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In the Norwegian Constitution, there is an article that speaks for future generations. Article 112 gives all unborn Norwegians the right to a clean environment, and now it has been challenged in the Norwegian Supreme Court for the first time in history as a group of lawyers, young activists and grandparents file a historic lawsuit against the Norwegian government for granting new oil licenses in the Arctic Barents Sea.
A documentary written by Kane McKay, a returned military serviceman, about Bob Quinn, a recipient of the Military Medal for his heroic actions in World War II in Tobruk, 1941, and also champion player for a number of years at the Port Adelaide Football Club.
The film portrays the first five female members of the Swedish Riksdag, Kerstin Hesselgren, Elisabeth Tamm, Agda Östlund, Nelly Thüring and Bertha Wellin.
A documentary following two filmmakers in the pursuit of understanding happiness as they set off and travel around the world. They share their personal journey as they interviewed 18 individuals along the way to figure out the key to happiness, only to find something deeper.
Documentary consisting of interviews with academics and professionals of the humanities and social sciences about the importance of culture as basic need for the human being.
A documentary about Latvian professional road racing cyclist Toms Skujiņš.
Brescia, March 2020. The Spedali Civili, the city's public hospital, suddenly finds itself inundated with patients. In the best tradition of direct cinema, Michele Aiello manages to document a moving slice of life, and to film, at the worst moments of this collective tragedy, the unprecedented reports that unite patients and health personnel in the face of the unknown.
A docu-comedy special that follows stand-up comedian Rory Scovel as he performs six nights in a row with one difficult, self imposed rule: not using any pre-written material. It all happens in Atlanta at Relapse Theatre, a venue operated by Bob Wood who tells his own unbelievable story of how he slowly and maybe with some questions of legality, converted an abandoned church into one of the best comedy venues in the country.
"In rural Minnesota, a fringe Heathen group known as the Asatru Folk Assembly has purchased a local church – and membership is strictly whites-only. "They worship Nordic, pre-Christian gods and they call themselves a 'folk religion' that only accepts those with northern European ancestry. Their racially exclusive ideology is protected by the first amendment. "Amudalat Ajasa visits the church to understand how it is gaining influence across the country and to meet the anti-racist Heathens fighting back to reclaim their religion."
Three generations of women from the same family broke the silence of a long history that began in 1939. Alejandro's memory hangs by a thread that will be broken.
This documentary tells/explains the pelebon of a pair of sulinggih in this Corona pandemic situation, the difference between pelebon/cremation as usual in Bali, with pelebon/cremation during the pandemic, especially corpses that have been exposed to covid. Then they found and used a very unique, simple method, a method very rarely used by Balinese people to carry out pelebon, namely using Tirta Prenawa Pengawak Solas. This film also inserts a "little" love story of a husband and wife until death picks them up. The couple had made a promise that the husband would die first. However, the wife did not keep her promise and died first. The husband felt disappointed, devastated, and sad because the wife did not keep her promise. Because their love is so strong that they are not separated from each other, the husband is "trusted" to "let go" of himself and then follow his wife.
When the pandemic strikes, the Thai berry pickers are prevented from traveling to Sweden. Who will pick the berries then?
Experimental short film playing with light and how it appears through reflections, lenses, and distortions
Searching for the real in the world of the virtual, motivated by an urge to exteriorize the feeling of loss and grief. 3D reconstruction of the kitchen of the film author's grandparents, where they had dinner together every Sunday and talked about death.
The Danish war veteran Henrik returns home from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress. After a series of failed treatments, he travels deep into the Amazon jungle to heal himself with natural remedies and the world's strongest hallucinogenic drink, Ayahuasca. 'The Soldier' follows Henrik's struggle in the jungle for three full years, and is an inner portrait of a broken man.
There is a place in Ghana which is home to a boxing village. Africans from all over Africa cross the continent to reach Bukom. A place where boxing can change a life. This is the journey and fights for survival of two immigrants.
Bettany Hughes draws on her investigative skills and the latest technology to offer a new insight into the lives and deaths of the victims of one of the worst natural disasters in history. As well as travelling to Pompeii and Herculaneum, she sets up her own incident room, complete with DNA tests, to learn more about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 72AD.
A watchman at an apartment complex in Assam, India, spends an ordinary evening. A surreal, expressionistic landscape unfolds.
This documentary explores the life of Dorothy Eady, also known as Omm Sety, who believed she was a reincarnated ancient Egyptian priestess. It features re-enactments at the archaeological site of the Temple of Seti I in Abydos, highlighting her unique story and contributions to Egyptology in which she became a notable figure.
Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson’s Polycephaly in D nestles fragments of narrative within a collage of sound, image, and text that oscillates between the elegant and the discordant.
Amphibian Stage asked this question of Black men living and working in Fort Worth, Texas, and received deeply personal responses. “This Is My Story” presents three stories from an educator, an event planner and a Veteran Peer Service Coordinator, each of whom has learned to be silent as a means of self-preservation — but at what cost?
Madrid, April 2020. Covid-19. A girl, at home, is bored. A boy feels lonely in his room. They don’t know each other, but imagine each other on a chat. And while they do so, they start a journey in space and time trying that will take them away from their enforced lockdown.
In Hong Kong, echoes of resistance and turmoil are sensitively captured on 16mm in this poetic rumination of public spaces and everyday life in a metropolis in upheaval.
