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It is July 1995. Kuba Mitura and his little daughter, Zuza, come to a great concert organised by Jurek Owsiak. Kuba tells the girl the story of his youth. It is 1988. The nineteen-year-old Kuba is a rebellious boy with two-coloured hair. He does not study or work. He lives with his father, a retired military man, bitter and apodictic and with his aunt. One day Kuba meets Diana, a beautiful and eccentric woman, a dozen or so years older than him, a person from the "hostile world". However, the two of them become friends. The father throws Cuba out of the house when he introduces Diana as his fiancée. Soon Diana and Cuba get married to a "hippie", but the military policemen, who have been sent by the father, take Cuba away. In the army, Cuba is doing absurd exercises under the watchful eye of Corporal Kos trying to raise him. The father takes the oath and Diana, who confesses to Cuba that she is pregnant and wants to give birth. But Cuba does not want to become a father.

A phantasmagoric odyssey into the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This film is a collaboration between VICE News and surrealist video artist Vic Berger.

This is a sort of documentary made by Vilgot Sjoman about Vilgot Sjoman as a sort of cinematic autobiography aired on Swedish television originally in 1992.

The world, at large, is aware of the enormous input that both John Lennon and George Harrison have given to modern music; but few people have seen the real men behind the image; the depth of their beliefs and the innermost concerns they both shared for the future. In this fascinating account of one half of the world’s most successful group, we explore the sides of two personalities rarely, if ever, on view to the general public.

Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most influential, popular and disputed artists of the last 30 years. Koons transforms mass-produced, everyday objects into the highest art forms.

Mockumentary of the films and process of Russian-Canadians Zep and Zudo Chnoborov.

Provides a colorful portrait of dancer Mura Dehn. Born and trained in Russia, she went to Paris in 1925, met Josephine Baker and discovered jazz. Tells how she came to New York and choreographed jazz tunes. Includes a live interview with Mura Dehn along with archival footage. In the 1930’s, the heart of jazz dancing was Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom. Mura Dehn, a Russian dancer who was converted to jazz dance by Josephine Baker, spent her life documenting this cultural explosion from jazz to be-bop. As excerpts of her film, THE SPIRIT MOVES are shown, she discusses the eras. The film concludes with Dehn, at 82, filming a break-dance troupe. Blue Ribbon winner, American Film Festival.

The life, music and legacy of bandleader and clarinetist Woody Herman is explored in this documentary that includes interviews with the master, himself, along with musicians and jazz historians such as Dan Morgenstern, Terry Gibbs, Joe Lovano, Jeff Hamilton and many others

A group of mourners provide different portraits of a deceased man at a funeral.

A lesson in the history of portrait art. A game with the camera's eye and our prejudices by artist Ola Billgren and filmmaker Carl Slättne.

A mother confesses to her son what she remembers about the experience of being raped as a child. By painfully recalling this traumatic event, she reflects on the sexual abuse of children and the scars it leaves on a person’s life.

Short feelgood documentary filmed in Northern Norway. The film portraits several people with a strong connection to nature, old Sami traditions and the small community they live in.

Little novels from the life of the Leningrad poet Oleg Grigoriev. His fate, like his poems, is a flip-flop, where good and evil exist under the masks of each other.

After the murders of three students in Puebla, Mexico, the local community from the biggest universities in the state rise to demand for justice and protest about the insecurity that they live in.

Your eyes. Big, round and black. Later on they were still stuck on me. Like buttons.

a camera makes you forget you are there.

Experimental film inspired by Andy Warhol's 'Sleep'.

2000 short film by Håkan Dahlström.

A man addicted to gambling loses his job and leaves his family. He lives at a 24-hour open sauna away from debt collectors, while borrowing money left and right to keep his habit going. When he finally gets the upper hand at a poker game, a police raid spoils his good fortune. He sees a driver sleeping in a truck with his wallet hanging out of his pocket. Struggling to keep his 'moral integrity', the man kills himself rather than commit the robbery.