A world first documentary film boasting unparalleled access to defending champion Welshman Geraint Thomas as he competes at the planet's toughest endurance race, the Tour de France.
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A world first documentary film boasting unparalleled access to defending champion Welshman Geraint Thomas as he competes at the planet's toughest endurance race, the Tour de France.
The film observes a navigation through the 30 hours that followed the earthquake of September 19, 2017 in Mexico City. It begins on Escocia Street in the downtown area and ends in the town of San Gregorio, Xochimilco in the south of the city. The camera oscillates its point of view between individual and collective experiences.
The second film to feature a cast of assisted readymade clock sculptures (after Irregular Time Signatures). Starring “Sublimation Clock”, “Litmus Clock”, “Writer’s Block”, “Atomizer”, and “The Crypt.” Prior to shooting Dailies, the film and these clock sculptures were exhibited together in a 2011 exhibition in Malmö.
A documentary about Antonio Spoletini, who worked with Federico Fellini. A portrait of an incredible man who lived for and with cinema. Last of five brothers who created the face of Italian cinema internationally. The documentary meets him at 82, still on movie sets and emerges with him and meets him in that moment of life when you want to leave a name in the credits.
A documentary that poses the question of how we as humans coexist with cats by exploring the eclectic lives of devoted cat lovers. We'll journey from America to a small island in Japan to learn and explore various human/feline relationships.
At first it seems a spoken word film whose greatness comes only from the famous text of Theodor Fontane.
Two brothers – Skill and Buddy – have been making hip-hop for over 10 years and releasing DIY albums. In their native Serbia, they belong to the disadvantaged Roma population and in Germany, where they live now, they are migrant workers with a temporary residence permit. In their songs, they fiercely criticize racism, segregation of Roma and neo-liberal capitalism. They’ve just released their third album and set off on an unusual European tour.
In this film, 18 psychoanalysts and a pediatrician develop their edifying vision of sexuality, interviews interspersed with a small animated film showing in a very pedagogical way how the psychoanalyst's grip on the patient is built.
In 2005, when a seemingly original copy with the Galileo Galilei's signature and watercolor paintings hit the market, Sidereus Nuncius caused a worldwide sensation 400 years after its publication. In 2012, however, this discovery was proven to be a fake and rocked the book market to its core. Aired on PBS as part of the Secret of the Dead S18E1 on 02/07/2019
In a psychiatric hospital located in the middle of the countryside in the province of Santa Fe, we see how everyday life unfolds. Poetic images gradually show the confinement, the constant medication to which they are subjected daily, the media, and the power of institutions. The concepts of normality and madness are challenged, leaving open questions that penetrate the depths of our society.
I felt an urgent need to continue with I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo, for me a world of symbols and colors. Our long journey together could only be given new meaning again. I set out, with considerable reserve, to make the second part of the film that in 2018 had had a favorable reception all over the world. I thought for a long time about how to make use again of her words, her drawings and her silences. Angela and I filmed and wrote two parallel diaries. The images I shot around Europe, America and elsewhere fit perfectly with her writings.
In the city of Ujjain, history and mythology align. It was once the capital of a great kingdom that sought to unravel the mysteries of time and space. This special follows life in the city and its temple, leading up to the celebrations of Mahashivratri.
As the earth heats up, rapidly melting glaciers are exposing long lost relics and releasing corpses from their icy tombs. Perhaps the most famous, frozen for more than 5,000 years on a remote mountain pass is Otzi, the iceman. Who was this man that lived nearly a thousand years before the pyramids and why did his life end in violence? Now, after nearly a decade of forensic analysis, new updates emerge in the cold case of Otzi.
n his struggle to continue living in a city he hates, Anibal, a student of geology, fights the depression caused by the pace of urban life by exercising and escaping to the countryside. The lack of concentration in his studies and his own will, will make him doubt his decision to stay or leave the career at the end of the semester, and with it, Santiago.
Every day in the hills of Bhojppur, Pashuram, an old Gandharva, works in his field. He had been a Gaine, a travelling musician by caste. A man who wandered through towns with his Sarangi, spreading information through song. A journalist of the old days. With time, many Gandharvas have migrated and have found new ways to sustain themselves, whereas others still maintain loyalty to their caste, to the occupation, and to the music of their Sarangi.
A painter, a comedian, a poet, a hip-hop artist and a sole singer have figured out ways to solidify their belonging to Palestine - the very place that is being deprived of its own right to exist. Colors of Resistance is a personal journey that questions the concept of belonging to a place that is struggling to survive, inside and outside its own borders. Filmmaker Areeb Zuaiter tries to understand how her kids will relate to a hometown in which they may never live.
