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- DirectorBen AffleckStarsBen AffleckBryan CranstonJohn GoodmanActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDaniel Day-LewisSally FieldDavid StrathairnAs the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.
- DirectorAriel VromenStarsMichael ShannonChris EvansJames FrancoThe story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When he was finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor his daughters had any clue about his real profession.
- DirectorSacha GervasiStarsAnthony HopkinsHelen MirrenScarlett JohanssonThe relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.
- DirectorBen LewinStarsJohn HawkesHelen HuntWilliam H. MacyA man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
- DirectorNikolaj ArcelStarsAlicia VikanderMads MikkelsenMikkel Boe FølsgaardA young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
- DirectorMichael AptedCurtis HansonStarsJonny WestonGerard ButlerElisabeth ShueWhen young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.
- DirectorJoachim RønningEspen SandbergStarsPål Sverre HagenAnders BaasmoGustaf SkarsgårdLegendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsNicole KidmanClive OwenDavid StrathairnA drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.
- DirectorKen KwapisStarsDrew BarrymoreJohn KrasinskiJohn PingayakIn small-town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his Greenpeace-volunteer ex-girlfriend on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly-forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
- DirectorNiki SteinStarsUlrich TukurTim BergmannJohannes SilberschneiderThe story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
- DirectorWayne BlairStarsChris O'DowdDeborah MailmanJessica MauboyIn 1968, four talented young Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the US troops in Vietnam.
- DirectorHansal MehtaStarsRajkummar RaoPrabhleen SandhuMohd. Zeeshan AyyubThe account of Human Rights lawyer Shahid Azmi, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary commitment to justice.
- DirectorJay RoachStarsEd HarrisJulianne MooreWoody HarrelsonGovernor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential election.
- DirectorPetter NæssStarsFlorian LukasDavid KrossLachlan NieboerWorld War II: After an aerial battle over Norway, British and German airmen find themselves stranded in the wilderness. Finding shelter in the same cabin, they realize the only way to survive the winter is to set aside the rules of war.
- DirectorRoger MichellStarsBill MurrayLaura LinneyOlivia WilliamsThe story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
- DirectorLloyd KramerStarsLindsay LohanGrant BowlerTheresa RussellThe torrid relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
- DirectorJulian JarroldStarsSienna MillerToby JonesImelda StauntonThe turbulent relationship between filmmaker Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) and actress Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller).
- DirectorEdna Luise BiesoldSarah-Violet BlissGabrielle DemeestereStarsJames FrancoMila KunisJessica ChastainA poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life.
- DirectorBrent McCorkleStarsLynn CollinsMichael EalyBruce McGillA woman's idyllic life is shattered when her husband is killed in a senseless act of violence. As she prepares to take matters into her own hands, two unexpected encounters begin to change everything.
- DirectorTim WhitbyStarsGeorge MacKayBebe SandersLeigh QuinnIn 1943, a refugee doctor from Nazi Germany uses new methods to rehabilitate those with spinal injuries in Great Britain. Based on actual events.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsBarbara SukowaAxel MilbergJanet McTeerA look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for 'The New Yorker' on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
- DirectorNathan FrankowskiStarsKat DenningsChad Michael MurrayRupert FriendA drama centered around Renee Yohe and her battle with drugs, depression, and other life issues that ultimately leads to the founding of charity group To Write Love on Her Arms.
- DirectorLisa Barros D'SaGlenn LeyburnStarsCathal MaguirePeter KellyCharlie BerkeleyA chronicle of Terri Hooley's life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast's punk-rock scene.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsRamsey NasrF. Murray AbrahamHendrik AertsHendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.
- DirectorFaozan RizalStarsReza RahadianBunga Citra LestariTio PakusadewoThis movie is based on the memoir written by the 3rd President of Indonesia and one of the world-famous engineer, B.J. Habibie about his wife, Hasri Ainun Habibie.
- DirectorRobert ConnollyStarsRachel GriffithsAnthony LaPagliaAlex WilliamsA look at the early career of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.
- DirectorChristian VincentStarsCatherine FrotArthur DupontJean d'OrmessonThe story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
- DirectorStephen KayStarsSara PaxtonJustin BrueningW. Earl BrownBLUE-EYED BUTCHER is the shocking true story of a wife and mother driven to kill by her abusive husband, starring Justin Bruening (TV’s “Ringer”), Sara Paxton (The Innkeepers) and Lisa Edelstein (TV’s “The Good Wife”).
