Perfect Image?(1989)

Kid City(en)

Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as they attempt a new method of teaching elementary school children in Los Angeles. With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the siblings work together on a pilot program of “design-based learning” that would restructure the typical classroom curriculum, replacing rote math or civics lessons with an imaginary city designed and built entirely by the students themselves. Restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive.

In Beating Cells(de)

The sun is setting on couples Rico and Eva and Friedrich and Julia's forest road trip. Tight bonds have formed across the group, none more so than between free-spirited Rico and vertical thinker Friedrich, who is coming to terms with a side of his sexuality that had previously remained in the shadows. As the foursome drink, party, swim and while away the hours by a picturesque lake, the food supplies dwindle, and the sheen starts to come off their idyllic escape.

Voilà l'enchaînement(fr)

With two actors and no sets, master filmmaker Claire Denis traces the arc of a strained relationship, with a focus on race and language. In this fraught arena, words omitted can be as potentially devastating as words used, and what is not seen can have greater political consequences than what is.

The Whistleblower(ko)

Lee Jang-hwan receives widespread acclaim and media attention after successfully cloning human embryo stem cells. A TV news program PD, Yoon Min-cheol, receives a phone call from an anonymous source who says he has worked with Dr. Lee on the stem cell project. The source blows the whistle on Lee's work, revealing how Lee fabricated research results and engaged in unethical practices.

Trouble & the Shadowy Deathblow(en)

No man is an island, but there are always exceptions. Meet Jim Funkle, played by Tony Hale. A once promising food scientist, his career came to an end with a catastrophic failed experiment involving spray-on cheese. Ostracized, unemployed, and middle aged, Jim Funkle was American mediocrity at its best until he one night he was given the chance to become omnipotent. Trouble & the Shadowy Deathblow follows one man's fight against being a mediocre man.

World of Plenty(en)

An opening narration explaining that the film's purpose is to examine the "world strategy of food", in terms of its production, distribution and consumption. The film is then divided into three parts: "Food - As It Was", "Food - As It Is" and "Food - As It Might Be".

The Kitchen(en)

The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands — proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition… literally.

Kata(en)

Nature, gymnastic movements, a cat...

Er(de)

Far Away(es)

A landscape is only a landscape until we know what lies beneath. Pozo Ibarra, in the Central Mountains of León, is a mining complex full of significant architectural attributes, and also the imposing and ruinous remnant of a painful past that passed the ideas of freedom, literally, through the stone, turned into a great mass grave. Now, when the sun goes down, the souls that inhabit it rise up, refusing to forget.

Hure(de)

A night in the cold trade of prostitution. Blue goes out on the streets. His "working day" begins at eleven o'clock at night and ends at dawn. Then, when he has converted the money he has quickly earned back into drugs, escaped the cheated dealer and answered his pimp's questions, when he has been left alone once again with the futile hope that "someone will get him out".

Freelancer(en)

In a dystopian world, a freelance healthcare technician takes on a new project that tests his limits.

The Ventures: Stars on Guitars(en)

Documentary film on the #1 instrumental rock group in the world, The Ventures. The story of their rise to fame in the 1960s right up to now, as they celebrate their 60th anniversary of playing the best guitar-rock of all time.

Ratcatcher(en)

James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.

Me voy(pl)

Klara and Adrian are a young couple. In their free time, they take care of their dog, go to parties and watch their favorite 90s series, which takes place in a fictional paradise. The pompous and luxurious soap opera is also a space where they can freely express their emotions and feelings. When Adrian proposes to Clara in unusual circumstances, she doesn't know how to deal with it. Inspired by the soap opera, she tries to end the relationship in various absurd ways.

I Remember Lena Svedberg(sv)

Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make their magazine together, how beautiful but strange she drew and how bad she seemed to feel.

Sunny Side Up(en)

After receiving a corneal transplant, a man befriends a witty blue-haired girl at the park.

Beta(es)

Beatriz is tired of enduring the bad habits of her husband Ignacio, and decides to put him in check. For this, he will carry out an experiment with the intention of saving his marriage and turning his home into a more efficient place.

A Funny Thing Happened to Kelly and Ted(en)

Jameson First Shot short film starring Dominic West.