In rural Myanmar, ancient traditions, songs, stories, predictions and rituals are used as tools for moving forward in the face of violence and adversity.
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In rural Myanmar, ancient traditions, songs, stories, predictions and rituals are used as tools for moving forward in the face of violence and adversity.
The medium that gives voice to those who have no voice is radio. In northern Iraq, seven young journalists, Muslims, Christians and Yezidis, are giving their microphones to those who want peace. They work for Radio Al-Salam, a station free from political and religious influences. In total freedom, voices are raised on the airwaves and bring back the link within a nation.
Everywhere in France, people are looking for solutions, in every fields of our everyday-life, to reduce energy consumption. They want to build a world with more solidarity and a society respectful of the environment.
The Amsterdam doll shop Colorful Goodies sells Barbies, boy dolls, and cuddly dolls that every child can recognize; from dolls with different skin colors and professions, to dolls with disabilities. This documentary follows three families of color who take home a doll. What does such a doll mean for your self-image if you struggle with it because you are of color, or because you have to learn to live with albinism? Is our dominant white society as tolerant as we think?
For thousands of animals every year, migrating across Patagonia is the only chance of survival as they return to give birth and raise their young or come home to feed.
When taking the train home, I always feel that some parts of myself cannot keep up with the moving carriage, and I feel that the order of my mind is also disrupted. The trivial matters that happened during this period began to appear in my mind, and the boundary between reality and memory began to blur…
Witness explores the personal, political, and cultural ramifications of going viral. Directors Yasmine Mathurin, Amar Wala, and Carol Nguyen follow people who chose to document what they saw, whether in rage, fear, or amusement, and reflect on the staggering but fleeting attention that changed their lives. This series of six short episodes tells the stories that happened after the stories we heard about.
Cesenatico, a town located on the Romagna Riviera, has always been synonymous with seaside tourism. Every 100 meters, an endless series of massive buildings alternate—structures that, over the years, have welcomed generations of teenagers during the summer: the colonies, many of which have since been abandoned and left to decay. In 2014, Simone Tribuiani—known as Tribu—with the help and support of other local creatives, decided to revitalize one of them: the former Santarcangiolese colony, later renamed Bronx Ponente. Inside, he created a space dedicated to local artists, surfers, and skaters—a place for meeting and self-expression. In 2020, members of H.C.B.P. (Hard Core Bronx Ponente)—a collective of skaters that emerged from the events of La Santa—breathed new life into another structure, located just a few meters from the Bronx.
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Lucia "Pretty Beast" Krajčovič is a 34-year-old professional MMA fighter and mother of two children. Shortly after giving birth, she is determined to become a champion in both disciplines - sport and motherhood. With a baby in her arms, she is preparing for her next fight. Under the immense pressure of her two identities, exhausted from lack of sleep, she wrestles with a question to which she had a clear answer not long ago. How to be both Pretty and Beast and for how much longer?
STRATA INCOGNITA, is a trans-scalar and trans-temporal journey across the geographies that articulate soil as an agro-industrial infrastructure, but also as an ecosystem and a somatic archive of crimes, memories and myths.
Listed is a 13-minute documentary film that shares the story of Faizal Karim, a Canadian man falsely flagged on the Canadian No Fly List, a terrorist watch list under the Passenger Protect Program. Through Faizal’s personal account of racial profiling and detainment due to being falsely flagged, the film exposes the systemic issues underlying the No Fly List and its impact on marginalized communities.
Teun is 24, perfectly healthy and lives with people with dementia in the closed ward of a nursing home, Why? He is 24, but not all his life - That's why he goes in search of answers for the future..
At nightfall, the sound of a whistle echoes as the young planet awakens. They gallop through the dark night, following pre-programmed instructions, silently carrying out their covert mission, gathering and dispersing. They await the break of dawn, leaving no trace of their presence when the sun rises again.
Brian Wallach was diagnosed with ALS at 37. He and his wife’s fight to reclaim their future from a brutal disease has snowballed into a movement with resounding ramifications not only for the ALS community, but for millions of patients seeking to find their voice in our broken healthcare system.
Sail down the length of Lake Nasser with Curtis Woodside, exploring this forgotten area of the Nile in Egypt. Little-known Egyptian, and Nubian, temples, statues and holy sites will be seen along the way. You don't want to miss this.
In the midst of World War II's turmoil, the quaint British town of Bury St. Edmonds becomes a focal point where lives intersect and secrets unravel. An 18-year-old woman finds herself caught in the throes of a great wartime secret – the breaking of the German Enigma code. Her recruitment into the "Ultra" program brings her to the heart of Bletchley Park's most clandestine operations, where Alan Turing and his team forge the world's first computer in a bid to crack the ever-changing German codes. Every day, she grapples with the weight of the secret, so profound that even her family is oblivious to her covert role. Meanwhile, she captures the heart of an assertive American soldier and their whirlwind wartime romance culminates in a heartwarming union, facing the challenges of the Official Secrets Act. The soldier, persistent and deeply in love, goes to great lengths, in order to secure her release from the program and to solidify their commitment to one another.
