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- Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the prvince of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. To get there, he must cross great distances in a small boat on the rivers, scoring deep into the jungle. Vargas is a quiet and self-contained man. He possesses the restraint of those living close to nature. A deep mystery surrounds him, the people he encounters and the places he goes through, all that taking in the unalterable world he finds almost unchanged after his long years of incarceration.
- In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them.
- Totschweigen (Wall of Silence) chronicles a small event of the Holocaust in the closing days of the War in the Austrian border town of Rechnitz.
- About a visual wizard and a fantastic legacy of films which transformed and influenced the science fiction genre as we know it. The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of films. Throughout his career at the film studio in St. Petersburg, Klushantsev pioneered and invented legendary techniques for filming the planets, stars and weightnessless - long before anyone else. He went on to redefine the science fiction genre and influence the way Hollywood made their science fiction films, including the Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Master, Robert Skotak, a man who spent years trying to track Klushantsev down. This is a film about a fantastic inventor and dreamer whose destiny was intimately linked with the Space Race and the whims of the Soviet dictatorship. However, despite dying blind and penniless, Klushantsev has left an indelible mark on the history of film and inspired countless filmmakers. The Star Dreamer ensures that the name of Pavel Klushantsev lives on.
- A thirteen-year follow up of four children growing up in the Dehiesha Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. This film is an engrossing document about kids growing up under occupation. From 1987 up to 2001.
- Three young rebels transport cocaine in an ambulance, steal part of the shipment and flee from the police. All three are shaped by loneliness, indifference and lack of communication.
- A shopping center of the Bernese suburbs organizes the election of the «couple of the year». The winning couple gets trousseau and marriage. The wedding ceremony takes place within the shopping center. Ruse and negotiations, resistance and resignation, values and image: a promotional comedy? A journey into the land of appearances? What is real, what is faked?
- From Baruch Goldstein's massacre in Hebron, March 1994 (where 119 bullets were fired) to the fatal 3 bullets that killed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in November 1995, this documentary examines the right-wing extremists in Israel and their ideology.
- Bodies in constant motion and gleaming with sweat - a film that makes a highly cinematic art. In their panorama of Cuban boxing, Stefano Knuchel and Ivan Nurchis meet masseurs, trainers and idols of both the past and the future. They talk about hopes and dreams, as well as their failures. But not just in boxing: the documentary is a great metaphor for the cuban dreams of revolution and how they ended up.