Cinematic Era: 2018 Vintage

This documentary was shot in more than 200 locations around Japan to show "the real beauty of Japan".

Phil Heath is considered one of the most muscular men on the planet. He travels the world making a living from his 'muscles' as one of today's elite-level professional bodybuilders. From the hard work at the gym to the pressures of competing to maintaining a positive relationship with his family, it's all part of Phil's quest to become Mr. Olympia; the ultimate bodybuilding title. In Gifted, we peek behind the curtain of one of the world's most fascinating and bizarre sports. Can Phil achieve his dream to become the greatest bodybuilder in the world? The film includes behind the scenes footage at the Olympia, gut-wrenching training, interviews with Phil's family, friends, and body building community. Gifted is a documentary for both people that know little to nothing about bodybuilding as well as bodybuilding aficionados, taking them on a journey of one man's attempt to fulfill his destiny.

With a meticulous selection of interviews, performances and photos drawn from a vast and rich archival collection, Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political follows the iconic Quebec singer and eternally free spirit on a journey through key moments in the province’s history.

Torn between the life he thought he could leave behind in Tunisia and the life he’s created for himself in Marseille, a man finds himself at a crucial crossroads, in Nejib Belkadhi’s latest.

Ghost Fleet follows a small group of activists who risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for the enslaved fishermen who feed the world’s insatiable appetite for seafood. Bangkok-based Patima Tungpuchayakul, a Thai abolitionist, has committed her life to helping these “lost” men return home. Facing illness, death threats, corruption, and complacency, Patima’s fearless determination for justice inspires her nation and the world.

Shyamrao Deshmukh is a selfish politician.Hi son Varad was married earlier but his first wife left him in few months while second wife committed suicide on the wedding day itself.Shyamrao decides him to marry again with Sanika whose lover Avinash ditched after she got pregnant.After her getting married to Varad ,Sanika sees Shyamrao's adopted son Sholk in the house whose look alike of Avinash and also shares his habits Sanika believes that Sholk is Avinash .But what was Shyamrao's intention of getting Varad married to already pregnant Sanika.

When an accident strands pregnant Chloe and her geriatric dog, Thrasher, on the highway home from broken dreams in L.A., unwelcome rescue comes from her estranged dad, Mac, who takes them on a disastrous detour toward a second chance.

In this romantic short film, Maya, a junior in high school, has an overly controlling boyfriend (Brad) who goes too far. When Maya's best friend, Carmen, expresses her romantic love for Maya, she realizes that she is in love with Carmen.

A look at the life and career of the influential post-colonial writer and champion of the Palestinian cause in the West, through interviews with his immediate family and closest friends.

A young man is forced out of his comfort zone when he goes on an unconventional date.

Classic film star and queer icon Montgomery Clift’s legacy has long been a story of tragedy and self-destruction. But when his nephew dives into the family archives, a much more complicated picture emerges.

Javier comes from the future to recover María's lost love. Together, they relive the magic of the day they met and repeat the journey they made from a sunrise in Madrid to a sunset on the Andalusian coast. Everything to get María to be the full of life girl he once fell in love with.

Chronicling the single-afternoon gathering (June 4, 1967) of 11 American athletes and a politician. Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, to have a discussion with Muhammad Ali about his refusal to enter the Vietnam War draft.

Jojo, a twelve year old boy, and his friend Shibu try to save a famed animal and the forest from poachers, while they travels to Baropahari to visit his uncle.

Two strangers. Two perspectives. A cup of tea. An overnight train journey that will change the way we look at life forever. After all, every minus is half of a plus. Isn’t it?

After his wife disappears a man uses a sensory deprivation tank to solve the mystery.

Three friends find themselves lost on Skid Row and are captured by an angry homeless gang.

A Metro Family decides to fight a Cyber Criminal threatening their stability and pride.

A delicate and tenacious writer, widowed three years ago, engages in frequent conversations with a parrot. However, she’s always observed by a large portion of raw meat.

Sally Steele is on mission to reunite the battling Burnette family while discovering one of the greatest untold tales of rock history with an amazing adventure.

