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In March 2011, the world was stunned by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Today, the people of Iidate, a town outside the 30km radiation exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant, are still suffering. The direction of the wind, rain and snow caused radiation to reach dangerous levels and the entire town was forced to evacuate.

Featured as part of the documentary theater project "Summer/Winter" 2019

A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.

Leah of Nod goes through life as a thief. But, very little of what she steals remains with her. She is under the power and control of the evil Dybbuk. That is until, one day, a huntsman named Yadid arrives in the village. Each week new gifts begin to appear in Leah's cottage. She begins to change. Soon, however, she is betrayed by those closest to her and sentenced to die for her crimes. Leah discovers that great and true love can even over come death.

Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.

Inflation is hitting with full force: Even in rich industrialized countries, many people suddenly don’t even have enough money to feed themselves properly or pay their bills. "Inflation is a kind of power struggle," says economic historian Adam Tooze. "Who's going to be able to pay the rising prices, and who's going to be the loser?" Why is inflation now suddenly an issue again in Europe or the United States? What are central banks doing about it? Our film shows which mechanisms have contributed to the return of inflation and how people from different social milieus react to it - in Germany, France, Turkey and the US.

Stephen Royds arrives at an old house announcing that he intends to buy the property, much to the surprise of its solitary occupant, caretaker Mrs Parks. The house has been all but abandoned since its previous owner, Gerald Harboys had been committed to an asylum for the apparent murder of his wife Muriel on their wedding night. Harboys had been obsessive about the physical perfection of women and, discovering that Muriel had had her right middle toe amputated as a child, had murdered her. But her ghost is said to still haunt the old house.

To be the first in history of mankind to take a sailing vessel to the Pole. One of the greatest maritime adventures ever undertaken: to cross the Arctic Ocean from one Land to the Other without assistance.

Short film by Rudy Burckhardt.

Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the community.

A video by Bruce Baillie

A broken history that has torn Anishinaabe families from their sacred objects is healed through the repatriation of sacred objects and the determination of the indigenous people to return to their traditional knowledge to carry it into the future.

Writer-director Hena struggles with her profound sense of loss after the sudden death of her father, who died while visiting his homeland, India. Employing her only means to come to terms with their strained relationship, she proceeds to make a film—analysing herself, her memories and some important new discoveries.

Former Marshal Will Kane and his Amish bride, Amy, return to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and find the town in the grip of a bounty-hunting marshal and his two trigger-happy deputies.

This short movie that is maybe not a documentary is made by the filmmaker in memory of the extrajudicial killing of young Lahu activist Chaiyapoom PASAE. She knew the young Lahu boy through a workshop she gave some years before he was killed. A tribute to a young aspiring filmmaker and his Lahu language and culture.

THE RETURN chronicles the journey of Rocky Bleier, who won a National Championship at Notre Dame, was wounded in the Vietnam War, told he would never play football again, then went on to win 4 Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Five decades after being wounded, Bleier returned to Vietnam.

Film by Phil Mulloy.