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A powerful film based on true events in a so-called model prison in Uruguay. Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross interview prisoners and gradually discover the horrors and brutalities which are being hidden by officials.

• [disc 1] Le cimetière des voitures (aka Car cemetery, 1983, 87 min., France, wide sceen 1.66:1) / une production Antenne 2 et Babylone films ; produit par Ken et Romaine Legargeant ; un film du Fernando Arrabal ; scénario et diaogues, Fernando Arrabal ;
• [disc 2] L'Empereur du Pérou (original title under The Emperor of Peru, aka Odyssey of the Pacific, 1982, 81 min., France and Canada, wide screen 1.66:1) / Ken/Romaine et Claude Léger présentent ; film de Fernando Arrabal ; scénario, Fernando Arrabal, Roger Lemelin ; produit par Romaine Legargeant, Claude Léger ; mis en scène par Fernando Arrabal ; une coproduction franco-canadienne, Babylona films S.A., Antenne 2, Ciné-Pacific, Inc.

• [disc 3]: Adieu, Babylone! (aka Farewell, Babylon!, 1992, 55 min., France, full scree 1.33:1) / Antenne 2 présente une coproduction Antenne 2, Cinecim ; un film écrit et réalisé par Fernando Arrabal
• Jorge Luis Borges, una vist di poesia (aka Jorge Lius Borges, a life in poetry, Italy, 1998, 66 min., in Spanish and French, Full screen 1.33:1)) / Alphaville Studio e Spirali - Vel presentano ; un film di Fernando Arrabal
• Arrabal, panic cineast (original title under Arrabal cinéaste panique, container title Arrabal, panik cineast, 2007, 59 min.in French and Spanish, full screen 1.33:1).

Le cimetière des voitures: "Combin[in]g punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal's outrageous adaptation of his infamous stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia. The inhabitants of a junkyard at the edge of a nuclear crater live hand to mouth all the while being hounded by authorities from a corrupt government. Among them is Emanou, a punk rock star agitator doomed to betrayal by one of his own. A raucous and absurd retelling of the Christ story with thugs, murderers, pimps and punks."--Disc container.
L'empereur du Pérou: "The Emperor of Peru stars Mickey Rooney as an old railway engineer who convinces three children that they can fix up a decayed Pacific stream engine and use it to return a Cambodian refugee to his home country and maybe even save his family."--Disc container.
Adieu, Babylone! is a documentary alternating between clips from different movies and footage of Arrabal's trip to New York City in the early nineties. Arrabal is able to capture some truly odd imagery in his travels around the city which juxtaposes the filmed clips and more conventional travelogue footage. Arrabal based this on his novel of the same name and managed to get a few unlikely guest stars to appear, including Spike Lee.
Jorge Luis Borges, una vist di poesia is a documentary on one of Arrabal's greatest influences, the writer Jorge Luis Borges who inspired Arrabal throughout his career, and features the last interview with Borges before his death. Interview sequences are interspersed with clips from Arrabal's films.
Arrabal, panic cineast features interview clips with Arrabal alongside some of his contemporaries, including former Panik Movement aficionado, Alejandro Jodorowsky, as well as a few other filmmakers and artists who claim him as an influence. Arrabal is always an amusing subject and this documentary captures him in fine form as he happily talks about his films and his surreal artistic creations.

This looks at the sexual and professional lives of three people: a television producer, his ex-girlfriend, and a prostitute, to create a meditative story about work, relationships, and the notion of freedom.