THE AURA OF UPSTATE

An animated film is built from real interviews in Upstate NY.

Remain Upright!!

A clerical worker endures another tedious afternoon with quiet desperation. But a trip to the bank where he encounters a surly teller pushes the mild-mannered clerk over the edge—his quiet desperation becomes the violent

First to 100 (or Once Upon a Time... at the Billiards Table)

A friendly game of billiards between two masters of the sport becomes an epic showdown of unexpected proportions.

Violet Lives Upstairs

By night, Violet receives secret phone calls from her landlord's son. By day, she struggles to make ends meet. She offers her landlord an innocent gift in exchange for rent.

Woe to the Vanquished – The Workers’ Uprising, 17 June 1953

“17 June 1990, East Berlin. The GDR will exist for another three months. No more time to commemorate all those who stood up in ’53, showed civil courage and were vanquished. This film is dedicated to them.” This is what

Once upon a time there was a girl...

This is a fairy tale about a girl who just lived and was, and about a boy who just lived and was. You may recognize yourself in these stories, but all coincidences with real people are accidental.

The Processing of Hops

The processing of hops

Once Upon a Time in Lithuania

Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania killed a proud and powerful Uro while hunting and then dreamt of a howling iron wolf. The pagan priest Lizdeika prophesied: "A capital will arise here, its power and beauty will be

Upside-Down Girl

Meet Emily: she's smart, attractive, talented, and has everything a girl could ever want. The only downside is that she's upside-down.

Upgrade

While hoping for an advanced prosthesis, Nina faces the limits of her device — a journey between human and technology, ending in groundbreaking surgery.

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Upending

Upending approaches the new medium of 3D in ways that Hollywood cannot conceive. The film has the viewers’ eyes probing the projected imagery almost as if touching its light, feeling for the illusory surfaces of things a

Light upon Light

A philosophical field trip from Cairo, along the Nile and into the desert in search for what light means as a religious concept in post-revolutionary Egypt.

Once Upon a Time In The Urinals...

A tale of absurd events taking place in the urinals.

Svenskarnas egen historia. Upplevelser från Värmland från 1906 till idag

The Ups and Downs of Harrison Kapoor

A young businessman hires a camera crew to follow him for a week in his life.

Twice Upon a Time

Niam Itani, a filmmaker and former child refugee herself, attempts to reconstruct, document, and even manufacture the meaning of childhood with 9-year-old Khalil, whose family fled Syria to the same small village where I

Once Upon a Sunday

The disappointment of youthful love, as the gritty realism of the early 1960s stands in stark contrast with the fantasies of the later 1960s.

Once Upon a Time in the Gay Village

Once upon a time in the Gay Village is a montage of photos and music telling the story of the founding of Le Parc de l’Espoir, the AIDS memorial park in the heart of Montreal’s Gay Village.

Upside Down

Inspired by the writings of the 13th century Indian poet Kabir, "Upside Down" shocks the audience from its torpor. Lost in a maze of contradictions, its characters search fro a way out... Death is befriended and the eter