A Call From The Nation

Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…

Minako and Mayuko are rival members of their high school's karate club. While staying at a training camp boarding house, one of the other members, Saori, starts to lose her mind overnight. When one of the 10 staff members of the training camp vanishes, Minako starts to investigate the cause...

A bizarre supernatural mystery thriller that frequently borders on the surreal, the tour-de-force scene in this one blends live action and animation to depict an elevator ride that just keeps on going... beyond the elevator shaft, beyond the local bridge, and down into the waters below where a murdered man's restless soul attempts to communicate with the living in order to find justice and revenge for his killing.

Grusha's (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) husband has left her and she is now a single parent to her adolescent son Vitya (Vladimir Naumenko). Her brother Nikolay (Mikhail Ulyanov) is determined to hook her up with his friend Vladimir (the film's co-director Stanislav Lyubshin). For Grusha and Vladimir to have privacy to build up their relationship, Nikolay decides his nephew Vitya needs to stay out of the way, so he urges Vitya to come live with his family for a while. However, Grusha's not so sure about the arrangement. Based on a play by Vasiliy Shukshin.

Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature at his home country Norway, where he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm, to wild reindeer on the high mountains, and puffins at the ocean's edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline. This is a personal story on our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature's strength and vulnerability.

Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends, but a catastrophic crash leaves only one survivor. He then sets off on a journey to discover who these people were, but ultimately discovers the devastating truth about himself.

A movie director and his wanna-be actor/eccentric inventor nephew are filming a low-budget sci-fi movie. Things get interesting when the nephews' bizarro invention starts bringing visitors from other times, including Napoleon, Archimedes, and people from the future and cavemen from the past. Just when they are filming what they are convinced will be one of the greatest movies ever, the same machine sends an alien visitor to their set. Also includes a last-minute cameo from James Coburn, as the infuriated head of the studio.

A video call between a husband and wife unravels after hearing a knock at their door.

An American farmer becomes an unlikely hero for mental health nearly 40 years after he was first diagnosed with depression. From his hometown of Onaga, Kansas, John Blaske has made it his personal mission to bring mental health into the open.

A prefabricated estate in Moscow is meant as a transit stop for four queer Cuban exiles – until Russia’s attack on Ukraine radically shifts their outlook. Moving telephone calls back home provide the structure of Luís Alejandro Yero’s debut work.

Hip-hop superstar Jay-Z in concert with star guests from Madison Sqaure Garden, New York City on the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Filmed on the day of the release of his Blueprint 3 album, Jay-Z is joined by guests including Rihanna, Kanye West, P Diddy and Pharrell as he performs tracks from the album and classics like Hard Knock Life and 99 Problems. The concert honoured and supported the families of police officers and firefighters who died trying to save others during the recovery efforts of the morning of September 11, 2001.

The Bajau are an indigenous, sea nomadic group that live on top of the ocean in Indonesia. This short documentary sees the ocean through the Bajau's eyes. 'The Call from the Sea' is a poetic, personal story about the fragile state of the ocean and the people who live closest to it.

A boy saves a wild dog, only to later be rescued by the dog.

A Call from the Nation, a spin-off music show of 'National Singer,' invites you to a grand music festival on a small screen. Top 10 of 'National Singer' will pick a song from thousands of requests and sing in front of the audience. The show delivers good music, fantastic performances, and entertainment with laugh, joy, and tears.

This plea to reduce the growing numbers of imprisoned youths, with its warning from the celebrated warden of Sing Sing prison, is drawn from the October 1, 1934, issue of Hearst Metrotone News. The segment’s dynamic visuals, on-camera personal appeal, and extended length make the story atypical for a newsreel, but the form’s usual breathless pace is applied to a cautionary fable: the too-frequent “road” of youth from school through unemployment, homelessness, and crime and on to the gates of the penitentiary. -National Film Preservation Foundation

Two white friends try to talk about race.

A filmic love letter. One out of the two. Premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival; Screened at the 2007 Pocket Film Festival in Paris.