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A loving and informative portrait of the western nestor of Japanese film criticism, Donald Richie, filled with film fragments and relevant interviews.

This movie is an experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea. It has a narration from John Hurt that takes the form of reading old manuscripts, books and news articles, and also a posthumous narration from poet TS Eliot reading from his own work, The Dry Salvages from the Four Quartets. Engravings, paintings, and archival film are juxtaposed against the contemporary footage, including Pieter Breughel the Elder's "The Triumph of Death" (c.1562) from the Prado Museum.

A film essay on Ballard's fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg's (yet to be filmed) Crash, featuring an interview with the director, prior to making of his film.

Thus far Sophie has failed completely as a motion picture actress. She has spoiled every scene, but through the general manager she is to be given one more chance. She is sent to the border to act in Mexican war pictures.

The film focuses on the experiences of African-American students at Yale in the early 1970s. The influential documentary short follows students Erroll McDonald and Eugene Rivers, and features a conversation with civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael.

Director Nobuhiko Obayashi is often dubbed "the cinematic magician." 2 and a half years ago, he was diagnosed with cancer with 3 months to live. But that did not deter him from making movies. Currently, he's in post-production on the second film he's done since being diagnosed. He's driven by the message of his late friend, the maestro Akira Kurosawa: "Movies have the power to stop fighting. Look 400 years ahead and keep on shooting." We follow Obayashi's extraordinary career and his mission to use the big screen to send out a message of peace.

The world went into lockdown and everything stood still. A few students share a house together. Life mostly takes place indoors, yet spring sneaks into their world.

A short film by Jamison Stalsworth.

Film about the great cineaste Dziga Vertov, the poetic-revolutionary filmmaker who, with his "Kino-Eye" theory and films such as Man with a Movie Camera (1929) and Enthusiasm (1931), made his mark on film history. Filmmakers Thomas Tode and Ale Muñoz approach Vertov from the present in their documentary portrait of this revolutionary Soviet filmmaker. They travelled by train to Moscow, not only because Vertov loved trains, but also so that they could mix his train shots with their own. And, of course, so they could tell the legendary story of the agit-prop trains, the mobile cinemas with which Bolshevik filmmakers travelled the Soviet Union in the 1920s to bring their political ideals to the people.

Jérôme is trying to seduce a woman. Day after day, he tells the story of this relationship to Patrick, a fellow who he always encounters at the city subway on his way back, who gives him advice and lives through his stories of love.

1999, 16mm, 01'30", color, silent, France

Fresh from a successful film festival, a super smooth movie producer returns to a day at the office, where in just eight hours, his infidelities, his addictions, and his dodgy finance deals come crashing down and ludicrously unravel threatening his success, his marriage, his life and even stranger, his reality'.

The film documents the efforts behind filming "Iravin Nizhal" with 59 settings, over 300 actors and 50 years of time periods. The team had to constantly improvise and creatively handle the challenges that popped up until take 23 was finally "okayed."

The top five films in various genres, as determined by an online poll and selected from lists of nominees chosen by film industry experts, are counted down.