- DirectorFlorent-Emilio SiriStarsJérémie RenierBenoît MagimelMonica ScattiniA biopic of French pop star Claude François, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from childhood in Egypt through success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
- DirectorCarl FranklinStarsLuke GanalonJoseph A. GarciaMiriam ColonA drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.
- DirectorYannis SmaragdisStarsSebastian KochEvgeniy StychkinJuan Diego BottoThe Greek pirate who turned businessman, Ioannis Varvakis, made his fortune selling caviar in Russia and all over the world. Varvakis strives all his life for freedom for himself and then for his country.
- DirectorRoger YoungStarsBilly ZaneCristiana CapotondiFilippo NigroBilly Zane stars as Barabbas--the man whose life was spared because of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Based on the Nobel Prize in Literature winning novel by Par Lagerkvist, Barabbas is a story rooted in the Bible which will come to life on REELZ as a four-hour miniseries and tells the ultimate story of redemption. Barabbas was shot on location in Tunisia and is directed by Emmy Award winner Roger Young.
- DirectorGiacomo CampiottiStarsAlissa JungPaz VegaAndreas PietschmannThe story of Mary, mother of Jesus.
- DirectorMark MeilyStarsJorge EstreganNora AunorChristopher De LeonThe life story of the first Philippine President. The story of the man who led the Filipino people to victory against its Spanish conquerors.
- DirectorNika AgiashviliStarsShannon ElizabethEd O'RossBilly ZaneVan Vlahakis left Greece five decades ago with 22 dollars in his pocket. He arrived in the US hoping for a better future for him and his family. Eftichios as is his Greek name not only managed to live the American dream for himself, but also created Earth Friendly Products, a US giant for environmentally friendly cleaning products. His story is not only about transforming his life but also the lives of the ones around him as the owner and CEO of Earth Friendly Products. The story centers on the modern day Vlahakis (played by Ed O'Ross), who is diagnosed with cancer and given only few months to live. During this time, he reflects on his early life as an immigrant (played by George Finn) during the 1950's and ultimately decides to push himself to the limit by closing one final business deal that will concretize his company's success, even if it means taking on a large corporation that is trying to take over his company.
- DirectorRachel PerkinsStarsJimi BaniDeborah MailmanEwen LeslieMabo tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
- DirectorAntonin SvobodaStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerJulia JentschJeanette HainAt the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life - finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an American system that is striving after 1945 for global hegemony, using all available means. Was it madness to believe in man's liberty or was Reich simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and, being a holistic global thinker, accurately observing far-reaching socio-political linkages? Ten years after his mysterious death, his writings, once burnt by the US FDA, become an important source of inspiration for a '68 generation in revolt.
- DirectorNadia TassStarsBilly MillerAmber ClaytonGary SweetA man is accused of drowning his wife during their scuba diving trip at Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
- DirectorDavid BlairStarsMatt SmithSam HoareJames FrainThrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell and Dickie Burnell row together in the the double sculls.
- DirectorJeff WoodStarsMackenzie AstinKeri Lynn PrattWes RobertsonIn 1970's Alabama, a young preacher struggles with his faith, and attacks from his church, after being hired to prove whether or not Hell exists.
- DirectorMatthew MishoryStarsJames PrestonDan GlennClare GrantJoshua Tree, 1951 is the provocative and mesmerizing experimental portrait of an icon.
- DirectorAdam WatsonStarsJohn PaulErika Sabel FloresCliserio AguilarWhile serving a 33 year sentence inside La Mesa Federal Prison, the most corrupt in all of Mexico, former drug cartel chief Esteban Mendoza finds redemption while helping others overcome drug addiction.
- DirectorSebastian del AmoStarsRoberto SosaJuan Manuel BernalJuan Carlos BonetJuan Orol was born in Galicia, Spain at the end of the 19th century. As a child, his mother sent him away to Cuba, looking for a relative he never found. He grew up wildly and encroached in many disciplines such as baseball, boxing, race cars ,and bull fighting; this last career effort moved him to Mexico, where he got married and started a new life as a cop. After the Cristiada War, he widowed and looked for an opportunity in Mexican Cinema where he hit the jackpot on his first feature and became the main B Side exponent of the GOLDEN AGES of Mexican movie industry in the 20th Century.
