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Film poem based on the theses “On the concept of history” (1940) by Walter Benjamin. Brazilian indigenous peoples in records from 1917 and 1922 and in anti-fascist demonstrations from 2022; the Palestinian cause in 1948 and in 2022; shots against the clock fired by French revolutionaries in July 1830 and arrows against the clock (commemorating the 500th anniversary of discovery) fired by the original Brazilian peoples in April 2000.

The short documentary explores the transformation over the decades of the Stop Shopping Center in Bonfim, Porto, framing its history within the materialist critique proposed by Walter Benjamin in his Book of Passages.

A critique of the 'Critique of the Critical Critique'. A piece of structuralist cinema inspired by the tirades of Rodrigo Botello.

A teenage boy tears up his small-town roots and heads for the big city to make his mark while honoring his mother's legacy by entering a drag pageant.

A Budapest-based film crew runs a community workshop for village youth and uncovers a dark secret on the local cucumber farm suggesting the mayor’s oppression. Their exposé documentary becomes a hit, but the scandal fractures the once-united villagers and leaves the community divided.

Documentary about the lives of three generations of residents of Warsaw’s Wola district.

The basis of materialism is that only matter and energy exist. Naturalism holds that everything in the universe is the result of natural causes. Do these two concepts really lead to a full understanding of the world around us?

For her bachelorette party, purveyor of fine jokes, Cameron Esposito, decided to go a different route - making people pay to see her stand up and tell jokes for her first special. Now she's got your attention and she's got some harsh truths for you, discussing topics such as marriage equality and gun control to the secrets of a women's locker room. You'll love her! After all, she's Marriage Material.

Materialism confronts us on a very elementary level with the things we surround ourselves with and the materials that comprise them. The work calls for contemplation on how we deal with the raw materials at our disposal. Everyday products such as a vacuum cleaner, Volkswagen Beetle, pencil, or PET bottle have been reduced to the exact quantity of the specific raw materials from which they are made, shown in the form of rectangular blocks.

Does the philosophy of materialism work to destroy our identities, experience, and environment? Join narrator Daphne Ellis on a radical romp through the evidence and decide for yourself if you're in the cult and need to escape!

A young woman finds herself completely lost in a nightmare.

In between transformations. Like a series of wanderings through the relationship between work and material, between the tool and the hand.

A drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an Albanian girl searching for her missing father.

In the beginning, Elisabeth picked yellow flowers. On the green hill, facing the sea, between a bunker, the glare of the sun, and the radiation from the wars in progress. In these times of confinement we film an hour a day, less than a kilometer away. It's a very old desire to film from home. The flowers, a radioactive yellow, evaporate in the light. And all around, the playful insects vibrate tirelessly. In this landscape under surveillance, there is Paul, an ancient Newfoundlander, struck down by the world to come. Has he left ? Has he disappeared? His dog prowls along the cliffs, between Fécamp and Yport. The sea turns red, we fall into the night.

Documentary made as part of the exhibition “Materiais de Construção” (FCG, 1998). The exhibition's curator, Jorge Molder, and the participating artists, Markus Raetz and Pieter Laurens Mol, are interviewed. Topics such as the artists' biography and the works presented are covered. Includes images from the exhibition (CAM Gallery and Hall).

The state and business corruption in Greece that enriches by the metal recycling at the expense of a social margin which, while implementing the recycling, lives in extreme deprivation.

Two eccentric brothers collect scrap material whose objects have access to the traumatic memories of their owners. These same memories are then used for therapeutic purpose where the owners give away their objects, and then face their suppressed past in the landfill. During the work, one of the brothers starts to doubt the motives of the other, and slowly a big secret that they can no longer deny is revealed.

