Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters!

Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Boris Karloff.

In Donetsk, in the terrible and destructive atmosphere of the war, the violin teacher Larisa is raising a children's quartet. Music lessons help children escape from the effects of total horror. larisa inspires children with her example of resilience and courage, desperately hiding her personal family tragedy. soon the quartet will fall apart and the children will disperse in different directions. before that, they will have their last joint performance in moscow, in which they will enter into far from their last battle with darkness, horror and death.

Two seasonal migrant workers came to Finland for fast bucks. The aim of misha, a ukrainian labourer from the town konotop, is to earn money and invest them in purchasing of apartments for living on that passive income. the colonel of the soviet army from lithuania sergey fedorovich has to fix his white land rover, which is his gem, and also he is burning for some adventures in the years of retirement. alas, everything didn’t quite go as they had planned. they ended up at the summer place of some emigrants of 1918 (the time of the russian revolution) from saint-petersburg. martti has a mission – to restore the old buildings and revive the recollection of his russian grandfather. so, anna martti’s young daughter has decided to make a film about all of it.

This is a large-scale canvass depicting life in the Solovetsky monastery. What does the spiritual life of man signify? what is religious tradition and how does it relate to the modern world? how does faith influence human life? the solovetsky islands are a milestone in the spiritual geography of russia. they are marked by spiritual, historical, cultural events which have a profound bearing on the national memory. located on the outskirts of russia, the archipelago was destined to become one of the powerful symbols of the russian spirit. the movie looks at the deeper meaning of existence, faith, hope and love.

In the outback of Siberia - in the village of Takuchet - Justas Walker, a born US citizen, lives and works. Here he has his own successful farm of 11 goats, a couple of sheep and several chickens. Russian neighbors dislike him and plot against him, but Justas looks at life with humor even in the most difficult moment. He has two friends, assistants, two Siberian men with a criminal past - Andrey and Vova. All together they are trying to prove with their work that there is still life in the Siberian village.

Director Zoya Laktionova talks about her 2 months of experience abroad in a state of two realities. Her documentary essay interacts with two landscapes in the same space of the video work. The work uses archival family photos of the artist and texts written in the first weeks of the war. The work absorbs one landscape into another, but it is difficult to understand what kind of landscape this act carries out.

Evgeny Nikitin’s passion has garnered both acclaim and controversy, fuelling a life devoted to the opera... and heavy-metal rock.

As a popular winter-sport, Ice hockey has been professionalized gradually in China since Beijing had successfully bid for the Olympic Winter Games. Qu ruichen (richard), qu lifan (steven), and zhai zinan (jason) are three nine-year-old strikers for a beijing junior ice hockey team. all of them have the dream of becoming a professional. while the three strikers are giving their best on the court, their parents stand at a crossroads: should they support their children to become professional athletes or to force them to forget their dreams?

Orientations is made of three sequences filmed by a subjective camera that recounts a wandering in the city of Tunis. The off-screen reflected in a glass filled with ink is used as a compass and an illusory float with a funambulistic progression. In this very simple optical device, the appearance of city fragments gives directions and stretches the horizon. A walk of short-sightedness and a gathering of images of the overflowing and distraction of senses.

Larva for a long time, sublimago for a few hours and imagoto breed, not equipped to eat, this short-lived being is reminiscent of the legacy of the fireflies expressed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Referring to Philippe Jaccottet, Yuki Kawamura juxtaposes time and movement without dreading the motionless moment.

Catwalk 2: The Comeback Cats tells the larger-than-life story the people - and the cats - in the competitive cat show circuit, Members of the cat community are enjoying their newfound fame, following their appearance in the first Catwalk documentary. As the film becomes an internet sensation, however, shocking allegations emerge about one of the hobby's most prominent members. Double the drama, double the cat hair, its Catwalk 2: The Comeback Cats.

Krishnattam or Krishnanattam (Play of Krishna) is a temple ritualistic art performed at Guruvayur Temple (Guruvayur 680101, Trishshur District, Kerala) by a troupe owned by Guruvayur Devasvam. The performance of Krishnattam is based on Krishnagiti, a poetic text in Sanskrit containing verses and stanzas, written by the Zamorin King Manavedan in 1654. The story of Krishna, described in Bhagavata, Mahabharata and Harivamsha is presented in Krishnattam as songs, dance and acting in a sequence of eight plays (Avataram, Kaliyamardanam, Rasakrida, Kamsavadham, Svayamvaram, Banayuddham, Vividavadham and Svayamvaram) in eight days.

This story of various shelters and bunkers is a story about the senselessness of wars and conflicts, and at the same time a story about the turbulent history of Slovenia.

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Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.

A documentary which follows a group of siblings who eke out their existence from the offerings and other goods found in the sacred Bagmati River.

A puffing steam train climbs into the Himalaya, a rolling rumble echoes over the holy waters of the Ganges, an astonishing five million commuters rush daily through the Bombay Victoria Terminus - join National Geographic as we journey on one of the world's largest railways. Since 1853, India's railway has been a unifying force. Not only did it physically link distant regions, it also connected the myriad of castes, languages, and religions that comprise India. It's a rich history, riding the sumptuous Palace on Wheels through Rajasthan or the "toy train" to Darjiing, but sadly, the age of steam is dying. At the Black Beauty contest, the beloved steam engines are admired for the last time. From the driver in the steaming locomotive to the station master in the sleepy village, from the family traveling to a wedding to the commuters in the large cities, this great institution reflects the country itself. Many are the faces, and varied are the stories, on THE GREAT INDIAN RAILWAY.

Updated version of Remember Mandela. originally made in 1988 while Nelson Mandela was still serving a life sentence in a South African prison.

In the 1980s the breathtaking scenery of the Engadine is the setting of a social tragedy. The local youth rejects the rigid rules of traditional society. Along with juvenile get-togethers, heroin appears in the mountain valley. As more and more die from overdose, society reacts to the crisis by isolating itself and averting its eyes. The film lifts the veil on the stories untold. Can the memories of this bleak past become part of the Engadine’s acknowledged heritage?

At its peak, one million New York Jews spent their summers in the Borscht Belt, the birthplace of Jewish-American iconoclastic humor. This film shows how these Catskills communities were run by women, and how class divisions were reflected in the resort hotels: upwardly-mobile hotel guests were entertained by a who's-who of talent, while in the bungalows, do-it-yourself burlesque and vaudeville reigned among the blue-collar families. This film is happy, humane, ironic, and, finally, bittersweet, as we see that today's Jews no longer share the tastes or aspirations of their parents.