- DirectorGeoff BennettStarsGrant BowlerTodd LasanceJosh Quong TartBased on a true story, three Australian brothers become embroiled in a scam by selling a fake gold nugget to a tycoon.
- DirectorChristian VuissaStarsCarsten ClemensMarkus von LingenJanina ElkinThe inspiring story behind the Christmas carol 'Silent Night'.
- DirectorMichael A. GoorjianStarsWendy BohanDebra Noah BuetowDale DickeyPatrick Fabian stars as Dr. Ryan Kilgore, a man plagued by an uncontrollable temper that stems from being abandoned by his father as a child. Trying too hard to be the father he never had and tormented by feelings of inadequacy, Kilgore's inner rage boils out of control, affecting his wife and son. With his career and marriage on the brink of collapse, Kilgore resolves to find the father he never knew, and make peace with the anger and resentment he has held inside. What he discovers on his quest is the power to turn his life around...the power of forgiveness. Based on the true-life story of best-selling author Dr. Wayne Dyer, this compelling drama explores the transformational power of forgiveness.
- DirectorJason BoritzStarsKathie BostianHolly BurnsReid CoxA biography on the rise and fame of Country Superstar Taylor Swift.
- DirectorJoël FargesStarsDominique BlancNicolas BrioudesLobsang DhondupThis biographical telefilm retraces the journey of Alexandra David-Néel, accompanied by Aphur Yougden, a child lama who was to become her adopted son, for 13 years of wanderings from India to the lands of the Himilayas and the Tibetan plains, and of their arrival in Lhassa on Feb. 28, 1924 as the first modern Westerner to set foot in TIbet.
- DirectorAlan ByronStarsGyles BrandrethTim HealdRobert LaceyThis feature length HD documentary of Queen Elizabeth II's reign is packed with rare archive footage and expert commentary from Robert Lacy, Nicholas Owen, Tim Heald, Ingrid Seward, Gyles Brandreth.
- DirectorKenya CagleStarsJason RiveraJames Anthony JacksonNixon CesarThis film, The Jose Lucas Story, is said to be based on a fictionalized account of a particular string of criminal exploits, leading to the arrest, conviction, incarceration, and too sudden death of one, Jose Lucas, a local Brooklyn kid whose early life reads like a Dicken's novel, and ends like a classic Shakespearean tragedy. He's convicted and given a 23-year prison sentence for having been a perpetrator in a notorious day-time jewelry heist in toney, downtown Georgetown, Washington, DC.(2005) Lucas had managed to be caught on a security camera with his homeboy Lex (the one who actually used the gun, shot the shop's jeweler, and managed also, to be un-masked on camera) by design of the other two culprits, Robert and 'E," who when arrested later, in another robbery, make a deal with the DA to escape the heavy sentences given Jose and Lex (who got 24 years as the shooter) by giving them up. The film attempts to get at the story behind that conviction, which many believed resulted in a grossly unfair sentence. After having accepted that Jose has lost in court, they had hoped to fight the verdict; Jose's defense did file and lose several appeals. They had settled into the reality that most residents-of- color in Brooklyn find themselves: that of having a loved one incarcerated.
- DirectorDinko TucakovicStarsPaul Leonard MurrayDragan BjelogrlicBojan DimitrijevicFailing Hollywood director Nicholas Ray is invited by Ratko Drazevic to come to Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
- DirectorZachary OberzanStarsZachary OberzanGator OberzanJennie OberzanTwenty years in the making, this drama/documentary uses home movies, re-re-creations, and Hollywood film footage in a hilarious and poignant attempt at sibling reconciliation, with the spiritual guidance of Jean-Claude Van Damme.
- DirectorJosh WickStarsVeracity ButcherMichael CuomoEric M. EskenaziA Traumatized veteran's vision of Jesus leads him to renounce everything he owns and form a fraternity of oddball eccentrics to join him in Gospel poverty and homelessness on the streets of Brooklyn.
