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- DirectorKenji IwaisawaStarsShintarô SakamotoRen KomaiTomoya MaenoA trio of delinquent schoolkids form a music band.
- DirectorChuan ChenStarsJackie ChanDean ShekJames TienA pair of evil kung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood. The movie opens with two members of the brotherhood and their two male children being chased by Heaven, Earth, and miscellaneous bad guys. The two members get away separately with their children. Twenty years later, we see Chan Lung (Jackie Chan) as he hunts frogs and snakes and keeps them in his pants. You learn he was one of the boys. The other is a lazy man who uses windmill-driven levers to deliver things to and from bedside, even a chamberpot and breakfast. Eventually, their respective paternal figures are killed, and they are forced to fight Heaven and Earth.
- DirectorKatja RaganelliKonrad WicklerIn 1978, German filmmaker Katja Raganelli set out for Budapest to capture Márta Mészáros at work on the set of her ninth feature, On The Move. The result is an intimate portrait of Mészáros's life and approach to her craft, featuring interviews with the director as well as close collaborators.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsRiccardo CucciollaDocumentary featuring interviews with female partisans who participated in the resistance and survived the German invasion of Italy in the 1940's.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsBill SageSabrina LloydTatiana AbracosA comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsMark AmitinEszter BalintKirk BaltzThe stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor.
- DirectorSamantha FullerStarsJames FrancoJennifer BealsBill DukeFriends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs.
- DirectorKen JacobsStarsJonas MekasUsing his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest brand of color film, Kodak (whose production was discontinued in 2009) and to Jonas Mekas, who managed to breathe life into Kodak.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsBae DoonaArata IuraItsuji ItaoA life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsAlberto BellocchioLetizia BellocchioMarco BellocchioA personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director's twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsD.J. MendelDanielle MeyerPallavi SastryThe funny and moving tale of Joe Fulton who can fix anything for anybody but he can't achieve success himself. But maybe today will be different!
- DirectorShirley ClarkeIn this suppressed UNICEF-sponsored polemic, Shirley Clarke juxtaposes school children in creepy Halloween costumes with scenes of poverty outside the USA.
- DirectorLasse HallströmStarsStig EngströmAnita EkströmGöran StangertzArne, Calle, and Gunnar are friends, probably in their twenties. One telephones the others, and they decide to visit a nightclub. They hope to meet women and have sex. After they arrive at the club, each man meets with a certain degree of success or failure. Calle particularly is frustrated, for no woman agrees to dance with him. Meanwhile, Arne and Gunnar are busily conversing with women. Eventually the friends all leave with lady friends in tow, and spend the night in various apartments. In the morning, the couples depart differently. One couple has bonded amicably, another tenuously, and the third not at all. The next day, the men reconnect, and decide to try their luck again.
- DirectorVera ChytilováStarsMiroslav MachácekTomás PalatýStepánka CervenkováA group of teenagers are mysteriously invited to a skiing workshop in the mountains. There are eleven of them, but the camp supervisors insist that there should be only ten, and that one of them is an intruder.
- DirectorVera ChytilováPartially dramatized documentary retelling of the life of philosopher Tomás Garrigue Masaryk, who led newly-created Czechoslovakia after WWI, with hinted parallels to the end of Communist rule occurring at the time of the film.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHolger LöwenadlerAnna LindahlBirger MalmstenA sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeStarsAnna SokolowClarke parallels the sense of spectacle and the real violence of an actual bullfight with a dance interpretation of the emotional experience, using a distillation of the ritual gestures in the Spanish bull ring. In her intense interpretation, Sokolow embodies both matador and bull, both executioner and the sacrifice.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeWheaton GalentineIrving JacobyA documentary short subject about the construction of a new skyscraper in late 1950s Manhattan, the Tishman building on prestigious Fifth Avenue.
- StarsTilda SwintonAdjoa AndohJane FondaA documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.
- DirectorAnna BillerStarsAnna BillerJared SanfordNatalia SchroederA young Victorian woman struggles with an incubus against a backdrop of the Old West. With original period costumes, sets, and a western-vaudeville soundtrack.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsRobert AtzornChristine BucheggerMartin BenrathAn account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeD.A. Pennebaker
- DirectorMiranda JulyStarsMiranda JulyA woman observes another woman on a surveillance camera and describes her actions, with no other interaction between them.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsLorraine AcheeMarissa ChibasGeorge FeasterA shy and introverted city surveyor has his quiet, scholarly world turned upside down when a young woman mysteriously appears in his apartment.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsMike BradyRicky LudwigGary SauerBursts of canine aggression punctuate a portrait of three men confronting their friendship and failings.