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- In 1992, Peru was just emerging from one of its darkest moments in its entire republican history (1821- onwards). A cataclysmic economic meltdown and over 10 years of death and conflict brought upon by the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla had left deep scars in the Peruvian population. Furthermore, Alberto Fujimori had just dissolved the congress and senate in order to obtain extraordinary faculties and implement harsh economic measures. It is amidst this critical moment in the history of Perú that filmmaker Heddy Honigmann chronicles the views and lives of 14 real life taxi drivers in Lima. They represent the perseverance and ingenuity with which the everyday man survived and overcame the turbulence of the times in order to achieve advancement for themselves and their families.
- A short film by Aleksandr Sokurov which provides a surreal visual experience.
- This five-episode documentary series tells the story of a Russian naval commander in charge of an Arctic-based ship. The series reveals the daily duties associated with the ship, but it is really about solitude and isolation. Voice-over narration by the commander, other sailors, and even a third-person voice provide the "confession" of the title.
- A portrait of the widow of writer Toshio Shimao, living on an isolated island with her disabled daughter, shunning comforts and other company.
- A two part story of a collective farm worker named Maria which chronicles her life at the time of the initial filming and then returns to her story 9 years later.
- In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experiences. While unnamed tribal forces occasionally engaged the troops in skirmishes, Sokurov's haunting documentary chronicles the downtime between activity.
- Part of Johan van der Keuken's North/South series, The White Castle focuses on the impact of the West on the underclass: on the concrete realities of their daily life and on the way their existence is isolated and frustrated. Interweaving images of the Spanish tourist mecca of Formentera, a community center in Columbus, Ohio, and factories in the Netherlands, the film vividly illustrates the fragmented, alienated lives that the market economy produces and chillingly portrays what van der Keuken saw as "a conveyor belt [that] runs across the world."
- Examing the daily life of an elderly woman in rural Japan allows Sokurov to evoke how folkways (Japanese and Russian) shape our worldview.
- A documentary on Brazil's relationship with the poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and to their own sexuality.
- A documentary film by Heddy Honigmann on the traumatic effects of war on the soldiers of United Nations peacekeeping missions.
- Filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon visits piano virtuoso Glenn Gould more than ten years after his self-imposed exile from the stage, which results in a mixture of interview and performance.
- The French army was very influential in how modern suppression of independence movements has been and is carried out. This documentary reveals why.
- A documentary film about the Russian director Sergei Kosintsev.
- This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.
- An in-depth journey to the pantheon of the most cult creatures in cinema: the heroes of horror movies, from werewolf to half-human/half-beast creatures, and from half-machine/half-flesh hybrids, to the world of the living dead.
- Flamenco is an art of transmission par excellence, here from fathers to daughters. This is a film about the family transmission mode, characteristical of flamenco. So, we follow the dancers Manolete and Judea, and singers Jaime and Marina.
- This documentary film describes the inauguration of the monument to the Russian writer Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg.
- The widows of Ahatovici reminisce stories about their husbands and sons who were killed in a massacre during the Yougoslav civil war in 1992.
- Flamenco is an art of transmission par excellence, here from fathers to daughters. This is a film about the family transmission mode, characteristical of flamenco. "Flamenco Soy" is a choreography by Manolete, danced to music by Pepe Maya.
- A wonderful pedagogue, French composer Pierre Boulez untangles the complexity of his work "Sur Incises".
- Film version of Elliott Carter's Quintet for Piano and String Quartet, with the various layers of his music being transformed by movement of the camera, lighting and montage. The complex music is made transparent by the pictures.
- Collects two documentaries about French composer Pierre Boulez: Eclat (1993), directed by Frank Scheffer, and "Sur incises: A Lesson by Pierre Boulez" (2000), directed by Andy Sommer.
- Flamenco is an art of transmission par excellence, here from fathers to daughters. This is a film about the family transmission mode, characteristical of flamenco. So, we follow the dancers Manolete and Judea, and singers Jaime and Marina.
- "Flamenco Soy" is a choreography by Manolete, performed to music by Pepe Maya. Show recorded at the Teatro Isabel La Catolica in Granada, Spain, in November 1999.