O Zé já não é Analfabeto

Nach drei Jahren nähern sich die Klonkriege endlich dem Ende. Um die Separatisten endgültig zu besiegen, soll Obi-Wan Kenobi ihren Anführer General Grevious und Count Dooku ihrer gerechten Strafe zuführen. Zur Beunruhigung der schwangeren Padme nutzt daheim der endgültig vom Bösen korrumpierte Kanzler Palpatine die Gelegenheit, um den jungen Anakin Skywalker mit Versprechungen von unbegrenzter Macht auf die dunkle Seite zu ziehen. Ratlos und hin- und hergerissen wem er dienen soll, erliegt er geblendet von deren Machtverheißungen, den Versuchungen der dunklen Seite, schwört dem bösen Darth Sidious die Treue und nimmt die Identität von Darth Vader an. Die Sith-Lords beginnen zusammen einen Rachefeldzug, der in der Ermordung der Jedi seinen Anfang nimmt...

In a desolate place called the Badlands, four men stand off with guns drawn, their fingers ready at the trigger. Among them are a fugitive seeking redemption, a son out to avenge his father's murder, a loyal servant with a secret and a murderous criminal hired to kill with a vengeance. This is their story...in a place where revenge, deception and cruelty are a way of life.

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.

Tomboy grows up, overalls to frilly pastel dresses. And even a husband.

A very rare Japan-only video with eleven promo clips.

Parrot sets forth for a nest. But he foots. Appears is afraid to fly, because never tried.

After the Fountain of Youth makes immortality accessible, a vulnerable married couple must choose if it really is "til death do us part."

Young Chechnya war veteran alienates himself from his friends and family because of his burned face. When he has to help find his war-time friend, he manages to get back to life again.

A journey into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experiences in modern day Japan. For some hafus, Japan is the only home they know, for some living in Japan is an entirely new experience, and the others are caught somewhere between two different worlds.

Keb' Mo' Sessions at West 54th

Are words, photographs and speeches sufficient means for describing and communicating a complex, harsh, unmanageable reality? These unsolved questions pursue Cassandra during her trip through the impenetrable Chaco as chronicler of a means of communication, her first job after graduating from literature school. The unknown reality of native peoples who live in the Chaco communities, their beautiful and uncomprehensive languages and their dilemmas facing an economy which excludes them, are part of a trip in which Cassandra finds an inhabitable world within her status as foreigner. Her visions start merging with the cosmovision of ancient inhabitants until she becomes part of the enigma herself.

Als Stanley Kubricks Film "Uhrwerk Orange" 1972 in die Kinos kam, wurde der Autor der Romanvorlage, Anthony Burgess, der Gewaltverherrlichung beschuldigt. Zu Unrecht, denn tatsächlich prangern der Roman und seine Verfilmung die sicherheitspolitischen Maßnahmen des Establishments als Reaktion auf ein wachsendes Unsicherheitsgefühl der westlichen Gesellschaft an. Die Dokumentation führt an den Ursprung des Skandals zurück und beleuchtet das Werk anhand des von Burgess hinterlassenen unveröffentlichten Manuskripts "The Clockwork Condition".

A Japanese doctor, on a secret mission to Paris for his country, becomes romantically involved with a cabaret singer at a Parisian nightclub. His entire mission is put at risk when he kills a rival for her love, a French journalist and blackmailer. (This film was a heavily re-shot 76 minute version of the 1933 film Typhoon but with a dramatically altered plot from the original where the Japanese are now portrayed as unsympathetic villains. The new version was approved by German censors and released in 1934 although its critical reception was poor. It is possible that Wiene, who had left for Budapest in 1933 following the Nazi rise to power, did not personally work on the new version). From Wikipedia.

#67 is a tribute to Reminiscence and Telc, two video works that Steina and Woody Vasulka made in 1974.

A short film about three siblings with secrets who come back home to stay, Everyone meets up at their mum's house for a family lunch and none of them want her to find out about what their hiding.

In the heyday of the jute industry, millions of people in Bengal made their living doing this laborious work, which has hardly changed since the industrial revolution. The 100-year-old machinery has been endlessly repaired. State aid kept this sustainable alternative to plastic going, but its future looks bleak.