Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come.

An apocalyptic story of three wars in three film tales encompassing the end of the WWI,WWII, as well as a vision of the world destroyed by nuclear weapons. This film was honored at the film festivals in Venice and Sorrento. Immediately after that the copy with Italian subtitles was locked in a safe as evidence of the anti-communist activities of the director, who used real footage of the Soviet invasion.

Léon : This morning, Léon the shoe-repairer puts up a sign in his store that he's managed for forty-six years : "Closing down in two months." Panic sets in among the neighborhood inhabitants, who adore this big-hearted Armenian with an amazing face. Is there some way to make stay longer ? Guillaume : Four o'clock in the morning, Guillaume arrives at work first, ahead of his team. At the end of the day, he will have sold all his cakes and bread, that's how good they are. In the evening, he and his wife Jasmine dream of buying a bigger and better located pastry store.

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

The Chinese restaurant is empty. The cage full of exotic birds is wide open. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as an opportunity to catch and sell them. But catching these animals isn’t as simple as it seems.

Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the height of his fame ". Vartanov resurrects the riveting scenes from his banned 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land, where Paradjanov concocts the chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - then reveals the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from Ukrainian prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's staggering last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - which survives in The Last Spring - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical film. The foremost achievement of The Last Spring, emphasized by critics, is Vartanov's exquisite wordless montage that "evoked the very soul" of Parajanov and earned the praise of many of cinema's greatest masters, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.

Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.

Filmaker Alina Marazzi assembles old home movies trying to piece together the life of her mother, Liseli, who committed suicide when Alina was seven years old.

Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal.

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.

The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

Okulunu yeni bitirmiş, çekingen bir genç başka iş bulamadığı için Londra'da bir kapalı havuzda çalışmaya başlar. Kısa sürede müşterilerin sıkıcı sohbetleri ve işin rutinleri genci bunaltacaktır. Fakat zaman içinde birlikte çalıştığı, kendisinden daha büyük olan bir kadına ilgi duymasıyla hayatı aniden renklenmeye başlar. Fakat yaş farkı ve daha pek çok sebep kadının oğlana yakın davranmasına engel olmaktadır. Bu platonik ve trajik aşk ikisinin de hayatını değiştiecektir.

Jean-Luc Godard'ın fahişeliği modern kapitalist devlette yaşamın ana metaforu olarak işlediği birçok filmden biridir. Godard için, kendisini para için satan bir kadın, yaşam değerini artıran son derece kişisel bir eylem olan sevişmenin nasıl diğer her şey gibi bir mala dönüştüğünün kusursuz bir imgesidir. Bu süreç içinde, insanoğlu kendisiyle yabancılaşarak satılacak ve satın alınacak bir şeye dönüşür.

Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston reconsiders marrying Toni, but he worries about her insistence on honesty. Having fabricated a wife and three children, Julian readily accepts when his devoted nurse, Stephanie, who has secretly loved Julian for years, offers to act as his wife and demand a divorce.

İkinci Dünya Savaşı’nın ortasındaki dünya kırılırken, küçük bir çocuğu anne babası daha güvende olabileceği uzak bir köye gönderir. Ama çocuk orada kalıcı olamaz, tek başına o köyden bu köye dolaşmaya başlar. Her köyde başka başka hayatlar tanır, başına gelmedik kalmaz. Soğuğu, açlığı, her türden şiddeti, acımasızlığı ve yalnızlığı tanır. O sırada tüm dünya sadece küçük çocuğa değil, var olan her şeye karşı merhametsizdir.

Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background.

Sinemada gösterildiği yıllarda , tartışmalı biçimde, tamamen yanlış anlaşılmalarla dolu ve utanç verici biçimde eleştirilen, ama uzun yıllar sonra şimdi ,sadece Rossellini'nin en iyi filmlerinden biri olarak anılmakla kalmayıp, aynı zamanda modern sinemanın temel elementlerinden biri olarak hak ettiği yeri bulmuştur. Küçük bir ipucu verelim : Bir evlilik, İtalya'ya yapılan bir seyahat esnasında kötüye gider, biz de izleriz.

Filminde, röportaj yapmak için gittiği ABD'de herşeyi yabancı ve itici bularak bir kimlik bunalımına giren ve amaçsızca turlayan Alman gazeteci Philip (Rüdiger Vogler)'in ülkesine geri dönmeye karar vermesi, havaalanında karşılaştığı mutsuz ve umutsuz bir kadının (Lisa Kreuzer) küçük kızı Alice'i (Yella Rottländer) kendisine emanet etmesiyle de yaşamının akışının tamamiyle değişmesi anlatılır * Wim Wenders'in yol üçlemesinin ilk filmi.