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- Academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado's Berlin Film Festival award-winning doc tells his and others' stories of transition through unique reenactments and visual interpretations of Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography.
- An account of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with statements from Israeli soldiers about their service there.
- Odoriko are dancers of the dying art of Japanese strip theater. Once a popular form of entertainment alongside standup comedy, today all but 20 strip clubs have closed nationwide. Still, the women travel solo with their costume cases from one dressing room to another.
- 'A Young Patriot' explores passionate patriotism in China`s youths born after 1990. It follows 19-year-old Zhao flag-waving,slogan-shouting 'patriotic exhibitionist' for 3 years. His father is a factory worker when not gambling, his mother a housewife, his older bother a proud soldier in PRC`s 60th anniversary military parade, his younger bother quits school to support the family. They live in a run-down courtyard and seem forgotten by China`s 'economic miracle'. Zhao leaves home to go to University where his value challenged by new western influences and teeters between old-fashioned Maoist patriotism and pragmatic thinking about the future. Du Haibin weaves this human story with patriotic education and nationalistic events in Chinese cities, questioning what patriotism is, its growth dangers,the direction it`s going.
- Like a virus, a French couple searching for an hallucinogenic cactus work their way into the Mexican landscape, totally ignorant of Mexicans' culture, customs, and codes. Without knowing it, Agathe and Mehdi will upset, by their presence and clumsy actions, the balance in which a family of desert villagers lives. Two worlds collide without understanding each other. With alcohol and drugs, this incomprehension veers toward uncontrollable violence.
- The director Nurith Aviv discusses the little-known deaf culture, that of many sign languages, each of which is different and has its own grammar, its own syntax, complexity and richness.
- In this docudrama François Bégaudeau, best known for his novel "Entre les Murs" later adapted for the cinema, sets out to meet some of France's more unconventional characters. Magnetizer, dowsers, rural incomers... all share a common desire to live an alternative lifestyle in a rural French department: the Mayenne.
- The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is acting. The children decide to try to poison the man who is threatening their family life. The real life and the stage roles get intertwined...
- Your untangled hair hides a 7 year war. Cross-look of three women engaged alongside the FLN on colonization and the Algerian war of independence. They will know the clandestine, the prison, the torture, the psychiatric hospital. It is at the twilight of their lives that they choose to testify, after decades of silence. With clarity and modesty, they tell the story of colonial Algeria, segregation, racism, anti-Semitism, prison, torture, solidarity, freedom and also the nature that invigorates, soothing landscapes, music and poetry that allow the breakaway .
- He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision: he will no longer talk about cinema. Boudjemâa, our living memory. That of Algerian cinema, African cinema, Arab cinema, cinema in short. The Algiers Cinematheque. The "masterpiece of Algerian cinema". Boudjemâa Karèche directed it for 34 years. So why does Boudjemâa no longer talk about cinema? The answer lies next to the circumstances which caused his ouster from the Cinémathèque. Boudjemâa was silent. The time has come for him to let the word think for itself.
- Revisits the life and work of Portuguese equestrian, horse trainer, and dressage instructor Nuno Oliveira, the riding master of the 20th century, eighteen years after his death.
- The film follows the last 4 years life of Grandma Hashima, the last existent from colonial Taiwan, who knows the secrets of "Green Jail," the notorious coal mine before World War II in Okinawa, Japan.
- A sympathetic documentary following the long struggle of workers at the Epeda A Mer factory in the Loir et Cher department of central France.
- All American horse 'whisperer' pioneers, through their practice, their speech, and thanks to their discovering about the horse, all refer to a scientific discipline, the ethology, which studied the animal's behavior in natural environment.