Kashima Paradise

This 1973 French documentary explores the conflict between modern values and material comforts in Japan and the more traditional obligations (giri) and culture which are still the real backbone of the society. Among the

Block Island Summer Paradise

Cinéma Vérité Documentary on Block Island, the smallest town in the smallest state. Made in the mid-70s, the film provides a glimpse into the life of the unique island town.

Mutants in Paradise

A team of scientists create a pair of genetically modified "superbeings", but they must thwart Russian agents who are out to capture their creations.

Freedom Is Paradise

Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape

Return to Nature! The True Natural Method of Healing and Living and the True Salvation of the Soul: Paradise Regained—The Core of the Body—Water, Human Curative Power, Light, Air, Earth, Food, Fruit Culture

Strangers in paradise (trailer for a film that does not exist)

A man and a teenager live in a house in the middle of the woods. The idea of an impossible closeness.

In Our Paradise

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Indira dreams of elsewhere. In France, Mehdina strives to find her place. Whilst the adults seem to be fighting windmills, the kids grow up in a world of their own with ten-year-old Hasan blissfull

Aliwan Paradise

Mike De Leon's entry into the omnibus "Southern Winds" where he follows Julio Madiaga into the new world of Filipino Entertainment.

A Cloud Above Paradise

"A Cloud above paradise" is a presentation short feature film, which symbolizes eternal problems of human life. Its plot is developing on a background of the Chernobyl tragedy consequences. This movie received the prize

Una canzone per il paradiso

Artificial Paradise

Los Angeles in 1935. Fritz Lang receives in his hotel apartment the young film amateur Willy, who wants to prepare an interview with him. At a certain moment Lang starts relating how, as an army officer in the First Worl

The Expulsion from Paradise

A panorama of the full-blown chaos of the Ukrainian 1990s. Workers at the Berdyansk knitwear factory are holding a fashion show of their products on an Azov Sea beach, former collective farmers are catching camels in the

The Paradise We Are Looking For

San Diego has been called many things – including a paradise. It’s also a refugee city, a cluster of neighborhoods, a militarized zone, a border town. And Asian American. This collection of four short documentaries, comm

Artificial Paradise

A young man recounts the various paradises he has experienced throughout his life: altered states of being with substances; glue, hashish, LSD and heroin.

Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor

The political journey of Canadian photographer Elaine Brière from the villages of East Timor to the halls of the United Nations in an effort to find out Ottawa's rational for abandoning the tiny nation of East Timor to c

Paradise Road

The love story between a German prisoner of war and a British Army nurse, in an English prison camp in Rhodesia, during World War II.

Price of Paradise

Born on the remote Kalaupapa peninsula on Moloka‘i—once a forced isolation settlement for people with Hansen’s Disease—Lindamae was taken from her mother at birth and placed for adoption. Her story mirrors that of many c

One Man's Paradise

Meet Lewellyn James Henneberry: fisherman, yodeller, home-spun philosopher and creator of a very strange museum full of gaping shark jaws, nautical paraphernalia, model ships, and glittering, embalmed fish that might be

Fools' Paradise (lost?)

A filmmaker who late in life acquired an organic apple farm, Alexandra Lexton found herself searching for “stories of others who’d reconnected with nature in different ways, then brought their experiences in some meaning

The Stolen Paradise