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A story about a mouse and his hat.

Two little girls muse on marriage and babies, love and death as they create and act out plays in their backyard. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2006.

The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.

A man caught up in the glamor of being a Hollywood celebrity has no idea that the production he's in is a fake.

The film depicts a man who becomes a motorcycle grand prix champion in his teens, but suffers an accident, and then tries to make a comeback as a privateer a few years later.

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each following their own path, the film offers a richly poetic exploration of what constitutes happiness for women.

Three friends, Deokbae, Chun-sik, and Kil-nam, work each at a suburban Chinese restaurant, a barbershop, and a motel. The three friends are clueless about their future. They just share the drinks and love stories. Kil-nam is in love with Jin-ok working at a hair salon and Chun-sik is after Yu who also works at the barbershop. Naive Duk-bae's mind is torn between Chun-sun who works at a factory and an uptown girl Myung-hi.

The coastal people of Kaugatoma set out to build their own ship to earn a living independent of the baron's will. The baron does everything to prevent the venture, but still "Kaugatoma" raises its white sails. Unfortunately, the power of money turns out to be decisive both in the organization of joint activities and in the relations of the strong-natured captain Tõnis Tihu with the community and his loved ones. He abandons Liisu, with whom he has a son, and marries a wealthy widow. As a captain, he has the power to look after the welfare of the sailors, but he thinks more about his own safety. However, the winds of 1905 are already blowing over the sea.

Kiting is more than just a sport.With the way things are in the world, it’s obvious that wind and alternative energies have to be part of the solution. Who knows the power and potential of the wind better than people who already harness it. Part of it is having a small footprint in the world, but the other part is enjoying this gift from the sea, as much as we possibly can. "Big Windy" is a new kitesurfing movie featuring Moehau Goold, Davey Blair, Reo Stevens, John Amundson, Josh Mulcoy, Mauricio Abreua, Ian Alldredge, Bertrand Fleury, Marc Ramseier, Guilly Brandao, Tuva Jansen, Kristin Boese and Pete Cabrinha. It was filmed by John Bilderback and Alexis Bilderback in Micronesia, Polynesia, and Indonesia.

Windy, who is good at dancing, enrolls in a yoga class; after returning from the beach, she wants to go to the top of the mountain to have a look. "Miss Windy" adopts an anti-dramatization narrative strategy, trying to present a "cross-section of life" to the audience. It is hoped that the physical activities of the characters will be used to express their emotions, and that the interaction between human beings and nature will illustrate mankind's primal urge for freedom.

In a park, a family is enjoying a picnic, a businessman is working next to a grandpa playing with his dog, while two lovers are passionately kissing. The wind blows hard and disrupts their daily routine. It blows harder and harder, so hard that they all get swept away together. In the air, they meet and see their lives evolve toward new horizons.

Retired MI6 agent Steven March is called back into action by his former employers. His task is to assassinate Chicago politician Dan Paterson, an ambitious and ruthless Russian who March has encountered before. March's task is made more difficult when Paterson's daughter is kidnapped, apparently by Chinese gangsters.

A single kite string ties four kids together through childhood, friendship, and loss. As their bond begins to unravel, they are forced to confront what it means to grow apart and leave the past behind.

Bering Island in the Kamchatka Territory is a point that the future rector of the local church, priest Vladimir Mironov, did not immediately find on the map. The Commander Islands became home to his extended family, but this was not how the graduate of the Moscow Theological Seminary imagined his life.

A Windy Season was filmed in Maryland during the months of November and December (2016) and January (2017). This film is from the Journal of Drifting Hours series. Drifting moments, lyrical passages, memory impulses, landscape studies and visual notations captured and edited in- camera on super 8 film.

A group of temporary workers arrive at the Czech-German border to conduct geological exploration. However, not all people have pure intentions and a past, and so the group of geologists is threatened by saboteurs who want to blow up an abandoned mine and escape across the border...

