Asta Nielsen - Europas erste Filmikone(2023)

64: Part 2(ja)

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.

Fun(en)

Hillary and Bonnie meet one morning by the side of the road. They become fast friends, share their secrets, and, on a rising wave of frenzy, later that afternoon, murder an old woman. They did it, they say later, for fun.

Swimming in the Sea(fr)

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

Test(en)

On his journey towards becoming a film director, Cole discovers an insight that flips his perspective on his way of living.

Kolobok(ru)

A collection of cartoons, each of which is a uniquely decorated folk tale.

Ban the Sadist Videos! Part 2(en)

An investigation of UK video censorship after the video recordings act was introduced.

Red(pt)

Rudies Come Back (The Rise & Rise of 2-Tone)(en)

Adrian Thrills investigates a new and exhilarating musical blend which is taking the country by storm. 2-tone is a unique mix of music, fusing together reggae, rock, soul, ska, blue beat and punk. With its home in Coventry and its roots in reggae, it derives its name and identity from the co-existence of its black and white members.

Cruisers(en)

Lonely and bored, two boys attempt to establish some sort of intimacy with one another in the East Bay hills.

Dream Challenge: Godzilla Appears in Sukagawa(ja)

A short film produced by Toho Eizo Bijutsu available exclusively at the Eiji Tsuburaya Museum in Sukagawa, Japan. It depicts Godzilla's rampage through the hometown of the legendary special effects director.

Espectro(es)

A crafty child who wants to see his mother again after her death, finds a way to do it.

Dove muore il silenzio(it)

In an exclusive consortium isolated from the rest of the world, Gianmarco, a young man obsessed by a series of mysterious suicides, begins a personal investigation to uncover the truth. The more he digs, the more the boundaries between reality and paranoia become thinner, dragging him into a vortex of suspicion and obsession. When everything seems to lead him to a single, disturbing conclusion, he will discover that some truths are not meant to be revealed... and that it may be too late to turn back.

Boy(en)

Boy is the unsettling story of a young male prostitute, or Rent Boy, in a small rural town who learns the truth behind a hit and run accident which has killed a local girl. When the news of the girls death spreads through the community, the driver and his family decide that the boy must be silenced. The set out to scare him into silence. The pressure becomes more and more violent, but despite this, the boy battles to expose the truth.

Peter Pan(en)

This musical version of the tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up aired live on television on March 7, 1955. It was so popular that it was restaged the following year, and again four years later.

Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling(de)

In the year 1968, the “Bockerer” has decided, after many attempts, to marry his long-time widowed housekeeper, Anna. Gustl, whom he as taken in like a son after the war, will open a butchery in the Czech small town Kostelec and invites the Bockerers to spend their wedding journey with him and his Elena. The “Prague Spring”, of which everywhere is talked so much about, promises a nice honeymoon, and their friend Hatzinger is taken along on the journey as well. Soon after their arrival, the Bockerer has to realize that “Communism with a human face” is still an idle wish.

Free Hands(fr)

Barbara is a filmmaker who has been working in the prison environment for a few years now. She is preparing a film written and directed by long-term inmates in a prison in the projects around Paris. Twice a week, Barbara goes to the prison where she shoots interviews with the inmates which will serve as a basis for the writing of their screenplay.

The Drama of October 15th(es)

Reconstruction one year later of the assassination of Colombian liberal leader Rafael Uribe Uribe; with the participation of the perpetrators: Jesús Carvajal and Leovigildo Galarza.

Big Sur Gay Porn(en)

Cult filmmaker Tom DeSimone (Reform School Girls; Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie) revisits the production of a lost gay film and resurrects youthful adventures on the California coast. From the creators of Raw! Uncut! Video!.

The Main Celebration of Life(ru)

In Russia, the attitude to death is paradoxically irrational – we all seem to live forever. Entrepreneur Sergey Yakushin is the only reasonable "madman" who conducted a funeral "revolution" in his native Novosibirsk. Yakushin himself turned around to face death after being diagnosed with late-stage cancer 15 years ago. And they gave me a year of life.

Blue Sun Palace(en)

A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through grief together in hopes of finding family.