Tale Of A Vampire

How to get a pair of perfect breasts and stay alive? Zohar Wagners' journey of survival.

Fedot the Shooter is sent by the Czar to find some special food for the foreign ambassador's visit. During the hunt Fedot meets his love Marusya - the magical bird-woman. Evil Czar and his no-less-evil sidekick General with the help of the local witch Yaga try to eliminate Fedot by giving him more and more complex quests and to take Marusya to Tsar's palace. Marusya helps Fedot to solve the quests successfully.

Jud Crandall recounts the chilling story of Tim Baterman, who was returned dead from Vietnam, and then returned from the dead...

Ivan, a young Ukrainian peasant, robs the Moscow Tsar of precious jewels. He also accidentally steals a magical heirloom, now in the hands of the Sich leader, Koshovy, in his Ukrainian Cossack Fortress.

The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tells the story of pagan Rus' during the time of Prince Igor, his murder by the Drevlyans, Olga's revenge, Olga's repentance and adoption of Christianity.

A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

A crossdresser has to disguise themselves to be able to attend a Qur’an recitation. Unforeseen circumstances lead their identity to be revealed, and they are shunned from their community. Now, they can only question their fate.

A mythical folk hero of Vietnam’s history. The boy Gióng grows in size to be a giant hero, who rides on an iron horse leading the Văn lang to victory against invaders.

Two deaf and dumb children. She is the daughter of an American Oil engineer. He is the son of an Algerian farmer. They meet and manage to communicate, transcending all the cultural barriers that separate them.

A custodian in a housing project discovers that a naked, mute woman he found in one of his apartments has miraculous healing powers.

As they get ready for their annual Bunny Picnic, Bean, a young, imaginative bunny eager to help, is told he's too little. Hurt, he wanders off into the lettuce patch where he comes face to face with the grumpy old farmer's junk yard dog! Bean runs and warns the others but no one believes him. Undaunted, little Bean helps the Muppet Bunnies in a big, big way!

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.

John Flansburgh & John Linnell met in the 1970s as junior high students in Lincoln, Massachusetts. A decade later, their band—They Might Be Giants—would stand at the forefront of a burgeoning East Village NYC performance art scene as well as the college music revolution of the late 1980s. Filmed in 2001, ‘Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)’ is the acclaimed true story, tracing their independent and sometimes hilarious path through two decades in the pop music wilderness. From their legendary Dial-a-Song answering machine, to their Grammy Award-winning theme song for ‘Malcolm in the Middle’, fans and friends gather to tell the oral history of Brooklyn's finest alternative rock band.

Entering the political fray of environmentalism versus tradition raging a round the issue of dolphin hunting in Taiji, Japan since the 2009 release of The Cove, Megumi Sasaki’s documentary is the finely balanced film essay the frayed topic has been waiting for. Instead of propping up images of animal slaughter or beleaguered fishermen, A Whale of a Tale focuses on points of contact and communication between the two sides, foreign activists devoting years to the cause and agricultural workers who have developed a first-name familiarity. Sasaki (Herb & Dorothy) collaborates with journalist Jay Alabaster to examine the historical and material conditions that contributed to local whaling practice and the pressures of globalism and localism that keeps this issue in ideological deadlock—at least for now. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film

The hermit Berimir goes to the forest in search of the missing village girl Anyutka. He leads her back to the village, but the prophetic bird Sirin prophesies trouble. Berimir decides to go a roundabout way.

His right hand having been wounded during the war, concert pianist Andrei Balashov is unable to perform his art. As a result, the young man feels so depressed that he considers his life wasted. One day, he decides to leave the capital and flee from the woman he loves, Natasha, a rising singing star. Andrei takes refuge in Siberia, his native land. Once there, he gets a job in a sawmill, where he entertains his fellow-workers playing the accordion during leisure hours. Some time later, Natasha and her company are expected in America where they are to do a tour. But an airplane breakdown forces the pilot to land next to the village in which Andrei lives and works...