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The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders. Throughout the 1960s, Fannie Lou Hamer established a legacy of civil rights and human rights activism that remains relevant to this day – especially among Black youth.
Charts the life and legacy of the mother of civil rights and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was gunned down while playing the organ at her church.
Daida Ruano Moreno, 18 times World Champion, tells her fight against her most difficult rival: a Cancer that almost took away not only her Life, but her most personal and intimate dream…
BLIND TRUST celebrates the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Vamik Volkanis, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has spent a lifetime bringing enemy groups together for dialogue in traumatized regions of the globe. The film recounts Volkan's journey in unofficial diplomacy working in the Middle East, Estonia, the former Yugoslavia and the Republic of Georgia. The story dramatizes the new vocabulary he created for understanding large group psychology.
La Riviera has cardboard palm trees. As warm as a beach, as cold as a film set.
Fatima has become an activist to challenge sex trade in her community. Married off to a pimp as a child-bride and expected to become a sex-worker by her in-laws, she has a genuine knowledge of and access to the women in her community. Fatima tries desperately hard to prevent her children going into the sex trade. She divorces her husband and as we follow her personal ups and downs: falling in love again, trying to start a new family, we find out more about why she chose to fight against the abuse and exploitation that has become systemic in her community. Despite the forces of police corruption and community ties hampering her efforts, Fatima appears to be rewarded both as an activist and in her personal life. But there is growing resentment and Fatima's hopes appear to be constantly overwhelmed by the challenges facing her and her new family.
A documentary about Ataturk's private life and his passion for art, music, fashion and science. Narrated by Ataturk's cousin and esteemed artists.
Twenty-five years ago, when the Taliban took over Afghanistan and music was banned, Gholam Nabi and his family suffered a lot of oppression. He and his son manufacture the rabab, a string instrument with origins dating back to the seventh century, and one of Afghanistan’s national musical instruments.
Art-house cinema is dying. Many Independent theatres sit vacant as would-be patrons amble past extinguished marquees. At night, they come to life. The lights, the popcorn, the magic of the cinema. But in the age of "home streaming", is this experience enough? Only you, the viewer, can decide.
Anxious, out of work and without access to transport during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, migrant labourers in India’s metropolises decided to walk back home to their villages en masse. As news channels beamed heart-rending silhouettes of millions of men, women and children marching along national highways with their meagre belongings, it became plain that the lockdown had already drafted one of the most traumatic chapters in the nation's modern history.
“Mariupol. Chronicles of Hell” is a story about life in the city from the first days of the war until the beginning of April.
She’s not stupid, she gets what’s going on—Ria tells her niece Anneke that she knows she's “heading towards dementia.” That’s why she hangs up notes to remind herself that Anneke has just been to New York and they can chat about that. “Terrible, isn't it? I think I’ll have another glass of wine.”
Since 1982, police have weaponized Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) law to terrorize queer/trans Louisianians. CANS Can’t Stand follows a group of Black trans women in New Orleans who are fighting to repeal that law—and advance trans liberation statewide.
This documentary film is about the video game Shenmue. It tells the story of the games history, its fans, and how it impacted the gaming industry.
A look back at the 60s icon, girl-group pioneer and frontwoman of The Ronettes, Ronnie Spector, who was known for hits like Be My Baby and Walking in the Rain. This journey through the archives features Ronnie in her own words discussing her life and career through the years, as well as great performances in shows such as Later… with Jools Holland, David Essex, and The Old Grey Whistle Test - and not forgetting her most recent appearance on the Park Stage at Glastonbury Festival in 2016.
A look at how climate change affects the operation of certain football clubs.
Exploring the creative agency of backstage professionals at one of Moscow’s iconic stages, the RAMT. Across four chapters, this work probes the boundaries of artistic expression: where does the technician’s own creativity begin?
The Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist. The first musician to break through the social barrier of this culture, she empowers and inspires women of all ages by reclaiming a musical tradition reserved for men for centuries . A singularly talented artist, she leads women to redefine their roles and challenge cultural norms , one musical performance at a time.
