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Asian American lesbians and gays have been largely invisible in Christian churches. Some Asian American churches silence the issue for fear of division and conflict. Other Asian American church leaders have condemned homosexuality and publicly protested against same-sex marriage. Yet lesbian and gay Asian Americans and their families worship and serve in churches every day. Where are their voices? This honest and thought-provoking film tells a story that the church needs to hear: that of Asian American Christian lesbian and gay people, their pastors, and their parents.

This unique take on the life of the traveling surfer combines high-performance surfing by some of the world’s best surfers with stunning cinematography. More than just an action-packed surf movie, Under the Radar digs deep into what accompanies the countless barrels by revealing the cultures, colors and customs behind the great waves. shortboard

The eerie tale of a musical theater writer with a mania for doll collecting who conspires with his wanna b-movie actress aunt for a one-of-a-kind baby doll.

This feature-length documentary lifts the veil on the mystery surrounding rain machines and the legends surrounding them. The making of rain has always fascinated. In Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, these machines fuel daily conversations. Some deny their existence and mock those who believe in them. Others have theories, each more original than the next.

As you leave behind the Pacific coast and penetrate deep into the Amazonian jungle, crossing into the Andes, you come across: healers, vegetalists, shamans... old men with knowledge of their traditions and of our times. Free, hospitable and very graceful, they agree to show you their most highly valued treasures. What does a healing represent? Land and art intertwine through the mountain range and the jungle in this adventure packed with intimate goes beyond the known to the unknown aspects of being.

"Xi Hai City" of male leading role is a looming demolition in the villages of the youth of the world confusion about the future, he wandered around every corner, in the village from the lock the door when you leave, to go to the toilet, to meet others, to buy breakfast, until get to the sea met a woman finally clashed with her and tried to a relationship, finally dull left, alone quietly walked into the sea.

Cheng Sanhe, the first "Kanu" who successfully filed for bankruptcy in Taiwan, went from being inexplicably indebted at the beginning to realizing that he had already owed millions of debts. The bank's collection and the finance company used threats and intimidation to collect debts. Sanhe has since fallen into the hell of "using cards to raise cards". Taiwan’s first "card god" Yang Huiru, who successfully profited from banks with bonus points, used the loopholes in bank bonuses to successfully connect relatives and friends to purchase tickets or shopping station goods by swiping cards, and then use online auctions to earn the difference. Earning millions in the bank, the bank stopped using credit cards. Yang Huiru, who has also experienced personal pain, persuaded the card slaves to face reality: "Hurry up and cut off the card! Because the interest is too heavy, don’t think about borrowing another cash card to pay off the card debt. It’s getting deeper and deeper."

In Ouagadougou, Konomba Traoré, master balafonist, introduces his son to the making and sanctification of a balafon. Material is transformed, knowledge is transmitted and ancestors are informed thanks to this extraordinary character. Konomba is authoritative, funny and passionate all at the same time. The film gives to see and to understand phenomena pertaining to the intangible cultural heritage as conceived by Unesco. Konomba Traoré is Living Human Treasure of Burkina Faso.

Short film.

So-ra, Min-ju and Woong are playing hide and seek but Woong is nowhere to be found. So-ra and Min-ju go to Woong’s house to look for him but the adults stop them. Unable to understand the actions of the adults, So-ra spends the night with Woong left alone in a dark room. The director approaches social problems such as the breaking up of a family, poverty and alienation in a mystery/horror form with children as the main characters.

An ice skater falls during training and his future flashes horribly before his eyes.

A short presentation of the artistic work of a brilliant animator.

A short animation in which full-length avatars play a chat drama in the world of net games.

Recorded videos that are said to be posted by the general public. Segments include; "Dolls", "Touge", "Shrine", "Night view", "Snowy road", "Armored helmet" and "Kannon statue".

A lot of experiences, memories, emotions, events of life have gone in life. After every sense, every experience, every memory has gone, what happened to a mind? I want to consider the primitive mind that always exist as a shadow. I thought I could just see the mind if I try to turn around my body more carefully. I found the mind through the light which is core of everything. Even if passing very fast most of all, the light existed continuously, having trace of the all events. I'd like to talk about the light flow. I newly met a flow, a texture, a boundary of light that film could be contained through printing. During the process, I also explored light flow as disappearing and changing things.

A woman lying on the beach, her body subjected to the tide of the black and white film material and the lust of the material which grabs her, hides her and usurps her like some substitute object, a representation of the suppressed.

Dionysos-the-wine-master, son of Zeus and a simple mortal, half man, and half god, neither man nor god, all at once mortal and immortal, opens us to a world where identities are not obvious and times not linear.

In the busy streets of Bamako, a young woman, about 25 years old, repairs generators. Engaged to be married, Ra does "a man's job" and supervises a crew of teenage boys. Ra gives much importance to social relationships - she participates in the Tontines organized by the young woman of her district and wrecked generators from her shop are recovered and transformed into crockery and kitchen utensils. On Ra's wedding day, the presents given to her include gifts made from her recovered generators.

To have conversation with Mr. Mouse, daily life has to be selected and excluded. To disclose dirty and nasty things in society that is full of germs through twisted amateurish imagination. To reveal humane symptoms like romantic evilness, contempt and fear as pessimistic weakness and thoughts on death. These aim at Mr. Mouse in the form of excluded body movements, deconstructed sentences, irony and witticism. As I attained a victory from them, I decided to be a guardian of toilet myself.

elesyn 15.625 goes back to the fundaments of electronic sound and image synthesis—the electromagnetic signals, their frequencies, amplitudes which are the basis for colours, lines, tone pitch, movement and dynamics. Moving images and music are generated by "simple" forms of signal routing like acoustical and optical feedback, radio waves, bended circuits. The result is a very colourful - in the visual as well as in the the aural sense of the meaning - diorama of "electric synaesthesia" or the idea thereof.

Set in the city of Ahlen, in Germany, “My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar”, imitates an amateur’s film of the landscape framed at sunset. While the city strip is prerecorded the sky is captured in real time from a webcam shooting the sky of Naples (Italy) at sunset and as such, always changing.

In reality or in madness, a dollmaker creates two marionettes in an amateur semi-surrealist animation short.

"This is a weird scene that was floating about a BBS and apparently causing psychotic reactions in some people who watched it with high quality headphones. There seems to be a variety of audio frequencies in use, primarily 17Hz and 19Hz, and the garbled speech could be from anywhere."