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Biography of brazilian composer Aldir Blanc

Arktis is a poetic approach to the bizarre landscape of ice, rock, and water; a journey to the arctic ocean and surroundings, with images and sounds. Seventy one-second scenes of the arctic serve as the original material, which is then transformed in its texture, time lapse, color and light qualities to create a material reminiscent of landscape painting. The sound collage uses fragments from sounds of nature and samples from a piece of music for violin and song, which are also transformed in a manner similar to that of the visual pictures. (Jürgen Reble)

The Hollow Earth Theory is represented in the history of many diverse cultures throughout the world. Avalon of Camelot, Garden of Eden, Paradise Lost, Shangri-La, and Valhalla are names assigned to a mystical and physical place thought by some to house prehistoric animals and plants. This program is a compilation of extensive research into the history of man’s attempt to solve this riddle.

With a pact to be friends forever, two young boys begin a journey that leads to shattering their innocence.

Shots of children, animals and fire evoke both caring and destruction.

Essay film exploring the rebirth and undeath of the East End of London. Benedict Seymour and David Panos made the film as part of a collaborative project researching urban regeneration.

Writer/director Nurit Kedar's film trains a camera on the snipers of the frontline in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She goes out on patrol with active units, and interviews marksmen young and old. It can't have been easy to gain the confidence of the Israeli army or the trust of the individuals concerned, but, regrettably, the film isn't particularly illuminating. 'What do you want me to say?' asks one bluff veteran. Shame and defiance rub shoulders. 'I won't be allowed in heaven,' notes one rueful conscript. Occasionally Kedar hits on the madness; the game of it; the sick decorum. They're meant to shoot at the arms and legs of the stone throwers. 'I used to say I was responsible for a lot of legless Palestinians,' proffers a soldier. 'I would never say that now.'

A neighbourhood investigation centered around a house in Cape Town. Current and former tenants, neighbours, a homeless man in a wheelchair, an architect, a former top-model and a flower seller are among these who provide stories about the house, its surroundings and the hyper-local power dynamics - 10 years after the fall of the apartheid regime.

From Fenslerfilm Vol. 2

From Fenslerfilm Vol. 2

Segment of the feature Welcome to São Paulo (2004), produced by São Paulo International Film Festival.

Human communication is a thorny endeavor. No matter what our messages are, no matter how difficult it is to get them across, we all share one desire: to be understood. But what happens when we aren't understood? "10 Lives" features four segments of directed improvisation that investigate a few of the ways people argue. In "Babble," a young literary couple masks true feelings with metaphor. "Abuse" features a young woman's descent into domestic violence. Familial love and support is put to the test in "Discourse". The film ends with "Silence"; an introspective tale that unfolds after words are no longer useful.

The only home little Rose has ever known is the orphanage, but Mrs. Hartley cares for all the children as if they were her own. When Mrs. Hartley dies, Rose is sent to a new orphanage, which is as cold and cruel as her previous home was kind. Gradually, Rose makes a few friends, and she learns that every Christmas a generous neighbor donates a box of oranges for the children. An orange is an unknown luxury for little Rose, and she waits in eager anticipation. But on Christmas morning, Rose is brokenhearted when she learns that there is no orange for her. However, Christmas is a time of friendship, of love, and of miracles ...

A tarot card reader sees his future while reading that of his client.

All mobster Rocco Sifferelli wanted was to have a nice, quiet dinner. But when his pal Vinnie decides to take their conversation in a different direction...You'll never look at the Mob the same way again.

Throughout the video, image, sound and language (spoken, sung or written – on street signs or in the subtitles) are combined, and re-combined, to reveal ‘Algeria’ as a site of competing discourses, a culture in the constant process of ‘becoming’ (Stuart Hall 1990). We are presented with fragments of individual yet intersecting micro- narratives – alternative, partial, local perspectives, which together counter the persistently reductive, totalising images of Algeria in certain Western media.

King Constantine of Greece had been a King in name only since being ousted in a military coup in 1967. From his base in London, he travelled the world, rubbing shoulders with the political elite such as Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro and the Queen of England. He tirelessly worked for “his people” and the good causes he has established. In 2003, King Constantine finally returned to his country - a timely homecoming for a man who won a gold medal at the Rome Olympics - and was instrumental in winning the 2004 Olympic Games for Athens. This intimate and personal film is based on unprecedented access to the King and his family. King Constantine talks as never before about the events that led to his exile and his fight for justice and recognition. It includes exclusive footage inside the family home in Hampstead, behind the scenes at the Royal events and “off-duty” moments. This is the King’s story. The story of a man who lost his crown but refused to give up

The camera mounted on a dolly moves through Mater, an installation of mother and child figures by Elvira Finnigan. The sounds in the room and the shadows captured on the video, create a sense of emptiness and loss.

BEK (Beak) is a tale about a girl who is born with wings instead of arms and a beak where a mouth should be. Unlike a real bird though, she cannot fly because she is, after all, still a girl. Hated by her father, she is driven from home and ends up joining the circus as a freak attraction. Adopted by a friendly, drunken clown she settles into her niche as a circus performer. As time goes by, she longs to be a real woman, a human, but there is no place for such a bird-creature in the world outside the circus. So, she creates her own fantasy world as she dreams about the life of a normal girl, somewhere far away from the circus. In the end, she dreams herself away from it all leaving the audience wondering if the girl was actually there, or if it was something they may have imagined – a girl with wings and a beak.

The classic music theatre work of the Italian Renaissance, written the same year as the first opera and based on the characters of the commedia dell’arte – old men, cowards, scheming servants and self-obsessed lovers. The slapstick for the comic characters is perfectly balanced by the ravishing Gesualdo-esque writing for the lovers. Source: https://microsites.ifagiolini.com/recordings/lamfiparnaso/

One of the most famous alternative electro-rock bands from Belgrade live at Exit 2004.

The photographs are carefully selected from numerous submissions from amateurs, haunted by grudges and evil thoughts. Behind them lurk the most terrifying of all human grudges...

The film is based on the real diaries of the former Nord-Ost hostage Irina Fadeyeva, whose 15-year-old son Yaroslav was killed during the assault. These are her reflections on the tragedy that happened and her silent appeal to the Russian authorities, which hide the true cause of the death of the child.

A documentary film by the famous Russian director Georgy Natanson, dedicated to the work of the great writer Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, was released in 2004. In the film "Mikhail Bulgakov in the Caucasus" we are talking about the early years of the writer's work (1918 — 1921). The film tells about an important period in Bulgakov's life when he lived in the Caucasus. It was there that he decided to devote himself to literary work, wrote his first plays and feuilletons...