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Tonio’s favorite cat, Celso, disappears days before his graduation.

Documentary about Swedish singer-songwriter Ted Gärdestad. He wrote numerous hits in the 1970s and up to his death in 1997. In this program artists remember Ted as does his text writing brother Kenneth and Ted's daughter Sara Zacharias.

Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu, who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother, who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him trigger something in Varpu and mother's life, making them realize their role in each other's lives, and in the world.

Frederick Baer spent over a decade on death row in Indiana State Prison. He is still waiting for his death penalty to be executed. Hand-drawn animated Documentary about a murderers time on death row and the conflicts about his guilt and destiny.

The film shows the dissolution of the community called family which in Chinese characters mean eating mouths(shik-gu) using the concepts of broadcasting of eating or cooking which are trending nowadays. The sparkling idea of realizing the tastes and styles of 'home meal' is brilliant. The family members of business man father, housewife mother, and student daughter use their fantasies as their own recipes for their 'home meals'.

Singer Khiet Dan is the concubine of millionaire Nguyen in Da Lat city, they have a son in common. One day, Thu, the elder wife, informed Khiet Dan that Nguyen had died suddenly.

Crystal Lake is about a group of young girls who take over a skate park, forming an all-female force field on the half pipe. There on the reclaimed ramp, with no boys around, they are thriving and visible. This is an anthem for young feminists, which presents female friendship as a means to survive adolescence.

One evening, at the bend of an alley, an ordinary man surprises two young people who have just committed a crime. In panic, the teenagers take this witness hostage and drag him into their escape. Then begins for two generations that everything separates, an inner journey which will mark the three souls forever.

Paula Rom and her family live in the suburb of a small city - happily and approved by society. Their average and inconspicuous life changes totally, when her 15 years old son shoots ten of his classmates and kills himself afterwards. From that day nothing is how it used to be. The whole family has to struggle with the anger and sorrow of the people around them. They need to deal with the assassination and the circumstances, how it could come to the disaster out of nowhere.

Aspiring writer Ki-hwan has a small secret about his left nipple, but he doesn’t have the courage to tell his girlfriend Eui-jung. One day while over at Eui-jung’s place, he ends up finding out about her secret.

A pregnant widow moves into a seaside villa along with her daughter, mother and sister. Strange incidents happen in the house, which scare them. Will they be able to tackle this mess?

An ex-communist terrorist tries to fit in in today's society after getting out of jail. He meets with a group of young anti-Wall Street anarchists and falls in love with a mysterious young woman.

Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires. Nor any truck.

Aditya and Anjali are a couple who are in love with each other. However, due to certain problems, they break up and Aditya calls for a breakup party with his friends. During the party, a crazy incident occurs that changes the course of Aditya's life. The rest of the story is how Aditya manages to come out of this crazy situation and gets his life back on track.

The life and career of Marcia Nasatir, the first female president of United Artists.

The brutally honest story of Robert's turbulent relationship with a self-destructive, yet charismatic friend from childhood, who cries out for help from a military hospital in China and sets Rob on a wild ride to get him home to Vancouver.

A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children tells the inspiring story of Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, a man with a singular, unwavering focus — to eliminate the diseases of children. From his poverty-stricken youth on the plains of Montana, he came to prevent pandemic flu, develop the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, and invent the first-ever vaccine against human cancer.

Obesity is a disease that is spreading rapidly throughout the world, in both rich and poor countries. We used to think a high fat diet was to blame. In fact, refined sugar is linked to many preventable illnesses from childhood dental problems to diabetes, liver problems, stroke, heart attack, impaired brain function and obesity. This film argues that sugar is at the root of a global health crisis.

A short film Sho Miyake made with Shizuka Ishibashi for AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING.