All Films

An invitation to travel, one of the main themes of Lemaître, and a genuine manifestation of film Lettrism

Touring Issey Miyake's design studio and factory as well as spotlighting his garments on the runway, this program presents a total look at one of the world's leading fashion designers. Half innovation, half invention, Issey's use of pleats and twists has opened up a whole new world of possibilities in fabric by exploiting texture and wrinkles. The process of folding and twisting the fabrics by hand, then baking them, is captured on film. Miyake talks about his background, training, and some of his favorite projects, such as designing costumes for William Forsythe's Frankfurt Ballet and outfits for Lithuania's 1992 Olympic team.

While playing Basketball, 12-year-old Nader and 8-year-old Samer rip the chair of their dead brother. Fearing their mother's anger, they throw it in the bin.

In the history of Islam, love between men is a centuries-old phenomenon. Yet Koranic tradition forbids choosing a mate of the same sex. Kyriell, an Imam's son, struggled with reconciling his love for men with his love for Islam and eventually came back to the faith. Pakistani-born Arslan saw no compromise in Islam and discarded his religion, and Iftekar, a Muslim community leader, admits that Islam needs to be brought into the twenty-first century. Through the words of these men, the struggle of gay Muslims is revealed.

Uno takes place far in the future, when human civilization fell back to the most primitive level.

A lumberman gets in trouble when he is going to chop a Christmas tree.

Combines static 16mm historical photographs of the famous Winchester house, drawings, and laborious digital manipulation to convey a psychological portrait of the famous San Jose landmark. Accompanied by a moody soundtrack, the piece opens with a black-and-white shot of the architectural facade. Superimposed over the house, the silhouette of a gunfighter fills the frame, alluding to the Winchester legacy. As the film unfolds, both mansion and rifleman are eclipsed by veils of saturated color and kinetic abstractions. Painterly shapes resembling gunshot wounds morph into Rorschach–like inkblots and back again into rifle–bearing specters.

A young gay man fights to bring his boyfriend to the prom. After the local catholic school board denies him permission, he must pursue his rights in the Ontario Courts system.

The Song of the Dead: In the year 553, General Bai Lan lead her army against Sun Law and was trapped in an evil spell by their wizard. Almost 1500 years later, a singer named Wei Lai and her producer Wing Man begin practicing in a deserted studio. Wing Man discovers among the old papers an unfinished song, and begins to compose an ending. Meanwhile, Wei Lai keeps seeing a female ghost draped in red. As the song nears completion, Wing Man begins to transform into another being, and Wei Lai's actions are becoming even more bizarre. But what is the meaning behind these transformations and their connection to this still unfinished song?

Documentary about the historic exhibition released in São Paulo, 1922, that revolutioned the arts in Brazil.

To the Land of Bliss is an intimate portrayal of the Chinese Pure Land Buddhist way of dying and living. In 1998, the filmmaker/anthropologist Wen-jie Qin returned to her home region in Sichuan Province in southwest China to research the post-Mao revival of Buddhism. During her fieldwork on the sacred mountain Emei, an eminent monk named Jue Chang passed away. People in the community laughed and cried at the departure of their beloved teacher. They gathered to escort his body through a rite of fire and to observe his consciousness rise to a paradise known as the Land of Bliss of Amita Buddha. The filmmaker captured some of the wonders and mystery from her search with these Chinese Pure Land Buddhists for the door to Amita Buddha, the Buddha of Infinite Light and Infinite Life.

F.I.R.T 119 is a tribute to the Earth's Southmost railway in Argentina. The austere image, under the strong impulse of the piano score, captures the intensity of sooty coal trains.

Award-winning cut-out animation making a full statement on bravado by using two empty words. Available in full at -- https://youtu.be/zJiyvyskYmQ

Adapted from Gertrude Stein by Elizabeth Lennard & Danielle Mémoire, music by Marc-Olivier Dupin.

What would you do if you found out Earth is threatened by an alien race sleeping for the last 70 years?

MY KINGDOM FOR A LULLABY # 4 Basic musical material such as feedback, various sound spectrums, etc. and a live performance of »visual music,» translated into digital images.

Fast moving abstract film in two halves, gathering together Super-8 fragments and off-cuts shot over several years. The images include fairground lights and neon signs-- Images bleached, hand-coloured and edited into a frenetic collage.

Inspired by a photograph taken by a French soldier in the early 1900s of a ‘lingchi’ execution, Chen created a high-impact film that reconstructed this brutal form of punishment for criminals who had committed heinous crimes in feudal China. Lingchi – Echoes of a Historical Photograph opens with the gruesome execution of a condemned man in extreme slow motion. The crowd of witnesses eagerly await to collect blood and pieces of skin. Chen interweaves the event with images of the ruins of the Summer Palace after the second Opium War (1860), and also with remnants of abandoned factories and suffering workers. While the recurrent appearance of the haunting black wounds on the condemned man’s chest connects history with the present, it is also a provocative yet cruel metaphor for the cultural and political hegemony from imperialism to the current global context. Chen’s film opens a dialogue with viewers on the ruthless and barbaric events that happen in contemporary society.

"Her again??? But, well, it's out of my body like no heroin for a year. And their inner lights fade into TV monitor with no signal at all. And my ep spins endless." (Stom Sogo, 2002 NYUFF program notes)

STILL FRAMES is a laboratory film, conceived while I was finishing SARABAN. Indeed the two films were produced from the same images. The aim was not only to prove that the same source of image can generate two different films but also to highlight the incidence of light on color.

What is reality? Who defines it? Evolving Minds offers a fresh and radical perspective on alternatives to the mental health system. Presenting clear information in a humorous style it covers diverse topics such as shamanism, nutrition, psychotherapy, meditation and protest against draconian mental health legislation.

In this vignette from the first Conversations Wit De Churen series, Nina's mother refuses to let Nina and Misha borrow her car. Linzy explores the precariously triangular nature of female friendship—as epitomized by the modern conference call.

The Irish Tenor Trio perform 'A Classic Christmas Tale.' Peter Stanford, Dean MacRae and David Bacon make up The Irish Tenor Trio. Set on a backdrop of enchanting Christmas scenes and stunning Irish landscapes, the performance includes Christmas songs such as 'The First Noel,' 'Silent Night,' 'Amazing Grace,' 'When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,' 'Jingle Bells,' 'Away In A Manger' and many more. Directed by Spyros Melaris, Recorded at Waterfall Studios

In 1955 archeologist Juan Leonard, went on an expedition to a remote region in the Mexican state of Chiapas, to film the Lacandon Indians.