After fifteen days of quarantine for the coronavirus, a couple reflects on the daily challenges of confinement, with their four-year-old daughter.
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After fifteen days of quarantine for the coronavirus, a couple reflects on the daily challenges of confinement, with their four-year-old daughter.
Ancient Greek Medicine from the Neolithic Age to the Late Antiquity: Homeric Medicine, Theurgical Healing, Theocratic Philosophers, Hippocrates, τhe Foundations of Rational-Modern Medicine, Alexandrian Doctors, Galen, Pharmacology. Its glorious history comes to life, through fiction and the help of digital technology: 3D representations of ancient temples, aerial shootings of archaeological sites, location scan-using photogrammetry, original medicine drawings.
This film explores food sustainability, how farmers' markets build community, and why local food matters. Filmmaker Dr. Benjamin Garner is an Associate Professor at the University of North Georgia. He produces films on food, marketing, and tourism. Dr. Garner consults with companies on soft skills training and produces video ads for web and social media.
Isaac Butterfield's brand new comedy special "Anti Hero" sees Butterfield return to the stage with unfiltered and raw social observations of the society we live in today. Anti Hero explores the PC culture of our ever so changing world - from the good, the bad and the ugly; Butterfield doesn't hold back!
Maria is eight years old and she grew up in Ibiza, an ambiguous and sacred insular territory. She is preparing a ballet for her family, which will be performed on a day after a full moon night. For 40 years no child has been born in S’Estanyol, a small and rural land located near Jesùs village, in the south east of the island.
A 16mm hybrid visual poem, at the crossroad between intertextuality and documentary. This film "plays" with images in a mysterious way. In the words of Eugenio Montale, weaving a disappearing and deserted suburban landscape into the fabric of images, sounds, and textures of two far-away lovers yearning for each other.
Documentary on local artists living in Brighton & Hove in East Sussex on the South Coast of England. Explores how Brighton & Hove has been promoted as a great place for artists and creatives to work. However, the rising gentrification of the area has resulted in artists being driven out, as their workplaces and studios get converted or demolished to make way for housing.
Karen, a former professional soccer player born in Puente Alto in the southern part of Santiago. Rosa, her grandmother, assumes the role of mother and becomes a fundamental piece in Karen's life and career. In 2008 Karen begins a love relationship with her neighbor Mariel, a year later they get married in the company of family and close friends. Coto, Mariel's father, never questioned the relationship and accepts that Mariel and Karen move in with him. They will share, joys, fears, life and also death. A record that moves between madness and lucidity, an invitation to feel the heroic act of simply being and being. To resist.
New movie by Olga Privolnova
I was struggling with quarantine — until I found the polar explorers.
The documentary Change: Expanding the Concept of Justice in America, explores the impact of incarceration of minors in the USA.
There is a small town in Austria called Pinkafeld, which gained adverse publicity as a “Nazi village” during the presidential election of 2017, when a majority of its citizens voted for their famous neighbour, the right wing candidate Norbert Hofer. What do people really think in regard to their homeland, refugees and populism? The community shows a society in transition, a microcosm reflecting Europe’s zeitgeist.
As America chooses its next president in the midst of a historic pandemic, FRONTLINE investigates whose vote counts — and whose might not.side the reality of labor trafficking in America. In this documentary with Columbia Journalism Investigations and USA Today, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb reports on allegations of voter disenfranchisement, how unfounded claims of extensive voter fraud entered the political mainstream, rhetoric and realities around mail-in ballots, and how the pandemic could impact turnout.
Enjoy a historical road trip to movie theaters large and small across the state. The film shares the history of the “golden age” of Hollywood when studios and entrepreneurs raced to construct extravagant theaters in which to showcase their craft, and outdo each other along the way.
Longing for a life beyond her hometown in the Thai province of Buriram, Ploy moves to various Southeast Asian cities in search of work. She ends up in Singapore as a sex worker at an illegal, makeshift brothel operating under the cover of a jungle’s leafy darkness that is eventually turned into a public park.
A film about the presidential campaign of Grigory Yavlinsky in the 2018 elections. Anna Artemyeva, a correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, spent a month at Yavlinsky's headquarters, accompanying him on his election trips. Much that the presidential candidate warned about then is coming true: the pension reform, the economic crisis, the change in the basic law, the irremovability of power ... In the 2018 elections, 77% of voters voted for Putin. For Yavlinsky - 1%. The film tells about the doomed attempt of a decent person to warn his country and fight for it in modern political realities.
