Cinematic Era: 2016 Vintage

In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.

Once a year, the most powerful people on the planet meet behind closed doors. The origins, development and expansion of one of the most elitist and secret organizations in today’s world. Welcome to the Bilderberg Group.

About the poet C.A.Conrad, an eccentric Elvis worshiping poet and tarot card reader, who confronts his violent past and the suspicious death of his boyfriend, Earth. The film attempts to unravel the mystery of Earth's death, while Conrad wrestles with his inner demons through a series of unconventional rituals and a tour of the deep South.

Braco freely shares his gift equally with everyone who visits him. The silent gift he offers is shared without the necessity of words, and he does not promote any teaching or give a philosophy about life. Braco has also never given a media interview. His sole focus is upon people and sharing his gift where he is invited. People are meant to judge his work for themselves. Although scientists and doctors have discussed about his work, the majority of people find the many testimonials and personal stories shared by visitors a compelling way to understand the possibilities offered to those who come to experience this gift for themselves.

China Films

chinese film

Dreaming about the Wild West in the 1970s in Eastern Europe is not enough...

Midi Z visits his oncle who works as a jade miner.

'La Belle' (The Sleeping Beauty) is a three-act ballet by award-winning French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot. In 1993, Maillot became artistic director of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, creating over 30 ballets for the company, including 'Romeo and Juliet' (1996), 'Scheherazade' (2009), and 'Opus 50' (2011). Based on Charles Perrault’s famous fairy tale, Maillot staged this unconventional and unique version of 'La Belle', which explores the darker side of Perrault’s story. The incredible choreography is set to the score of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performed by the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Nicolas Brochot. Besides the performers of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, the production features star dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet: Semyon Chudin (Prince) and Olga Smirnova (La Belle). This performance was recorded at the Salle des Princes of the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, in December 2016.

Possum is a tale of two young brothers who accompany their lumberjack father to a forest campsite. At odds with each other, their relationship meets the ultimate test when they venture into the woods, hunting a notorious possum named Scar.

Mysteriously eight months pregnant overnight, Katie believes the Angels responsible, but her sister cuts a deal with a bounty-hunter to sell her as an alien abductee.

Over half-a-dozen lover couples go missing and an Assistant Commissioner of Police takes up the investigation.

Invisibility displays Weerasethakul’s continued interest in the issue of perception and memory. The installation takes threads from his recent films, Cemetery of Splendor and Fever Room, both of which feature the same actors. Here, he takes them deeper into an imaginary world and ponders the future of shared consciousness. The videos depict a landscape where the protagonists are confined to a room, along with the viewers. With no way out, they infiltrate each other’s dreams. Invisibility mirrors the troubled state of Thailand’s politics. It proposes a decayed vision of the future where one needs to constantly evade reality. The viewing experience shifts between seeing and not seeing, fact and fiction, space and void.

It is a custom in some towns in Pangasinan to offer a life of an animal when constructing buildings, but one day during the town’s fiesta they discover the body of a young boy that leads to a chain of story and a chain of deaths.

Disrespected by his teenage son, a 40-year-old High School dropout tries to solve this problem by returning to school which only makes his son hate him even more. Amidst the struggle between them, an unexpected event changes everything.

A special BBC programme on the life and music of David Bowie, presented by Jeremy Vine. Bowie was one of the most influential musicians of his time, constantly re-inventing his persona and sound, from the 1960s hippy of Space Oddity, through Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke to his later incarnation as a soulful rocker.

About a strange love triangle - or about two people who are in love and a third person who is in their way. "The Folk Play" by Olga Dimitrijevic is adapted by Bojana Lazic, and Slobodan Obradovic.

Fault Lines investigates how the Albuquerque police force has become one of the most violent and deadliest police departments in the US and asks if any of the officers will face any accountability.

Directed by Oscar-nominated and NAACP Image Award winner David Massey, this dynamic documentary explores why so many unarmed black people have been targeted and killed by police officers. The filmmakers talk to legal experts, activists and law enforcement officials who discuss the inequality within our criminal justice system and who confront the crucial question of how to prevent more violence in this country, including Black on Black deaths. As the Black Lives Matter movement - and citizens nationwide - question the accountability of our justice system in cases of police violence, When Justice Isn't Just is an essential addition to the ongoing discussion about reform and renewal.

Earth is invaded by Aliens from outer space. An intermarried couple living in the city of Dubai are confined to their home due to the uncertainty of the situation. Disconnected from the world outside due to the loss of communication, they explore around their cultural differences in Science in order to understand the reason behind Aliens coming to our planet; only to find themselves caught between a series of extraterrestrial encounters at their very home.

