, as distant as it seems, ever present, irreversible.

Pawlash, an engineer, returns to his slum and slum mates, who welcome him with a lot of pomp. However, he must prove himself innocent when Protaap, a crooked man, frames him for a real estate fraud.

A young woman from Mexico City and a Frenchman travel together without speaking the same language.

A short documentary on chocolate addiction.

Recorded on August 18, 2008 at After Beat, Tokyo.

In a film production office before an all-night shoot, Jane, the Coordinator, packs up to go home after a long day. But the phone rings, and a chain reaction of events and misadventures are set into motion that force her to stay, and stay, and stay, all night. From missing props and wardrobe to a missing actor, from angry power struggles to sexual misconduct, Jane and her faithful assistant, Justy, manage to navigate these messy, often political waters while keeping their heads up with bawdy humor, off color language, and professional solidarity.