Documentary

While looking for the cast for another unfinished project, a director discovers his ideal actor, a boy at a baker’s shop. By the time he goes to hire the young boy for his film, the shopkeeper has fired him. What ensues is a search for the homeless child and, along the way, the discovery of his solitude, his survival techniques, and the mental and physical state of surrounding adults and children. When the director finally finds his actor, the young adolescent seems to need serious medical care.The film gives the public a view of the Iranian medical system; once again the inadequacies of the social system and its contradictions are highlighted. Jalili also elaborates on generosity, once a sacred notion, individual responsibility and human limitations. Seen as criticism of the current medical system, the film was withheld for three years and only released in 1998.A True Story has found its moving actor and a life story worth discovering, but the film unintentionally dragged Jalili towards the realm of melodrama. Of this film, Godard said ‘A True Story may turn out to be a film that is not made very well, but it will always be ahead of the art.’Read More »

The second short film by Alexei Balabanov, shot at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio in 1989. He tells about the formation of the legends of Sverdlovsk rock – guitarist Yegor Belkin and singer Nastya Poleva.
In essence, “Nastya and Egor” is a logical continuation of the film “Before, it was a different time.”Read More »

British Bus driver’s amateur stage show of Ridley Scott’s Alien, accidentally makes it to a famous London theatre! With awkward acting and special effects requiring more luck than judgement, will their homemade homage be alright on the night ?Read More »

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Three film diaries of Taylor Mead, a superstar of underground film. Includes: My Home Movies (1964), Home Movies Rome/Florence/Venice/Greece (1965), and Home Movies/N.Y.C. to San Diego (1968).Read More »

There’s a moment in Bob Burnett and Alan Jones’s film about Keith Rowe, What Is Man and What Is Guitar? where Rowe is spending time with Christian Wolff and reminiscing about times they played together. Wolff tells a story about a show he played with AMM where his guitar wasn’t plugged in, but he played anyway. “You don’t know what you hear, who’s making the sounds – especially when it’s dark,” he goes on smiling, “It’s a wonderful kind of feeling … Am I doing that? Are you doing that?”Read More »

Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a travelogue of experience, a dreamer’s journey through the lives, experiences, stories and musings of protagonists spanning ten countries and five continents.Read More »

Mariko Miyagi was an actress who had also written screenplays, produced, and directed films. She was also the director of Nemunoki Gakuen, a school for disabled children – the first ever such school in Japan. The school was founded by Miyagi in Shizuoka Perfecture in April 1968 using her own money. At Nemunoki, children and young adults with physical, intellectual or familial difficulties are gently encouraged to discover and develop their talents through such activities as painting, music, tea ceremony and dancing. The Silk Tree Ballad was the first in a series of documentaries, initially distributed by the ATG.Read More »

Plot(s): A documentary project about what the filmmakers claim to be the greatest, unfulfilled dream of Polish cinema, the 1970s science fiction epic “On the Silver Globe”.Read More »

This documentary chronicles the life of Helen Keller.

Helen Keller is a blind and a deaf girl. Her parents hired a tutor named Anne Sullivan. The first word that she spelled using sign language is W-A-T-E-R. Some of the schools where she studied is Radcliffe University. When she died they built the Helen Keller International.Read More »