Teenage Daydream: In Vain

"Blood seeps through lace bandages around her wrists while McQuilkin carefully and contemplatively applies a thick rim of greasy black eyeliner." - Ana Finel Honigman via Artnet

Is My Living In Vain

Is My Living in Vain is a meditation on the continuing history and emancipatory potential of the Black church as a space of belonging, affirmation and community organising. Combining shot footage, oral histories and arch

But Not in Vain

Farmer Jan Alting, who has disowned his son for collaborating with the nazis, provides shelter for a Jewish couple, a wanted communist and a rebel aristocrat. When his son returns, Jan is faced with the stark moral choi

Work in Vain Song Ci

During the Song Dynasty, Song Ci came to Changting County to take up a post, and focused on the study of autopsy in order to write the “Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified.” One night, a man and a women died at the sa

A Port in Vain

No, or the Vain Glory of Command

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his fellow soldiers while they march through an African colony in revolt d

A Love in Vain

Yeong-ah falls in love with Hyeong-jun after picking his pocket and the two have a child together. However, his justifiably suspicious wife in Hong Kong begins having Hyeong-jun followed. Yeong-ah kills the private eye b

The Vain Parlor Maid

A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, thus revealing her

To Make a Film Just to Meet Vera

To Make a Film Just to Meet Vera (2021) is an experimental documentary about an encounter between two women, media artist Pinja Valja and model Vera Ruuska. As a child, Pinja dreamt of becoming a princess when she grows

It Was Not In Vain

Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backwards residents at first resent Buzančić's new-fangled methods. Gradually, he proves his worth and wins their confidence.

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They Hate Me in Vain

Based around longform interviews, including with some of Russia's most well-known LGBT activists, the film presents one of the most extensive looks to date into the lives and testimonies of ordinary members from any part

We Have Not Lived in Vain

This film is about the protest through the eyes of LGBT + activists from Belarus - Olya, Zhenya and Sveta tell what it is like to be LGBT + people and fight for equal rights in the country where the revolution is taking

the unbearable crying of vain belief

Glimpses of memory. The ceaseless torment. Life. Death. Melancholy.

This World, Iraq: Did My Son Die in Vain?

The father of an RAF reservist killed in Basra in 2007 travels to the Iraqi city to discover the impact of the war and the subsequent occupation on ordinary Iraqis.

NO PAIN IN VAIN - The Shocking Life of Steve-O

Drug abuse, family issues, a failed clown career and a desperate craving for immortality have shaped Steve-O's story arc into a wildly inspiring tale of love's triumph over death.

It Wasn't in Vain. It Was in Staten Island

This documentary short takes a look at the last video store in Staten Island.

Don’t Take the Name of God in Vain

In the year 2046, a powerful gang lord assembles a group of religious leaders, demanding to know what it takes to be a true messiah. Meanwhile, lying imprisoned in a garage somewhere nearby is a man who claims to be the

Author of "Unknown Soldier", Väinö Linna

Portrait of writer Väinö Linna. The program was completed in 1955, written by Nils-Börje Stormbom and read by Carl-Erik Creutz.

The Diary of Vaino Vahing

When love is the greatest torment, will art or play save you? A dramatic documentary about author Vaino Vahing.