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How might your life be better with less? The popular simple-living duo The Minimalists examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from various walks of life.

DVD collection of all the Minimoni Pyon Seijin and Gomaki Penguin Monogatari segments from Hello! Morning.

The 'Making-Of' Documentary of Minimoni.'s feature film where they must stop the Fairy Queen from turning all cakes into stone.

In a town named after a fairy-tale, this drama goes backwards through time in three different stories unveiling the complete story. Story 2.

In a town named after a fairy-tale, this drama goes backwards through time in three different stories unveiling the complete story. Story 1.

In a town named after a fairy-tale, this drama goes backwards through time in three different stories unveiling the complete story. Story 3.

Pinkfong and his friends enjoy the magic show put on by three cars in Wonder Village. But when danger appears, Hogi must be brave to save the day!

The contrasts between Marlen (Corinna Harfouch) and Fynn (newcomer Daniel Sträßer) couldn't be any more extreme if they tried: Marlen's apartment is packed to the rafters with objects too valuable or important to throw away, while Fynn plans to go through life with only 100 things in his possession. The fact that they can't keep their hands off each other and end up falling in love holds true to the old adage that opposites really do attract...

Kraftwerk are one of the most influential bands in music history. Over the last two years, Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Fritz Hilpert and Henning Schmitz have toured the world, performing approximately 90 live shows that were unlike anything seen before, prompting global headlines such as this from the London Evening Standard: Is This The Greatest Show London Has Ever Seen? Said performance at London's Royal Festival Hall was also included in Time Out's recent list of best shows ever witnessed in the Capital.

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The movie takes place entirely in and around the Mini Moni Cafè. The Mini Moni Cafè is run by the first generation members of Mini Moni, who are lead by Mari Yaguchi. Mika Todd is the primary baker for the cafè and Ai Kago and Nozomi Tsuji are bumbling waitresses. One day Kago and Tsuji serve a particularly enthusiastic customer (played by Ai Takahashi) who says she has never had such a delicious cake before. When the waitress explain they do not know the secret ingredient that makes the cakes so good, Takahashi decides to sneak into the cafè later find out what it is and steal it.

A look at the careers and influence of Terry Riley, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, and Steve Reich.

Featuring notable Minimalist artists such as Bride Marden, Claes Oldenburg, and Donald Judd, What is Minimalism: The American Perspective 1958-1968 explores the movement during an explorative exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Los Angeles. Exhibition curator, Ann Goldstein, walks us through multiple rooms of the exhibit and offers her insight on Minimalism and its role in our society, stating that "It marked a fundamental, and critical and pivotal and irrevocable change in the course of art history," (Ann Goldstein). This film observes and analyzes the compelling creative choices behind some of the featured artists most applauded works of art.

Inspired by a poem by Cristina Peri Rossi, this intimate film explores the distance that can only exist between lovers.

An extremely shy woman has a crush on her coworker. He is trying his best to catch his attention. Her maximum desire is his minimum caress.

The French adventurer Eliott Schonfeld crosses the Himalayas from west to east. Off the beaten track, his way leads him first through the wide valleys of Ladakh and over barren passes and glaciers to Nepal. There is always some seven-thousander in sight, but people and villages are the exception. Eliott's only companion on this lonely hike is his horse Robert. While the snowy and icy passages become a real challenge for the four-legged friend, Eliott feels in the bitterly cold nights on his own body that he may have saved too much on his equipment. Nevertheless, the minimalist adventurer explores his limits along the way and does without the last comforts of civilization: tent, sleeping bag and lighter. How little is just enough?

Two weeks to go until the qualification race for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. A young Polish swimmer (Jan Kałusowski) prepares for a chance to compete at the most prestigious sports event in the world.

In an apartment, a young man lies on the floor, seemingly having fallen after hitting his head hard while reaching for a book on the shelf. "Where am I? Who am I?" he wonders, finding himself devoid of memory. He attempts to access his personal information but fails to retrieve his PIN number from his phone or PC. Despite considering himself a minimalist, he struggles to locate anything in his room. What should he do?

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Minima Gesté, drag queen on stage, Arthur in civilian life. Whether he is he or she, he is on all fronts: the show, his job as an engineer, his life as a couple, his commitments to numerous associations that fight for the most precarious. Whatever the nature of this precariousness. Minima is now one of the essential figures of the Parisian drag scene. She continues the fight of her models: these drags who launched the Pride March, who are at the initiative of all the great movements for the rights of the LGBTQIA+ people and of the ostracized and despised communities. Minima Gesté / Arthur makes us discover this world of drag, its commitments which pass, and it is so much better, by the party and the disguise.

While decluttering her home, a woman's hefty house renovation leads her back to the past when she uncovers her ex-boyfriend's belongings.

Minimalist, bizarre and surreal story that takes place in some sort of post-cataclysmic future, where the main hero collects tracks which were the only connection of his with the environment known today.

