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An original video featuring four short horror stories, aimed at children.

Marita Lorenz, the daughter of a German sea captain, recalls how she became the mistress of Fidel Castro in Havana soon after the Cuban revolution in 1959. After being six months pregnant with his baby, she was drugged and given a near fatal abortion. She was then recruited by the CIA and Mafia to assassinate Castro, but she threw away the poison pills just before she met Fidel. She then worked for the CIA in Florida and, in 1962, had a daughter while she was the mistress of an ex-dictator of Venezuela. She later married an FBI agent, by whom she had a son, and they spied on UN diplomats in a New York apartment. She claimed her spying days were over when she testified, in the 1977 Kennedy Assassination Inquiry, about her connection to Frank Sturgis and Lee Harvey Oswald.

A janitor who aspires to be a detective investigates the death of her brother with help from a former gang enforcer with an interest in the case.

When the Congo became independent in 1960, clashes between rival groups ensued. White mercenaries with war experience are also involved in the conflicts. They include Germans who, under the leadership of the former Wehrmacht officer Siegfried Müller, brutally attack the black population. After the "Stern" reporter Gerd Heidemann had uncovered the machinations, the GDR filmmaker Walter Heynowski made a politically motivated documentary about Siegfried "Kongo Müller". Now Siegfried Ressel has reconstructed the story of the German mercenaries and the propaganda argument about their use.

A modern take on history with songs and comedy presented by Enoken (as Gonza), Fujiyama (as Sukeju), and Kasagi (Gonza’s wife Osaki).

A series of three episodes which explore the relationship between men, women and the physical and mental spaces they inhabit.

Hideto, a member of an occult club, and his girlfriend Mizuki go to the ruins of a military installation that dealt with human experimentation.

6 stories from 6 people living in 6 different places in Russia. Black and white documentary film is about simple Russian people and their simple everyday stories. All the stories are being told in the protagonists kitchens, since kitchen in Russia represent the heart and the soul of every house. The goal of the film is to break common stereotypes that west world have about Russian people. Main protagonists were given total freedom regarding choosing the topic for their story. Their topic selection and the way stories were told shows a lot about Russian society and about the way people live in today's mother Russia.

Documentary about Finnish Jews during WWII and their unique position as German allies.

A divorced mother who deals with an absentee baby father loses her daughter to the hands of kidnappers. Now she has to depend on her boyfriend and ex-husband for support while trusting the police to help find her daughter.

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

Israeli short films mini-series.

Chulyen is strong, Chulyen is handsome. Chulyen is weak, Chulyen is ugly. Chulyen is the crow spirit, and three shamans are chasing after him.

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.

Two bold women share their exciting stories that will challenge your thoughts about the restrictions of women at the time in the King Mariout region, one of the oldest Bedouin areas in the Arab world. The film narrates what remains of their stories and memories, the fuel for their present. Their old songs with cheerful meanings and tattoos of a static nature symbolize the last generation of Bedouins free of any manifestations of modern technology.

This is a story about Hieu - a youngster who belongs to the 9x generation in Vietnam today. With the pressure of not being understood and the incapability to share with his family, Hieu tries to get away from them, lives on his own, and seeks enjoyment from friendships and other social encounters to fulfill his life with... This is his way of showing that he has changed and grown up.

Two engineers being friends have a competition in a work and in a private life.

Mari visits a seaside town where she meets a film director named Sugita who falls in love her and casts her in his next film. They start the project but he suddenly disappears and Mari is left feeling cast adrift. This is when she meets Fumiko, a free-spirited woman, who is searching for her beloved cat. Fumiko inspires Mari to change her life.