A desperate gateman decides to alert his uneducated friends of his madam's hidden cash. On the day of her fancy dress party, they decide to disguise themselves to ransack her home, but are interrupted by unexpected guests.

Ravunni Mash is an affable person. He is so concerned about his daughter Sreelakshmi. But when Sreelakshmi grows up, his dreams are shattered. Movie deals with the issues that arise in the lives of people due to different religious beliefs.

Angel is one of those typical macho’s who does not hold women in high regard. With his fancy talk, his tight suit and his fashionable job as a director of publicity spots, he has ample opportunity to grab as many young aspiring actresses by the pussy as he can. His wife and kid are left to deal with the consequences. This is now drastically coming to an end. One night, when there’s once again not enough blood flowing through his brains and too much through his nether regions, he walks into a trap set up by a circle of Celtic Goddesses. They transform him into a zombie and make him a pawn in their plan to end male dominance one and for all. Luckily Angel’s not alone. He’s part of a brotherhood of undead macho’s. They do not only exchange tips in how to mask their increasingly penetrating body odor, they also come up with a plan to sabotage the Goddesses.

A young and dedicated nurse is trying to avoid the pain left by her dear cousin's suicide.

MILWAUKEE 53206 chronicles the lives of those living in the ZIP code that incarcerates the highest percentage of black men in America, up to 62%. Through the intimate stories of three 53206 residents, we witness the high toll that mass incarceration takes on individuals and families that make up the community. The film examines Milwaukee’s ZIP code 53206 to illuminate the story of people from across the United States who live with the daily affects of mass incarceration.

A woman goes hunting night after night, looking for someone, anyone, to satisfy her hunger in an alienating urban landscape.

Abel arriving at the outskirts of Barrio Paraiso, a little provincial town run with an iron fist by the sinister crime lord El Diablo. Abel is in town to find his troubled older brother, hoping to bring him home and fulfill a promise made at his father's deathbed. He gets some help from the widow Melissa and her young son, who offer him a place to hide out while wages a violent war in hostile territory against the crime lord and his many well armed goons.

What will become of Phil, the baby elephant seal, after a storm pushes him out to sea? Far from his mother and friends for the first time, he’s lost! Gather your family for Finding Phil, a heart-warming and inspiring underwater rescue adventure, in which Phil and his new seal and otter friends find helping human hands and learn the skills they need to live in the sea.

Seven actress friends spend an evening together. It could have been just another evening for Léa, if she not heard the news.

This is a comedy portraying the antics of three brothers - Paaji, Rajveer and Ravi who get involved in a situation which exposes the truth of Dera Babas and the events happening in their ashrams in Punjab.

'Rise of the Sufferfests' is the first feature documentary about the global obstacle race phenomenon.

More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. This is a film about the prison in which we never see an actual penitentiary. The film unfolds a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives, from an anti-sex-offender pocket park in Los Angeles, to a congregation of ex-incarcerated chess players shut out of the formal labor market, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.

A well known respected Sheriff in New Mexico town, has to investigate on a murder case brought to him from a cynical lawyer. during the investigation he will have to face a complicated situation involving his son.

A remake of the classic film "The Shooter", made by the original, auteur director. Similar to what Haneke did with Funny Games. Git yer popcorn hehe!

Dr. Dilara 2016. Dr. Dilara Bessano is a Turkish Cypriot, who was born and grew up in Cyprus. She went to Italy to study and there she got married with a writer and researcher, Antonio Bessano. Dr. Dilara is at the end of her 20's and has a 4-year-old daughter, Asia. Dilara's life changed drastically when her husband committed suicide on his birthday. Dilara and her daughter Asia moved back to Cyprus after this tragic incident.She started to work as an instructor at the Faculty of Communication at Near East University. While she is working on the documentary that she was working together with her husband entitled "Mass Graves in Cyprus," she finds herself and her daughter in some issues that make her life more difficult.

Ten letters are sent from a man in Myanmar to a women in Thailand who loves and misses so much. But the letters are left unopened for 50 years. Until one day, the women's granddaughter is given those letters and asked to go and read every letter only from where they were written. This is how the impressive love story begins.

Adapted from the short story "She" from the book "Bitter" by Bissme S. The short film tells the story of an forbidden incestuous love affair from two point of views of the husband and the wife. As they continue to not confront the affair it slowly spiral out of control.

Two creatures fall in love, weaving a colourful world together. but when darkness threatens to consume one of them, the other must fight to stay together, or risk being torn apart.

