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In the words of David Bowie: "it makes my heart glad just to be in the same room with him". Mike Garson, world-class composer and improviser, performs, composes and teaches while offering guidance to musicians at all levels of skill. Brimming with music and Mike's zest for life, this captivating portrait inspires and illuminates due to Mike's massive experience in the world of jazz, classical and contemporary music.

Aspiring actress Vicki thinks she has gotten the role of her life in Daniel's new play. But her debut lead role only casts her into endless torture at the esteemed director's hands. When she turns to supposed allies for support, Vicki finds that they encourage Daniel's abuse as part of her artistic growth and his genius. Feeling trapped, Vicki takes matters into her own hands. Demons is a wicked, satirical horror on power, art, and trauma.

As a young Soviet student in 1978, Ieva could not have predicted that a holiday visit to her father, Imants Lesinskis, then working in the Soviet mission at the United Nations in New York City, would irreversibly split her life in two. Entangled in a dark spy game, Ieva is forced to leave her former life behind, never to see her mother or her homeland of Latvia again. Pulling back the curtain on the shady behind-the-scenes world of the Cold War, this film tells a daughter's dramatic story of...

Fresh from a Melbourne jail, Dan is reunited with the love of his life, Leanne. Together they attempt to go straight and start a new life. When Leanne is suddenly torn away from him, Dan is reduced to savagery.

Vietnam is often called "the war that won't go away", largely because of the continuing controversy of the POW/MIA (Prisoners Of War / Missing In Action) issue. Families of those who were POW/MIA in Vietnam organized an activist movement which went on to pursue a question which still haunts America nearly decades later: were soldiers left behind in captivity after the Vietnam War? Once the exclusive domain of a select fraternity of soldiers' wives, the POW/MIA movement has become both a...

"El Mejunje de Silverio" is a cultural centre located in Cuba. Rock concerts, exhibitions, theatrical performances, and children's shows are held there... But the venue is best known as a meeting place for the LGBT community, thus creating a fascinating melting pot of transexuals, children, artists, rock 'n' rollers...

Why are children as young as five being arrested in schools across the USA? In a misguided attempt to avoid another Columbine, in 'zero tolerance' states like Texas, Florida and California, police forces armed with guns and pepper spray have been patrolling hallways, monitoring playground activity and enforcing classroom discipline. As a result, each year hundreds of thousands of school-age children have been arrested, fined or incarcerated for 'offences' such as chewing gum, being late for...

"El Mejunje de Silverio" is a cultural centre located in Cuba. Rock concerts, exhibitions, theatrical performances, and children's shows are held there... But the venue is best known as a meeting place for the LGBT community, thus creating a fascinating melting pot of transexuals, children, artists, rock 'n' rollers...

At the end of April around 1000 'Night Wolves' and the biker clubs supporters met in Moscow to celebrate the start of the motorcycle season. They paraded through the capital, put on bike shows and put on concerts. But do they have a hidden extremist agenda? The largest motorcycle club in Russia has around 5000 members who are organised into 50 local chapters. They are considered ultra nationalist, ultra conservative and completely loyal to the Kremlin. Club boss Alexander Saldostanow, known as...

Dariko, the only local television journalist in a small town in Georgia, strives from one report to the next to provide a pseudo-ethnographical portrait of a community and its traditions. Like Virgil with Dante, she leads director Salome Jashi through the Georgian "circles of hell" in a microscopic tragi-comedy that reveals a country in perpetual transition.

Is Scandinavia ready for Bitcoin? This is starting point for "The Bitcoin Experiment," a road movie about the Bitcoin blockchain and digital currency. Amund Sjolie Sveen takes us on a road trip from Oslo via Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Stockholm and further up in Sweden. Along the way he seeks out environments and meet people who have a relationship with Bitcoin, as users, lawyers, government officials, enthusiasts and sceptics. The trip ends up in the small community Boden in Norrbotten in the...

Three men embark on a journey in search of meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives. Bob swaps his safe home for a campervan and tries to find the tough guy inside himself in the barren Californian desert. Drag queen and stand-up comedian Steve is fed up of England and makes amends with his past between Benidorm's concrete towers. And Yamada rediscovers his smile by reading stories to children in Tokyo. With inspired cinematography and an eye for revealing moments, Jacqueline Zund...