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Young women in St. Petersburg are going back to school. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. They try to find a path to stability, happiness and prosperity. They want to learn how to be a successful bitch. Bitch Academy is a tragicomic documentary of early Russian capitalism, which determines the dreams and intimacies of its young generations, in at atmosphere of fear and hope.

The Wizard of Oz character is not even in the roundabouts of the Rainbow. It's in the worst corner of Kansas. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show

Stranger than fiction... In 1998, seven years after the independence of the country, the autocratic Kazahk president Noursoultan Nazarbaiev decides to move the capital city Almaty to Astana, in the northern steppes. Vertiginous towers spring out of the ground, financed by oil exports. The film opens with a presidential speech in 1997 on the future of Kazakhstan, boasting to “the three layers of society, the rich, the middle class and the poor” of the infinite promise of the free market. Christian Barani and Guillaume Reynard observe the life of a new society, in the standardised and gaudy trappings of wealth. Through an ex-Soviet oligarchy in full expansion, a melancholy and poetic portrait of globalization.

In 1925 William Faulkner lived in New Orleans for a few months writing short sketches in which he called the city to life. Inspired by Faulkner's impressions, Dutch Filmmaker Marjoleine Boonstra drifts through the devastated streets of New Orleans, at any hour of the day, looking for the fears and dreams of people whose lives have gone adrift as a result of hurricane Katrina.