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- DirectorHitomi KamanakaIn Rokkasho there is a reprocessing plant for nuclear fuel. Villagers and supporters engaging in a grassroots campaign around nuclear facilities.
- DirectorHitomi Kamanaka
- DirectorLucy WalkerSurvivors in the areas hardest hit by Japan's recent tsunami find the courage to revive and rebuild as cherry blossom season begins.
- DirectorJames BenningJames Benning's worrying and also reassuring vision of the Ruhr Valley, shot in 7 fascinating takes of a tunnel, a factory, a forest near an airport, inside a mosque, a graffiti wall, a street and an industrial chimney.
- DirectorJames BenningAmerican trains, known to the director from trips across the country, are seen in motion in 43 shots from a fixed perspective.
- DirectorJames Benning
- DirectorJames BenningShots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
- DirectorJames BenningAn experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.
- DirectorJames BenningA time laps filming of Milwaukee's industrial valley. shot firstly in 1977 and then again in 2004, documenting the changes to the area after 27 years.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsChantal AkermanAkerman spends a month in Tel Aviv, in an apartment by the sea, contemplating her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood.
- DirectorJean CocteauStarsJean CocteauEdouard DermitheFrancine WeisweillerShort about Mrs. Weisweiller's Villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferat, on Côte d'Azur, which was decorated by Jean Cocteau.
- DirectorPeter B. HuttonThe first part (winter) of a seasonal study of the Hudson river in New York.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsChantal AkermanChantal Akerman interviews her mother, and other elderly women who survived the Holocaust.
- DirectorMikhail VartanovStarsSergei ParajanovMikhail VartanovMinas AvetisyanBlacklisted for portraying his friends Paradjanov (imprisoned in 1974) and Minas (assassinated in 1975), Vartanov had to wait 20 years to complete the trilogy with Minas: Rekviem (1989) and Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)
- DirectorAnarBasirChristine CynnStarsIntan SinagaSharman SinagaDocuments their exploration of history, globalization, and how unions around the world can support each other and struggle together.
- DirectorRobert FrankStarsTruman CapoteDick CavettMarshall ChessFollow the Rolling Stones on their 1972 North American Tour and their first return to the States since the tragedy at Altamont.
- DirectorRobert FrankStarsYûichi HibiRevolve around daily life in Frank's New York loft on Bleecker Street, and his ramshackle place in Mabou, Nova Scotia.
- DirectorRobert FrankAlfred LeslieStarsJack KerouacAllen GinsbergGregory CorsoA married couple vainly hopes that their irreverent beat poet friends will behave themselves when the bishop comes to visit.
- DirectorAlison McAlpineStarsRaúl AdriazolaCasiano ArdilesCipriano CastilloA love poem to the night sky, set in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
- DirectorTony ZierraStarsLeon VitaliRyan O'NealBrian CapronA documentary about how English actor Leon Vitali came to work as an assistant to American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick for over 30 years.
- DirectorJoe BiniSam GreenFilmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground), in collaboration with writer and editor Joe Bini (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Grizzly Man), takes the stage with the legendary classical-music group Kronos Quartet to create a "live documentary" that chronologically unfolds the quartet's groundbreaking, continent-spanning, multi-decade career. Wildly creative and experimental in form, A Thousand Thoughts is a meditation on music itself-the act of listening closely to music, the experience of feeling music deeply, and the power that music has to change the world. Green narrates the piece live onstage while the Kronos Quartet performs the score, and a rich blend of archival footage, photos, and interviews with members of the Kronos Quartet--as well as longtime collaborators like Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Terry Riley, Tanya Tagaq, and Steve Reich--unspools on screen. The magic of cinema combines with the energy and urgency of live performance to create incredibly rich moments that remind us of the value in the unique, the handcrafted, the ephemeral, and something that is never experienced the same way twice.
- DirectorSandi TanStarsJasmine Kin Kia NgPhilip CheahSophia Siddique HarveyA woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
- DirectorRobert GreeneStarsMike AndersonCharles BetheaChris DietzAn old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
- DirectorBing LiuStarsKent AbernathyMengyue BolenNina BowgrenFilmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.
- DirectorRon HollowayStarsSergei ParajanovThe film shows the unique world of artist Sergei Parajanov, whose brilliant images in films and collages aroused the suspicion of Soviet authorities.