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- Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
- A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
- This compelling documentary details the strange-but-true murder trial of Delbert Ward, accused of the mercy killing of his brother in rural upstate NY. This real-life murder mystery won the Audience Award at Sundance.
- Traces the birth and failure of new media company govWorks.com.
- Two young writers try to pitch their script to the big and famous.
- An elderly man owns a small, isolated general store somewhere in rural South Africa. After suffering a series of burglaries that culminates in the murder of a night-watchman, the Storekeeper finally takes the law into his own hands--with tragic consequences.
- Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
- A portrait of the director's father, searching for the extraordinary in the subject's seemingly normal existence.
- For Better or For Worse is a feature length documentary that explore the lives and relationships of five feisty couples married fifty years and longer. The film takes the viewer on an intimate journey as the couples discuss the issues that inform every long-term relationship. Drawing on rich caches of wisdom and experience, the couples recount colorful stories of their shared journeys, from living room jazz jam sessions, to the Gay Pride parade in New York, to the backwoods of Northern California. The couples' comments and stories, tinged with both joy and sorrow, are often eye-opening, remarkably frank and surprisingly open minded.
- The film is a journey through some twenty countries where existential issues are addressed and the participants have all taken a stand against modern society and trying to make human life better.
- A successful Japanese movie director in his 60s becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. His family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from him, but it gradually becomes clear. Coming to terms with his own mortality is painful, and involves some major conflicts with his wife and the hospital staff. But having done so, he realizes he doesn't want to die in the hospital on a life support machine. He manages to finish his final film, and, enjoying the last days of his life as never before, he dies at home surrounded by all the people he cares about.
- A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuals during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several gay WWII veterans.
- Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.
- Expose on the exploitation of workers in the Florida sugar cane industry.
- Feature-length documentary deals with homeless women, once secure in their middle-class status, who through divorce, misfortune, or circumstances were reduced to living on the street.
- Follows 7 young friends over 3 years after the war in Kosovo. Through their stories of trauma and recovery, despair and renewed hope, we witness their remarkable transformation from children of conflict into the young leaders of a fledgling state. A Normal Life is an intimate, irreverent and unexpectedly poignant documentary - an intensely personal account of growing up and moving beyond trauma.
- Movie about tortured and humiliated women in concentration camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- A unique fusion of rare archival images, and carefully orchestrated visual sequences shot in the present, Bontoc Eulogy is an original and innovative investigation of memory and the spectacle of the "Other" in turn-of-the-century America.
- A slice of life - day after day - in Haifa, where Moshe and Didi's marriage is on the rocks, affairs are casual, and Moshe's angst about health, his parents, sex, communication, and business are pervasive and existential. Moshe's mother is Jewish, his father an Arab; his father may or may not sell ancestral land; his wife and mistress have lovers, one is a close friend; much of Moshe's surroundings seem under construction or in renovation. A cousin watches a security monitor without comment. Is there allegory in this portrait of an anxious Israeli approaching middle age?
- Lunatics in an asylum see the horror of India's partition with a lucidity that seems to escape the seemingly sane political players directing it on the outside.
- Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past. He was successful with the wealthy, who bought his works from him. The camera pans across the paintings while Sokurov speaks of a happy era, when the artist was at one with the spirit of the times, and agreed with the taste of his clients. Just how far removed from us this is, is shown by pictures of a "Nô" performance which are inter-cut on the screen. No words are necessary to describe what everybody knows today.
- It is the 1880's. Deep in the countryside the Bass Player decides to swim in the lake. There he sees a young girl asleep on the bank. Captivated, he ties a bunch of flowers to her fishing line but the idyll is shattered as he discovers his clothes have been stolen. The girl suffers the same fate. To spare her blushes and unknown to him, the girl hides in the bass player's now empty instrument case. Based on the short story by Anton Chekhov - "Romance with a Double Bass"
- In the aftermath of a car crash, Maggie awaits rescue. When help arrives, matters take a turn for the worse.
- About the communal clashes between Sikh and Hindu fundamentalists during the Khalistan Movement and the subsequent endeavors of secular parties with Marxist associations in reinstating peace in the state.
- Kathe Sandler interviews African Americans about their experiences with skin color, particularly within Black communities. Young, old, male and female all express their relationships to their skin color and physical features.
- Viktor Kossakovsky was one of 101 children born in Leningrad on Wednesday 19 July 1961. Three decades later he tries to trace the people whose birthday he shared.
- In the middle of the desert, a solitary woman has car trouble as the radio reports a series of killings in the area. A red SUV stops and a man, dressed in a string tie and a black Western suit, offers to help. She's sassy rather than appreciative. He takes out a cell phone to call a tow, but there's no service. She turns her back to him and reaches inside for a cigarette. Are sparks about to fly?
- A black comedy about vanity and lust in contemporary America. In the middle of the sexual jungle of New York's singles' world, two men and two women try to achieve their dreams.
- A London 'wide boy' alcoholic is forced to face his responsibilities by a 'heavenly' messenger.
- Never before has an astronaut spoken up - about the faults and tragedies of his life, about the achievements and experiences of man in space: Story Musgrave invites us on an emotional journey around a human being exiled between Earth and weightlessness. Astronaut of six space flights, poet, surgeon, chemist, computer specialist and father of six children. Did this ultimately uprooted man find his place here on Earth? He is a metaphor for search and evolution, for love and loneliness.
- A naive country boy named Bob rides his vintage motorbike to Moscow to collect a bad debt for his boss. He encounters various challenges and dangers in the city, as well as a mysterious woman named Angel who changes his life.
- Ten years after filming The Farm, Jonathan Stack returns to Angola prison and reconnects with the cast from the original film.
- Two British documentary filmmakers are filming various Austin, Texas weirdos.
- A mysterious roadside diner attracts an unhappy couple where an overly nice waitress and gas attendant engage them to stay the night.
- Set in a nomad shepherd's camp in the Southern Kazakhstan mountains, Paradise is a portrait of the simple life of the Kazakhs.
- Six adult siblings and the vicissitudes of fertility, infertility, and the desire - met and unmet - for a baby. Focusing on one couple's attempt to become pregnant, and the inevitable highs and lows of a year of hope and disappointment.
- A fringe theater group that brings the stories of gay people in Israel to the stage takes on the Edinburgh Theater Festival in Scotland.
- Hong Kong entrepreneur Vincent Lee teams up with Mart Bakal a millionaire New York investor to make their fortune in China after China reclaims the former British colony of Hong Kong.
- The highway of the title is a 2,000 mile dirt road in Kazakhstan. Along this route, a traveling family circus journeys in their crowded hand-cranked bus, stopping in villages. The filmmaker accompanies the Tadjibajevs, capturing their quarrels, performances, and intimate moments.
- A range of drawing techniques are used to explore themes of domestic alienation and romantic fantasy about housewives, hoovering, bingo halls and a cat. A film about coming to terms with obsession, desperation and personal fear.
- This angst-ridden yet humorous portrait of the filmmaker's efforts to confront her family redefines the coming of age story in the form of a hilarious documentary.