The Pursuit of What Was(2009)

Munchsferatu(fr)

Munchsferatu is a painter who has become a vampire by living only for his art. An experimental narrative mashup film with David Bowie, Gérard Depardieu, Christina Hendricks and Josiane Balasko.

Strangers(en)

A married man meets a stunning brunette at an airport and has an affair with her. After a while though he wants to break it off but realises the woman will do anything to stay with him no matter who gets hurt.

2014 San Francisco Giants: The Official World Series Film(en)

Recap of the seven game 2014 World Series featuring the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals narrated by Colin Hanks.

Atomic Agent(fr)

Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change the future of rocketry.

The Helpful (?) Sisterhood(en)

Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.

Ponnumani(ta)

Ponnumani and Chinthamani are childhood sweethearts. Chinthamani goes off to pursue education in the city, but they remain devoted to each other. They decide to marry once her exams are over. However, Ponnumani finds her in a mentally unbalanced state in the railway station when she returns.

Glitch in the Grid(en)

Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal.

Furusato(de)

A small town in Japan's exclusion zone searches for normalcy in the five years following the greatest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl.

The Hound(en)

A short film follows a dog’s journey through a park as they encounter something sinister.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester(en)

Attorney Bill McKenzie takes the case when his niece is framed for the murder of a popular and demanding sitcom star.

Earth Summit Mission: Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Team(zh)

"Earth Summit Mission" is the first 4K documentary recording a scientific expedition. The 60-minute Earth Summit Mission documentary is a record of the second Chinese scientific expedition to Mount Qomolangma which took place in the summer of 2022. It involved around 200 scientists, led by Yao Tandong from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the course of the expedition, the scientists set a number of records, from collecting ice and snow samples from the highest point on Earth and setting up the world’s highest weather station, to sending up an observation aerostat to an altitude of over 9,000 meters.

Higit sa Lahat(tl)

A story about a father's love for his family, making a supreme sacrifice to give them a new lease on life.

Grand Slam(en)

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

Seven Short Stories About First Love(ka)

Seven lyrical stories about the first love, about the emergence of the first naive and pure feeling.

East/West: Sex & Politics(en)

Both in 2006 and 2007, the Gay Pride Parade attempts in Moscow are violently beaten down. For many observers, the attitude towards the sexual minorities seems to be the litmus test of the state of democracy in Russia. In January 2007, for the first time in Russian history, a Russian leader, president Vladimir Putin mentions the situation of the LGBT community: He won't criticize the politics of Moscow mayor Yuri Lushkov, who forbid the event, but he is concerned about the demographic future of the country. And Putins opinion seems to be repeated by the right wing contra demonstrators on the streets. The film shows both the organizers of the Pride events and also the survival strategies of the majority Russian lesbians and gays, to whom the fight for democracy on the streets doesn't seem to be an attractive alternative.

When a Man's a Man(nl)

A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert refuses to let them have any water. Easterner Larry Knight takes a job with the Baldwins and he has a plan to divert the water back to the Baldwin ranch. But Phil, jealous of Kitty's attraction to Larry, lets Cambert know of the scheme.

Vintergatan(sv)

Junge Leute brauchen Liebe(de)

El padre Juan(es)

The Illiac Passion(en)

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound , finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.

The Focus(sh)

The Focus is the film about easy death on the Mediterranean sun.

Hinterlands(en)

Through a structuralist and simultaneously ambiguous form, the image's reality treads closer to the abstract, leaving the sunset and trees behind. As we enter the image's gloaming, it reveals its true eye: reality's pure haptic energy, where there is nothing but sonorous light, and the dregs of the Unknown.

The Letter(fr)

Michael Gondry's examination of childhood love is replete with his trademark surreality. One evening at the turn of the century, Stephane discusses with his brother the end of the millenium, but also girls, particularly Aurelie, a classmate with whom he is secretly in love. The following day, Aurelie has a letter to give to him....

White Hole(ja)

Avant garde/experimental film. A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

Alpsee(en)

For a young boy, ordinary facts and things of daily life seem to have great importance.

Lapses, Regrets and Qualms(fr)

A day in the life of director Boris Lehman: he wanders from cafe to bookshop, cinema to museum, writer to musician, and into the storeroom of the film archive... He celebrates his birthday in an alleyway, with a friend, and finishes his journey with an escapade to Bruges and a stroll by the North Sea. The camera plays dirty tricks and the sound recorder gets carried away, to the point that both are clearly telling Boris to stop filming. Yet he persists…

Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets(fr)

Late Night Talks with Mother(cs)

Taking a cue from Franz Kafka's "Letter to My Father," this highly personal film follows Czech director Jan Nemec as he attempts to engage in a dialogue with his deceased mother. While alive, Nemec's mother had a troubled relationship with her son; this rumination seems to be Nemec's public platform for coming to terms with unresolved familial issues. The director embellishes his film by linking personal events with 20th century history.

Chelsea Girls(en)

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. The film was intended to be screened via dual projector set-up.

Diwan(de)

Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are neither more nor less than one part of it. What Nekes manages there with landscape, as a cunning and quote many fine artist in a medium that runs in time, as he defeated the time changed, by themselves for change of scenery uses, as it interferes with the laws of chronology through the rewind ability of the camera or destroyed, which is a compelling and highly aesthetic experimental company.

The Life of Python(en)

Celebrating their 30th anniversary, Monty Python presents exclusive new material and so-called classic bits. Disc : 1 Contains 1:It's The Monty Python Story 2:Pythonland 3:The Last Python Mayday Special 4:From Spam to Sperm:Monty Pythons Greatest Hits An Animated South Park Tribute Disc:2 1 The Last German Episode Fliegender Zirkus #2: Schnapps with Everything

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover(en)

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

Here(en)

A student-produced live-action short adaptation of Richard McGuire's 6-page comic originally published in RAW magazine. The short film is about a series of events in time that happen in one point of space: the corner of a room in a normal house.

Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera(en)

The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera.

Topos(el)

During its 85-minute running time, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in Western art.

In My Country Men Have Breasts(en)

Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and she lost her breasts due to the cancer. After she directed, wrote and acted 10+4 which showed her struggle with the cancer, the depiction of the artists body became central in her works. In the same year, Akbari photographed her own naked body for the photo project titled Devastation. Although it was pretty risky, put herself in danger and prohibited to exhibit Devastation in Iran due to the naked images of her own body, Akbari continued to depict her own body as a new medium and new material so that she provided a video secretly as well. In 2012, after Akbari left Iran due to the barred situation of filmmaking and arresting film makers, she uses the video that shoot secretly from her own body in 2007 and juxtaposed with new images and the song of Ahangaran, who was a singer for the war time between Iran and Iraq. As a result of her action and performance, the video project titled In my country, Men Do Have Breasts happened.

The Holy Mountain(es)

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

Lonesome Cowboys(en)

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

O'er the Land(en)

A meditation on freedom and technological approaches to manifest destiny.