Године 2012 - 497

Dennis Wheatley biographer Phil Baker provides a brief history of author nearly 80 book career, covers the whole of Wheatley’s contentious relationship with Hammer studios, including his displeasure with The Lost Continent (1968) and his utter loathing of To the Devil a Daughter (1976). The feature is a examination of one of horror fiction’s influential voices and paints a picture that informs both The Devil Rides Out and Hammer’s occult output in their latter years.

SCREEN FLICKER re-stages the flatness of the computer screen, in direct opposition to the tunnels of cyberspace. Screens naturally flicker, at a rate too quick for our eyes to perceive but one that can be captured by a camera. This video confuses the medium of the computer screen with that of film, employing the classic avant-garde film strategy of flicker.

Every major social problem that plagues our nation today can be traced back to one root cause: Fatherlessness. For instance, 71% of pregnant teenagers live in a fatherless home. Additionally, 85% of young men in prison grew up without a dad. They are not stats, they are desperate for stability. From small town American to the heart of New York City, 'Becoming Sons & Daughters' tells the stories of people who are stepping into the lives of fatherless kids. Through adoption, mentoring, and simply paying attention, these men and women are planting hope and security. They are giving kids a future and helping them become sons and daughters.

Across Africa, people are using soccer to lift themselves up, to create change in their communities and to pave the way for progress. "The Beautiful Game" follows several unforgettable Africans who are beating the odds on and off the pitch.

Four women weather sexual complications in this spicy comedy/drama. Talk-show host Helga grapples with her boyfriend’s mysterious celibacy; baby-craving Szilvi is a reluctant swinger; uptight Flora suspects her husband of seeing a hooker; and Vera’s mate doesn’t know about the sperm donor.

October 2008, as Congress contemplates a 700 billion dollar bailout for the banks, a Wall Street broker must quickly decide where to allocate his money before closing bell.

For the minister's son, Brandon, this is a summer of awakening and acceptance of his homosexuality. For his father, this is a challenge to his roots in the bible.

Ryuichi runs a small Japanese company "I Want To Cheer You Up Ltd" operating it from his mobile phone and his laptop. He rents out people: family members, friends, colleagues or others, to help other people hide their secrets and make their life look better of just ...perfectly normal. On the surface Ryuichi has an ordinary family life. He is 44 years old, married and father of two (always video-gaming) boys, and he has an ordinary 9 to 5 job. However Ryuchi is most happy and thriving when he is at work impersonating as someone else's family. His own family has no knowledge of this and he therefore lives a double life himself. Will Ryuchi succeed in maintaining his secret or will he realize that helping others, requires the courage to help himself and expose his secret double life to his family?

El Foso is a film about the musicians playing in the Opera Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, about their lives and their passions.

Céline premieres the songs from her highly-anticipated French album "Sans Attendre" on this epic TV special hosted by Julie Snyder.

Legendary underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez and his friends -- cartoonists Robert Crumb and Jay Kinney and cultural critic Susie Bright -- discuss Spain's art and his life as an outlaw biker, '60s figure and social satirist.

Part of the deluxe edition of Break It Yourself 2012. Here's What Happened is a documentary and behind-the-music visit to the studio barn where it was recorded.

In no particular time and space, a family fabricates goat cheese. The mother and the daughter pretend to sell the cheese in a lonely road, but they are really selling their bodies. They leave the hard worked cheese to decay in a pile of dirt and rot. The mother encounters existential desperation when the daughter departs with a costumer and the father prefers the company of the goats.

Taking the form of an experimental portrait, 'Celestial' explores the poetry of the sky, a space of fascination and contemplation.

A television film based on the short story by Mahasweta Devi.

Maneuvers in the Dark is the story of how three young Swedish entrepreneurs manage to sneak through the backdoor of North Korea in an attempt to produce jeans in the country, and of the spiraling repercussions that follow as they begin to trade with the worlds most sealed dictatorship.

A group of down and out-of-luck men decide to make a film starring Ronnie Lazaro, the most sought-after indie actor in the Philippines. Things get complicated when Lazaro decides to beg off from acting on their supposed "indie film" and they are forced to abduct the actor.

Couples after twelve years of life have now come to some sort of homogeneity in life.