Freedom Day Parade

Director Wakefield Poole moved to San Francisco in 1974 and captured the energy and sights of an early San Francisco gay pride parade, set to a campy, eclectic soundtrack.

Return

A young man returns home for the weekend to discover the difficulty of juggling friends, parents, magic mushrooms and several thousand chickens.

Momentos de Tensão

Blackboard Jumble

A wolf with a Southern accent walks by just as a teacher is getting fed up with his class and walks out. Unfortunately, the class consists of three junior clones of Droopy, who manage to try his patience.

Return

An old man is isolated in his home. Haunted by the loss of his beloved, he embarks upon a journey to return to her.

The Future is an Angel and a Smile

Martín Garabal is the best employee of Garabal and sons, his father's real state agency. Leonardo envies him deeply, Tomás admires him and Eva loves him. But something is wrong, the world seems to be telling Martín that he should take a different path. Martín doesn't listen because he's worried about his dad but, where is he?

Trapped

Ko-Ko is chased by a cartoony spider while Max deals with a mouse in his office.

Mountains

Slides of mountains found at Zora Film, a company that produced educational films in the 1950s. Intended to be used as visual tools during geography classes, are reanimated through various digital and analogue techniques.

Zimmer mit Tante

Juvenile detention or retirement home: That's the choice 17-year-old Malu is faced with after she's been caught stealing again. In order to save the girl from imprisonment, her aunt Johanna agrees to take Malu in with her until she has completed her social service in a retirement home. The rebellious half-orphan, whose single father Paul has hardly any time for her as a pilot, initially finds being placed with her aunt just as restrictive as a stay in prison.

Hacienda somos casi todos

The Bastard Sons

Life for a crew of organized criminals is disrupted when Vincent Damiano's father, the family's boss, is murdered. Vincent's "bastard" brothers, a group of orphaned souls he raised together, have an idea of who killed their father...his partner Rome. In a valiant and calculated attempt to regain the business and enact vengeance on Rome, the Bastards wage an all-out war to get their pound of flesh.

Fire Under Her Skin

Thérèse, who has come from the city, has married the sad Louis Raboux, a violent peasant who dies under unclear circumstances. Thérèse stays at the farm with Célestin, who loves her, but dares not say it out of shyness. The arrival of Pierre, who knew Louis and has something to hide, complicates the situation. Célestin's jealousy, which the maid Julia tries to console. Thérèse and Pierre's passionate love. The police arrest the young man and Célestin chases Thérèse, who falls from the roof. Célestin throws the body into an abyss, only to see Pierre reappear. In a rage, he too rushes into the ravine, from which Thérèse emerges, a new miracle-worker, ready to throw herself into the arms of her lover.

Reset

During the darkest days of the Cold War, a consortium of corporations and government agencies conducted secret research into time travel. Decades later, a couple of backyard mechanics uncover a smuggled cache of documents from those officially-forgotten experiments. Hacking together their own device tests their know-how, their dreams of sudden wealth, and their friendship. Can they survive the limits of dwelling in the past?

What Is Poetry to You?

Cecilia Vicuña made her first documentary while residing in Colombia after the 1973 coup d’état in Chile. Through this fundamental inquiry: ¿Qué es para usted la poesía? / What is poetry to you?, Vicuña unravels the role and substance of poetry in people’s lives. Speaking with school children, street performers, policemen, sex workers, fellow artists, and a scientist, the all embracing character of poetry emerges—its transformative role in personal relations, as a basis of oral history and the revolutionary imagination. – Chris Borkowski

Tefana Tufaimea, strongman of Polynesia

Tefana Tufaimea is a figure from the commune of Faa'a, on the island of Tahiti. He is the champion of traditional Maohi sports in the aito category (stone lifting, fruit carrier race and canoe). He is also a dancer and Mister Mini Heiva. Portrait of a discreet man who deserves to be known.

Pornographie - un jeu d'enfant

Prometheus

Tony Harrison's poetic essay on the working class - in particular the British miners -, its struggles, its dreams and its icononography - at the very end of the 20th century, as interpreted through the myth of Prometheus.

Ghost Tale

When an estranged couple work on a fixer-upper, they discover a dark history and must work together to stop a ghost, hell-bent on vengeance.

Homecoming Texas Style

Your favorite Homecoming Friends gathered together in Fort Worth, for an exciting celebration in gospel music...Texas style. They filled the Tarrant County Convention Center and had people tappin' their toes, clappin' their hands, and kickin' up their heels. Everyone there celebrated the important contribution made by the great state of Texas to our gospel music roots and continuing heritage.

The Earth Sings

A cinematic poem with an impressive soundtrack that complements and completes the cinematic sketches of the folk culture of the Slovak nation previously made by ethno-photographer and director Karel Plicka. With its perfectly constructed dramaturgy, the documentary follows the beauty of the natural cycle of the seasons and shows peasant life in an isolated village in the Carpathian mountains of Slovakia from the end of winter through spring and summer to the traditional harvesting methods of autumn. This creates a tribute to traditional culture and the secular connection between man and nature. The aesthetically extraordinary visual representation of folklore comes to life through the editing technique influenced by the Soviet avant-garde and is complemented by poetic intertitles by the Slovak poet Ján Smrek.