Cinematic Era: 2011 Vintage

Documentary filmmaker Kamal shoots obsessively during his last days, in search of an image, deadly as syphilis, that would rot away the eyes of the viewer.

A brief encounter between a social anthropologist and a make-up artist in East London.

Jakob Hansen is a very engaged trainee teacher, who faces his final practical exam for becoming a teacher. Some girls are crushing on him, which brings the soon-to-be teacher into trouble. Two students vent their frustration on him and thus put the ideals of the educator to the test. On the day of the exam, the showdown happens.

Martin Khodabakhshian (9-Time Emmy Award-winning ESPN producer) directs and produces this fascinating documentary that truly goes to new depths in the search for man's physical and mental limits. Breathe follows New Zealander, William Trubridge as he attempts to break his own world record in the extreme sport of Freediving. William attempts to dive completely unaided to a depth of 300ft, almost to the bottom of the deepest blue hole in the world - "Dean's Blue Hole" in the Bahamas.

City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland together with her family and go to... Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become aware of their and their family roots.

When 16 year old Otelo Buthelezi, his best friend, New Year, and his 12 year old brother, Ntwe, are invited to the beach-house of their new friend, Tau Modise, they step into a world previously closed to them. It is exactly the opposite of their township- a place under a constant and growing threat from political violence, driven by Inkatha hostel dwellers on one side and township United Democratic Front comrades on the other. Soon, everyone recognizes that Otelo is gifted on the water, a god in waiting for his purpose.

There is no difference between natural foods and genetically modified foods? That’s not what research says. This documentary discusses those who have spoken out against the scientific government scam of genetically modified foods and have been fired, harassed and other things as well as the results of their research.

Rishi (Gautam) is a happy going engineering student who falls in love with Sandhya (Shambavi), his classmate. Sandhya’s father (Devan) is a rich business man but he accepts their love. Gautam takes the heroine to Vizag to take the blessings of his mom. Suddently, he’ll be attacked in Vizag by some goons and everyone feels that it is Devan who did it. But it is by a Vizag goon Bhupathi (Ashish Vidyarthi), as Gautham accidentally kills his brother while saving one of his friends. Bhupati’s batch chase him and how Gautham solves the problem is all about the movie.

A depressed mother, and a lonely teacher, find an unexpected connection with each other in the most unexpected of places - in a phone conversation where they discuss an unfortunate event - the Mother's daughter has punched a young boy, who cheated on her and broke her heart.

An entry in the Mighty Lady tokusatsu series

Two stories collide as a small town in Texas comes under siege by an army of psychotic murderers. First, in the maximum detention wing of the Russell Institute for the Criminally Insane, two women - a young doctor and a veteran nurse - face unspeakable horror as the inmates who have been incarcerated there escape and embark upon a rampage of violence. Subjected to brutal violation, these trapped women must summon the strength to survive and escape the maniac bloodbath. Outside the facility, young college students are targeted as they party at an abandoned house in the middle of an isolated forest. An evening of celebration turns into a fight for life against the murderous rampage of one of the lunatics.

What would you choose, between rice and boobs, if one of these two will disappear from the world forever? The most exciting debate in human history starts now!

Justin Bieber was born to make music! Before he was 15 he taught himself to play the piano, drums, guitar, and trumpet. This documentary chronicles his life, and documents his transition from a street performer to a mega teen superstar. Everyday a child is born but on March 1st, 1994, "A Star Was Born."

It's summer in San Diego. Lily and her mother, encounter Pepin and his father, from Mexico City. The kids have a lot in common: Both are 10 years old, both of their parents are divorced ... and both want their parents to be happy.

When Makoto Kitano visited the house on a previous program, he was inundated with inquiries from viewers who saw swirling lights in the photographs and the spirit of the girl....

A city-dwelling couple and their friend are invited to the remote tidal island of Amen for a surprise birthday party that turns into a living nightmare.

That First Glide, filmed and directed by Mike Waltze, takes us on an informative and thrilling ride into the world of SUP, or Stand Up Paddle. This documentary covers the little known origins of the sport and follows it's evolution all the way up to today's massive wave of global interest that is making SUP the fastest growing water sport in the world. Some of the original old timers in early Waikiki, as well as today's greatest water men, share their stories of how this sport changed their lives and how it has progressed into a sport that anyone can enjoy at any level. The film includes breath taking footage from Hawaii, Fiji, and Tahiti

Angel, a deaf teenage girl who never gave up to prove that she was born into ther world with a God-given goal. She continued to struggle to achieve her dream to make her dad happy, after her mom died giving birth to herself.

With a horse's head, a monkey's tail and sex-swap parenting, seahorses are one of the ocean's strangest and most charismatic inhabitants. In this one hour special, wildlife filmmaker Natali Tesche-Ricciardi sets out to investigate something that most people don't realize - seahorse populations are in crisis from pollution and overfishing for tourist souvenirs, aquarium stock and traditional Chinese medicine. With the help of Project Seahorse, traders and fishermen are changing their ways to help wild seahorse populations. The future for wild seahorses remains uncertain but one fact cannot be disputed - our future generations will want to experience these enchanting fish - in their natural habitat and very much alive.

