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Five months after the maternal death of his partner, a man is at a crossroads with how to raise their baby.

The flesh of time, strands of the present, in constant becoming and disappearance. One reel for each season, exposed between 2016 and 2017. Leitmotifs of flora, providing some unity within each season, as a reflection on ist atmosphere and passing presence.

A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran police inspector leads a parallel investigation.

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

The reality show "I'm Jealous" is being filmed at the TV studio. The management of the channel that ordered the show is not satisfied with the ratings and insists on increasing the degree of provocation. The producer of the show Anton demands from the participants to act out scenes of jealousy "on the verge of a foul". On the set, the situation is spiraling out of control. The administrative group of the show is involved in uncontrolled "games of jealousy", which makes Anton suspect: the show has a background, "invisible script" - "Show about filming the show", which is designed for elite consumers of closed sites.

Lech, by his 30s, has already burned himself in a relationship and is now enjoying bachelor life in an apartment with a friend. But a friend suddenly grows up and decides to move in with his girlfriend, whom he found in the STPP — "Potential Partner Selection Bureau". Lech does not immediately, but decides to also try to find "compatibility love" based on computer modulations. And finds it! But there is a problem: she has already found love for herself, and this is not Lech.

Yuri appreciates her son Kazuma's passion of figures, but worries about his ability to get along with the group. Yuri, who works as a writer, visits Edo Kiriko glass atelier to cover an article. Through the lessons she learns from the father and son artisans she meets during her interview, she begins to think about respecting Kazuma and developing his potential.

A stark portrayal of the hardships faced by farmers, Mulshi Pattern tackles some of the raging issues of our times. The film lays bare the deep flaws of the system which turns the farmer into a criminal and a social outcast.

A monastery holds four books containing the secrets of its powerful martial arts techniques. Everybody wants to get their hands on them, including a band of local evil types. The abbot is killed, and the head students begin to argue over who should keep the books safe.

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

How Morozik decorated a rainy day with sparkling snow.

Mother pig steps on her piglet’s stomach and opens up a wound. Grandma Vera, who is a seamstress, takes the piglet into her care. She carefully sews up his wounds, creating beautiful patterns of old Slavic tablecloths on his skin.

The traditional patterns of ancient Kyrgyz carpets tell an old legend about the insidious sorcerer Kara-Khan, about a girl imprisoned by him in a dungeon, and about a brave young man hurrying to her aid.

Jan Kulka is an experimental filmmaker from Prague working predominantly with analogue technologies. Using the ‘Archeoscope’ (in Czech, Pramítačka), a special opto-mechanical projecting apparatus he invented and constructed for live film performances, Kulka aims to find radically different ways of perceiving, understanding and working with film material, alongside new, aslant approaches to the act of projection.

A film about the city of Vitebsk: its streets, monuments, and people associated with it.

Fall. Fracture. Reconstruction. In a porous and fragile universe, we find ourselves following this character, addicted to work, alcohol, loneliness, creating a world where he gradually finds himself again.

When you look at a screen for a long time, the screen looks into you, too. It's late. You've been juggling numbers all day. The screen seems to vibrate before your eyes. You close your eyes. The afterimage on your retina continues pulsating in over-saturated colours.

"Patterns" was an American television play broadcast live on January 12, 1955, remade as a film the next year with some of the same cast. Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.

To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to terrify and unsettle. Using sounds from Hollywood's best-known thriller and horror films, Cockburn makes familiar noises frightening and leaves us wondering... What's that sound? And why won't it stop?

To eliminate internal opposition, a cruel CEO sabotages and humiliates a good-natured executive in an effort to force his resignation — and make the reticent new hire his new yes man.

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

Ever since her father drilled into her head that monogamy isn't realistic, magazine writer Amy has made promiscuity her credo. As much as she enjoys an uninhibited life free of commitment, Amy is really in a rut. While writing a profile about charming and successful sports doctor Aaron Conners, she finds herself actually falling in love for the first time -- and what's more, Aaron seems to really like her too. Amy starts to wonder if it's time to clean up her act and face her fears.

