Rising

Moja Australia

City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland together with her family and go to... Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become aware of their and their family roots.

The Lost Chick

A chicken has hatched seven chicks. She locates six of them, but the other, Eggbert, is missing.

The Muppets on Puppets

Jim Henson and Rowlf the Dog explain the art and history of puppetry, and let the viewer in on some of the secrets in performing his own act, the Muppets.

Gamitin Mo Ako

A young woman and her mother fight over one man in this dramatic film about three people who genuinely love each other yet express their affection the wrong way.

Thermopylae

A distraught man in coat and tie grips the guardrail at a remote cliff overlooking the Pacific. At a boys' high school in toney Rancho Palos Verdes, Mr. Radford teaches classics. His best student is the earnest Andrew. Late one evening, Andrew stops by Mr. Radford's office; Andrew's been the only student to do well on a recent exam. They chat, and something happens that brings a sleepless night to Mr. Radford. The next day, Andrew misses Mr. Radford's class, and after, Mr. Radford is aghast to see Andrew and Andrew's father waiting outside the principal's office. What's the teacher's fear, and what will he do about it?

The Go Masters

Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess). It soon becomes evident that the Chinese master's son is the most talented player that the Japanese master has ever encountered, and he convinces the boy's father to let him bring the child back to Japan to train him as a professional Go player. Years pass, and as the young Chinese master grows to maturity in Japan, the Japanese invasion of China forces him to choose between his triumphant career and his loyalty to his native country. His decision is complicated by his marriage to the daughter of the Japanese master, with whom he has produced a child. His choice will profoundly alter the lives of two families. Their saga serves as a reflection of the tragic relations between their two great countries, and the possibility of reconciliation and healing.

Meurtres au Mont-Saint-Michel

A seemingly mystical murder takes Captain Sophie Maliquot back to the Mont-Saint-Michel region where she spent part of her childhood and where her father, who died years earlier, is buried.

Silk Stocking Strangler

Jackie, a pretty young lesbian, moves in with Olivia, an older and experienced lesbian. Their landlord, a leering voyeuristic psychopath, demands that they pay their back rent or he'll throw them out. In order to forestall eviction, Olivia convinces the naive young Jackie to help put on a "show" for the landlord, but as his fantasies about the two of them get more perverse, Jackie begins to fear that their lives may be in danger.

The Nullarbor Nymph

Following two Water Australia employees who travel out along the Nullarbor Plain only to discover they are being hunted by the mythological creature, the Nullarbor Nymph.

The White Ship

Longing to discover his father, a sad young boy dreams of becoming a fish and swimming to the great white ship he sees traversing Lake Issyk. Lost in his dreams, and buoyed by the pagan tales of his Central Asian grandfather, he feels a close communion with nature: so much so that when a hunter kills a stag, he too takes a final, liberating leap.

Egypt floating pyramid

Ernesto Sábato, mi padre

The life of the remarkable Argentine writer Ernesto Sábato, seen and narrated by the filmmaker who knows him best: his son. Featuring unpublished or rarely seen material, fragments of family recordings shot in 8mm, photographs, videos, and films made by Mario Sábato from 1962 to 2008, this journey explores the intimate paths of one of the most renowned Argentinians worldwide.