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A theater director struggles with his work and the women in his life as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.

Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.

A man with glasses sees a pair of glasses called "natural glasses" in a store, when he puts them on, he finds himself in a natural environment.

A cautionary tale in which a boy becomes intrigued by his dad's wood-chopping axe - with nasty results.

Based on his childhood fascination for the strange atmosphere of amusement parks Till Nowak created the fictional documentary 'The Centrifuge Brain Project'. He collected footage and used digital animation to create a series of non-existing thrill rides. Dr. Laslowicz is convinced: Making his machines more powerful brings him comes closer to the solution for all our problems. An obvious mistake or just typical human?

Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost investigates the boundaries of fiction and reality by filming everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and editing the cinematic images into a fiction film by using cinematographic and narrative codes from the Hollywood film language. The award winning 'Plot Point' (2007) that turned everyday life around Times Square into a thriller film being the first part of the trilogy, this time Provost takes his hidden camera to Las Vegas in 'Stardust' and films real Hollywood stars - Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson to turn the glorious and ambiguous power of the gambling capital into an exciting crime story.

An attempted bank robbery. Follows the thought process of two confused witnesses, the filmographer and the producer.

Prizewinning short about a baby placed in a virtual doll environment Las Palmas, getting drunk and goes bananas like any other uncivilized tourist would do.

A young man visits his parents in Norway with his pregnant Spanish wife. Expectations run high, but in the short ride from the airport, it becomes clear that this won't be the harmonious family occasion everyone hopes for.

Before dawn, people will rise and other people will take away their hope.

A dinner party with beef stew and much punch spirals out of control when the host couple are sucked into a bout of light-hearted arm wrestling.

A grim display of misguided patriotism and tribal thuggery during an England-Germany football match.

A father rediscovers his fear of confrontation at the worst possible time.

Three pre-pubescent tales of unrequited love, unattainable cool, and unremarkable bras.

The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions.

Robert is stuck on a boating holiday with his parents in the English countryside. Impatient to grow and become a man, an unexpected sight cracks his world open.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

A unit of female Israeli soldiers at a remote desert base bide their time as they count down the minutes until they can return to civilian life.

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.