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- Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.
- Joe Leahy is the half-caste son of one of the first explorers of the Papua New Guinean interior. His relations with the local Ganiga tribe who work his coffee plantation on their land are difficult at times. However he has successfully managed to get them to agree to open a second plantation in partnership with him. Things are looking up until the international coffee market hits rough times and conflict seems imminent between the Ganiga and their neighbouring traditional enemies.
- After the famous Dutch documentary filmmaker Johan van der Keuken is told that he has prostate cancer and only a few years left to live he decides to take an extended vacation while filming his journeys so the afterworld can learn about his experiences. He travels to Kathmandu where he meets buddhist monks and a healer woman who soon is trying to medicate him, to Burkina Faso and Mali onto the edge of the Sahara desert and other places. Everywhere he is collecting experiences that help make the rest of his life bearable.
- This four hour documentary looks for the exotic in the everyday life observed in just one city, the filmmaker's own Amsterdam.
- "Mais im Bundeshuus - le génie helvétique" ("Corn in Parliament") is a vertiginous journey down the corridors of the Federal Parliament building in Bern. Constructed as a feature film, it follows the adventures of a parliamentary committee established to create a bill on genetic engineering (Gen-Lex). This political thriller reveals both sides of the coin, namely that of those who have invested, economic interests and of those who fear the negative effects of this revolutionary technology. Amusing, tender, and humane, all the while clearly illustrating the limits of the system, the film functions as a tale of universal power.
- People's associations with flora goes back a long way, taking us back to our own roots as well as to new ways of life and creative potential that reveal themselves as we deal with plants. 'Wild Plants' is a film that follows these clues and takes us to urban gardens in Detroit, to Native American philosopher Milo Yellow Hair in Wounded Knee, to the wild plantations of Zurich's legendary 'Guerilla Gardener' Maurice Maggi, and to the innovative horticulture cooperative 'Les Jardins de Cocagne' in Geneva.
- Tribute to the poet Francis Ponge whom Jean-Daniel Pollet considers as "natural".
- How does India, where there are retirement homes for sacred cows, handle the mad cow crisis?
- Portrait of the German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, who lived in the south of France during World War II where she painted nearly 1000 gouaches recounting her life.
- Hungarian director Laszlo Kovacs (László Szabó) goes to Hollywood, where his compatriot Agi (Ágnes Bánfalvy) tries to get him started on a film document about the late movie director Orson Welles. She sends him the issue #82 of American Film magazine, November 1983, with several pages marked on controversial statements of Wells and other personalities. He gets curious, meets the young woman Agi, and she suggests a number of people to interview, who had known the late film director. Like his model, he is engulfed in the world of movies, alcohol, sex, film stardom and unfinished or inconclusive movies. A docudrama told in the style of Wells himself, with interviews presented and re-enacted so that ambivalence prevails over what is true and what is fake.
- In his solitude, a man dreams, imagines, fumbles, eructs. In front of his computer, he is writing, he sends e-mails, like bottles at the sea. Robinson, he tries to escape, not from a deserted island, but from a world of appearances, deserted, empty, inconsistent, mirage of a mirage.
- In the early 1990s, the aftermath of the war in Cambodia since 1970 and the sinister Khmer Rouge era in a small village, Cheng Mean Chey. Its people stick to traditions and the economic structures have reverted to what they were a hundred years before. Where the path had become a road nature has reasserted itself. But it has also turned into a minefield...
- Documentary shows brass bands from Nepal, Surinam, Indonesia and Ghana.
- Shot in Tel-Aviv, this documentary is about Jews who were raised Ultra-Orthodox and then made the choice to become secular.
- Between February and June, 1991, Robert Kramer and Steve Dwoskin exchanged several video letters shot in Hi8.