Simple title cards link ten home movies shot at Maine's Windy Ledge Farm, at a neighbor's place, and visiting the Brownes in Chocorua, New Hampshire. We watch an uncle mow, farm hands haying with the White Mountains in the background, various young children playing, a lad holding his cat while carrying milk cans on a yoke, a pointer stalking a cat, the annual burning of brush and rubbish, and a montage of chores and relaxation on the farm. The last shot is of spring, a flag in the background. The films are sweet and straightforward, with clear black and white images.

Detective Rick Bogart is a detective in the 1930s, when his partner ends up the victim of a murder, he takes it upon himself to solve the mystery.

Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' sequels.

A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.

A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.

An ex-fighter pilot is forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

A woman with a dark past dedicates herself to taking care of multi-handicapped children. When a young musician comes into her life, she is forced to face her history, or it will destroy her future.

High school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. His rich, authoritarian father hires an attractive 29-year-old to tutor Bobby over the summer and help him pass a make-up exam. While Bobby's friends lead him away into strange excursions aimed at losing their virginity, Bobby finds all the extracurricular activities he needs with his new tutor.

A budding female race-car driver finally meets her racing idol and unbelievably they fall in love...a love that's quickly put to the test when, having received the chance to show her racing talents, the two find themselves in a race for a multi-million dollar sponsorship contract.

School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virginal friend, whose uncle has allowed the girls to stay at his beach house. When the near-sighted, drug smuggling Captain Bly dumps his cargo of marijuana, the bales wash up on shore. The two party girls, Ginger and Ducky, quickly stuff the dope into giant bags and spirit it back to the beach house, where it fuels a party with assorted misfits, delivery persons, and passersby.

A man's life is turned inside out after a visit from his college friend leads him into the unexpected.

After his father was beheaded by ninjas in Banyuwangi '98, Rahayu was traumatized to the point where he found it difficult to concentrate on his prayers due to interference from the khanzab.

Where Siena is experiencing depression due to being able to see someone's death sign. Even in this situation, she tries to help the people of Remetuk Village who are shrouded in a suicide mystery.

A misunderstanding resulted in Mukidi being accepted to work as a Credit Analyst. He also approves all credit applications to help many people. Unfortunately, that decision resulted in disaster. Together with his wife, Markonah, and his two friends, Samingan and Wakijan, Mukidi must clean up the huge losses he caused.

College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing they have in common is how well they sing together. She takes the women of the group out of their comfort zone of traditional arrangements and into a world of amazing harmonic combinations in a fight to the top of college music competitions.

As the Great Day of the Flyers nears, the Great Valley's flying youngsters are eager to participate in the annual exhibition to show off their skills. Everyone, that is, except free-spirited pterodactyl Petrie, whose individualism causes problems when it comes to staying in formation. Enter his dinosaur pals Littlefoot, Cera, Spike and Ducky, who encourage Petrie to embrace his uniqueness.

A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up some dirt on the war hero... everyone could lose out.

For cynical tabloid journo Richard Dees, facts are always stranger than fiction. Every headline is a dead-line. Serial killers, UFO abductions, tales of molestation, mayhem and murder. To some the tales are mere sleazy fantasy – but his faithful readers believe. And now there's a new story: The Night Flier. What is it that travels by night in a dark-winged Cessna, lands at secluded airfields and murders local residents? Dees begins to track the unknown killer in a Cessna of his own, uncovering clues that reveal a pilot more terrifying than he could have ever imagined.

Four friends plan the perfect small town bank heist, but choose the wrong night. Their plans go horribly wrong when vampiric zombies attack the town and trap them in the bank. Can they escape with the money and their lives?

Richie Bloom, the only white kid on the block, forms an R&B band with his best friend, Kevin. With the help of their mentor, aging sax legend Percy, they pull together a funky supergroup. Despite few resources and heavy losses this resilient group of dedicated musicians, armed only with wit, sleight of hand and outrageous Chicago bravado must come together to finally make their smash debut.

