An ardent musical, emotional and sociological vindication of Mákina music, from its roots in the eclectic and avant-garde Valencian scene to its emergence in the 90's in Catalonia.
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An ardent musical, emotional and sociological vindication of Mákina music, from its roots in the eclectic and avant-garde Valencian scene to its emergence in the 90's in Catalonia.
Afghanistan fell into the hands of the Taliban due to the withdrawal of US troops in August 2021. Upon hearing this news in a foreign country, the Makhmalbaf family rolled up their sleeves and set out to rescue Afghan artists in crisis.
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is one of the most prolific Iranian novelists. In this beautiful, poetic portrait, gracefully crafted by his filmmaker daughter Sara Dolatabadi, he reflects on his life throughout the turbulent 20th century. Meanwhile, his daughter manages to create her own images of a father who is full of luminous ideas, yet also somewhat peculiar and lonely.
A Cwmni Da produced documentary focused on the Friction Dynamics strike back in 2003.
The third installment of the LEVEL series, the documentary "Level with Me" is definitive proof that our space agencies are fraudulent. They have been stealing our tax money for far too long. Fooling the masses with, but not limited to, CGI, green screens, harnesses, and governing your mind into a fantasy heliocentric world. Gravity you say? Well in this documentary, they prove electrostatics is the force commonly referred to and accepted as "gravity" due to our Rockefeller funded education systems, with a ground breaking electrostatics experiment. This time around, they visit NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, NASA's CSBF in Palestine, Texas, and the Board of Brevard County Commissioners office in Florida. Also, they bring forth what really happened with the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion and what the crisis actors involved are currently doing with their lives. The truth can set you free.
Peabody Award winning journalist Linda Moulton Howe, JFK experts Robert Morningstar and Jim Marrs, and psychic CEO Sebastien Martin, narrate this shocking exposé of the unknown hidden motivations for the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Writing in a letter his desire to share the government's most highly classified secret with the American people, Kennedy inadvertently signed his own death warrant. Ten days later JFK was assassinated. Partially burnt documents, rescued from the fireplace of deceased counterIntelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, provide irrefutable proof of the secret orders to murder JFK. The most shocking and pervasive government cover-up in history has persisted for almost 6 more decades, despite JFK's thwarted attempt to expose the Truth. Only in 2019 did the Pentagon finally begin, bit by bit, to let the public in on their shocking cosmic secret.
Markenhof nursing home is located in the woods of Beekbergen. The unsuspecting walker might think it's a holiday park, but the buildings are home to 138 patients, all wandering around in various stages of memory-destroying Korsakoff's Syndrome. Korsakov's disease is caused by severe vitamin B1 deficiency, almost always the result of alcoholism. One patient can do little more than stare into space, while the other appears to be fine at first glance. Wracked by guilt, shame, addiction and a destroyed memory, patients Kenny and Christina try to create an understandable and livable world.
In some sibling groups, united by a powerful bond, closeness stimulates creativity. Five celebrity duos open up about their relationship with a brother or sister and how it benefits their creative process.
A teenager documents their family dog during her final months.
When Uyghurs and Kazakhs are arbitrarily detained in Chinese "re-education" camps, survivors and their families risk everything to expose the truth.
The craziest Cajun enby you know... interrogating the drunkest people of all time... at the greatest free show on Earth It's Seeking Derangements at Mardi Gras
The United Irishmen is a documentary exploring the history of a radical group of revolutionaries whose seminal moment came during the Irish rebellion of 1798.
As a self-confident emerging talent, classical pianist Djuwa Mroivili is finding her way within the conservative white music world. Djuwa conducts historical research into the 1883 World Exhibition on the current Museumplein in Amsterdam, where people from Dutch colonies were also exhibited. She discovers astonishing parallels with today's classical music programming and uses these new insights to take a radical path of her own.
A side-by-side analysis of Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality and S.S. Rajamouli's Maryada Ramanna.
The first German-language documentary to critically examine the zeitgeist phenomenon of "transsexuality." In a nearly 90-minute journey, authors Judith Sevinç Basad and Jan A. Karon combine reportage with investigative research, attending demonstrations, speaking with activists, and meeting desperate parents, as well as teachers, transsexuals, youth therapists, feminists, and publicists. They conclude: Trans activism is perhaps the most dangerous zeitgeist phenomenon, one that is still completely downplayed.
The collective Guahu’i Guyra spent three years filming their people, the Guarani-Kaiowá, original inhabitants of a piece of land in Brazil. Much of of their ancestral lands have been destroyed by monoculture and deforestation. In the small territory they managed to retake, a few families try to live according to their traditional way of life, devoting a lot of attention to each other and their environment.
The film accompanies members of a Hamburg choir singing modern pop songs.
