World War II is around the corner, but the only thing Sally Bauer can think of is the ocean. Her dream is to swim across the English Channel.

Ginette, a Parisian seamstress, lives poorly but happily with her musician lover. When Count la Ferronnière offers to teach her the manners and behaviours that will open her the doors to a richer world, she quickly chooses wealth over love.

It depicts the mysterious relationship between a sister with lung ailment who lives in the warehouse and a younger brother who longs for her. A film adaptation of Seishi Yokomizo's novel of the same name

When the water supply cuts out in a small town, turning the dystopian society into a war zone, three hustlers struggle to find the real enemy before it's too late.

Neda and Boyan are travelling in a car to the city. Their memory takes them back to their youth - their unsettled life, their noisy arguments, their vague hopes, picking up individual scenes, episodes, conversations. Their youth had foolishly gone without love. Now they try to resurrect its ghost. It seems to them that not everything is lost yet, everything can be brought back. So there is a deviation from the usual, measured life to themselves, to true feelings.

A film story about a young talented director of children's theatre, who, despite terminal illness, came to work in the regional city.

A modest employee of a savings bank inherits a valuable art collection. The unexpected wealth changes the course of the heroine's life so much that she does not know whether to be happy or sad. Only after losing everything does the young woman realise what she really needs for happiness.

Pierce Brosnan narrates this beautifully crafted documentary, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of enigmatic Irish painter Jack B. Yeats.

Located in Ardmore, Waterford, Saint Declan’s Well dates back to the 14th century. In this film, the viewer is shown parts of the oratory and Saint Declan’s tower, but perhaps the most interesting is footage of a man and a woman walking underneath Saint Declan’s stone. Legend has it, on the feast day of the saint (24th of July) pilgrims would crawl under the stone as a cure for arthritis. However, the mythical tale also warned that the stone should not be approached by the unworthy, as they risked getting stuck and trapped for their sins.

As future cinema owners, the Horgan Brothers had the foresight to know any event that attracted enormous crowds was worthy of filming. From 1917, their amateur newsreel The Youghal Gazette was shown in The Horgan Picture Theatre, and people from the locality would come to catch a glimpse of themselves on the big screen. This footage of church goers leaving Sunday mass and walking down the church steps in Youghal, is one of the finest examples from their collection and vividly illustrates the broad strata of society that came to worship.

This is the story of the Horgan Brothers of Youghal, photographic, cinematic, and animation pioneers.

Tamara, who has left for America, has a sister Natasha in Ivanovsk. Tamara invites her to come and stay with her. She is ready to help Natasha, to do everything necessary to get her back on her feet in an overseas country. But, strange as it may seem, Natasha does not want to accept such a generous gift from her sister and has no intention of leaving her hometown. She lives well here, she has her own business. And Natasha hopes that she will be able to arrange her personal life.

Trenque Lauquen, a small town in Argentina, invites an Italian fashion house to show its latest collection. After an elaborate welcome ceremony and an initial photo shoot, the fashion house's model vanishes, and a team of local police and consultants, including a clairvoyant, investigates.

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

Jean-Pierre, a frazzled sport agent, has better things to do than to look after his friend's labrador Didier. An amazing discovery will lead him off on an amazing adventure.

When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets a female first-fighter who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from Foreign legion and runs a defense line from a disco club, and goes through many other adventures only to end up in the endless backwaters of the Neretva river where war threats to arrive.

The Making Of... is a unique reflection of the transformation of the time spirit from November 17, 1989, to November 17, 2009. The film reconstruction of the revolutionary moments culminates in a clash between demonstrators and public security on the day of the celebration of the fall of the Iron Curtain. The commented home video transforms over the course of 20 years from a euphoric trip into a picture of social emptiness.

One-time visit turned into a party, the party turned into a flatshare. Filmmaker and musician Jan Foukal and Albert Romanutti, frontman of Bert and Friends and a striking figure of the Czech music scene, become the main characters of the first Czech bromance. Jan has just rented a flat to sort out his family situation. The COVID-19 pandemic robbed Albert of his musical gigs, and he has just broken up with his girlfriend. While some people were writing their lockdown diaries, these two boys used their unique openness, creativity, and an omnipresent Handcam and shot a feature romance about a male friendship.

Journalist Alexei Krivtsov tries to understand in detail how important historical events are assessed at the Institute of Humanitarian Problems in the times of perestroika.

Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides to be revenged on women and his inmates teach him how to seduce and exploit them.As soon as he is released from prison he places a personal ad in a newspaper. This is how the newly self-appointed "cynical Don Juan" will meet three creatures: Florence, Gisèle and Henriette. Who will eat who?

Apprentice director Emmanuel Mouret submits a group of apprentice actors to a series of experiences : to what extent are they ready to expose themselves, either physically or psychologically, in the eyes of their director first, and then of the viewers?

