Ríos y mareas (2001)

Margaret MacNeil es una joven marginal que vive en un pueblo de mineros en Nueva Escocia, en el límite de la civilización. Margaret cosechó durante su vida su odio a las minas, las cuales mataron a su padre y a su hermano, amargando para siempre la vida de su madre. Pero la vida de Margaret se transforma cuando se enamora de Neil, un corpulento y alcohólico minero.

Donald Campbell (Kiefer Sutherland) vive en un remoto pueblecito pesquero canadiense. Está en un momento vital decisivo, en plena adolescencia, y deberá enfrentarse a la dura realidad: la muerte de su hermano, un primer y traumático encuentro con el sexo, la hipocresía y la violencia de los adultos...

A Nova Scotian woman falls into a violently abusive relationship with a disgusting man, finally taking drastic measures to get rid of him forever.

Glimpses of Nova Scotia, from Halifax to Digby. The off-screen narration cites history, tradition, the contributions of Scottish and French immigrants, the strategic importance of Nova Scotia's coast, each village's churches, the stained glass windows at St. John's in Lunenburg, the Acadians' annual apple crop, Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal), a history of wars between France and England, and the tides of the Bay of Fundy.

This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stimulated by a week-long session held by a panel of specialists from different fields who met with members of this urban community to consider the future of the area and the responsibility of the citizens and government in planning the future.

This Traveltalk series entry visits the easternmost area of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. We learn that although the island was originally settled by the French, most of the island's inhabitants are of Scottish descent. We are also told that the main industries of the island are agriculture, fishing, and mining. After a look at Bras d'Or Lake, we visit the village of Baddeck. Near there is the grave of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. The last stop is the industrial city of Sydney, home of steel plants, foundries, and coal mines.

Each pixel is separated like an exploded screen, set in a chaotic way into the space. The video has a whole movement in the room, as one three dimensional image. The experience resembles the brain, working with electromagnetic waves and low voltage information.

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.

Animation by Ginko Abe. Music by Abhijeet Tambe.

The Handley Page Halifax four-engined heavy bomber was the unsung hero of Bomber Command during the Second World War. It flew over 39,000 sorties over enemy territory, towed gliders, dropped agents, carried cargo, and pioneered electronic warfare. In all 6,178 were built. Today only three remain.

2 Small Channel Video Installation, featuring a monologue excerpted from an untitled novel by Alissa Bennett

An installation containing video files of the artist's persona, alongside a karaoke piece of her as she watches her viewership fall and two mirrors side by side of messages she received, from two different users online.

Peter and Chris, two young American friends in their late 20s, go from South Dakota to California on a scooter, and as they travel across the American landscape they see their country through different eyes, ranging from Peter's cynically nihilistic point of view, to Chris' high expectations and romantic notions of the United States.

Captures the exciting movement of Spiritual Activism that is exploding around the planet, and the powerful personalities who are igniting it.

Documental sobre el excéntrico comediante Frank Sidebottom, conocido por llevar siempre puesta una cabeza creada con papel maché y cuya verdadera identidad no se supo hasta algún tiempo después de haber fallecido. La película "Frank", estrenada en 2014 y producida por Magnolia Pictures, estaba basada en su personaje.

R.I.P Rest in Pieces is an intimate portrait of artist Joe Coleman, who is known around the world as a shamanic, moral voice diagnosing the ills of 21st century America. Coleman holds nothing back, telling us of a world wracked with tumorous cities, perversion, divorce, violence, atomic bombs, and a human race destroying itself simply because we are born.

Después de que Jennifer Laude, una mujer transexual filipina, fuera asesinada brutalmente a manos de un marine estadounidense, tres mujeres cercanas a ella se involucran en el caso para que se haga justicia.

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.

A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woman appears through the mirror and gives her a pair of Red Shoes. The cursed shoes dance beautifully, but endlessly. The singer is drawn irresistibly into the fey world beyond the mirror, where she must redeem three magic symbols from the mysterious woman in order to obtain release from the cursed shoes.

Documentary on Jean Dominique, Haitian radio personality and human rights activist.

A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.

El rico y anciano patriarca Thordur reúne a sus dispersos herederos en su remoto pueblo pesquero islandés para hablar sobre el futuro de la pesca familiar. Pero unir a todos desencadena una tormenta de oscuros secretos familiares reprimidos durante mucho tiempo.

A recovering alcoholic and recently converted Mormon, Arthur "Killer" Kane, of the rock band The New York Dolls, is given a chance at reuniting with his band after 30 years.

Un matrimonio desgastado por el paso de los años, el desamor de un marido insensible y agresivo, la falta de hijos y una práctica irracional y enfermiza de la religión son los pilares que sostienen la atormentada vida de Gregoria, pese al intento de escapar de ella al amparo de una Providencia que parece indiferente a su dolor.

Adaptación cinematográfica de la excelente novela de Mario Vargas Llosa. Santo Domingo (República Dominicana), 1992. Urania Cabral (Isabella Rossellini) regresa a su ciudad natal. Apenas reconoce al viejo calvo y desdentado que yace en su lecho, mudo e inmóvil, casi inerte. Es su padre, Agustín Cabral, alias "Cerebrito", Presidente del Senado y mano derecha del dictador Rafael Trujillo durante muchos, muchos años. Hasta que cayó en desgracia. Pero de aquello ha pasado mucho tiempo. Todo ello lo recuerda Urania, a través de su ingenua mirada infantil. Se lo cuenta a su tía y a sus primas, que no entienden por qué Uranita ha estado tanto tiempo sin venir a verlos, a ellas y a su propio padre

In Echigo in Japan the snow often lies several feet deep well into May covering landscape and villages. Over the centuries the inhabitants have organised their lives accordingly. In order to record their very distinctive forms of everyday life, their festivals and religious rituals Ulrike Ottinger journeyed to the mythical snow country – accompanied by two Kabuki performers. Taking the parts of the students Takeo and Mako they follow in the footsteps of Bokushi Suzuki who in the mid-19th century wrote his remarkable book “Snow Country Tales”.

Unable to have kids, Nick an ex-con and Maryann a hard core christian, resort to the extreme to become parents. They kidnap a woman going in for an abortion and force her to have her baby for them.

A victim of personal and financial failure, Tony long ago gave up his dreams of singing and performance. But now, even his day job has disappeared, prompting in Tony feelings of self-loathing and worthlessness. Desperate, Tony is prepared to sink to crime to pay his bills, but he finds himself incompetent at even that. Withering under the gaze of the meth dealer, Art, Tony is now a completely broken man: robbed, lifethreatened and miserable. He makes his last gamble and loses it all. However, just at the moment his life becomes a complete nightmare, his friend Jerry is there to guide Tony back.

Where Buffy leaves off, Avia Richards the vampire huntress begins. Avia wages a tireless one-woman war against the evil demons hidden among us who live to feed on the next unsuspecting victim. Armed only with a samurai sword, Avia dauntlessly hunts down the bloodsuckers, putting her life on the line in a daily do-or-die battle. But Avia's personal demons often seem to cast a longer shadow than the monstrous foes she fights.

A story about unrequited love, focused on a lonely scientist who toils away in a sperm bank.

Documentary about Svetlana Geier, a Ukranian who has translated the great works of Dostoyevsky into German. First her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps, then young Svetlana herself experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev. She is good and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.

A girl grieving the horrific loss of her parents moves in with relatives, who try their best to welcome her into the family.