The story is set in the capital of Earth, Takarazuka-City. The peaceful planet Earth — a united world where war, crime, and all evils have been overcome — receives a visit from Baddy, a vagabond rogue from the moon. Baddy is a super-cool, elegant, and a heavy smoker. But he soon finds that smoking is outlawed across the face of the Earth. Baddy, accepting no limits, leads his gang and engages in all sorts of wrongdoing to make the dull world more interesting. His final goal is to steal the planetary budget guarded in Takarazuka Big Theater Bank. But all-mighty female investigator Goody is gaining on him!

A short film by Yoichi Tanaka

Four friends rob a safe in an attempt to save a marriage. When the money winds up at a Catholic school going through financial problems, the friends try to get it back. In doing so, they face a complication they never anticipated: the anger of an Irish nun.

A story of two friends who grew up in the same housing complex in Tokyo but drifted apart after 3/11/2011.

Hamed comes back home after fifteen years in Kuwait. When he reunites with his college friends, they go through many comedic situations together.

Yura Platonov - famous poet and just lucky. He has everything: he owns the largest Moscow publishing house, has long and happily married, his father is a billionaire and a criminal authority, his beautiful mistress is completely satisfied with their relationship. It is precisely this problem-free that at some point begins to alarm Jura, because everything is so good in life! Realizing that his whole life is artificially modeled, Yura wonders: maybe the fictional life, self-deception, unwillingness to know the truth about those around you, sometimes better than understanding what is really happening?

A film about how we imagine and portray death. Our heroes are the most diverse people who have been asked to go through all the stages of death, from dying to existence “on the other side.” This study of fear and laughter - the two main reactions of man to the approach of death. Death as a collective (what will happen to everyone) and individual (what will happen to you). What is special about the attitude to death in Russia? Do we know enough about this most important event in life - death? The film creates a kind of catalog, a "herbarium" of human reactions, fears and hopes that there is life after death.

A gambling-addict father takes his nine-year-old daughter to sports. On the way, he stops at a betting shop, leaving the girl waiting in the car. When he returns, nothing is as it was before.

Baptiste has been dumped. Alone, he waits for his friend Karim to help him get rid of the last piece of furniture in the apartment he shared with his girlfriend: a sofa. When Karim arrives, he tells him that he too has been dumped.

To come out of the closet, you first have to enter.

While heading to the war in the East of Ukraine, the Swedish war photographer Karin Holm encounters a young couple in Kyiv. The unexpected meeting carries her away much further from work, and closer to confronting her private-self. 'Lost in Kyiv' is a vibrant inner journey and a coming-of-age of a grown-up woman.

This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all’italiana by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Dino Risi (Il Sorpasso), and Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Through a wealth of interviews, film clips, and archival footage, Sono Gassman! reveals how Gassman’s comedic screen persona cannily reflected and critiqued mid-20th-century Italian society, while shedding light on the complex inner life of the man himself.

Nhung, who is used to extravagant spending, is suddenly forced to complete a special three-month course by her belated grandmother’s will, in order to inherit her huge estate.

Inspired by a true story, Mr. Talented follows a space-obsessed photographer whose life and sanity unravels as he struggles to make a name for himself in the art world.

Interceptor is a documentary that traverses the waters of the Te Manukanuka O Hoturoa, the Manukau harbour in Auckland through underwater camera images, 16mm Whittner film and audio recordings. Manukau waterscapes, the day after heavy rain, reveal the compromised waters of Māngere inlet, and birds active in the mudflats around Puketutu island.

Sam always seems to make the wrong decision. A convicted computer hacker, he's single, jaded and barred from using the internet. Forced to crash on his brother's couch, he makes ends meet by working at the local Twistee Treat and stealing mail while disguised as a postal worker. Then, a single pink envelope changes everything. Handwritten by a heartsick Josie to her late husband, the tender missive awakens something in Sam.

