The Function of Fiction is the Abstraction and Simulation of Social Experience(2021)

A Private Function(en)

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.

Flow(en)

Lola la taquera(es)

Separate Order(ru)

Driven by a separate order of the investigator, a car - material evidence in one criminal case - from Perm to St. Petersburg, Pasha Arnautov finds himself in the very epicenter of the confrontation between two gangster groups.

Ensamrummet(sv)

Emma's parents are going to divorce, but before that the family goes on holiday to the countryside. Emma is left alone when the parents just arguing and moving to another room. Soon she discovers that there is something mysterious about the room when a typewriter starts writing a message by itself...

Fire with Fire(en)

An ex-Black Panther raised his daughter to be tough in a racist nation. After college, she and her friends decide to vacation away from the city but find themselves having to face the dangers of white supremacists lurking in rural America.

Trying It At Home: Number Two(en)

A Jackass tribute. Alex Andrews and his band of misfits return for another round of crazy stunts, skits and pranks.

Atando cabos(es)

Stray(en)

A killer decides to settle down in a small town and start a family. But first she has to find the right guy to help make it happen, whether he wants to or not.

Ich piss' auf deinen Kadaver(de)

The military has developed a new biological warfare agent. A corrupt officer wants to sell the death virus to the Mafia. Since the leading doctor died during the tests, a replacement is needed quickly. The replacement is quickly found, but he steals the agent and runs off with it. Now begins a bloody hunt for the doctor and his two daughters...

Bully(en)

When a video of Toby being brutally humiliated at school appears on the Internet, Toby's high school and parents take action. However, with an overbearing father and a willfully unaware mother, Toby soon learns that his demons are not just in the classroom.

Symptoms(es)

A 17-year-old girl faces a life with an adverse perspective, where her social life, her experiences, her happiness and emotional stability only depend on a thread that is too damaged.

Juliette(fr)

Juliette is a shy girl terrified to catch a ride with two women that are not paying any attention to the road.

House of 1,000 Dolls(en)

When a vacationing couple in Tangiers runs into an old friend there, they discover that he is searching for his missing girlfriend who has been kidnapped by an international gang of white slavers.

Black Metal Satanica(en)

BLACK METAL SATANICA is an in-depth documentary capturing the dark, mystical and evil history of the Black Metal genre. Based on Scandinavian Viking lore, Black Metal borrows from ancient Viking melodies, lyrics and mythology dating back to the 11th century.

Stardom Dream Slam In Osaka(ja)

The following results are from a recent World Wonder Ring STARDOM live event. The event took place on March 31st, 2018 at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2 in Osaka, Japan. 6 Man Tag Team Match Starlight Kid, Hanan and Natsumi defeated Nao Yamaguchi, Leo Onozaki and Ruaka. Triple Threat Match Saki Kashima defeated Natsu Sumire and Shiki Shibusawa. 8 Woman Elimination Tag Team Match Queen's Quest (Momo Watanabe, Viper, HZK and AZM) defeated Jungle Kyona, Kaori Yoneyama, Natsuko Tora and Konami. Tag Team Match Tam Nakano and Mayu Iwatani defeated Xia Brookside and Toni Storm. Wonder Of STARDOM Title Match Io Shirai (c) defeated Bea Priestley. Goddesses Of STARDOM Titles Match Oedo-tai (Hana Kimura and Kagetsu) (c) defeated La Familia del Apache (Mari Apache and Fabi Apache)

Furuhata Chugakusei(ja)

Young Furuhata, a 3rd-year junior high student from Tokyo, transferred to a school in the countryside due to family circumstances. He doesn't fit in at first, but he eventually gains a reputation as a detective and opens his own detective agency. One day, he hears about the town's legend of buried treasure, and he immediately begins unraveling the mystery.

Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'(en)

A look at the unusual process used in the making of the film Shortbus (2006) featuring interviews, behind the scenes footage and clips from the feature film. Director John Cameron Mitchell starts with the concept of using real sex in a film with a positive message. The cast of unknowns is selected from homemade audition tapes and then a callback audition workshop. More acting workshops are used to develop the characters and script. The project overcomes a number of obstacles and the rest of the film's development is followed up until its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust(en)

Each of the stories celebrates pioneers of a national movement to engage encore workers, adults age 50+, in solving problems, meeting important social needs, and improving life for people and communities

Hellman Fellows Program(en)

Established by Warren & Chris Hellman and their children in 1994, the Hellman Fellows Program has supported more than 850 junior faculty members, who are now chairs and heads of departments, MacArthur Geniuses and tenured faculty with long track records of successful research.

