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The film is a tribute to the everyday heroes at Danderyd's hospital: the caretakers, the receptionists, the garbage collectors, the bed transporters - A story about hard work, job satisfaction and a seagull that has broken its leg.
Lilian and her four kids are in search for a better life. She dares to leave her violent husband in Guatemala and joins the migrant caravan in order to make it to the Mexican-US border. Being a single mother, this is her only chance to make the dangerous way through Mexico.
To deal with his insomnia, Mohamed Soueid meets various people and close friends to ask them to tell him stories that could help him get a good night's sleep. After filming for 15 years, the collected rushes have become a film, a series of dreams that have come true and haunted the filmmaker until today.
Sarri and Sanna are upper middle-aged women and best friends. They share pain and sorrow, but above all their cultural heritage as first generation Finns in Sweden. They're going to bake joulutorttu, traditional Christmas pastries, chat, laugh and joke like they always do. Julia is Sarri's daughter, and she films the baking. Through their chat, she wants to depict her own ties to her Finnish roots as inspired by Sarri and Sanna.
Some 30 million Americans have sent their DNA to be analyzed by companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA, hoping to obtain clues to family origins and forecasts of their future health. Some users have found family members and discovered lurking genetic risks. But what happens once the sample is in the hands of testing companies? What are they looking at and how accurate are their results?
The interconnected daily journeys of bus riders and operators on the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority bus lines illuminate why the black community here has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. While the bus operators fight for proper PPE, hazard pay, and sick time off they continue to provide a necessary, but dangerous service to frontline workers, the sick, and the homeless population through a pandemic.
Zara McDermott uncovers a ‘rape culture’ raging in Britain’s schools. She speaks for the first time about her own sexual assault by a schoolboy, and asks what needs to change.
Starting with what seems to be a trivial security check procedure at the entrance to the Tel Aviv airport, the film explores a more deeply engraved border, albeit an invisible one, a border that marks our oral cavity and defines the sounds and words we can pronounce.
From the heroic female first responders and workers who risked everything in dangerous jobs at ground zero to the miracle survivors, including Genelle Guzman-McMillan, the last person pulled out alive from the World Trade Center rubble after 27 hours, and the women who suffered a heartbreaking loss; all of them bonded in trauma, grief, and after two decades, remarkable strength and resilience.
Bizarre, sick, bloodthirsty, savage frames from the lives of people...
The film is an attempt to understand the phenomenon of pilgrimage. The author analyzes what prompts people to take the trouble of a journey, to stay in it, who the pilgrim is and whether only the person who is walking.
The multidimensional impact of our planet's rapidly changing climate presents issues of evolving complexity and environmental peril; explore the swift action and bold policies that now have the potential to confront the many challenges of climate change.
In Odisha, aging puppeteers struggle to keep their ancient craft alive against the pressures of the modern world.
70-foot Sharks with teeth like shovel blades and fins the size of huge sails. A whaler's harpoon would bounce off Megalodon like a toothpick. Explore Mega!
When, in the seventies, British folk singer Cat Stevens, later known as Yusuf Islam, achieved worldwide fame, he immediately became the spokesman for a disillusioned hippie generation.
Canada as a refuge for LBGTQ+ immigrants: Yazan from Iraq, Nata from Central Africa, Aida from Iran and Eilyn from Colombia all had to flee their homelands, where violence, threats, hate and rejection prevented them from living their lives and expressing their sexual orientation openly. All they wanted was to be free. From Beirut to Montreal, Quebec City or Vancouver, this ensemble documentary follows the journeys of four people who are determined to change their future. From the terrifying realities they had to flee to the heartbreaking sacrifices they were forced to make, Renaître is a vibrant and luminous tribute to their quiet strength.
