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A unhappy married couple are taken hostage in their own home by a mysterious and merciless killer simply known as "Cowboy". Prisoners in their own home, the couple are turned against one another and forced to reveal their deepest and darkest secrets.

The characters from a historical piece of art come to life to discuss poignant themes such as war and world peace.

Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute. –uniFrance

Following a crushing defeat, a group of vigilantes get together to record an album of revolutionary songs.

The Poetic Power of Theory: Aristotle, Heidegger, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant ("What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?"). Seven examples taken from 200 television reportage programmes. "One must take that which is of significance outside of television and introduce it into this medium without compromise." This is particularly true of the gentle violence of theory.

I try to remember what your hand felt like on my back when I was a child. And now I place my hand on yours, bent from pain. Like landscaped gardens are meant to evoke the four seasons and the cyclical wonders of nature, I gaze at you, hoping to find us one more time.

José Bação Leal has born in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1942, and died in Mozambique, during the colonial war, with 23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in cause its own future in a meaningless war. All the people who were close to him were touch by his fascinating personality and his vanguardist free spirit.

Bucolic, delicate and sensitive, the short film Poética de Barro, animated in stop motion with clays from the Valley of the Widows of Live Husbands (Jequitinhonha), based on the work of ceramists from Minas Gerais and with an original track composed of ceramic instruments, depicts the saga of a small creature, which needs to survive the vicissitudes of life. If all barriers will be overcome, just watch to find out.

Close your eyes and listen to the wind. The water flows, look at the river. This is Sergipe River and it’s yours too. Get in the canoe. On your journey along this river, what are you taking with you

A child of the Beat Generation, Gérald Leblanc conjoined urban-ness and American-ness, wandering and belonging, far beyond the boundaries of taboo. In so doing, he helped propel Acadia into the modern era.

Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to attend a convention because of her broken-down car, Justice gets a lift with her friend, Iesha, and Iesha's postal worker boyfriend, Chicago. Along for the ride is Chicago's co-worker, Lucky, to whom Justice grows close after some initial problems. But is she ready to open her heart again?

Liz, a former therapist and soon-to-be empty nester, becomes the unexpected point of tension between two inseparable best friends and college seniors, Sam and Ari. Liz is forced to re-examine her life as the boys’ friendship unravels in a fierce competition for her affection.

miniDV film by Yukiyasu Shimada.

This dreamlike and poetic documentary follows a year in the life of the Icelandic rock group Sudden Weather Change.

"I Thought I Was Going to Make a Poetic Film With My Brother" follows young filmmaker Ahmed as he documents his family's house in northern Egypt, set for demolition under a new government plan. Through this project, Ahmed seeks to reconnect with his younger brother by exploring their shared memories of the house and village. As they delve deeper, they uncover a deep wound that fractured their family's ties to the village. The older brother attempts to heal this wound and help his younger sibling find reconciliation.

M is writing a story about himself being cursed by his friend during a game of checkers. Soon he becomes confused with what is real and what is fiction.

It delves into the character and life of Albert Maysles, who, with his brother David, created some of the most well known and iconic documentaries of the 20th century. Film extracts include Meet Marlon Brando (1965) Salesman (1968) Gimme Shelter (1970) Grey Gardens (1976)

Marçal Aquino, one of the most important contemporary writers in Brazil, talks about how literature liberated him. Felipe, an almost ordinary reader, says that he reads to free himself. The meeting between the two reveals that the wall that apparently separates them is much less thick than being could imagine.

Poetic Justice presents the viewer with an ordinary domestic scene: a stack of papers, a cup of coffee, and a potted cactus on a table. The sheets of paper compose a script that provides handwritten, frame-by-frame instructions for a film that unfolds only in the mind of the viewer.

Literature and Hilda Hilst.

A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.

Robert Drew shows the sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost discovers that the town still celebrates its most important festivities, but also learns that the construction of a new commercial complex called Mítikah will threaten the existence of both the traditions and the town itself.

After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.

A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave the main stadium and venture into the many halls and fields deployed for such sports as fencing, polo, cycling, and the modern pentathlon, which was won by American Glenn Morris.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

This feature-length docu-poem shines a well deserved light on the factory workers and their processes at Stone Island’s headquarters located in Ravarino, Italy.

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What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

A young couple with conflicting desires for intimacy attempt to celebrate their one-year anniversary.

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"The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he names "Bahr." Set against the challenging realities of camp life, Noon’s journey is both a story of resilience and a testament to the boundless imagination of childhood. Through vivid symbolism and a unique soundscape, the film explores themes of loss, hope, and the longing for freedom amidst confinement. Shot entirely on an iPhone due to restrictions in the conflict zone, the film combines raw authenticity with poetic depth to capture the emotional landscape of a young soul navigating adversity.

Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water. In this way Mirror of Holland became a modern looking experimental film. However this did not devalue the Dutch sentiment regarding waterfronts that are so trusted to so many.

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his birth and death anniversaries. And alongside how his family spends a few days at the village keeping his traditions alive.

This Aint Your Moms Hardcore, Vol. 1 is a live music video compilation of some of the biggest and best upcoming acts in the music scene today. With superb visual quality and sound, This DVD has never before seen live performances by Underoath, Norma Jean, Haste the Day, On Broken Wings, The Chariot, As Cities Burn, From a Second Story Window, Yesterdays Rising, Dead Poetic, Classic Case, Twelve Gauge Valentine, Secret Lives of the Freemasons, The Beautiful Mistake, and Across Five Aprils! Dont miss out on this highly anticipated DVD. This 100 minute + DVD is sure to keep you entertained for months!

Through spoken word poetry, explore the constant turmoil of living with clinical depression.

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