Set in south-western Iran, in the province of Khuzestan, where the stories of oil and war originate, Meezan is a documentary encounter in three parts. Rejecting a historicizing or theoretical gaze, Meezan is attentive to the immediacy and embodied experience of those most intimately connected to these embattled landscapes.
After going away for eight years, Anggun decides to return home to seek acceptance from her father in her hometown, Jambi.
Bogdanas is one of the juvenile boys held in a closed socialisation centre for various offences. All the boys are counting down the days until their summer holidays so they can go free, but Bogdanas wants to stay here and refuses to leave.
A former coal mining utopia, What Cheer, Iowa has endured many changes. Through the lens of the small town's citizens, this documentary highlights these changes.
From her window, Siri Pårup can see the building opposite where the everyday heroes and heroines of this persistently intriguing film reside. The Swedish filmmaker has reconstructed some of these flats in a studio, using effects to make them blend in with the building’s real façade, in a brilliant and playful variation on everyday voyeurism.
This film provides a retrospective of 24 hours at the Nova festival in Re'im through the lens of young individuals who endured the horror.
The Animal Thing charts the struggles of Andrew Linzey, a cantankerous and unwilling subject for his son Adam. This is the story of a man who spoke out as a progressive voice in the Anglican Church, a polarizing force at the University of Oxford, and as a tireless campaigner for animal rights, on a range of issues from fox hunting and seal clubbing, to vivisection. Today, Andrew considers himself a failure. But despite the immense price he has paid for confronting the cruelty of animal exploitation, Andrew has also had an enormous and, until now, largely unheralded impact on the modern animal movement.
This documentary reveals the sad truths of how gangs groom and exploit young people into delivering and selling drugs. We learn what techniques gang leaders might use to entice people in, and we discuss how to avoid falling into county lines drug dealing. This film is part of the A.C.T.I.O.N Project, funded by the non-profit organisation Heart of Pitsea. Raising awareness and tackling crime in the local community of Pitsea and Basildon. This Film was made with the help of The EXIT Foundation, a charity dedicated to individuals and their families affected by gang association.
Annalisa's concert on November 4, 2023 at the Mediolanum Forum in Assago
Bradley and Mike take on a monumental challenge to raise money for their recovering family member, cycling 300km in one day from Gloucester to Elland Road, Leeds. Donate to Rob's fundraiser: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/bradley-yorke?utm_term=ZRaGb5Vd5
Lim Kah Wai, director of Your Lovely Smile, embarks on a similar journey as the protagonist in his film, visiting dozens of mini theatres from Okinawa to Hokkaido. Lim is not pitching his new film, but meeting the staff and owners of the theatres to make a documentary about how they struggle in the shrinking market. In empty cinema houses, the people speak of the common and personal challenges they encounter. Although they might have made different decisions – whether to hang on or move on, they share a pure love for and a genuine belief in cinema that they wish to pass on to the next generation.
In the ranks of the Japanese army during WWII, there existed what was known as comfort women. In the present, that term was replaced by a definition that is closer to reality—they were women who had been kidnapped and turned into sex slaves. After a long period of humiliation, the victims remained quiet, but some of them built up the courage to write about their ordeals in a series of letters. Cecilia Kang’s new documentary recovers those testimonies in order to talk about the way in which History and social mandates affect the lives of Korean women in Argentina, from the perspective of a young acting student who, after coming into contact with this correspondence, allows herself to reflect on the community she lives in and understand more about the traditions of her people as well as her own family history.
The Healing Jar is a short meditative documentary which uses ASMR techniques and poetic imagery designed to relax the audience. It creates a space for the audience to reflect on their own healing.
Iran, 16 September 2022. Mahsa Amini dies after being beaten by the morality police. Demonstrations follow, bringing together thousands of women severely repressed by the regime. Narges Kahlor explores the videos of these revolts published on social media, paying tribute to these defenders of the people armed with telephones.
An 88-Minute documentary about how Jackie Chan broke the mold (and his bones) with his daring choreography in the 1980s.
A harsh winter in Canada’s Muskoka, where players face sub-zero temperatures, contrasts with New Zealand, where hockey is just starting to take root. Yet, between these two far-apart nations, there’s one thing they share: a deep love for the game of hockey.
The Gentleman Boxer: Richard Torrez Jr. is a 30-minute candid look at the rising American heavyweight Richard Torrez Jr. (5-0, 5 KO) ahead of his upcoming special feature bout in Arizona. Fight fans will get to know the charismatic 24-year-old California native who took home a silver medal for the United States at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Mohammad Khordadian opens the album of memories, each photo of which tells a bitter and sweet memory. This documentary is the story of Mohammad, his ex-wife Jane and his best friend Abi, which turns into an unfulfilled love triangle.
Above The Noise is a documentary short that explores how athlete Maja Kuczynska uses her sport to escape the chaos of the modern world.
A follow-up of the environment, the images and sounds that appear during the convoluted route of a mythical public transport in Valparaíso, the 612 bus, also known as the "O".