Mental (2008)

En este desgarrador documental, una joven que prepara su tesis doctoral recurre a la cámara para dar visibilidad a su lucha diaria contra el síndrome de fatiga crónica.

Su ascenso fue un fenómeno global. Su caída fue un cruel deporte nacional. Personas cercanas a Britney Spears y abogados vinculados a su tutela ahora reevalúan su carrera mientras lucha contra su padre en la corte sobre quién debería controlar su vida.

Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in Crownsville, MD.

Three perspectives on loneliness, how it feels and how it can be survived: “If I could just dance with somebody once more.”

Conmovedor y conmovedor, TWO WAYS HOME sigue con compasión a Kathy (Tanna Frederick), una mujer recién diagnosticada con trastorno bipolar que sale de prisión por buen comportamiento y regresa a su casa de campo en Iowa para reconectarse con su hija de 12 años. hija (Rylie Behr) y su abuelo anciano cascarrabias (Tom Bower). Su regreso a casa es turbulento y una transición difícil y desagradable en la que Kathy debe aceptar su diagnóstico y sus implicaciones en su identidad, al tiempo que se da cuenta de que su familia era más feliz cuando ella se había ido. El conflicto con su familia se intensifica mientras ella lucha por mantener la cabeza fuera del agua, poniendo su autoestima y su bienestar a la prueba definitiva.

Las presiones de una senadora del Congreso de los EE.UU. convierten a la teniente Jordan O ́Neil en la primera mujer de una unidad de élite del ejército estadounidense. En el fondo, nadie espera que supere un régimen de entrenamiento severísimo que el sesenta por ciento de los reclutas masculinos no consiguen terminar. Sin embargo O ́Neil está dispuesta a demostrar que todo el mundo se equivoca.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. Charlie, estudiante de primer año en la escuela secundaria, es un marginado, alguien invisible que observa la vida desde sus márgenes, hasta que dos estudiantes de último año, Sam y su hermanastro Patrick, se convierten en sus mentores, ayudándole a descubrir las alegrías de la amistad, la música y el amor.

Después de que su hermano mayor fallece, Lee Chandler se ve forzado a regresar a casa para cuidar de su sobrino de 16 años de edad. Allí se ve obligado a lidiar con un pasado trágico que lo separó de su familia y la comunidad donde nació y se crió.

Cuando el reservado y solitario adolescente Fenix (Chase Hudson) conoce a la popular chica de instituto Scarlett (Sydney Sweeney), los dos crean un vínculo que marca el resto de su vida. Un drama musical con la música de Machine Gun Kelly.

Troy y su joven hijo transgénero Joe están huyendo de su madre conservadora en el desierto de Montana, con un detective en la persecución.

Elisabeth, una célebre actriz teatral, es hospitalizada tras perder la voz durante una representación de 'Electra'. Una doctora la somete a toda una serie de pruebas, y afirma que está sana y bien, pero ella sigue sin hablar y permanece en el pabellón. Alma, la enfermara encargada de cuidarla, intenta establecer una relación con ella y se dedica a hablarle todo el tiempo.

Kirsty Cotton ha crecido y ahora está casada con Trevor Gooden. El cual sufre un accidente grave de carretera del que es el único superviviente. En respuesta a este accidente, Trevor se encuentra en un universo extraño y próximo del infierno. El misterio se lo llevará poco a poco a Pinhead...

Bob es un oficinista gris, aburrido y tímido que siempre va con la cabeza gacha. Pero tras un hecho que ocurre en su lugar de trabajo, se convierte en un héroe. En un acto de furiosa violencia, aunque casi involuntario, salva la vida a Vanessa, la chica por la que suspiran todos en la oficina. A partir de este momento, los dos inician una relación peculiar, una que no está basada precisamente en el agradecimiento.

Fox Rich, matriarca indomable y abolicionista actual, se esfuerza por mantener unida a su familia mientras lucha por la liberación de su esposo encarcelado. Una historia de amor íntima, épica y poco convencional, filmada durante dos décadas.

Después de internar a su trastornado marido en un remoto hospital psiquiátrico, la editora de libros Helga Pato regresa a casa en tren, donde conoce a un hombre misterioso que dice ser psiquiatra.

While former paramedic Emily tries to live a low-key life to cope with her PTSD, her new roommate has other plans, and a long-held vendetta against medical personnel.

Cunningham Hall, la que fue en su día una respetada clínica psiquiátrica, es ahora una reliquia decadente con demasiados pacientes y muy poco presupuesto. Pero cuando un motivado y joven estudiante de medicina llamado Clark Stevens acepta entrar en el centro de salud mental como médico interno para conseguir graduarse, pronto se dará cuenta de que ha pasado a formar parte de la plantilla de un manicomio. Clark empieza pronto a preocuparse por las condiciones en que viven los pacientes, con horribles alucinaciones y tendecias suicidas. Pero Clark empieza a cuestionarse también su propia cordura cuando empieza a ver la inquietante figura de un joven, que parece querer advertirle de algo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Alex Anna’s body is a canvas: her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming.

