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A private record of a precise moment of memory. The desire to freeze time in small moments through the camera of your cell phone. First video of the series "Messer In Concert", recorded between the years 2017 and 2019.

Every December 25, in Zapote, the popular festivities of the city of San José begin, where the most important bullfights in Costa Rica take place. These parties are attended each year by men and women called improvised bullfighters who spontaneously give the public their joy and passion. The ring of the Fiestas de Zapote is the stage where Laisa, Pity and Cuchufleta not only face the bull, but through each of their feats in the ring, they try to define their masculinity.

A reflection on life in Mount Druitt.

History as a social science, as a literary genre, as a political campaign, as a collective writing, as a pantheon, as a prison, as a myth.

A lot has happened in the trade fair city in recent years that should not be withheld from us in RADICALS 2. Therefore, the new strip shows material from the last 5 years of crew history, which mainly takes place in the Leipzig area. In 20 minutes of bonus material, actions from the past few years are presented from the international arena to the best.

"Internet is not in the clouds... it lies on the sea floor." Deep Down Tidal is a video essay exploring water in systems of communication--technological, political, and spiritual-- in the context of "electronic colonialism".

It all started when Astrid was going to move to Gothenburg. A first-hand lease in an apartment district turns into a hub for 13 years of life. Many people have lived and slept here. Love has bloomed and life has been changed.

The documentary "Aparecida do Brasil", in partnership with History Channel, has the presentation of TV Globo journalist Rodrigo Alvarez. It is a historical and journalistic construction, with testimonials and interviews, of how Nossa Senhora Aparecida became one of the Brazilian symbols.

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Nine struggling students from across the United States have chosen Eagle Rock School as their best hope for graduating high school. Their first course: a twenty-four day backpacking trip across the Colorado wilderness. Will they learn to live and work as a team in order to pursue this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

Five Taiwanese teenagers, faced with sweeping and untested educational reforms in 1996, revealed their dreams in the CommonWealth Magazine documentary "A Generation Freed." Their lives were then revisited in 2006 in the film "A Generation Freed - 10 Years Later" to see how the more liberal education system had affected them. Now, another decade later, we find out in "A Journey of 35" if indeed they were able to chase their dreams and if their horizons have grown brighter with adulthood or become more cynical.

A Québec barber who volunteers for the homeless every Tuesday on her day off gives us a glimpse of the lives of several homeless , all with striking and distinct personalities.

Taxidriver Marcel lives for december: the month where he gets to transform into Saint Nicholas.

Ahmed, originally from Somalia, was born into violence, with civil war ravaging his country. He is now a refugee desperate to improve his life, and that of his family.

In the world of classical ballet, black dancers constantly fight to pursue an art form that has been traditionally reserved for the white elite. ON POINTE follows the lives of three black dancers on a mission to prove they have what it takes to make it as ballerinas, against all odds.

A young taxidermist and her trusty peacock must overcome their insecurities to win first place at the U.S. National Taxidermy Championships.

T tries to capture the perfect shot. Subway at Grand Av - Newtown. Cinema.

Are you clean or are you doping? This questions haunts Tony Martin since he became a pro. He considers himself as one of the "new generation". But is that believable? Whom can you trust? Some of the people of his team have a questionable history. This documentary gives an intimate insight into the structure of a pro cycling team and shows areas which are normally absolut taboo zones for cameras.

Miguel Auza, Zacatecas is a small town to the northeast of Mexico which has become a paradise for its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transexual community (LGBT); One can perceive an environment free of discrimination and full of total acceptance made known by it's habitants.

Worldwide, scientists are engaged in an effort to transfer the human brain to an avatar. Their goal is to transform humans into digital beings and thereby free them from the curse of aging, and from death. So do we really need a body? Can we become immortal?

The inhabitants trapped in Sarajevo during the Yugoslavian War made an amateur video calling for a time machine to get them out of the city. Simultaneous translation is used to bring this call out of the past and into the present.

How to Build a Robot

A journey through the high plateau of Bolivia and Peru, drastically affected by both formal and informal mining. This is causing the pollution of rivers and harming the people who live along their banks, ultimately leading to the slow death of Lake Titicaca. Furthermore, there are dramatic consequences: social conflicts, human trafficking, and the use of forced labor in the mines. Comparatively, one can observe the social conflicts in the mines of Germany.