The fascinating connection between darkness and sex is discussed by several panels made of experts and intellectuals. Meet and hear what the hottest men from the Toby Ross Films have to say. Why do closet cases make for such good cinematic subjects? Is it okay to be turned on while being afraid for your life? Why do some choose a life of sleaze? We hear the cast and crew of Payton Collins: Serial Rapist, Like a Moth to a Flame, and Live for Sex Die for Love. See and hear Johnny Carvajal, Diego Fox, and other actors admit to the camera how life imitated art when they played those dark roles.

Yonatan, a young rascal, needs fifteen Shekels. Everything else is not important right now.

Documentary about the making of Come Fly With Me.

Sulo, a lonely artist, lives in the countryside. One day as he is going to see his ex-girlfriend, he meets a girl with a trailer full of cardboard boxes and helps her move her things into her new flat.

A youth group terrorized by the ghost who always come after their phone playing automatically the mysterious ringtone

Three years living in Sunset Park, living between the BQE and the Greenwood Cemetery, accumulating footage of junkyard cats, Park Slope strollers, burned out cars, flying birds.

UFO sightings have been on the rise since the 1940s, with thousands reported every year -- but is alien existence all a figment of our imagination?

Based upon the novel of Tarjei Vesaas about a boy and two girls who gets involves in a dramatic love story after finding a newborn and abandon baby out in the woods.

Keir Dullea encounters a mysterious object, in a scenario reminiscent of the penultimate scene from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey that he appeared in over forty years ago.

"One Man's Journey To Truth" is a story about destruction and rebirth, discovery and truth. Denie Hiestand's journey from obscurity as a farmer and family man into the limitless life as a world-renowned energy healer did not come without tremendous sacrifice, personal loss and sorrow. The film unfolds through poignant interviews with his family and in his own words as he sits perched on the cliffs of New Zealand.

Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks The World tells the story of the wah wah effect pedal, from its invention in 1966 to the present day. Musicians, engineers, and historians discuss the impact of the pedal on popular music and demonstrate the various ways it has been used, as well as how its evolution has improved the ability of artists to express themselves musically. The film features interviews with Brad Plunkett, the inventor of the pedal, plus many other musical luminaries such as Ben Fong-Torres, Eddie Van Halen, Slash, Buddy Guy, Art Thompson, Eddie Kramer, Kirk Hammett, Dweezil Zappa, and Jim Dunlop. These professionals explain how a musical novelty transcended convention and has become timelessly woven into the fabric of modern pop-culture.

Rio de Janeiro in South America. Once every year a carnival takes place for three days and three nights. Everyone is excitedly preparing for the big event.

Level crossing-keeper on an abandoned road, an old lady lives alone with her cow. She fills her loneliness by the tenderness she feels for her pretty cow and she escapes by playing the violin. Until one day she decides to stop the trains...

Kathy is a portrait of the most fascinating creature of all: the adult in training, the object of everyone's first affection, the teenage girl.

A look back at our project's short existence through interviews and statements from our team and live performances of some of the songs on NUESTRA, covers of Manú Chao and The Crickets, and an early version of Hornos de Cal (an unreleased song).

Gérald Godin's life and work were marked by his deep commitment to Quebec. Forgotten or overlooked, his political and literary legacy's contribution to our cultural heritage is invaluable. From Trois-Rivières to Montreal, from the 1960s to the 1995 referendum, via the October prisons and the songs of his partner Pauline Julien, the film Godin combines archives and interviews to retrace the unique journey of a fighter. A striking portrait of the man nicknamed "le député-poète" A cinematic quilt of modern Quebec, woven from an exceptional blend of archives.

With the delicate father-daughter relationship at the centre, the tale gyrates around the life of the son of a poor puppeteer - Dasu. His zest for the city of Mumbai brings him to the city with his dreams to grow rich. However all his dreams get shattered with the harsh realities of life. Soon as he begins to settle in, he finds an abandoned girl child. He takes up the responsibility to nurture the baby but soon realises that she is blind, deaf and mute!

The story of seven boys and a ferret who decide to leave home for an unknown destination. The film chronicles the first three days of their journey.

Eight-year old Aaron is dead set on winning the Grand Prize in his 2nd Grade declamation contest. He is determined to win despite his obvious “f” and “p” speech defect, a proclivity common amongst some Filipinos to interchange the pronunciation of English words with the letters “f” and “p”. His mother takes an active albeit humorous role in preparing him for the competition. This is a story of perseverance, family unity and the real meaning of triumph and possibly the “Rocky” of all declamation contests!

