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A feature-length essay pushes a boundary between documentary and narrative film forms. A filmmaker's personal journey to reconnect with her sister, a successful potter living in the ruins of Fukushima is interlocked with her spiritual quest of bridging east and west, feminine and masculine and shadow and light in her mind.

In the nearly half century after World War II in Hungary the communist dictatorship applied every possible means to persecute Christian churches. Hundreds of innocent priests and monks were imprisoned; others were roped in the network as agents of the State Security Services. The documentary is an authentic, valid and emotional testimony about the victims and the traitors of this era. Cathartic destinies and dramatic events of the past are recalled through the memories of the survivors, reports of state security agents and conversations tapped by the secret services. Contemporary newsreels, extract from private diaries, previously unknown documents, reports of secret agents, observation photos of the State Security Services and short reconstruction scenes evoke this historical period. The structure of the film based parallel on the memories of the victims and the reports of the agents of the secret police. The memories of the witnesses of the era and the documents are built organically into the intensive visual world of the film. Dynamic camera movements, steadicam-, aerial- and cinejib-shots present the stations in the lives of confessors and traitors: the scenes of prisons, court rooms, monasteries and secret ordinations.

An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.

Islamic exorcism or psychiatric medication? 'Descending with Angels' is a research-based film, which presents us with two highly different solutions to the same problem: namely Danish Muslims who are possessed by invisible spirits, called jinn.

Dahling Nick is a docu-drama exploring the life and works of National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin, who only accepted the National Artist Award on the condition that the Marcos administration release a well-known writer who was being unjustly detained during Martial Law.

At a 2005 Carnival night, something mysterious happens at Porto Formoso bay, leaving the fishing boats wrecked. Fishermen decide to build bigger boats, but at the small village harbor it is impossible to deck them. They demand the construction of a new harbor, but many inhabitants are opposed due to a Castle ruins that lay there. If to some residents ruins look worthless, for others they are the village soul and future, as a lot of tourists would like to visit them...While the landscape transforms, we follow the Director voice through the story of the last seven years of this community.