Maryte Kavaliauskas

This documentary shows a rare and intimate portrait of Hockney's private passion –- designing for the opera stage.

Three sectors of American society hit by recession in the mid-1980s: heartland farms, factory workers out of a job, and the new homeless. In Minnesota, 250 family farms are being repossesed each week; men and women talk about their farms, the nature of their bank loans, the onslaught of corporate farming, and their sorrow and despair. In cities where 3,500 jobs per day go overseas, unemployed workers contemplate their options. The newly homeless talk about the jobs they've lost, "Justice Ville" in Los Angeles (bulldozed by court order), and squatting in New York's abandoned buildings. A family living in a welfare hotel tells their story.

A short by and about Wim Wenders -- his life, work, thoughts, America, cinema.

Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály believed that music could be taught to children as readily as reading. The method he developed uses a child's own natural instrument, the voice. Beginning with simple musical intervals, the child progresses from folk tunes and children's songs to the complex notes and rhythms of composed music--from Bye baby bunting to Bach. [The film] is a look at the Kodály method of music training in public elementary schools in San Jose, California, and West Hartford, Connecticut. Ordinary children are shown in the film, but they exhibit extraordinary self-confidence, discipline, concentration, and an eagerness to learn. There is no such thing as failure in a Kodály classroom; in fact, the children are able to correct their mistakes themselves. Moreover, the children will bring much of 'how' they learn in their music lessons--counting and problem-solving, left-to-right progression, following directions--to their study of reading, writing and arithmetic.

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.

뉴욕에서 활동하는 무명 사진작가 수잔은 작은 집에서 룸메이트 애니와 함께 살고 있다. 다툴 때도 있지만 둘은 사이 좋게 즐거운 시간을 보내며 살아간다. 그런데 애니가 연애를 시작하면서 수잔은 혼자 있는 시간이 많아진다. 일과 사람들과의 관계 속에서 외로움을 느끼는 수잔은 삶의 다양한 순간과 마주친다. (2019년 제14회 시네마테크의 친구들 영화제)

함부르크에서 사는 액자공 조나단 짐머맨은 자신이 불치의 병에 걸린 시한부 인생이라는 사실을 정체가 분명하지 않은 미국인 미술품 브로커 리플리로부터 듣게 된다. 리플리는 짐머맨에게 요구를 들어주면 아내와 아들에게 유산으로 물려줄 수 있는 거액을 준다고 약속한다. 리플리의 제안에 따르기로한 짐머맨은 지시대로 파리의 지하철에서 한 사내를 죽이고,음모와 우연과 모험이 뒤얽힌 세계로 빠져든다.