1. Shooting Women
Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new generation of camerawomen's visions.
2. Small City, Big Change
Portrays how the smallest city of Massachusetts, of mostly Latino working class residents, provided the key leadership for the approval of the Transgender Equal Rights Act of the state.
3. Ghost in the Shell: Ghost Chaser (攻殻機動隊GHOST CHASER)
The Minister of Defense, who is expected to take part in a meeting has ordered an advance onsite inspection. The area must be secured and cleared from a rumoured terrorist threat.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
4. Beyond Boobs
A hilarious and at times provocative film about a middle-aged American single-mother living in Switzerland and her quest to find out if she'll be invisible when she's no longer the woman with the biggest breasts in the room.
It has an average vote of 4.2 on TMDB.
5. Haymatloz - Exil in der Türkei (Haymatloz - Exil in der Türkei)
″Haymatloz″ tells the stories of five German Jewish academics who emigrated to Turkey in the 1930s, to be welcomed with open arms. After 1933 a considerable number of German intellectuals emigrated to Turkey at the invitation of Atatürk and went on to definitively shape teaching and instruction in Turkish universities. Turkish-born filmmaker Önsöz accompanies the descendants of these German exiles and sheds light on a memorable piece of history whose meaning is still felt to this day, as these renowned Germans played a substantial role in the Europeanization of Turkey.
6. Searching Eva (Searching Eva)
This is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids from all over the world to live their life through hers. Through her fragmented personalities you see the emergence of a new generation, in which the concept of a fixed identity has grown old.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
7. Starry-Eyed Duckling
When a starry-eyed duckling stumbles upon a strange portal, he journeys into unfamiliar worlds, not knowing if he'll make it back home.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
8. Megaloprepus coerulatus (Pseudostigmatidae) - Flug und Fortpflanzungsverhalten (Megaloprepus coerulatus (Pseudostigmatidae) - Flug und Fortpflanzungsverhalten)
For its reproduction, the megaloprepus dragonfly specifically relies on periodic puddles in tree holes and bromeliacea in tropical rain forests. Territorial males tenaciously defend these resources. Females lay their eggs in the water holes of the territorial males and are guarded by them. Any satellite male - i. e., one without a territory - who tries to grab a female is driven away by the territorial male.
9. Rana esculenta (Ranidae) - Beuteerwerb (Rana esculenta (Ranidae) - Beuteerwerb)
The film shows the prey-catching behaviour of the edible frog at a small garden pond and at a gravelpit. The catching of creeping and hanging earthworms, of flies sitting on the surface of the water and of egglaying dragonflies in tandem position are visible.
10. Con Traje y Sin Zapatos (Con Traje y Sin Zapatos)
(Con Traje y Sin Zapatos)
11. The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat)
Likely in June 1897, a group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.
It has an average vote of 7.111 on TMDB.
12. Arichan the Ant (アリチャン)
Arichan the Ant finds a violin in a sandbox and keeps it. However, realizing how important it is to its owner, he returns it to her.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
13. Beer, those were the days (Bîru mukashi mukashi)
In 1955 Tadahito Mochinaga was asked to create commercials for Asahi beer, which he created using stop-motion, followed by the 1956 short film "Beer Mukashi Mukashi" , created specifically for theatres. With the help of Kikachiro Kawamoto and Noburo Ofuji, this is the first animated short/commercial in stop-motion made for Japanese cinemas!
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
14. Fuku-chan's Submarine (フクチャンの潜水艦)
Fuku-chan was one of the most popular newspaper comic strip boy-characters in Japan at the time. The film portrays a submarine attack on an enemy cargo ship. Though this, too, was to boost patriotism, Japanese children particularly enjoyed the scenes in which the kitchen crew cooked in the submarine kitchen. Released in November of the same year, the food shortage was quite serious in Japan, and the abundant food supply in the submarine kitchen -- vegetables, fruit, fish, rice, and more which were already luxury items in Japan at the time -- was prepared into various dishes along with a merry, rhythmic song.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
15. Sankichi and Osayo: A Genroku Romance (元禄恋模様 三吉とおさよ)
When a samurai witnesses a dancing maiden being kidnapped by ruffians, he rescues the poor damsel and takes her to the spring flower dance.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
16. Crab Temple Omen (蟹満寺縁起)
An early silhouette animated film by Hidehiko Okuda, Hakusan Kimura and Tomu Uchida. The original story is a Buddhist tale of a young lady who saved a crab from being eaten, and was later saved from danger by the same crab.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
17. The Magic Pen (魔法のペン)
A western occupation propaganda film in which a boy repairs a western style doll that comes to life and uses a magic pen to rebuild his bleak and war torn world into a happy place resembling western civilization.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
18. The Battle of the Malay Sea (マレー沖海戦)
A war propaganda film by Oofuji Noburou.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
19. Madame Butterfly's Illusion (お蝶夫人の幻想)
Butterfly, a faithful Japanese wife, waits patiently in Nagasaki for the return of her American husband, Pinkerton. She sees the Stars and Stripes fluttering atop an approaching ship and rightly surmises that Pinkerton is onboard. However, the feckless foreigner is arriving in the company of his "real" Caucasian wife, causing the heartbroken Butterfly to commit suicide. This masterpiece of Japanese silhouette animation makes the best of its source material.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
20. Osaru no Tairyou (Osaru no Tairyou)
Short animated film by Yasuji Murata
