A Room Nearby

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Prince's 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by seven years. Three separate versions of this film exist, which differ from one another in numerous ways. The first version features a carriage drawn by one horse, while in the second version the carriage is drawn by two horses, and there is no carriage at all in the third version. The clothing style is also different between the three versions, demonstrating the different seasons in which each was filmed. This film was made in the 35 mm format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and at a speed of 16 frames per second. At that rate, the 17 meters of film length provided a duration of 46 seconds, holding a total of 800 frames.

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

アルフレッド・モリーナが、ロスにやってきたスティーブ・クーガンに面会を切望。「今度休暇旅行にどう？　2人だけで」「自宅の電話番号を教えてくれよ」と迫るアルフレッドに、真意をつかめないスティーブは……。（『いとこ？』より）＜ジム・ジャームッシュ監督が18年に渡って撮りためたコーヒーとタバコをテーマにした短編映画集。11本のショート・フィルムに登場するのは、ケイト・ブランシェット、ビル・マーレイ、スティーブ・ブシェミ、ロベルト・ベニーニなど総勢24名。第3話目の『カリフォルニアのどこかで』はカンヌ映画祭短編部門のパルム・ドールを受賞している。監督ならではセンスのいい音楽とユーモアを最後まで楽しめる作品。＞

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated subway station in New York City.

男は馬肉屋の主人。妻は失踪し娘とふたりきり。 娘には体にいいからと馬肉をたべさせている毎日。父は娘を溺愛していた。 そんなある日、娘に初潮が訪れる。スカートの血のシミを見た父は、男に襲われたと逆上して若者を殺しにいってしまう……。＜フィリップ・ナオンとブランディーヌ・ルノワール主演。タイトルの「カルネ」とは馬肉のことで、その色と安さからフランスでは軽蔑的な意味が含まれている。血と肉欲をモチーフに暴力に満ちた世界を描いた衝撃作。ギャスパー・ノエの初長編映画。続編は1998年に制作された「カノン」＞

A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting.

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.

アル・パチーノ、ラッセル・クロウ共演の社会派ドラマ。実話を基に、ある大企業の隠蔽工作を告発する人間たちの葛藤を描く。報道局員役のパチーノと、告発者となるクロウの演技合戦が見もの。マイケル・マン監督。人気報道番組のプロデューサー、バーグマンのもとに匿名の書類が届けられる。それは、あるタバコメーカーの極秘ファイルだった。彼はその書類の意味を探るうち、ワイガンドという人物に行き当たるが・・・。

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who served as Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942 to 1945, and allow her to speak about her experiences. Junge sheds light on life in the Third Reich and the days leading up to Hitler's death in the famed bunker, where Junge recorded Hitler's last will and testament. Her gripping account is nothing short of mesmerizing.

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

Death as a global service provider? Unthinkable! So far Death has thought that too. But then his nephew Cedric had the crazy idea of founding the company AFTER LIFE while his uncle was away. This company takes over the craft of death with the latest technology and markets it worldwide.

The low budget film starring the young Bruce Campbell that influenced the Evil Dead films.

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire consequences.

When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversation with him about his work and publishing this in book form, he didn't imagine that more than four years would pass before Le Cinéma selon Hitchcock finally appeared in 1966. Not only in France but all over the world, Truffaut's Hitchcock interview developed over the years into a standard bible of film literature. In 1983, three years after Hitchcock's death, Truffaut decided to expand his by now legendary book to include a concluding chapter and have it published as the "Edition définitive". This film describes the genesis of the "Hitchbook" and throws light on the strange friendship between two completely different men. The centrepieces are the extracts from the original sound recordings of the interview with the voices of Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Helen Scott – recordings which have never been heard in public before.

CIA agent John Jessup lives a seemingly normal life in the busy capitol of Berlin. He is in one of CIA’s most important sleeper cells in Europe, but on his last mission in Italy, he made a terrible mistake, putting not only himself in danger, but also the very existence of the CIA in Europe. The past is now about to catch up with him…

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.