The Ploy

Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and produced for the Royal College of Art, which reconstructs the events leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Ostia relocates the proceedings to London and stars Derek Jarman as Pasolini. The film features an evocative dream sequence which is accompanied by poignant excerpts from Pasolini’s own poetry, as read by Jarman.

A documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini and his film 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

Behind the scenes footage of Pasolini and crew filming 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

A short documentary exploring the ongoing relevance and power of 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family roots, hiding during World War II, teaching, moving to Rome, being arrested and acquitted many times, publishing poems, getting into film, being provocative, and being murdered. Interviews with Alberto Moravia, Laura Betti, Maria Antonietta Macciocch, and Bernard Bertolucci are inter-cut with readings of Pasolini's poems and with clips from four films - primarily the Gospel According to St. Matthew - to illustrate his changing ideas and points of view. Bregstein makes a case for Pasolini's being lynched.

Portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini and his literary and cinematographic activity in the proletarian Rome.

Cyclone Tracy 40 years on, exploring the myths and revealing new perspectives on one of the worst natural disasters in Australia's history.

A young man inherits his estranged father's tailor shop and the challenges that come with it.

An upright police officer is determined to wipe out corruption in society. Putting his life at risk, he has to fend off several obstacles that come his way.

Ruta Cero

The romantic story of Stella and Michaud, two young personalities meeting somewhere on the road to the future. They are brought together by chance but held back by fate, which always has a path that each must take, travel and complete.

Xavier, a Law student, accidentally meets Soledad, a charming dancer. Their romance will face difficulties due to belonging to different worlds.

Leonardo da Vinci finds it difficult to pursue his own dreams while serving as the Duke's court artist, but young Roberto takes risks to convince the Master not to give up on his dreams. In this moving story of friendship, the Renaissance genius invents a flying machine and helps Roberto reach new heights.

When a married woman discovers her husband's addiction to visiting brothels, she decides to start visiting them herself and is quickly swept up into a secret life filled with new sexual discoveries.

Osawa, who has just moved into an apartment after moving to Tokyo, one day hears a woman next door having an obscene phone call with her lover on the veranda.

Blending drama with the explanations of passionate historians and specialists, this enriched historical reconstruction traces 60 years in the life a man who transformed the Middle Ages and laid the foundation of modern Europe, William The Conqueror.

Little Red Riding Hood is a 12-year-old teenager who lives in the city. On the way to school, she experiences an escalation of dangerous situations, which will take her back to the original story in the forest.

A middle-class family living a decent life suddenly comes across an unexpected luxury that costs them an unwanted change in their life.

A work supervised by Kenzo Nagira. Reiko Okura, the wife of a conglomerate group officer, is ordered by her husband to go to a summer resort one day. A young man I meet there. Reiko has a strong sense of chastity, but she is gradually attracted to the strength and kindness of the young man. The contact with the young man fills the gap in Reiko's lonely heart. Reiko drowned in an immoral relationship.

When a down-on-his-luck 20-something discovers his blood cures cancer, he finds himself dangerously poised between the rush of fame and fortune and the hot pursuit of Big Pharma bent on eliminating him and his 'miracle blood.'