A Lover Scorned(2019)

Magic Dice(fr)

This is not only a colored film of great beauty, but one showing a series of clever trick pictures in which great ingenuity on the part of the operator is exhibited.

Box(en)

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Hindsight(en)

Things heat up when a promising young actor begins an affair with a glamorous model in order to advance his career.

Bonnie Raitt: Road Tested(en)

Welcome, Violeta!(pt)

Over the course of her stay at the remote residence, Ana becomes more and more familiar with Holden’s idiosyncratic methods that require the participating artists to abandon their own identities and live emotionally and psychologically as their characters. Captivated by her artistic investigation, Ana immerses herself wholly into the method and starts living as Violeta, until her fiction loses control.

Cinema Pameer(en)

Cinema Pamir is where the people of Kabul come to escape and dream away the war that surrounds them. This is the story of the cinema itself, the many inspiring characters surrounding it, how everyday life has been torn apart, and how film can inspire and catalyze change even in the struggling and poor society of wartime Afghanistan.

Notes about identity(es)

Box(en)

The execution was scheduled and the last meal consumed. The coolness of the poisons entering the blood system slowed the heart rate and sent him on the way to Judgement. He had paid for his crime with years on Death Row waiting for this moment and now he would pay for them again as the judgment continued..

The Secret Six(en)

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.

The Story of Renjie Di's Rebirth(zh)

Di Renjie is an investigator looking into a seemingly dull murder case. But when his superiors start opposing his tactics, he starts to believe there must be a larger conspiracy at play.

Katie Fforde - Zum Teufel mit David(de)

The Pet Sitter(en)

A man faces a peculiar situation when he is asked to pet sit for a friend on Halloween night. Starring Jeff Lewis (THE GUILD), ArieScope's 26th annual Halloween short film explores the dark side of novelty pets.

Liebe Angst(de)

Kim has her music. Kim has her dogs. Kim has her faith. Kim struggles, every day: with anxiety, for a bit of normality, to stand on her own two feet. Kim’s mother, Lore, was deported to Auschwitz at the age of six. To this day, Lore is a DP, a displaced person. Lore has her index cards. From morning till night, she transcribes articles from the daily newspaper, archiving them in boxes and baskets. All her life, Lore has been silent: about her mother, about the hiding place where she survived, about Tom, her son, Kim’s brother, who took his own life. Kim instead wants to talk: about her childhood with Lore, about Tom, about the scarred lives they both lead.

1:11(pl)

Tomek is a young doctor specialised in obstetrics sonography. He lives lost among the women around him. One night he is abruptly woken up by a dead call from his father. This seemingly unimportant event gradually gains significance.

BlackJack: Ghosts(en)

Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for the murder is about to be paroled. Jack has two missions - to bring the father and his daughter back together and to find out if any justice has been done by the conviction.