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The band of memories is an almost archetypal story of a man and a woman, in which dreams and illusions follow quickly. The path of memory is part of Point Taken. This project consists of four dance films, for which Dutch choreographers and filmmakers joined forces to write the film script.
Through the tattered remains of a post-apocalyptic civilization, Sgt. Cain and Dr. Bell make their way back from the Center for Disease Control. Their mission to find signs of human life a failure, they are returning to Mt. Bethel; the military research hospital from which they were sent. On their way back, Sgt. Cain and Dr. Bell encounter the remnants of humanity which, through an accidental release of a bio-chemical agent, have transformed into the undead-like "BIOPHAGES". However, they soon find that their biggest problem isn't the 'phages, but surviving together. Encounters with the occasional survivor, some friendly, some with ulterior motives, mark their journey while back at Mt. Bethel, Dr. Miller races to develop a cure. At the will of Dr. Miller, treachery and betrayal loom on the horizon as the two try to reach Mt. Bethel, and the final destiny of humanity.
Live Opera performance of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov
Stunning high-definition footage brings to life the majestic landscapes of The Great Basin Desert of Nevada and Utah; the Mojave Desert of California; the Sonoran Desert of Arizona; and the Chihuahuan Desert of New Mexico and Texas. The film captures the defining features and distinct character of each of these major desert areas. Experts from parks guide viewers through these natural treasures.
In the silence of her house, a woman washes herself, cooks, eats, watches television, seeks company and smokes alone by the window.
A movie documentary that reveals the events behind the scenes of the comedic duo Audrey's first recording for the NHK All Night Nippon radio programme.
The sniper-yakut, contrary to the laws of wartime, saved the life of the German boy - the Hitler Youth ...
When her husband is killed in an auto accident, Alice Marsh moves far from home to start a new life. She falls in love with an old house in Massachusetts which she buys. Built in the 1700's and made of stone, it is known by the townspeople as the "Evan Straw" house. She tells her visiting aunt, Gert, of it's history and they both take it lightly. As time goes on, strange things start to happen to Alice while she's in the house. Finally, she calls in a psychic medium, Leocardia Tomas, to try to contact the spirit. As the spirit becomes more erratic and threatening, a ghost hunter named Peter Yakov is summoned to get to the bottom of why Evan Straw still haunts the house. The answer to the mystery is unexpected by everyone.
This the story about a true friendship, which doesn't ask for anything.
Kanib, Enop, Yoseph, Minggus, and Dodi live in Mutting village. They dream of popularising Marind songs through their band, "Walef" (a type of forest kangaroo). With their experience in accompanying Yosim songs at their village, they are determined to perform at the independence celebrations.
This portrait of a film director unlike any other attempts to capture the essence of Vittorio de Seta’s rapport with the humble people he filmed and elegantly brought to Cinema Scope’s big screen in color from the 1950s onwards. From his home in Calabria, the film director looks back over his epic films.
A series of 34 short documentary films for ESPN featuring testimony from the only men alive to have scored a goal in a world cup final. In the history of the World Cup only 68 people have scored a goal in the final (including penalty shoot-outs). Of which 34 are alive today.
A man who had sex with his bike is charged as sex-offender. An animation between reality and ... ?
A live concert at the Visions Festival in Dortmund, Germany on 11/01/2009.
Jessica Carney talks about the career of her grandfather, William Hartnell.
This work is a representation of the deterioration of the first love of Nakano Eiji. He uses a psychedelic effect to represent the deterioration.
A man convinces his brother-in-law to marry a foreign womanl to facilitate his obtainment of foreign nationality and improve their living conditions, but an unpleasant surprise awaits the brothers as the girl's scheme gradually unfolds.
Annegret, is a mentally handicapped woman in her mid-thirties who falls in love with Res, an oldish slightly peculiar rocker. Annegret's family however is not happy with the relationship and they want to stop her seeing her lover. Annegreth fights back.
Three summers ago, Buffalo, New York native Addison Henderson went to Ghana with one question: what is identity? He brought with a film crew, his father and three friends to approach topics of identity, belonging and heritage in the West African nation where centuries before the Transatlantic Slave Trade had thrived. Their journey is inspiration for “The Experience”.
Doug, a dorky young mamma's boy, who is about to get married to his beautiful bride, Callista, when he notices a change come over her. He catches her sneaking around at night and lying to him, and she's begun to display flu-like symptoms. So naturally Doug thinks she caught a disease while cheating on him. In reality she has become possessed via an ancient stone and she's been eating his friends and family without him knowing.
The carnival of Venice, a city of water. This is a classical kind of festival, staged with extravagance. Festival-goers hide their true selves under their costumes and behind their masks. This show portrays the yearnings possessed by everyone, the excitement of the heart, and the lingering twinge of loneliness that occurs after the passage of time.
