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A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the customs officer. Short film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, as part of the Montreal vu par... anthology.

In the first post-war years, Kostya, an orphanage from the Urals, goes to Odessa to visit his aunt.

A woman, blocked by three men, cannot make the right decision.

A mysterious relationship between a boy and a stone drawn by a 16-year-old high school director

Time goes by; the past powerfully remains as a memory in the present. The film is expressively visualized as a psychological description of the tormenting present haunted by the memory of the past. It is an act of incantation to expel the frozen memory and to escape from the melting past.

A Silence. Two deer. Mother and child. Curiosity and the World. Being and responding. Love and courage. A gesture. Alone in the woods inside an imperfect image. A film of three shots. A passing.

Roland, a young father, decided to climb a famous mountain gap whose name he bears, in the company of his wife and two teenage children.

Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges for the car to be taken to a nearby garage. Georges' friends, who were with him in the car, have continued their journeys. Because of that, Serge takes Georges under his wings while he waits for his car to be repaired, and they tour the countryside and party with the local revelers. Nothing much is said between them, but it is clear that they have become friends

Marika has terminal cancer, with a stomach full of tumors. It’s been 10 months since she was told she has two months to live. Her first goal was to finish the season of Game of Thrones, then to make it to her next birthday. Now at her 50th birthday celebrations, easy discussion revolves around what her next goal might be, and whether or not she should have an open coffin at her funeral. The atmosphere is the opposite of morose, as everyone is laughing and at ease.

This ambitious documentary turns up the volume on long-silent voices lurking beneath the surface of the Latin hip-hop underground, revealing the origins of a genre that still has to fight to be heard. Highlights include a behind-the-scenes look at the artists' creative process, plus candid interviews with stars who share stories about making it in the business -- from Mellow Man Ace and Capone to Delinquent Habits and Psycho Realm.

A short experimental 35mm film showing beggars, hobos and other misfits.

Life as a labyrinth. An elevator ride were lives, sounds and memories cross... The path is more important than the destination.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Qi, the son of Zhongliang, guarded a crumbling pass in the middle of the desert and declared his place "refuge". Various forces gathered here to achieve a strange balance. One day, Geng Zhong, a general of the Han army, arrives and breaks the rules of the refuge, and from then on, Liu Qi is pushed by a series of events to make a series of choices about death, family, friendship, love, family and country.

The main characters - the arrogant, harassed director, the sexy starlet, or naïve actors are familiar enough stereotypes. Along the way however, there is some fun to be had as more humorous incidents occur on the sound stage, together with dashes of nudity. Some of the events are presumably inspired by real life experiences, others have a distinct air of wishful fabrication. The over-the-top Kung Fu star, deserted by director and crew as he goes through his pointless extended routine, for instance. Or the action heroes, sweating in furs while they dutifully munch through their meal scene, 'snow' falling outside in studio land.

Tokutaro is an orphan child who becomes a street candy vendor. He sells candies, humming a song he learned long ago from his mother. One day he met with thieves along the way and this encounter changes their lives in ways they cannot imagine.

In a small town in Sweden, twenty-something Nicolas meets up with some friends for some bowling after work. In the bowing alley he sees someone whom he has not seen for a long time. A film about courage and coming to terms with the past, about chances one once had and never took, chances that, deep inside, one wishes one could have again.

Debut film by Hiroshi Shimizu.