A Little Drama

Iain Armitage interviews Sting about his Broadway musical The Last Ship.

The night shift clerk at a sex hotel, suffering from narcolepsy, is faced with a night when things are unusually busy and housekeeping finds a gun in room 6.

Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister Pia. The two men set out on a tour of the country, during which Axel challenges Eyal's values.

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis are hired as sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, they spark a physical relationship. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, they keep up their tortured, sporadic love affair for 20 years.

In this short animation film the triangle achieves the distinction of principal dancer in a geometric ballet. The triangle is shown splitting into some three hundred transformations, dividing and sub-dividing with grace and symmetry to the music of a waltz. The film's artist and animator is René Jodoin, whose credits include Dance Squared and several collaborations with Norman McLaren.

Written, shot and edited in just 48 hours, this film had to be in the Detective/cop genre; it had to include the line of dialogue "Look at what you just did, you..." as well as a character named Mr or Mrs Anderson, President; and had to include the mandatory prop of a set of BBQ tongs! The film was shot on location at the Pearl's Centre, Singapore.

A foreign girl arrives to her new apartment. Her three roommates welcome her rather distantly, for no reason at all, and she can smell that there is something going on...Literally. Everyday when she walks out of her room, she notices a strong smell of insecticide that nobody is willing to explain.

Daniel meets with friends on the weekends to play Warhammer 40k in the back of a game shop. Måns, one of his buddies, makes him feel different though. Despite the lack of confidence, Daniel tries to figure it out what to do about it.

A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar, Senegal, as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man (the director, Djibril Diop Mambéty) and a French woman, Inge Hirschnitz. As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse drawn wagon, we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital, discovering contrast after contrast: A small African community waiting at the Church's door, Muslims praying on the sidewalk, the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings, the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market.

Two monks on a mission choose very different paths

A visual barrage of nature, colors, and scenery combining into a montage that overwhelms the senses, playing with Wesendock Lieder's Richard Wagner piece.

"Pantheon" is about the transition period of cinema from negative to digital, the film tries to deal with the emergence and change of different careers in cinema by linking different cinema jobs with ancient Greek myths. This film is a product of Iran's National Cinema School and was shown for the first time in 2018 in an international specialized seminar called "Cinema in the Digital Age". With a poetic and mythological expression, the film Pantheon tries to examine cinema as a dynamic art that never dies.

Two Chileans, Daniela and Tomas, meet in Philadelphia. Daniela is the daughter of a former political prisoner, tortured during Pinochet's dictatorship. Tomas is the son of the physician that tortured her father. Both have been forced to deal with a past that doesn't belong to them, and together they will find a space to question their roles and their heritage.

Based on testimonies from residents of the communities of Miskibamba and Huayao of the district of San Miguel and Tambo in the province of La Mar, Department of Ayacucho, the film illustrates some of the main conclusions of the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a group created with the purpose of clarifying the crimes and human rights violations that occurred during the internal armed conflict between 1980 - 2000.

The Narrator (Canek Denis) finds himself with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change his precarious lifestyle for a brand new life of never-ending lust and limitless power. But the price to pay is too high. He must surrender that which represents everything he has been up to that moment, that which defines him as a person: his ideas. He now must make a choice that will scar him for the rest of his life, much like a stain that simply cannot be removed.

The best women of British acting go to an audition for a dream role, primed to take on the role of a lifetime: that complex woman, the strong woman, a woman for today.

A girl whose chances of winning over her crush were scuppered by a DJ enlists the help of her weird uncle to rectify matters.

A miniature vaudeville show, complete with a title card introducing each act, is presented. First up is The On-Wah Troupe, an East Asian group of contortionists. Next, Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields sing a duet of the song, "Why Don't You Practice What You Preach". Third up, father and son Pat Rooney and Pat Rooney Jr. perform a recitation and dance musing about if they will ever be as clever as their dad. And the last act on the bill is The Runaway Four, a group of comic acrobats.