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Australia is the new hotbed for weird phenomena and UFO sightings. Hear eye-witnesses recant their UFO sightings in Australia, the land down under. None of the people that were interviewed have ever met, yet they all claim similar encounters which will shock you to the ore. Is Australia next on the map to be infected by the Alien plague?
Faced with the terrifying lack of interest of the rulers to reverse environmental destruction, citizen proposals for change and resistance are growing in the world. In Argentina, social movements are facing the giants of agribusiness, mega-mining and land clearing, with concrete and effective actions. A local documentary maker tracks this quiet transition revolution and finds initiatives that could become a powerful network for change. Knowing them changes your consciousness and your way of living in the world.
Benning's 18-minute study of moonfall in the morning sky-- A close cousin to his film "two moons". A lovely rendition of 'Moon River' accompanies the footage, filmed July 24th, 2019.
When Renny Yater and George Greenough made surfboards for one of the best waves on earth, they helped kickstart a revolution and influence generations of surfers and shapers.
Fly the Alps is about a trip of two good old friends Ludo and Nico who are set off for an adventure through the Alps. Because you can experience challenges close to home they decided to paraglide from Slovenia to Monaco. To spice up the experience a little bit they also climb the highest summits of each of the seven countries they fly over.
Documentary about polyamorous people in the Netherlands.
On 15 June 2019, 61 teams lined up at the start. That’s 183 drivers with nearly 2,000 stewards to ensure their security and about 250,000 spectators for the 87th edition of the 24 Heures du Mans. Every one of them experienced the 24 Heures with their own goals and expectations which you can discover or rediscover in this film.
Record of the pilgrimage of La Virgen de La Roca in 2019, it was the last record before the COVID-19 pandemic. This tradition has been going on for more than 70 years.
For several months, Sloviansk was occupied by pro-Russian fighters. Local residents were first in Ukraine to meet tanks, artillery and other modern weapons. Now it is peaceful tourist city, children play on the streets. But what are their games?
Peppino lives in the Italian countryside, between Puglia and Basilicata, Altamura and Matera. His days and his works are dedicated to the land and animals. The time of its existence follows the movement of the sky and the wind. We don’t need to know much about him: that little or that much – which is everyone’s life – is written in his eyes.
"Capoeira: Uma Vivência em Roda" is the new documentary by Por Outro Olhar (alternative media and UFSJ extension program) that interviews capoeirista master Jailson dos Santos Pinto and explores his experiences in capoeira and the use of the modality as a form of resistance and inclusion.
The world of finance is at a crossroad. It is short-term traders versus long-term investors. Greed versus responsibility. Artificial intelligence versus human minds. For decades, the financial industry has been dominated by "wolves" seeking short-term personal gains.
Vila das Torres was a self-built community based on one of the largest urban gardens in Rio de Janeiro, below the energy towers of the Light Company and next to the train lines. Eight years after its removal for the construction of Parque Madureira, former residents report their memories.
Absolute pleasure as an identity. Alfonso de Sierra, Luis Escribano, Ramón Massa, Ces Martí and Enric Bents were “Els 5 QKs”, a group of amateur filmmakers who, in 1975, decided to get together and create a transgressive and courageous filmography breaking social, religious, and political boundaries; placing the faggot as leading role hero: proud of himself, shameless, beyond good and evil. In this documentary film, Luis Escribano and Ces Martí, only living members of the group, review, alongside some actors, their creative process and what those films, forgotten till now, meant to Barcelona during La Trancisión.
The film, Music to Madness - the story of Komitas, examines the Armenian Genocide from the perspective of Komitas, an Armenian music composer and priest that experienced a life filled with the passion of dreams pursued. Tragically, Komitas also witnessed the devastation of that dream during the calamity of the Armenian Genocide in the years 1915 - 1923. Through the life and tragedy of Komitas, genocide is considered not only as a demographic description of mass killing, but also as the murder of individual persons and the implications of these murders on those surrounding.
It is like a miracle that has occurred five times a century since 1797. The Fête des Vignerons frees the character of the Vaudois from their legendary restraint. It turns an entire region into a gigantic drunken boat. The 2019 arena welcomes 20,000 spectators, the equivalent of the population of Vevey. Guarantor of tradition, the Confrérie des Vignerons ensures that it evolves and engages the artists who best stick to their time.
Woody Guthrie is one of America’s legendary songwriters. A voice of the people, he wrote hard-hitting lyrics for a hard-hit nation. His is a tale of survival, creativity and reinvention. He is proof that there is always potential for change and even in 2019, more than fifty years after his death, he is challenging Donald Trump from beyond the grave. With enormous influence on successive generations of musicians like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez and Billy Bragg, this film proves he has a true place in 21st-century culture.
