The Last Rites

When Wei Ming’s beloved adoptive grandmother Saroja dies days before his wedding, he is torn between grief and tradition, fighting to perform her last rites despite cultural objections.

Damned Rites

Ellie, Harvey and Hollis are struggling paranormal investigators. who expect to find nothing out of the ordinary on their final case. They soon realize how unprepared they are when evil spirits show up to torment them an

Rites of Spring

Folk Horror as a film genre explores the power of ritual, stories passed down through generations and long forgotten. Taking sanitised modern life and peeling back the mask to expose the dirt, the earth, our connection t

Rites et jeux : marionnettes d'orient et d'occident

Documentary directed by Philippe Genty, based on footage shot in various countries during his Alexander Expedition, carried out as part of UNESCO’s Major Project Orient–Occident. The film presents a variety of puppet sty

First Rites

A mafia family becomes the target of dirty cops during a mob war.

The Gold Minus

The documentary “Tambang Emas Ra Ritek” tells the story of why the people of Trenggalek don’t need a gold mine. The film captures the stories of Trenggalek people at various gold mining concession sites, from the mountai

Rites of Spring

Christian Orthodox tradition and travelling theatre troupes with their pagan roots are two seemingly opposite worlds, both mysterious and enchanting to the author.

Visitation Rites

Alone in an Oklahoma motel room with a mute companion, the talkative one speaks the language of memory as pussycats feast from a canned cornucopia. Murals plaster the vacancy intrinsic to American angst as horse tails wh

Why Does the Sea Laugh?

I went to Tunisia and Algeria to collect songs and popular stories of the Revolution of Independence, on the trail of a family memory and the vinyl record of the Italian anarchist group Cantacronache “Canti della Rivoluz

Rites of Blood

A teenage girl engaged in a demonic rite to accomplish an ancient practice to resurrect the king of darkness. It is then that is created in the Helsinki area a vampire .

Birth Rites

Birth Rites documents Julia Lauder giving birth at home surrounded by her family. Her film focuses on women’s agency during homebirth in contrast to some women’s experiences in a hospital setting. It shows the value of p

The Rites of When

The Last Rites

A silent film depicting the ship-breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh, a final destination for ships too old to ply the oceans. Every year, hundreds of ships are sent to these yards. And every year, thousands of peop

Girls' Puberty Rites

Ethnographic short.

Surface Rites

A young Slovakian immigrant opens a uranium mine near Elliot Lake in northern Ontario, and later builds a massive replica of the modest church from his childhood village. Stranded amongst suburban streets named after pri

Lee Ritenour: RIT Special - Steps Ahead Live in Tokyo

This sixth volume of the DOUBLE TIME JAZZ COLLECTION presents a pair of concerts from two of the biggest names in jazz fusion. Recorded in California in 1984, LEE RITENOUR - RIT SPECIAL finds guitarist Lee Ritenour perfo

The Kalasha: Rites of Spring

The Kalasha are a tribal people, 3,000 strong, who live in the high valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The Kalasha are unique as a pagan people in this Islamic Republic.

Last Pagan Rites

Description Bronius Kutavičius’s oratorio about mythical Baltic history comes to life in unorthodox meanings and metamorphoses in the most recent work of video artist Rimas Sakalauskas. The artist implores participants

Rites of Spring

An experimental documentary that takes world-building to an entirely new level, Rites of Spring showcases fragments of Iran’s history before, during, and after the Revolution of 1979. It begins with scenes of daily life,

Blood Rites: Inside Scars of Dracula

Behind the scenes documentary for 'Scars of Dracula'