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Short film by Hu Jie Ming.

This film I found and found I could not change without degrading, too stunning was the as yet unknown hobbyist's joy in mixing potent, posed and oddly distant pictures from his private life with the symbols of small town identity politics Civic leaders of Boulder, Colorado organized the Pay Dirt Pow Wow in 1934 to bring miners and farmers together and lift their spirits with a community festival. Soon renamed Pow Wow Days, it was last celebrated in 1978.

A review of evidence suggesting a conspiracy to cover up the true nature of the destruction of TWA Flight 800 by missiles off the coast of Long Island on the night of July 17, 1996.

Australia has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the world. The suicide rate in men under 25 has tripled in the last 30 years, and young men in rural and remote communities are particularly vulnerable. This reality has disturbing implications for society. When it affects you directly, it's shattering. In this very personal film, director Jessica Douglas-Henry and her sister Alix explore the impact of their brother’s suicide. In 1996 James Dalmann killed himself. He was found dead in the bathroom of his housing commission unit in Geraldton, Western Australia. James was only twenty. Although this film is about James, it's really Alix's story. It's about the people left behind, whose lives have been changed forever by the suicide of someone they loved. Although Our Brother James focuses on a personal tragedy, it is ultimately a film about survival and growth, about love, strength and hope for the future.

Short film from a 2002 graduate of the Beijing Film Academy. Showcased at the 2002 edition of the Toronto-based Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF).

Tapa cloth, or ngatu as it is called in Tonga, is cloth made from the bark of the mulberry tree. The inner bark is beaten into fine sheets and painted using traditional designs. After centuries of use, ngatu has literally become the fabric of Tongan society. In Tonga and throughout much of Polynesia, bark cloth has deep symbolic and ceremonial use. At birth, babies are swaddled in it. At marriage, newlyweds line their wedding bed, and at death, the departed are buried wrapped in it. This documentary investigates the highly collaborative process of making ngatu and the organizations of women who carry on with the tradition. While the process continues to be passed on from generation to generation, there are signs of change as a cash economy begins to infiltrate Tongan life. Young people show less interest in such labor intensive endeavor in the face of the older generation's belief that this tradition will never die.

A rite of passage for a mother by the filmmaker, who is told by her, "It's not me you want to film, it's your mother". It was a strange performance using an 8mm camera, performed only by the filmmaker and his mother. The image of the artist taken by his mother is confined to a single frame of film, which is blown up and multiplies endlessly, even filling the family home.

Skett (as in skettel): West Indian term for a slack, easy woman. A silent, experiential short looking at the impact of fatherlessness on female sexual compulsion.

Sena, a witch of the Batto tribe who lives in the demon world, one day, Sena is squirming into the human world after a long time coming to the human world after being used by the king! She was in a hurry to finish her errands, but it's hard to come across her hungry monster Yeday!

A dive to the depths of sorrow and back to life again. The short film shows how a person observes everyday environment after facing the loss of a beloved one. Normal things gain symbolic value and some events become totally absurd when they have lost their meaning altogether.

What draws this handsome youth to a peculiar and sizeable stranger? Find out in this startling award-winning short.

The arrival of the European button accordion to Texas and its merging with traditional Mexican songs gave birth to an explosive new sound called conjunto. From the early pioneers to the new generation of accordionists experimenting with rock, blues, and metal, ACCORDION DREAMS captures yesterday's and today's squeezebox trailblazers. Produced and directed by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Hector Galan and narrated by singer/songwriter Tish Hinojosa, ACCORDION DREAMS features performance footage of conjunto greats like Valerio Longoria, Mingo Saldivar, Ruben Vela, Eva Ybarra, and Flaco Jimenez and the newer generation of accordionists like Joel Guzman, Jaime De Anda, Albert Zamora, and Jesse Turner.

"This (piece of) work was produced as thesis film project. I shot by 8mm film camera and printed it to 16 mm film by very old optical printer. I expressed a theme called “opposition”, “fusion”, and “ruin” represented by multiple exposure."

The Greeks used to call the Black Sea ‘Ponto Euxino’ — hospitable sea. That is the feeling one gets with this summery journey through the Black Sea through the drawings and insights narrated by dozens of children and crafted to form a small epic poem of recognition and adventure.

Nicaraguan women tell us about their efforts to change the society in which they live, and about their collective struggle to achieve what has been denied to them. These women speak up and share with us their journey toward a better future for both men and women. Inés, Coquito, Avelina, Gerónima, are women who look ahead, and through a radio station claiming their right to live with dignity.

The Hooley Dooleys: Roll Up! Roll Up!

A film by Donna Cameron

When a snowman falls victim to alien abduction, his interrogators get less than they bargained for.

Join the ultimate great white shark expedition, featuring Jaws creator Peter Benchley, famed underwater photographer David Doubilet and attack survivor turned shark advocate Rodney Fox. Witness great footage of never-before-seen shark behaviours.

An idyllic summer scene : A sleeping woman reclines between two trees, a straw hat covering her knees and her double circling her form.

after Marianna Moore's definition of poetry as "the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."

At Halloween Night, four young people drive with their car through a car wash that turns into a ghost train and the contours between reality and fantasy start to blur.

ROSA ROT gives two frameworks and two points of view: the abstract one, of a free inner thought as manifested by the visual immersion in a piece of landscape subject to constant change, striated by gales mingled with the incessant fall of thick snowflakes - and that, concrete, wider and distanced but in the same axis of this landscape crossed by the fixed frame of a window, which brings us back to a state of physical confinement while reading Rosa Luxemburg's letter from prison gives further evidence. As proof that no prison hinders freedom of thought.

Animated short by Mai Tominaga.