In a motionless train in which they live, going nowhere. But here, nowhere is a place, a precious place, a large, beautiful building with stone walls overgrown with ivy, looking out over fields, sky and total silence.
The documentary accompanies the controversial architectural transformation of Adolf Hitler’s birthplace into a police station in the form of a long-term observation. The result is a portrait of a small town on the Austrian-German border, which is exemplary to decades of history of dealing with the National Socialist legacy In Austria.
In Martinique, a psychiatric daycare hospital welcomes a young artist-researcher to lead Bèlè dance and music workshops. The film crafts an intimate dialogue between the director’s inner questions, the words of those who learn to live with a psychiatric diagnosis and the ancestral energy of Bèlè.
Goth is a subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. It was developed by fans of Gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk music genre. This documentary explores the incredible music history of Goth.
Immerse yourself in the magic of Harry Potter by uncovering the secrets behind the global bestseller. Over 20 years later, the wizards of Hogwarts remain immensely popular among audiences, transcending generations. To grasp the reasons behind such success, this documentary will introduce you to the most extravagant fans who perpetuate the phenomenon.
A Super 8 film found in the street and labeled, “Journey to Port Stanley, 1981”; through cuts, Baca divides the Malvinas landscape more and more, until making the different achieve the category of thing.
We captured images along a boundary within Mongolia, chronicling the contrasting landscapes on each side. This boundary delineates the realms of the Przewalski's horse and the domestic horse: on one side, a 506 square-kilometer sanctuary safeguards wild horses, free from human intervention – untouched and unaided; on the opposite side, horses lead entirely different lives under human care, serving as children's companions, workers, modes of transport, sustenance, and sources of amusement.
Combining talking head testimony with elegantly recreated scenes, this extraordinary, daring documentary tells the previously unheard story of how women who loved other women contributed to the fight for Irish independence from the British Empire. A vital contribution to charting an essential gay history of Ireland, Croíthe Radacacha (which is translated as ‘radical hearts’) depicts lesbians at the heart of the Irish revolution as uncompromising in their politics, committed to feminism, socialism and equal rights. Many would take arms in the struggle and many would die. Ciara Hyland’s film nobly revives their memory and acknowledges their courage.
SYLVESTER McCOY - The 7th DOCTOR WHO! Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith AKA Sylvester McCoy, first gained prominence as an active comedian, performing impressive theatrical stunts. Having established a solid acting career, he went on to play the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in long-running sci-fi TV series DOCTOR WHO from 1987 to 1989 - the final lead actor of the original 'Classic Series - briefly returning to pass the torch in the 1996 movie, documented in the video-diary film BIDDING ADIEU. Since then he has also portrayed key fantasy roles such as Radagast in The Hobbit series, and Igor in The Munsters (2022), the prequel film by Rob Zombie.
A man overcomes his grief by swimming to shore from Alcatraz.
Moritz accompanies his grandmother with his camera for a day. In this sensitive portrait, she tells us about her life, but also about the other aspects of her later years.
The return of the enfant terribles of direct action, Guillaume Tel4 and Gilles Broussaud. Very active on the French alternative scene in the 1990s, they seem to have disappeared from the landscape for around twenty years. Jonathan Bougard found them and filmed a new performance, in the heart of Montreuil in Seine Saint Denis.
Ileana's Smile is the tragic story of a girl with a lightning smile who endures life in a trash dump community in Managua, Nicaragua, and the unlikely friendships that form around her. The film follows American musician Brad Corrigan, a Nicaraguan taxi driver, and pastor Bismark Rocha as they try to open up new healing paths for Ileana and her devastating choices.
Marina Carrère d'Encausse lifts the veil on the intimate questions that preoccupy her as well as society at large: those related to the end of life. The doctor-journalist introduces Antoine, her partner, who is suffering from Charcot's disease, an incurable illness, and who wishes to choose how he ends his life. Is the current law in France sufficient? Should it simply be better enforced, allowing better access to palliative care? Should assisted suicide and euthanasia be legalized? Marina meets with patients concerned about the end of life, caregivers, and politicians in France, as well as in Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada, countries where euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal.
A look at the predators of the Savuti
Complete show of "Lo que Salga" by Edo Caroe made in Movistar Arena. Includes Pre Show, performances by Darinka González and Lucho Miranda
In an empty warehouse, four women remember the rooms of the house where they were tortured during the last dictatorship. After testifying about their experience, the women make a sketch, similar to the one used by Judge Rafecas in 2020 to identify the site of the clandestine center.
A wide-ranging, revealing, and often intimate portrait of WNBA player Candace Parker, one of the most transcendent women's sports stars in history.