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from what ME/CFS has been known as a mystery illness, delegated to the psychological realm, until now. A scientist in the only neuro immune institute in the world may have come up with the answer. An important human drama, plays out on the quest for the truth.

The class of a normal German school travel to a small village in Poland near the sea where no action of any kind can take place. Due to this fact they focus on themselves. Especially one girl, Isa, has to choose between two boys who are fighting against each other. Then a final "test" is made to come to a decision... a test with final results.

Un cirujano que ha perdido a su novia en el quirófano enloquece y decide asesinar a todos los estudiantes de medicina que pretenden especializarse en cirugía. No contento con ello, amputará igualmente las manos de sus víctimas, para que así no puedan dañar a su amada, a quien, en su delirio, cree con vida.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

A un mafioso recién salido de la cárcel, merced de algunas arreglos hechos por un capo local, le es encomendado de manera inmediata un atraco perfecto. Hacerse con el dinero recaudado en el hipódromo. El plan, bastante fácil en el papel, se ve pronto complicado cuando nada ocurre de la forma planeada y nuestro héroe descubre que sus servicios fueron contratados sólo para intentar asesinarlo posteriormente.

Año tras año, por un sin fin de ocho meses, miles de familias se mueven a un desierto en la India para extraer sal de la tierra ardiente.

The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.

Villagers in Turkey's Black Sea village of Camburnu struggle with the government's decision to turn their community into a garbage dump.

A series of 32 short scenes, uniformly set in West German instructional and training classes, that show various tasks among the citizenry being done solely as the result of exhaustive preparation - everything from women preparing to give birth, to strippers stripping, to policemen making arrests. Farocki uses the material to savagely dissect the West German mode of life. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

Paul Otlet was a Belgian, *1868, died 1944, who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

It is 1980. Sadatomo is at a secondary school in a small town. His parents barely take any notice of him. The strict teacher Kobayashi has hung up a 'humanity index' in the classroom, divided into the categories 'delinquents', 'scum' and 'people'. In each category he has hung name-cards of pupils. One day Kobayashi finds out that Sadatomo and his friends have stolen some things from a shop for fun. Their fathers are informed and as punishment, the children have to write a 'self-critical' essay of no less than thirty pages. For the first time, Sadatomo is beaten by his father. Shocked, he writes a piece entitled 'I am an onion', in which the teacher thinks he can detect a first sign of humanity. That is the start of a confusing situation in which it gets hard to distinguish lies, truth, justified self-criticism and opportunist wheeler dealing, even for the boys.

The film follows William, thirty-ish, out of work and looking for a new life after apparently having been thrown out of his previous one. He meets up with Noelle, who seems intrigued by his restlessness - until her economist boyfriend shows up. Yet plot details do little to convey the power of the film, which lay in its capturing the anarchic texture of William's life - a life whose lack of direction was read as a rebuke of the Swiss myth of orderliness and self-satisfaction. With his roots in documentary, Soutter excelled at creating a loose, vibrant cinema, full of quick zooms and dynamic hand-held shots, with dialogue that often alternated between outright quotations and stylized interviews.

Ivan Dunaev es granjero y se levanta temprano: tiene que alimentar a los cerdos, repasar la contabilidad, ocuparse de su tractor y cortar la carne que venderá en el mercado en su vieja furgoneta. Vive con su mujer, su hija adolescente y su hijo pequeño. Y caza...un mundo rutinario, hasta el día en que dos nuevas obreras aparecen en la granja: Lyuba y Raya, encarceladas en la colonia penitenciaria vecina. Y sin que Ivan se dé cuenta, su vida comenzará a cambiar. (FILMAFFINITY)

This tragic drama shows a young man fettered by Bushido, the way of the Samurai, who tried to escape the chains of his position, but was being forced to die. When the Tokugawa Shogunate ruled the land, Tatsuno castle in Wakisaka Clan's home of Harima held an established custom, the inspection of the arms warehouse. The Government Inspector Okuno Magodayu found a slight bit of dirt on the point of a spear and mentioned it with disdain. Ezaki Shinpachi heard it and started an argument with him. Magodayu then sent a a letter of challenge to him because he felt insulted by a low-ranking underling without a title. As it turned out Magodayu was killed. Since then, Shinpachi and the Okuno family have had continuous revenge duels. The tension mounts as this story builds to an extremely violent climax, when blood must pay for blood if the clan is to survive!

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.

Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter, Meral, in a tough Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough money together for their existence. Can is a small-time dealer and errand-boy for drug boss Hakan, who has to keep his customers supplied within his narrowly staked out territory. Jale, who works in the ware-house of a department store, has been pressing Can to give up this activity. Can, also fed up with his situation, sees a bright new beginning for himself and his family when Hakan offers him the prospective chance to run a bar on his very own. But Can has little control over the pressures that gradually begin to build up around him and soon finds himself floundering in quicksand.

A recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People's War: "shining trenches of combat". This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.

A presidential advisor discovers that the President has assembled a secret army of vigilantes to suppress dissent and is setting up concentration camps in which to imprison protestors, hippies and other "social undesirables."

A performance artist works tirelessly to fulfill her dream of adopting Sudanese twins, placing her marriage and career at risk in this documentary.