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- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsRudolf HrusínskýJaromír HanzlíkJosef SomrThis movie is based on texts of Bohumil Hrabal, world-known Czech prosaic. It's a story (in a form of a mosaic of short episodes and pictures) about the sadness and happiness of inhabitants of Kersko (Kersko is a small woody area full of cottages and roods). These people are both simple and sensitive, they have their own pleasures (e.g. Leli is a collector of cheap, but inutile things) and the greatest delight of all of them is a hunting. Crude poetics of amateur hunting is screened by dreamy pictures of this area. Menzel mixes sentimental lyricism and rough (but not vulgar!) humor and the outcome is the never-ending landscape of continuous life in the proximate nearness of nature. The performances of actors are brilliant. Both Rudolf Hrusinsky as a Franz and Jaromír Hanzlik as a Leli have nonrecurring charm bottomed on a pain and inebriation. Only the music is not perfect: Jiri Sust usually assembled his film music from his older works and in this movie there is many quotations.
- DirectorUlrike OttingerStarsHanns ZischlerBurghart KlaußnerThomas ThiemeDocument of a 2014 Bering Sea journey following the paths of previous explorers such as Adelbert Von Chamisso. Landscape, flora and fauna are observed, local residents who subsist off the land and sea are encountered along the way.
- DirectorSandy DingAN ADVENTURER AND AWAKENING IN BOTH PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SPACE/TIME.
- DirectorKôhei OguriStarsJoe OdagiriMiki NakataniAna GirardotJapanese artist, Foujita, is Paris' darling in the roaring twenties, loved for his delicate nudes. After leaving his 1st wife, Fernande, he meets Lucie Badoud and names her Yuki (snow in Japanese) after her exquisitely pale skin. Together with their friends Van Dongen, Kisling, Picasso, Modigliani & Kiki, they go to all the parties! On the outbreak of WWII, Foujita returns to Japan with his new Japanese wife, Kimiyo. He exhibits his war paintings that are much darker than the delicate whites of his Paris period. As the battles intensify, Foujita retreats to the country with Kimiyo and discover a Japan he never knew. Foujita returns to France years later. Here, newly naturalised, he takes on the French name Léonard and builds the chapel "Notre Dame de la Paix" in Reims, his final work.
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsHisaya MorishigeHideko TakamineTakahiro TamuraStory about a woman who looks after her father in law.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsAyako WakaoHiroshi KawaguchiEiji FunakoshiIn the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the Japanese spy service.
- DirectorKôzaburô YoshimuraStarsMachiko KyôYasuko FujitaKeiju KobayashiThe story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
- DirectorJames Benning
- DirectorZenzô MatsuyamaStarsHideko TakamineKeiju KobayashiIzumi HaraA sympathetic portrayal of the suffering of a deaf couple at the hands of a shell shocked postwar society that treats them like wayward children to be at turns pitied or exploited.
- DirectorKichitarô NegishiStarsToshiyuki NagashimaJohnny OhkuraEri IshidaUrban sprawl and corrupt materialism have a devastating effect on farming families near Tokyo.
- DirectorRyosuke HashiguchiStarsTamae AndôLily FrankyRyô IkedaAtsushi is a civic construction worker who was widowed following a random murder. Toko's husband is neither interested in her nor in how his mother treats his wife. Shinomiya is a lawyer whose homosexuality has lead to mismatched love. The three separate stories tread a thread of hope, love, rejection and abandonment. Three relative cinema newcomers act in roles for which they were auditioned and specially hired.
- DirectorPatrick BokanowskiStarsLaurence ChableVincent JolyWithout any apparent coherence or story, this oneiric trip essentially evokes the battle between light and darkness.
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterDuring the year 2000 Geyrhalter and his teams travelled to a different destination each month, looking for places untouched by the millennium hysteria. Locations include Niger, Finland, Micronesia, Australia, China, Siberia or Greenland.
- DirectorMitsuo YanagimachiStarsJinpachi NezuKumiko AkiyoshiJirô YabukiThe film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction.
- StarsAleksandr BorisovThis five-episode documentary series tells the story of a Russian naval commander in charge of an Arctic-based ship. The series reveals the daily duties associated with the ship, but it is really about solitude and isolation. Voice-over narration by the commander, other sailors, and even a third-person voice provide the "confession" of the title.
- DirectorBill ViolaEnvisions an epic quest for transcendence and self-knowledge: Bill Viola describes this work as a "personal investigation of the inner states and connections to animal consciousness we all carry within."
- DirectorStefan UherStarsMarián BernátJozef GráfEmília DosekováThis is a tragicomic story about boys who even in times of war remember how to play soldiers, dream of heroic deeds, spy on girls, show off in front of friends, and make up fantastic adventures.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsMariko KagaAkira NakaoYasukiyo UmenoYuka is a "good-time girl" from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsRoeder CamanagAngeli BayaniPerry DizonFilipino poet Benjamin Agusan (Roeder Camanag) is a hapless native who returns to his hometown Padang to witness the aftermath of the super typhoon. For the past seven years, Benjamin has been living in an old town called Kaluga in Russia. With his grant and residency, he taught and conducted workshops in a university; in the process he published two poetry books of sadness and longing. In Russia, Benjamin shot video collages, fell in love with a Slavic beauty, buried a son, and almost went mad. He came back to bury his dead--father, mother, sister, and a lover. He came back to face Mount Mayon, the raging beauty and muse of his youth. He came home to confront the country that he so loved and hated, the Philippines. He came back to die in the land of his birth. He wanders around the obliterated village meeting old friends and lovers.
- DirectorJames BenningLines from the diary of Theodore Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, during his stay in a cabin outside the city of Lincoln in Montana. The film is shot from the same angle trough the four seasons and featuring a voiceover from James Benning.
- DirectorJames BenningA static shot of a desert train track.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsThommy BerggrenAnja SchmidtKelvin MalaveAbout the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill.
- DirectorRyosuke HashiguchiStarsReiko KataokaKazuya TakahashiSeiichi TanabeSoon after the disparate yet compatible Naoya and Katsuhiro start to settle into a relationship, a slightly unhinged young woman named Asako asks Katsuhiro to father her child.
- DirectorPhilip GröningStarsAlexandra FinderDavid ZimmerschiedPia KleemannThe story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one another as they discover the new town. It is only a matter of time before the conflicts within the family manifest themselves.
- DirectorAbbas FahdelChronicles of everyday life in Iraq before and after the U.S. invasion.