Asian Anal (2017)

Three short stories cover ground ranging from heartbreaking family drama to pitch-black comedy.

The Recruiter takes viewers to the Louisiana coast, where they witness firsthand Sergeant First Class Clay Usie’s struggle to enlist new soldiers into the U.S. Army in his hometown of Houma, LA. Sgt. Usie believes that every American should serve their country and he sets his sights on Lauren, Matt, Bobby, and Chris, four teenagers who think that the Army is the answer for them.

Cheryl, playing herself, humorously experiences the mysteries of lesbian dating in the '90s.

The 90-year-old mystery writer Lydia Walliser is suffering from writer’s block. Although she presents herself to the public as witty and cosmopolitan, her family bears the brunt of her more abhorrent traits. For Nick, her grandson whom she grudgingly accommodates for the weekend, it means: no mobile phone, no TV, no noise. Nick fears that these might be the worst days of his life. But then he notices strange things happening at the house next door and may have even witnessed a murder. When he and his grandmother begin to investigate, they embark on the adventure of the lives.

Like many Japanese Americans released from WWII internment camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of internment. From the exuberant recollections of a typical teenager, to the simmering rage of citizens forced to sign loyalty oaths, Omori renders a poetic and illuminating picture of a deeply troubling chapter in American history.

A faltering narrator attempts to recount a family holiday as memory — sparked by a found postcard, a family photo album, and footage from two distinct locations and spatio-temporalities (Toronto and Berlin) — summons forth a barrage of flickering images, creating psychic hiccups and firecrackers of recall.

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped their number one hit off the charts and caused fans to hate them, destroy their CD’s, and protest at their concerts. A film about freedom of speech gone out of control and the three girls lives that were forever changed by a small anti-Bush comment

Либерти Уоллас, жена международного дилера по торговле оружием, взята в заложницы обезумевшим отцом девочки, убитой из пистолета, проданного фирмой ее мужа. Если Либерти не выполнит все требования террориста, он взорвет бомбу в театре, где, помимо других людей, находится и ее муж. Героине приходится вступить в долгую и опасную игру с человеком, готовым на все.

Лилиан - эмоционально пренебрегаемая, но материально избалованная дочь знаменитого отца. В начале повествования, расставшись с бойфрендом, героиня перебирается в пустующую отцовскую квартиру, расположенную в Бруклине. Это особенный квартал, ведь здесь на каждом углу можно встретить какую-то знаменитость. Соседкой Лилиан становится Джулия Прайс – известная, опытная и молчаливая писательница. Она ведёт затворнический образ жизни, почти не общается с собственным мужем. Несмотря на это, с момента переезда героини писательница преображается. Изменения становятся ещё заметнее, когда между девушками устанавливается необычная переписка через записки в дневниках… В конечном счёте такой стиль общения настолько заинтриговывает саму Лилиан, что она решает снять документальный фильм о своей соседке!

Far away from any other urban centers, Itapuã is a small community with the characteristics and rituals of everyday life. The location, which sheltered 1,454 people and has more than 70 years of existence remains with only 35 residents all over the age of 60. No one likes to remember what the place was in the past, even though for many the memory is etched on their bodies.

Yael and Melissa met 7 year ago, while working as strippers in Japan. Yael an, Israeli photographer, filmed their blooming friendship. During the filming Melissa reviled the story of her abusive father, the story of her 3 abounded kids, and mostly her feeling of being lost in the world. In 2009 after meeting the film director Limor Pinhasov, they decided to travel to the USA and see how Melissa is doing today. Yael became a respected artist she married and seems to be well. In the USA we found Mellissa struggling one day at the time. The heart of this film is the powerful reunion of two courageous, sincere women.

A dispute of his parents infiltrates a boy' s dream world.

Анимационная лента канадского режиссера, представляющая на суд зрителей волнительную историю одного соседства. Немолодой музыкант репетирует номер для струнного квартета, а в это время соседка этажом выше готовится принять душ. Протекающая ванная, портящая жизнь обоим героям, неожиданным образом становится причиной спонтанной близости, возникшей между ними. «Струны» — небольшая бытовая зарисовка про обычных людей.

Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress Marie Menken. Using a hand-held camera, Menken captures Warhol and his assistants, including Gerard Malanga, as they work at the Factory. The result is an intimate portrait of the artist in the process of creating some of his most famous works, including the Brillo boxes, the Jackie series, and the Flowers silkscreens.

Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in Moorish architecture and in ancient Spanish tile. The date 1961 refers to the addition of Teiji Ito's soundtrack and its subsequent completion, but the film was likely shot in 1960 or earlier. - David Lewis

Director Karen Arthur's 1976 tale of a woman's mental breakdown stars Joan Hotchkis.

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Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the impossibility of terminating a mobile phone contract. With 5 months left to live, and paralyzed from the neck down by Motor Neurone Disease, he ponders how to communicate about his life in a letter for his baby son. How can he anticipate what he might want to know about his father in a future he can only imagine?

Marce, his wife Adriana, his two sons, Mario and Jacqueline, and groom it, Carmelo, are the only members of Aztlan Circus, who wanders through the villages of Texcoco, north of Mexico City. The tightrope is the history of resistance in this family that persists in taking forward an old-fashioned circus because she is convinced of the importance of his art.