Village Tale

Working Title A short documentary about a lost film and a lost love story.

Ada Apa Dengan Dosa Abandoned at a young age at an orphanage, Aurora lived most of her life in Europe with her adopted parents. After a life changing event where she overheard her parents talking about her true parentage, Aurora decided to return to Malaysia in search of her biological parents. In her search, she also finds herself learning about Islam, and embarks on a spiritual journey to discover a part of her heritage.

The Keeper Celeste and Robert meet at a speed dating event. A lonely widow yearning for connection and a lover of art in search of perfection.

MPS: Jazzin' the Black F... "The Black Forest? What is that? A spooky place?“, asks George Duke at the beginning of his interview - no, it´s not spooky at all, just one of the most famous woodside areas of Germany and most famous for its cukkoo-clocks. But did you know that once upon a time, one of the heavy industrial bosses of Germany dedicated his life to producing high quality jazz records? He even did sessions with the Oscar Peterson Trio in his living room at home. This is his story and the story of his record company MPS (Music Production Schwarzwald), which was beside ECM the most influential record company in Germany and Europe. Many interviews with some of the numerous MPS stars are included: Eberhard Weber and Wolfgang Dauner/ Rolf and Joachim Kühn/ Albert Mangelsdorff/ George Duke as well as some of the original engineers...

Desert of the Real Composer and filmmaker Christian von Borries' new film Desert of the real visits these contemporary wastelands. In a rich collage of acted scenes and documentary footage, he extends the metaphor of the wasteland to today's medial reality. At the heart of so many holographic simulations and replicas, in a world custom-made for selfie and instagram tweets, he reveals emptiness and potential violence. (David Riff) The only way to trace the distinction between the semblance and the Real is, precisely, to STAGE it in a fake spectacle.

The Wind Game The Wind Game is about love, death and a spiritual quest for a homeland. A young man is searching for his father, and encounters a man who relates a story to him. The young man then has a visionary dream that he writes down in a letter to his old friend, an elderly Poet in Austria. While reading the letter, the Poet is inspired to continue his unfinished work, and his creative process begins.

Shirak Set against the stunning landscape of rural Iran, Shirak is a symbolic rural drama centered on a young boy who lives in a small agricultural village that is being terrorized by wild boars. When his father is mauled to death by the boars during an attack on one of the village fields, Shirak suddenly finds himself the head of the household. Determined to hunt down the dangerous animals and kill them, he picks dates in order to be able to purchase a watchdog from one of the local villagers. Together, Shirak and his dog confront the beasts when they attack the village.

Living in Crime Alley A single father struggles to bring up his child, a huge fan of the dark knight, in downtown Gotham, known to citizens as Crime Alley.

Tommy Emmanuel & Friends Released in 2011 originally by KPBS and recorded on February 14 and 15, 2011 at The Balboa Theatre in San Diego, CA.

Attention If ever you come across Demons, do all you can to ignore them, for they feed on attention.