Cinematic Era: 2016 Vintage

Two street rivals must set their difference aside and join forces to pull off a bank heist.

One day a friend will betray you, and the enemy at the crucial moment will save lives.

Maglone and Juliette are 19. After graduating from high school, Juliette has decided to study the visual arts. She has made new friends whom she invited to her cottage in Normandy in order to introduce them to Maglone. “Juliette and I have known each other since the sixth grade. I don't know her squad, but... are my friend's friends also mine?”

The Zanctuary is a decadent bar in Lower Manhattan owned by a former prostitute, Dora Ramona del Pilar. An undercover police detective follows an investigation on human trafficking discovering what's hidden under the bar: rooms filled with Dora's terrible sins and her attempts at redemption.

From her childhood, Nadia felt responsible for her mentally disturbed and recently homeless mother, Irene. For a while Nadia had cut off all contact with Irene and tried to live her life, until Irene suddenly appears drunk at the wedding of her son, Mickey. Nadia sinks back into this quagmire of love and hate, responsibility, guilt and shame. She gathers her strength to find a home for her mother while at the same time she hides from her partner, Ian, the fact that the drunk woman at her brother's wedding was her mother. But no one can oppress Irene, let alone her daughter.

Peggy Rosinski lives in a shabby neighborhood in Frankfurt/Oder. The patchwork mom has three children, but only one of them is from her current husband Torben. She also works two different jobs to make ends meet and reduce her mountain of debt. Meanwhile, the eldest of the Rosinskis, Angelique, only hangs out with her new boyfriend Devid and the youngest, Finn, is teased by his classmates because of his family's poverty. When Torben loses his job, Peggy is at a loss. Her mother Angelika knows what to do, as she has been earning a few cents for years through illegal activities. But does Peggy really want to get involved in this kind of business?

To sum up the life and work of British artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is close to impossible. Not only because of the wide range of artistic disciplines, but also because of the timespan, since the mid 1960s to the present day, that has been saturated by hundreds of records, thousands of concerts, exhibitions, interviews, videos, spoken word performances, collages, sculptures, philosophy, cultural engineering, occultism and radical transgender concepts. A couple of descriptions are still valid after these 50 years of active creativity and provocation. P-Orridge is a romantic existentialist and a cultural engineer. Everything is both work as such and seed for cultural and behavioural change.

The duo performs at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, Calif.; songs include selections from "Blurryface," "Vessel," "Stressed Out," "Tear in My Heart," and "Holding On to You."

Nathalie, an 18 year old babysitter from Montréal, is looking after a little girl in the Ontarian countryside. The clerk at the local video rental store gives them a mysterious tape. When they finally come home to play it, a horrific and frightful night begins for The Babysitter.

A meditative exploration of silence and the impact of noise on our lives. The film takes us on an immersive cinematic journey around the globe—from a traditional tea ceremony in Kyoto, to the streets of Mumbai, the loudest city on the planet—and inspires us to both experience silence and celebrate the wonders of our world.

Mori is a girl who collects the carcass of victimized animals from roadkill to bury them. Her elder sister doesn’t like her doing that, and the two have a quarrel. But the real reason that Mori cannot leave this place is something else.

A journey in real time through one of the most spectacular and beautiful bus routes in Britain, the Northern Dalesman, as it snakes across the landscape of the Yorkshire Dales.

Chito is the son of the owners of a lodge in Coron, Palawan. Because of a shortage in eggs in the town, he gets encouraged to go into growing organic chickens.

Alba, 11 years old, passes her days in silence. She loves little animals. She has learned to cope with her mother's illness, helping her to use the bathroom. Alba plays silently so that her mother can rest during the day. One night Alba's mother gets worse, and has to be taken to the hospital. With no one else to take care of her, Alba is sent to live with her father, who she hasn't seen since she was three years old. Living with her father is almost unbearable. Embarrassment, her first kiss, visits to mother in the hospital, Edgar's tender efforts to get close to her, and bullying at school; these are some of the experiences that pave Alba's journey to puberty and to self-acceptance.

Erotic fantasies can come to life in the rooms of Motel Mistress. But whether these will be pleasurable for those involved is another matter. A strange disappearance, revenge and aliens all turn up one typical afternoon in this love nest.