With credits including Strictly Ballroom, Muriel’s Wedding, The Dish, Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet and Road to Perdition Jill Bilcock is regarded as one the world’s great film editors. Axel Grigor’s hugely entertaining documentary traces Bilcock’s journey from Melbourne film student in the 1960s to working as an extra in Bollywood movies and learning her craft when Australia had virtually no feature film industry. Bilcock’s cheeky charm and illuminating appearances by key collaborators make this a must-see for film lovers.

The film was made on the basis of a frightening incident that happened in a tuberculosis dispensary. In a hospital-related university, the corpses of the deceased were used as teaching material. Once in the anatomical room where the autopsies were carried out, strange and frightening cases began to occur. Especially at night. A group of students is trying to figure out the true cause of these anomalies.

A mysterious and violent encounter sends a dog on a night of adventure and possibility.

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2018 Creepy Christmas Film Festival, in which each short is inspired by a holiday-themed word or phrase. This film, the fourteenth in the series, is inspired by the phrase “holiday feast.”

Franz Kafka’s novel moved to today’s Japan

The film tells the story of the difficult lives of actors.

It tells the story behind the family fate of the Prince who was hit by a strange attack where he suffered heavy losses, and his whereabouts are unknown. Empress Wu was furious and ordered Zhong Xingluo, the leader of the Tianji Dao, to find the prince within seven days. During the search, he was attacked by the ghost and half-demon Emperor Jun. On the trail, the two killers continued to fight each other with dead bodies everywhere. In the end, both sides suffered heavy casualties.

In today's Larzac, the life of Oedipus, king of Thebes, before, during and after the tragic episodes of his life. In the dressing rooms of a theater, the Greek chorus and its leader are preparing to go on stage. A film performed by actors with disabilities.

Fishboy lives in darkness, his guilt about the past slowly consuming him. His girlfriend Laura is a light of hope in his dark world. But despite his efforts, his past continues to chase him, eventually putting them both in danger.

A short film based on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fictional universe, combining the “Picnic to the curb” of the Strugatsky brothers, “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky and the “Exclusion Zone” location around the Chernobyl NPP. According to the scenario, an agent of the peacekeeping forces, nicknamed "The Photographer", arrives in the Zone to prevent a global scale catastrophe, which could be caused by an experiment that went out of control at a scientific lab.

If Love Is The Message trained Jafa’s scrutiny on black experience, The White Album shifts his lens to white experience, acknowledging that neither can be understood in isolation from the another. Again, he combines imagery from a wide array of sources, from music videos to confessionals posted to YouTube, to produce a trenchant examination of race relations in the United States.

Loki's Daughter is the story about Loki and how he brought dark magic to the humans to challenge gods and create chaos.

Ed Kemper, also known as the Co-Ed Killer, murdered and dismembered 10 people, including his own mother. Former FBI agent John Douglas takes us through his extensive interviews with Kemper, which became the backbone of modern criminal psychology.

It’s saturday night and Pilar just wants to stay alone at home without being bother. But when the doorbell rings, her plans will soon change.

Furious after getting rejected by a famous dangdut singer Elena, Dirga resorts to using black magic "Jaran Goyang" from his aunt in order to get her love.

An isolated village welcomes a new miller with open arms. Problem is, the man howls at the moon every night. His integration is starting well… French comedy at its best.

Quebec, on the cusp of the 1960s. The province is on the brink of momentous change. Deftly selecting clips from nearly 200 films from the National Film Board of Canada archives, director Luc Bourdon reinterprets the historical record, offering us a new and distinctive perspective on the Quiet Revolution.

A boy welcomes his father back from sea, while witnessing the islanders going about their business.

A young man and his friends must survive a horrific night of hide and seek from his grandfather who begins to relive moments of his grim war days in Vietnam.

Jessica Miller is thrust into the "real" world when she graduates from college. To conquer this new world, she must discover her faith, open a box of memories and learn the simple secrets of life only a mother can share.

Even after being married for a year, Gitin is unable to take his wife Jayati on their honeymoon, owing to his workaholic boss Mr. Pranesh Bhattacharya. Finding the perfect opportunity, Gitin and Jayati leave for North Bengal when Bhattacharya travels to Mumbai on a four-day business trip. Much to their surprise, they bump into Pranesh, following which their hilarious escapade begins.