A painter's new muse becomes his nemesis when he discovers her connection to his past.

A boy walks through an abandoned building and films the interior. Suddenly his camera disappears.

A young man Danesh learns of ancient relics, including a ruby that once a year can help find treasure in the Canyon of Scorpio. As the old man holding the knowledge passes away, Danesh receives the ruby and a map, setting out for an adventure full of mystery and danger, friend and foe, set under the dazzling southern sun.

A man learns an unexpected lesson about the power of the written work in this dark independent comedy from Canada. Martyn (David Hewlett) is a young man who seems to be devoting his life to going to college; he's persuaded into stealing a rare and valuable book, but the burglary goes awry and Martyn is forced to kill a book dealer when he tries to hold on to the previous volume. Martyn now has to make a getaway, get rid of the body, and deliver the purloined letters, but there's a problem -- his car won't start. Martyn finds Theresa (Tanya Allen), a beautiful female auto mechanic, and persuades her to fix his vehicle. She agrees, but Martyn soon realizes that her boyfriend is the man he's just murdered. Theresa soon catches on that Martyn has stolen the book, and displays a greater interest in his ill-gotten literature than her boyfriend's death or repairing the car.

The film interweaves three layers: the centre is Kleist's play "Penthesilea". Like from a distance Kleist observes the relationship beween man and woman, when he transfers into mythical Greece what in his time became a problem for him in Prussia - and remains to be a problem also for us. The director's associations during the work form the second layer. Reality and fantasy blend to an imaginary biography of Kleist, the third layer. At the end of the film Kleist is identical with his title character Penthesilesa. (www.filmgalerie451.de)

A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.

Triangle amoureux entre un instructeur joué par Preston Foster, son apprenti pilote Anglais en la personne de John Sutton et la très jolie Cattle Queen du coin en la personne de la délicieuse Gene Tierney. C'est l'occasion de découvrir l'entrainement des jeunes pilotes étrangers(Chinois, Anglais) aux Etats-Unis pendant la seconde guerre mondiale. Le film semble avoir été tourné avant l'entrée en guerre des Etats-Unis et le ton est relativement léger. Quelques bons moments de comédie, et des scénes d'entrainement aériennes réussies. Il faut dire que Wellman est un spécialiste en la matière.

A comedy short about the Grim Reaper bored with her job trying to cope with her unrequited love for another.

Les personnages féminins qu'il y a dans La Cuisine rouge sont à la fois des mères, des prostituées, des folles et des actrices. Mais en même temps, et à leur insu, elles sont des êtres nouveaux anarchistes, portant en elles les germes de la révolution.

Short film about family relations.

Emily et sa famile trouvent un ourson orphelin et décide de l'élever, puis de le relâcher dans la nature. Trois ans plus tard, Emily se perd dans la forêt. Frigorifiée, effrayée et seule dans l'obscurité, elle tombe et perd connaissance. À son réveil, Emily est stupéfaite de voir qu'un ours brun l'a gardée au chaud et au sec toute la nuit. C'est Masha. Emily est ravie d'être réunie avec l'ours au moment où elle a le plus besoin d'un ami. Ensemble, elles partent courageusement à l'aventure pour retrouver le chemin de la maison.

In the vast wilderness of Alaska the earth is changing, threatening the history and culture of native peoples, natural landscapes, and the habitats of wild life. Between Earth and Sky examines how climate change is rapidly affecting Alaska, and will soon affect us all.

The film highlights the sacred bond with another human being through nuptial rituals and the sanctity of the institution of marriage.

Two childhood friends take a rifle into the mountains, and return with a secret.

This is a newly restored version of documentation of the 1967 group performance Snows, which was built out of Schneemann's outrage and sorrows over the atrocities of the Vietnam War. An ethereal stage environment combining colored light panels, film projection, torn collage, hanging sacks of colored water, "snow," crusted branches, rope, foil and foam was the set and setting in which an audience-activated electronic switching system controlled elements of the performance/installation. Images from film, slide and live action propel silent, ghostly performers to become aggressor and victim, torturer and tortured, lover and beloved, as well as simply themselves in this breakthrough mixed-media film performance. (The film Viet-Flakes is a central element).

In this all-black short musical comedy, a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without him waking up... but announcing lunch gets him up pretty fast. She's also saddled with a bevy of his lazy relatives. Four more come by and sing as a quartet. After the wife learns they had been traveling men, she advises them to keep traveling and kicks them out...

A boy is taken aback by his seemingly cyclical lifestyle

En compagnie d'Erik, leur oncle, Pusle, Blop, Michael, Jan et Amalie partent pour le Canada, pays où leur arrière-arrière-grand-père avait choisi d'émigrer dans l'espoir d'y faire fortune. La petite famille entreprend de localiser la mine de leur aïeul, grâce à une carte qu'il a laissée...

Eight gay shorts culled from top film festivals - A cross-section of some of the best recent gay shorts culled from top film festivals including Slamdance, Outfest, Frameline and more. Included are the award-winners BEDFELLOWS, CURIOUS THING, MY NAME IS LOVE, and STEAM. Whether inspired by a poem about teenage longing or a melange of interviews with gay men in New York, the shorts collected here share one thing in common: they were among the crowd favorites at film festivals across the country.