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Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter

The author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure recounts her long history with Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter (1974), which is effectively illegal to screen in the UK due to staged scenes of the titular blood sport.

Mask or Foe

Take a walk through the neighborhood to the forest with the "boy" as he's emerged into autumn vibes of fallen leaves and Halloween decor. But what happens when an ominous man in a mask approaches him in the woods?

Different Trains

The documentary traces the whereabouts of the KGB agent Anatoli Golitsyn using few short audio recordings owned by the filmmaker's father.

What Should We Have Done?

In 1983, the director’s 24-year-old sister developed symptoms of schizophrenia. Her parents couldn’t accept it—refusing to seek treatment for their sick child, they confined her to their house, to the point of even fixing a padlock on the front door to lock her in. Her younger brother, suspicious of his parents’ actions, began filming the family in an effort to openly question them. A family conflict that lasted over twenty years.

The Lost Album of the SS

In 2016, an album containing 250 previously unseen photos of Nazi officials was discovered in the USA by Stephan Hördler, a prominent Holocaust historian, who immediately understood the album's inestimable value. The album brings together photographs of a "group of friends," all from the same region of Germany, all of whom became SS men. From 1928 to 1943, the photo album allows us to follow their journey. Hördler conducted the investigation, comparing the photos in the album with other, better-known ones, the faces of these men with those of concentration camp officials, and ultimately revealed that it was at Lichtencburg that these young men were trained, a "school" for future camp executioners, and the bonds of camaraderie and informal network that would allow them to help each other, even after the war.

STRoNG, aussi forts que fragiles

Discover STRoNG, as strong as they are fragile, a new documentary which takes a modest look at mental health and depression in high-level sport through the testimonies of surfer Jérémy Florès, swimmer Camille Lacourt, skier Perrine Laffont, handball player Valentin Porte and fencer Ysaora Thibus.

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The Devil's Music

A group of friends on a weekend getaway are caught between a hulking serial killer and one of their own possessed by a recording of an ancient ritual.

For My Son

The most far spot of Iran desert. 'Habib o-llah Qolami', a poor and old farmer looses his young son in a car accident. Habib after his son's death takes a big decision. He spends all his has for making a medical help station in the road and gifts it to Red Crescent. From now no one dies of car accident.

Alone

A college student seeks help from his friend after encountering a horrific and mentally challenging vision

American Zombie

Documents the daily lives of a small community of the living deceased who make their home in Los Angeles.

Yellow Dragon's Village

Ordinary college students dropped by a strange village on the way to their camp. Persuaded by a seemingly friendly villager to stay over, but brutal killings start to occur in the following morning.

Mensonges Blancs

An investigator pays a young couple a visit after the brutal deaths of their family.

Born to Be

Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.

Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects

A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is Yasuyuki Inoue along with various crew members who crafted meticulously detailed miniatures and risked life and limb as suit actors. All done to bring to life some of film's most iconic monsters through a distinct Japanese artform.

Dead Bait

Lisa is fried in the heat of the sun. She is sick, miserable and out of water, but finds a lake to cool down in. A local sports-fisherman spies on her, but when Lisa drowns, he is stuck with a blond, naked "dead bait". What to do then?

The Last Function

Four friends decide to investigate an old entertainment warehouse without knowing that this curiosity will end up turning them into the worst of nightmares.

O Refúgio

Rabbit Trap

When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.

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