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.

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.

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'.

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

A foreign woman marries a rich man.

This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de l’Incarnation, a mid-seventeenth-century nun and God, her "divine spouse." Fusing documentary and acting by Marie Tifo, whom we follow as she rehearses for this demanding role, the film paints an astonishing portrait of this mystic who abandoned her son and left France to build a convent in Canada, where she became the first female writer in New France.

Otomo, a teacher, and Imabayashi, a high school student, regret having left a student and Imabayashi's best friend, Tadokoro, standing in the rain in the schoolyard, where he died of exhaustion. Both Tadokoro and Imabayashi held love for their teacher; but he know demands his execution.

Koji runs a second-hand bookstore. He likes female drummer Ichihana, but, suddenly, female high school student Misaki appears in front of him and keeps confesses her feelings for him.

Ryuji Yamamoto, the president of a gay film production company, was troubled. Without a suitable model, he was at a dead end with his project. While searching for material, Yamamoto went to a paid cruising spot for gay men and discovered that a nearby park was now a hotspot. At midnight, Yamamoto went there to do an interview and saw a group of men flocking around a particular man. Yamamoto immediately started filming. However, he is found out.

A global flood is approaching, but Lesha will be able to escape, because he has a boat. However, on his grief, a hunter enters the game, who considers the boat to be his property, and who is trying with all his might to take it away. On the way to the finale, in addition to the hunter, Lesha meets other equally wonderful characters who react with curiosity to the young man's strange decision to sit in a boat and wait for a flood.

One day, Hiroshi was helping in an acquaintance's shop and accidentally breaks a jar that cost 1 million yen. Hiroshi can't pay for that and he calls his parents' house as a last resort. He receives news that his father is ill with only 1 year left. Hiroshi wants to make his father happy and decides on a fake marriage. They find a lesbian teacher called Ayako interested in fake marriage on the internet. However, when they go to meet her the angry girlfriend of Ayako called Ami shows up and a man tries to catch Hiroshi for not paying his 1 million yen debt. They steal a van and Ami, Hiroshi and Toshiya drive off in hopes of finding Ayako.

One day, Polina's phone acquires a new function: all the people she takes pictures of disappear. And, if at first it causes her curiosity and interest, then later she understands that in this way she can easily get rid of people who are unpleasant to her, and no one will know about it.

One hot summer day, Nikolai went to the store to buy a watermelon. Tapping one after another, it seemed to him that one of them knocked in response. After bringing it home and swinging a knife, Kolya heard a knock again — the watermelon was communicating with him using Morse code. He introduced himself to 7293, and so their friendship with Nikolai began.

A field commissioner tries to solve the problems of his village.

Melissa (18) and Pietro(22) are brothers. After their father left the family they lived years of depression with a mother who wasn't always capable to follow them. This event caused in both of them a lot of problems, that somehow the are trying to resolve and grow up...In two different ways.

High school senior Brandon is drowning in responsibilities when his world is turned upside down after being robbed at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams.

The problems of a man who when he goes to see his newborn son is mistaken for an assailant.

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.