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A 12-year-old kid who misses his father becomes really affectionate with a young delinquent he just met.

A neglected, young teenager abandons his troubled home and finds himself caught in a network of jealousy as he drifts from one romantic companion to another, longing for belonging, while living as a hustler and thief among a gang of such.

Every few years from 1880 through 1979, boys named Carl enter a long-term health facility while poor girls named Hanne work to help their families survive.

Here she comes, right from the pages of the bestselling book Linnea in Monet's Garden. The charming tale of a little girl's love affair with Impressionist Claude Monet's paintings is now brought to life in full animation. Join Linnea and her friend Mr. Bloom as they set off to Paris, and then to Monet's garden in Giverny. Watch with delight as they discover the real places which served as inspiration for their favorite paintings. And marvel as the paintings and the garden come to "life" in live action. Linnea in Monet's Garden is a unique blend of imagination and education, teaching children about the art and life of one of the most important painters of the 20th century, while entertaining them with the mystery and beauty of art and nature.

A young boy finds ways to cope with his brother's sudden death in an accident.

Lars is in his own world, spinning dreamily away from the universe of reality. He observes the world both curiously and reluctantly and always from a safe distance. His wildest dream is big and pure love - and suddenly the only one is there. Lars watches her in fascination, afraid that his dream image of the beloved will crack if he gets too close. How does he establish contact? Original drama.

Documentary from Havana's psychiatric hospital, Mazorra, where mainly the chronically mentally ill are treated via a rehabilitation program aimed at integrating them into society through occupational therapy. Unfolds the treatment methods that are used and the underlying attitude as an expression of Cuban society's view of humanity.

A diverse selection of people are interviewed and all give testimony to their personal experiences from being in a borderland between life and death - neither alive nor dead. A state of consciousness where time and space, light and color may appear completely different than in the waking state. One among them is the director of the film: "It was as if I had been given a world to myself, my own universe with no room for any people. Only room for myself," he says.

The images from the Tour de France in the television production Eddy Merckx in the Vincinity of a Cup of Coffee may be seen as a small sketch for the fully unfurled epic cycling drama Stars and Watercarriers. The film follows the 1973 Giro d'Italia and in his commentary Leth explains the fascination exerted by the great cycle races: "The most beautiful, most pathetic images cycling can give us involve extreme performances in classic terrain." The action literally emerges on the move and the riders readily assume the roles tradition and epic necessity allocate to them, with the central conflict between the accustomed winner and greedy Belgian legend Eddy Merckx and the Spanish mountain specialist José Manuel Fuente. Stars and Watercarriers was created by a small film unit that use a vivid, documentary style to describe the race from close up and sometimes quite from within. The film consist of ten sections, each with a title such as "A road of pain" and "A peaceful day"; thus it alternates between dramatic and more peaceful passages, which Leth's commentary leads the viewer through soberly, empathetically and humorously. The chapter "The trial of truth" stands out with its focus on the Danish star Ole Ritter, his technical, physical and psychological preparations and his performance in the time trials. Ritter is lauded with words such as "power, cycle and style in the simplest manifestation possible", and aesthetically, too, the section stands out: there is no background music or ordinary real sound. Instead, a sound close up of the chain as it seems to sing emphasises the utter concentration of Ritter's venture. Throughout the film Gunner Møller Pedersen's music supports the dramatic and aesthetic aspects of the race and thus sets the mood. The music mimics the light tread of the mountain specialists when they are in focus and seems to indicate the beat as we watch the more powerful riders.

A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. When the Emperor is near death, a nightingale's song restores his health and teaches him to revolt against his glittering but shallow world.

