Circle

Much of Juan Downey’s pioneering video work critiques the purported objectivity of ethnographic observation and documentation. To produce The Circle of Fires, the artist lived with his wife and stepdaughter among the Yanomami indigenous group in the Venezuelan Amazon for seven months; inviting the Yanomami to both make and watch videos of themselves, Downey inverted the conventional roles of observer and observed. Likely seeing themselves in this medium for the first time, the subjects are presented with a new vision of themselves through the screen’s alternate reality.

Taiwanese movie

Award-winning documentary about how one Uruguayan leftist survived solitary confinement during the dirty war. The story of former Tupamaro guerilla fighter, Henry Engler, whose prolonged confinement and torture during the Uruguayan dictatorship led to a mental breakdown. Today Dr. Engler is a Swedish citizen and a scientist renowned for his research into Alzheimer’s disease. In this impressive documentary, the scientist visits the places of his painful past, painting an intimate and disturbing portrait of prison life under the dictatorship.

After a 9 month mission as a doctor in war-torn Central African Republic, Susanna returns to Sweden only to find she no longer can call it her home.

Several men from different backgrounds and professions prepare, silently and separately, for a mysterious meeting, which will take place high up on a tall building, like in American police thrillers. Their relationship is not clear, nor why they end up dueling spectacularly through the (seemingly) interwar Bucharest, but the engagement is as serious as can be.

Animation insert for the full-length feature film "Legends of the Eaglet"

The film tells about a man living with a diagnosis of "Paranoid schizophrenia with an episodic course." Despite everything, he does not give up to this day.

One of the first color films in Europe, made with the Gaspar Color process.

The leading staff in the industry has once more collected submitted videos to produce this third volume of real horror footage. From "Nightmarish Chained Schoolgirl" to "Cursed Notebook" and additional dramatic reproductions of psychic phenomena.

A film essay about the form of cinema

The Black Circle is a Italian film from the Celio Film company.

I'm reading Malcolm X's biography and I've noticed that my brother is a lot like him: black history is circular.

After four thieves pull off a big heist, they drug one of their own, Gaber, and leave him to take the fall. When Gaber is released after serving his sentence, he discovers that his sister has become a prostitute as his former conspirators became rich, so he vows revenge.

Fanny is ten year old girl and a very talented gymnast, but suddenly she's getting seriously injured and ends in a wheelchair.

Depressed writer Aziz, returns to his hometown Antakya years later to confront himself. Over time, Aziz begins to meet and observes his neighbors, who are alienated from themselves and the society, living on the first three floors of the apartment where he lives. As he wanders the streets of Antakya and experiences the sense of belonging, he finds the courage to confront himself. With little touches to the drama of his neighbors, he helps them find themselves too.

A film about the famous priest, politician Konstantinas Olšauskas and his love affair with Stanislava Ustjanauskiene, whose murder in the fall of 1928 still remains a mystery...