On Cloud 9

A sprite in a blue pinafore, plimsolls, and white facemask flits through Hong Kong, enclosed in a quicksilver bubble of magic. Streets become the dull, slow backdrop to her vividness. Oblivious to storefronts and curious stares, seeing only the yellow lines and the cracks in the pavement, she snakes and two-steps around seams and lines without loss of élan, chanting spells that shade into vague sounds. “Step on a line, break the devil’s spine, Step on a crack, break the devil’s back, Step in a ditch, your mother’s nose will itch, But if you step in between, everything will be keen!” By igniting her route with meaning, she briefly wrests public space from the commercial values this city lives by.

The story of the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps and their 2000-mile bicycle journey from Montana to St. Louis in 1897.

Using their Edison camera, the Corricks filmed Sports at Sea during their return trip to Australia on the White Star Line’s S.S. Runic following their international tour. The film features the family and other passengers enjoying various on-board entertainments, including staged wrestling matches, blind boxing, and a costume parade.

A Soundie with Diana Del Rio.

Featuring full-body tattoos, pinky amputations and Hawaiian shirts, The Yakuza Papers display the signature style of Japan’s criminal underworld. In this FilmStruck Original, Tokyo-based investigative reporter Jake Adelstein explains the customs and traditions of the Japanese mob.

This film is from a body of work that gives a textual and archival response to and documentation of perpetual discrepancies - between living and deceased, public and private, physical and virtual - found in moments of contemporary mourning.

Set in the eighties, the film tells the macabre story of Victor, a troubled young man with a terrible secret he needs to get off his chest. His only confidant? A sex crazed Psychiatrist hellbent on seducing him.

In late 2003, two filmmakers from the Sundance award-winning Guerrilla News Network spent three weeks on the frontlines of the simmering guerrilla war in Iraq, gathering intelligence, dodging bullets, and capturing the untold stories of what has become the world's most covered, and misunderstood, conflict. BattleGround is an irreverent journey that will challenge the orthodoxies of Left and Right, and highlight the humanity of all sides of the conflict. BattleGround will be a critical film for anyone who wants to understand the powerful forces that are sucking America deeper and deeper into a Middle Eastern quagmire. Is Iraq our generation's "Bright Shining Lie," or is it the frontline in a global battle for national survival? Or is to some combination of both?

Built in 1929, this atmospheric theatre has overcome debt, foreclosure, fire and bankruptcy. It is a working theater: shows, movies, music, broadcast and opera all look and sound wonderful in its fanciful and spectacular environment, financed, preserved and restored by generations of theater lovers. Meet the people who make it prosper.

A portrait of Bouda, a 30-year-old young dancer, clandestine for life, a victim of the so-called "double punishment" law who, upon leaving prison, expels children from immigration to countries of origin.

The construction of a dam on the Euphrates River is an example of a country’s economic development. Through grandly composed images, rhythmic editing, and aestheticized details, the director demonstrates his admiration for the interwar avant-garde. The film is a celebration of the new, while at the same time showing a traditional way of life and calling attention to working conditions; it is a refrain-like evocation of an arid country that explores the difficult lot of Syria’s rural inhabitants.

50 years on from the moon landings, researchers worldwide are working towards an ambitious goal: a permanent research station on the moon. This documentary gives an overview of the most recent progress in lunar research. Could man survive on the moon?

Steeped in the isolation of suburban Tasmania, Imogen and Audrey reflect on their lives, families and dreams between puffs on bongs, vapes and cigs. Dark clouds approach in the conversation and landscape as local wildlife looks on indifferently. Beyond the drugs and arcades, what possible routes of escape remain?

This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the time a satellite of Moscow. The very rich oil deposits of the region aroused the covetousness of Hitler who needed the oil from Baku to carry out his program of world domination. His entire campaign of 1942-1943 was aimed at seizing them. But the Soviets and the Allies were determined to prevent him from doing so, by all means, including the most radical, even if it meant wiping the city off the map.

Deeyah Khan examines the alarming erosion of reproductive rights in the US. Featuring powerful accounts from activists fighting for - and against - women's right to choose.

PROGRESS Wrestling makes their debut in Newcastle with title matches and contenderships on the line.

One night, nine children from the same Tunisian village attempt the deadly crossing. Like a poem or a prayer, this film welcomes the words of bereaved mothers and gives dignity to their grief.

After spending Midsummer in the archipelago, life will never be the same for the Eerola family.

Two friends drive through Beirut, remembering a mutual friend they have lost.