MIA Skateshop in Miami
In July 2002, 22 Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls came to the U.S. to participate in a women's leadership program called Building Bridges for Peace. "My So Called Enemy" is a coming of age story about 6 of the program participants and how they reconcile their transformative experience in the program with the realities of life back home in the Middle East over the next 7 years. What unfolds is an emotionally-charged film about the human consequences of all conflicts--as seen through the eyes of 6 young women who are thoughtful, intelligent and articulate beyond their years.
Roscoe Holcomb was one of America’s greatest banjo players, a musician whose haunting vocal intonations, Old Regular Baptist in tradition, gave Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton the chills and gave John Cohen’s 1963 film High Lonesome Sound its name. Drawing on footage he shot in 1962 and 1974 in Daisy, Kentucky, Cohen made this incredibly moving portrait of Holcomb, for whom the holy spirit always rose up plain and true: “Sometimes, you know, you feel like playing certain songs. I feel like playing the old banjo, I feel like playing some religious songs. I sit down, I feel lonesome. I could play you some of these old religious songs and it just fits me plumb through. Or I could pick up the guitar—the guitar is mostly for the blues. It’s just according to what a man feels, what he’s got on his mind.” His body ravaged by a life in the coal mines and sawmills, Roscoe Holcomb died in 1981 at the age of 68. — Museum of Modern Art
In its heyday, the Lace Market of Nottingham pounded to the heavy metal beat of its handmade lace-making machines. But not anymore. NOTTINGHAM LACE profiles Cluny Lace, the last surviving company of its kind.
Short animation by Yutaro Kubo.
Army infantryman Joseph Robertson discusses a deadly confrontation during World War II that continued to haunt him throughout his life.
Witness to a murder in a dark, deserted underground station, an innocent chameleon must choose between being the killer or the savior—but does he really have a choice?
Deeply hurt and disfigured in a car crash, the famous star Vera Bella leaves the 'St James Plastic Surgery Hospital' where surgeons tried to give her back her famous beauty. Trying to escape the mass media pressure, she decides to take some rest in a secret family Manor near the Ocean.
Fiona Bruce traces the story of one of history's great royal love affairs: the love between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. It was a love based on a powerful physical attraction, and it grew into a marriage that set the tone for the Victorian age. Over the 20 years they spent together, until Albert's tragic death, they gave each other a dazzling collection of paintings, sculptures and jewellery. That collection was on show - much of it for the first time - at a major exhibition in London, and it reveals a new and passionate side of the royal couple.
Portugal, 1340. Ines de Castro and D.Pedro lived the most popular love story ever to be known in this land yet little do we know about its origins and the silent tragedy carried by Constanca.
G. remembers how he came up with an idea, and devoted his life to make it happen. Now he is making progress and achieves an extraordinary act, only with the power of his mind.
It's 2004, and the news that Saddam Hussein has died sends shock waves through the Middle East. Shaho is the son of an elderly man of Iranian Kurdish heritage; the old man's health is failing him after suffering a stroke, and he's convinced he doesn't have long to live. Shaho, his father, and their family have been living in an Iraqi refugee camp for a while, but with the passing of Saddam, Shaho believes the time is right for them to return to Iran, where father can spend his last days in the land of his birth. However, as Shaho is making plans for the trip back to Iran, his cousin Sheelan visits the family for the first time in twenty years; her parents fled to Sweden when she was a child, where she's now a physician, and she wants her dying uncle to join her there where he'll be safe and well cared for.
A remarkable journey through the Mojave Desert by dirt bike. Serious dirt bikers; Sunday riders; and tourists from Europe, New Jersey, and all-points-east have their courage tested against sand dunes, dry lake beds, salt basins, snow, and mountains as they trek from Tinsel Town to Sin City without ever touching asphalt. You may think you've ridden it all, but you haven't really hit the dirt until you've biked the Gold Rush Trail with AdMo. Narrated by Let's Riiide's Erik Lundmark and world traveler, raconteur, and AdMo owner Uwe Diemer
Markus is a furry: the animal that lies dormant within him is a cat. Benjamin is a modern minister: he preaches sermons in a virtual church. Kris is a Gorean Master: he controls his slaves' sex lives from his bedroom... A documentary about three emblematic Second Life communities.
Janice and Sam have moved into their first house. Neighbors tell them stories about Isabelle, a former owner, who flew into a jealous rage and killed her husband and his lover in the house. Now, 50 years later, Janice has started sleep-walking and having visions of a wild German woman and blood, lots of blood. Janice can't remember what she does when she sleepwalks. Is she responsible for new murders in the area? What other secrets does the house hold?
