Is It Easy to Be Brave?

Conflict of Aomori A Yakuza war breaks out to control the Tohoku region.

Shura's Blood A yakuza war breaks out in a small peaceful town in the northern region of Kanto.

Chasing Rodriguez Four teenagers enter a short film contest to win a cash prize. While filming their movie they inadvertently capture a robbery on film.

The Promised Land A experimental retelling of religion.

Stranger Eyes After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realizes someone has been filming their daily life — even in their most intimate moments. The police set up surveillance around their home to catch the voyeur but the family starts to crumble as secrets unravel under the scrutiny of eyes watching them from all sides.

Love Your Enemies GDR, January 1990. After his ouster and the fall of the wall, dictator Erich Honecker and his wife Margot find themselves virtually homeless. Only Protestant pastor Uwe Holmer and his family, who, like many others, have suffered under his tyrannical regime, offer them refuge.

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Orthoepic Exercise "This peculiar instrument consists of two metre long prosthetic tongue whose one side is inserted into my opened mouth and the other one is sharply pointed like a warrior's sword. I also have a shiny helmet that encloses my brain and protects my face with two elegantly cut out metallic side sheets. And then imagine me, standing in the middle of the room and "exercising my tongue", stretching it, pulling it out, and perhaps inflicting pain upon myself while being covered by this ambivalently protective device while trying to pronounce inaudible words. As I am making my "beautifully threatening" instrument for the straight and correct (ortho) pronunciations of the words (orthoepy) right here and now, I realize that I am setting up conditions for the war. This war will be fought for the sake of "just words" and it will certainly require proper arms of justice - an elongated iron tongue and a defensive helmet." - Kinga Araya

Thyroid, the butterfly e... Prescribed to more than three million people in France to replace the hormones that the thyroid no longer produces, Levothyrox has so far been an uneventful drug. But, following a change of formula in March 2017, it is at the heart of a vast health crisis. Dizziness, fatigue, memory loss, palpitations, muscle or joint pain, some patients experience a nightmare. The controversy grows. More than 17,000 reports of adverse effects have been recorded by the National Medicines Safety Agency. Why did she ask the Merck laboratory, now sued, to change the formulation? For several years, specialists have also been sounding the alarm bells against the excessive screening and overdiagnosis of certain thyroid cancers,