As a young millennial woman seeks independence and intimacy, she grapples with the illusion of normal and the realities of living with Down syndrome.
Markos, Chafas, Wako and Grillo form a band named Los Cadenas Chow, where they combine music and theater in a unique blend of rhythm and personality.
In Ana there are irregular paths through which one travel, not knowing where it will be taken or where it really begins. Its paths distract and hide, like a maze of colors and images.
The location of Hunan's southwestern Hunan, the local economy is not active, the people either go out to work or go up the mountain to mine. Due to the constant mining disasters, despite the government's efforts to rectify and regulate, many people still illegally mine. Miners often do not pay attention to the protection of mines. Many years later, many miners have pneumoconiosis. The film started shooting in 2010 until 2018, with a filming period of nearly ten years, until the death of Zhao Pingfeng, the protagonist of pneumoconiosis, leaving young children and mentally handicapped wife.
Keifer Nyron Taylor captures the last days of his grandfather, Lloydie Plummer, exploring his violent upbringing in Jamaica, his close friends and the damage done to the family he built after migrating to the UK.
In 2010, director Michiel van Erp started filming a group of children in Utrecht. He kept filming them till 2018, the year they turned 18. The film portrays those moments which were crucial for the development and personal growth of the kids.
The termination of the INF Treaty between the USA and Russia shows how little mutual trust there is between the world powers today. Thanks to this agreement, short- and medium-range nuclear missiles were disarmed and banned at the end of the 1980s. The political situation has worsened again. Even Germany is discussing the development of its own nuclear weapons. Is a new Cold War looming?
Next Sunday explores the unrealized potential for local residents of Tripoli that is inscribed in the unfinished space of the Rachid Karami International Fair, locally called The Maarad. The film follows a group of teenage boys who used to enter the space illegally (or better said: half-legally) to ride BMX bikes, practice gymnastics and learn tricks. It became an important part of their individual histories, hopes and dreams.
The Rust Belt city of Buffalo, NY yearns to reclaim its lost pride despite a growing sense of futility and cynicism after decades of decline. When a new owner buys their professional hockey team and promises a championship, Buffalonians see a path to their city's relevance. Throughout this season of unprecedented hopes, we meet a nonagenarian rehabbing from a serious fall, a young man with cerebral palsy determined to learn to drive after doubting himself for years, and a teenager struggling to find her identity while coping with the death of her father.
Hazari is a traditional faith healer, exorcising patients who've been possessed by jinn. But in Kashmir amidst the world’s longest-running conflict, nothing is as it seems.
There are many versions about which tank was the best in World War II. The T-34 was not a perfect and high-tech machine, it became a legend because it formed the backbone of the Red Army from the autumn of 1941 to May 1945. This tank was the main support of infantry and mechanized formations.
THE SKIN YOU’RE IN is a multipart series exposing America’s racial health disparities epidemic. In this pilot episode (SOMETHING ABOUT BROWNSVILLE), Tulane University research scientist Dr. Thomas LaVeist returns to his roots in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY to investigate why Brownsville has the lowest life expectancy of any community in New York.
Tevfik Esenç is the last man on earth to speak Ubykh. Years later, his granddaughter and the film’s co-director, Burcu Esenç, travelled to Sorbonne University and the College de France in Paris, to Oslo University and the Caucasus to unearth this lost language.
Botswana artist Crawford Mandumbwa speaks openly about African politics, society, art and culture, and also addresses the question of why Africa remains with major problems of social vulnerability.
Filmed entirely from the air, Upstream follows the course of the River Dee in Scotland, all the way to its source in the Cairngorm mountains, the highest of any river in Britain.
It is the biggest unsolved serial murder case in British criminal history - the so-called 'Jack the Stripper' murders took place in Swinging Sixties London. Professor Wilson and his investigative team - which includes former detective Jackie Malton and forensic psychologist Professor Mike Berry - begin their hunt for the killer not in London, but 150 miles away in Abertillery, South Wales. In 1921, the Welsh mining town was devastated by the double murder of two schoolgirls when eight-year-old Freda Brunell and 11-year-old Florence Little were killed just weeks apart by a local boy, 15-year-old Harold Jones, who the Abertillery residents still refer to as their 'Dark Son'.
Wyatt Earp, one of the most famous lawmen and gamblers of the Old West, is the inspiration behind decades of Hollywood Westerns. This documentary, written by director Plante along with Sam Green and Tim Kirk, highlights the influence of Earp’s legacy on cinema and our perception of the wild, wild West.
