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Chronicles the life of openly gay 1930s film actor William Haines, who sacrificed his Hollywood fame when he refused to end his relationship with another man.

Photographer Erich Lessing documented contemporary history with his pictures. His photograph of Leopold Figl standing on the balcony of the Belvedere palace presenting the signed Austrian State Treaty in May 1955 has been forever etched in Austria's collective memory. Lessing, a member of the legendary photographic agency Magnum, is one of the most important photojournalists of the post-war era: His pictures of the Hungarian Revolution are contemporary documents that are as artistic as his portraits of European politicians, such as Konrad Adenauer and Nikita Khrushchev. In The Photographer in Front of the Camera, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel accompany the still very active 90-year old and take the time to focus on the details - as Lessing believes artistic photography must. Small gestures and brief glimpses give the film a special charm, such as when the great photographer, when tying his tie, laments that the Windsor knot has gone out of fashion, and the fact that he preserves his analogue photographs in a digital archive. Good photography inspires us to continue reflecting on it, states Lessing. Similarly, The Photographer in Front of the Camera invites its audience to view the works of this extraordinary artist in a new light as well.

This is the first ever documentary about Russian minimalist composers. The portraits of four composers - Vladimir Martynov, Anton Batagov, Pavel Karmanov, Sergei Zagny - the new classics of Russian contemporary music. Their discussions about post-Soviet Russia, about the decline of Russian culture, about the consumption-based civilization and its primitive values. This film is an attempt to see modern world with these composers' eyes, to hear it with their ears. It is much more difficult to be a composer in the 21st Century than Centuries ago. Is it really possible to be heard today?

Five high schoolers share their stories of being bullied on Facebook, AskFM, Instagram, and YouTube.