After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.
Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this film has been used to make "Les Fils de l'Eau".
The true horror story that even the great Johnny Carson talked about on the Tonight Show in 1970.
Swashbuckling Sword & Sorcery at its finest!
A Nightmare Captured On Film!
A closed schoolboy, Miron, has no friends, his parents constantly quarrel, and his grandfather is completely immersed in his own affairs. At school they make fun of him and don't want to play basketball because of his hearing aid.
A short film about a suburban mother’s mental breakdown amid the civil and international tensions in the United States in the early sixties. It's any color you like, as long as it's black.
Kathryn Osterman breaks egg into a plate. As the content reaches the plate, it transforms into a baby chick. Action repeats twelve times through stop-action photography.
A janitor, alone in a vacant school encounters supernatural forces.
Vasiliy Kirsanov is a former bank clerk, and now a failed illusionist. In order to make a show "almost like Copperfield," he persuades his wife Svetlana to sell their comfortable apartment and buy a small one-room apartment. But the show failed, and Svetlana and two children are extremely cramped in the one-room apartment, and the wife demands an urgent solution to the housing problem. While looking for an apartment, Kirsanov accidentally stumbles upon an extremely profitable advertisement and, with the money from the sale of his apartment, buys an excellent three-room apartment, but... the apartment turns out to be a surprise - a real ghost lives in the apartment.
Young and wealthy, Jules is sent to his uncle’s remote farm to curb his indulgent, pleasure-seeking ways — but he ignores every demand and his arrogance remains untouched.
When Dani arranges a private Cinema Screening of her recently deceased Mother's favorite 80's Slasher Cult film, Red Slash, the group ends up in a bloody fight for their lives.
A girl is sold to a brothel. She is destined to become a prostitute, but because she is still a child, she is made to work as a maid there. Because she grew up in the countryside, she is careless in everything she does, and is constantly mocked by the landlady and the prostitutes who work there. One day, the girl takes the undergarment she was ordered to wear and heads to the room of a prostitute's older sister. As soon as she opens the sliding door, she is shocked. There she finds her older sister tied up with rope and being tortured by a male customer. The girl instinctively shouts "Stop it!", but is shocked to see that the older sister does not seem to mind, but rather seems to enjoy it. Before long, the girl is unable to get the scene out of her head, and begins to secretly tie ropes around herself in her room...
A desperate man tries to conceal a terrible secret in this lo-fi, analog short horror film.
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.