Just outside the city of Genoa, Italy, lies a vast, monumental cemetery. Alongside its graves, through the arcades and galleries, all kinds of people work and wander. For a place that’s all about death, the cemetery is curiously alive.
A political, social and economic crisis has thrown a country into darkness. When Lebanon’s only alternative is solar energy, one community seizes the opportunity to transition to sustainable energy
Pain of camels when they carry too much load of humans and their belongings or are used for some commercial works. How selfish and cruel we humans are that we ride on them for fun and our pleasure but we don’t realise their pain behind it. This world is full of cruelty and selfishness….. The story behind it is that on 23rd October 2023, I went to a sea beach in Daman for a tour where I saw an owner took a camel for a ride and when the people completed it, the camel was taken to this place and forced to sit. The owner was behaving in a very cruel manner. When the owner went for finding another camel ride, I took a photograph through my phone as I didn’t bring my DSLR over there. Meanwhile, I took a photograph when I noticed that the camel was very tired and his body was not allowing him for a next one but it had to. Alas! We humans have become so cruel and rude that we don’t realise the pain of others especially the speechless ones.
The one-hour documentary “ALEMANNIA inTEAM” follows the Alemannia Aachen squad in the 2022/2023 season. The film takes a look behind the scenes, shows the team in preparation and lets employees speak who have faithfully accompanied Alemannia's journey over the years. It's about the love of the fans, the unique atmosphere at Tivoli and the big dream we share - promotion to the 3rd league.
Shot in Paris, Death Valley, and the Nevada nuclear test site, this film essay examines the complex historical relationship between photography, cinema and science. The film explores the impact of chrono-photographic experiments of Irish-born Lucien Bull (1876 - 1972) on the developments of image-capture aesthetics and science throughout the 20th century, showing how technologies of vision were aggressively instrumentalised by the military-industrial complex, particularly by the nuclear testing industry. Using rarely-seen nuclear test footage alongside more poetic images and new film from the nuclear test site in Nevada, I See A Darkness questions cinema's relationship with the material world, with contributions from leading philosophers and writers.
Elephant Gym has been deeply involved in the indie music for ten years. Making ideals based on love and peace. Through Rock Music to communicate with the world, and taking their own steps on the road of creating music.
A full-length documentary of 80 mins duration, shot intermittently over 12 years, observational in style and experimental in form, explores life on two residential streets in London and Baghdad.
The film is about a little boy who dreams of becoming an astronaut. He studies everything related to space, and one day he meets a real astronaut who answers his questions and tells interesting stories about flights.
This is not only the story of the famous rivalry between Borromini and Bernini, but of Borromini’s rivalry with himself, a genius so tied to his art as to transform it into a demon that devours him from inside.
Basil has been spending his annual vacation in Ukraine for the second year in a row. He comes here to document the lives of ordinary people. Taking photographs and collecting material for his book, he tries to get closer to the locals in cities close to the front line. What motivates a foreigner to leave his peaceful city, spend his savings, and come to an unfamiliar country at war?
Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and lutenist Thomas Dunford perform Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, and Handel in this musical exploration of the Renaissance in the Lombard city.
Àlex Cirera, grandson of Félix Izquierdo, bikes over 2000 km from Terrassa (Catalonia) to Mauthausen (Austria) to honor his grandfather's memory, who was killed in Gusen, the Nazi concentration camp.
It is an intimate and harrowing glimpse into this decade's greatest humanitarian crisis and one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century, the hidden genocide of Tigray, Ethiopia. This 30-minute expository film follows a coalition of journalists who will stop at nothing to report the atrocities that have been inflicted upon their land and people, even if it means facing imprisonment or execution. With a powerful combination of first-hand testimonials and on-the-ground war zone footage, Woyane uncovers the brutal reality of the Tigray genocide and brings to light the lived experiences of millions of civilians who have been caught in the crossfires and, in many cases, systematically targeted.
"You can't kill youth." Mariano grows up wrapped in this phrase, as the most substantial legacy he receives from his aunt and uncle. Eight years after Aunt Hilda's death, he returns to the house to empty it. Memories and ghosts vie with him for the memory of a country in the face of the destruction of time.
Mike Dawe's life changes forever when he is diagnosed with cancer. In Setting His Own Limits, he trains for a marathon while raising money and awareness for Young Adult Cancer Canada, inspiring many along the way.
Who were the unknown heroines who helped to promote women's rights in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century? The documentary by producer and director Silvia Venegas highlights the importance of past and present activism that continues to fill the streets of Spain today with people demonstrating and paying tribute to those whose rebellion advanced the status of women in society and opened up opportunities they could only dream of before. But their journey is far from over…
Young Neisi Dajomes and her siblings train in a small and simple weightlifting gym located in a quiet and humble town in Ecuador. They see in this sport a way of life and the great incentive to improve themselves day by day, to fulfill their Olympic dreams.