A Temple in Seattle(en)

University of Washington professor Noam Pianko and his students collaborated with Citizen Film, the Pacific Northwest Jewish Archive and Seattle’s Jewish Community Federation to unpack and digitize archival photos and documents, then turn them into shareable digital content.

CMC Teen Jazz Orchestra: Cultivating respect and self expression through music(en)

CMC’s visionary leaders and artists to celebrate one of San Francisco’s most-revered and longest-running community arts programs.

CMC Young Musicians Program: Mission District youth find focus, follow dreams(en)

The mission of Community Music Center is to make high quality music accessible to all people, regardless of financial status.

Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life(en)

Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have recently immigrated to the US from the former Soviet Union. Gary's family is from Moscow.

Explorer: Lake of Fire(en)

In 2001, satellite imagery captured a mysterious “thermal anomaly” on an unexplored volcano at the ends of the Earth. What lies inside could provide new clues to help predict volcanic eruptions around the globe. But the island is so remote with conditions that are so extreme. No one has ever been able to reach the top to investigate what lies inside.. until now.

Billy Joel: Building the Bridge(en)

In 1986, Billy Joel released the album titled The Bridge on July 29th on Columbia Records. Go behind the scenes with Billy and learn about the songwriting and recording process behind the album.

The Finest Kind: A People's History of the Lockeport Lockout, 1939(en)

In the fall of 1939, more than 600 fishermen and fish handlers in the tiny town of Lockeport, Nova Scotia walked the picket line in front of the town's only employers, Swim Brothers and the Lockeport Company. Both fishplants had locked their doors rather than recognize the Canadian Fishermen's Union as official bargaining agent. For eight weeks, as autumn turned to winter, the men, with their wives and families, held firm. It was a bread-and-butter struggle that made national headlines--one of the first major attempts by Nova Scotia fishermen and fishhandlers to win union recognition, and one of the first major tests of the N.S. Trade Union Act, passed in 1937.

Godzilla: King of The Monsters- The Antarctic Base(en)

In Monarch's Antarctic Base, a frozen fortress buffeted by screaming winds and surrounded by impenetrable ice, King Ghidorah shakes off his icy slumber and escapes in one of the film's most thrilling sequences. Join the filmmakers as they reveal how King Ghidorah was brought to terrifying life inside Monarch's underground biolab with its towering ice wall.

The Seafarers(en)

Members of the American Federation of Labor, the Atlantic & Gulf Coast District of the Seafarers International Union commissioned budding filmmaker and magazine photographer Stanley Kubrick to direct this half-hour documentary. The director's first film in color, it is more of an industrial film than a documentary, it served as a promotional tool to recruit sailors to the union.

Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song(en)

The story of The Beatles' last song featuring exclusive footage and commentary.

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'(en)

The film features a conversation between Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, producer of THX 1138. They discuss Lucas' vision for the film, including his ideas about science fiction in general and in particular his concept of the "used future" which would famously feature in his film Star Wars. Intercut with this discussion is footage shot prior to the start of production of THX 1138 showing several of its actors having their heads shaved, a requirement for appearing in the film. In several cases the actors are shown being shaved in a public location. For example, Maggie McOmie is shaved outside the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, while Robert Duvall watches a sporting event as his hair is cut off. Another actor, Marshall Efron, who would later play an insane man in the film, cut off his own hair and was filmed doing so in a bathtub.

The Irishman: In Conversation(en)

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino in conversation about The Irishman.

We Live Here: The Midwest(en)

Explore timely, personal stories of LGBTQI+ families who strive to build lives in their communities despite biased legislation and mounting prejudice.

Outlaw Comic: The Censoring of Bill Hicks(en)

A biographical documentary on the late great comedian Bill Hicks and his career; in particular the censorship by Letterman that scarred it.

Camp Courage(en)

Made refugees by the war in Ukraine, Olga and her granddaughter Milana travel to a summer camp in the Austrian Alps to test the limits of their own bravery, and to strengthen their growing bond.

I'll Never Forget the Last Time(en)

A movie that portrays a reflection about sense of being self, to love and to be loved.

Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon(en)

"Twin Peaks: The Phenomenon" is a three-part short documentary briefly chronicling the history of Twin Peaks. Produced and released on YouTube as part of the build-up to the premiere of the 2017 series, it was released on home video as part of Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series and Twin Peaks: From Z to A.