Codehunters(2006)

A(ja)

Roughly chronological, from 3/96 to 11/96, with a coda in spring of 1997: inside compounds of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist sect led by Shoko Asahara. (Members confessed to a murderous sarin attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995.) We see what they eat, where they sleep, and how they respond to media scrutiny, on-going trials, the shrinking of their fortunes, and the criticism of society. Central focus is placed on Hiroshi Araki, a young man who finds himself elevated to chief spokesman for Aum after its leaders are arrested. Araki faces extreme hostility from the Japanese public, who find it hard to believe that most followers of the cult had no idea of the attacks and even harder to understand why these followers remain devoted to the religion, if not the violence.

Red(en)

Three years living in Sunset Park, living between the BQE and the Greenwood Cemetery, accumulating footage of junkyard cats, Park Slope strollers, burned out cars, flying birds.

Red(pt)

The Night Generation(tr)

It’s Saturday night in Istanbul and the storm suppresses the sound of music around the city. Özge and Tarık, who have had too much to drink, decide to end the night and jump in a cab. However, the journey back home doesn’t go as they expect.

Mago de Oz - Barakaldo DF(en)

Barakaldo D.F. is the fourth live album and third live DVD of the band Mägo de Oz

Red(xx)

As the silhouette of a lonely girl runs through the woods, something in the shadows is lurking her.

Man(en)

An experimental film through the eyes of a man

Stripped Down: The Making of ‘Anora’(en)

Making of documentary surrounding the production of ‘Anora’

Avé(bg)

While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this adventure, Kamen begins to fall in love with the fleeting Avé.

Children of the Arctic(en)

Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow - the northernmost community in the United States. As their climate and culture undergo profound changes, they strive to balance being modern American kids and the inheritors of an endangered way of life.

Way Back Home(ko)

Jeong-won, who forgot the past and lives a peaceful marriage, receives a phone call from the police one day. The man who sexually assaulted her has been caught and the news shakes up the couple’s life and breaks down their daily lives.

Film(en)

Before the three feature films, Mario Schifano directs the camera towards the people around him to create real film diaries. His friends, his time partner and the artists he frequented are portrayed in their everyday life or object of the mechanical gaze of the camera, a filter through which to look at the outside world.

Grin til Gavn 2022(da)

Between Christmas and New Year's Eve 2022, it will be 30 years since Danish comedians first took to the stage to raise money for children in vulnerable situations.

Panda(fr)

Two teenagers are playing by night in a dirty parking lot. After they are driving on an empty road, they start to tease each other on the way to the sea, but they seem to be too young to drive and the road is a bit strange.

Ponniyin Selvan: Part II(ta)

968 AD. The Pandyan assassins gather once again to destroy the Chola dynasty. Now the mighty Chola princes must fight the Pandyas, the Rashtrakutas and other Chola enemies who have joined forces. Also, at play are the rumours of Ponniyin Selvan’s death at sea, the powerful Pazhuvettarayar’s betrayal, and the tragic destiny of Aditha Karikalan, whose heart was long lost to the vengeful Nandini.

School of Magical Animals 2(de)

The students of the School of Magical Animals want to perform a musical for the school's anniversary. Will rehearsals end in chaos or will the class pull together? And what's up with the strange holes on the school grounds?

Soorya Gayathri(ml)

Married at 17 and widowed at 20, Dr. Balasubrahmaniam lives with his teenage son. Son does not want to follow his father into medicine and joins an engineering college. He is killed accidentally by some seniors during ragging. The grief-stricken father tries to avenge his son's death.

Vasya Is Not Himself(ru)

Vasily Kuzin constantly "throws" his workers, mostly from Central Asia, on the money, considering them second-class people. One day, Vasya gets into a severe accident, and when he wakes up, he finds, to his horror, that he has physically turned into an Asian. Instead of a handsome, slender, stately Slav in the mirror, he sees a small, frail guest worker. Now he must do everything to return his former body, otherwise he will be deported.

Dogs(en)

A young Polish partisan flees from the Warsaw Uprising. Whilst hiding in the yard of a countryside manor, he is chased up a tree by a large wolfhound. With his rifle out of reach, there seems to be no way to escape his predicament.

Kong & Bird(de)

A Gorilla is surprised as a bird crashes next to him and seemingly can't fly away anymore.

Snooze Quest(en)

PJ spends a sleepless night getting roped into a sniper revenge plot.

The Laughter Congress(fr)

Exclamation Mark(pl)

An animation with a philosophical undertone. The absurdity of human effort, whose final result does not match the actions taken.

All a Bir-r-r-d(en)

Tweety Bird is on a train with Sylvester.

He Done His Best(en)

When Charley asks a young woman whom he is in love with to marry him, she tells him that he needs to get her father's consent. But when Charley then goes to see her father, who owns a restaurant, he ends up getting hired as a dishwasher instead. The rest of the kitchen staff soon find out that Charley is not a member of their union, and they go on strike. Charley is left by himself, leading to a series of upheavals in the restaurant, and a great invention.

Slow Bistro(ru)

The film is about the behavior of people in a state of boring expectation.

The Dog Who Loved Music(fr)

In Paul Grimault's satire of the arms trade, the dealer is alerted to the breakout of war by a signal on his map, so travels in turn to each of two warring countries (his journey is traced for us on the map), selling to each the means of destroying its neighbour. —The Cine-Tourist

Modern(ja)

Short experimental animation by Mirai MIzue

The iMom(en)

When technology exceeds humanity...

Man and Bread(pl)

The film is a praise of human willingness to take on the endless challenges of fate. The loaf of bread a prisoner receives each day is used to patch thousands of holes in the cell walls. They are inhabited by nerve-wracking busy insects that flit constantly from hole to hole. When the work is finished, the prisoner is unexpectedly transferred to another cell. The new loaf of bread held in his hands freezes dramatically halfway to his mouth: the walls of this cell are also strewn with thousands of holes.

Going! Going! Gosh!(en)

The Coyote makes various attempts to get the Road Runner with an explosive-tipped arrow, by shooting himself out of a sling shot and by covering the road with quick drying cement.

Zipping Along(en)

Hypnosis doesn't help the Coyote catch the Road Runner, nor do a clutch of string-controlled rifles or dozens of mousetraps, but they all manage to backfire on him, naturally.

Stop! Look! and Hasten!(en)

A Burmese tiger trap, a pop-up steel wall, a motorcycle, and a box of Acme-brand leg-building vitamins can't help the Coyote (Eatibus anythingus) catch the Road Runner (Hot Rodicus supersonicus).

Ready.. Set.. Zoom!(en)

Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub, and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.

Guided Muscle(en)

While cooking a tin can, the Coyote spots a better meal rushing by: the Road Runner.

The Glass Marble(cs)

Different animals play with a marble in this whimsical story from Hermína Týrlová, ‘the mother of Czech animation’

Words, Words, Words(cs)

In a cafe, people talk, their words become expresively-shaped balloons. An older waiter tries to connect with a young woman who's reading. She brushes him off, but gets into an animated and romantic conversation with a young man. A dog goes from table to table drinking beer and wine when people aren't looking. Older men talk about sexual conquests until one of their wives interrupts them. The young couple argues; he starts to leave, she pleads, he leaves anyway. The waiter tries to help. Old guys talk until they nod off. Women chat. Later, as the waiter cleans up, the finds the young woman's book. He sighs, the dog sleeps it off.

First Flight(en)

The story of a fastidiously organized businessman, whose perspective on life is forever changed through an unexpected encounter with a tiny fledgling bird.