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Documentary commissioned by the Communist Party of China which argues that Nikita Khrushchev "lit the fire of nihilism" by criticizing predecessor Joseph Stalin in his 'On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences' speech, weakening the image of cohesive socialism in the U.S.S.R.

A man searches for the meaning of life

Following a young man as he becomes indoctrinated into a local gang, James Price’s film Infectious Nihilism and Small Metallic Pieces of Hope is about the personal cost of finding a sense of belonging in a criminal world. Dubbed the ‘Springburn Scorsese’ Price grew up amongst Scotland’s once prominent violent and territorial gang culture, an experience that he channels regularly into his storytelling. Visually, Price has a strong interest in reflecting the hardened realism of the scene but within a minimal and artistic framework that can feel poetic and deeply cinematic. DN is delighted to premiere Infectious Nihilism and Small Metallic Pieces of Hope on our pages today and caught up with Price, who at this point has become a true DN alum, for a chat about the creative inspiration he draws from his own life, his cinematic approach as a self-taught working-class filmmaker, and his latest project Skint with Scottish acting and filmmaking legend Peter Mullan.

In an post-apocalyptic future, a group of young terrorists fights desperately against the obscure "Professor", the personification of all that is unwholesome in society, who ingeniously controls the ruins of civilization.

Leo suspects Sonja of infidelity, although she is in fact – for better or worse – fraternising with militant nihilists. One evening, Leo secretly follows her and ends up in the clutches of the nihilists, who give him an ultimatum that puts his life at stake. If Leo can obtain the police’s list of their cronies facing execution within three days, he and Sonja will be allowed to live. (Stumfilm.dk)

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Ranju is a melancholic character. He resides in an old house with his elderly parents in a small town. It is as if the past memories of his ancestors lodged in his body. It is as if he were reincarnated. He finds it particularly difficult to sleep on rainy nights. On rainy nights memories of past lives awakes - his boyhood, his national past; his vision gets distorted, he couldn't help leaving the house. He seeks to escape from this troubled, hectic, suffocating modern world. He seeks peace on the paths, past memory ladened old walls, on the face of common people of this land, ancient trees. This journey is to absolve his burdened parents, to emancipate himself. It is a journey into the void.

Atena, a young girl, is born to parents whose faces are burnt by acid throwing. While struggling in her relationship with her parents, she gets involved with Soheil, a mysterious young Sufi.

During a raid, a police officer is shot, and a woman is mistakenly arrested for the crime. Despite the pleas of her mother, she is sentenced to Siberia, but she dies along the way. Her mother decides to take revenge.

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

Nadine and Manu are two mad women, as tidy as can be, almost perfectionists. They have several things in common: extreme sex, drugs, beer and the trigger. They find the solution to their problems with guns and beware to those who dare to get in their way!

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.

In Taipei, revenge and love twist the paths of wayward youths.

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Wracked with guilt over his past, Mark, young and unemployed, is unable to cope with his despair. His chronically stupid flatmates are no assistance, and he turns to alcohol to numb the pain. However, things come to a head when Mark decides to attend a house party and things take a dramatic turn.

The work reflects on the state of AI driven technology and classification algorithms. It adopts a dystopian vision of an uncertain future by exploring the idea of gendered oppression in algorithms.

Torn between her feelings of fear and love a young woman living in an rural isolated house endures a mental and physically abusive relationship with her partner

It's the 13th month of the 13th year of the new millennium.

Beginning at a stylish mansion in the roaring 1920's, a socialite, flappers, and the men who love them come to their ultimate demise. These ghosts continue to haunt the mansion throughout the decade. Now they've come back to haunt and chase after a new generation of beautiful girls. The Dead Want Women!

Reserved yoga instructor May's peaceful, clean-living life is thrown out of balance by the arrival of her long-lost sister Shiva, a street-smart yet naive young woman trapped in an abusive relationship. May feels compelled to rescue the hapless Shiva, but she finds herself increasingly drawn out of her sedate world and deeper into Shiva's chaotic one.

She finds herself alone, naked, in her bathroom, facing the trauma that haunts her.

A showcase of the efforts towards the inclusion of cis people in alternate reality. (A parody made by trans people.)

