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A compelling documentary about a 3-year-old girl who tries to navigate through the harsh reality of severe poverty, her teenage mother's incarceration and looming foster care.

Armed with only a pail of water, we took on the Germans "stick-up-their-ass" mentality, proving once again that Berlin may be poor but it is still damn "sexy".

Helena, a young photographer, travels with her husband Rafael and his assistant Patricia to the exotic island of Ometepe, Nicaragua, to take photos. In the beginning the trip is peaceful and relaxed, but soon turns unpredictable due to the repressed passions of the characters that come together with the myths and indigenous legends that surround the island.

A short animation by Ryu Kato.

Set to a kinetic soundtrack, Sou is a dazzling multi-layered animated collage piece on how a Western man, through ill-equipped eyes, views the seductive qualities of the pell mell kitsch that is the modern Japanese society.

A yakuza man who falls to the bottom of the earth and a woman he meets there get together, and 50 years later their son and daughter rise up to take revenge.

This film tells the personal stories of the teenagers who participate in a support group offered by a Bay Area youth organization called “Outlet.” It includes observational footage of their weekly support group and mentoring meetings, providing a glimpse of the challenges they face at school on a daily basis. Interviews with the support group facilitator, a young activist, and a trans teen address the evolution of queer issues as they are taken on by local middle school and high school students within a context now over 10 years old, but still relevant today in many schools.

A vintage sex scene recontextualized with edits and music. Part of the anthology film Destricted.

Short by Fabio Massimo Iaquone.

During a vacation on a deserted beach, a couple falls victim to a serial killer on the high seas.

In a flickering TV image we see a happy family on a beach, as 100 km away a girl frantically runs on a bombed beach in Gaza. The happy family is shown in a rapidly speeding stream of still images, while the girl is filmed in video, gradually taking over the screen, creating a growing impact of shock and horror, until the girl dissolves in TV noise and becomes a news report.

This documentary observes the conversations, primping and camaraderie that take place in the women's bathroom of a nightclub over the course of a night.

This UK-only import DVD features 17 videos -- including their music video clips, shorts and live material: Spanking Machine (Making of) Painkillers (Making of) Nemesisters (Making of) He's My Thing (Music Video) Ripe (Music Video) Bruise Violet (Music Video) Won't Tell (Music Video) Sweet '69 (Music Video) Liberty Belle (Live) Bonus Material (Early footage of Kat Bjelland, live performances, and Crunt music videos)

A boy is in love. He is in love with his two best friends, a boy and a girl. The visual storytelling of his internal struggle and relationship with them. The story of friends, and love.

A short film by Wilhelm Sasnal

In Buffalo, N.Y., some of the greatest works of American architecture relay a remarkable story that resonates with the universal themes of home, family and friendship. The charismatic Frank Lloyd Wright, destined to become America’s greatest architect, called Darwin Martin, an unassuming, wealthy businessman from Buffalo, his “best friend.” Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo reveals how Martin’s three decades of support fostered Wright’s career and led to some of the architect’s renowned masterpieces—the Larkin Administration Building, the Darwin Martin Estates and the Martin summer home, Graycliff—all in Buffalo, New York.

Young women from the countryside dream of becoming workers in the city of Hanoi. Having travelled far by bus, they find themselves stuck in a limbo between temporary and low-paying jobs even after paying high job agency fees. Stemming from the first Vietnamese edition of French documentary workshop Ateliers Varan, Worker’s Dream exposes the struggle of the working class in a cut-throat capitalistic environment, where profit is synonymous with progress. It attempts to portray female characters as both juggling with their lives and having autonomy through direct interaction with the camera. Walking while they dream and dreaming while they walk, these women bear witness to a seemingly futuristic and bygone Vietnam, and to them, in their words, “(I thought I was lost in) another world.” Worker’s Dream was the debut feature of Trần Phương Thảo, a notable figure of Vietnamese independent documentary following in the cinéma-vérité practice.

During the civil war in Ivory Coast, as in other countries at war, the unmistakable importance of the media in the dissemination of information and for public opinion is obvious. This journalistic portrait of Télévision Notre Patrie, the rebels' TV station in the northern part of the country, is a thorough presentation of the history of this channel. Interviews with army commanders, correspondents, presenters and citizens underline the power the media have and make clear that the war is just as much a battle of communication as it is an armed conflict. At the same time, Télé Guerre shows how four years of civil war have depleted the country and which role the international community plays in the realisation of a fragile peace. Little is certain, and this also applies to the journalists who work on the rebels' side during the war and who sometimes cross the thin boundary between conveying information and propaganda.

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

Oppressive mixture of diary and (sexual) fantasy. The film maker also literally bares herself when she repeatedly stands in a corridor waiting for the inevitable. She is fascinated by the true story of a sadistic kidnapper, whom she links with her own Prince Charming. Sadomasochism without whips. The master rules with the spirit. Won the grand prix at the Image Forum Festival.

Rumor has it that a group of people entrenched in Birdcage Mountain are secretly building a very powerful weapon - a "mass murderer" (weapon of mass destruction) - and another group is closely following the rumor. They sent their own agents to penetrate inside the Toranaga Mountains for reconnaissance. Subsequently, they sent troops to attack Birdcage Mountain ...... short film before finally revealing what this "weapon of mass destruction" that has attracted the world's attention is, can be described as suspenseful

Short film made by Toshio Iwai, featured in Tokyo Loop.

An account of the grim and ironic death by freezing of a man trapped inside a refrigerated meat wagon.

Short film made by Keiichi Tanaami, featured in Tokyo Loop.