Stuntman. Actor. Full-time UPS employee. Former WWF wrestler, Disney World performer, and NFL nose tackle. Brian Donahue has seemingly done it all. Yet he's still searching for that elusive Hollywood dream.
The film "Taxi Drivers" is the story of three Dushanbe natives who earn their living driving a taxi. Two of them are migrants – one turns the steering wheel in Moscow, the other in New York, and the third is engaged in hauling at home.
The final warning and interview with Dr. Chuck Missler. For the first time in history, this team will unveil over four decades of study that uncovers the mysteries of biblical prophecies being fulfilled in the days that lie before us–exposing unprecedented technologies that will expose the identity of the UFO phenomenon hidden within the realm of the unseen world. Come join Dr. Chuck Missler on his last prophetic expose about end-times prophecies written in the books of Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariah, and Revelation. This explosive documentary will include the expertise of Dr. Toggero Santilli (two-time Nobel Prize Nomination in Theoretical Physics), Steve Quayle (Author/researcher) and Gary Cole (Neuro researcher/film director).
Three foxes - Hunter, Scar, and Red - live on a Serengeti-like landscape on a rewilded part of the world's largest man-made island in the Netherlands. Through the eyes and voice of Hunter, we follow how she grows up from being a 6 week old fox cub to raising cubs of her own among thousands of wild horses, deer, and cattle that roam wild and undisturbed by humans just 20 miles from Amsterdam.
Ay Mariposa tells a story of three characters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border wall. As the director of the National Butterfly Center, Marianna Trevino Wright has become a leader of wall resistance in the Valley, a position that has resulted in violent threats from pro-wall factions and an emotional odyssey as she tries to navigate the ever-shifting sands of border policy. Zulema Hernandez, a life-long migrant worker, immigrant and great grandmother, has been a dedicated advocate for all migrants, both wild and human-kind. Meanwhile the butterfly, la mariposa, fights its own daily battle for survival in a landscape where more than 95 percent of its habitat is long gone and much of what remains lies directly in the path of the wall. Ay Mariposa documents each characters' fierce commitment to home, justice, wild beauty and the future of the US-Mexico borderlands.
In this revelatory documentary, hip-hop legend and art lover Fab 5 Freddy (aka Fred Brathwaite) saddles up to explore 15th-century Italian renaissance art in 15th-century style – on horseback. Amidst superstar artists such as Michelangelo, Giotto, Ghiberti and Carpaccio, Fab discovers groundbreaking images of a multi-racial and multi-ethnic society that have slipped through the cracks of art history.
Frankfurt, 20 December 1963—For the first time, a German federal court places Nazi war criminals on trial. Fritz Bauer, a previously unknown prosecutor, is on a mission. Against the policy of silence and denial, Bauer wants not only to examine these Nazis but to make the whole of Germany face up to its past. It would be a shock to the nation and a young generation of Germans would be horrified to discover the crimes of their parents. German society would never be the same.
The story of the "Decima Mas", an Italian commando frogman unit of the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) created during the Fascist regime.
Luna is a pornographic actor. When she was 18, she decided to become a porn star. Without sparing herself, she performs continuously in film, silencing her increasingly damaged body. Charlotte stopped doing this work. After taking time to rebuild herself, she is now able to talk about. She highlights the extent which pornography takes its toll, both physically and mentally on the being.
Told in his own words on film, the documentary reveals how in 1959, His Holiness the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet into India on foot over the Himalayas. This perilous trek took 13 days, with the Dalai Lama only able to travel at night to evade detection. This singular event has influenced the lives of millions worldwide.
The ongoing battle between these two world famous soft drink brands has been raging for decades. This film explores how both grew from humble origins to billion-dollar beverages.
A lot of witness are talking about trues and lies about ANARCHISM ( And how afraid are the states about anarchism )Since early days in Spain and adding reflections about the future of this way of life. There are also actors performing historic chapters.
For four years, the Jicarilla Apache Nation's Johnson O'Malley program, led by Lynn Roanhorse, and Holt Hamilton Films have joined forces to encourage, motivate, and empower Jicarilla Apache youth by providing hands-on learning and mentorship in the filmmaking process. Follow this exciting journey as Native American youth show the world they can do great things when EMPOWERED.
Pandora's Box unmasks the global pandemic of menstrual inequity and period poverty. From Maasai villages, to Mumbai and on to London, we meet young women who are forced to stay at home from school, or even drop out, merely because they don't have access to menstrual supplies. We meet formerly incarcerated women in the U.S. prison system who talk about their struggles to menstruate safely while deprived of basic human hygiene. One of them asks: "Isn't the ability to menstruate with dignity a basic human right?"
An in-depth interview with Italian filmmaker Francesco Barilli about the Italian filmmakers Luigi and Camillo Bazzoni.