- DirectorLouis van GasterenStarsMeher BabaTimothy LearyLouis van GasterenIt is 2012 and a very old Louis van Gasteren is reviewing an earlier phase in his life in a video editing suite. In the movie he is watching, a 42 year old Louis stands watching garbage cans loaded into a truck in 1964. The older Louis reflects upon his own image as a young man, "At the age of 90, it's strange to look back at myself then. I see myself, knowing what has happened to me since, Yes, it's me but then again it isn't." We leave the old man and pick up the story as it unfolds beginning in 1964 in Amsterdam, when as a young man Louis began to film his feelings and experiences in a full length feature film. We see him and his family at a carnival, shot in gaudy color, a different time, before the 60s really happened, feeling almost like the 19th century. We hear a player piano. Louis is with his two young children from his first marriage, Louis and Dominique, and his second wife Jacqueline and their newly born daughter Mardou. They are watching a fat mother and daughter on a carnival stage, who together, we learn from a sign, weigh 900 pounds. The carnival barker explains that the fat women are very rare and gives their exact dimensions as they sit pleasantly in seats for the audience. The family then rides the carousel as Louis in voice over introduces each of them and himself to the viewer. In voice over Louis explains that he is living the "illusion" of a lasting family life. The film then regresses into Louis' past, as he explains through photos and archival footage that a few years earlier his parents had died, his mother three months after his father by taking her own life. His father had been a famous stage actor, Louis van Gasteren Sr., his mother a singer and communist who had quit the concert stage to travel through rural Spain, learning Spanish ballads from the peasants. Haunted by his mother's death, Louis plays for a colleague a recording he has of his mother singing in Spanish. He picks up a post card from her in Spain and explains she would describe not the temperature and food of a foreign country like most people, but the feel of a place like a hot Spanish harbor. Driving through the landscape of his childhood with his wife, he points out to her the sites he would visit as a boy when his family lived in the Hague, such as riding on the back of his father's bicycle and the things his father would observe. We see a shadow of a boy and a man on a bicycle seemingly following alongside Louis' and his wife's car as they drive down the country road. He says he thinks about his parents all the time. The film ceases to look backward in time, and it comes to present day 1964 in a series of scenes in which Louis plays himself, along with actors, enacting a life of bourgeois meaninglessness. He plays himself as a man with no true interests besides indulging in pleasures. He catches the eye of an attractive woman in an airport in Zurich, and by editing alludes that he begins an affair with her. Cutting to his wife at home feeding their one year old child, we see that he has no spiritual direction or real scruples. Louis is then called to a meeting in a house in England, where a very respectable man who has brought along his elderly and apparently wealthy mother, informs him that he is the husband of the woman and that he has discovered the affair. Louis remains polite but quiet, obviously uncomfortable, as the man and his mother explain that they have called him to make him an offer of 5000 guineas to admit to having been with the man's wife, as the wife is "quite mad" and this will allow him to get a divorce. The husband explains to Louis that he will be 'helping them out' to admit to the affair, but Louis tensely folds his hands and forfeits the bribe, saying with mock dignity he cannot help them and is "terribly sorry." Louis is now walking in Belgrade with a man much like himself. He explains that at a film festival in Yugoslavia he ran into an Italian journalist, Luigi de Santis, and the two began to hang out together, laughing off the language barrier since neither speak the native Serbian. On a whim they decide to book a plane to Zagreb, and go into a street side travel agency. The pretty blonde at the desk informs them in Serbian, "Nama Aviona Za Zabreg." The two laugh out loud, not having any idea what it means. The woman explains in English that it means, "There is no plane for Zagreb, tomorrow." The two leave without the tickets and go brawling in the bars, finding the incident inexplicably funny. Romping about drunk late into the night they keep repeating to locals, "Nema Aviona Za Zagreb," the only phrase they know in Serbian. But after parting from his friend Luigi, the phrase mysteriously lingers in Louis' mind and causes in him a kind of turning point in his otherwise aimless life and thoughts. He finds he cannot get the phrase "Nema Aviona Za Zagreb" out of his mind, as it falls off the tongue and has a quality to him, as if saying more than it appears to. He shortens the phrase to "Nema" (which in Serbian literally means "there is no.") "It became a catch-phrase that I summarized as the word Nema. Nema presupposes shared feelings and like-minded expectations. What Nema expresses is good will and a great incapacity. Nema