Days of Youth

Initiation into the Danc... Filmed in Firgoun, Niger, the film documents an initiation ceremony in which a young Songhay woman undergoes ritual preparation for the dance of possession. Led by zima (ritual priests), the ganandi ceremony teaches the structured movements and ritual practices required for participation in spirit possession rites associated with Kirey, the spirit of thunder. The film records the process through which the initiate is prepared to serve as a ceremonial medium within the community’s ritual tradition.

Eingeschlossen - Die Nac... State Secretary Herbert Boening is a true careerist: an ambitious, married up-and-comer who, despite all his correctness, keeps a little secret. Her name is Gisela Bachmann, she is a model and he puts up with her, but their secret meeting at a castle this weekend will change a lot of things: The couple misses the moment when the castle gate is locked. The shock of being locked in is worsened when they realize that they are not alone in the castle...

Les forceurs de banquise Report on the activity of Finnish icebreakers in the Baltic Sea, which is frozen during long winter months.

Kyounyuu Gibo

Quirk of Fate

My step mother

NINA

Midarana Yokubo

Heritage A former CIA agent's search for a lost colleague exposes a deadly conspiracy involving his own family and Soviet-era secrets in the mountains of East Germany.

Terror Phone III: R3-D1A... A film, which is also about the production of itself, in which a cellular phone purchase begins the path of recovery for a man whose life is about to turn around.