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A documentary look at the fate of Mexicans who cross the border into the United States.

A story about dreams and the manipulative power of films in a chaotic Kyrgyzstan, seen through the eyes of two cinema projectionists. The Kyrgyz town of Naryn is preparing for the 1000-year anniversary of Manas, their national hero. The complicated preparations are upset as a group of Islamic rebels invade Kyrgyzstan. The work and dreams of the film's protagonists, projectionists named Zarylbek and Murat, epitomise the present and the past in Kyrgyzstan, struggling through a process of transition. Through their eyes, we see a story that reflects the manipulative power that films exert on a colourful people influenced by socialism, the market economy, the Islamic faith and their nomadic culture.

German filmmaker Vincent Dieutre is accompanied by a close friend's teenage son on a trip to Berlin and in the process reminisces about his life as a gay man in his 2003 autobiographical documentary entitled Mon Voyage d'Hiver (My Voyage in Winter). Dieutre and his traveling companion, Itvan, visit numerous friends and landmarks, all holding special meaning to the 40-year-old filmmaker as they make their way to the German capital. As the pair grows closer as friends, Dieutre also takes on a paternalistic relationship with the boy as he details his own journey of self discovery -- partially to assist Itvan with his own adult transformation, but also as a means for Dieutre's own legacy to endure. My Voyage in Winter was selected for inclusion into the Forum Program of the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide

An intimate portrait of director Peter Brook by his son, Simon Brook.

Marking the 65th anniversary of the Queen's Coronation, Queen Elizabeth II herself shares her memories of the ceremony for the first time, and showcases the Crown Jewels like never before.

Shot in Lapland and Brazil, this film reveals Man's relationship with nature, from the indigenous people point of view. Listen to the oral culture of the Saamis from the Arctic and the Fulni-ôs from Brazil. Beyond the ice-fields, beyond the trees, the countries, the climates, the skins - the same intuition : the whole future is in their hands.

Marek, Szymon, Jerzy, Tadek, Jola and Beniek are now scattered all over the world. But from 1959 to 1968, they were one of the last groups of students at School 27 in Lodz, one of Poland's three Jewish schools established in 1947, just after the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto and the extermination of Polish Jews.