The film spotlights the soaring success of Barbie, with sales of three hundred thousand dolls in the first year, to over two billion before Ruth Handler died. The enormous financial rewards for both multi-millionaire parents are exposed, and this leads to a surprising story of betrayal, sex, drugs and excessive partying.
A lighthearted look at the weird and wonderful world of doll collectors. The film features individuals whose lives are ultimately shaped by their obsession. It taps into why the subjects would risk everything just to spend their best time all dolled up. Some are loveable, others you may love to hate, but we delight in watching all the collectors and their passions come to life in this off-the-doll-centric universe.
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This special focuses on a group of men who have fallen in love with their life-size dolls, called "Real Dolls." For these men, their $10,000 lifelike, built-to-order creations have replaced human women. For some people, finding a partner in life can be difficult. For these men, it's almost impossible. Some years ago, a small factory in California began making an alternative partner. Each one is tailored made to suit every taste. There are now 3000 real dolls across the world providing some of those with love and companionship that real women cannot.
The Amsterdam doll shop Colorful Goodies sells Barbies, boy dolls, and cuddly dolls that every child can recognize; from dolls with different skin colors and professions, to dolls with disabilities. This documentary follows three families of color who take home a doll. What does such a doll mean for your self-image if you struggle with it because you are of color, or because you have to learn to live with albinism? Is our dominant white society as tolerant as we think?
A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.
An undefined and undated episode of a long-running film review show with significant cultural relevance.
Alfred is a stressed out young corporate employee. One morning whilst rushing to work, he will make an irreversible mistake that will metamorphose his life. A strange tale of metamorphosis and transformation.
Fran is waiting for her partner to join her for therapy. Consumed by her internal voice, the waiting room becomes transformed.
Weary, elderly Henry and his enigmatic, shape-shifting companion Mischief navigate a desolate, glitching version of 1940s/50s Canada. Born from the aftermath of a fictionalized Philadelphia Experiment, this “hauntological” landscape is a fractured reality where historical nostalgia merges with cosmic horror.
A woman has restless dreams and tries to find comfort from a man in her bed.
A reimagining of a traditional Spanish Christmas carol as a Revisionist Western
Experimental cartoon which unites various techniques: puppets, sand & water (ebru) animations. About friendship, love and necessity to pay attention not only to the visual appeal.
A nonverbal voodooist hunts unmannerly commuters while concocting an ill-fated plan to ease an unscratchable itch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhqIvQmLSlg
Three stories. Three ages. Three men. Grandfather, father, son. One is an orderly, one is a leading sportsman, and one is a master taxidermist. One desires love, the other success, and the third immortality.
After his father’s lambs are brutally slaughtered, an intellectual son returns to his widowed father’s remote shack, confronting haunting signs of violence his father fears is returning.
الطيور تأكل من بقايا أرقى أنواع الكافيار
Abby awakens to find herself trapped inside a crate, with unknown figures outside and her only hope is to find a means of escape.
A woman goes on a strange journey through the woods; Bookended by two dreams.
Unearthed footage from an experimental surgery unit gives a window into an institution's malpractice.