and life as such cannot be tied down. You are in them, yet always off the mark." This begins an internal shift in his thinking, and from simply this phrase "Nema Aviona Za Zagreb" he develops an idea. He decides that he wants to film "everything." Excitedly explaining his film idea to his wife at home as she is cooking, and he is pacing their living room area, he says: "I want to show everything, because every observation I make fits in with that. Look Jacq, every step I take also inwards everything I am involved in." From this point forward, he begins to question everything that he has ever heard, and to observe for himself and seek his own answers. He abandons his playboy existence. His interest has turned internal. Staring at himself in a distorting mirror right after the scene with his wife, he says in narration: "I am of the opinion that life is one big illusion. I lost faith in the idea that parents and teachers are always right." Deciding that "life is not what it seems," he begins a series of experiments to see if things he was taught or assumed all his life are true, and there is a series of scenes showing his search, initially using trivial and humorous examples the name of an insect he once saw which he is told "does not exist," trying to fire a BB gun at a church bell he had always bragged he could get a C or a B-flat from, and tries and learns he cannot. He travels to Vancouver to visit an old middle school friend from the 30's and together they call one of their old school teachers to point out he was wrong about the pronunciation of the word "Vancouver" as "Vancouver," and it all winds up a joke as Louis has set up a recording to say, "It is Vancuvver, and will always be Vancuvver. You fail!" He then begins to question what he really sees. Taking his son Louis on a ride through the countryside in the snow, he shares with his son how to observe life directly, and see what others do not. As he and his son run through the snow, in voice over he narrates that about this time he decided to experiment with LSD. (At this time LSD was still legal and could be used therapeutically.) In how many dimensions can someone see, think, and feel? In order to answer this question I started experimenting with LSD. I used LSD to investigate what the drug did to me and my surroundings. But I mainly wanted an answer to the question: is the human species, being the only one capable of reflecting on itself and familiar with only a few dimensions, adequately equipped for life? Then the film takes a darker turn. Louis is flying to West Germany as we see a newspaper clip and hear a radio announcer explaining that a teenage boy in Berkeley has jumped out a window on LSD thinking he could fly. Louis goes to the home of the parents in West Germany where they have recently learned of their son's death. They speak with him gratefully, though tense and deeply grieving. Louis' voice is as gentle and kind as possible. Telling Louis their son was interested in writing, they give Louis a recording of a poem written and recorded by him just weeks before his death. We hear the poem recited by the boy over scenes of young teenage hippies in the Haight-Ashbury. Poem one: The spinning top. They keep telling me to go to school so I can graduate, get a job and become a respectable citizen. Yeah, society wants to wind you up like a top and spin you in a single hole and tell you to spun your grave. I saw my death surmount the windfall rock and, spinning, dove into the mother-sculptured stone. Then down the dawn I saw the centre grooves sinking and lock, anchor, two ninths gravity, heavy as the sun. Not even moons lightened the load, there was no zodiac. And in the centrifugal force fed cell, the serpent tail whipped out a life and no one wept the birth - why weep the dead? Louis crosses the globe again, to Millbrook, New York, to ask Timothy Leary about LSD. Leary speaks directly to Louis' camera outside his Millbrook estate: This is the centre of the LSD religion in the United States. We have come here, as men have done for millions of years, to get away from the insanity of the American society. We find God, here in our body; we find it in flowers, we find it in our senses, and we find it in love for our fellow man, and for all forms of life. This is a meditation house. For the last four years, people come here day and night to take LSD and to find God. These people that you see, here today, are right now in the middle of an LSD session. They are participating and celebrating their religious experience. This large house is the centre, during the winter, for our life and for our worship. Louis intercuts the interview with Leary with more scenes of his interview of the grieving boy's parents. Louis asks Leary to address the boy's death. Leary gives a kind of unsentimental reply that leaves Louis feeling disturbed and unsettled. Timothy Leary: "I share their grief and I would try to help them understand why and how this could have happened, in such a way that they might feel as proud of their son as he'd been an astronaut who had crashed, or someone who had fallen in a line of high spiritual duty." We now see clouds from an airplane window as Indian music fades in. We see shots of India, as Louis travels to the far side of the world to speak