Cinematic Era: 2020 Vintage

When a junior high student in 1963 suspects his teacher of being a communist, he investigates the truth to gain approval from his father.

Hosted by Mandel from The JFL Festival in Montréal, featuring one-of-a-kind performances from some of the best stand-up comedians today.

In NUBIA: Amplified, BeBe Zahara Benet, Bob the Drag Queen, Monique Heart, Peppermint and Shea Couleé sound off in a candid exchange about race in America, immigrant identity, the rigors of entertaining while Black, performative allyship and intersectionality within queer communities.

After winning the lottery 15 years ago, Tino and his family start experiencing economical problems. Tino askes his neighbor for help, but his neighbor has his own issues too.

The harmony of a seemingly idyllic neighborhood is disrupted when a dog attacks a young girl.

Lasse and Maja have had their detective agency shut down by the police chief when a customer ask for help to prove her father is innocent of the train robbery he was convicted of. Lasse and Maja now see their great chance to show off.

The comedy melodrama in mockumentary format. Maria is seriously ill preparing for death: chooses a coffin, buys a dress, orders a place in the cemetery. Despite his wife has already reconciled to the destiny, Peter is secretly looking for money to pay for expensive treatment abroad.

Williamstown, Kentucky, is home to the Ark Encounter – a “life-size” creationist museum filled with all of the creatures that traveled in Noah's Ark, including dinosaurs. With incredible access to the park leading up to its opening, the filmmakers expose the larger system behind the creationist movement, piecing together the many factors that have led to the museum presenting its information as historical fact, and the people who are fighting to set the scientific record straight. Amid a climate of science denial and a well-funded corporate behemoth, three Kentuckians (a local geologist, an ex-creationist, and an atheist activist) try their best to challenge the movement that is taking over their home state. Meanwhile, fervent believers work diligently to create the lifelike animatronics that will be on display in the Ark.

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2020 was a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on January 6, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan at the Ota City General Gymnasium. It was broadcast on NJPW World.

Superstar Hideaki Takizawa reimagines his acclaimed kabuki production for the screen, featuring the dynamic talents of idol group Snow Man.

Work up a sweat from the soccer field to the locker room in these drama-fueled four films from Germany, France and the UK that explore how rivalry between teams can spill over into teacher-pupil relationships, high school crushes and brotherly compassion. The short films are: Islands [Inseln] (2018); Play It Like a Man [Un été viril] (2018); Colours (2015); Through the Fields [Passer les champs] (2015).

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.

A clever thief who gets away easily is being lured into a bigger trap where the police force sets up an attractive bait to capture him for good.

Following the death of Sarah-Jane Smith, her friends and allies reunite at a memorial service to pay their respects.

Turbulent era of the Republic of China. Bodyguard Alliance accepted a special task - to protect the patriot Chen Lao who returns from overseas to give a speech against the Japanese menace.The members of the Bodyguard Alliance must sneak into a Japanese puppet government's prison to obtain their assassination plan.

An autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son: between 2016 and 2019 she interviews him addressing the conflicts, certainties and uncertainties that pervade him in a deep search for his identity. At the same time, the mother, revealed through a firstperson narration and by her voice behind the camera that talks to her son, also goes through a process of transformation required by the situation that life presents her with by breaking old paradigms, facing fears and dismantling prejudices.

Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists for a year as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense complexities each artist faces concerning their own identity as Native artists, as well as pushing further Native art into a post-colonial world.

An ancient Permian Komi virus was brought to Perm, which is gradually turning the inhabitants into zombies. A year later, the city is cordoned off by the military, scientists are trying to find an antidote. The planes are dropping food. But the heroes, like the rest of the inhabitants of Perm, have adapted to the new reality. They live an ordinary life: they go to cafes, do business, make plans for the future and try to clear the city of zombies on their own. Everything is getting better until one of the usual post-apocalyptic days Leroux is not bitten.

Star Dogs is a brand new British comedy that follows the exploits of a rag-tag group of space-pirates as they try and make a living in a strange new future.

Close friendships are slowly pulled apart as a once shared dream is abandoned by one in favor of fatherhood.

When the Iron Curtain cuts his tiny German village in half, Peter the bull gets separated from his 36 cows. Based on a true story narrated by Christoph Waltz.