Two planes almost collide after a blinding flash of light paralyzes air traffic controller Dylan Branson for a few seconds. Suspended from his job, Dylan starts to notice an ominous pattern of sounds and events that repeats itself in exactly the same manner every day, ending precisely at 2:22 p.m. Also drawn into a complex relationship with a woman, Dylan must figure out a way to break the power of the past and take control of time itself.

What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery.

A woman takes time in private on a tiny island in Helsinki to contemplate a loss that has caused sudden changes in her life. This tragedy has challenged her to see the world in a different light. A light that is driven by a force of nature.

Film follows a woman walking this very route. She stops, hesitates, runs. She waits, calculates and bends down. Every crossing is a new challenge and new calculation.

Co-directed by Max Devereaux and Igor Amokian, MD+IA=? is a sonic and visual collage that fuses circuit-bent electronics, broken tape loops, glitching drum machines, and free-improvised guitar. Amokian’s footage of modified CRT televisions generating unruly abstractions is layered with Devereaux’s processed iPhone videos, altered through datamoshing and glitch-editing apps. The result is a vivid collision of sound and image—a colorful flux of patterns and distortions where technology’s failures become raw material for improvisation.

Rhythm and repetition plays an important role in the animated film Allahu Akbar by Usama Alshaibi. With this film, Alshaibi questions the confrontation between tradition and modernity by drawing inspiration from geometric motives of Islamic art. The artist offers a re-interpretation of these motifs through computer animation. By turning the shapes in different direction, new images are generated, freeing them from their fixed state. Traditional spiritual values feed the present and open up to a modern perspective.

A tribute to the Masters of Middle Eastern Patterns. NOOR is 4D animation of classical design motifs and calligraphy from Arabic, Persian, Moroccan, and others. Inspired in part by British scholar Keith Critchlow's 1976 scholarly book "Islamic Patterns" and by my pilgrimage to The Alhambra in Granada, Spain.

Pattern Pusher escape the mundanities of life by taking a trip to their happy place

Pattern Pusher must find a way to hold on and keep performing as the aspect ratio of their lives constantly changes around them.

A contractor and his wife move to Malibu to flip his mother’s beach house, but are terrorized by the deranged homeless lady living under the house.

Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.

He will stop at nothing to rescue his granddaughter from a ring of vile men - no matter the cost.

Over 75,000 people have laughed, enjoyed themselves, and been impressed by Finn Nørbygård's latest hit show, "Finn & Co," which toured the major venues across the country at the beginning of the year. There were 54 performances in total. This time, he is collaborating with two of Denmark's great voices: Rikke Mølgaard and Yasmin Elvira Steenholdt. Together, they deliver a humorous, fast-paced, and, not least, musically stunning show that has received standing ovations from enthusiastic and entertained audiences across the country. Finn can be seen in both familiar and new roles: as the brave Jutland farmer, the smart Copenhagen chauffeur, the dance teacher Esther in a red sequined dress, the friendly Poul Reichardt... to name just a few examples. And, of course, no Finn Nørbygård show would be complete without music. Not only do two great voices reach beyond the edge of the stage, but three—because Finn also sings with his usual convincing power.

After Vox's castle and clan were destroyed by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the year 1616, he tended to his wounds in a cave by the ocean until he was awoken by a savage hunger.

After spending months in isolation, fearing for the danger he poses to those he loves the most, Vox must confront the darkest corners of his heart if he ever hopes to heal the wound he dealt not only to his Kindred, but also to himself.

Feature-length sequel to the 2000 short 'Gold'. Nick Adams has been found murdered, and the legendary case of gold stolen. As the various criminal gangs of Tamworth surface to try and use the situation to their advantage, the killer continues to cause chaos. In the centre of this, Bob the Builder enlists his top men to track down the gold and use it to buy his way into the all-powerful criminal syndicate The Organisation.

On his last day of work, a software engineer attempts to salvage the digital remains of his wife before being discovered by his coworker.