For 40 years, Gerhard Steidl has combined the roles of printer and publisher, resolved to personally check each sheet leaving his printing shop in Göttingen. This perfectionism, combined with an unconditional love for books, for the traditional printing craft, and a commitment to the quality standards of manufacturing (in the original sense of the word, made by hand), has gained worldwide attention. The most internationally renowned photographic artists vie for the opportunity to collaborate with Gerhard Steidl, to conceive and produce the perfect publication with him.
A broad look at the fraught history of American puppetry (its marginalization as children's theater and its sudden explosion as high art) with an intimate thread following Dan Hurlin, a downtown artist who is creating a complex puppet work about an eccentric, Depression-era photographer. Dan has just recovered from a scorching New York Times review, which forced his last show out of theaters prematurely. Now he faces a wider backlash against puppetry, suggesting an eerie parallel between himself and his new puppet-subject - a portrait photographer whose stunning body of work was very nearly lost forever.
An abstract short.
Zoe, a young girl nearly out of her teens, strolls aimlessly through the nights and clubs of Berlin. Longing for intimacy and security, she subjects herself to repeated, indiscriminate sex, until a chance encounter opens her eyes to another possibility - exploitation of her body. The game intrigues her for a while...
Almost 70 years after its sinking, the powerful headlights of two high-tech research submersibles illuminate the silhouette of the biggest German battleship ever. The pride of the German Kriegsmarine: Bismarck. In 1941 the Bismarck was sent out to raid and destroy allied supply convoys in the North Atlantic. With resources vital to their nation under threat, the British fleet went after this supposedly unsinkable ship. But who actually sank the steel giant?
BURY THE HATCHET is a portrait of three Mardi Gras Indian “Big Chiefs” of New Orleans, descendants of runaway slaves taken in long ago by the Native Americans of the Louisiana bayous. Once plagued by intertribal violence, today these African-American tribes take to the backstreets of New Orleans on Mardi Gras, dressed in elaborate Native-American influenced costumes they've sewn over the course of the year. When tribes meet, instead of attacking each other with hatchets and knives, they battle over which Chief has the prettiest suit. Director Aaron Walker's 5-year-long intimate entry into this often hidden New Orleans experience also reveals other battles the Chiefs face every day: harassment by the police, gentrification of their neighborhoods, disinterested youth, old age, and natural disaster. Still, the Chiefs prove their determination to survive.
The camera’s roving eye seems to warp and bend a mysterious white room in this unsettling excerpt from a film Guy Maddin created for the opening of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Bell Lightbox building.
Unable to remember a violent incident, a young woman, Iona, returns to a place of magic and love to look for answers. Through interracial relationships and the healing potential of a talking circle, the film explores violence in young relationships and the moment of choice we face when the urge to be violent surfaces.
An endearing love story in the time of cultural conflicts presenting the personal tragedy of the emigrant commoner caught in the crossfire of international wars.
Kåre has a bank on wheels. He lives for the Bank bus and its customers, but soon it is over. A story of human presence in stark contrast to efficiency and profit.
A deep-space transmitter pilot begins to experience unusual flashbacks while in orbit around a newly discovered moon. Alone on his ship, he must uncover the truth behind the reawakening of his long-forgotten memories.
Hwang Soon-bok is a father of four who isn’t gifted with great looks. He likes to make plans on family occasions which in most cases, end in disaster. His wife, Koh Young-sook is a nice-looking lady with bit of a temper. And, there are three daughters and a son who got their looks and personalities from both parents. The family is sitting around a table eating late-night delivery food, on the night of the parents’ wedding anniversary. The kids want to hear about how they got married and father and mother each tell their different versions of the story
A frustrated film director struggles with love and life, helped my a wild film crew.
In 2007, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society discovered there were an estimated 125,000 western lowland gorillas living in the remote forests of northern Congo. This find offers another chance to protect this endangered great ape and a first look at some unprecedented behaviour – including a knack for using tools. Now primatologist and National Geographic explorer Mireya Mayor ventures into the heart of the jungle to explore the great apes’ secret world. She gets a rare and intimate look into the family life of one gorilla group and witnesses individuals performing feats unexpected in the wild. Spectacularly photographed and featuring new scientific insight, Mystery Gorilla presents startlingly familiar animals like you’ve never seen them before.
A fragile border separates our world from the realm of darkness, where nightmarish creatures await in the shadows. Only one thing is standing in their way: a secret order of priests, who devote their souls to protect this border. They are the 'Deus Irae'.
The drama was based on the life of Sybil Kathigasu, a Malayan European nurse who was caught and tortured by the Japanese army in the 1940s.
A mean-spirited therapist belittles his many patients while his own marriage falls apart.