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The road which didn't exist and the end of the dessert. Minutes of travel.

In Israel's occupied territories, thousands of Palestinians work illegally as construction laborers. After an arduous and dangerous journey,loaded with blankets and bags, they cross the hills to the places where they can find employment. At night they sleep on the hillcrests in improvised huts and coffin-like sleeping cubicles, a stark contrast to the luxury apartment complexes they build by day. But they have made homes for themselves, complete with cosy pillows and even power generated by batteries they have scraped together. In 9 Star Hotel, the filmmakers follow Ahmed and Muhammad, one a merry collector of found objects, the other a philosophical criticaster of the Palestinian character ("We think backward. We never think forward."). Together, they share food, belongings and stories, and live under the constant threat of getting arrested -police, soldiers and the secret service are all tirelessly on the alert for illegal workers. With raw, handheld images, this disconcerting yet touching film documents friendship, nostalgia and the uncompromising urge to survive.

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David Weissman – producer and co-director of the cockettes has been making oddball short films since the mid-1980s. This almost-complete collection includes: complaints, in which 32 diverse people sing about what irks them; beauties without a cause – evil drag queens on a rampage; 976- , an alternative to safe sex; The step – a revolutionary faces reality; Song from an Angel – Rodney Price’s moving last song-and-dance prior to his death from AIDS; HIV: un-infected ≠ un-affected – a compilation of AIDS prevention PSAs; Mothers – a clash in the park between “decent” moms and “wild” moms; and two film festival promos – Dancing Jews with Wacky Shoes and The Short, Short, Trailer.

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The UFO's are not only manifestations of literature and Hollywood cinema. In Portugal, from North to South, many persons search for evidences and ways to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligent life. Using a simple photographic camera or through detectors invented by the ufologist himself, consuming hours on the Internet or observing the nocturnal skies, through research on historical archives or methods of clinic psychology, many are the investigators. is a documentary about Ufology in Portugal. Everything started at Fátima or maybe before, but the truth is that many are those who dedicate their selves to the cause. The UFO's are not only manifestations of literature and Hollywood cinema. In Portugal, from North to South, many persons search for evidences and ways to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligent life. Using a simple photographic camera or through detectors invented by the ufologist himself, consuming hours on the Internet or observing the nocturnal skies, many are the amateurs investigators. But there is also persons dedicated to the theme inside the academic world, through research on historical archives or methods of clinic psychology. The phenomenon exists and is lived intensely by those people. This documentary is about them.