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A teen in 2024 accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her sister. Can she change the past without destroying the future?

Daicon Film's fanfilm parody of the 1971 TV series of the same name stars Hideaki Anno as the titular "Ultraman" (a nerdy bespectacled giant in Ultraman-like clothes) fighting the marauding giant monster Kiruan (AKA: Bug Jewel).

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of The China Syndrome.

Eight-year-old Nina is an impulsive and emotional girl, quickly igniting ideas and dropping them halfway. Nina would probably have abandoned her new hobby - music - too, but a strange thing happened: the instrument began to behave defiantly, play by itself and provoke the hostess in every possible way. And soon Nina was completely kidnapped along with him. The villains plan to subjugate the world with the help of the piano.

The film, set in a north-western industrial town in Russia, reveals the mechanisms that entice human beings to voluntarily become a resource to the state. Can a person ever be free in an imperialist society, where intricate and obscure structures take control of their mind-set from an early age? The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle. The director's subtle but demanding look reveals "the system" at work in the most benign-looking situations, in all aspects of the everyday. What happens to people's free will and self-determination in such conditions? The film is a Nietzschean treat, asking the core existential question: is a human being ever born free?

A content creator feels obligated to let her internet benefactor visit her workshop. His arrival explores the uncomfortable boundaries of a parasocial friendship.

Hubert Hrabe, known as Smart Boy (Karel Heřmánek), is a Prague dandy who is always skirting the edge of the law. Like every likable rogue, he has a worthy adversary - Police Inspector Mourek (Petr Kostka), who has long been trying in vain to put him behind bars. However, this defender of justice, who is constantly trying to outsmart his "own" criminal, ends up becoming the victim of his own zeal while hunting forgers that are as good as any in Europe, as Hubert the Smart Boy, sets a trap for Mourek.

Leeanne Rosser'sa strong but world-weary 20 year-old solo mother. She sits on a train with her one-year-old son, Sam, on their way to visit her mum, as It's her mother's birthda. But her religious mother refuses to accept Sam, as he was born out of wedlock. Leeanne's father's helpless to bring them together. Unknown to all of them, Leeanne's brother, Brent is out pretending to be a student or a bible salesman, and then robs houses when their owners are absent. Today an unsuspecting victim,returns home during his robbery. Brent panics and sends her plummeting down the steps. For Leeanne and her family, and that of Brent's robbery-gone-wrong victim, everything is changed from that moment on.

A teen-ager is left orphaned by a car crash that wipes out his entire family; he is subsequently haunted by his dead brother.

Long estranged from the religious community his mother embraces, Solomon must wear a lie one last time on the day of his brief return.

Haesu moves to another city and opens a cafe to start her new life. Yejin, a high school girl and frequent customer, starts to work at the cafe and falls for Haesu. Yejin confesses her love to Haesu when she is sure about her feelings.

Follows a darkly comedic tale about the unexpected consequences of unasked-for intimacy.

Accompanying the DVD/Blu-ray release of David Lynch's debut feature film, Eraserhead (1977), a genuine masterpiece of American independent filmmaking, "Eraserhead Stories" is a semi-documentary put together by Lynch himself. In a typical Lynchian way, the director gives away fascinating, little-known details on the film's five-year-long production, going as far as to call Catherine E. Coulson, the assistant director, cryptic "Log Lady" of the cult TV series, Twin Peaks (1990), and former wife of the movie's protagonist, Jack Nance, on the phone to reminisce about the old days. Of course, the making of the "baby" remains a mystery.

Chrissie is a domestic violence victim who defies court orders to stay at home and goes to live on the streets, she hangs out with other kids and drug dealers. Two caring social worker 'angels' are determined to get her off the streets.

A politically charged science fiction short subject.

17 year-old Hiruma is desperate to get laid and takes out his sexual urges on Anpai, a fat boy who has "boobs." His classmate Tomono, a sickly loner, is in a serious relationship with their married teacher.