The sophomore feature film by Stephen McCoy (NIGHTCRAWLERS) using audio and visual alone as a continued attempt toward creating a different kind of visual cinematic language and experience. No superficial action or violence, no dialogue or narrative. This is his swan song to the analog HI8 video filmmaking he fell in love with. This is a visual essay on loneliness, love, death and 21st century post-postmodernist voyeurism. This is not entertainment, enjoy...
A film in which an account by Baño’s grandmother opens the door to an associative, heterodox exploration of historical memory.
It became world news in October 2019 when economic reforms in Ecuador led to gas prices suddenly shooting up by 123 percent. People from urban and indigenous communities united in protest. In The Rebellion of Memory we follow the events through their eyes, as the country’s capital, Quito, descends into smoke-filled chaos.
A man in crisis, disappointed by others and by himself.
Riau Province has been a habitat for Sumatran elephants since ancient times. Massive forest clearing occurred and resulted in almost the entire forest as elephant habitat being lost to oil mining factories, infrastructure buildings, community gardens and settlements. Loss of habitat causes elephants to enter populated areas and destroy plantations, even people's homes. Until finally a conflict arose between the residents of Karya Indah and wild elephants. This living space conflict occurs almost every day and causes losses and even casualties between the two parties.
A conflicted adult-film actress attends a meditation group where she mixes with an off-beat clientele and their troubled guru.
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In Rivera 2100, a corner house facing a railway’s warehouse in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, a young newlywed couple built, with its own hands, a house that was the beginning of their own cultural zeitgeist; a safe haven that irradiated music, art and freedom, in the midst of a country that was living its darkest and most violent time.
Against the backdrop of Pakistan's elections, this film follows the rise of powerful cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, on a mission to preserve the country's blasphemy laws, which prescribe a mandatory death sentence for disrespecting The Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) and life imprisonment for desecrating the Holy Quran. With millions sympathetic to his goal, Rizvi silences anyone attempting to change the law by condemning them to death. As he pushes for more power, Rizvi decides to run for office in the upcoming general elections, and those accused of blasphemy or those who oppose the blasphemy laws- whether targeted minorities, liberals, and opposing Muslim voices - become the pawns of his ambition.
Krzysztof Suchowierski, young man from Poland (live in England) is amazing traveller. Krzysztof cycled 3,500 km of Siberia in the winter. His main motivation was to visit the places where Polish exiles prisoners were sent by Soviet Regime, but not only, also Russians, Germans, and many others. His lonely trip to Kolyma (Russia) had a similar message.
Glaciers are not simply isolated in the mountains, they are at the heart of British Columbia. They provide us drinking water, electricity, and they are vital to the ecosystems that have lived here for thousands of years. With climate change expected to destroy up to 80% of our glaciers by 2100, this issue cannot be ignored. This groundbreaking film deals with climate change on a personal level. Three just-graduated boys take the road to learn first-hand what we can do to save our glaciers. Working closely with glaciologists and community members across BC, Melt is truly a film powered by the people of this province. Re-discover the beauty of BC through an inspiring story about hope, community, and being a young person in this world.
Third film in the documentary series that looks at low-budget filmmaking.
In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen, composed of troops from France as well Poland, Germany, Italy and several other allied states. The campaign that followed saw the Russians use scorched earth tactics to deny the enemy supplies, while Napoleon advanced further and further into Russia, searching in vain for the decisive blow that would force Emperor Alexander to negotiate peace.
Survivors and liberators of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen speak of the day liberation came, 75 years later.
A trip along the 1,300 km long Peninsula of Baja California in Mexico, in which we discover a mythological and magical land, with its own time and Characters. In this film the past, the present and the future are interwined to create a beautiful and unique symphony of the nature, the history and people of the Baja.
This documentary follows wildlife, including monarch butterflies and gray whales, that migrate to or through Mexico.
The film explores the unlikely relationship that exists between the small seaside town of Swanage in Dorset, and Surrealism. This relationship was formed by visionary English painter Paul Nash who lived in Swanage during the mid to late 1930s. As well as paintings and photographs, Nash recorded his fascination with this particular landscape in a number of essays, which form a major part of this film.
