In The Gar

Short documentary with English narration that was prepared for the Inside Out: New Chinese Art exhibition at Asia Society in New York City, which ran from September 15, 1998 to January 3, 1999.

A short animated film done by a group of artist at Sheridan College. It explores the mind of a Psychologist, who revives moments in his clinic with all kinds of problems.

A Garifuna language teacher fights to keep his endangered language alive in the face of personal betrayal and tourism's encroachment.

Using landscape shots from a series of Soviet collectivization films to expose relations of the Nature and the Hero, director challenges widespread understanding of socialist realism.

The film revolves around the story of a man named Ali who makes a living selling home-grown vegetables and his family. Ali’s parents have passed away. He lives with his grandfather Tahir and his brother Cemil. Tales of Ali’s womanizing stories are the talk of the town as he impresses girls with his smooth voice. Ali forgets all the other girls when he falls in love at first sight with Cemil’s teacher Gülsen. But Ali will misinterpret Gülsen’s feelings and get very disappointed. (İbrahim Veli Sözer)

A movie about used car dealers in post-Soviet Lithuania.

This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.

During a fierce battle in the Afghan province of Bamyan in August 1982, a battalion of Soviet paratroopers suffered heavy losses. Under the cover of the comrades' fire, the wounded and the dead are being evacuated. Miraculously, they manage to escape from the Dushman ambush. A check of the personnel reveals that Private Ilshat Garaykhanov is not among the living and dead, missing.

Lin Alluna's 2016 documentary following a couple from Jordan

French couple Jean and Marie go on their honeymoon in Jean's hometown in Africa. They end up in the middle of a tense political situation as soon as they arrive and must spend the night in hiding. Jean begins to take on some of his father's old French colonialist attitude, which comes into drastic conflict with their current situation. As they struggle to stay alive, Marie rethinks her marriage to Jean.

A couple eating at a restaurant. When I left the store and tried to go to the amusement park, I suddenly hit a passerby with a car. However, the two run away without stopping the car. I continued to drive while having a casual conversation, but I lost my way, perhaps because I was upset by the hit-and-run. On the way, they put a hitchhiking man in the car. A self-proclaimed novelist, he tells the story of "the story of the biggest fat in the world" and disappears into the deep forest.

Egyptian film directed by Ala Karim.

An intimate portrait of an old man coming to terms with own mortality and letting go off his magnum opus - his garden. Living through an autumn of his life, he reminisces about his life filled with hard work, love for nature and onions.

Nazario, founder of the Spanish underground comics movement and pioneer of the gay graphic novel, looks back on his eventful life, his flamboyant and explicit works. 16mm films, photos, illustrations and paintings document the spirit of departure of a counter culture, but also recount Nazario’s great love for Alejandro with whom he was together until the latter’s death. Profession and passion merge in this artist.

Accidentally found photos of the grandmother lead the author to think about how the experience of repression experienced by previous generations of the family affects the relationship between relatives now.

Living together with her father, Yao Shan has to readjust her life after her mother's death. Misunderstanding and tension between she and her dad builds up to an extent that her father wanted to move out of the house. After attending an overseas gardening course, her father steps into her mother's garden again. And this move seems to have changed everything between YaoHsuan and her father...

In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from the Hamlet principle in favor of the market economy" was taking place. In this interview, he elaborates on the parallels between the play and contemporary reality in terms of the plot and the characters (for example, Günter Schabowski as well as the problematic role of Fortinbras).

Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz (Stanislav Majer), the closer she is to a complete breakdown. One day Romi is addressed by a property speculator referring to himself as a "wealthy Jew" (Martin Finger). He does not demand any sexual services of her. He satisfies himself with Romi telling him stories, for which he lavishly rewards her. However, no one shares the sudden happiness with Romi. Her work-mates and current clients turn their backs on her, as does Franz, with whom Romi is in love. The whole story takes place in the setting of a dilapidated city, during the clean-up of which politicians openly split their profit with speculators and lobbyists, all under protection from the police.