Extravagantly expensive massaging mats, rejuvenating ampoules and sets of steam pots are only a few of the vast spectrum of objects sold by young salesmen at suspicious commercial presentations for old-age pensioners. Protagonists of the film are five friends fascinated by such presentations. They spend their savings on such products not out of necessity, but in the attempt to fill the emptiness in their lives. The absurdity of these purchases shows their fight against getting old and against their loneliness.

Follow punk-cabaret icon Amanda Palmer as she hits the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Since her re...

A document of the Riot Grrrl and Queercore scene in the 1990s, the film has been screened at film fe...
In 1993, Bikini Kill toured the UK with grrrl associates Huggy Bear. Lucy Thane made a documentary a...

Russian Poet Boris Ryzhy was handsome, talented and famous. So why did he end his own life at the ag...

"Touches on elemental images; air, water, (and snow), earth and fire (and smoke) all come into it." ...
Afro-Cubans played a leading role in the fight to free Cuba from Spanish domination; as part of that...
The story of the settlement of Irish immigrants in the North Bronx, New York, and how the once predo...

After giving birth, Joyce attempts to regain her position as a filmmaker while also caring for her n...

A biography of the Portuguese-born Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature w...
The children of immigration, here to stay, are the new Americans. How we fare in welcoming them will...

Janie Geiser takes us along on her search for the original meaning of the word 'algebra' with the he...

A night flight through hysteria and police surveillance in suburban America.

For decades, American touring ice shows dominated family entertainment with their dazzling productio...

APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT is a feature-length documentary about The Teddy McArdle Free School, where ...
Documenting the creative brilliance and passion of three stand-up comedians working the comedy club ...

Seeds of Time follows agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler's global journey to save the eroding foundatio...

Every January, the country's largest jigsaw puzzle contest is held in St. Paul, Minnesota. Choose yo...

In the macho world of Mariachi music, very few women can hold their own. Just like the songs they pl...

A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.

A series of interviews which try to establish the current role of the woman in the Saudi society in ...