with the guru Meher Baba about what experience of Godhood is and whether a drug can give a person such an experience as Leary has claimed. Meher Baba tells Louis that real experience of Godhood is continuous, without any break in it, and does not require a drug. He says these experiences by the use of drugs are mere hallucinations, make people feel temporarily uplifted, but eventually lead to madness. The film cuts back to Millbrook, showing it in a more negative light than before, showing that Louis has seen through this illusion too now. People are passing around a bottle of cheap wine and look simply stoned, drunk and unwell, dancing carelessly. The voice over of Timothy Leary explains that he knows what Baba really says, but in expressing it, directly contradicts what we have just heard through Louis' going to meet Baba directly and asking him in person. From this point on Louis stops taking LSD, but adds that if it had not been for LSD he is sure he would have taken his life . . . like his mother and his grandfather. From here on out, the movie becomes very different. The pace is stepped up as the 60's are now in full swing. Avoiding the drug scene, Louis now intermingles with artists and intellectuals of the time, and puts on numerous exhibits of his own art. The film becomes at times surreal, as theme after theme is covered. Louis travels with his family to a lovely fishing village in Spain, where his daughter, now older, is serenaded by a Spanish singer in a restaurant. The sense of Spanish singing brings to mind Louis' mother who sang rural Spanish ballads. Much now becomes symbolically resolved. Louis sees a large turtle caught in the harbor on the beach in Spain surrounded by a large crowd. The turtle is picked up and carried, looking more like a crucifixion than a fishing scene. The turle is carried on its back on a plank heaved onto a man's shoulder, and through the camera we see the crowd following, upside-down, as if through the turtle's eyes. Louis follows the turtle to market, and bids on it and wins it. With his two older children Louis and Dominique, Louis hires a row boat to go back out into the harbor with the turtle and set it free. His son, wearing swimming goggles, dives in as the turtle is dropped overboard, and resurfaces to tell his father excitedly that he saw it swim away. Louis pulls his son into the boat and embraces him on both cheeks, both of them very happy, seemingly Louis having released himself from the haunt of the loss of his mother by suicide. It should be noted that this is exactly the kind of "hot Spanish harbor" mentioned near the beginning that as a boy his mother would send him postcards from in her travels. Louis is at a lavish and well-attended gala for an opening of his works of art. He has numerous exhibits. Marshall Mcluhan introduces an exhibition on New Style Painting in Toronto including sculpture and photography by Louis, explaining that life is taken to a new level of meaning through a new phase of art. Standing in an elevator for television cameras, Mcluhan says: "Painting now moves from representation to a direct encounter with the environment. And this involves a certain amount of violence. And the artist thereby helps us to a new discovery of identity by this means. When the new environment goes around the electric environment, goes around the old mechanical one, the old mechanical environment, the road, the car, the auto, these forms become art forms. Just as when satellites go around the planet, the planet itself becomes an art form, in fact ceases to be nature in the old sense at all. I now declare this exhibition open and I am going to move on to another level." Then the elevator door humorously closes on Mcluhan's face, implying he is 'going up' and leaving the crowd. Louis is driving on a deserted dirt road, and comes to a strange sight. A mountain has collapsed into the road, creating an impasse, implying the end of the road for Louis in some symbolic sense. Louis gets out of the car and stares at the wall with his sunglasses on, silently, as we hear the crickets. Next he is in an airplane in a parachute, still in the 60's, about to jump. The narration explains that about this time in 1969 his wife Jacqueline left him, taking their daughter Mardou, now five. The heartbreak, Louis explains in voice over, was so bad that he had no choice but to stop making the film. Only now, over four decades later, does he find that he has the courage to complete it. He jumps out in the parachute and lands upon the ground, the parachute blowing in the wind echoing his leap of courage and the refrain of the film, "There is No Plane for Zabreg." We see Louis at 90 again as we did at the beginning, still sitting in his editing room. He speaks directly to the camera: "You have looked at five years of my life . . . I shall spare you the other 85." He gives a wry old-man smile. As "Really and Sincerely" by the Bee Gees begins to play, we see Louis again as a young man, sitting in a train staring out the window at the blurring tracks. In closing, the film's script reads simply: Credits on train tracks. Last shot: From Gasteren looking out the window of a train. The rails lead their own lives with coupling and uncoupling. They go on alone or seek support from another track.
