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Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. Imagine a space where the time has frozen. The time's stopped and life's been stuck in a shape resembling the era of Soviet Union. Somehow, people got used to the reign of the secret police and the fear of being spied on. Soviet-style propaganda of the authoritative, power-based regime of the president Igor Smirnov turns most of the PMR residents into simple workmen, without any will to understand how unbearable their situation is.

"Cosplay" is the act of costume play, popularly seen from anime to comic conventions. See for yourself, a documentary covering its history in America, with many stories, many personalities, and the course it may take.

On September 17 2011, a worldwide social movement was born in New York City. This film documents who they are and what they protest.

Based on real life events of drug abuse.

A website where people can virtually live in a true democracy becomes so popular that its leading members take questionable actions to improve the real world as well. This backfires and various governments brand them terrorists.

Since the start of the crisis in Greece, a growing number of young unemployed Athenian are moving to the countryside, hoping to change their lives for the better. The film follows 35 year old Theodoris, as he settles on the remote island of Ikaria. There, he discovers a society with a unique culture of autonomy and cooperation, and a people who live not only better, but longer than everyone else in one of the world's few 'blue zones' where inhabitans enjoy extraordinary longevity. Director Nikos Dayandas goes in search of the Ikarian secret, discovering how the islanders' radically diferrent lives are increasingly relevant to us in times of economic and social upheaval.