In February 2014, paramilitary groups fought against the police in the streets of Kyev and ousted President Yanukovych. They settled a new government. According to western media, they were the revolution heroes. But they are actually heavily armed extreme-right militias. The Right Sector, Azov or Svoboda created parallel irregular forces that easily go out of control. In Odessa, in May 2014, they were responsible for burning 45 people to death without facing any charges. How come western democracies haven’t raised their voice in protest? Most likely because these Ukrainian nationalist militias actually played a significant role in a much larger scale war. The Ukrainian revolution was strongly supported by the US diplomacy. In the new cold war that opposes Russia to the USA, Ukraine is a decisive pawn. A tactical pawn to contain Putin’s ambitions. “Ukraine, masks of the revolution” by Paul Moreira sheds light on this blind corner.

Hai Apna Dil Toh Awara is a slice of life in the lives of three couples who have their own point of views about life and when their thoughts collide, it's a Bull vs Matador fight to the finish for them.

Le Bois de Vincennes is a safe harbour for many Parisians. Migrants and natives, prostitutes and stalkers, rich and poor, old and young, downshifters and loners come to this forest in search of themselves and find there an escape from the metropolis. A delicate and profound portrait of a contemporary man and his desperate search for an 'unknown homeland'.

It's Friday morning at Panamerican Machinery Inc., a company specialising in selling and repairing machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the weekend, engaging in little rituals and routines when an unexpected turn of events shakes their peaceful monotony. Don Alejandro, the boss, lies dead at the back of the warehouse.

At the end of January 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz extermination camp. The advance of the Allies brought to light the most horrific crimes committed by Hitler's Germany, and the traces of the machinery of death could no longer be concealed.

High-profile beauty vlogger Em Ford was a victim of online abuse and fought back. Now she targets the alarming rise of online abuse in Britain by trying to track down the trolls responsible.

Hermes is an Argentine anthropologist who is living with the villagers of the Damara ethnic group in Namibia. Researching about the possible origins of mankind and specialized in the cosmogony of some people, he manages to obtain some results. He travels to Argentina searching an answer in San Felix, the last afro-descendant community in the country. Hermes provides a unique bridge that will help to recover the memory of a changed history, with the conviction that mankind descended from amphibious beings. But his desire of knowledge will show him how dangerous it is. Director Pablo Cesar specializes in co-productions between Argentina and Africa.

A family, composed of a strapping father, a mother with an authoritarian temper and an excited young boy, land on a crowded beach for their summer holidays. After struggling for several minutes to find a spot, the family, really organized, begin to settle themselves. However during that topping ritual, a fast and cunning mosquito is going to break the family chain. Owing to the little insect, their wonderful day will be transformed into a true hell.

Emma is a phone call away. Emma will help you dance, sing, create, play and sign. Take a bike ride around her wonderful world, with her bicycle bells, flowers and beautiful ballet.

Sally, an introverted 15 year old girl, lives and bears with her wolf-father in the city of New York where Wolf is slipping more and more into his world of wilderness. Sally still remembers the man he used to be; a brilliant and talented jazz trumpeter. Where did her father go? And can he still be found somewhere within the Wolf?

Krampus seeks revenge on a child who has been spying on him in the woods, and is later transmitted through a television where he haunts children at church services and Christmas festivities.

Home 1. Residential building, building. 2. People living together; a family. 3. The place of permanent residence of a person, characterized by a certain relationship and way of life. 4. In children's games based on the persecution (spots, hide and seek, etc.) - a place where the rules of the game can not be pursued.

In San Francisco, a group of clones devoid of emotion are slowly being replaced one by one by humans.

There is always a lesson to be learned, but when a serial killer is involved, that lesson is only taught once.

Aspiring cartoonist and middle-aged gumbuster Cliff Morelli (Jeremy Koerner, Black Cat Whiskey, New York Lately) spends his days at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk performing minimum wage janitorial duties. When he is put on suspension after harassing a teenager and his parents threaten to throw him out of the house, Cliff decides to actively pursue his lifelong animation dreams by reconnecting with his rich brother Jack. After a failed attempt and a string of bad luck, Cliff finds himself at the mercy of the animated characters he has created, and together, they form a devilish plan to exact revenge on all those that have wronged him.

An ambitious teen conducts an ancient ritual to enact petty revenge on those who she believes have wronged her.

Mappilai Vinayagar is a 2014 Tamil film directed by Sriram Padmanabhan. The film stars Lollu Sabha Jeeva, Rashmi Gautam, Santhanam and K. Bhagyaraj in lead roles.

Chinese movie

Luca, a made man, brings his new girl to his family's dinner. What follows is a standard crime family meal: shouting, guns, and insults.

A single girl in an isolated, closed community yearns for marriage and motherhood.