Shot over the 2019-2020 season, this 17-minute film tells the story of “ski divas” who are pushing the boundaries of freedom, creativity, and sisterhood on and off the mountain. After years of freestyle competitions, Ballet-Baz wanted to focus on something else for the project: passion, creativity, and friendship.

Donald J. Trump's fervent supporters and scared opponents were affected by Trump's rhetoric and the media's interpretation, increasing a dangerous political division. Now, It's time for them to stop and listen to each other or push harder until they crash America's democracy.

Antarctica is the most extreme continent on our planet—higher, colder, and even drier than any other on Earth, and although it is thousands of miles away, what happens here affects every single one of us.

We wish to make him ours, to keep and to hold forever - but will the boy reciprocate? And is he everything we expected him to be? In these five tales from the UK, France, Sweden, Mexico and the USA, a variety of characters throw caution to the wind and take their chances on a fleeting moment. The short films are: Uneven [Impar] (2016); Wolves (2016); Johnny (2018); Debut (2016); Guardian (2018).

In an overpopulated and underprivileged suburban neighbourhood, Jacob, a boy immobilised on a wheelchair, fights to protect a girl he spots across the courtyard, doing all he can to warn her of the dark figure entering her room - The Recycling Man.

The story of two queens who set out to create a classic Christmas TV variety show, but just can’t agree on how. DeLa tries her hardest to uphold the cheery Christmas traditions of her childhood. Meanwhile, Jinkx is much more interested in bawdy jokes, cute boys, and boozy libations.

Himuro, who promoted Kawakami, the fourth Yamazaki-gumi advisor, to direct advisor to the Kyowa-kai, solidifies his intention to exchange sake as the Fujishiro-gumi's spiritual representative. Meanwhile, Himuro heads to Toryukai in Ibaraki to find out that the land being redeveloped by Hirokawa Kanko, which is affiliated with Itonaka Construction, is being handed over to a company affiliated with Marukami-kai.

Boyfriend with the same sexual orientation as Bo, who always has a body attached to lust. He lives with Gangseo and has a satisfying sex life. Then one day, Kang-joon's older brother, Chan-joon, came up from the province and decided to live for a few days. Chan Joon is also a brother of Gangseo and it is a style that reveals the color when there is time Bora notices Chan-joon's dark eyes at a glance. One day Gangseo is having an affair with Arang, another sex partner shared with Chan Joon. Bora masturbates Chan-Jun and has sex while masturbating with the door open in the room.

A reclusive doctor, desperate to help his dying daughter, attempts the ultimate experiment, bring a dead body back to life! His experiment seems to be a success but when the monster gets loose the doctor has no idea what destruction his creation will bring. Before it's all over people run, people cry, people lie and people die because nothing can prepare them for the monster, The Doctor's Monster!

When Lila is hired by the Royal Family of Ancadia to repair a carousel, she must work with the Prince to complete it by Christmas.

Voices...HORRIFIC Content...Right Here In The Holiday Of Horrors.

Chekhov's famous characters are reimagined with a Kiwi twist and congregate over Zoom. In a direct commentary of our world in lockdown, the characters are still searching for meaning in their lives while battling love, jealousy, dissatisfaction, dreams, hopes and plans - not to mention malfunctioning video calls! This drama all plays out in self-isolation and over virtual interactions with each other.

A reticent young photographer strives to find a normal life working a dead-end job in a mall portrait studio and volunteering as a clean water activist for developing countries. But his dreams are threatened and his mysterious history begins to unravel when an unexpected romance and personal tragedy plunge him into a fight for survival.

The making of the chapter "Angel Abuse" from the Angela Chapters

Since he was 18 years old, Blake Eckard has written and directed six feature length films in his hometown of Stanberry, Missouri (population 1186). Aside from a short distribution deal in Canada and a few festival screenings, his movies have largely gone unseen.

A photojournalist, grieving the loss of her stillborn child, is drawn into an obsessive relationship with a pregnant teenager.

The unaired pilot for a TV show that was too awful to air. The script was re-worked and the show later became the "Full House" reboot.

Two Spanish women from different generations find themselves sharing a hospital room in Belgium. María has been living there for decades after emigrating when she was young and Verónica is a young girl recently arrived in search of opportunities she never found in Spain. A strange friendship is forged between them and this leads María to set out on a return journey to the south of Spain with an unusual mission. What begins as a search for Verónica's roots will become an opportunity to open herself up to the world and question certain principles on which she had based her life.

