Merry Birthday, Happy Christmas (2024)

Robert Schimmel: Life Since Then

The comedian and best selling author of "Cancer on $5 a Day...How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life," has plenty to say on everything from raising a 17 year old daughter, bargaining with the Almighty, and how not to make friends with a dolphin.

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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.

Wake Me Up

After boyfriend's disappearance Zhenia develops an uncanny power for prophetic dreams. Using this gift she decides to escape fate and save her true love from Moscow's criminal underworld

The Clinic

A comedic, dramatic day in the lives of employees and patients at a venereal disease clinic.

Mrs. Tejo Goes to Jakarta

Bu Tejo goes on a road trip to attend her son's engagement party in Jakarta, but she brings along her own hidden agenda.

Kiss

A gay couple are kissing and deepening love in a movie scenario. As the two main actors are also a couple in real life, you can literally see “Love” in its exact form. The director himself mentions his aspects of kissing being entertaining and filled with wonder.

Laura Pausini - Live Inedito World Tour

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Secrets of the Samurai Sword

Nova follows the creation of a katana from raw iron ore to finished masterpiece, through the hands of fifteen master artisans as scientists explain the chemistry and physics at each step that makes it a superb piece of engineering.

It Kills: Camp Blood 7

A group of college kids on break find themselves in a terrifying situation when they become stranded at the infamous Camp Blood.

The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda

A mostly lost Soviet Union stop-motion version of this classic fairytale. The only surviving scene is called "Market".

TWST / Things We Said Today

A time capsule of New York City between August 13-15, 1965, framed by the Beatles’ arrival in the city and their first concert at Shea Stadium. The film consists exclusively of archive material from the period (ABC, CBS, NBC), 8mm home movies and images of the concert, which was recorded with fourteen 35mm cameras. Four teenagers are sent on a trip through time and inserted in the archive material by means of animation.

Asking for It

A journalist takes justice into her own hands when her internet stalker walks free from the law.

Killer Rack

Comedy about a woman suffering from low self esteem who gets breast enhancement surgery, unaware that her surgeon worships H.P. Lovecraft's elder gods, and the surgery is part of a diabolical plot to rule the world.

Prampolini-Menarini Express

A found footage / object film: the colorful 1960s in Italy, a joyful time, live-giving coating of born-again found images, re-animated, examined, reviewed in a past time, revisited.

‎The Girl and Grand‎

Marina is a girl who saves a colt from being put down because of a trauma, and she gives him the name - Grand.

Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery

Private detective Mike Hammer takes on a case looking for Trinity Sinclair's father who has been missing for 15 years.

Ringside Maisie

Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.

The Brothers

Liu Yung is the brother whose destiny is to become a top mobster. Danny Lee is the brother fated to become a cop.

Year of the Carnivore

A girl has a crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed so she goes out to get more experience.

The Gamblers

Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy.

New Wave Lovers

Freddy wants to be a star. He writes and performs his own songs, but has no record contract yet. He has an idea to form a group of back-up vocalists and recruits four beautiful girls who also happen to be his former lovers. They name themselves "THE FOUR PIN-UPS." But even this doesn't work because Freddy wants the spotlight for himself. However, by chance, the girls find themselves onstage without Freddy; they start singing and capture the audience and sign a contract with a big producer. They seem to be on the road to success with their own sound and a new wave image. Except the dream begins to lose its glow; scandal, conflicts, and disenchantment start affecting the group. They go from number one to...

Šejdrem

On the eve of May Day, a Prague actor’s insistence on “doing the maypole right” sparks a drunken village bet and regretful hangovers as tradition and hometown pride collide.

Wife of a Kamikaze

In June 1945 Yamauchi Fusako goes alone to Manchuria where her husband, Setsuo, a second lieutenant of the Kwantung Army, is based. At that time, 200,000 Japanese had settled in Manchuria, a Japanese occupied territory, as settler communities. Fujita Hideo’s family worked hard to clear the wilderness, but the Soviets are lying in wait for an invasion of Manchuria from the North. Fusako is safely reunited with her husband at the headquarters of the Kwantung Army’s Fifth Training Squadron in Manchuria’s Dahushan. Setsuo also takes good care of his beloved wife, but his position is an instructor to the young soldiers who will eventually carry out suicide attacks. He wonders if he should have summoned her and speaks of these mixed feelings to his commanding officer, Michiba Kazuo, a first lieutenant. Michiba is concerned about Setsuo’s attempts to cherish his wife before the coming showdown on homeland. Fusako learns about life in Manchuria from Michiba’s wife, Etsu.

Berchidda Live – A Journey Into Time In Jazz Archive

Collects and processes more than 1,500 hours of archive material filmed over 25 years by Gianfranco Cabiddu and his crew in the various editions of Time in Jazz, a music festival created and directed by Paolo Fresu in his home town of Berchidda, Sardinia.