To The Unknown Architect

A Russian boy who was raised by Wahhabis talks about his past.

Directed by Simplice Ganou.

After her sister died suddenly and unexpectedly while being treated with prescription antipsychotics, director Anniken Hoel begins a global investigation into the crimes of the pharmaceutical industry.

A reconstruction of the uncut prologue of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, the scene with the gunners Foma and Erema and a fragment from the unfinished part 3 featuring the German knight Heinrich von Staden. In between stills and newsreel footage. Over a commentary written and spoken by Naum Kleiman. The Criterion DVD extra ends at 33 min, the longer version has added fragments of parts 1 and 2 at the end.

In this talk, Li Hongqi reviewed his transition from fine art to cinema, and his aesthetic and philosophical exploration from his early 'So Much Rice' to recent 'The The'. Dir. Li Hongqi also shared his strong anxiety of his existence(born with melancholia), his thought on cinema art (actually, I don't think there's any movie worth making), his epistemology, his religious view, his consideration on contemporary cinema, and what he learned about living in seclusion.

An unknown artist repents in Lithuanian places of pilgrimage, as she is not famous in this success-oriented society and therefore has a guilty conscience.

In 2007 Cristina Vázquez, a native of Posadas, settled in Buenos Aires, built a life, made new friends. I am one of her new friends. We work together in a restaurant. In that place happens the police raid that turns my friend Cristina into the queen of the hammer: a young woman rampant, drug addict and promiscuous who is also a murderer. Months later, without evidence, she is tried and sentenced to life imprisonment. Fragments of an unknown friend in the story who wrote to Cristina Vázquez in the perfect suspect. A story that, without convincing evidence, is still in jail today.

Russian life in 1917 was not limited to civil confrontations, shootouts, demonstrations and rallies. Many people lived, or at least tried to live peacefully and constructively. The great Fyodor Shalyapin sang and staged opera performances in Moscow and Petrograd; director Vsevolod Meyerhold played the Lermontov Masquerade on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, and Anna Akhmatova and Sergey Eisenstein applauded him. The future writer Konstantin Paustovsky eagerly absorbed impressions about the life of summer and autumn Moscow. And in the Moscow region estate Lopasnya-Zachatievskoe a happy accident led to the discovery of the longest manuscript by A.S. Pushkin, who was considered lost. The film is built on cinema and photo chronicles of a century ago.

Erik Dahl escapes from prison where he is serving a sentence for smuggling. He seeks out his family, but the police have already been there, and he will have to flee. Erik alters their appearance and start a new life as fishmonger in a small town, but he plans to leave the country...

Gao was trying to seek a complete love in different people to fulfill her emptiness.​

Raised by her mother, Marina always imagined who her father was. After becoming an orphan, she goes on a search for him.

When the master and mistress of a household are away, and the chambermaid's father visits, she pretends to be the real mistress as he is unaware of her lowly position. Slapstick complications ensue.

Rain wants to learn how to fly. This is a story about a poet who gives himself to everyone.

A communist is released from prison in 1935 Hamburg. He tries to link up with the Party again, but is unsure as to who he can trust, and has difficulty adjusting to life in Nazi Germany.

The Soviet intelligence officer, abandoned on the territory occupied by the Germans, finds himself in a tragic situation: high-ranking state security officials put him in the position of an outcast. However, he continues to act - at his own peril and risk ...

Documentary about Finnish concentration camps build for Russians inhabiting the Karelia area during the Continuation War.