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The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years....

A girl named Grace comes home to her studio apartment after her apparent birthday party. Taking a trip down memory lane, she holds seashells up to her ear which contain memories from her past....

U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau risks his job and his reputation by leaking memos to the New York Times and becoming the first whistleblower of the Armenian Genocide. (Based on "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" by Henry Morgenthau)...

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption....

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, a couple is looking for a room to spend the night. The guests are rather weird. Their hosts are very tempted by the black suitcase. Something of tremendous powers is to be unleashed upon this world. (Screamfest)...

Fed up with the violence and bullying in her city, Sydney dresses up like a bee to fight crime, but to reach her full potential she must first overcome a tragic event from her past....

After being brutally raped by three men at the age of seventeen, a troubled prostitute makes it her life work to punish any men who treats her wrong. As tables turn and the hunters become the hunted, what she becomes is more terrifying than any predator could ever be. (Screamfest)...

A young girl tries to save her mother from a deadly illness. (Screamfest)...

Marcus, a powerful sorcerer who is desperate to save his dying wife, makes a deal with the demon Dagon to save her soul. Dagon, however, has more in mind for Marcus than just a simple exchanging of souls. With seemingly no other choice, Marcus accepts, thus catapulting him into a series of events that will reveal to all involved the very meaning of betrayal. (Screamfest)...

Two brothers, Umberto and Stefano, have just moved into a new apartment, where they share the bedroom. Since their mother is away, Stefano is forced to look after his younger brother, who is craving for affection and contact....

Zao is a little boy with an incurable disease, in a house beside a lake. A little girl, Cloe, leads through the forest and tells him the legend of the lake monster. Beyond the pain, death and time, The Autumn of Zao is a hymn to dream, life and childhood. (Screamfest)...

A found footage poem made with laser prints of intertitles from the film AELITA....

Due to an accident in a bioweapons bunker, two Soviet soldiers are met with the very weapons their government has engineered. The two must escape, before their entire facility is locked down, encasing them forever underground....

The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some explores our human adaptability in light of catastrophe by way of seminal literature passages implying a transitory social body....

A young couple in Brooklyn contemplate opening their relationship over a game of chess but as communication gets lost the game thickens until a surprising end....

A song of praise about the recycling process and the eternal cycle of life....

The misadventures of the gay experience come to life in these 7 award-winning shorts—from awkward threesomes to dubious dating etiquette to the trials and tribulations of shopping excursions. Includes: Alaska Is a Drag (2012); Bald Guy [Skallamann] (2011); Housebroken (2013); P.D.A. (2013); Sabbatical (2012); Spooners (2013); Unanimated [Desanimado] (2011)....

Story of an alien arriving on planet Earth, in search of a human specimen....

Experimental filmmaker Rubén Gámez explores the iconography of the maguey plant in Mexican cinematic history....

Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals....