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Satoshi returns to Taketomi Island to take part in his grandmother's 97th birthday 'mandala' party, a special celebration that's unique to this island. Just as he arrives at her house, he learns that she has just passed away. The next day from his grandmother's diary, they discover a long kept secret...

An old man needs a plastic toilet stool by the bed at night, but the health center can't deliver it, so the old man has to pick it up by himself.

When business is slow for private detective Alex Calibourne, aka Iron Joe, he takes on a body guard position for a sultry nightclub singer. The animated first half of a two-part anthology.

A specialized detective must investigate a murder in a futuristic city. The live-action/CG second half of a two-part anthology.

On a cold Ozark night, a roadhouse Waitress thinks her last customer of the night is the Devil.

Greta Garbo and Vladimir Lenin meet at PUB department store in Stockholm in 1917. They both have lost a dream, and they start a conversation that remains all day while they are walking through the city.

Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.

This short film portrays the story of singer Paul Anka, who rose from obscurity to become the idol of millions of adolescent fans around the world. Taking a candid look at both sides of the footlights, this film examines the marketing machine behind a generation of pop singers. Interviews with Anka and his manager reveal their perspective on the industry.

Jill has the snake, Julie has the flute. Alone they have nothing. But together they have a secret weapon to fight the dark forces.

A gay couple dealing with marital dispute when one of them falls in love with their realtor, causing a cataclysm of fighting and emotional tumult between them, their cleaning lady, the realtor and his wife.

In the summer of her nineteenth year, when Jun-gi, her first sexual partner, announces that he has dropped out of his early study abroad program and is returning, In-seon is filled with anticipation.

Two young men meet during a summer day on the Mediterranean coast. First short film by Gorka Goikoetxea.

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When Brian meets Amy after a night out on the town, things move a lot faster than he'd anticipated.

The collapse of the bridge was recorded on film by Barney Elliott, owner of a local camera shop. The film shows Leonard Coatsworth leaving the bridge after exiting his car. In 1998, The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. This footage is still shown to engineering, architecture, and physics students as a cautionary tale. Elliott's original film of the construction and collapse of the bridge was shot at 16 frames a second, on 16mm Kodachrome film, but most copies in circulation are in black and white because newsreels of the day copied the film onto 35 mm black-and-white stock (not to mention, often showed the film at the wrong speed).

A compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography and the other stating words having to do with the images, the story the first voice is relating, or neither. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

It's ice skating time. After a few generic ice-skating gags, we get to the main story. An animal falls through the ice, and a pig doing W.C. Fields (W.C. Squeals, apparently) calls for help from a Saint Bernard dog. The dog dispenses a drink, and Squeals begins scheming to get some himself. First he tries faking his own fall through the ice, but the dog sees through it and downs the drink himself. Then Squeals tries using a dish of bones and a magnet, but the magnet falls through the ice and gets stuck around a fish. The fish then swims through a liquor spill from the dog's casket; the drunken fish grabs an ax and, swimming in a circle, dunks another skater. He then latches onto Squeals' skates, and hauls him into an ice-skating contest, where the fish-induced antics win him first prize. Squeals fills the loving cup from the dog's cask, and the fish swims off with it.

While their owner is having his siesta, two old caged parrots rake up memories from the past. This leads to unexpected consequences for the three of them.

Louie the Parrot finds a written will stating that his master bequeathes the family fortune not to him, but to his fellow household pet, a lunkheaded cat named Heathcliff, with the proviso that Louie is next in line to inherit the wealth if Heathcliff dies. So, Louie plots the untimely demise of Heathcliff.

"The Discipline of D.E." is a short 16mm film directed by Gus Van Sant. It’s based on a story in “Exterminator!” by William Burroughs that at times reads like Buddhist noir: "DE is a way of doing. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE. You can start right now tidying up your flat, moving furniture or books, washing dishes, making tea, sorting papers. Don't fumble, jerk, grab an object. Drop cool possessive fingers onto it like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest.”