Tony Rayns on Cruel Story of Youth

Vampire Vermont It's been over a year since Maggie's brother Dave and his friend Summers died in France under mysterious circumstances. But when Summers appears alive in Vermont, all sorts of strange things begin to happen to Maggie and her friends. Maggie must survive the oddest night in her life, as she struggles to find out who is dead, who is a vampire, who is a fetish freak, and who is simply....strange.

In the Heat of the Night... Gillepsie's term as County Sheriff is coming to an end, and his enemies have found a local businessman, Kerry Madigan, who has high political aspiration, to run against him. They even attempt to enlist Forbes' support and the support of the local press in painting an unfavorable picture of Gillepsie. Meanwhile, the police suspect Frank Cole, one of Madigan's employees, of murdering a pregnant woman. When they request a warrant to test Cole's blood for a DNA match of the dead woman's baby, the judge, who respects Madigan and his employees, is unwilling to approve it.

Murder Scene University student Zoey Drayden is woken at night by a telephone call from someone screaming for help but dismisses this as a prank. She then begins to have dreams and flashes. The next day, Zoey realises that she is having clairvoyant premonitions of fellow student Jeanette Collier who has been abducted. Without knowing it, Zoey had bumped into Jeanette in the hall just before the abduction. Zoey is able to successfully trace the images in her mind to a phone box where Jeanette managed to escape and make the call to her before being recaptured by her abductor. However, when Zoey goes to the police with the information, detectives Mike Keegan and Frank Stepnoski have her arrested, believing that only the abductor would have such information. Zoey tries to plead with them to believe her story and save Jeanette before she is killed.

The Magic Flying Mouse China during the Song Dynasty. The Emperor Kang is kidnapped by Jin bandits. The martial arts warrior Li Ma and two swordmaster sisters head to the Jin stronghold on Lying Mountain to rescue him. Captured, they learn of the Jin scheme to substitute a double for Kang. They try to make an escape to stop the plan.

Soldiers & Saints Still reeling from Codey’s death, the C.A.M.F. team launches one final assault against Syndicate to destroy the organization once and for all. Revenge will be had, familiar faces return, and revelations await as the saga of The Moonwalk Saints draws to a close.

Framed Framed is presented in a single-channel video using two elements. The first element is the film footage that was found by the artists at the U.S. National Film Archive. These staged films, produced by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), captured a fictional idealized life of Japanese Americans in the American concentration camps during World War II. More than a hundred thousand innocent civilians of Japanese descent were incarcerated solely based on their ancestry. To legitimize the abrogation of civil rights, the WRA produced this wartime propaganda. The second element is the slide show in which the still images reframe the raw material of the WRA films.

The Offering Mexico, 1968. Luna leaves home, annoyed because her mother, the local white witch, will not let her learn magic. She sets up in an old abandoned house and does healing magic for the locals. She and a visiting American, Terence, become lovers and she gets pregnant. When she discovers that Terence is also seeing and planning to marry a local flamenco dancer, she performs a black magic ceremony and causes the dancer to fall dead during a performance. Afterwards, she is ostracised by her mother and the locals but continues to use magic to try to make Terence come back to her.

Fruits of Peace Two families struggle to pick up the pieces and repair damage done by a long, violent war finding them forever connected by a single event over the fiery skies of Quang Binh, Vietnam.

Isolated An unemployed father decides to take a risk to support his family. Living in an impoverished and remote Kurdish border town, a father can no longer bear economic difficulties, its impact on his family, and their livelihoods. As a last resort, he decides to take a risk to support them.

Reflejos Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with what was shot.