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- A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
- A woman explores her sexuality to cope with the passing of her mother, leading her to profound revelations about herself and the people closest to her.
- American Raphael talks his colleague at the Parisian University into spending his summer at the family's country mansion. But once there Raphael seduces and plays the sisters and mother against each other - until everyone is revealed at their very worst. As it turns out - that was Raphael's intention all along - because his own torrid past is deeply rooted in their family's dirty history.
- A skilled portraitist and a respected police captain put aside their bad blood to work together and solve cases using methods that can only be described as uncanny.
- An ecological discourse which starts from the catastrophic data provided by science regarding the progressive extinction of certain fundamental resources which humanity, if it does not repent, will face in the coming decades. We then move on to analyze the increasingly widespread cases of research, by man aware of this crisis, of a hypothetical salvation in spaces as far away as possible, but increasingly narrow and fictitious from our type of civilization. Dennis and Silvia live with their son in the mountains of New Mexico after having given up on a profession and an income. Bill and Josephine have chosen Africa. A German ended up in the Solomons, another European in Polynesia. A mountaineer from Orvieto has been locked up in a Zen convent in Japan for twelve years."
- The early 50s: Joe Dunn, owner of a boxing club, is found dead. Meanwhile, rising star Robert Yale, due to take to the ring for the most important fight of his career, has mysteriously disappeared. Sonia Dunn, Joe's daughter, takes over the club and must deal with its financial woes. She hires private detective John Blacksad to investigate Yale's disappearance and to find the missing man. This sinister case will take our investigator to the darkest, most dismal depths of New York. With its anthropomorphic characters and its incredible 1950s feel, BLACKSAD: Under the Skin promises all the eerily dark adventure of a detective novel, just like the eponymous comic book series. Investigations, searches for clues, fights, witness interviews: let your feline instinct guide you as you infiltrate the corrupt world of boxing.
- A valuable visual commentary on modern society, 'Under The Skin Of The City' follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works hard at a textile factory to make ends meet during the day, returning in the evening to face the trials and tribulations of her family: her pregnant daughter who frequently suffers at the hands of her abusive husband, a son embroiled in radical politics, and another son who hopes to escape to Japan. In their fight for self-determination and independence, Touba and her family come to represent the plight of the working class in modern day Tehran.
- A mother and daughter head off for a secluded weekend to reconnect little do they know the sordid past of the home there staying in or the strangeness it attracts as they descend into madness.
- Passion, criminal instincts an traditions melt together in this film, that shakes our conception of crime.
- From the simple story of love and misery of a young couple from the Harlem ghetto to meetings with twelve great blues singers (BB King, Mance Lipscomb, Robert Pete Williams, Roosevelt Sykes), filmed in their social milieu.
- When the words don't come out, the body will do the talking.
- In one of his daily wanderings, Ghassem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her last day in Tehran. Without understanding each other's words, they strike up a friendship and the girl accepts to sleep with him. But Ghassem doesn't have a place of his own and the girl is to depart by the next morning. Together they set off on the glistening yet hostile streets of modernizing Tehran of the 70s, in a futile search of a corner of intimacy, while time is ticking away....
- Onderhuids tells the story of Keesje, an introvert 15-year old. She and her friends, Lize and Dunja, swim together in a synchronized swimming team. From the outside it all looks like the perfect friendship, but behind the surface hide continuous tensions between the girls. Keesje is constantly afraid of being rejected and longs to maintain her position in the group. While the team is training for the National Synchronized Swimming Competition, Keesje tries to hold her own within her group of friends. She allows herself to be dragged into the vicious behavior of Lize and Dunja, but is gradually becoming alienated from herself. While Lize and Dunja are good with words, Keesje's strength is in her physical. While the pressure for the match increases, Keesje loses sight of who she is. She constantly fears she will lose out. Although she tries to suppress her frustrations, an outburst is the inevitable consequence.
- A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu and Toshio Matsumoto among others. Produced in 2002 and included as a DVD extra for the movie Children of the Revolution (2010).
- An art film that explores Anish Kapoor's creative universe and his relation to art. A vertiginous quest into existence, confronting the conditions of matter, the dynamics of perception and the power of ritual.
- A moving personal story in which the anonymous central character describes the harrowing details of life with an eating disorder. L has suffered this condition for many years, and reveals what brought her to this point, along with her hopes and dreams for a brighter future. Professional experts discuss the reality of life for the many thousands who endure eating disorders.
- Newton Craddock is a shipping clerk in the same company where Thomas Kirkland is Vice President. Another thing they have in common is that they both have jealous wives who like spending all of their husbands' money. One day Craddock is sent to Kirkland's house to deliver an important letter, and while there he watches as Kirkland finally confronts his wife about her spendthrift ways. It gives Newton the gumption to do the same to his wife--but will he?
- Three transgender youth in transition.
- Two women unwittingly help each other over the course of an evening spent together in a psychiatric ward.
- TV Series
- In the near future, a police officer uses a new technology to experience the memories of criminals and their victims. His mission is to understand and prevent crime, but how much of himself will he lose in the process?
- Travis steals drugs from an old lady that dies. Later Travis is visited by her ghost while under the drug's influence.
- Nance of the Red Wing was fighting her last fight, though only Jimmy the Dip saw beneath the struggle. At the Red Wing the woman, hungry for her indifferent husband's love, met her lover. Woman's heart met woman's heart, there in the death chamber. "She won't be goin' with you," said Jimmy to the man.
- Presenting Performance art film, 'Nude Me/Under the Skin: A Resurrection of Black Women's Visibility' is a collaboration between textile and performance artist Enam Gbewonyo and Director Freddie Leyden. The film unfolds at Two Temple Place - an opulent neo-Gothic mansion in London (UK). Inspired by the architecture, Freddie and Enam created a film in conversation with those surroundings. The film like Enam's wider work explores the nuances of the Global North's empirical history and its very direct effects on the Black British diaspora, in particular the women of this community. These themes are explored through the language of dance using ballet inspired movement and agbadza - a traditional Ewe (Ghana) dance of Enam's heritage. The film is a conversation between the small frame of this black female body and an expansiveness of architecture - masonry and carpentry. The film also provides a moment of healing for a community emerging from a period of continuous emotional triggers and physical harm.
- Jack Adams, spokesman for workmen in a factory, pleads with the owner, Griscom, against a twenty percent cut in wages. Griscom refuses to consider the men's side, so the men walk out. Jack, seeking work at another factory, is "black-listed." He leaves in an ugly mood. Unable to find work anywhere, he is reduced to starvation. His wife needs a doctor. Jack sends a note to Griscom pleading to be taken back. Griscom answers, "Glad to see you so humble, but you can't work for me." Jack, irate, determines on vengeance. Outside Griscom's mansion Jack is overcome by weakness. Elsie, Griscom's favorite child, finds Jack, and has him taken into the house. Griscom comes in, suspects Jack's intentions, and accuses him. Jack tells of his terrible suffering. Elsie tries to console him. Jack is overcome. Griscom relents and offers food. Jack refuses. Elsie puts her arms around Jack, and he accepts the food. The touching scene penetrates the armor of Griscom's selfishness, and he offers his hand to Jack, who accepts it.
- The narrative of ten years of the life of a man who tortures his two wives and his family mentally and physically, so that both wives get Alzheimer's and die.
- A loner who found happiness after a magical evening.