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After a chance encounter in the Montana wilderness, mild mannered family man Bill Burdick and failed drug dealer Devin Fowler form an unlikely bond, and soon find themselves concocting an unorthodox scheme to resolve their respective financial debts.

In this animated film, an innocent greeting between two people is quickly transformed into a tangled struggle, illustrating the twists and turns of a love affair. Relationships are visceral attachments, often leading to one dominating and consuming the other, then moving on easily and heartlessly. This film is autobiographical, a visual metaphor of an experience I had in my youth with one of my first girlfriends, perhaps the first love of my life. We learn a lot from experiences like this.

A man wants a handshake.

Indie film, 8mm, Osaka Prefectural Kanaoka High School.

Movie adaptation of a wildly popular hand-copied unpublished novel by Zhang Yang during the Cultural Revolution that was later rehabilitated and officially published in 1979.

Léo and Baptiste go to the same school. But they do not know each other yet. When they meet for the first time, a passing handshake evokes a daydream from Baptiste. It is the longing for the love of his life. In his mind, he found it in Léo.

Animation by Katomomo. Music by Kazune Yamagata.

From the bridges of Porto to its estuary, two men are paying tribute to the elegant Douro River. Through Luís de Camões and Prince Henry the Navigator, through its Viking ships and dizzying bridges, the Douro is a great witness to the history and culture of Portugal. Jean Rouch and Manoel de Oliveira are walking alongside while reciting a poem written by de Oliveira himself. During their walk, they reflect upon documentary-making, the charm of the river, and what it represents to them.

An old woman lives in a remote village in Belarus. As the end of her live approaches, she starts to read the worn-out notebooks of her daughter. Together we go on a journey to the unknown world of a person who is abandoned and forgotten by everybody.

A mysterious power failure in a small mountain town coincides with the disappearance of one of its most eccentric young residents. Mystery piles upon mystery as his family and friends search for him, fail, and ultimately try to forget about him, an undertaking that results in many unexpected, and in some cases bizarre, effects on the town's already peculiar community.

Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.

Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals.

A symbolic union of countries is profiled in this historical documentary. On July 17, 1975, the American Apollo spacecraft joined with the Soviet Soyuz, where NASA's Thomas Stafford shook hands with Russian Alexey Leonov.

A young jobseeker gets to grip with the perfect interview technique.

Jacob is an ordinary man living an ordinary life with his beautiful wife, until the day he wakes up in an eerie hotel room to find himself being brutally tortured by a mysterious woman. He succumbs to the unbearable pain and loses consciousness; only to awake safely back in his own home the next morning to discover that he has been missing for days. At first, Jacob believes his experience was just

A teenage New Yorker faces a global pandemic in a love letter to New York City's resilience.

“September 13, 1993: Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Bill Clinton’s handshake on the lawn of the White House after signing the Oslo Accords. A historic moment, repeated 20 times. Tainted by countless shattered hopes and with a voice-over by intellectual Edward Said, expressing his outrage at the agreement.” – Rotterdam International Film Festival

Men and boys learn together what it takes to be a man.

After a freaky handshake goes wrong, Johnny and Mark find themselves switching bodies.

WWII Propaganda Film

John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.

An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence.

Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.

A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.