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The atmosphere of parental distance

The bleak world of 15 year old school underdog Cindy Wei is turned upside down by the discovery of her mysterious cousin Michael's well kept secret.

Short film shot during Holy Week in Granada, to relive the Passion of Christ and accompany him to the grave.

A short film produced for Cody ChesnuTT’s 2012 album "Landing on a Hundred".

95 years old athlete Wami Biratu runs his last marathon in Addis Ababa, while evoking the legendary Olympic champion Abebe Bikila, his best friend and rival.

Part of Romanian Short Waves 2013 (1)

Two fast miles with belly flattening moves. Plus a targeting waist slimming session.

Each of the world's languages encompasses a great universe within it, and when these are lost, a vision is lost, doors and windows to different worldviews and cosmogonies are closed. Humanity is impoverished.

I went around interviewing people, asking what annoys them most.

This intimate documentary explores the spirit and motivation of 79-year-old Teresa Bancewicz, an intrepid hitchhiker stimulated by her meetings with all manner of people in many different cultures.

Mary Gallagher was a prostitute in the 1800's who stole a customer from her friend. Her fellow trollop retaliated by decapitating Gallagher with a hatchet. Mary is said to return every seven years, walking the streets of Griffintown, searching for her lost appendage. The old Fiddlers' Green pub has new owners who have inherited the ghost of a young woman (a heartbroken maid who committed suicide) resulting in many sleepless nights. The state of Kentucky was ravaged by the dreaded Tuberculosis plague, claiming the lives of thousands of individuals who died in the sprawling Waverly Sanitarium. Now abandoned, the ghosts of these disease victims and those who tried to heal them, still walk the crumbling hallways. These encounters and more are investigated by a team of psychics who attempt to contact the spirit world while being rattled to the core by the events that unfold in this bone chilling collection of ghost encounters.

Harumi is sexually deprived and given the cold shoulder treatment by her husband and is also being harassed by her mother-in-law because she was diagnosed as infertile by a doctor. One day, she is seduced by Kazama, her gym instructor. She can't control the hot flashes of her body and accepts the desires of a young man. But a few weeks later, she finds out that she is pregnant. But isn't she supposed to be infertile? Or is there a conspiracy between the doctor who declared her as such and her husband and mother-in-law? And when she learns the truth, something breaks inside Harumi...

In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian labor camp for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred". Russian film collective Gogol’s Wives follow each step of the feminist punk band’s battle against Putin including their first disruptive performances on a trolley bus, shooting a video about transparent elections, a controversial performance in a Red Square cathedral, and footage shot in a jail cell. Support comes from many corners including Madonna who painted the words "Pussy Riot" on her back and wore a balaclava during her Moscow show. The documentary portrays the grim state of present-day Russia, a country starkly divided between conservatism and anarchy. Pussy Riot believes that art has to be free and they're willing to take it to extremes. "Pussycat made a mess in the house," they say, and the house is Russia. The filmmakers do not seek to moralize, they simply edit events and leave viewers to draw their own conclusions.

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and promoted a working-class vision of blues life that provided an alternative to the Victorian gentility of middle-class manners. In their lives and music, blues women presented themselves as strong, independent women who lived hard lives and were unapologetic about their unconventional choices in clothes, recreational activities, and bed partners. Blues singers disseminated a Black feminism that celebrated emotional resilience and sexual pleasure, no matter the source.

TRUTH HAS FALLEN is a one-hour live action/animated documentary that examines the work of James McCloskey. Mr.McCloskey founded Centurion Ministries, an organization whose mission is to free prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted of murder. Employing a combination of abstract, surreal animation and live action images, TRUTH HAS FALLEN asks how innocent people could be convicted of murder - what could be done to prevent such injustices in the future - and what happens to these innocent people when they are released from prison after years of incarceration?

Three days after his father suicide, Jason confronts the mistress for answers.

I happened to take a picture after encountering a storage in Suncheon Bay. I thought it a salt barn and approached it, but it was a very different one from my expectation. Perhaps, does not memory have such a quality? Men want to see what his shades of memory create. I thought myself a sort of trajectorization in order to describe a process of consciousness. The process of the work production is to make it conceivable as a thought process what the relation between I chasing memories and another I observing it means. It is described that on the axis of time the flow of film forms an ambivalent structure of consciousness and then it gets to have a trajectory, consequently revealing such an antinomic structure. That is, the gap between the filming action to confirm the realization of substance and its picture shot in the scene show that the memory cannot be identified with its object in the subject.

Waves Become Wings is the transformed reality of a girls' basketball game where it is a question of extracting and emphasizing the beauty of body language and movements from a sporting reality. Offer it a new dimension through treatment particular to image and sound. Exploiting the aesthetic and fictional potential of a situation who has a documentary source and question the viewer's perception by this vision voluntarily transformed and altered by the rate of registration. Play on a gap or even an anachronism between the evocation of images and reality from which they are extracted.

Cougar expert Bo' Smith heads deep into Montana's Bitterroot Mountains to detail the competition between two top predators.

Mieke is being harassed by an inexplicable phenomenon. She is having nightmares and her children are acting strange. For no apparent reason her mother appears, after a long period without any contact. She tries to warn Mieke for impending doom. Has it something to do with the doll that one of her sons got for his birthday? Mieke makes a discovery, a very dark one. Something that will turn her life upside down.

A short documentary chronicling the personal lives and narratives of Thai "ladyboys," who are born men but present themselves as women, living openly in Thai society. The film interviews ladyboys from all walks of life-- performers, filmmakers, activists-- to learn what it's like to live in a society with visible gender fluidity, and to explore if Thailand is really as open to and accepting of sexual diversity as it seems.