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of matter, which shows the bizarre richness of the smallest particles floating in the film emulsion. The crystals' constantly changing structures, enriched by the textures, bring about an almost tactile experience, a visual expression of its own base matter.(Jürgen Reble)

What has happened to Konrad Theodor Preuss's collection? Perhaps his collection is nothing more than an accumulation of dead and distant objects, a collection of traditions and popular rumours. No wonder it is called a crime scene. Any collection of materials alters the meaning of things, from relics to scraps and vice versa.Their accumulation carries with it a certain violence that consists of turning objects into archaeological objects. Thus creating sedimentary layers, linear successions, detachments, and a rupture between the versions of the past and those of the present. Archival film, found and recreated, filled with plastic gestures and encounters. Collecting Materials is a palimpsest of times and documents, a freehand ethnography, an inventory of natural wonders.

A landlady asks her tenant – a trumpeter who has an audition that day – seemingly innocent favor: to drop off her female friend and her little daughter in the city. The tenant is unwillingly involved in a series of dramatic events which fuel his creativity during the audition later that day.

Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she’ll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you’ll go for someone you love.

Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.

Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.

A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.

Craig, a young boy living in a small town befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone.

Flea was a basketball player, happy with his subtle hustle, until a Dominican connect introduced him to a new way to spread the work and make money.

Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

Pope Francis responds to questions from around the world, discussing topics including ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice.

After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.

I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners and the creative force behind such blockbusters as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” “The Nutty Professor,” and “Bruce Almighty.” However, in I AM, Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world.

Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?

Shopping malls - today's place of creating desires. Best jewelry, clothes, shoes. Unaffordable by young girls, but they "work" to get themselves sponsors for new items.

When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a 'mom and pop' company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's attractive daughter—who is a lawyer—to stop the takeover. However, the raider soon becomes infatuated with her, and enjoys the legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart.

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.

Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister.

An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.

For generations, we have believed that man is driven by ruthless self-interest. But over the past decade, this idea has been increasingly challenged. New research from fields as diverse as political science, psychology, sociology and experimental economics is forcing us to rethink human actions and motivation. ‘The Altruism Revolution’ examines the scientific reasons behind the call for a more caring society.

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!

Winter is in full swing. With her mother by her side, Laurence is en route to her grandma’s funeral to pay her last respects. But her mind is elsewhere; Laurence is expecting someone.

Drowned in the chaos of a family reunion filled with testosterone and pig roast, Reynald will try to prove to his nephew, his family but mostly himself that he's still king.

The red-lipped model lives in the showcase of a women's clothing boutique on a commercial street. One day, when she meets the new plastic model from the store in front, she is overcome by a dilemma.

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.

Two childhood friends from a tough Milanese suburb—one a low-level drug dealer, the other stuck in a back-breaking, underpaid job—find their bond tested when they both fall for the same girl against a backdrop of escalating social unrest in their neighborhood square.

Adventures of an idealistic old Communist whose treasured watch is stolen by a magpie but who overcomes all difficulties.

Santeria arises from the union of elements of Catholicism with others of the traditional religion of the Yoruba peoples (an ethnic group of West Africa). Santeria is practiced by African slaves and their descendants in Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Panama and also in places in the United States with many Latin American immigrants such as Florida, New York and California.

In a obituary, the keeper tells to the mortuary make up artist, the reasons of the deaths of 4 bodies... one in particular seems to be unbelievable...

Two new media journalists get on track of a murder case in a psychiatric clinic. The outcome stuns them.

After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn baby is narrated through voice-over.

Based on famous game Durango Wild lands. A lonely banker named Tom is leaving for a hunting trip, but when his flight goes through an unusual turbulence he wakes up in the jungle but not any jungle, a jungle filled with dinosaurs, the hunter becomes the hunted.

A book is buried under a mango tree in a backyard in Cape Verde, initiating a journey to reconstruct a fictional, geographic, emotional, and identitary cartography of loss, based on the five stages of grief.

While on an awkward picnic, Randy and Amanda's first date goes from bad to worse when an axe murderer joins the mix. Randy attempts to lead Amanda away from danger, but soon they find themselves face to face with a killer. They must work together to stay alive and save their date.