A thoughtful treatment of some of the problems we (mankind) have been having in dealing with our fellow species, animal and vegetable. Actually an undercover "structural" film, this one seems at first to be some sort of berserk travelogue. I spent years going to travelogues as a child, and still have a great fondness for visiting natural history museums in strange cities.
Follow the path of the sun on its annual cycle, from the Equator, across the northern hemisphere and into the South. Witness a world bursting with life, as spring and summer follow the passage of the sun. Revealed in all their glory are the natural rhythms of life - the urge to breed, to feed and to raise young - all driven by the sun, the moon and the seasons, across the world.
There are frequent disasters in Linglong Town, and rumors have it that it's because of the dragons. Young boys and girls need to be sacrificed into the Dragon Well to feed the dragons in order to enjoy peace. The evil customs of sacrifice continued for a long time, and countless children were buried in the belly of the dragon. The cries of Linglong Town were loud, and everyone with young children at home panicked. After Xinke Jinshi solemnly served as the master clerk, he insisted on entering the Dragon Well to investigate the Dragon incident, but he did not want to be imprisoned for offending the Dragon King.
A group of friends in their 30's meet at a bar in Buenos Aires everyday. They used to hang here as students, laughing at the world, and now they still dream of changing the world from the cafe's table. Unable discuss politics or football, the only thing they can talk about is women. When one of their friends commits suicide, a female from his past shows up to confront old feelings.
Ovadia Rachmim is the strongest and most violent doorman of Tel Aviv night clubs. He and his wife Rachel are trying to get pregnant for 5 years. A small time gangster named Shalom, offers Ovadia a job, to be a debts collector, offering him a lot of money. Ovadia sees this as great opportunity to start an expensive private treatment for his wife. As soon as Rachel gets pregnant, he decides to stop working for Shalom. Shalom wants him for the most important mission. The mission in which Ovadia has to betray all his best friends. Now it's the time to pay the price of becoming a father.
A two-disc collection capturing the remarkable performances by arguably the greatest and most genuine talent to emerge in British music in decades, garners the strong and enduring relationship that Amy enjoyed with the BBC. It stands as further proof of quite what an extraordinarily talented, completely original, and truly engaging performer Amy was.
An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer.
Self-directed combination of concert footage from 1966 onward, backstage footage and art film-like sequences.
A group of flower arrangers practice their art in this second silent early short from Joshua Oppenheimer.
A fairytale based on the play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy.
The true story of Derek Bentley, whose conviction and execution for a murder committed by someone else provoked a public revulsion.
Inhaling a hallucinogenic drug can give the impression that the prostitute with whom he spends the night looks exactly like his ex-wife, but Paul discovers the scam and tries to rescue the kidnapped, threatened woman. The gang of criminals, the ghosts of detectives investigating, an ancient ghost which endlessly kills and revives him make their escape take an unexpected turn.
Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures.
An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe.
This short film shows a quest of two homosexual couples for understanding from the people in their surroundings, through meetings and exchanges on a square in the heart of Beijing.
A biopic of ‘Tiger’ Nageswara Rao, a daredevil thief of Stuartpuram in the 1970s.