Chronicles director Michael Allcock’s global quest to understand why he and so many others on this planet are terrified by the simple act of dancing – what science calls chorophobia. Along the way, he encounters a celebrity chorophobe, dancing robots, virtual reality, and a mysterious dancing plague.

1962. The US Genesis 1491 space mission launches with a unique objective, based upon mankind's ongoing quest to seek answers to existential questions. It is the dawn of the Golden Age of Space exploration, and the possibilities seem limitless...

An inspiring drama about the personal journey of a new inner-city public high school teacher who enters the profession oblivious to the actual demands of teaching in the inner-city, and unaware of his own shortcomings and biases.

A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. A drama about the desire for freedom in the clutches of a tradition.

A modern version of Charles Dickens work. Gioele is a modern-day Scrooge, who hates Christmas but will end up changing his mind, also thanks to the love of his secretary Bianca.

Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War.

The life of local businessman Cibulkis turns upside down when his daughter Kotryna introduces him to her fiancee Fransua, as the ultra-conservative father did not expect his son-in-law to be of African American origin.

It is the 30th millennium. Humanity is caught in the midst of a fratricidal war between those of the meta-human Space Marines who are loyal to the Emperor, and those who no longer are. The once noble warriors of the XII and XVII legions are cutting a bloody path throughout the realm of Ultramar, committing boundless atrocities out of sheer spite and hatred for their cousins belonging to the XIII legion. In this episode we gain a glimpse of the aftermath of the battle on planet Sathus, and the living nightmare taking place on a starship manned by traitorous legionaries, as they bide their time on the approach to planet Calth.

In this personal and rousing documentary, Joan Chen charts the inspiring life and career of “Jenny” Lang Ping, a fearless and independent Olympic athlete who propels China to international prominence in volleyball. On the court, her most effective weapon is her lethal spike, hence her titular nickname, while her leadership skills and calm demeanor solidify her unique status as the first player and coach to win multiple World Championships and Olympic gold. Chen, in her documentary feature debut, skillfully combines thrilling excerpts from championship games, intimate conversations with Lang Ping, her colleagues, and players to craft an entertaining and multi-dimensional portrait of this groundbreaking athlete who transformed women’s volleyball.

Four gangsters are planning to have a fun afternoon but they never expected someone pranking them giving them a taste of their own violence.

There is a place where hotties roam free as the wind, uninhibited and unbound by societal conventions like chastity and shame. In a secluded mountain valley, a hotbed of paranormal activity the locals took to calling "Ghost Gulch", stands a ramshackle country brothel. Here working girls ply their trade, servicing the lonely mountain men, and all is right in the world. Until one fateful day, when the hotties' fertile cleft (of land) attracts the attention of greedy politicians, gangsters, and corrupt cops, who tighten their stranglehold on the placid mountain nymphs until they finally squeeze too hard - and the nymphs fight back.

Social media can be a dangerous place. This story is about a dangerous app. Every time a person uses this app, they get paid more and more. But each time they use, they also increase their chances of dying.

Through different intersecting stories, the film tells about the lives of three teenage couples who are trying to find their own identities in a digital paced world.

Doctor Bianca Valentino is hired to cover the night shift in the ward of a pediatric hospital. She finds herself immersed in an environment that, behind its reassuring image, hides a terrifying secret linked to its past as a children's asylum. The ghost of a child wanders the corridors tormenting her and transforming her nights in the clinic into an endless nightmare that day after day is about to become reality.

At the airport, customs provide a so-called mule with over a kilo of cocaine in her body. When the chief inspectors Fredo and Milan want to bring the Colombian to the police station, Milan is shot at a rest stop ... - The leading role of the chief inspector Fredo Schulz in the crime series is played by the multi-award-winning actor Armin Rohde.

An examination of the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith.

Dreaming of being a film director, Choi Seon lies that she possesses a Level 1 driver’s license so she can join the production team and work with her favorite director. However, in reality, every time she takes the test, she fails. The deadline to submit her driver’s license to the assistant director approaches, and she heads to the driver’s license test center for one last hope. During the test, things keep getting messed up and don’t go as expected. Would Seon obtain her Level 1 driver’s license?