On October 30, 1975, 15-year old Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered beneath a tree on her own front lawn in the exclusive community of Greenwich, Connecticut. Following her death, the investigation was stalled for 23 years before an individual was arrested and pulled into the limelight: Michael Skakel, who was Martha's neighbor at the time of her death and a cousin to the famous Kennedy fam.
Would you be able to leave everything behind to pursue your dreams? Pablo Yglesias, a resident of Barcelona, decided in 2013 to change his life and start a biosphere conservation project in the Amazon of Peru.
"Abou Salim el-Ayachi" is a Moroccan biographical film that portrays the life of Abou Salim Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Abi Bakr Al-Ayyashi (born in Sha’ban 1037 AH / 1627 CE – died in 1090 AH / 1679 CE). He belonged to an Amazigh tribe called Ait Ayach, located in the Jabal Al-Ayachi region. A renowned traveler and Islamic scholar, he is best known for his famous travelogue "Ma’ al-Mawa’id" (The Water of Banquets). bou Salim el-Ayachi is considered one of the most prominent intellectual and religious figures of Morocco and the broader Islamic East during the 11th century AH.
Documentary short film based on the private diary of Nayibe Tavares-Abel's great-grandmother from 1919. Includes stopmotion animation and a silent fiction film in 16mm.
Documentary about Andrea Chiesi included in the Ceilings 2 project, curated by Simona Caramia.
For the first time, a team from the Soviet Union came to the Olympics in Finland in 1952. Abroad, no one believed in the victory of Soviet athletes. But they did not know that the backbone of the USSR team consisted of front-line soldiers, blockade survivors, and prisoners of concentration camps.
This documentary focuses on the female Chinese writer Xiao Hong and her traveling during the Sino-Japanese war years between 1932 and 1942.
Vicky, a young Chinese mural painter, works at the Warner Bros. World construction site in Abu Dhabi. In a moment of heightened emotion, Vicky, her friends, and a filmmaker come together in a fleeting shared space, weaving dreams and imaginations. As the narrator reflects on the daily lives of Vicky and her friends, she strives to unravel the subtle, enigmatic bonds that connect them.
"A hunter of secretive shares, I entered the forest of being ... " - with the poems of Velemir Khlebnikov, we enter the world of birds, where the flycatcher, orioles, remezes reveal their "secretive shares" to us. And we understand that birds are not our lesser brothers, they are other peoples who have fallen into the net of life together with us, into the net of time, they are the same as us, prisoners of earthly splendor and earthly suffering.
Documentary film by Clio Simon made with young people from the MJC La Maison, a social center in Tourcoing, as part of the Que Faire? program, led by LE BAL / La Fabrique du Regard.
Machine Hallucination whirs and throbs for thirty minutes as a machine processes images and then responds to them. There are moments when glimmers of New York are completely clear: you feel as if you’re moving over the city’s grid at a great height, or glimpse images of buildings right before they start to morph beyond recognition. Other times, you are looking at the data architecture, at graphic plottings, or metadata tags of the original photos.
"Born in a Ballroom," explores the relationship between the Hütte Restaurant, its founder, Eleanor Mailloux, and the rural Appalachian village she called home, Helvetia, West Virginia.
The story of families seeking to undo decades of repression and assimilation of the Kurdish language by taking matters into their hands. Now, every home is a school. A banned language, a sealed school, children studying in their mother tongue at home, and families who convert their homes to schools. ‘Every home is a school’ is the story of defiant people who seek to revive and keep alive a forbidden language.
When Abou from Mali finally made it to Europe, it felt like a new life had started for him. A life, that offered a future. The film he made about his journey from Africa to Europe gets shown all over the world and throughout Germany, where Abou lives as an asylum seeker. His life oscillates between that of an artist with a voice, who is invited to screenings and events, and the isolation and boredom in a remote refugee centre. An essayistic reflection about Europe’s invisible borders and filmmaking as an act of self-empowerment.
Why do we have such a contentious relationship with the idea of dying? What keeps us from looking at death, or the dying, in the eye, from making peace with the process? The Film wonders if the process of dying can become meaningful and if embracing our own mortality might be the key to a more fulfilling life.
Documentary-Mystery about Jimmy Lyons, the legendary jazz artist who wrote lyrics about love, family, existentialism, politics, myth, and meaning. Lyons was once arrested in New York City at the Gaslight Cafe for his unique vocal style and subsequently acquitted for his "right to expand the boundaries of poetry."
Alberto Van den Eynde's work investigates two conceptions of the image: as a capturer or rescuer of past moments and as a cause of the anguish implied by its recovery. The author's approach to his twelve-year-old self is articulated through a mosaic of vacation videos found in an old family camera. These memories form a touching, nostalgic, self-parody warp, the digital remnants of a new generational sensibility.
A documentary film about the experience of 9 trans persons of Barcelona
Story of a communist human.