In the playful and hypnotic miniature Moonrise, avant-garde luminary Vincent Grenier sets falling rain and its sweeping pock-filled shadows to an audio collage of DIY foley mimicking the persistent pitter-patter.
The twilight scenery of the desolate Calabrian countryside leads into the meanders of a lost time in which every search is in vain: this frustration is paradoxically the lifeblood that manages to transform Gaetano Crivaro's film into a ruthless interrogation of ourselves.
An intimate look at the formation and legacy of the WNBA, and flagship team New York Liberty’s dramatic 2021 season, as they play for acceptance, respect, and the future of basketball.
Short pieces including images taken with a mobile phone, personal photos and found material. Everyday incidents, childhood memories, portraits of friends, travel chronicles, readings and songs: diaries.
This beautifully moving short story shares an insight into Jane’s commitment, compassion and love for rescuing animals that most of our society considers food. Showing them the same respect as our companion animals, Jane has created a forever home for over 130 farm animals. An award-winning, debut short film from filmmaker Damian Sciberras, featuring Jane Baker, founder of Starfield Farm Animal Sanctuary.
“Kike” Hernández leads "El Caracol", a non-profit organization which provides educational support to street people in CDMX. During the COVID-19 contingency, “El Caracol” realized the need to safeguard their right to health. This is the story of “El Caracol” fight to guarantee access to vaccination and life for those marginated by the government.
Between 2016 and 2019 the historian Christian Delage filmed a series of interviews with people related to the Paris attacks of the 13th of November 2015: survivors, relatives and friends of the victims, rescuers. Ordinary lives no longer such because of the tragic events in which they found themselves involved. Filming the memory to deal with the past and regain that sense of community severely shaken by the attacks.
A grandson shows his grandmother how to navigate an iPad 2 full of clues for solving a puzzle. Over a phone call, she recites an email she wrote seven years prior.
From the burning deserts to the icy steppes of the poles, from the green meadows to the tropical forests, insects occupy every ecosystem on the planet. An astonishing, fascinating and yet long ignored world. Who are they? Where do they come from? When did they first appear? How and why have they diversified and multiplied so much? Today, new methods in paleo-entomology, in the exploration and analysis of fossils and living organisms reveal the extent to which insects have contributed to shaping our world. They have even participated in the evolution of humans. At a time when some of their species are in danger of extinction and their place in ecosystems is being questioned, this film tells the fascinating story of the mysterious insects and the secret of their origins.
In Senegal, Yene was traditionally a seaside town with many fishermen and farmers but has in recent years been troubled by coastal erosion and urbanisation. In conversation with the town’s community, Manthia Diawara explores how their lives contribute to the undermining of their shared environment.
The film focuses on Cao Liou, a 25-year-old drag queen. The explosive creative energy he delivers is stunning, but at the same time, he also displays his egotistical nature and wanton lifestyle. Director Pan Hsin An is the same age as Liou. He peeps into Liou’s life through a camera lens, questioning and exploring. During the filming process, the two often fail to understand each other, and each has his doubts about the other. But in the end, at opposite ends of the scale, they find the same desires behind huge differences.
Go behind the scenes, and onto the stage, of a legendary concert to discover the story of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, told in song – a story that should be told to every Australian.
A fun-filled documentary that tells the unique 60-year history of WPKN in Bridgeport, CT, through in-depth interviews and extraordinary film footage.
From the world to Taiwan, 2020 has been filled with turbulent crises. This documentary records how anti-epidemic hotels play a vital role in the severe test of the COVID-19 epidemic, how they stand up, and what tests they encounter during the process. Director Chen Yujie spent 10 months recording the worries of Chinese people and students who returned from abroad when faced with an unfamiliar epidemic situation; the staff of the epidemic prevention hotel went from fear and fear to enthusiastic reception when they were entrusted with important tasks. From a perspective you have never seen before, every decision made in the battle against COVID-19 will be a piece of history deeply imprinted in your heart.
