La mujer es un buen negocio

Geburt der Hexe A young peasant wants to marry, but the despotic sovereign chooses the bride for one night on the basis of the "ius primae noctis" and declares her fair game. In despair, the young woman turns away from God and towards a Satanic cult. After returning from a campaign, the tyrant pursues her at the insistence of the fanatical village priest. She is confronted and murdered. This act shakes up the peasants; they rise up against the lords.

Pound Foolish An expose of attempts by wealthy people to avoid payment of customs duties. Part of the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series.

The Caged Flower Yoriko Jun turned Miyuki Fukashi’s sensual novel with the same name into a movie. An ordinary office lady and a boy meet on the Internet, they get into a master-slave relationship and are drowned in a world of pleasure.

HAMSTERs After the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in 2014, people in Brussels are plagued with a very peculiar disease — they can’t help dancing in the streets. Modern trauma is dealt in a raw, poetic way in this film, part-documentary on a neighbourhood, part-urban-magical-spell.

Voevoda At the end of the 18th century in Bulgaria under Ottoman slavery, a young woman leaves home and family to become leader of a guerrilla gang.

Where the Border Runs An undocumented refugee hobbles around a clay field somewhere in Sweden and shows us a boundary. It seems to be a real border, but it feels as if it was taken out of empty nothingness.

Kah-chan Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.

Think First Episode 24 of the Crime Does Not Pay series. Margie Smith (Laraine Day) works as a waitress at a drive in restaurant. She likes to date and look nice but on her salary, she can't keep up with everyone else. However, a friend shows her that stealing is easy, cool and lets you dress like success. At first, it works out just fine, but remember--this is a Crime Does Not Pay film and you KNOW she'll soon get caught and prosecuted.

Take This Hammer Take This Hammer features KQED's mobile film unit following author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he's driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African American community.

Feelings and Stuff Daniel meets Iris in the swimming pool on the ten-meter board. Despite his fear of heights, his heart leaps when he sees Iris. And suddenly their hearts appear as real people on the diving board...