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October 27, 2014

"Too Many Cooks" is a humorous parody of US sitcoms of the 1970s and the 1980s.

June 10, 1973

At the heart of the movie - true stories about separations and meetings, about search of relatives, the proceeding many years after war.

A police office in Algiers sometime after independence. Mr Rachid, father, around fifty years old, former colonial official transferred to the cinema annex library. Mr. Rachid, disappointed and exasperated by his sad life, faced with an inspector who questions him, tries to explain: why did he kill his former department head after a long night of wandering?

Boutheyna Bouslama remembers her holidays in Syria in the summer of 1994: a boy offered her an armful of cherries. He was called Oussama. Twenty years later, his name appears in the credits of Return to Homs by Talal Derki, programmed in Istanbul. The childhood friend has become “the man with the camera”, a “media activist” documenting the demonstrations and their repression by the Assad regime, until his arrest in 2012. The filmmaker sets off in search of the man whose name features on the list of the 70,000 forced disappearances that have occurred since the beginning of the conflict.

Faces, bodies and actions are juxtaposed endlessly. Fragmented pieces of the woman come together and form the volume of what has been her image in the history of cinema; one marked by the domination and exploitation of her body. A short film homage to Laura Mulvey and her contributions to feminist film theory.

Wu’s one year old son was kidnapped in the middle of the night and was most probably sold to another family. Ten years later, Wu still hopes to find him. On his bicycle, he travels across China, defying the indifference and inaction of Chinese society and authorities.

More than 40 years ago, Bas Jan Ader decided to go on an adventure. In a tiny sailing boat, the Dutchman set sail across the ocean. Nine months later the boat was found adrift at sea. There was no sign of Ader. It’s a story that has always fascinated filmmaker Martijn Blekendaal, not just because of the disappearance itself, but also because of the entire mystery that surrounds it. Blekendaal embarks on an investigation that follows his footsteps to Hollywood. It turns out that, in order to understand what drove this man to his fateful voyage, the filmmaker has to overcome his fear of looking beyond his own horizon. In a whirlwind montage of images jumping from one time, place and person to another, Blekendaal shows us that Bas Jan left behind something more special than just a mystery.

September 21, 2017

A music critic Hugo, suffering from post-divorce depression, is just about to rebuild his life when his jazz musician father Raivo arrives at his door unexpectedly. Spiteful old man announces that he will soon come to his end and expects his only son to take care of him. When an attractive psychotherapist enters the men’s lives, the father and son duo begin to compete for her attention. The old prankster manages to create a number of embarrassing moments in an effort to ruin Hugo’s romantic plans. Andres Maimik’s and Katrin Maimik’s tragicomedy is an exploration of forced closeness, a pursuit of happiness and a road to forgiving through laughter, suspense and tears.

During her holidays on her own on the Costa Brava, the wife of an important Parisian industrialist meets the young student, Andrés, her first and true love, and she decides to leave her husband.

In an attempt to verify the hypothesis that her Aromanian grandfathers were photographed by the famous brothers Milton and Ianaki Manakia, the director embarks on a Balkans journey through Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Greece.

A CAT III rated film starring Mieu Kieu Vy. The film tells about business relationships and grief in modern Hong Kong society.

December 4, 2002

Hamid Afshari, the secretary at the courthouse (Parviz Parastui), is running out of money to buy a computer for his son. Desperate, he plans to kidnap Farzan, the son of Mr. Zare, a rich party that had a trial in court. For this, he takes for accomplice Asghar, a gangster already condemned. Asghar locks Farzan in a villa in the suburbs. To catch the kidnappers, Mr. Zare feigns a state of emergency and is hospitable. Hamid Afshari rushes to the hospital to inquire about his state of health. Roya, the nurse who informs her (Fatemeh Motamed-Arya), seems very welcoming and helpful. Finding her to his liking, Hamid feels very quickly in love with her...

“We are all stardust”: this was a phrase often quoted by Dionysis Simopoulos (1943–2022), an astronomy educator and science communicator who was the one who established the first-ever Planetarium in Athens, Greece, introducing the universe to millions of people with lectures, books, tv shows, documentaries. This documentary focues on his fascinating life!

The Man Who Watched Too Much Part 2

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