Across the River
8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.
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8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.
Two people fall in love. A film that started as a documentary.
After ten years in prison for assault, Wei Deliang returns to his secluded village to find his father gravely ill. To make ends meet, he joins his father's grim job of retrieving bodies from the Yellow River. As they nav
A century ago, the people of the Mashco Piro fled deep into the Peruvian Amazon to escape the cruelty of colonialist rubber companies. They cut all contact with the outside world, entering an isolation they still haven't
During summer 1979, Ester moves to Alta in Northern Norway to begin teaching at an elementary school. Like many Sámi at the time, she is ashamed of her heritage and conceals her ethnicity. Ester goes to great lengths to
After a car accident, the parents died in the family. The younger brother miraculously survived and is now confined to a wheelchair. The elder feels guilty, but to no avail. He does not want to put up with the fact that
Two young men on the verge of adulthood confront their sexual identities in the shadow of the Confederacy, one hot summer day down at the river.
Front man Aaron has it all. The mates, the band, a girl - and cancer. When he meets someone new, only he can decide whether to rock until he drops or grow up to survive. Life and love. It's all going on, South of the Riv
An engineer is abducted from his Greenwich Village apartment by gangsters who believe he knows the location of a uranium mine. A young artist becomes involved with finding the man and unraveling the identity of the gang'
This illuminating film documents the largest radioactive waste spill in U.S. history - a national tragedy that received little attention. With the sound of a thunderclap, 94 million gallons of water contaminated with ura
A mysterious hacker finds a serial killer who has been targeting women, instead of turning over the evidence he takes matters into his own hands.
The River Twice is a feature documentary about a group of friends that build Huck Finn inspired junk rafts and set out for a month long trip along the Susquehanna River. But the river winds deep into the heart of Pennsyl
The film tells the story of people living at the confluence of the Neris and Šventoji rivers, in the village of Saleninkai, next to the Jonava chemical giant. As a result of the accident at the chemical plant, the villag
A young man is sitting next to a river and he starts fishing.
Ching is a voluptuous widow whose thre short marriages have each ended with her husbands dying due to unknown causes. To seek the truth, journalist Ho befriends Ching. Gradually Ho becomes addicted to the mysterious Chin
In a mining plant in Kosovo, as occurs in many work organizations across the country, workers continue to win new positions in the self-management. The former miner and fighter - now general manager of the factory - is o
In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Through their friendship the young girl learns about independence, honor, humility and respec
A family deals with the disease of sickle cell, in there youngest family member. In the midst of this trying time and prosperous time at moments, there are many other obstacles that come in to play, that test the very fo
Nine-year-old Milo lives in a remote Argentinian village where he studies the Malambo, a folk dance full of bravura. He is an excellent dancer, but Milo’s only desire is to escape the countryside on a train for the Bueno