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While Andrés searches for old movies in Mozambique, he feels haunted by ominous premonitions, anticipating bad news coming from Venezuela, his country, where his father is gravely ill.

The film is part of Lemkes never-ending Munich series, but this time it leads beyond Schwabing or Maxvorstadt, which makes it more entertaining than its predecessors. After a stop at the Bayrischer Hof, it moves into the Glockenbachviertel, over the Reichenbachbrücke to the Isar, further into the suburbs. These places are not alien to residents of Munich or tourists, but Lemke knows no tour guide romance. He has the usual group of main characters, two or three girls, a young man, and sends them off as if on a great expedition. They bring along the Lemkestyle, which doesn't fit in anywhere, but works like a contrast medium. Their fantasy figures make the reality around them more real.

Queen macumba, only queers get to undo it. Queer spell, only queens get to break it.

I take a phone call. The caller says he wants to make a movie about his own life because there are many similarities to two famous Brazilian country music singers. The character Dirceu Cielinski became a paraplegic when he was 17 and could walk again after a year. When we first met him, he was an accordion player and his dream was to make his living from music. The main idea is to follow his life for three years and insert the film shooting process in the documentary.

A young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers.

A declaration of love for one's vocation in life.

A film about survival, a celebration of the defense of life by a people preparing for resistance, a song of hope in the face of a war not exclusively waged against them but also faced by many other peoples throughout the world.

When the Norwegian-Turkish filmmaker Nefise Özkal Lorentzen was little, she used to send letters to Allah by balloon. Now she wants to send a new balloon to change the role of women in the Muslim culture. By following her grandmother's path as a 'sufi', she embarks on a journey to rediscover the Islam of her mother's mother. The film switches between her actual journey and her dreams. She experiences the diversity of Cairo, Istanbul and Oslo by drinking tea with the Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi, finding hope and inspiration in the life of the 90-year-old author Gamal al-Banna and meeting a young Salafist. On her journey through the labyrinth, it dawns on Nefise that Islam is not the only place to search, but that there are correlations between the three Abrahamic religion and the oppression of women.

Dynamic and funny, this documentary traces the Mexican Beatlemania through the stories of the most fervent fans of the Liverpool quartet. The inevitable regionalization of these British musicians by Mexican bands, and the desire of the Mexican fans for a Beatles world is still alive thanks to their relics, make this film an anthropological document with a sense of humor.

For a Moment More is a warm documentary film about the quiet but invaluable work that end-of-line caring houses do for the benefit of the dying and their relatives. The stories of three nurses will open a world that is coloured by death but where the leading role is acted by hope of happiness in last days of lives. Death and nurses open same doors in nursing home but death will keep the last moment with itself. Until that moment the nursing home is full of life.

"Male students are not allowed to enter the female dormitory." This sign hangs at the entrance, but the men's still climb into the Windows. Seeing this craving for beauty, the authorities of the provincial town decided to improve the financial situation by opening a brothel, while maintaining the chastity of the fairer sex…

It is a co-production between Chile and Brazil. Angela Mendes narrates the letter she writes to her father, Chico Mendes. The environmentalist tells how she met her father, through mosaics of reports. Angela invites the viewer to participate in the letter with their imagination. Her voice narrates in thought to the beyond, a beyond that is close to us, as Angela and Chico's reality is our everyday reality.

Susana Schnarndorf, a professional swimmer and mother of three, discovers a degenerative disease, which forces her to decide between the sportive career and the maternal role in the face of her last great battle: surviving.

Submitted for "The ABCs of Death 2" competition.

This technically quite well-made cartoon from pre-war Nazi Germany is a commercial (or propaganda piece) for Volksempfänger ("people's receiver"), inexpensive radios. First we see agricultural statistics: the far-away village of Miggershausen is quite below standards in milk and egg production. An anthropomorphic radio undertakes the long voyage by express train, steam train, hay carriage to Miggershausen to advertise its services. It is not well received. Then, it collects and leads an army of radios to try again. They flood all the farmhouses and seem to be more convincing that way - at day, they spread agricultural knowledge to bring milk and egg production up to standards; later, they just play music and illustrate how various people enjoy various kinds of music.

In the village of Barra Grande, among appearances and disappearances, the animals keep the dead company.

A documentary film about the musician who was groundbreaking in the 1970s when he dared to sing about his own mental problems - and the people for whom it meant everything.

Without one eccentric first-generation Jewish immigrant from Transylvania, the New York City Marathon simply wouldn't exist. Ehrlich's fun, loving, and inspirational tribute to the late Fred Lebow shows how one man's imagination, determination, and love for running created one of the world's most popular sporting events.