- DirectorJason BoritzStarsJulia EringerJosh MannSarah RochelleA biography on the life of Amy Winehouse.
- DirectorNicola MaiStarsTonia SotiropoulouMatthew CrowleyRebecca RootNormal follows the lives of 6 people working in the sex industry. Nicola Mai's groundbreaking form of storytelling explores their diverse experiences of exploitation and self-realization. Official Raindance Film Festival selection 2012.
- DirectorMichael KrauseStarsMichio Kaku
- DirectorJason KingStarsBeverle BlochJason KingAlicia MinshewWe follow the career of failed filmmaker, Jeigh Pressley as he humorously drinks himself to death.
- DirectorByron Q.StarsFeodor ChinChris Trouble DelfosseVanna FutVanna Fut, aka 'Lazy' was initiated into Tiny Raskal Gang at the age of 11. He takes us through his experiences in gang life, to becoming a pioneering break-dancer in Seattle during the 90's, to landing a role in a cult gangster-genre film. An inspirational story of a man's will to chase his dreams despite all odds.
- DirectorTara PirniaStarsLady GagaAshley PearsonRobertoAn unauthorized biography. In three short years, Lady Gaga has become the most famous recording artist and music personality in the world. With the recent release of her latest album, she has become the fastest selling digital artist in history and dominated the charts in more than 25 countries. Follow the story of this cultural icon as she takes the next steps towards world domination. Interviews include Reporter - Dan Wootton, Editor - Ashley Pearson, and Radio DJ - Roberto.
- DirectorStella TheodorakiStarsPeter RoseElias KostandakopoulosThanos AnastopoulosThe director creates a parallel of thirty years of her life (mid-1980s to 2012) and the evolution of her country, Greece. The loss of her lover, revived in archive photographs and 8 mm movies, is the background for her despair facing contemporaneous Greece, seen by her in the streets and viewed on television broadcasts from American and Russian channels.
- DirectorDavid CarterStarsJoe BrownKevin BrowningDavid Carter
- DirectorEleanor YuleStarsPhilip ArdaghFrank Cottrell BoyceEsther FreudThe life and work of Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsTom AllwintonNorma AtallahRoy BaronIn a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.
- DirectorSteve De RooverStarsEric GodonAbbas FasaeiManou KerstingInnocent Belgium is a roaring drama based on a true story, with a pinch of action and romance, drawn on the canvas of our multicultural society. The three very divers main protagonists each face their own set of challenges, which gives the audience a critical view on the current problems in the main capital of Belgium.
- DirectorTara PirniaStarsMark Lindsay ChapmanSteve Jobs was the modern day Thomas Edison! From his ground breaking i-phones, i-pads and i-pods to paternity issues and finding the sister he never knew, this program will delve into the life of one of the greatest innovators and geniuses of all time.
- DirectorBart PhillipsStarsMorris AbrahamByron AllenClarence AvantProfile of "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius.
- DirectorJim Lonely
- DirectorJon ErwinStarsKen DavisYou were born to live fully alive. With his trademark humor and engaging personal stories, Ken Davis shares his own journey from lethargic resignation to a new life of adventure, spiritual renewal, and health. See the snapshot that started it all, and the three hours of terror that changed Ken forever. Don't live in quiet desperation. Be inspired to live in the power of Christ's resurrection.
- DirectorMaya GallusStarsDeborah HayJordyn NegriSevern Thompson
- DirectorDominique LeebStarsLouis BozonPierre CardinMarlene DietrichDietrich spent the last 15 years of her life in seclusion in her Paris apartment. Friends and family discuss how she kept the legend intact.
- DirectorNick BaileyStarsTerry McConnaugheyMolly McDermidKendra NorthThe Killers In Connecticut is based on actual events. Two would be robbers follow a woman and her daughter home from the store. After dark they break in and what came next captured the worldwide medias attention due to the horrific murders of the family.
- DirectorClaire WaldingStarsDuchess of WindsorKathleen FeeWallis Simpson, an ambitious American, seduces the King of England who abdicates to pursue his love for this woman.
- In this one-woman play, international mezzo soprano Linn Maxwell embodies the extraordinary life of twelfth-century German prophetess, healer, and composer Hildegard of Bingen, who was canonized in 2012 and named a Doctor of the Church.
