1. Trunyan (Beyond the Lake) (Trunyan (Beyond the Lake))
A young and successful Yoga visited his parent in their village. He took a road trip, and a boat to a beautiful place beyond Lake Batur. Being born and raised in the city, Yoga has a mixed feeling about his identity. That trip left Yoga with questions about his existence, heritage, and culture. He took a trip that changes perspective. A trip that concludes: we don't even know what will happen tomorrow. Bali is not only a thousand temples island and a beautiful place for a vacation. There is still much more to tell than beauty. About the Balinese, especially the city people who have 'abandoned' their custom, prefer to 'modernize' culture. Which in this film is about a person's doubts in choosing the procession of death.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
2. Nietos (Identidad y memoria) (Nietos (Identidad y memoria))
Documentary about children stolen during Argentina's dictatorship that collects testimonies from kidnapped between 1976 and 1983. During these years, thousands of people were kidnapped and murdered with impunity. In many cases, the state appropriated the newborns of pregnant women at the time of his abduction. The disappearance of 500 children is one of the darkest legacies of this period. However, the tireless work of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo became possible that a hundred of these children were returned to their families.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
3. Blu38
Andrea the son of Anita and Tristano killed himself on Christmas night. Tristan betrays his wife with Anna, Andrea's ex-girlfriend, who is later killed. A crescendo of tension as Anita listens to the switchboard phone .
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
4. Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer (Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer)
(Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer)
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
5. The Laughter Life
The Laughter Life follows a week in the life of the young comedians who write and star in Studio C, a popular sketch comedy television show that has garnered over 1 billion views on YouTube.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
6. Men and Beasts (Люди и звери)
The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
7. Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror
Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror is a television documentary film that premiered on the Canadian cable network Space on February 25, 2009. The hour-long documentary examines the experiences, motivations and impact of the increasing number of women engaged in horror fiction, with producers Donna Davies and Kimberlee McTaggart of Canada's Sorcery Films interviewing actresses, film directors, writers, critics and academics. The documentary was filmed in Toronto, Canada; and in Los Angeles, California and New York City, New York in the US.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
8. The Woman Who Sinned
A woman contemplates having an affair, which leads her into a web of deceit, suspense, and murder.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
9. Οι Κολοσσοί του έρωτα (Οι Κολοσσοί του έρωτα)
Titled Colossi of Love, the documentary highlights the halcyon days of the kamaki suitors in the 70s and 80s when droves of women from mainly Scandinavia, Germany and Britain flocked to the Greek islands.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. Leaving Amish Paradise
Documentary following the lives of two Amish families leaving the only world they've ever known and trying to get to grips with the modern world. The Amish travel by horse and buggy and dress exactly as their forebears did when they first arrived in America almost 300 years ago. They have countless rules which keep them separate from the modern world, with electric lights, mobile phones, television and radio all forbidden. For those born into this culture, leaving is the biggest decision they'll ever make.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
11. La Cruz de la Marihuana
a film based off a corrido.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
12. Thérèse Raquin (Thérèse Raquin)
A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola.
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
13. Pocahontas (Pocahontas)
Roaming around with her best friend Wabuu, the curious and cheeky raccoon, Pocahontas, the beautiful chieftain daughter discovers a ship with a lot of strangers on the shore. "These White people will bring much woe to our people" predicts the chieftain. And actually, the gold-greedy captain of the ship starts a war on the Indians.</p><p> Will Pocahontas succeed in preventing the inevitable fight and to save their people?
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
14. The Arnold Waltz
Arnold, a school kid with a vacant stare and hair sticking out, takes the bus to school. He sits idly through lessons. Then, it's time for band, where he plays the piccolo. He daydreams through the Vienna waltz, imagining himself ice-skating, and sending the school bully into the cold water by cutting a circle through the ice around him. The band plays a second song, and Arnold imagines spring. The music ends, the room empties except for Arnold. The teacher says, "Arnold, everybody's gone to recess."
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. Guajiro (Guajiro)
The optimism and pride of work taken by a group of sun-drenched guajiros harvesting corn with their bare hands, is belied by the songs they sing about sadness and heartbreak.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
16. Surprise Boogie (Surprise Boogie)
Considered for an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film .
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