It’s going against everything Irish in me to call it special but that seems the done thing so here it is: My new comedy (not so) special Cultural Appreciation. The tricky thing with short form social media is to truly share ideas and stories (especially Irish stories!). Many of you will have seen 60 second or less clips that don’t give me time to tell the full story behind the thoughts so here they all are, for free because I want to share them with you, and I appreciate your support. If you are reading this you are a true legend in your own undergarments.

Kassetten-Fernsehen tells the story of the development of video as an entertainment medium in West Germany. The story begins with visions of a revolution and ends with a persistent censorship debate in a climate of intellectual and moral change.

The tragic story of two brothers grappling with the death of their father. One was loved and the other unfairly neglected by a father who left him nothing. The entire inheritance goes to the favorite son, who needs it less and cares little about money.

After a painful break-up, Lisa returns to her family farm to help her father, who is nearing retirement. One night, she meets Élise, an actress living in a large house next door. The two develop a friendship, and Lisa helps Élise learn lines for a play based on the story of Joan of Arc. But Lisa, both fascinated and troubled by the actress, becomes increasingly haunted by visions.

Amid girl fights, girl on girl sex and boy on boy sex, and a measure of BDSM, the YoYo gang battles the Skateboard Bitches.

Whether you’re a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the GHOST live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, RITE HERE RITE NOW will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in the moment—as a shadow of uncertainty looms—completely spellbound and in the thrall of this bombastic yet intimate cinematic portrait of GHOST.

Theo is a young docker languishing in his native port. His life flows at the monotonous rhythm of cargo ships passing by. Through his encounter with Giuseppe, a disillusioned sailor ashore for a while, Theo will gather the courage to face the waves to escape his dull existence by trying to get into Giuseppe's gruff crew.

Miguel arrives in the city after the death of his younger brother Julio to find out the possible causes that led him to commit suicide. There he meets Angel, his brother's boyfriend who reveals that Julio practiced bugchasing.

In 1987, Bill Cody and Tony Gayton filmed the seminal music doc Athens, GA - Inside/Out featuring R.E.M., the B-52's and Pylon, among many other bands. Thirty years later, Bill returns on a new journey that uncovers a Southern city that is leading the way in progressive politics and the beginnings of true racial equity. Once again featuring members of R.E.M., the B-52's and Pylon, only now bolstered by a new generation of artists and activists including Mariah Parker aka Linqua Franqa, Kishi Bashi, Patterson Hood and the Drive-By Truckers. Follow along the journey through the social changes that have come to the forefront of our American dialogue.

An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.

This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from Australia. He becomes infatuated with a local singer, Kathy and pursues her. Kathy is married and initially is not interested in him, but later begins to love Rebel. Kathy receives a letter advising her that her husband was killed in battle. The local police and the U.S. Military are searching for Rebel as an AWOL soldier. Rebel arranges to escape Austalia by a cargo ship, but eventually allows himself to be arrested in order to keep the local police from arresting Kathy for harboring him

In response to the legend that the "Manson Family" may have filmed themselves in some of theirs exploits, this film is a re-creation as to what a film of their may have been like. The film, shot in a piecemeal fashion, is an intentionally amateurish faux "home movie" of the events leading up to, and including, the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders.

Goddess Bunny drunkenly quotes Shakespeare.

A musical comedy based on the day to day life of the notorious 1930s Barker Gang.

In a violent criminal underworld, you can't trust anyone but yourself. Two killers tied together by a tragedy that has shaped their existence. Their path of guilt and despair will end in destruction. It's just a matter of time.

In the mysterious town of Blackwood Falls, a young environmental engineer investigates a plague affecting local livestock. He uncovers horrifying secrets tied to cult sacrifices and a demonic entity, known as The Black Goat of the Woods.

Dave Nihill was the winner of the prestigious 43rd annual San Francisco Comedy Competition, and runner up in the Moth’s largest US Grandslam storytelling competition. Dave is also a bestselling author whose work has been featured on NPR, Inc, TV3, The Huffington Post, The Irish Times and Forbes.

How the writer-artist team, Percy Trezise and Dick Roughsey came to produce their brilliant award-winning picture book series based on the Aboriginal legends of Cape York.

An alternative documentary following the trail of blood and carnage of Philadelphia’s own Deathmatch Rock n’ Roll pioneers, Eat the Turnbuckle, from beer-soaked bars to the largest stage in the world of metal.