From the discovery of huge oil fields off the coast of Scotland to their mass privatisation during the Thatcher era, The Oil Machine highlights how oil became the invisible engine driving UK economic and public policy. In the wake of COP26 in Glasgow, demand for climate action has become a key societal concern and the pressure on both oil companies and the government continues to mount. Bringing together a wide range of voices, from industry executives and economists to young activists, Davie offers a visceral and thought-provoking interrogation into how this insidious machine might be dismantled.
Join Waldemar Januszczak as he delves into the mysteries of a renowned old tale, as artists throughout the ages developed incredible ideas to fill in the gaps.
With a long spanning history as a place where thousands would flock to see public executions, the tale of Bodmin Jail is gruesomely fascinating. It has become known as a place shrouded in the supernatural, but now as a popular tourist attraction, the executions are gathering crowds once again. Just how haunted is it?
Western Australia's iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in the south west of WA could become extinct in just 20 years unless something is done to protect their habitats. With the loss of the banksia woodlands on the Swan Coastal Plain to housing, Carnaby's Black Cockatoos have come to depend on the once vast exotic pine plantations on Perth's northern fringe.
Tensions rise on a busy street as news organizations and local residents witness an extremely volatile situation turn into a literal powder keg.
The first match of Feminist Economic Football: A Cooperative Game was played in June 2021 in Glasgow. The work was created by Ailie Rutherford, Sapna Agarwal and Mandy Roberts for Feminist Exchange Network.
Mario Benedetti and Luz López met when they were teenagers, he became a writer and she became a public servant. Together they shared life, exile, failures, success, friends and love. Sixty years and eighty books later, Luz suffers from Alzheimer's, forgets all of her past, and finally she forgets Mario just before she died. The film reconstructs this memory with an eye set on the author and the love that bound them together.
An examination of the consequences of vaccine hesitancy and denial. It's a war anti-vax activists have been fighting for a decade. And COVID-19 is what they practiced for: A national conversation about vaccine safety.
A “filmic ballad” in the heart of the city of Rio de Janeiro in which Angelica De Paula shares her daily life during the first lockdown. Her story and her songs evoke the domination and power relationships which materialize in bodies. It is in this form which they call “documentary dance” that Sacha Rey chooses to respond to the mutism of “necro-liberal” society which produces and makes invisible “sacrificable bodies” (F. Vergès).
Growing up in Puerto Rico and becoming a professional streamer in Canada, Chica has had an incredible journey since she hatched.
Historians examine the history of Queen Elizabeth II, England's longest running queen,including the untimely death of her father, her actions in England's ex-colonies and the current state of the royal family.
The special bond between filmmaker Mei-ling Hsiao and her daughter, who has Asperger syndrome, is meticulously recorded over a period of 12 years. As a result, we see Xiang Yun/Elodie grow from a creative girl into a young adult preparing for a career as a pâtissier. This means leaving her mother in Taiwan and moving to France, where her father lives, and where there is better training. But the distance between mother and daughter puts a strain on their relationship.
At the sound of cardboard being snipped, Annette remembers the first time she cut out animal silhouettes and passes on this unique talent to her daughter Katia.
The city of Barcelona will always be a reference in the conquest of the LGTBIQ + decrees and will work for the rest of the territories of the Spanish State. The documentary "Barcelona fora de l'armari" has been written around this idea as a starting point. Its objective is to describe the different activities of the LGTBIQ + movement in Catalonia and how it has evolved over the years. The documentary shows the different milestones that have marked the LGTBIQ + movement, such as the creation of the first association in Spain, the Movimiento Español de Liberación Homosexual (MEHL) or the first demonstration in favor of gay rights in 1977. was held on Las Ramblas in Barcelona.
On a journey through the hidden corners of Italy, the gaze lingers on the intimacy of family-run businesses, luxury ateliers, and reclaimed factories. Interwoven with the portrait of the magical and age-old act of creating something new are the devotion and the agony of the working class.