Underground Vanguards

The Ruxpins

Ben and Sarah Ruxpin, two animatronic teddy bears from Seattle, dreamed they’d be together through anything. But is that bright adventure coming to a close? They’ll need to face some challenging truths together if they want a shot at their storybook ending.

Daffedar

Daffadar is the story Ayyappan, a 65 years old honest, sincere, and compassionate security personnel (Daffadar) of the Collector for over 40 years. Evenafter his retirement he dresses as Daffadar and goes to the Collectorate every day

Kanakkinavu

The film discusses a father's unability to grow his children due to the rreason that their mother is no more. Mukesh's character wants his children to grow up with both love of father amd mother. So, he gives both the childrento his best friend Chadradas(Murali) and his wife Sukanya who have no children. Mukesh's death and its after effects are discussed. Mohini also plays an important role in this film.

I Shall Never Return

It is about Amafuji Ken, who longs to tell his best friend Youshinari Ritsurou how he really feels. In the way of that admission is Ritsurou's girlfriend, Moeko. After dropping out of high school, Ken gets Ritsurou to live with him. The angst begins when Ken sleeps with Moeko to get to Ritsurou.

Seetayya

Inspector Seethaiah makes more enemies than friends and changes names wherever he migrates. But, he cannot escape the evil and fights back the anti-social elements till the end.

The Shoes

In a religious dormitory where boys between the age of 10-15 live under the fear of God, the headmaster applies an unconventional method to find the missing shoes which ultimately scares the new boy, Ahmet, to death while teaching a life lesson to Hakan who is the most experienced of all.

He Laughed Last

A 1920s chorus girl inherits a slain gangster's empire.

On Generation and Corruption

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light and darkness. Entirely composed of superimposed images of Tokyo’s landscape and water sites, the film takes its rhythm from the cycles of repetition that are the pillars of life and civilisation. As light emerges from the chaos, Jim O’Rourke’s ambient drone sets the tone for what is to come.

El crimen del otro

Them

Humans live in a comfortable dream that repeats itself. They control the dream. They were humans once too. Some humans wake up, most don't. Daniel wakes to be told that things could be different. Daniel believes it. For a while at least.

Ecstatic Stigmatic

No-Wave film directed by Gordon Stevenson from Teenage Jesus & the Jerks. Mirielle Cervenka (Exene's sister) plays a young woman named Rose who is afflicted with a case of extreme stigmata.

Days of Hell

This fast-paced film stars (Conrad Nichols) as the tough Captain Williams, head of a crack commando squad who goes into Afghanistan to save the U.S.S.R. -- and indirectly, the U.S. -- from some very bad publicity. A journalist and his daughter have evidence that the Russians are using biological and chemical weapons in their war in Afghanistan. The unit of five commandos smuggle themselves into Afghanistan through its neighbor Iran, bribing the leaders of that country with some spare parts for its war planes (shades of Iran-Contra!). Once inside the country they discover that the journalist has already died from exposure to nerve gas, and his daughter is already getting sick. Williams starts to guess that they are all being set up because everything is going just a little too well, and he adjusts his plans accordingly. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi