Cinematic Era: 2014 Vintage

'if you only had one year left of your life, what would you do?' This question asks Swiss author Franz Hohler. His answer: 'Make death your adviser to live life to the fullest.' He is one of several carefully chosen Swiss citizens who give us an insight into their personal views on life and death. Besides these colorful, oftentimes funny quotes we meet Tom, a 50-year old male that has been diagnosed with incurable brain tumor. Contrary to what one would expect, Tom takes his sickness not as a burden but as a chance and lives his life happier than ever before. This to the surprise of his family and friends and above all - himself. The film encourages people to live life more consciously.

Various people and fates cross paths at the opening of an art exhibition

In the vastness of space, there's a a small speck of rock inhabited by the most peculiar lifeforms: Dark little dots that start to replicate fast and begin to show signs of intelligence.

Nine year old Harry has a plan. A plan to build a rocket and fly his mum to safety just like his hero The Star Ship Captain from his favourite TV show. With only his best friend Jordan by his side, can they blast off before it's too late?

Strength, power,and masculinity; buzz words seen in the media and pop culture. This documentary explores how dominance and power influence relationships.

While on an ecology research trip, 8 diverse college students and a witty chaperone must decide whether to fight for their lives OR fight to escape, when suddenly all hell breaks loose.

Karen is a young and talented actor, but he uses his abilities to get money from the rich.He works as a fake doctor,jugde,policeman just to get money and lives in the apartment of one of his mistresses.Money and lot of girls:that is what life is like for Karen.One day he reads in a newspaper that a charity company is ready to give an apartment and money to a single and really poor mom.He decides to wear female clothes and makeup, go to that company and pretend as a single mom.But things are more complicated that he thought.The company needs to see his "child", "workplace" and "home". He also gets a huge crush on the head of the company,Sona.The journey of Karen the "single mom" gets funnier and messier as the story goes.

Every single mountain in Shanxi is special in appearance, spirit and soul. Each one of them has its long standing story that reveals the depth of its culture, like people from Shanxi have their own story to be unfolded.

Many groups of youths are lured to an old abandoned house where an annual barbecue is to be held. The house is not what it seems, and they are tortured by a chainsaw wielding cannibal.

Eyma decided to quit her job because she wanted to focus on her daughter, Aqish, who suffered from heart failure. Eyma was shocked when her husband, Haziq, suddenly expressed his desire to divorce and handed over a paper on the distribution of the assets. However, Eyma does not want any property but Eyma simply asks Haziq to treat her with love and perform romantic activities like they have been married for forty days. For forty days Haziq was also asked to follow the sunnah of the prophet in his daily life. Haziq fulfilled the request because for him it was only a short period of time and he was able to return with his former lover.

A professional forger comes under threat from a predatory crime ring in Ian Pringle's first feature in more than two decades.

Anatole is always dragging his little pan behind him. It fell on him one day, for no reason. Ever since, it gets caught everywhere and prevents him from going forward. Anatole is fed up, so he hides. Luckily, things are not that simple.

Two innocent brothers are assigned a mission by a terrorist to detonate a bomb.

This comedy about Modernism, muses and the role of sexuality in art, is told by famed art critic Lord Steinway. When a soccer player, 29, confronts Steinway as his son, the story takes a modernist twist itself.

JOHN’S OF 12TH STREET is a portrait of a century-old Italian-American restaurant in New York City, one of the last of its kind in a rapidly changing East Village. This observational documentary loosely follows the rhythm of the restaurant’s day, which swings between boredom and frenzy as the old rooms empty and fill. No one who works at John’s is actually Italian, but some have been here for 40 years, including two pairs of brothers and a father and son. JOHN’S OF 12TH STREET catalogues the overlooked details of working life and a vanishing facet of New York City.

A pachinko parlor that went bankrupt after being set on fire by a housewife who frequented the parlor after greedy management, a message that suddenly arrived at a decapitation site in the old days when there was no signal coverage.

Tatjana in Motherland is a partly animated documentary essay about Slovenia and its men. It is a “documentary-tale” of how Slovenian society has been disintegrating in an invisible way. The story will unveil a Slovenian Oedipus archetype of the possessive martyr mother type and her relationship with her son, in which she through emotional manipulation, by constantly creating feelings of guilt, burdens her son to such a degree, that he remains dependent on her for the rest of his life. In order to put this relationship to its best use, all Slovenian governing structures have elevated mother figure on the level of a saint and have assigned to it the cultish role. The result of the Slovenian maternal cult is a typical Slovene male, who is pathologically obsessed with his mother.

Mona, Cindy, and Aurora are alternate versions of one woman. Caught up in an increasingly performative role, she experiences variations on walking and falling.

Love Bus is an omnibus film composed of five different episodes, each of them taking place in a different district of Bucharest, Romania.

In this special, three experts explore the newly-discovered Book of Christ, the first and only book of the Bible written by Jesus himself.

A guy struggles to explain what happened the night before.

"Aliados, El Musical" brings the tv show to the theatre.

The last two members of an organized crime dynasty meet up the night after their entire crew was killed on a job that went wrong.

The plot of this documentary is dedicated to the tragic fate of Joseph Stalin's grandchildren.

San Francisco is known for its unpredictable weather from neighborhood-to-neighborhood. But what about the climate that flourishes within your couch cushions, or behind your television? Join Dr. Gary Webster in his studio as he explains. Pack accordingly.

An anthology of 8 short films around the theme of "Interval", mentored and curated by Imtiaz Ali, Vikas Bahl, Vikramaditya Motwane and Anand Gandhi.

An eight-year-old girl living on the west side of Chicago finds a neglected toddler and decides to take her home.

A grief-stricken sailor answers a mysterious call from the sea.

Train Master Jeremiah Wilson has kept a secret for 50 years. A clue is hidden along the miniature tracks of his model trains of a long lost treasure.

A single Manhattan psychiatrist finds that the problems in his personal life mirror those of his patients.

Mareike (Lika Berning) is a city girl and successful in her demanding career. The same can not be said for her love life. After a confrontation with her boss, she decides to swop the city for the platteland and a bakery that she inherited from an aunt. But her new life in the small town is more than she expected. Apart from the fact that she must trade her business suits for an apron, things really hot up when she must choose between Mr Handsome and Mr Right.

When Agathe moves to Paris, she discovers city life, liberty, and love. But the city's picture-perfect scenery and the dreamy soundtrack of the young woman's days and nights contrast with the cold detachment of its inhabitants.

Three lives are intricately linked during a New Years Eve “Key Party” for Swingers: A young newlywed is forced into an open relationship by her star-athlete husband and best friend an ill-fated club owner reunites with old friends to realize the bond they once shared is in jeopardy and a loving father has to reconcile his relationship with his estranged brother to save the life of his daughter.

On a chilly Sunday morning, a man awakens to the mischievous stare of a unicorn that seems to have come straight out of his dreams. Carried along by an early morning sensuality, his fantasies transform his lonely apartment into a garden of delights, in which this young creature can freely reap the fruits of his desires.

When Julia comes back to France, a curse seems to have hit her family. So when Julia's daughter is accused of murder, she decides to investigate by herself.

Merry who lived in Singapore never thought her life would change. She struggled against rejection until she got 1 million dollars at a young age.

In the course of only one day, Paul’s seemingly perfectly life falls completely appart. The film explores the condition of one person as a metaphor for the state of a whole generation in present day Berlin. How often are our life choices determined by social conventions? How rarely do we listen to our inner voice before deciding what is best for us? Would we even be able to hear it? And what would it tell us?

Evgenia, a metropolitan woman with a strong character, works as the head of the investigative department. After the divorce, she built a protective "shell" and cannot find a worthy companion. Kostya is a milker on a farm in a small village. His personal life is also not going well, and it seems that no changes are expected. By chance, the characters get acquainted on a "Blind Date", where Zhenya appears to be a kindergarten teacher, and Kostya is a rich entrepreneur. Deception entails a lot of incidents and contradictions, and the further it goes, the more difficult it turns out to get out of it..

Hard Soil traces the history and evolution of American Roots music and examines its social and cultural relevance in the 21st century. Nowhere is America's cultural evolution and diversity as palpable as in the music of the people. Folk music or alternately roots music, a collective term encompassing a variety of musical styles from Bluegrass, to Blues and from Country to Gospel. Today a wild and vibrant subculture of musicians has begun to infuse these musical styles with the sounds of the 21st century keeping the evolution of American Roots music that is not only heard in the land of Lincoln but across the globe. To many it has not only become the soundtrack to their lives it has become a way of life.

An aspiring superhero, lacking powers, tries out for a real superhero team in this mockumentary.

Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle’s film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Fedorov, like others, believed that death was a mistake, “because the energy of cosmos is indestructible, because true religion is a cult of ancestors, because true social equality is immortality for all.” Fedorov was one of the Cosmo-Immortalists, a surge of thinkers that emerged in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They linked Western Enlightenment with Russian Orthodoxy and Eastern philosophical traditions, as well as Marxism, to create an idiosyncratically concrete metaphysics. For the Russian cosmists, cosmos did not mean outer space: rather, they wanted to create “cosmos” on earth. “To construct a new reality, free of hunger, disease, violence, death, need, inequality – like communism.”

Radio Personality, Michael Washington, known as "DJ Mike" makes fun of people's lives with prank phone calls on his radio show, JAB STAB. His jokes make his show #1 of all morning talk show in the state. However, behind the scenes of the radio show, many unpredictable events develop in Mike's personal life. It leads to an adventure that brings him to the brink of disaster, fighting for his own survival. Will he persevere?

In 1987, Billy Joel took his family, his music and his concert show to the former Soviet Union. This feature-length documentary film looks back at the triumphs and difficulties encountered in creating the first fully staged rock 'n' roll show in the USSR. Directed by Emmy(R)-winning documentarian, Jim Brown.

There are houses, and then there’s Ricardo Bofill’s house: a brutalist former cement factory of epic proportions on the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain. A grandiose monument to industrial architecture in the Catalonian town of Sant Just Desvern, La Fabrica is a poetic and personal space that redefines the notion of the conventional home. “Nowadays we want everyone who comes through our door to feel comfortable, but that's not Bofill’s idea here,” says filmmaker Albert Moya, who directed latest installment of In Residence. “It goes much further, you connect with the space in a more spiritual way.” Rising above lush gardens that mask the grounds’ unglamorous roots, the eight remaining silos that once hosted an endless stream of workmen and heavy machinery now house both Bofill’s private life, and his award-winning architecture and urban design practice.

ALL or Nothing features a ton of the biggest names in mountain biking along with a few up and comers and a little motocross trials just for fun.

Cevat is a 28-year-old professional chef from Mengen. He works as a chef at a famous Italian restaurant in Istanbul. One night, Cevat dreams of his deceased father, Ekrem. It is the first time he has seen his father in a dream since his death. Ekrem tells Cevat that Galatasaray will win the championship if Cevat takes his two closest friends, Hakkı and Yılmaz, to Bolu for a barbecue.

The Culture High tears into the very fibre of the modern day marijuana debate to reveal the truth behind the arguments and motives governing both those who support and oppose the existing pot laws.

Mr. Carpool (Oscar Isaac) wanders around the freeways of Los Angeles, making ends meet by offering his services as an extra passenger so they can drive in the carpooling lane.

For Jenny, in her mid 30s, everything is going great: Her career at the Munich Opera House is going uphill and in her friend Tobias she seems to have found the ideal man. But then the events rush: The new stage designer at the opera proves to be her ex-boyfriend Erik and a pregnancy test turns out to be positive. That's not enough, Jenny's free-spirited mother Jutta lodges with her and Tobias indefinitely. The casual hippy lady soon shakes up the orderly life of the couple. At the same time, Erik Jenny turns his head violently.

Lila is a dreamy girl who can't resign to accept reality as flat as she perceives it, hence she uses her imagination and her skills to modify it.

Sai (Sairam Shankar) is a happy go lucky guy, who runs a travel company in Hyderabad. One day, he bumps into Chaitra (Jasmine), a software employee, and falls in love with her. When she rejects his advances, he gives up his pursuit and after few days, he meets Simran (Priyadarshini), a Punjabi girl who works in a bank, and falls in love with her. Soon, he's caught in a fix when both the girls confess their true feelings for him.

Recorded in théâtre des Lices in Albi, 8 February 2014 A 20 year old girl, who lives with her father, widowed for twelve years, decides to leave the nest. She is in love and in love with freedom. With this departure, which is close to her heart, she wishes to conquer her autonomy and move in with her other half. But it is a delicate moment to manage for the pair, hitherto very united. How to get out of the fusional and loving relationship which links her to her father, a hard and fragile man at the same time, who does not intend to let her go like that? She then offers him a market ... To your Happiness, to your Laughs, Ready! Go!

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