Since the death of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in February 2008, long-time practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and well-known film director David Lynch has been embraced as the movement’s chief international ambassador. Filmmaker Sebastian Lange, who himself was raised in the movement, presents an intimate look at this new phase in the movement’s evolution.

What begins as a love story becomes an existential crisis when filmmaker Sebastian Silva flies to Miami to fulfill his lifelong dream of swimming with a dolphin.

Due to his short temper, Rayan Khan loses the captaincy of the Bangladesh national cricket team and the love of his life to another man. Filled with remorse, he takes the help of a fan to regain everything he lost.

Ryuji (Koji Matoba), the leader of the Sasaki Mutsumi Federation's shadow assassination group "Special Senior Purge Team", belongs to the former Russian Army Special Forces, and was ordered by President Kenzaki (Masataka Naruse) from Tokyo and Kansai. In Order To protect Kanagawa from threats, he works daily with former doctor Kotora (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) and former power man Inoyama (Kensuke Sasaki).

Lawrence, 3 months on the run, is living in a cabin in the middle of nowhere when a masked man pays him a visit.

A teenager learns the ups and downs of becoming Internet famous after a video of him receiving a smooch from his grandmother goes viral.

Whatever happened to Wohler Beach? Oral histories and spectral pornography resurrect memories of a once legendary gay beach.

A nihilistic border detective is psychologically and emotionally terrorized by the disappearance of his 9 year old daughter. His life spirals into the deeper depths of darkness while frequenting the underworld of El Paso for clues, which leaves him gasping for air as sudden moments of clairvoyance lead him closer to regaining his previous life, his daughter, his wife and his sanity!

Focused on an inspiring and touching dialogue between Gilles Vigneault and Fred Pellerin, the documentary tells the story of Quebec by digging deep into an ancestral tradition etched into our cultural DNA: the production of maple syrup.

Exploring the complex history of football in Los Angeles through the lens of Christmas Eve 1994--the last regular season games of the Los Angeles Raiders and the Los Angeles Rams before they relocated to Oakland and St. Louis, respectively.

The film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the IOC turned, to their mutual benefit, a small sports event into the modern Olympics. The grand themes and controversial issues from the 1936 Games have continued to this day: Monumentality, budget overruns, collusion with authoritarian regimes, corruption and sometimes even bribery.

During the Holocaust, a young Jewish girl flees from the grasp of the Gestapo and finds herself stranded on an abandoned farm.

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An isolated and friendless female security guard finds a glimmer of hope when a charming bartender shows her kindness.

When a successful young artist named Benjamin is involuntarily committed, he is completely baffled, for he doesn’t remember anything about what happened. Life in the psychiatric institute is violent and absurd, but step by step, Benjamin seems to come to grips with himself again. He starts to realize how narcissistic he used to be. When he is released and meets up with his old friends, he is confronted with yet another truth.

In the simmering heat and tension of the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, married couple Agnes and Ivan receive a life changing visit from America.

UFC Fight Night 102: Lewis vs. Abdurakhimov was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on December 9, 2016, at Times Union Center in Albany, New York. A heavyweight bout between Derrick Lewis and Shamil Abdurakhimov served as the event headliner.

Omen is an unconditional fan of Stan, a black female singer of devastating rap. He is no doubt one of the last fans, given how the group she sings in is tanking! The day he accidentally crosses paths with his idol, Omen offers to be her "multi-purpose handyman driver." Against her group's advice, Stan takes this little white guy on board. It's true he often seems half-asleep, bordering on a total screw-up, and she seems to be the only one to glimpse his (well hidden) talents.

Daniel sets a date for casual sex with a stranger at his place. He lives moments of adrenaline in a night where not everything is what it seems.

A prayer for the New York Knicks.

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In an audacious investigation, Freightened will reveal the mechanics and perils of freight shipment; an all-but-visible industry that holds the key to our economy, our environment and the very model of our civilisation.

A couple faces the difficulties of creating a life together and find happiness. Should Suzanne run away from her man to be at peace? Would a new lover help her find herself?

Susan is dating Teddy, Teddy is cheating on Susan with Ricky, and Susan is cheating on Teddy and gets impregnated by Donald. This short film follows their lives.

Short anti-war animation adapting the picture book Sensou no Tsukurikata. It was created by the group NOddIN.