On the Trail of Bigfoot: The Journey follows cryptid documentarian Seth Breedlove and his crew as they head to the Adirondacks of update New York for an intensive, adventure-filled week searching for Sasquatch. The team joins bigfoot researchers like Steve Kulls ("Monsterquest") and Paul Bartholomew (Finding Bigfoot, Beast of Whitehall) who lead them on the search for their quarry. The Journey takes a deep look into the subject of bigfoot, but also what spurs people to spend their lives searching for a creature many believe doesn't exist. Along the way, the crew makes a stop in Whitehall, NY, home to an incident involving multiple members of law enforcement claiming to see a bigfoot in a field off a rural road. The crew has multiple unusual experiences during their various night investigations near Lake George, Whitehall, and Western Massachusetts. The Journey unveils some of that evidence.
A free church pastor in Aarhus is reported to the police for having violated seven women in the congregation, with two of the women accusing him of rape. The pastor admits to inappropriate relationships, but claims it was consensual. The police drop the case due to lack of evidence, as it is currently not illegal for a pastor to have sex with adult members of the congregation, as long as they are over 18. But should the law be changed? The prosecution has charged the pastor with showing inappropriate nude images, with a reservation to seek deportation and compensation.
Born and raised in the Watts projects of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old female boxer Meryland Gonzalez fights in-and-out of the ring for the dream to be crowned the 2019 Junior Olympics champion. This film screens as part of the shorts program, "Unstoppable," which begins at the dates and times listed here.
After an extraterrestrial encounter in 1975, David Hamel embarked on a 30-year mission to build a flying saucer in his backyard, ultimately failing to do so yet leaving behind a mysterious legacy that only the residents of his small town can unravel.
A girl is in love with a Palestinian boy and goes to Israel for the first time. Her simplified vision of the world and the desire to take sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are quickly confronted with the reality of living on the border of Sderot and the Gaza Strip.
Echoing the precarious times we live in, a newly commissioned documentary Fire In My Belly (2021) offers a compelling take on questions of home, community and crisis in the metropolitan city of London. (Whitechapel Gallery) HD video, colour, sound
Sylvain Coppin defines himself as an artists' nanny. For example, he has been supporting Jean-Louis Aubert and Mathieu Chedid for 15 years. So on stage with them or in his workshop in Chartres, Sylvain is always there, hidden behind the guitar.
Last homage to the great director Fernando Solanas, dear to our hearts, who came multiple times in Competition to the Festival and two times to Cannes Classics. Through this documentary rich in sensibility and visual flair aided by stunning graphics, “Pino” Solanas evokes creation.
A look into how it is to work in the Covid-19 area at a Latvian hospital. Created by a team of journalists of Latvian Television: Aija Kinca, Ivans Milovs, Dace Kokle, and Edmunds Rimšāns.
A political and poetic reflection on the nature and effects of revolutions. An exemplary starting point for this essaystic film is the March Revolution of 1848 in Vienna. What remains of a revolution? When is it considered to have failed and when and how are its achievements manifested? - The film combines historical struggles with today's forms of resistance and reflects on how the practice of collective memory inscribes itself in the present of a city and the actions of its residents. In view of current political developments, the film asks following Walter Benjamin: Do we have to protect the achievements of the past from the present?
A hybrid-documentary film that follows a queer Urdu poet as she traces the connections between quantum physics and political movements in South Asia.
UFOs have gone main stream! There was a report on “60 Minutes” where it was stated that the US government has verified that UFOs are real. On Fox News, Tucker Carlson has had a series of guest on discussing the validity of the phenomenon. The Pentagon stated that we have in our possession off-world vehicles not made on the earth. In short, UFOs are real, burgeoning and NOT going away.
A diary film of a trip to Oaxaca.
Inspired by the language and history of the Western Isles, Runrig took Gaelic culture from the dance halls of the Highlands to massive arenas throughout Europe and beyond. They provided the soundtrack to an era when Scotland rediscovered its roots and its confidence. There Must Be A Place is a tale of ups and downs, twists and turns, tears of joy and heartbreak. Packed with never-before-seen footage and photographs from the band’s private archives, it charts the unlikely rise of a ragtag band of friends who would go on to become Scotland’s House Band: Runrig.