The merciless decline of a great poet, Dino Campana, author of the Canti Orfici, remembered more for his passionate relationship with Sibilla Aleramo than for the depth of his art. Locked up in an asylum in his early thirties, psychopathic yet brilliant, subjected to the cruel care of a doctor who would really like to rehabilitate him, Campana slides towards death with hallucinating determination, alternating delirium with flashes of lucidity, the memory of Sibilla with a poetic creativity stronger than his alienation.

A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America.

Inga, a medical school graduate, is diagnosed with a blood disease. She needs a bone marrow transplant, but Inga is afraid of the operation and considers herself doomed. Vadim, who loves her, having learnt about it, comes to her in the Carpathians, where she works on assignment after graduating from the institute, and offers Inga to become his wife. Vadim's love and faith in the cure help Inga to defeat the disease.

A collective farm agronomist was dismissed and expelled from the Party by the district CPSU committee. Disagreeing with this decision, the agronomist appeals to a higher Party instance. The secretary of the regional committee comes to the collective farm to sort out this complicated case.

Vladimir is already over fifty, and he is bored with the routine of family life. He has found a young and beautiful mistress Olga, with whom he goes on a romantic trip to Yalta. At home Volodya informs that he is going fishing with friends to Solovki. Arriving in the south, Vladimir and Olga suddenly discover that Volodya's wife is also here, and not alone, but in company with a witty and handsome Georgian Givi. At the suggestion of the bruised and deceived in the best feelings of the spouse, the first couple begins to follow the second, and the serene holiday of the heroes acquires an adventurous character.

The universe of Ukrainian village has always been one of the key topics for Oleksandr Koval. This film is his cinematic testament and, at the same time, a lyrical cinematic confession, which was filmed in his native village of Zherdova near Kyiv, where he was born and where he started his "career in cinema" as a cinema mechanic. This work is particularly illustrative with regard to Koval's tragic view of himself as a person who had to conceal his true self throughout his life.

This film tells the story of the patients of the Lviv Regional Psychiatric Clinic who are treated with art, rehearsing Shakespeare's play Hamlet, and its main idea is to reflect on us ‘normal’ people, our lives and actions in the ‘normal’ world.

Katerina has long since divorced her husband and is raising her fifteen-year-old daughter on her own. Her parents have been separated for a long time and now need her help. Her daughter does not help, and at work there is only trouble. But what Katerina needs is not compassion and help, but love.

The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.

Through dramatic reconstruction and documentary asides, the spirit of Italian poet, playwright, journalist, aristocrat and army officer Gabriele D’Annunzio is captured, presenting the nascent fascism in his attempts to forge a new state in the aftermath of the First World War.

Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. He corresponds with Moscow, writes speeches for the members of the Communist Workers' Party and makes leaflets for the events of trade union. His purpose is to overthrow the Republic of Estonia since he does not believe in Estonian independence nor in any national ideals. Yet the clock keeps ticking, tuberculosis spreads rapidly, the world revolution is being postponed. What to do in order to make one's efforts work?

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.

Zhora is a well-known master of stuffed birds and animals in the neighbourhood. His wife's overbearing nature and her endless insults about his strange work once awakened in him the desire to leave home.

David Sims' impressionistic National Film Unit short film explores the responses of four NZ painters to a landscape illuminated by a distinctive light, but yet to feel the full impact of human settlement. The award-winning film examines Brent Wong’s floating architectural shapes, Colin McCahon’s religious symbolism, Toss Wollaston’s earth-hued palette, and Michael Smither’s hard-edged realism. Their works are taken from safe gallery confines and moved closer to their subject matter, while the words of writers (Katherine Mansfield, Charles Brasch, Bill Pearson) provide another angle.

Having fled the Liberian Civil War and living undocumented, renowned self-taught artist Johnson Weree creates otherworldly portraits while seeking asylum in the Netherlands.

A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal government.

In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.

Bureaucrats from the chemical plant of a small industrial town allow the lake to be polluted with waste. Zaborov, an enthusiast of the fight for environmental cleanliness, starts an open struggle and is defeated. This does not embarrass him and for a while he disappears. Some time later, a prehistoric lizard appears in the lake, which immediately attracts the attention of the world community.

Ksana meets Ivan Mazayev, a miner, and follows him to Magadan. But the difficult life of a miner quickly bores her. She leaves for Moscow, but cannot forget Ivan...

Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.

In a certain kingdom, the boyars decided to marry the old tsar. He chose a bride from foreign lands and sent three fools after her - in the hope that they would not be able to fulfil his punishment...

Above the tip of Cape York, beyond the northernmost point of the Australian continent, are the Torres Strait Islands. The economy here is based on home gardens and pearlshell fishing. The culture, with its basis in music, dancing, and ceremony, provides a striking contrast to that of mainland Australia. This film, shot in the late 1960s, shows how strongly old traditions still affect Torres Strait Islander people, even though they also have most of the trappings of modern life.

