An entertainment promoter stages bizarre participatory events, inspired by the scientist Ivan Pavlov’s experiments with dogs, for the idle newly rich in contemporary Russia.
At the end of the harvest in his village Mossi, Bila, a young farmer, decides travel in serach of work and ends up in the Côte d’Ivoire.
After a four-year shoot over three continents, Jonathan Nossiter produced 10 one hour films on the financial and political issues, as well as passions and inspirations that wine provokes. An even more original, probing, and funny project than his famous feature length documentary, “Mondovino”.
A man decides to re-pay a good Samaritan but regrets doing so after he finds out that he is an assassin.
Based on Margaret Atwood’s best-selling book, Payback explores how debt is a central organizing principle in our lives – influencing relationships, societies, governing structures and the very fate of this planet.
A bitter divorcee thinks back on the mistakes that destroyed her marriage.
Sasá Iovine, a small-time Neopolitan operator, finds himself in the thick of a multi-murder mystery when Don Michelle, a building contractor involved in a number of housing scandals hires Iovine to find his daughter who has disappeared with incriminating documents.
Peace (named after the brand of Japanese cigarettes smoked by the 91-year-old Hashimoto Shiro) offers a wonderfully resonant vignette of the lives of a few residents of a small town in Okayama Prefecture.
Gripping documentary explores the different conceptions of Western values in other countries, focusing on the situation in Uganda with the Lord’s Resistance Army. We witness the tension: people don’t want the justice offered by the International Criminal Court; they want peace.
Australian film veteran Bruce Beresford delivers a heartfelt comedy that centres on a conservative lawyer (Catherine Keener) who, after splitting with her husband, takes her two teenage children to meet their estranged, eccentric grandmother (Jane Fonda).
Set in the end 1960s, Vollmer’s film tells the story of Irene Striesow, devoted housewife and mother of three, who together with her husband and children has recently left East Germany in search of a better life in the West.
The first feature film by notorious Canadian musician and performance artist Peaches is a wild transsexual rock opera, screening in conjunction with a new installation and a night of performances.
Hamdy (Nour El-Sherif) lives with his wife Nadia (Laila Taher) and her young sister Samiha (Raghda). He loves his wife’s sister and decide to rid of his wife by killing her.
A young runaway is kicked out of her group home after a vicious altercation. As she travels up to Harlem, where her father is a low-level drug dealer, she is assaulted by a mysterious creature and left for dead.
A pair of young, aimless outsiders living in the desert off the Pearblossom Highway go looking for a place to belong in this new American vision from perennial voice of the lost, Mike Ott. With his ethereal take on the road trip movie, Ott offers a sparse, yet loving ode to the downtrodden.
This is one of the earliest surviving Chinese features. A wife borrows a necklace for a party, and it is subsequently stolen. Faced with social disgrace, it now falls to the husband to come up with a way of replacing the pearls.
Pearl of the Army is a 1916 silent film serial directed by Edward José. The Pathé-Astra film was made when many early film studio and film producers in America’s first motion picture industry were based in New Jersey’s Hudson River towns, particularly Fort Lee.