A short experimental documentary on the effects of industrial society.
This is a film about touring musicians who don't care about making it in the music business and all of the hardships they face without the fame.
For several years, the qualified biologist traveled around Innsbruck with his camera, looking for motifs and stories that describe the inevitable encounter between humans and wild animals in the Alpine region.
Sgt. Dan Hefel was one of the last 19 POWs to come home from Vietnam. First an infantry grunt, he switched to sergeant gunner. What seemed like a prize detail, turned into a nightmare as the helicopter crashed. The crew went from MIAs to POWs, whereabouts unknown.
Magic in the Mountains tells the remarkable underdog story of how Squaw Valley, a little-known ski area in California, won the bid for the 1960 Winter Olympics and, with the help of Walt Disney, changed forever the ways in which the Games were presented. The documentary features never-before-seen archival footage from the 1960 Olympic Games and revealing interviews with participating athletes and attendees. The 1960 edition of the Olympics introduced a substantial array of “firsts,” including such innovations as live broadcast, instant replay, sponsorships, and an official Olympic Village for the athletes. Perhaps most importantly, thanks to Disney’s involvement in producing the Games, Squaw Valley featured an unprecedented — but soon to be standard — level of pageantry for the opening and closing ceremonies.
A documentary by Justin Arment that explores the 1991 rename of Michigan city 'East Detroit' to 'Eastpointe', and the racially motivated reasonings behind it.
Explore the life of one of the best-known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he built a media empire, preached to millions worldwide, and had the ear of tycoons, presidents and royalty.
The magic and the soul of nature.
Jaydyn Coggins, the best cup stacker in Australia, travels to the World Sports Stacking Championships in Florida. Dogged by a series of setbacks, Jaydyn must call on all his skill and family support for a shot at his dreams.
Documentary by the Swiss-Peruvian filmmaker filmed in Puno, in the districts of Conduriri, Ilave and Nuñoa.
Get an insider's look at the career of one of the world’s brightest young surf stars as surf star Kanoa Igarashi travels to events on the World Championship Tour calendar.
In a park, a lunch on the grass, by the water and with the family. Rayane Mcirdi's aunts and mother, born in the 1960s, recount their childhood memories, their passage from the slums of Sartrouville to the Mourinoux neighborhood, and their attachment to the city in which they grew up.
Conservation groups, First Nations, and scientists come together in this timely short film, as a decades-long battle to protect endangered old-growth forests in BC escalates at Fairy Creek (the last unprotected, intact valley on southern Vancouver Island). The film explores the characters’ individual relationships with ancient forests, and why it’s imperative we collectively protect them. It touches on potential solutions, like a transition away from old-growth in the future of logging, and Indigenous sovereignty.
The film gradually shifts its focus from the US Mint and coin distribution networks to more individual moments of exchange, pennies passing hand to hand at a time when every touch has its risks.
You Deserve The Best was filmed over the course of eight months on five different cameras, the film takes a run and gun shooting approach and applies it to the random, often difficult and often beautiful experience of life.
More than 40 million years ago, Sardinia broke away from Europe’s southern rim and began drifting towards Africa. Along its eventful voyage, this gigantic vessel of stone picked up a rich variety of passengers from the surrounding land and sea. During a fascinating journey through time, the film takes the viewers on a guided tour of this great ship, from the highest point that scrapes the Mediterranean sky to the dark cavities of its hold, and into the submarine world that surrounds its hull. Today, Sardinia’s rugged mountains, gigantic caves, wind-swept plateaus, ancient forests, and azure waters boast an overwhelming diversity of plants, animals and civilizations – a result of the ancient journey that brought the whole variety of the Mediterranean together on a single island at its very center.