This film looks at small coastal shipping in New Zealand. It focuses on life on the coaster; loading and unloading the ship, situations in ports, a storm at sea, and some dramatic incidents. Complete commentary in rhythmical verse supplied by Selwyn Toogood.

Auto mechanic invents a new-improved carburetor; industrial spies steal his invention, romance with a manufacturer's daughter, and he drives a cross-country race.

To be, or not to be a mother, that is the question. A road movie where music, sexuality and contradictions accompany the main characters on a trip through southern Spain in a '67 Corvair. Milagros stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan seeks solace in Grindr in order to overcome abandonment issues.

Kei, a house servant, is kicked out after an altercation and is then adopted by a nearby family.

Kinshiro leaves home after believing his stepbrother Shinnosuke will inherit the family legacy. Falling in with the yakuza, he lands in trouble. Though his father appears indifferent, he and Kinshiro’s stepmother secretly worry about him and set out separately one night to find him.

A docudrama that traces the story of Cecil Holmes, a young radical filmmaker at New Zealand's National Film Unit, who was fired because he was a member of the Communist Party.

The story of the carpenters’ dispute of 1949, in which the Communist-led Carpenters Union was de-registered by Peter Fraser’s Government in cahoots with the Federation of Labour.

Wife-killer narrates flashbacks about how his obsessive jealousy led him to tragedy.

A romantic drama about Erik who meets the Estonian violinist Viivi at his father's funeral and falls in love.

Documentary short about Hans Bellmer.

A young woman in a remote village embarks on a perilous journey after the arrival of the new teacher who also happens to be a painter.

Barbie, once an attractive, devoted mother and partner, faces newfound challenges as she turns 55, descending into darkness, violence, and absurdity while grappling with her identity, relationships, and life's complexities.

160 cameramen simultaneously filmed the 356th day of the war along the entire front line, as well as in the rear. The film that was released on the country's screens became a cast, a snapshot of the country's face at the moment of its deadly battle with the enemy.

A homage to Dusky Maiden images as well as a playful take on the low art of velvet painting, Sima Urale’s Velvet Dreams provides a tongue-in-cheek exploration of Pacific Island stereotypes. Part detective story, part documentary, an unseen narrator goes in search of a painting of a Polynesian princess that he has fallen in love with. Along the way, he meets artists, fans, and critics of the kitsch art genre, as well as the mysterious Gauguin-like figure of Charlie McPhee.

Kevin McManus, a man at war with his wife and his life, seeks refuge in the peace of the Christchurch Public Art gallery, but instead is driven to psychic meltdown by the haunting bird-people in Bill Hammond's extraordinary painting The Fall of Icarus. Shaken by his experience, McManus decides to go in search of Hammond's pictures and explanations of them. The artist's unavailability restricts him to questioning and observing those whose lives have also been affected by Hammond's paintings.

One of the few tinted silent films in the Archives New Zealand holdings, this film was part of a series completed by the NZ Government Tourist and Publicity Department. This episode depicts weaving with harakeke and the creation of a piupiu.

Rudall Hayward was just 21 when he began making his first full-length silent movie, My Lady of the Cave. A wistful young clerk (Robert Ramsay, who later tried his luck in Hollywood) falls overboard on a boat trip and washes up on an island. He meets a mysterious woman (Hazel de Montalk) who appears to be a prisoner. The clerk enlists a friend to free his 'cave lady' from her jailer, and they uncover a tragic story.

The story is about three friends who spend a long weekend in a remote cabin, intending to hunt deep in the Swedish woods. However, one day all animals vanish without a trace and the forest turns eerily quiet.

Depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend.

Michelle, a model grandmother, is enjoying peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her best friend Marie-Claude. On All Saints' Day, her daughter Valérie arrives to drop off her grandson Lucas for the school holiday week. But nothing will go to plan.

Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.

Lonely pensioner Evgenia Vasilievna sincerely does not like the whole world around her. And one day the world reciprocates: the robber took away all the pension, his crazy mother is forced into a friend, the riot police cover the brothel that worked in her entrance, and the prostitutes ask to hide them until the raid subsides. The only thing missing is the criminal authorities who "protect" the institution ... And they come - with a demand to compensate them for losses of several million rubles. But where can a simple pensioner get that kind of money? The bandits themselves suggest a way out: you need to open a new brothel, right in Evgenia Vasilievna's apartment.

City slicker scams on young farmgirl while her fiance's in USA on a work permit.

This is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlors.

After his father's death in prison, a man hopes to start a new life with his pregnant wife.

