Playground(2009)

way(en)

San Francisco filmmaker Konrad Steiner took 12 years to complete a montage cycle set to the late Leslie Scalapino’s most celebrated poem, way—a sprawling book-length odyssey of shardlike urban impressions, fraught with obliquely felt social and sexual tensions. Six stylistically distinctive films for each section of way, using sources ranging from Kodachrome footage of sun-kissed S.F. street scenes to internet clips of the Iraq war to a fragmented Fred Astaire dance number.

Spring(ru)

This is a story about a city guy Nikolai, who will have to go instead of his friend on a rural business trip. A series of funny events, meetings and the beauty of the Yakut village encourage Nikolai to make an important decision in his life…

The Headless Rider(es)

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").

Pound x Pound: The History of Juan Manuel Márquez(en)

Pound x Pound introduces you to the world of boxing elite through the eyes of Juan Manuel Marquez, four-time world champion. It is a ringside ticket to the professional and personal life of Juan Manuel. An unique access to the truth behind the rivalry with Manny Pacquiao. Read the story behind the Mexican idol, who through work, effort, sacrifices and frustrations, has established itself as one of the best pound for pound fighters in the world.

OVERLOAD(de)

O Encontro do Sol e a Lua(pt)

Alvar Aalto: Technology and Nature(fi)

The Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is one of the great figures of modern architecture, ranked alongside Gropius, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. This film analyses Aalto’s uniquely successful resolution of the demands and possibilities created by new technology and construction materials with the need to make his buildings sympathetic both to their users and to their natural surroundings. His inventive use of timber in particular represents both a reference to the forest landscape of Finland and a building material that is ‘warm’ and extremely adaptable. Filmed in Finland, Italy, Germany and the USA, this documentary shows how the Finnish natural environment and art traditions were essential elements in Aalto’s pioneering harmonization of technology and nature.

A Castle in the Air(ar)

Sahar and Rady are in love, but when he asks Sahar to marry him, she turns him down because she's really a poor girl. Rady joins the navy, while the musician Aziz discovers Sahar's talent for singing and trains her. She works at the school of Bahr El-Baqar and survives when the Israelis bomb it.

Rest in Pieces(en)

This short machinima horror movie tells the escape story of Chris Edwards, inner voice dubbed by Aaron Landon Jackson, who wakes up in the middle of the night, at the cemetery, by a nameless grave that reads "Rest In Pieces."

Matrix(en)

"MATRIX is a flicker film which utilizes 81 still photographs of my wife's head. It is a film dependent upon variation of intense light changes by calculated combinations of black and white frame alternations with exposure changes. Throughout, the light intensity rises and falls as the head rotates in varying directions within a 360 degree frontal area." — James Cagle

Red(ja)

A married woman with a lovely daughter lives a carefree life, until she meets her ex-lover at a friend’s wedding. They haven’t seen each other in ten years, but they begin an affair.

A Trip to Paramountown(en)

Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.

Storm Over Georgia(en)

In the middle of Sherman's March, in eastern Georgia, Confederate infantry, cavalry, and artillery make a bold stand against the overwhelming numbers of the Union army as it tears across Georgia.

MAR(es)

Raymundo is constantly tormented during his vacation at the beach by a painful memory from his past that he had not wanted to face.

The Sisters S-Scandal(ko)

Yoo-jin is rough and manly while Yoo-jeong is feminine and cute. Yoo-jeong works in an office until she finds out she's getting fired. The chairman uses this against her to provide sexual service and Yoo-jeong has no choice but to spend a night with him. Yoo-jin finds out about this and makes a plan to make him pay back...

Mojin: Longling Misty Cave(zh)

Second part of Ghost Blowing Lantern.

Pornography(fr)

Everything you always wanted to know about pornography (but were afraid to ask).

Minor Leaguer(en)

A minor league hockey player struggles with the massive ego of his team's new owner, a hockey legend who was once his childhood hero.

95(fi)

Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.

El Desconsuelo(es)

Mother and daughter, separated and alone, mourn the death of their respective husband and father. After this, they begin to hear mysterious noises and enter a progressive spiral of terror and paranoia. The different ways of facing loss, anxiety, pain and lack of communication.

Losing Isaiah(en)

Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.

WAJBA(ar)

A mother and her son find themselves in an awkward situation where they live in the same building but they're separated due to different reasons. Mahmood develops a system to solve this issue and the situation starts to heat up.

Applause(da)

When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking period she divorced and lost custody of her two boys. Now she wants them to be a part of her life again.

Night Shift(en)

Follows a cleaning lady going through an overnight shift at an airport. Her actions throughout may seem selfish and heartless but they all become incredibly understandable at the end.

On My Own(en)

Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother lives in England. When his parents visit him in the holidays, Simon discovers that his mother has schizophrenia.

‘Merica(it)

Mothers in Exile(ar)

Hassouna identifies customs with the businessman Shaheen, who offers him assistance in exchange for facilitating the procedures of his illicit goods. Hasina is lured to get involved in a relationship, and recorded by Shaheen motivated, until Hassouna becomes at their disposal, Shahine Hassouna claims that his wife, threatens him with tape and acquiesces to him for fear of the scandal, and agrees to facilitate his suspicious operations, but after an innocent injustice at customs as a result of Hassouna's corruption, He then dies, wakes up his conscience, surrenders himself, reports on Shaheen and the rest of his corrupt partners to purify himself, and his deceased colleague is considered.

Mother(mr)

Life becomes hard for a family after the father is involved in an accident that causes him to lose his legs.

Innuendo(en)

Tuuli grows up in an oppressively religious and abusive family in Finland. To escape from the shadow of her angelic twin sister she travels to Melbourne, Australia. Curious of sexuality, she becomes a nude model for art classes. Her innocent surface reveals sordid cracks as she sets about exerting her twisted version of righteousness.

Behind Closed Doors(en)

An anxiety-ridden teenager searches for connection at a high school party, until an unexpected connection finds him instead.

My Little Sweet Pea(ja)

It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to become an anime voice actress. Saving up for classes while she works part time in a manga store, she lives with her older, gambler brother after her father's death. When the mother she never knew turns up out of nowhere and moves in, it only causes irritation for the aspiring otaku. But when her mother just as quickly disappears, it leaves Mugiko (or "Sweet Pea") searching for answers, bringing her back to her mother's hometown to discover what happened to her mother's own dream.

Wolfsong(en)

A mother wolf breaks into a hunter's den and takes back her cub, only to find it a motionless trophy. She sings a lullaby hoping that the cub would finally sleep. Little does she know that a young hunter stalks them back from the den.

Spirit of My Mother(es)

A Garifuna woman returns to Honduras to forget her past and rediscover herself.

Next Stop, Greenwich Village(en)

An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.

Let the Sunshine In(fr)

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

Blesser(ko)

Sang-yeon is a confident and talented political reporter who must achieve everything as planned. After a long wait, she gives birth to twins, but when her second child is diagnosed with a developmental disability, her life changes completely.

Young Mom 3(ko)

Yeong-bin can’t get a job and his father, Jin-il, thinks he’s incompetent. Yeong-bin is seeing Min-jeong, the florist, but she feels distant from Yeong-bin, who dreams of going to Seoul one day. One day, Jin-il brings home Ye-won, whom he is going to get remarried with, and Yeong-bin is furious, because she is his ex-girlfriend who abandoned him. However, they find out there was a misunderstanding to their break-up and they develop feelings for each other once again. Meanwhile, Min-jeong feels more attracted to Jin-il, because he’s more dependable.

Star Boys(fi)

Through the eyes of two 12-year-old boys, the sexual revolution arrives in a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland.