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Elephant is a powerful and haunting drama that explores the events leading up to a tragic high school shooting. Through multiple perspectives, the film delves into the lives of ordinary students who find themselves caught in a senseless act of violence.

Longing is a melodramatic film set in a German village that revolves around a love triangle and explores themes of desire, infidelity, and guilt. It tells the story of a fireman who is torn between his secret love for a waitress and his commitment to his wife. The film also delves into the lives of other villagers, including a locksmith and a dancer. As the plot unfolds, the characters navigate through a series of emotional challenges and confront their desires and secrets. Longing also touches upon themes of suicide, village life, and family dynamics.

A woman who is in love with her boss entices him to join her at a nudist camp, but his affection soon turns elsewhere.

In October 1925, due to a depression in the textile industry a 10 percent wage cut was imposed by mill owners. The strike that followed went for thirteen months and was vigorously and violently opposed by mill owners and police authorities. This was not an uncommon consequence of striking, and strikers were often fired upon throughout the early Twentieth Century by both police forces and the National Guard as was demonstrated in the modern section of D.W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE (1916) and many other films of the time. THE PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKE was made by the strikers' Relief Committee to not only show what was happening on the picket lines but to also provide much needed funds for the relief of strikers and their families.

"Man is absolute ruler. Woman is working slave.” Such are the rigid attitudes framing this tale of a country boy’s beliefs about chivalry that lead him to try to escape a brutal father with the girl he loves