Sex The City And Me

Documentary about the hometown of Wojciech Has.

A high school girl who sees little meaning in life is recruited to help souls of the deceased cross into heaven.

Sakamaki dropped out of university and lives nihilistically every day. Every now and then, he receives strange phone calls at his home. The calls, which only mention the name of the place and a description of the caller, such as "Ikebukuro, a woman with long hair", are in fact murder threats. Sakamaki realises this and takes Mabuchi, a friend from his university days whom he met by chance, around to witness the crime, saying he will "show him something interesting". Sakamaki lies to Mabuchi, who blames him when he discovers his true intentions and lies about the impotence of human beings. Sakamaki has an experience from his high school days when a classmate committed suicide in front of him. However, something changes in Sakamaki after Mabuchi risks his life to save him from his own suicide attempt. He believes that the motive for the crime lies in loneliness, so he runs through the crowd to save the killer.

At the bus stop of an animated city, several fragments of everyday stories happening at the same time, become a space for reflection, love, death, and other situations that could resemble a city like any other.

A 1996 Dutch documentary film about the Western European architects who were invited by the Soviet Union to construct “Socialist cities” in Siberia during the late 1920s and early 30s. The film draws on interviews of some of the last survivors of this time, including Jan Rutgers (of the Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (of the Ernst May group), and Philipp Tolziner (of the “Bauhaus Brigade”), and on letters, articles, and lectures written by those who have already died, including Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, Johannes van Loghem, and Ernst May. It also follows the daily lives of contemporary residents of Magnitogorsk, Orsk, Novokuznetsk, and Kemerovo.

A Hindu woman elopes with her Muslim lover, moving with him to Syria. Eventually separated by war, she cares for their handicapped child on her own

Documentary about Oslo's school system.

Its disappearance is only a matter of time. However, there is one scaffold master who dares to stand for his art. For 30 years, he has persisted in his horizontal and vertical mission as a “Bambooman”.The experienced master has even been invited to demonstrate his bamboo tricks in prestigious European colleges.

Directed by amateur filmmaker Nils Hallström, father of Lasse Hallström.

A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City.

Armenian film containing three short stories: the story about the first driver and coachman of old Yerevan, the complicated psychological relationship of a loving couple set in the backdrop of Garni Temple during reconstruction and a story about human life from the point of view of a poor and homeless dog.

The story of Argentine President Hipolito Yrigoyen's corrupt government and its overthrow by a military coup. Yrigoyen floats around in his boat Peludo City (which represented Argentina) while constantly being harassed by hungry sharks (the Radicals). The film was released with a Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronization system soundtrack, making the film generally credited as the first animated feature film with sound. It is now considered a lost film, along with several of Cristiani's films which were destroyed in fires in 1957 and 1961.

Kurds call it Rojava, or the West, the place where the sun sets on Kurdish lands: the north of Syria, the stage of the most violent war of our times, painted in blood by the mass-rape and mass-killings of the ISIS terrorist organization. It is here, in Rojava, in three destroyed cities, that three separate stories tell the story of how savage war destroys not only our cities, but our people, too. Sinjar, Kobanî and Jazaa are three towns that display the most destructive impact of modern war. All three are in the process of being rebuilt at the moment. The people who live here have transformed their tragedies into a determination to leave a better Rojava for future generations.

In the made-up country of Alanien, King Alexander I has been overthrown while abroad. Now, he's in Vienna with his daughter, the city of his fondest memories since studying there as a boy. It doesn't take long for the charm of Vienna to work its magic on the former king: he quickly comes to terms with the new situation and is able to enjoy the Austrian capital sans all the ceremony and trappings which would otherwise accompany him on a state visit. The princess is content with preparing herself for a career as a pianist concert, while the former king takes a job as a chauffeur in the embassy of the country he once ruled. The revolutionaries are shocked; and his days in Vienna are numbered.

Young French student Madeleine Duchanel wants to go to the theater and therefore pulls out of the well-protected environment of her school. In Paris she hopes to make a career, but in her naivety she ends up on the street.

Film by Tanaami Keiichi.

В жизни 40-летнего следователя городской прокуратуры Олега Борина наступила черная полоса. Все началось с дела, возбужденного против студента, изнасиловавшего девушку. Подозреваемый оказался сыном влиятельного чиновника. Тот воспользовался своими связями, и Борина сначала просто отстранили, а после и вовсе выгнали со службы. Жена ушла, забрав ребенка. Вскоре раздался звонок, и старый приятель Гена предложил работу охранника. Борин согласился, собрал сумку и уехал. Только на месте большого оптового рынка его ждала полная разруха и запустение. Друга он так и не нашел, а местные алкаши рассказали, что рынок давно закрыт. Той же ночью Олег тайно проник на территорию и… оказался в настоящем подземном городе, где протекала бурная жизнь. Удастся ли опальному следователю спасти своего друга, выйти на след хозяев порочного «Черного города» и восстановить справедливость?

A story of one of the builders (Szczepan Brzezisnki) of Nowa Huta. He talks about the beginning of the city and combine. The past makes him proud. Nowa Huta still fascinates him. His son’s opinion is totally different. The Old Town in Cracow fascinates him.