La rivière de diamants
A short film by Roman Polanski. Originally appeared in "The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers", and then removed from that film and shown separately.
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The Road Map
Centers on a band of hookers who listen to their pimp and seek out old men in retirement villages. They convince the old fellows to marry them so they will not be forced to leave the city. Unfortunately for the pimp, the delighted geezers will not allow their brides to work.
Wawa
Featuring speakers of Chinuk Wawa, an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest, WAWA begins slowly, patterning various forms of documentary and ethnography. Quickly, the patterns tangle and become confused and commingled, while translating and transmuting ideas of cultural identity, language, and history.
The Search For Nothing
Ryan must find and get to know Della, the woman of his dreams, who in a week will move to New York. Helped by her close friend, Rita, the two of them enter an anthology of abstract and exciting action adventures.
Becoming Immortal
Becoming immortal is now at hands reach, thanks to the latest technological innovations. Would you want to become immortal, even if that means preserving your severed head in a cryogenic tank? If aging is considered as a disease, then the cure is immortality.
Poikamies-pappa
Bohemian painter Lasse receives a million-dollar inheritance from his aunt who has moved to Australia, on condition that he finds a permanent job, a spouse, and an heir within a week. To top it all off, Lasse must find the will, which unfortunately disappears inside a framed movie star poster belonging to his roommate Jop.
Vio-Lence: Blood and Dirt
This comprehensive documentary explores the history and music of legendary San Francisco Bay Area thrash band Vio-Lence. Interviews with band members and insights from fans, friends, journalists and other local metal bands -- including Exodus, Testament, Forbidden and Death Angel -- shed light on both Vio-Lence and the thrash metal scene. Rare video footage shot by band members and tons of live clips from their various eras round out the package.
The Ultimate Cartoon Collection
Calling All Cartoon Fanatics!! For all of you who long for those beloved cartoons of a bygone era, "The Ultimate Cartoon Collection" is for you! Yes, here you'll find 60 of the finest, funniest, most fantastic cartoons ever drawn and animated. All of your favorite cartoon icons are showcased in this fabulous collection including: Betty Boop, Woody Woodpecker, Mighty Mouse, Baby Huey, Raggedy Ann, Little Lulu, The 3 Stooges, Mutt & Jess, and so many more- making this, "The Ultimate Cartoon Collection!"
Sidewinders Delta
Experimental film with desert scenes in which optical printing is used to achieve unusual effects.
Ice Passengers
Greenland, the largest island in the world, is unlike any other country. The film recounts the exploration of the Inlandis cavities in Greenland during the summer of 1992. Janot Lamberton, one of the pioneers of these expeditions, ventured, with speleologists and mountaineers, into the moulins, these immense crevasses that tear through the back of the Inlandis, a vast glacier four times the size of France, while glaciologist Louis Reynaut studies infraglacial phenomena. It is obviously not easy to penetrate the depths of the ice and film at a depth of 150 meters in sub-zero temperatures. The light is blue in one of the most fascinating landscapes on the planet, where scientists and explorers collaborate to deepen their knowledge of the Earth.
Would Like To Meet
A single mum looks for love in the lonely-hearts pages, but someone has already decided to play cupid - her eight year-old son…
theEYE: Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London's East End. Holocaust Memorial is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet she also frequently works on a domestic scale, casting in plaster and resin the spaces inside, around and beneath furniture, floors and staircases. Her art is a uniquely poetic response to the everyday, and to the haunting themes of memory and mortality. In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her best-known sculptures, including Ghost, her first cast of the space inside a complete room, and Monument, which established a shimmering presence in London's Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001
There Is Many Like Us
In 1943, Max Fronenberg spent one year digging a secret underground tunnel to escape out of a prison camp in Warsaw, Poland during the Holocaust while saving fifteen other prisoners in the process and forced to leave behind the love of his life, Rena, in the prison.
Dream of the Red Chamber
Documentary about rock club in the city of Sverdlovsk, USSR. The title is not connected to the communist ideology, it's a reference to one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. The idea is that the phenomenon of Soviet rock music is as extensive and complicated as the structure of the book. Featuring rock bands: "Агата Кристи", "Чайф", "Наутилус Помпилиус", rock singer Nastya Poleva and her band "Настя"
El corrido de Lino Rodarte
Savage
After his family is murdered, and he's left for dead, a farmer awakens in the desert and finds himself transformed into a savage warrior, with all the powers and skills of the ancient gods. Guided by his "spirit masters" he's given a mission; destroy Tital Corporation, the world's most powerful high-tech computer company and its ambitious leader, Michael Burroughs. Burrough's has discovered the technological remains of an ancient race and a secret that will allow him to open the Vortex and achieve immortality. Out in the desert, ancient powers collide with sophisticated technology as the Savage and Burroughs meet in a titanic struggle that could destroy mankind.
The Hero of Two Worlds
A little boy meets the old hero Garibaldi who tells him the story of his adventures.
Markiza de Pompadour
A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
Conical Intersect
“I met Gordon Matta-Clark at the 1975 Paris Biennale. He was looking for a place to make a piece. I led him to a building across the street from my place on rue Beaubourg that I had been taking photos of for the past year and which was about to be demolished. In front of my eyes Conical Intersect became the last unexpected and dazzling resident of 29 rue Beaubourg.” —Marc Petitjean
St Patrick's Day at the BBC
A collection of classic performances from the BBC archives to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, featuring some of the Emerald Isle’s finest and best-loved musical acts: U2, Sinead O’Connor, Van Morrison, The Pogues, The Corrs, The Cranberries, as well as boyband behemoths Boyzone and Westlife - and more.
Irene Huss 8: Det lömska nätet
A bicycle messenger sees a girl being brutally assaulted and dragged into a van. She immediately calls the police, but unfortunately the girl is found too late. It turns out that the murdered girl has been the victim of a serious sexual crime. Detective Inspector Irene Huss and the rest of the team begin to look for the murderer, but have very few clues to go on. When another young girl is murdered in a similar way, the team realizes that they are dealing with a sexual predator. How does he get in touch with the girls? Why do they agree to meet him? Why are they wearing special underwear?