The story follows Revan, who uncovers the mystery behind the death of his former lover, Reny, ten years after she vanished. The truth is revealed through Reny's spirit at her family's tea plantation villa. Ten years prior, Revan worked as an engineer at the plantation. After the owner passed away, management fell to his friend, Bono, who plotted to seize the estate by marrying his reckless son, Guntur, to Reny. While Guntur obsessed over Reny, his sister Selvi was deeply in love with Revan. Consumed by jealousy because Revan only had eyes for Reny, Selvi manipulated a foreman named Degol to murder her rival. In the ensuing chaos, Degol shot both Reny and Guntur. The crime was covered up with a lie that the two had eloped together, leading a heartbroken Revan to eventually marry Selvi. Now, guided by Reny's restless spirit and the testimony of an old witness named Pak Amat, Revan finally exposes the dark conspiracy buried in the past.

Ni Surti strikes a dark pact with the legendary Nyi Roro Kidul, receiving the mystical power of susuk to maintain her beauty and youth in exchange for the sacrifice of handsome men. To fulfill this bloody requirement, she targets Rita, a vulnerable woman recently separated from her cheating husband. Possessing Rita's body to seduce and kill victims at a nightclub, Ni Surti leaves a trail of mysterious corpses that baffles the police. As the terror escalates without any physical evidence, a religious scholar (Kyai) begins to uncover the supernatural evil at work.

While on their honeymoon, a couple encounter a ghost.

The loves of a struggling photographer and a bus ticket clerk are inextricably tied together after a chance encounter.

Though up to 20% of students are dyslexic, many pass through school unidentified, misunderstood and performing below their potential. Paradoxically, these disorders are often found in highly intelligent, creative minds, and can also be seen as a gift, because many people with dyslexia naturally think outside the box and see the big picture, finding alternative solutions to problems that others might not see.

Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction, an all-woman team of biologists set out to save bats from a deadly fungal disease, but when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts their work, they are sent down a path of discovery that illuminates the connections between bat conservation and the spread of infectious disease.

A slow burn into insanity as a small band of survivors find themselves spending a post-meteoric apocalypse in a fun house converted into a bomb shelter.

When Trace McNeil experiences a 12,000 volt shock, his life becomes a psychedelic blur of reality and fantasy in this science fiction drama.

"Indonesia is Harmony" is what Indonesia means to Ginanti Rona. According to her, this country is a harmony that arises from its many differences. However, ultimately, it can create harmony.

Arham has a little friend named Husna in his hometown in Bogor. Even though they secretly love each other, their relationship is revealed, and their love story continues down the aisle. However, Husna had an acute illness, namely brain cancer, and was given a life sentence that would not last long. Arham, with firm determination, promised to accompany Husna until the end of her life. Even though Husna and his family encouraged Arham to continue his education, Arham reluctantly decided to move on and separate from his beloved wife in order to complete his studies. On the other hand, Zilka, a young woman who has fallen into a dark world, tries to migrate to the right path. He needs someone who can be a guide in his new life. Meeting Arham gave Zilka hope, because Arham was considered a figure who could hopefully guide her to a better life.

18-year-old Angelina shuffles between school, a dead-end job, her exploitative boyfriend, and home, where her life consists of cleaning up after her alcoholic mother and protecting her younger sister from their menacing stepfather. After arranging an escape to San Francisco with her best friend Andrew, she soon finds herself dating a coke-addicted attorney and becoming immersed in the local porn industry, mentored by lesbian director Margaret, who has more than just a professional interest in Angelina's talents.

An unexpected turn of events introduces her to the intense LA dance scene and in no time she is teaching dance and competing against the pros - but can she juggle both while falling in love?

Ancestral patterns combined with modern prejudices and stigma explain skin bleaching.

Quarantine Tales is a collection of stories by 5 directors who tell the stories of life experienced during the pandemic.

Because of an incident when they were in high school, members of the Bebas Gang were forced to separate. 23 years later, one of them is seriously ill and hopes to meet again one last time.

Timur, a young accountant who falls in love with a woman named Mentari. Even though the two have differences, Timur and Mentari remain firm together.