n the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of William B. Gaines until it came crashing down the rise of censorship with the imposition of the Comics Code. In its wake of the devastation of the medium's creative freedom, we also explore EC's defiant survival with the creation of the singular "Mad Magazine" by Harvey Kurtzman. We then move to the resurgence of the superheroes in the late 1950's and 1960's typified with the rise of the dramatically innovative Marvel Comics edited by Stan Lee. Still more important is the rise of the the gleefully uninhibited underground comics created by eccentric talents like Robert Crumb and Dan O'Neill. These leads to profiles of creaters like Harvey Pekar who take the medium into new directions of expression. In the late 1970s and '80s we see the rise of alternative comics with such bold talents like Jaime Hernández for "Love and Rockets, Sue Coe for How to Commit Suicide in South Africa and especially for Art Spiegelman for his searing Pulitizer Prize winning Holocaust account, Maus. Finally, we learn of the medium's superhero mythos' revitalizing moment with the creation of Frank Miller's ferocious min-series "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns". Taken together, the film makes its arguement that the medium is far more than the stereotype of juvenile trash but rather it is an artform with a wild history and an exciting future.

We are in East Berlin, 1978. It’s summer, three years after Wassilly’s death. Nelly’s boyfriend and Alexei’s father died in a car accident in Russia. Since he is dead, Nelly wants to leave too. Away from the GDR, to leave the grief and the memories behind. To get a fresh start. That should be possible in the West, or so Nelly believes.

荣誉：克拉科夫国际电影节铜龙奖 　　导演点评：这原本是大阪世博会时（译注：1970年），为住友化学工业展馆制作的影片。本片在世博会上是在三面银幕上放映的，而这里收录的作品则是对其进行重组后完成的。

格格巫　　《西方毕竟是西方》（West Is West ）可以看作是《东方就是东方》（East Is East ，1999）的续集，虽然导演换了，但故事依然一脉相承，仍旧是通过生活在英国的巴基斯坦家庭——可汗一家家庭成员的内部矛盾，来反应东西方文化的差异和冲突。上一部的故事发生在1971年，这部的故事发生在1975年，可汗一家从索尔弗徳市搬到了英格兰北部的曼彻斯特，这部的故事主要集中在父亲——60岁的乔治·可汗和最小的儿子——15岁的Sajid身上。Sajid深受父亲的巴基斯坦传统专制和学校混混欺压两重压迫，有成为问题少年的倾向，乔治无奈，决定把他送到生活在巴基斯坦旁遮普的前妻身边，而他抛下前妻已经30多年了……

格格巫　　《西方毕竟是西方》（West Is West ）可以看作是《东方就是东方》（East Is East ，1999）的续集，虽然导演换了，但故事依然一脉相承，仍旧是通过生活在英国的巴基斯坦家庭——可汗一家家庭成员的内部矛盾，来反应东西方文化的差异和冲突。上一部的故事发生在1971年，这部的故事发生在1975年，可汗一家从索尔弗徳市搬到了英格兰北部的曼彻斯特，这部的故事主要集中在父亲——60岁的乔治·可汗和最小的儿子——15岁的Sajid身上。Sajid深受父亲的巴基斯坦传统专制和学校混混欺压两重压迫，有成为问题少年的倾向，乔治无奈，决定把他送到生活在巴基斯坦旁遮普的前妻身边，而他抛下前妻已经30多年了……

波罗的同胞著名的电影明星玛丽·玛维拉向他出示了一系列神秘的匿名信，信中要求她归还那颗美丽的钻石——“西方之星”。尽管波罗要求她退还，但玛丽还是决定保留这颗钻石，以便她能在在归亚德利夫人举办的周未晚会上在现光采。 　　与此同时，作为“星方之星”的姐妹钻石——“东方之星”的拥有者，归亚德利夫人也收到了同样的匿名信，同样，归亚德利夫人也拒绝了波罗要求替其保管钻石的提议。 　　就在专为两位贵妇人虚荣心大比拼而举行的周未晚会开幕前昔，两颗钻有利于都不翼而飞

在保加利亚的一处偏远农村，一群德国建筑工人开始了一项难度极大的施工任务。外国的土地让工人们心中的冒险意识开始觉醒，但是他们也要面对自身产生的偏见，以及由语言障碍和文化差异导致的种种误解。当工人们为了赢得当地人的认可以及信任而开始竞争时，剧情开始迅速发展。

An ecology of signs lurking amid seductive 16mm travel footage echoes with post-colonial reverberations in Ana Vaz's deceptively corrosive, award-winning Occidente

本片将一群不拘一格的艺术家、评论家和学者带到了英国郊外，来了解英国人是如何通过艺术来描绘本国的美丽风光的，探究为何英国田园画能到达到如今的崇高地位和影响力。从查尔斯五世时期的佛兰德斯人到数字时代大卫霍克尼的iPad，英国田园风景画将英国的光辉历史显露无疑。电影制作人尼克罗格，历史学家丹斯诺，小说家威尔赛尔富等名人都参与到本片的拍摄中。

本片讲述青年热血漫画家陈唤，坚持己见，创作出一部反战和平题材的热血动作燃漫。在陈唤所创作的漫画中，主人公汪树（谢孟伟饰）化身反战使者，他为了实现战乱地区的和平，在与敌对势力抢夺“模块”的过程中，多次奋不顾身的深入险境，直面死亡的威胁，上演生死燃战。将现实与漫画的内容相结合，将杀戮和战争，嗜血与黑暗刻画的淋漓尽致。战争是可怕的，只有守望和平，世界才会美好。