The evil T.H.E.Y. organization is out to stop ex T.H.E.M. agent, Sandra West. Can Superseven thwart Their, (T.H.E.Y.'s) master plan?

Carlos writes crime novels but since the death of his wife he has been suffering from writer's block. When his publishing company sends an assistant at his house to help him overcome this difficulty, Carlos believes he might have another shot at love. Terrified by the idea that this new opportunity might escape, he decides to keep her with him at all cost.

A film on the come back of exorcism in the contemporary world. Each year a growing number of people call their sense of unease “possession.” The Church answers to this spiritual emergency nominating an increasing number of exorcist priests and organizing training courses. Father Cataldo is one of the most sought-after exorcists in Sicily and elsewhere; he is famous for his tireless fighting spirit. Every Tuesday Gloria, Enrico, Anna, and Giulia, along with many others, attend Father Cataldo’s mass for deliverance, trying to find a cure for a sense of discomfort that has no answer nor a name. Whether believers or not, how far are we prepared to go to get recognition for our own disease? What are we prepared to do to be delivered from it, here and now?

Recently released top secret files from the early 2000's expose the lies told to the American people by senior US government in this PBS documentary, which outlines the real creators of ISIS.

A group of actors gather in a workshop performance. Its aim is to research, create and develop the drama of a future film. With an unfinished script, a story of love and bullfighting background, the TeatroLab actors with director Gabriel Olivares, we are immersed in the passion for the craft of storytelling from the emotion and truth.

Is the Phaistos Disc a clever fake? The film follows the trail of possibly one of the greatest archaeological scandals ever. The search for the truth starts in the ancient Cretan palace complexes of Phaistos. In 1908, the “Phaistos Disc” was discovered by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier. Since then, the disc has aroused scientific debates. Among other experts, art historian Jerome Eisenberg is convinced that the disc is a fake.

This anatomy of a marriage explores complications, sexuality, and guilt.

An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.

About a hundred years ago, Fang Mo, who was transformed by a Western vampire during the period of German occupation in Qingdao, became the first eastern vampire in history. Since then, Fang Mo has hidden on a university campus longing for a normal life and has tried to forget the vampire lover, Lotta, who transformed her a hundred years ago.

The action takes place in the 1960s over a period of nine months in a small Italian American community in the fictional mid-western town of Harmony, USA.

Childhood memories of fishing with grandpa grow so vivid they visit the protagonist's present experience.

A classic tale of love and survival in the brutal world of bare knuckle fighting. Powerfully told and acted by a wonderful ensemble of actors. Jazz and Gia each struggle to survive in their "other-side-of-the-tracks worlds. He desperately looks for a way out of the dark past that haunts him and the violence he faces daily as a bare knuckle fighter. Gia leads a bitter and lonely life trying to main

Six twenty-somethings meet at a lakeside summerhouse. This is their first time getting together since high school. Some of them have started careers, while others have not. Some of them enjoy the pleasures in life, while others vent their hidden frustrations. The seventh character is a young Ukrainian named Solomia who works at the same company as one of the evening’s protagonists, Igor. Solomia is an outsider and is at times an object of hatred on the part of Hubert, who persuades the others, drunk and lost, to take part in an act of violence against the girl.

How technology can ruin a relationship of young couples.

The Road To ACL is a 2016 documentary about the story of "The Road to ACL", a band. They capture fans and bands as they converge at the Austin City Limits Festival.

Closer to midnight, the city is not sleeping. Freshman students - even more so! On this day, they organized a large-scale party for the first time, dedicated to Valentine's Day. Their night could have been perfect if a jealous boyfriend, a jealous ex, and a DJ who has taken the blow of unrequited love hadn't met on the same dance floor!

Thomas, a sound engineer in his thirties, lives in a studio apartment with Wyatt, his alcoholic boss. Lost in his music, he lives with the painful memory of a romantic relationship and no longer does what he loves: creating sound portraits. Amina, a cheerful young Moroccan woman, enters his life, seemingly to escape her own. She quickly proves to be the perfect subject for a portrait... To find out who she really is, Thomas will have to take his microphone from the suburbs to Morocco and learn to listen again.

A new mayor seeks the origins of a mysterious illness that is running rampant throughout a remote village.