Twilight Of The Dark Master

Alireza Shalikaran is serving time in prison for theft. He is a troublesome figure, trying as he does to escape from the prison and committing acts of violence. A handful he may be, but he finds a caring figure in the prison warden. The warden puts forward the case that Alireza might settle down when he finds a wife. Yet how is Alireza to find a wife when he is enclosed within the prison walls? The task of finding a marriage partner falls to Alireza's mother, who is also in prison. She comes across a young woman, who, though incarcerated for drug-related offences, is respectable. Will the match work? An interesting look at the limits of prison life.

The Yakuza, Japan's organized crime syndicates, are a dying breed. Their members are aging and the government of Japan has launched a large-scale crackdown on them to eradicate them once and for all. But who are the Yakuza? The cancer of a nation or a necessary evil in a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the industrialized world?

In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession enshrouded by irresolution and despair, even long after he has been taken off the case. What emerges is not a crime story, but a harrowing venture through the darkness of the human soul.

A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.

One day Pak, a taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi, a retired single father, in a park. Although both are secretly gay, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet in that brief initial encounter, something is unleashed in them which had been suppressed for so many years. As both men recount and recall their personal histories, they also contemplate a possible future together.

Geisha, the twilight of flowers, is a journey to the secret world of Geishas of Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital. Filmmaker Romain Guélat takes us on a rare journey into this hidden world usually closed to western eyes.

When the ghost of the composer Richard Wagner visits the raving Friedrich Nietzsche within the walls of the Turin lunatic asylum the details of their dreadful conflict are revealed.

Twilight of the Goodtimes is a documentary that approaches (or remixes) the sad and long history of public housing in the United States like a DJ on two turntables and a microphone handed to Hegel.

After a dispute between the gods leaves her family murdered at her wedding, giantess Sigrid leads a team to enact vengeance against the Æsir.

Live recording of the Atelier game series celebration show at the Shibuya CLUB QUATTRO on 29th August 2013. Featuring the talents of Haruka Shimotsuki, ACRYLICSTAB, Kanako Ito, Chirinuruwowaka, asaco nasu, Mutsumi Nomiyama and Mineko Yamamoto.

What caused the downfall of the ancient Egyptian empire? What occurred at Angkor, the greatest kingdom in Cambodia that led to its demise?

Filmmaker Kevin McMahon examines the Cold War's impact on the Inuit, a primitive culture of the Arctic. Meryn Cadell narrates.

Genius composer Richard Wagner is awoken in purgatory, 150 years after his death in 1883. His Enlightenment-inducing Music set to be forgotten for the rest of time unless he can answer for charges of inciting WWII with his anti-Semitic writings, intense connection to the best elements of German culture, his secret LGBT life and other transgressions which were part of his unique creative process.

The summer comes to an end as the viewer tours the loft and art, the lofty art of Mimi Gross, the swinging dummies of Doug Skinner, and the mysterious real estate of famed author, Whitley Streiber. Hear his story of terror and beauty under the trees and roof of his country home. See for yourself the man behind the mystery and the people who love him. Also, as an added attraction: rare shots of UFO author and investigator, John Keel. An informal look at the incredible.

The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature, film, art, and music during the period. It includes interviews with Christopher Isherwood, Louise Brooks, Lotte Eisner, Elisabeth Bergner, Francis Lederer, Carl Zuckmayer, Gregor Piatigorsky, Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Kolisch, Mischa Spoliansky, Herbert Bayer, Mrs. Walter Gropius, and Arthur Koestler.

A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.

With the death of her husband and the absence of her son, Esmeralda has lost interest in life. Living in a small town, within the walls of her house, she regains hope when a baby pig comes into her life.