The Light That Failed

How to stay a professional but human being? How to live when someone’s pain is a routine? Every day surgeons fight for someone’s life! Sometimes realizing the hopelessness of the situation.

Experimental film, Polke plays Polke, Christof Kohlhöfer is behind the camera. Together, the artists present abstruse scenarios and breathe a secret life into everyday things with anarchic humour and subversive magic.

Ironically, a killer with experience and a faint-hearted student find themselves in the same apartment where the triple murder had just happened. Heroes are firmly linked by ridiculous circumstances, and now they have only time, which is too short to deal with each other and, more importantly, in themselves...

Filmmaker Jan Willem van Dam made a film in Georgia, following the Revolution of the Roses in 2003, on the borderline of fiction and documentary. The film is based on 'the life and dreams' of Nini Sardlishvili, a sixteen-year-old Georgian girl. Nini tells about her life and dreams, speaks with two elderly women about past and future and walks among the ruins of a huge, burnt-out Soviet archive. She plays herself in the film, just like the other protagonist, Domestic Intelligence agent Gocha Ovashvili. He travels across the country in response to a remarkable appeal by a Georgian minister (appearing in a newscast), to ask people if they are criminals. During this futile and absurd quest, he meets mainly aged Georgians, including a shepherd and two monks, and admires the scenery.

Ingmar Licht collects messages from a bygone era. Shopping lists, letters or ads which people put in books and then forgot about. The senders of these bookmarks are long gone because the literature comes from estates that the relatives wanted to get rid of. Ingmar Licht sells these books. This has become his job after almost anything in life went wrong. Alcohol, bankruptcy, looking in trash cans for returnable bottles. He tried to hide for a long time, but that's different now. "Seen in the light" is a film about seeing and being seen. Ingmar Licht observes the lives of others with an alert eye, just as he explores the stories behind the notes, the postcards or newspaper clippings, he discovers in the old books. - He wants to show himself, despite and because of his story.

Inspired by the US paper “Gay Sunshine”, in April of 1978 appeared in Brazil – during the dictatorship – the newspaper “O Lampião”, depicting the point of view of gays on various issues, including sexuality. A group of journalists and writers from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo joined the project, fueling a publication that paved the way for the press at the time, addressing controversial issues at the period, such as racism, abortion, drugs and prostitution.

The story of the transformational Maximilien Robespierre is of a man fueled by a burning passion for revolutionary ideals that eventually engulfed him in their flames.

The Ultraman Kids are a lovable bunch of outer space kids on a quest through the galaxy to find their leader Mar’s missing parents. Along the way they have fun and adventures and even learn a thing or two! Mar is the leader of the Ultraman Kids. He’s a curious fun-loving little boy with a taste for adventure and a talent for mischief. Pico is a bright clever girl, capable of anything the Ultra Boys can do. Tar is the strongest of the Ultraman Kids. Unfortunately he’s somewhat lacking in brain power. Sebu is the Ultraman Kids’ resident scientific genius. He’s complete, concise and well-organized, the exact opposite of Mar. Pigco is a lovable, squeezable creature and a fine friend to all the Ultraman Kids. Pigco is always seen together with little Midori. Sometimes it seems as if the two of them are two parts of one strange creature. Varu is the self-proclaimed head of the monster crew. He’s conceited, short tempered and determined to spoil the Kids’ fun.

A visial contribution of the students of the Department of Animation to the centenary of world cinematography.

A being that has only bodily existence, an object used to satisfy needs and desires. On the screen, Lúcia preserves only a distant look that hides screams, fears and explosions. She is always ostracized and silenced by the sexist society that at no time considers her opinion and desires. Lucia is the woman's silent report associated with a role or function without the right to be, to think or to express opinions.

Zen priest Ittetsu Nemoto lost an uncle and two friends to suicide. It left him with deep emotional scars, and he decided to start an online support group for people with suicidal thoughts. Nowadays, he receives them in person at his temple... Each painful story paints an intriguing picture of what life on the edge can look like. Together, the portraits form a quiet plea for a broader view on the treatment of suicidal behavior.

The starting point for "Luz, Clarão, Fulgor" was a black and white photo from the Portuguese Alentejo region, which showed the ruins of the anarchist "Commune of Light" founded by António Gonçalves Correia in 1917 - who subsequently founded a second commune, “Comuna Clarão” (Blaze Commune), in 1926 in Albarraque, Sintra. From the remnants of these social utopias "Luz, Clarão, Fulgor" wants create a radical new movement; starting with the term "Fulgor" coined by the Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol, which describes the emergence of sudden changes of perspective as well as fundamentally new findings. Double projection. A work in metamorphosis.

A short web-drama

Music video for the song Mizuiro no One-Piece by Yasuha that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

In a modern family, each of the adults is busy with their own work. The mother of the children writes a scientific paper. Their father is a television reporter and travels the world. Their grandmother invents gadgets for teaching at school. They don't have time for children in the family. At some point, the parents realize their mistake.

Stefano and Leonardo meet to hang out. Everything seems to be ok, until a tale of the previous evening unveils some dark truths.

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He is called the "King of the Light Genre". His songs are still sung by all of Russia.

A 2012 article in the British The Guardian titled "Russian Banksy" turns the life of Moscow street artist Pasha 183 upside down. The article, in which he is compared to the most famous street art artist today, brings him worldwide fame, popularity and commercialization of creativity - in short, everything that he has struggled with all his life.