The film takes place in the Priests office in a Brooklyn parish. It's told in flashbacks and gives the audience a chance to witness the inner workings of this horrible association that has destroyed families and communities throughout the country. The main character who is played by world champion boxer Paul Malinaggi is full of emotion and personal experiences that plays as an eye opening to anyone that has lost or steered away from God. Paul is so charismatic that in the end you will not only feel for this man you will understand his pain and the need for redemption. The film stares Will Wallace (Tree of life) Joe Estevez, Adam Nelson ( Mystic River) Joe D' Onofrio (Bronx Tale) Carmen Argenziano(God Father)

Commissioned by the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Paul Clipson's five-part COMPOUND EYES cycle delves into the otherworldliness of the natural world. In training his Super-8 camera on insects and other "minor" invertebrates, Clipson draws the eye into an unseen realm, one so delicate as to simultaneously tempt and refuse the touch. Following the surrealist desire to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar, Clipson relates this micro-landscape to the built environment. Electronic musical motifs supplied by frequent Clipson collaborator Jefre Cantu-Ledesma add another layer of inquiry, one tuned to the unspoken space between wonder and terror. This first entry in the series keys the viewer's vision to a single drop of dew on a blade of glass. Wisps of eyelashes, dandelions and insect limbs seem to brush against the lens in a trembling intimation of seeing.

Urban exploring in the underground of New York

The film reconstructs the mysterious story of the 1942 Patagonia World Soccer championship, never acknowledged by the official sports organizations, and which for decades have remained shrouded in legend without the winner ever being known.

In 2006, Milan and Tomas electrified a school campus and a hospital in a detached Zambian village. After four years, they return for the last time to find out about their system's failures, repair it and hand it over at last. The film follows them through chaotic days as well as pitch black nights and provides a fresh insight into the pitfalls of humanitarian development projects. Short circuits of all sorts, blending and dissolving of different worlds, rituals of gratitude and concepts of solutions. With no attempts to declare or evaluate anything, Solar Eclipse becomes a situation probe examining various forms of light and darkness. Will the two Czech linkboys succeed in lighting up the Zambian bushland?

In Guangdong, the forefront of China's reform and opening-up, the business of a sauna is fairly flat. The boss, Wu, together with his team, pursuits his dream and constructs a entertainment kingdom persistently with their wisdom, effort and positive spirit. Eventually, after a special fashion show, Wu tears for his uneasy success. During the period, some of his employees leave hopelessly, some are imprisoned, some are still longing for a better tomorrow by his side

This is the 13th installment of the “Psychic Documentary” film series.

The main character creates an artificial intelligence modeled after an idol of her dreams to be her lover. However, contrary to its programming, the artificial intelligence has a bad character and threatens the protagonist with a plan to take over the world...

About Lisbet Palme - the wife of Olof Palme - Prime Minister of Sweden - till the night of his murder Feb 28, 1986. Lisbet Palme is a prominent child psychologist. Her social commitment specially regarding women and children are widely known.

An entry, filmed in Italy, Switzerland and France, in Rose Lowder's series collecting one minute episodes, each composed of footage shot around a general geographic location that has been alternately woven, frame by frame, into a single film reel. In spite of its numbering, this collection was completed later than Bouquets 21-30 (delayed, Lowder explains, "by the weather and a series of related technical/aesthetics incidents").

A story of a boy and a girl who try to find the one thing that matters.

A nightmarish accident that leads to an elderly man’s death one night after getting drunk with his best friend Yves. Neither chooses to confess just yet. Yves, the brasher member of the duo, succeeds in living on with his life, but Gabriel, more shy and honest, feels the guilt choking him as days turn into weeks and weeks become months...

Big sister takes her little brother out for a day of games and adventures while their parents are away.

After a simple act of kindness from an American soldier, a young Afghan boy attempts to unravel a deadly roadside bomb attack.

Kalle, a thief who is just about to steal a valuable diamond, is caught by the lonely Charlotte. Kalle tries to escape with his haul, but Charlotte is not willing to let him go...

Law of the Dragon takes a fresh look at a vast and culturally rich China, examining how justice is served in rural areas so remote and isolated that the villagers have almost no contact with, and are deeply mistrustful of, the central government. Principally following the austere Judge Chen as he travels around the rural and sparsely populated Xuan-en province, resolving the grievances of the residents and dispensing nuggets of Confucian-Communist wisdom.

In this self-proclaimed anti-romantic comedy, couple June and October are breaking up. Manipulative June feels her moral superiority justifies the breakup. A "confucked" October learns from seasoned waitress Billy-Jean, that revenge is a dish best served with pie.

El Eternauta's wife is Elsa Sánchez, widow of Héctor Germán Oesterheld, writer of “El Eternauta” (1957), the masterpiece of the Argentinian comic; a woman whose family was taken away by the military dictatorship. A vital and close chronicle of the struggle for survival in the midst of horror and a testimony in which pain and love for life go hand in hand.