At the age of 75, Gabriel Pitteloud is one of the few chimney masons who create handcrafted fireplaces in cut stones. For the man who, for 40 years, has been making the stones sing, the profession has distilled into a philosophy of life.

Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.

A young woman is walking through the city. She meets a friend at a coffee shop. This friend tells her every detail about how she bought a bike the day before. The young woman listens.

A nighttime odyssey just before New Year's Eve: a woman and a man walking along a back road, caught up in a fight. Their conflict spreads out around them: it covers the dirty coat the woman is wearing, a child she meets and a waiter who doesn't want to leave her alone. Between external stimuli and internal conditions an idiosyncratic and seemingly inescapable space of repressed aggression and confrontation emerges.

Nadine and Janine share a flat together with their friends Mark and Andreas. The flat share is a universe with its own rules, languages, manners and relationships. A stimulating place, where chaos is floating through corridors and rooms. Pending over everything is the approaching breakup of the community, which becomes more and more perceptible within short moments of silence. One of the flatmates, Janine, is going to leave. Janine's farewell party affects each of her friends in a different way. A precise description of a fragile structure breaking apart.

Alexandra is spending the weekend at her parents' house. As she arrives at the familiar apartment, nobody's home. Yet successively, the mother, a friend of the family and the father get in. The rooms, which were quite in the beginning, slowly fill up with noises, conversations and activity. Alexandra withdraws from the social world of the family structure repeatedly. Finally, the mother, the father and the friend go to the movies together. Alexandra is left behind by herself.

The stark personality differences between sisters Karen and Jule become apparent as their families come together for a birthday party.

A minor traffic citation spirals into an all-consuming obsession for a neurotic young woman.

A bourgeois lady has an affair with a revolutionary and idealistic young medical student who participates in the assault on a hospital.

An antiwar movie about living-dead soldiers waiting for morning to go home.

When visionary Jewish immigrant Jacques Bolsey invents the Bolex in the 1920's, he puts the first home movie camera in the hands of everyday folks, fomenting a film revolution that still inspires artists to this day. Nearly a century later, Alyssa Bolsey uncovers his long lost archive and journeys to discover the man behind the machine through his personal and professional struggles.

The work of child psychologist Jean Piaget has been influential in the areas of child development and education. In this film made shortly before his death, he discusses his ideas, attempts to clarify misunderstandings about them, and explains some of his classic experiments with children which are recreated. He also explains his theory of knowledge.

In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled with the chance of overtaking the place.

An old man pays a woman to live with him as if she were his wife, until one day he discovers that she's sleeping with his son.

Miriam Gordon lives in a fog of grief while working in a downtown public library branch. When a burgeoning love-affair coincides with her receiving a series of oddly threatening letters, Miriam's sheltered existence is cracked open.

As part of a residency organized by the University, Miranda Ackerman, a well-known poet, returns to Caen, where she had briefly lived a decade earlier. She is astonished to discover that the University is hosting her in the very house where she lived with Richard, her partner at the time. Richard now teaches on the opposite side of the university. As they reconnect, she begins to feel disturbed by presences in the house.

A chef's life is upended when a jet-setting, champagne-sipping, hotel-hopping woman claims to be his long-lost mother. This documentary reveals the untold story.

After the tragic death of his father, 18-year-old Totone must look after his younger sister and their failing family farm. He assumes even more responsibility when he enters a cash competition for the best Comté cheese made in the western part of the French Alps.

Every day, Jay travels the length and breadth of Tokyo in his taxi, looking for his daughter Lily. In the 9 years since he has separated from his wife, he has never been able to get custody of his daughter. Having given up hope of ever seeing her again, he is about to move back to France when Lily hops in his cab. But she doesn't recognize him.

Romantic war film in which the daughter of a German baron falls in love with the crippled Hans who has been declared unfit for the army, to the jealousy of his brother.

Dorian Supin’s third documentary film of Arvo Pärt steps closer to the composer, showing him in a domestic setting as a composer, husband, father, and grandfather. The title “Even if I lose everything” refers to an entry in Arvo Pärt’s musical notebooks, which the composer browses in the film, together with Immo Mihkelson. The musings and recollections inspired by the notes in these journals, in parallel with domestic scenes, shed light on the composer’s life and creative philosophy, painting a personal, in-depth picture of Arvo Pärt. The film’s soundtrack includes excerpts from Pärt’s works.

After returning from Afghanistan, Vanya Nechkin starts earning money by causing car accidents and receiving interest from insurance companies. The daily risk of his own life suits him fine - a man with a maimed soul gets used to it.

A documentary that pretends to be a fictional film. About the work and the life of a man, a man called Pierre Henry at the beginning of the film and who ends up calling himself "someone".

Yakov Danilych is homeless after releasing from prison. He doesn't have citizen permit and can't find job because of felony. He make money for life by one-time job and living under stairs in his former home.