A documentary portrait of a group of people who had served in the Yugoslav National Army just a few years before the war in the ex-Yugoslavia started. They served a year on the island of Vis, at the time called “The Fortress of Adriatic” because of its strategic position and numerous military installations all over the island. Vis was one of the two Yugoslav islands that foreigners were forbidden to visit. In a very small military barracks on the edge of the island, far away from any civilization, bizarre things started to happen. Thirty years later, ten former soldiers from the same military barracks remember the events. They are of different nationalities – from Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, to Montenegro – which will be at war with each other just a few years later. Their stories subtly reveal why it is no wonder that Yugoslavia as a country fell apart.
TikTok: it's the social media app which has come to define our perception of Gen Z, and which has firmly embedded itself within the covid-era zeitgeist. A phenomenally popular platform, more than a billion users scroll through its endless feeds, and it's turned ordinary people into overnight internet stars.
Long a target for poachers, the rhino has been hunted for their horns across Africa. In The Last Horns of Africa, debut documentary feature director Garth De Bruno Austin follows those who are putting their lives on the line to protect the animal, from a hidden rhino orphanage to the Kruger National Park. With unparalleled access the filmmakers have created a compelling documentary that explores conservation, the illegal wildlife trade, and rhino poachers.
The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which was shot around 1900 in London, restored, and coloured by artificial intelligence. It also offers a reflection on the regimes of power in which the filming apparatus seizes control over the observed reality.
I hear! An active verb but rare at the time us. What if all these voices were heard? What would happen if you were really listening too? And if they told you they would listen to you would you speak up or stay silent? The film was made in the context of the 5th Panorama Film School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the theme DEACTIVATION.
After the killing of George Floyd, a queer black woman in Los Angeles is determined to capture the spirit of a mass social movement, so she hits the streets, camera in hand.
Growing up, Jenya longed for a place where she belonged. She found it in the nomadic life of sheep herding. Now, she traverses California with her flock, helping to manage grassland and restore ecosystems.
Examining the challenges facing rural American communities as they adapt to a changing economy, exemplified by a 1500 mile stretch of US Highway 2 from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan through the Sweet Grass Hills of Montana. Filmed over a one year period of time.
Essayistic documentary short film that proposes a tour of Paraná during the mandatory preventive social isolation decreed in Argentina on March 19, 2020. While observing the urban geography in an exceptional state, fragments of reflections by world-renowned intellectuals regarding the pandemic situation are heard, in the voices of local journalists, actresses and actors.
An emotional and inspirational rollercoaster ride, CALIBRATE won the Audience Award at the Awareness Film Festival (USA) for good reason. Directed by Academy Award Nominee Steve Pasvolsky, the film follows a cast of brave and diverse patients from around the globe as they attempt to 'heal themselves' from catastrophic injury and health conditions. After traditional medicine failed them, they converge on the NeuroPhysics Clinic in the hills above the Gold Coast, Australia, to be treated by former Mr.Universe Ken Ware. Despite no formal medical training, Ken has studied the body for 30 years and found an astounding link between Chaos Theory and the body's ability to heal itself. His method is put to the test by Manchester Bombing survivor Martin Hibbert, Australian bull-riding champion Sam O'Connor and World Dwarf Games athlete Meredith Young. All have one thing in common - a burning desire to walk again.
Nezo is a docufiction film based on the true story of nurse Ljupka Siljanova Cipusheva, who was engaged in the Stenkovec Refugee Camp during the Kosovo conflict and the 1999 NATO bombing. She tells the story of Nezo, a 16 year old boy who speaks 5 foreign languages and works as a translator at Camp Stenkovec.
An alien sent to study humans on Earth faces inhumanity when it stumbles upon a college party.
An artful, autobiographical field report on the opioid epidemic by a clean addict in mid-life, living in the Midwest. She shares her drug history as an alphabet of drug friends and poetic titles to rewrite the redemption story—she wasn't "bad" in active addiction and she's not "good" now sober. Midwaste redirects the conversation to how drug policies and racism embedded in pharmacological treatment and biomedical addiction models really make us sick.
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The "Carnival of the Animals" is Camille Saint-Saëns' best-known piece. Saint-Saëns did not want it to be published. On the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in December 2021, the documentary reports on the circumstances under which the piece of music was created, tells of Saint-Saëns' life and how the "Carnival of the Animals" ultimately became an evergreen in the music world.
Personal stories highlight the critical issue of mental health in America; includes insights with mental health experts and actionable steps that can be taken to end the stigma associated with conversations around mental health.
A first-generation Latinx father journeys through unrecognizable, unceded lands in the border regions between the U.S. and Mexico in search of the place where Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his young daughter, Angie Valeria, drowned.
Ted Christopher was, and still is, known as one of the greatest Modified drivers of all-time. His incredible skills behind the wheel, his polarizing driving style, and his personality both on and off the track made Ted one of the most unique characters at the track. A person we lost way too soon. Get to learn more about the man New England Modified fans call "The King" in this full-length documentary!
The comic book culture in Poland, shown through the prism of an iconic store in Warsaw which brings together graphic novel enthusiasts. Kuba and his father run the oldest comic shop in Poland - "Centrum Komiksu" - that has long been recognized as a legendary address. Through their eyes, we invite you to experience stories about loyal customers, hardships of independent publishing and problems faced by comic book creators themselves.
From his home in Lisbon, Lebanese-Palestinian writer Saleem Haddad reflects on memory, his family and the strangeness of the sea. He chases his grandmother’s fast-fading recollections of Palestine, where she lived many decades ago, and thinks about writing the homeland from a distance.
Nine perfect strangers of different nationalities, ages, religions, interests, and desires come together on a pilgrimage on the way to St. James in Spain. They begin their journeys in different countries and cross distances of almost 800 km over three snow-covered mountains to arrive in Santiago de Compostela in the spring.