Toyoda Toshiaki went to Sado Island and filmed musician Koshiro Hino and Kodo, the local Taiko Performing Arts Ensemble, while they performed music composed especially for Shiver.

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.

This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du Châtelet production and a first ever filming by award-winning arts filmmaker Don Kent. Eschewing conventional narrative, the opera revolves loosely around pacifist Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb.

In this reenactment of a propaganda documentary, a woman is falling prey to the role assigned to her in slow motion. Upon her arrest, diplomat Mária Kerényi is interviewed by the state television. Her story in espionage confronts the mechanisms of autocracy and the concept of guilt in a closed society.

They've built a movement out of minimalism. Longtime friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus share how our lives can be better with less.

A muffin thief troubles Mr. Baker, so he seeks help from a sleek detective. They agree to catch the thief at night in the bakery in Baker Street.

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.

When forest animals invade our cities, the world is in disarray. Office vixen Fiona struggles with her banana phone addiction. Will she succumb to it? Temperamental bunny Barbara only gives her stag sugar daddy Nestor his special massage, after he dines her and plays the big spender. This obscure short film pinpoints postmodern tropes of consumerism, eroticism, and art with an homage to the theater stage and references to literature. This work uses a fantasy language and needs no subtitles.

Shell-shocked Barbara must face up to the loss of a dear companion after a tragic accident. Her best friend Klara and husband Torsten devise a plan to thaw Barbara's heart, after she reminisces about the incident, the funeral, and happier times. Will she agree to the suggestions of her nearest and dearest? Can grief turn into hope?

It’s like almost all is lost. Yet still they are here – abandoned bungalows, an artificial lake, dirty plastic bottles, lost donkeys and stray dogs, draining pipes running over fields of salt, deserted factories, statues of revolutionaries, concrete playgrounds covered with weeds, rotten fruit, folded T-shirts, pop songs, decades of forgetting, a single room with a blue tent inside. And it felt like a kiss.

The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera.

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This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New York to London and from Paris to Boston. He speaks about his beginnings, his moving to Paris for two years of intensive study with Nadia Boulanger, his meeting with Indian musician Ravi Shankar and director Robert Wilson, who had a deep influence on his career. The film also shows him at work on the last details of his opera The Sound of a Voice, directed by Robert Woodruff and conducted by Alan Johnson. Éric Darmon's camera, with its poetic shots and original framings, takes us for a musical journey into seven months of the life of the composer who, rising from the underground scene of the seventies, brought on a revolution in modern theater.

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

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A short philosophical satire that wanders between the absurd and the profound. From a silent bed stare to a prophetic lentil, Cryptex explores the rituals of modern existentialism — one cup of coffee and one book at a time.

A young man walks around town, after deciding against taking his own life, and comes across a dying bird--to which he chooses to offer shelter.

An invasion alien threatens the fate of humanity and begins in a village where there are Bill Johnson, John West and Max Giggs. The friends escape from there with the purpose of finding and destroying the invading ship before it completes its evil plan of conquest.

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A legend of Argentine rock travels to Iquitos to find an old Healer and participate in his Ayahuasca ceremony. You will have to go through the jungle and your own ghosts, on your way to healing.

A video-film by Wonder Product

A journey into the very depths of the belly of the most influential and insidious organization in existence. See, as never before, how the Papacy plays a vital role in current events, and the final fulfillment of Bible prophecy.

The phenomenon of tourism arrives to a remote village. A married couple sells their property to open a motel, which would be a starting point for their daughter Andjelija's singing career. The local radio-amateur (and Andjelija's boyfriend) helps them to achieve these goals, but Andjelija is more interested in her love life than her career.

A con leaves the prison with a plan to deceive people by entering financial bank business.

A "wedding of the century", as Yugoslavian press of the time called it, took place on February 19, 1995 when Željko Ražnatović 'Arkan', a Serbian war criminal, married Svetlana 'Ceca' Ražnatović, the most popular folk singer in the country. The wedding was released on VHS.

Pippi Longstocking lives alone in Villekulla because her mother is an angel in heaven and her father is a pirate king in the Southern Seas. She befriends her next door neighbors, siblings Tommy and Annika, who are swept into Pippi's wild adventures.

Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.

Office executive Knut Levin decides to arrange a party at work. Things don't go exactly according to plan with hilarious results.

From a Mess to the Masses follows the band Phoenix and their loyal team members on their quest to find meaning in our chaotic world through music. The journey is an abstract and emotional ride. It highlights the need for constant movement, artistically and historically, in order to remain anchored amidst the surrounding disorder. Through their story, their words, and the music they have created together, From a Mess to the Masses uncovers the beauty of the creative process and its incredible power to bring people together.

An estranged grandson and his grieving grandfather reconnect through an unfinished bucket list, healing old wounds and rebuilding their bond.