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"Part travelogue, part performance, 100% head-spinning" - Worlds of Cinema Electronic music pioneer Matsuo Ohno's art-film/documentary chronicling the Japanese experimental music ensemble's 1971-1972 worldwide expedition. Led by Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi, the Taj Maj Mahal Travellers elevate university crowds and concert halls, follow tortoises through the Iranian desert, jam with Don Cherry and his Organic Music Society in a geodesic dome in Stockholm, explore Grecian ruins, improvise on Afghan steppes, serenade the waves at Cape Manazuru Beach, Japan and make the pilgrimage to their ivory-white namesake -- making music anywhere and with anything along the way.

A black-and-white travel journal, in which the themes of memories and their relationship to the past suddenly catch up and rush away from us. The film is based on a series of portraits of American artists, all of whom belong to a young and politicized generation, presented in static tableaus from their studios, films and home environments.

The traveler who never leaves his cabinet – that’s what his contemporaries used to call Jules Verne. He was a person with an extraordinary lust for life whose fantasy had no limits, he literally taught us how to dream. Which of us did not aspire of circling the world with Phileas Fogg and Jean Passepartout? Who hasn’t dreamt of roaming the sea with captain Nemo on his quest for vengeance? This film is yet another piece from the series “Great Dreamers” which already includes some of the most well-known visionaries such as Nicola Tesla (“Free Energy of Tesla”) and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (“Tsiolkovsky’s Worlds of Miracle”). By having utilized advanced CGI technologies we were able to recreate the life of outstanding persons, pioneers and path breakers in science and research.

Head to southern Louisiana with filmmaker Matthew Wilkinson to soak up one of the country's best-kept musical secrets: Lil' Band o' Gold, a group of seasoned musicians who churn out an eclectic blend of country, R & B and zydeco known as swamp pop. This lively documentary follows blues-rock legend C.C. Adcock as he scours the marshes and prairies of Acadiana to assemble a supergroup of diverse personalities, backgrounds and musical styles.

In KENTRIDGE’s cross-disciplinary, cross-media world of artistic creation, images are not merely background supporting characters for theatre or installations, but are seen as an important intermediary to understanding the world. Taking Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ as an example, he feels that the prisoners in the cave believed the shadows on the wall represented reality not because they were controlled by hallucinations, but because silhouettes projected onto walls by firelight were the beginning of mankind’s understanding of the meaning of the world.

A tale about how the hippopotamus Topa and the kitten Tutti made a journey to a distant mountain and felt the joy of discovering a great and beautiful world.

In his quest for fame and success, Ismail, a driver for a newspaper company, tries to take some unauthorized photographs of the inside of a German rocket undergoing a technical test. He accidentally launches the rocket into space, taking with him Dr Sharvin, a German scientist.

The writer Bektas-agha, arriving in his native village, remembers his childhood: his mother died early, his careless father, who married the beautiful Kulimbala, the teacher Sagatbai. It was a time of collectivization. Bai and his henchmen, playing on the feelings of people expecting hunger, persuaded the collective farmers to barytma — stealing the herd from the neighbors. The members of the cell offered to punish all the perpetrators, but they made up the majority of the residents of the village. The teacher convinced that it is impossible to punish the people for their darkness, it is necessary to find the instigators. So, overcoming their illiteracy, the resistance of the Bay bandits, the collective farmers gradually improved their lives.

A tale of a man as cruel as the devil himself, which goes by the name of Šaci, and his mafia circle which fights against disturbances from the police force and the famous detective Charming.

Assaf Kroll was an artist who painted his soul. He painted the three significant and difficult periods in his life. He did not reveal the paintings to the world but kept them to himself. After he died of cancer at the age of 39, his parents set out on a journey where they try to learn and get to know their son – Assaf.

Short movie by ali al ghazouli

Follows the migration voyages of eels.

On his way to Santiago de Compostela, a pilgrim recounts his experiences through the letters he writes to his friend.

A short drama about a library cleaner who plans a final return to Nigeria, his birth country.

A documentary allegory about the first avant-garde movement that shook cultural life in Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century: Stridency. As a sarcastic, affectionate, and festive rediscovery of this movement, created by the legendary poets Manuel Maples Arce, Arqueles Vela, and Germán List Arzubide, this film pays tribute to one of the most peculiar and fruitful moments of Mexican culture in the last 100 years

Lovers Journey

Before leaving for the “afterlife”, a magician and his apprentice try to decide the only memory he will be able to take with him.

“Liberty Train – Bürger’s Long Journey” sheds light on the events of the PEACEFUL REVOLUTION of 1989 from different perspectives. It centres on the eyewitnesses who, together with thousands of other people who had fled East Germany, were in the garden of the West German Embassy in Prague on the evening of the 30 September 1989.

Aruku, Aruku, Aruku ~Shikoku Henro-michi~ (NHK Drama Special, Winter 2013) is about Hayama Misa (Tanaka Rena), a down-on-her-luck free-lance writer. Leaving her unhappy life in Tokyo, she takes part in the Shikoku Pilgrimage as a lone walking pilgrim. It has been said that if a pilgrim completes the pilgrimage by visiting all 88 sacred places, his/her wish will be fulfilled.

A collection of music videos and live performances from American rock band Journey. Includes: Don't Stop Believing (1981 Escape tour), Wheel in the Sky (1978 music video), Faithfully (1983 music video), Any Way You Want It (1991 Escape tour), Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (1983 music video), Lights (1978 music video), Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' (1979 music video), Be Good to Yourself (1986 Raised on Radio tour), When You Love a Woman (1996 music video), Who's Crying Now (1981 Escape tour), Send Her My Love (1983 music video), Girl Can't Help It (1986 Raised on Radio tour), Open Arms (1981 Escape tour), Just the Same Way (1980 music video), Stone in Love (1981 Escape tour), Feeling That Way (1978 music video), After the Fall (1983 music video), I'll Be Alright Without You (1986 Raised on Radio tour)