Haiti. Uden title is a kaleidoscopic, dramatic documentary from this chaotic Caribbean country and comprises a mixture of material on video, 16 mm and 35 mm, dating in some scenes right back shooting on Leth's Udenrigskorrespondent (1982). The very lively hand-held video sequences that make up the most recent material make up the bulk of the film and the rapid, fragmentary editing style garnished with neat video tricks, gunfire, etc. put the film at the same level as the Haiti chaos itself. The French photographer Chantal Regnault plays Leth's role as the "experiencer", an observer in the midst of the dramatic reality of Haiti which she also describes with an outsider's fascination. The film contains a large number of very powerful, sensual pictures of life and death in Haiti, the heartrending weeping at the funerals, mountains of refuse picturesquely and infernally aflame, the dramatic manifestations and ritual beauty of voodoo, the rhetoric of the politicians, and far more besides. Another angle is pursued in the scenes of the American soldier stationed there who clearly represents the impotence of western rationalism in the face of Haitian reality. But there are also great contrasts: in perfectly calm passages the tropical rain pours down on the Hotel Oloffson garden in lingering shots, lightly-attired women was clothes in a river, and a naked woman poet recites one of her poems draped in a basket chair as the camera slowly zooms in on her. Shots of a naked black woman on a white sheet offer highly personal erotic material that is also displayed during the film in ultra-brief, hidden pictures. Haiti. Uden title is thus a dynamic, vigorous visual narrative aesthetically akin to a number of contemporary documentaries such as Tómas Gislason's Fra hjertet til hånden (a portrait film about Leth) and Jacob Thuesen's Under New York.

A documentary about Det ny Teater 1908-1994 with interviews of past actors and actresses.

Per is an outsider and a charming provocateur who intrudes on former friends, a younger couple in a bourgeois environment on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen. Desperately, and in vain, Per tries to re-establish contact with his old friends through this unconventional, but at the same time frozen and past life form.

The film gives an impression of the people living in Denmark by interviews with the Danes. Also American visitors are asked about their opinion of the country and its inhabitants.

Director/Writer Krzysztof Kieslowski shares his views on life, people, politics and comments a little about some of his films in a very casual conversation.

As a visual narrative 66 scener fra America is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA. With the one travelling shot (through a car windscreen) and one pan (across a landscape) the tableau principle is only breached on two occasions; exceptions that prove the rule, so to speak. The images or postcards may be viewed as a number of interlaced chains of motifs, varying from ultra close up to super wide, include pictures of landscapes, highways and advertising hoardings, buildings seen from without, mostly with a fluttering Stars and Stripes somewhere in the shot, objects such as coins on a counter, refrigerator with a number of typical food products, a plate of food at a diner or a bottle of Wild Turkey, and finally, people who introduce themselves (and sometimes the content of their lives in rough-hewn form) facing the camera: for example, the New York cabbie or the celebrities Kim Larsen and Andy Warhol. The film actually consists of 75 shots but in some cases several shots combine in one scene, thus ending on sixty six. Each scene is delimited by the narrator; at the end of each shot he pins down the picture content, often by a simple indication of time or place, but in some cases more playfully, often shifting our perception in a surprising fashion. Similarly the sound close-ups in some scenes are intended to alter the viewer's immediate interpretation of the picture content, while the mood-creating or interpretive use of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes (No. 5) provides the final component of the film.

Illustrations of the thoughts children's have about death.

Portrait of the male choir "Coro di Bosa" from Sardinia, Italy.

For several hundred years, the amazing potato has played an important role in Europe since it was brought from the Andes to Spain, along with stolen Inca gold.

A stil-life of marvellous Danish footballer Michael Laudrups performance on the Barcelona dreamteam 1989-94.

Written exam is just about to begin, and everyone is waiting for the moment that gives permission to turn and read the paper with the assignment. Tables are lined up in the hall. It is completely quiet, and the atmosphere is characterized by a combination of excitement, anticipation and perhaps a little nervousness. When he turns and reads his paper, sweat springs forth and the world changes in an instant. Original short.

About a warrior's battle against boredom. As leader of a survival school in Phoenix, Arizona, Vietnam veteran James Jarrett teaches middle class white Americans to defend themselves against criminals and illegal immigrants.