- DirectorScott BryceStarsKara BurgessDaniel SeigermanBased upon the true story of Sybil Ludington's ride to raise the militia during the American Revolution. In response to the British act of burning the town of Danbury, CT, Sybil heroically rode 40 miles in the rain, through rough terrain filled with British spies, brigands and thieves.
- DirectorTara PirniaAmy Winehouse's tremendous soulful vocal talent and songwriting ability cemented her as one of the most innovative artists of our time. Amy always had a passion for singing, encouraged by family she reached for her dreams. In celebration of a timeless entertainer, this program will chronicle Amy's life and career through the lens of music journalists, celebrity friends and renowned critics.
- DirectorMichael D. CaliaStarsDrew S. DaysJack GreenbergVernon JordanThe story of the late judge Constance Baker Motley, a New Haven, Connecticut native who worked as a lawyer with the Legal Defense Fund, argued ten cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and was appointed to the Federal bench by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
- DirectorTane McClureStarsBetty White
- DirectorMalik K. BuieStarsChris Brown
- DirectorJasna HribernikStarsUla FurlanPolona JuhAljosa Ternovsek
- DirectorRina ShermanVirtuoso Jazz Organist Rhoda Scott talks about her music and career as an organist, from her childhood in the USA to the Saint-Germain jazz clubs and the Olympia of Paris.
- DirectorCharlie McCarthyAn intimate profile of the distinguished writer.
- DirectorValerie LyonStarsJimmy ChisholmMichael MarraBlythe Duff
- DirectorCharles TetoniJohn D. BrainardStarsMarie CainTerrie Maxine FrankleHelen Reddy, writer of 'I am Woman!', writes ... 'Terrie Frankel is one of the most underrated songwriters in the US and I have loved her work for many years. Together with her late twin, Jennie, they wrote many wonderful songs as well as books and music for several productions.' Room Enough For Two - The Life of Dorothy Parker, written, produced and starring Terrie Frankel, is a 'tour de force' one woman musical tribute to the most celebrated, yet forgotten female humorist of the early 20th Century. In these challenging economic times, the story of Dorothy Parker, founder of the Algonquin Round Table, highest paid female screenwriter during the Depression, Black Listed in Hollywood, is relative and meaningful and an inspiration to women everywhere.
- DirectorNick Thomas-WebsterStarsTracy RedingtonNick Thomas-WebsterJulie GrantA move of past evidence to a new location seems to pass without hitch - but has it? Items are missing and who are the sinister men in black, housed in the white building with no windows. Could the mysterious death of a child years ago be linked to new tragedies or are they more in keeping with ancient crimes. What of the fallen detective and the man constantly haunting him. Is it for real or is it just in his memories?
- DirectorJoe G. LendersThis is the true story of Harry Beeman, Gunner's Mate First Class on board the USS Ellet during many historic battles. This is a compilation of memories from his front porch in the Midwest to the front lines of battle.
- DirectorRay NewmanStarsWhitney HoustonGrace WanIn this film we pay tribute to one of the most gripping rags to riches stories ever told. Whitney Elizabeth Houston first showed the vocal range and star quality that would soon make her a legend in music.
- DirectorSamantha PetersStarsMeera SyalClive DunnCarol Smillie
- DirectorMalga KubiakStarsAnToNieTaHanna ChawkiMalga KubiakThe life of Swiss icon Annemarie Schwarzenbach.
- DirectorLoy MaxonStarsRod LaverJohn McEnroe
- DirectorPaul EcksteinStarsFrances FisherSiedah GarrettJames RemarAmericans talk about how President Obama's crucial first term accomplishments personally affected them their lives.
- DirectorMarc EdwardsStarsRichard BurtonMali Harries
- DirectorMal HamiltonStarsKyle PortburyShane Winfield
- DirectorJan Xavier PacleStarsLeo MartinezJoyce SisonIsrael Gonzales MalabananFilled with love and a charitable heart, a young girl battles her illness secretly while trying to make a difference to the world around her.
- DirectorJimmy BustosRichard RoyStarsRichard Roy
- DirectorJosiah ThiesenStarsHeather SamsAaron WagnerDominick WagnerThe compelling true story of a family that said yes to adoption. Twenty years later all their seven children are telling their experiences of living in an adoptive family.
- DirectorDan AstStarsBelinda Gosbee