Twilight of the Gods

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.

A man's thoughts on the female soul, while the woman he covets appears everywhere in the form of famous paintings, and eventually leads him to his doom.

A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him the possibility to do so after all. However, Nietzsche doesn’t arrive in 19th century Russia, but in a modern country which has been trying for years to create the civilization described by Nietzsche 150 years ago.

Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.

When God killed Man, it was God's suicide, When Man killed God, it was the birth of a new God.

My Friend Friedrich opens on awkward, bespectacled Columbia student Nate having a heart to heart on the phone with his mother. Then, in a philosophy class, he almost succeeds in landing a date by lobbing an illustrated invitation at his love interest, Emma. All goes awry when a taller, more confident, bespectacled Columbia student cuts him off at the knees. So far, so very New York student film, but a conceit arrives to distinguish this story of Ivy League dating woes: the ghost of Friedrich Nietzsche appears before Nate to guide him towards self-actualization.

On the road to vacation, Jimmy and Guillaume put their relationship back into play. Jimmy becomes a lost hitchhiker, Guillaume a lonely driver. They will play not to know each other anymore, play to meet and seduce each other again. Until a third player joins the game.

Mateo (16) goes through a confused homosexual and psychic awakening. The spirit of Rosa (40), his mother, tries to say goodbye but he doesn't let her. When Carmen (70s), his grandmother, is admitted to the hospital, Mateo establishes a bizarre relationship with the spirit of Enrique (18), who has just committed suicide. These encounters will lead him to experience and cross the fine line between love, life and death.

A young teen in Florence, Italy meets another teen as they explore their friendship something seems off.

On the eve of the year 2000, two stories centered around money unfold in Beijing. One is the story of a merchant who was poisoned for money -- 1000 years ago. Trapped in a black bowl, the merchant's ghost encounters an old beggar, and regales him with the story of how he came to be inside a bowl. The other story begins in modern times: A debt collector handcuffs an old friend, a poet, who cannot pay back his debt. The poet, who cannot be free of his handcuffs until he returns the money to the debt collector, goes to pick up his lover, while still handcuffed to the debt collector — but the poet's lover too was a prisoner of the debt collector, who escaped, and so all three are become handcuffed together. "Flying Flying" participated in the Youth Forum of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001, as a 'film banned after 1990.'

Mother and Child Grass

Lola O'Connors, a mid-20s introvert, struggles with social anxiety. One of her only outlets for self-expression is her love for hard rock. Specifically, she idolizes the front woman of her favorite band, May Hart, who leads the otherwise all male rock band Limowreck. Tired of being shut in, she decides it's time to let the world see who she truly is and through the process discovers something about herself and her idol.

The General, Staff and Soldiers

Ethan Burrows graduates from the University of Columbia with aspirations of attending a PHD program for mathematics. Life, however, has other plans for him. Everything in his life seems to fall through the cracks one piece at a time. Ethan finds joy in the least likely of places, a ten year old girl named Mia. Mia is no stranger to hard times herself. Her brother was killed in a car accident right before her eyes. Together Mia and Ethan find happiness, together, through the power of music and their passion for guitar.

A successful artist and a struggling one both love the same woman; she chooses the poor one but as the years roll on and other choices she makes and her husband’s misunderstanding lead to a near breaking point for the couple.

Utako's Story

A freelance celebrity photographer tracks down his most elusive subject - a singer who went into hiding 10 years ago.

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