Fifty years on from the investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales, this documentary explores the tumultuous period leading up to the investiture and the rise of Welsh nationalism.
“The First Angry Man” unpacks the dramatic campaign that slashed property taxes in California, leading to the collapse of the great public ambitions of postwar America and launched a nationwide tax revolt that continues unabated today.
Anti-Nowhere League: We Are The League tells the full uncensored story of how a biker, a skinhead, a grammar school boy and a Persian exile came together, with no musical talent or ambitions and even less respect for anything or anyone, to burst onto the UK charts with their debut single. Even when judged by the often confrontational standards of U.K. punk, the Anti-Nowhere League were a band committed to offending people. Looking less like a group of bohemian rebels than an especially unsavory biker gang eager to stomp someone, the Anti-Nowhere League made an immediate impact when they burst onto the British rock scene in 1980. They were heroes to hard-boiled U.K. punks, and to nearly everyone else they were an affront to all decency - which, of course, made the punks love them all the more.
At a religious reform school in Indiana, several former students share their heart-wrenching stories of what they allege to be physical and emotional mistreatment. But those who run the school, and another former student, say that what happened there is just the strict structure and discipline common to similar schools for troubled teens.
Sharks battle ocean predators for supremacy to determine which one is king of the deep.
Five fishermen from Manresa, a poor neighborhood to the West of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, learn from marine biologist Omar Shamir Reynoso's one-of-a-kind plan to protect nesting sea turtles.
War through the eyes of a child who grows up in war, but retains everything childish, pure and direct. As a six-year-old girl, she walked an unthinkable path from occupied Estonia to besieged Moscow. Alone, without parents. How did these children survive, how did they survive?
This documentary is about Teofilo Garcia, and expert artisan from San Quintin, Abra, who was awarded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) with the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan or National Living Treasure for his dedication to the traditional craft of making gourd, locally called kattukong or tabungaw hat weaving.
We are faking, lying, performing, stretching, translating, doctoring, manipulating, mistaking, working, earning, trying, reporting, deceiving, interpreting, demonstrating, sinking. "We're surrounded by images. Most art is in a frame, you know it isn't real, it's in a frame. But in addition to just referring to being surrounded by images, it's to a feeling of being immersed in the scene, not being separate from the scene, not being an external viewer, of something that happens, but being part of it." - Dan Sandin (edited and taken out of context). Commissioned for "Countering Fake News in Russia and the US" by Media Burn Video Archive
Tracking the exotic pet trade of otters across the globe, is a story of gangsters and guns, mammals and middlemen.
A generous and lyrical continuation of Lebanese artist Marwa Arsanios’ interest in the ties between ecology, feminism, and collective organization, this documentary showcases the radical politics of a Lebanese farming cooperative and the citizens of Jinwar, a women-only village in the north of Syria.
Aboriginal singer Zaachariaha Fielding is taking the Australian music industry by storm; touring the nation and the world with his groundbreaking electro-soul band Electric Fields. From winning New Talent of the Year at the National Indigenous Music Awards, Zaachariaha returns to the tiny central desert community of Mimili to reveal the inspiration behind his unique music. Through revealing interviews with Zaachariaha and his family, we learn of the challenges he was forced to overcome as a child, and his journey to music stardom as a proud member of the LGBTQ community.
To understand the history of Cuban rum is to understand the history of Cuba itself. From belief systems to music to revolution, rum has been there, playing its part. "Cuba in a Bottle" tells its story throughout each step of the island’s history, with hand drawn animation and a diverse cast which reflects the melting pot that is Cuba’s past and present.
Being a mother is not easy and, most of the time,women keep the responsibility of take care of their children.Clarice,Walkiria and Darlene talk about their challenges and their joy of being a single mother in contemporary society.
Artom and Lilya husband and wife. They are the children of great scientists. Like me too. We were born in Akademgorodok (USSR), the new Atlantis, built by our parents in the 50s. We saw it, lived there. And meeting each other many years later. Being already from completely different worlds, we decided to spend a vacation together. A serious thought about a possible nuclear strike on our native city, on our homeland, made some changes in our trip. And changed our life too. It was Russia, 2014.
Documentary following the story of a cunning fraudster who posed as an MI6 agent to con his ex-girlfriend out of almost £300,000.
"With the barrel bombs falling on Ghouta, civilians sought shelter in the basements of their homes. I was one of them, holding on to my camera, I tried to film what I couldn’t express in words."