The story of Maria Jovenita da Conceição Santos, a woman of struggle with a life story marked by suffering, but not without determination. She did not have the opportunity to study, and after the age of 60, she enrolled in school to learn to read and write.

Dozens of people lost their lives in the 2008 terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, India. Years later, five witnesses return to the scene. Until the day of the attack, their lives had been entirely different, and each of them was at the hotel for an entirely different reason. Now they share this traumatic experience.

During the filming of a documentary about abandoned cinemas, a conflict of interest between the director and producer prevents the film from being shot. This won’t stop the cinema from being demolished… or a documentary from being made about it … or the director from managing to make the film…

A short documentary on Adrain Chesser, a Florida-born photographer, who used his craft to cope with his HIV/AIDS diagnosis.

Prodger examines queer identity and time in this first-person essay film, shot in and around the Scottish Highlands and named after the eponymous Neolithic deity, whose name has numerous iterations depending on life stage, locality and point in history.

Prosperity follows a new generation of companies that are "doing the right thing and deserve our attention (and money)."

Documentary portrait of blind comedian Vincent Bijlo as he's slowly going deaf.

Yuko Okumura is the biggest strawberry enthusiast living in Bloomington, Indiana. A member of an online community of strawberry lovers, she shares her strawberry collection and obsession with friends from around the world. Yuko has big plans to show the world the power that strawberries hold and happiness they can bring to humanity.

Small Town Show Biz: 2 Dreams From A Harbourtown follows two middle-aged people – a Rock Singer and a Pin Up Model – who are dreaming big, while living in a small place. How do you chase your show-biz dreams when you’re far from the shine of big city lights? Small Town Show Biz examines the world of dreams – the ones that haunt us and the ones that inspire us.

Documentary film that shares the story of defunct Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan hardcore rock band The Holly Springs Disaster, centered around their 2014 sold-out reunion show performances in Toronto, Ontario.

When winter swells collide with a chunk of reef off the north shore of Maui, massive waves up to 60 feet rise and crash to create the best big wave on earth. It’s called Peahi, or “Jaws,” and every year it attracts dozens of elite surfers from around the world to attempt the lethal wave. More and more, however, it’s the local crew that steals the show. An eclectic group childhood friends that followed each other into the Jaws lineup as teenagers, and through peer pressure and rivalries, pushed each other to unprecedented performances in the ensuing years. Then came the El Niño of 2016, which promised to serve up the largest swells in big-wave history. Follow the crew for an inside look at a season rife with nerves, injury, triumph and friendship.

Their names are George, Inge, Jo, Sepp, Paula, Walo, Anita, Klaus and Klaus. They were acolytes, pupils, wards and foster home children, who were sexually, emotionally and physically abused by members of the clergy.

An avant-garde collage film which impressionistically and non-chronologically detailing the career of a London electronic duo.

In a fishing community of Nicaragua divers are getting sick. They descended to the sea looking for lobster and they returned to the surface with their bodies paralyzed. There is no explanation for a disease never before seen in the community, the old and wise men spoke out to alert that divers had raised the wrath of the mermaid.

A mentally ill single mother struggles to maintain balance in her family.

A documentary that aims to look beyond the walls of the Vrinavadan widows shelter, exploring the complicated place of widowed women in India and Hinduism as a religion.

The origins of Salem Film Fest

A dive into what Salem police does to help the unhouses population of the city.

A corporate industrial hog farm was built inside the Buffalo National River watershed in the Ozark Mountains of Newton County, Arkansas. Though this operation poses an enormous risk to the Buffalo National River, it exploits not only the natural resources but also the people of rural Arkansas.

In 1987, as Taiwan had just lifted martial law, society and the economy were undergoing rapid transformation, and Indigenous peoples faced a wave of urban migration and labor relocation. An Amis man Du-Ya Pan Ming-fu, his childhood friend Duwake, a Kavalan artist, and Lai-Sa-Gai-Nu Tian Acheng in Xiangbi Village, have different but intertwined lives. Though the three men were compelled by economic hardship to leave their homes, they did not bow to fate nor choose to remain in the city forever. In an era when Indigenous peoples were overlooked, they each steadfastly confronted their identity and cultural values, forging life paths that intertwined in unique ways.