The Spiral Staircase

The Leopard's Foundling The scene opens on the road to Kingsley as Peter Herman and his wife, Anna, are trekking slowly along, she holding the baby in her arms while Balu, their idolized seven-year-old daughter, is on the seat beside her father, holding a line.

Possessed

Leonardo Bastio, The Ill... In Itapetim’s countryside, deep inside Sertão do Pajeú in the Pernambuco backlands lives Leonardo Bastião in a rammed earth housing, a poet who, even without knowing how to read or write, built through his improvised metrical poetry and his relationship with the local environment an overwhelming cultural universe. After a lifetime of anonymity, videos of Leonardo declaiming authorial verses surfaced online and reached millions of views and even gave birth to a book transcribed by fans. In 2019, at the age of 74, the illiterate poet reflects on life, nature and homesickness, while scholars of popular culture try to explain the media and linguistic phenomenon that is his life and work.

LA Homefront/The Fires W... Quasi-documentary which portrays five Los Angeles families grappling with the violence and race-related issues surrounding the Rodney King beating and the L.A. riots of 1992. Represents a collaboration of Los Angeles artists.

Planet Manson Various eccentric characters pitch movie ideas (including the title plot in which Charles Manson steals a time machine) to a mysterious powerbroker with skeleton hands. Women wrestle in jumpsuits, men swordfight in the river. Filmed at the now-defunct Werepad artspace in San Francisco.

Nickelodeon Pinchface Bu... In a very psychedelic, pop art-inspired "room", we see to the right two picture frames with two fists made to look like faces (wearing a hat, some googly eyes, and painted-on "lips") and to the left a picture frame with the Nick logo in it. Two eyes, glasses, dentures and a tie drop down to the middle of the screen and float and bounce around while remaining in place to look like a face. As the colors of the background and even the Nick picture frame continually flash and change throughout the bumper, the fists do the "Nick Nick Nick" section of the Nickelodeon theme, with the Pinchface saying "Nickelodeon" (as it does this, the picture frame reads "Nickelodeon" instead of "Nick"). After the second time the Pinchface says "NickelOOOOOOdeOOOOON!", an orange background with "Nickelodeon" on it flashes three times.

Rosa After being touched by a patient's story, a psychiatrist learns the hard way that appearances are sometimes deceptive.

Missed Connections A documentary diving into the world of missed connections postings throughout Toronto by exploring the beauty and wistfulness that drives them, the importance of small interactions, and the effect one can have on a stranger.

Fearless

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