A sociological meditation on the different "exits" that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.
Since the beginning of the war in eastern Ukraine, countless people have lost their legs, hands, or even their lives. Hidden land mines and unexploded ordnance threaten people and severely restrict their activities. A group of mine-clearers is working meticulously under hazardous conditions to clear fields and meadows of unexploded ordnance and land mines.
Silence with Dignity is a documentary about the life and work of the famous Bulgarian film directors, the family of Irina Aktasheva and Hristo Piskov.
During the Joseon Dynasty, hair that was black and rich, like mud, was a prerequisite for a beauty, while the hair of a woman who was short and stiff was described as negative and ugly. In 1920, the new woman was called Modan (毛斷). Short hair had a strong meaning for women to challenge the established system. Now in 2019, women also cut their hair. It is a movement that rejects the social definition of “feminine”, escaping “Corset” movement.
This film follows 3 friends who were in Sarajevo during the war as they go to the US for the 20th anniversary of the Dayton Agreement, where they ask questions and consider the impact of the agreement 25 years later, having fun on the way.
After reading an article in an old newspaper, an anti-social boy decides to interview some people and then kill them with poisoned ice creams.
The Last House Standing is a documentary film that explores why we continue to place cost over safety while the technology exists to build homes capable of withstanding hurricanes, fires, and tornadoes.
For thirty years, during the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Chinari’s inhabitants have been trying to survive the war between the Azeris and the Armenians along with the difficult conditions imposed by the blockade. A close-up account of everyday life in a land without peace.
Secrets, lies and lasting consequences. For the past four years, journalist Josh Baker has been trying to uncover the truth about an American family's journey from Indiana to the Islamic State group's caliphate and back.
Hawthorn, a quiet teenage boy with all the correlating tender attributes, lives in a villageon the West Coast of Scotland. The mournful landscapes and whistling wind are interrupted by the blasting dystopic industrial rhythms from Glasgow’s The Modern Institute. The score mirrors Hawthorn’s defeated ego in his desperate love for a returning friend, Magnolia. Sorrowful and deeply felt, Hawthorn’s lovesickness is Romanticist in colour. The wilderness is uncaring. The water laps softly against the muddy sand, oblivious. Fat seals continue to lounge on rocks out at sea.
A sequence of bucolic black-and-white fragments of the southern Tuscan countryside opens a portrait of a peaceful daily routine, of reconciled old age spent in a sun-drenched idyll. Without a hint of emotion, Jochen, aged seventy, outlines the unsettled life of a retired drug smuggler, the life of a person with two stories – one as an outlaw, the second as the respectable head of a family.
A conversation about time: The aging of the black gay man portrayed by Márcio Januário from his homonymous show "The Love Songs of an Old Gay Man".
The strict quarantine in the spring of 2020 reduced the living space of hundreds of millions of people down to just a few square meters. The horizon was limited to the view from the window, boredom permeated the days, and an endless stream of catastrophic rumors emanated from the radio and television. Against the backdrop of his own mental and physical discomfort, the director begins to shoot a video diary. The similarly non-existent static camera records existential monologues as well as activities serving basic bodily needs. This philosophical essay is woven from reflections on the coming transformation of the world and the images that try to capture it.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of animals are entangled and die in discarded or lost fishing nets across the world. Two dedicated women in Mexico have been tracking dozens of entangled sea lions that are slowly being killed by nets cutting into their necks. Watch as they lead an international team of veterinarians and wildlife experts to capture the sea lions and perform delicate surgery to save them.
An Eternalism film.
The Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana is shaken to its core by a teen suicide epidemic that claims 22 Native lives in a single year - including two high school basketball team members. 'For Walter And Josiah' follows the team during their season as the surviving members play to honor their fallen brothers and uplift their community.
This documentary tells the story of Deborah whom suffered from anorexia.
Rachel is a prostitute that lives at her work place. She's originally redhead, but can change the color of her hair according to the taste of each client. That's because Rachel it's not an ordinary prostitute. She's an hyperrealistic sex doll. And this, a portrait of Rachel, her coworkers and the only brothel of sex dolls in Spain.
War with Russia on the east of Ukraine through the director's lens who stayed for a year in the centre of the conflict zone. He became a paramedic volunteer and continued filming everything what was happening in front of his eyes, making a rare true document of this brutal war that continues to happen in the centre of Europe.