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A candid peek into the culture of male sex workers in Beijing.

A human being sometimes needs to share and have his complaints heard, and feelings of shared fate can make humans empathize with each other.

Graziella is employed as a housekeeper for a reclusive and wealthy bourgeois family who live in a town house. A monstrous thing is locked up inside it, a very old man who has desperately been waiting to die for years. When Graziella and the monster meet, something is awakened in them.

João Pedro, a lonely and introverted young man wanders alone through the streets of Porto Alegre in the last week of the year. By chance, he meets Clara, a heartbroken girl. They go on bumping at each other as they slowly bond through the bright nights of the brazillian summertime.

The story of a little girl who wakes up on February 24th because of the air alert, and tries to find someone living in the burning city. The main character is based on the story of Alisa, a 4-year-old girl, who stayed in the besieged Mariupol during the whole time; she was also at the Azovstal plant during the last month of its defense. When the Russians allowed the civilians to evacuate from Azovstal, Alisa was separated from her mother.

Frank Zappa stopped by the Night Flight studios in 1985 to talk about music videos, censorship, the PMRC and what it's like to play in his band.

Sunny and Hannah live together in the big city. Sunny is aspiring actress, intensely preparing for the premiere of her new play. Hannah is often alone—dealing with her demons alone.

Two stories of female friendship and witchcraft in rural eastern Poland.

Another mondo documentary.

A Sephardic Baalei Teshuva family tries to integrate within the insular Ashkenazi Haredi community in Bnei Brak. Their son Raphael, a prodigy, is not accepted into a prestigious yeshiva. His mother, Ahuva, tries to handle the situation peacefully, but his father, Shmuel, a handyman with great faith, struggles to accept the situation. Shmuel fights to change this decree, leading to the family’s ostracization and their children’s expulsion from local institutions. A dramatic event shakes both the family and Haredi society, probing their shared faith. The film explores the struggles of Baalei Teshuva, their faith, their escape from the past, and the personal cost of their journey.

A documentary survey of urban night life and insomnia. Following several characters who inhabit the dark world of 24-hour bars, slot machine dives, night clubs and casinos, this film offers a glimpse into the world of people who live in an eternal night.

The name day of Mr. Fiala: The husband catches his wife with his friend. In the ensuing argument the husband is insulted and attacked. The lovers believe him to be dead and carry him from the house out into the street. Drunkards find him there and they think they have have killed him. They stand him against a wall with his face in the window of a miser who has just been counting his money. The miser punches the man in the head and takes the "corpse" to river and throws it in.

Cheston, a millionaire, is looking after Maud, a beautiful woman from the 'demimonde'. Her brother, Brilburn, forces her to ask her rich admirer for an expensive piece of jewelry. Cheston buys a precious pearl necklace.

Through landscapes fueled by silence, resentment and brief moments of joy, Ale, a seventeen-year-old woman, will try to protect her two younger siblings from the seething truth, their mother has left them and is not coming back.

In the spring of 2022, an international tourist group will make a day trip to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank to visit religious sites. But something is wrong here - the whole city is on strike. The two tour guides, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, do not want to comment on the matter. A murmur goes around about an incident the day before…

Historical-revolutionary film about the struggle of the Bolshevik underground against the interventionists during the civil war in Odessa, about the participation of children in underground work.

The heroic struggle of the Nezhin underground workers under the leadership of the hero of the USSR, the blind Yakov Batyuk.

A story of a doctor who's in a mentally complicated situation and the events of this story leave him with no hope in life and slowly deteriorate his mental stability even further

In a working class neighborhood of Bobo-Dioulasso, every evening, Madame Coda welcomes the children of prostitutes into her home. The young women then wander through the "Black", a very lively alleyway in the city center, until dawn when they come to pick up their children. But Mrs. Coda, who is over 80 years old, is getting tired.