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Essay on animation's contradictory legacy: comedy and formalism.

Abandonment is one thing but hatred and racism is another. Afriyie, learns a hard lesson in life from the African American community and their unapologetic rejection of her African race.

A by-the-book police officer is assigned to secretly investigate a team leader who believes that the rules shouldn't stop an investigation. As the officer investigates further, his own attitudes begin to mirror the team leader's.

A family consisting of a husband, wife, and seven half-siblings. Each of them has his own problems, and the time in which they live is completely different from the time of the father and mother, and therefore a clash of ideas occurs between everyone.

A girl follows a string to gain confidence.

The relatives of a young rebellious hier to a fortune (Dean Reed), who spends most of his time on a yacht, try to have the kid interned as a madman, but are mysteriously killed one by one, in the family's villa. A girl (Stefania Careddu), lost at sea and saved by the young man, will also have some surprises in store… This giallo was filmed in 1969 but not released until two years later and remains extremely rare.

Karel Vachek’s latest documentary essay deals with the fine line between an internal belief in God and institutionalized religion. At the same time it brings up the need for a healthy sense of skepticism and the benefit of not believing in anything that advertises itself as certain. The filmmaker sets out for the USA, Japan, Great Britain, Poland, and the Balkans in his sometimes amusing investigation of spiritual substitutes, such as esoteric "teachings” or various fraudulent and magical practices, to which we sometimes fall prey due to our natural religious cravings. In addition to a Czech "prefab” family, who describe the carryings-on of their poltergeist, well-known mystery buffs appear in the film: Erich von Däniken, Raymond Moody Jr., and Ivan Mackerl.

A legendary film about the conflicts between the many scattered tribes of ancient Mongolia, the love between a young couple from two different tribes, and their tragic fate.

The Frankopan lineage remain some of the most fascinating figures of Habsburg era Croatia. They were politicians, conspirators, aristocrats and true Croatian patriots, with their impact on Croatian politics and culture still having a strong stamp on the country and its people to this day. In honour of this, the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county had started Tracing the Frankopan Lineage, an interconnected tourist route meant to preserve and celebrate the family's historical and cultural impact in an everchanging world.

It's a movie from 1998.

The suspense is about a wife who has killed her old lover who is pressing her to get back together with him, and a daughter who is clairvoyant and can see through her own mother.

This documentary follows two gifted young boys, 12-year-old Park Su‑beom and 10-year-old Park Sung‑yeol, as they pursue their dreams of becoming pansori masters. Raised in contrasting family circumstances, both channel their passion and emotions into their art.

Among the living and the dead, there is a shared memory

After a near-death experience, Vanessa Shepherd faces nightmares in Abaddon. As mysterious deaths occur around her, she discovers her connection to the Abaddon Hotel, Carmichael Manor, and decades of unexplained murders.

When the Duke of Milan is brutally murdered, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore is dispatched to investigate. What he uncovers implicates Italy's most powerful families reaching all the way back to the Vatican itself. As Giovanni draws closer to the truth, he becomes hunted himself. He must expose the conspirators before he joins their ever-growing list of victims.

In a world of desensitization of tragedies displayed as movies, a group of high school students fight to survive their own horror movie plot when the infamous Ghostface killer begins popping up in their area.

The pioneering Film, GERMAN LINEAGE IN MODERN DANCE: Solos by Wigman, Hoyer, Holm, Nikolais, Louis  celebrates the legacy of modern dance that started in Germany before World War I and expanded into new dimensions in the United States in the late 20th century. The influence of this complex and compelling heritage has spanned decades and spread to diverse areas globally.  This intriguing film presents solos by innovators and artistic heirs of German Expressionist Dance, or Ausdruckstanz.  Works of each choreographer are highlighted through solos, narration and original photographs. The film features the following choreographies: Mary Wigman’s Witch Dance and Swinging Landscapes (Germany), excerpts from Dore Hoyer’s Affectos Humanos  (Germany), Hanya Holm’s Homage to Mahler (Germany > U.S.), Alwin Nikolais’s Tribe, (U.S.), and Murray Louis’s Figura ( U.S.).

Lineage is a loop-based “orchestral” film performance for four 16mm projectors. Using as a point of departure Norman McLaren’s abstract animations in Lines Horizontal as well as reworked footage from two documentary portraits of McLaren in his prime and in his later life, the film explores how abstract marks made in a variety of ways—laser printing and etching, contact printing and hand-processing—result in strange and surprising sounds.

2015, 25:24 min, color, sound, Two Channels

Documentary following New Jersey hardcore band, Neil Perry, in their 2001 tour.

Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner.

A non-confrontational Jayesh decides to defy his patriarchal family and flee with his pregnant wife Mudra to save their unborn daughter from foeticide. A screwball, hilarious chase begins as Jayesh's father assembles all his might to nab them. Will this unlikely hero manage to create a safe and equal haven for his daughter?

Kaya Cohen abandoned as a baby, and raised by her foster mom, learns she is the last remaining descendant of the Wing Chun bloodline.

Don Arif who is an extraordinary shaman and comes from a lineage of famous shaman. As a social media 'influencer', he often thinks of new ways to gain popularity. With the help of Jaafar, his senior assistant, they managed to 'cure' a woman who was possessed while the Shaman Convention was going on. The ceremony then went viral and since then Don Arif has become famous. So began a new journey of his life with a high demand to use his services.

Xóchitl is an indigenous woman who must fight for her freedom before the birth of her baby, since she finds herself trapped in an abusive relationship. She will have to face a town full of prejudices and accomplices of her abuser. However, Xóchitl has the inner strength of her lineage, which will manifest itself in her favor.

A mesmerizing showcase of artistic excellence, where intricate choreography and cinematography tell a story of pure, unbridled joy and creativity. Its about honoring the past, recognizing the present and looking into the future.