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Images from the Versailles summit in 1982 and from the summit at the Munich Residence in 1992: The leaders and their men. Also, images from the "hot August" of 1977 and the "stormy February" of 1973: In all these cases, state power pulls hard on the brakes so that they screech.

Ageing misfit Sir Morosus lives alone in an old-style apartment in Charlottenburg in Berlin. He is wealthy, but also lonely and a bit grumpy. Then his nephew Henry moves in with him and his life takes a turn for the better. Director Jan Philipp Gloger homes in on two of the most pressing problems of the day: loneliness and the housing shortage. The Staatskapelle Berlin is conducted by Christian Thielemann.

A petty criminal finds himself face to face with a brash cop determined to take him down.

The White Guard is the first novel by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. It describes the events of the Civil War in Ukraine in 1918-1919. The work was conceived by the author as a large-scale trilogy about the civil war, but the author wrote only the first part of it. Confirmation that Bulgakov worked on the second and third parts of the novel are the stories "The Raid", "On the Night of the Third Number", "I Killed" and others. The film is dedicated to the centenary of the writing of the novel "The White Guard", to the centenary of the civil war in Russia. This is an attempt to analyze the scale of the historical tragedy through the prism of the views of a great artist.

At the time of the catastrophe, Oxana Pentak, an engineer in charge of adjusting automatic systems, was living on Lenin Street in Pripjet - closer to the reactor block than to the city of Chernobyl. She relates how she was gradually able to put together a picture of the fatal disaster from the scattered bits of information she gathered.

Accounts of early film spectatorship often explain the viewer’s fascination with peripheral details—i.e. the wind in the trees of the Lumieres’ Repas de bebe—as an attraction to the “contingencies” indiscriminately captured by the camera. Rethinking the appeal of rippling waves, rising dust, and fluttering leaves in terms of unplannable movements rather than unplanned events, this video essay examines an unlikely sympathy between early cinema spectatorship and the recent attention to hyperrealistic details in computer-generated animation, such as the dust in Wall-E, the flowing hair in Brave, and the snow in Frozen.

Short documentary about Lalo Parra Bello, a film director and actor from Ayacucho. Through his story, we discover the filmmakers of a growing industry that, despite its rapid growth, remains largely unknown because it operates far from the capital.

An acting coach unravels the meaning of performance, challenging their students and the audience to question where truth ends, illusion begins, and whether there is any difference at all.

When they discover their friends corpse, four friends have to put their house party on hold and figure who the killer is among them.

For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Scotia. BESCO cut wages by a third, setting off a bitter labour dispute. The miners settled in for a long strike. Finally, in 1925, the military ended the unrest with brute force. But the miners, in one sense, had won. They broke up the monopoly and provided an example to workers across the country.

From filmmaker Yue Hua comes the 16mm film, "Time is a loop", I wish—a tender rumination on time and loss. This sweetly evocative personal piece pairs nostalgic-feeling film footage of toys, wobbly cradle Balance Balls, and light and shadow, with Hua’s poetic reflections presented as hand-drawn text on screen. Hua shot the 16mm footage intuitively (not to or for a script), wrote the text separately, then put them together in post-production creating an evocative capaciousness further enchanted by an airy score. “When I was little, time was slow and I thought I could catch time,” Hua tells us, ”Now, I made a wish.” Embedded in that wish is gentle reckoning and liberation through which she offers a soothing, cinematic, beguiling respite.

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

Eager voters swarm to Trafalgar Square to witness the election results.

Nam June Paik's first single-channel videotape since 1989 is a heartfelt tribute to his long-time collaborator Charlotte Moorman. This portrait traces Moorman's career as an avant-garde performer, from her classical training to her notorious arrest as the "Topless Cellist" and subsequent talk-show celebrity. Rare documentations of Moorman's performances include Otto Piene's Sky Kiss and Jim McWilliams' Chocolate Cello. Interviews with Moorman's friends, family and collaborators, such as Yoko Ono, Christo and Jeanne Claude, Otto Piene, and Barbara Moore, among others, provide intimate recollections of the inimitable Moorman.

A collection of romantic short stories by various mangaka.

A certain winter day. Hajime Mutsuki, the leader of the idol unit "Six Gravity," (a.k.a. Gravi) associated with Tsukino Talent Productions, aimlessly dropped by a secondhand bookstore and encountered Shun Shimotsuki, the leader of their sibling unit "Procellarum" (a.k.a. Procella). The two of them picked up the antique classic which was thought to be the original work of the stageplay they would be starring in: "Rabbits Kingdom." Though it should have been his first time hearing the title, a strange bothersome sensation befell him, almost as if it were stuck in the back of his head. To the perplexed Hajime, Shun gently smiled. "...Ah, this one. It's quite a nostalgic and beloved... story of us from another world." This is a "what if" story of a kingdom in some other world. (Source: Hakusensha, translated)

A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series

In "UBUNTU," delve into the inspiring journey of Hult Scholars, a group of exceptional students. This poignant short film captures their stories of perseverance, determination, and the transformative power of education. From diverse backgrounds and experiences, these scholars embody the spirit of Ubuntu – a philosophy that emphasizes the interconnectedness of humanity. Join us on this emotional and uplifting exploration of resilience, community, and the pursuit of excellence.

Compilation of Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi.