Birch

Jan 16, 1995

0h 30m

★ 6.0

A Real Life Fantasy...

Overview

The story begins in a Russian sauna where very buff naked cadets fan birch branches on each other to stimulate their circulation. The story is of a seduction of a Russian soldier that may or may not go well.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Pallaestra Productions

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A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

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5.0

Fanalysis

Mar 5, 2002

Actor/cult icon Bruce Campbell examines the world of fan conventions and what makes a fan into a fanatic.

7.3

Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?

Nov 11, 2015

Daniel Johnston stars in this psychedelic short film about an aging musician coming to terms with the dreams of yesteryear.

0.0

Outside Center

Sep 29, 2023

Finding community via his gay rugby league, Jamaican-born Desmond navigates life, love, and identity as an immigrant living in Munich, Germany.

0.0

At Colonus

Oct 3, 1983

The history of the ancient neighborhood of Colonus in Athens, by a novelist and script writer who lives in modern-day Kolonos.

4.9

Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land

Jan 13, 2013

When many people think of Israel, it is often in terms of modern war or ancient religion. But there is much more to the Jewish state then missiles and prayers. In his debut as a documentary filmmaker, adult-film entrepreneur and political columnist Michael Lucas examines a side of Israel that is too often overlooked: its thriving gay community. Undressing Israel features interviews with a diverse range of local men, including a gay member of Israel's parliament, a trainer who served openly in the army, a young Arab-Israeli journalist, and a pair of dads raising their kids. Lucas also visits Tel Aviv's vibrant nightlife scene-and a same-sex wedding-in this guided tour to a country that emerged as a pioneer for gay integration and equality.

3.0

Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters

Jun 20, 1980

In 1978 the police attacked demonstrators at the Sydney (Australia) Mardi Gras celebrations. This film details the communities' responses.

0.0

Greek Community in Heidelberg

Sep 24, 1976

The Greek guest workers -gästarbeiter- in the industrially developed central and northern Europe in the mid 70s.

0.0

At Tourkovounia

Oct 4, 1982

Greek internal migrants in Athens, after the Greek Civil War colonize the tops of the Tourkovounia hills.

6.1

Dressed in Blue

Sep 6, 1983

A documentary about the lives of six transgender women in post-Franco Spain.

0.0

Circles

Jan 31, 2016

After a 9 month mission as a doctor in war-torn Central African Republic, Susanna returns to Sweden only to find she no longer can call it her home.

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6.8

10 Year Retrospective: Cast and Crew Look Back

Jan 11, 2005

The cast and crew reflect back on the making of the film Léon - The Professional (1994).A series of interviews with people in different places, all of them involved in the film.

5.0

Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption

Nov 10, 2013

Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi is a play retelling the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, Texas. This documentary follows the troupe, playwright, and audience around the world on a five-year journey of Terrence McNally’s passion play, where voices of protest and support collide on one of the central issues facing the LGBT community: religion.

5.7

Homotherapy: A Religious Sickness

Nov 19, 2019

In 2019, some still consider homosexuality as a disease that needs to be cured. Focusing on movements with roots in the United States, which draw on both religion and psychiatry to justify so-called conversion therapies, an investigation into the devastating consequences of certain practices that seem to successfully avoid any control by European public authorities.

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Flugstudien

Jan 1, 1989

Short film directed by Traudl Kulikowsky

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0.0

London - Stadt an der Themse

Jan 1, 1970

The short film shows real footage of the city of London and the area around the River Thames. The commentary is spoken by a member of the London Water Police in German with an English accent. Together with the commentator, the viewer takes part in a boat trip on the Thames, which begins above London and then shows the western suburbs, the government district, the West End, the south bank of the Thames, the city and the harbor area of the metropolis.

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6.0

The Valley of Gods

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0.0

Guisado on Sunset

Aug 4, 2019

Missed connection regret at that one late-night spot—the kind you keep playing back in your head but not quite ever remembering right, until it starts to look like something else.

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