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Putting the Orient Express – also called „the train of trains“ – on its tracks called for considerable stamina. Several times, the ambitious project of Georges Nagelmackers was on the brink of failure as the Belgian entrepreneur was facing the bankruptcy of his sleeping car company.

A visual portrait of a boy with autism, told by his mother.

Mady and Merouane are two eleven-year-olds who grow up as best friends in the north-east of Paris. They live right next door to each other and that’s more important to them than anything else. And anyway, they feel so at home in their neighbourhood that they can’t think of a more perfect place to practice adulthood. When some other boys turn up, their friendship is briefly put to the test.

A hazy layer covers an abandoned town, the noise has replaced the sounds of nature, the machines do not stop. A man performs a rite to try to save us.

Penis length, porn ideals, vagina depth and vulvar jewelry. A look at the importance of genitals in our lives.

Suddenly it felt right to abort a 16 year old project.

Josep Ramoneda's documentary tries to portray new ways of understanding ageing.

Bedu is the manifesto of how a people can be violated in its human rights. Through the stories of the son of Sinai, interviews and witnesses, we retrace the whole story of the injustices suffered by these people: the Bedouins From the days of the Six-Day War through the tourist revolution to the Arab Spring up to the coup of al-Sisi and today to Isis. Deprived of their lands and the water, hijacked by the large European hotels. Deprived of basic human rights, such as having a home, access to health services and education. Reduced to cultivating and selling opium under contract with the police. Up to the interview with Mussa'ad Abu Fajr, the only Bedouin who spoke violations suffered by his people in a blog beddna naiseh (we want to live) for which he served three years in prison. Hence, the title of the documentary, because these nomads simply want the basic right: life.

Sohrab Hura focuses on intimate family life, particularly the relationship between his mother who was diagnosed with acute Paranoid Schizophrenia and her dog, Elsa. What began as a way to escape his family situation turned into a method of confronting the realities at home. Photographed and filmed over a period of ten years, it is a search for meaning and closure with Hura questioning and discovering the banalities of everyday life at home.

A conversation about their fate as refugees, who were granted Lebanese citizenship in 1994, takes place over a video call between Farah, who recently moved to Prague, and her grandmother, who lives in Lebanon. Both generations touch on topics that are filled with emotions, memories, and hope.

On July 11, 1982, Italy defeated West Germany 3-1 and unexpectedly won the World Cup. Paolo Rossi, better known as Pablito, described by Pele and Maradona as the greatest champion in football history, guided Italy towards the title. The fascinating parable of Paolo Rossi's life story, which culminated in the realization of his greatest dream: to become a world champion.

Revolving around loss, substance abuse, and family, we follow a few families personally affected but the opioid epidemic. By telling their stories the aim is to spread a message of hope and encouragement and let those affected know there is help.

Focusing on underground locations such as quarries, tunnels and caves, the filmmakers investigate the insatiable human desire to extract natural resources from the ground. In three chapters, they explore the healing powers of radon gas found in Austria, the powerful energy felt in stones in Switzerland, and the pearls created by sweat and blood found in Polish caves, a memento of those who died there. Together, these chapters form a geological and cultural history of our (often bodily) relation to the subsoil of the Earth, enabling different modes of knowing and experiencing the world. Like Castorp, the viewer is hence placed in a different reality, and invited to take "the ride into the mountains to be healed".

It's an important refuge for animal and plant species and the largest heathland in North Rhine-Westphalia – yet virtually nobody knows it: the Senne. Located between Bielefeld, Detmold, and Paderborn, the Senne is home to rare insects and birds, endangered amphibians, and large herds of fallow deer. Nowhere else in North Rhine-Westphalia are there so many sand lizards. The fact that this natural paradise is known to few is due to its unique history: For 130 years, large sections of the Senne have served as a military training area. Entry to the area is strictly prohibited for civilians.

A collection of films produced at the New School between February and May of 2020. Caveh Zahedi's students were asked to make personal documentaries based on a series of personal prompts.

A Spring Bright Evening is a live action animation with a musical score performed by the academic fraternity choir, Brahe Djäknar. The film is set inside a, for many, closed and secretive world that plays a formative role in contemporary society through networking and tradition-making. It shows etiquette and gestures that are codified to become signifiers of belonging.

Five native sámis interviewed. They tell how they live as a sámi in Finland.

When Azize loses her father at a very young age, her family moves to the village where her uncle lives. In elementary school, when she is sent to watch over her siblings, she meets football that changes her life. No matter how hard she tries to fulfill her dream, it always ends in failure. Just when she starts losing hope, she becomes a licensed football player at the age of 48. However, struggles never finish for a woman football player.

Sometimes it is necessary to go to the other side of the world to open the topic of intimacy. Sometimes it is necessary not to shoot a single frame to make a film. Sometimes there is an attempt to create closeness by increasing the distance and sometimes the impossibility to do so tries to camouflage itself with an adventure story. Sometimes I think I speak Chinese. In this travel essay written at the height of the epidemic and just after the earthquake, I asked myself a question and intended to find an answer. Now I realize that I don’t know the answer or that it may not exist at all. Now I understand, maybe we are more similar than I think.

The natural medicine industry is seduced by ex-cons, adulterated by fake docuseries and physicians with exaggerated credentials, and patients are hurt all in an effort to make money before the FDA catches up with them.

Álvaro Castaño, for the vast majority," is a documentary directed by Alessandro Angulo, which showcases how one of the most ambitious and innovative cultural projects of its time in Colombia emerged: the HJCK radio station. It also takes a journey through the life and work of the entrepreneur and facilitator Álvaro Castaño.

This amazing film pays homage to wahoo and all who have battled them through history. This prized game fish has long challenged anglers for decades with its razor-sharp teeth, fearless attitude, strong jaws and blazing speeds. Get exclusive tips on tackle, recipes, technique and even how to fillet wahoo from a cast of experts including Polaris Supreme Owner/Operator, Tommy Rothery.

A friendship in four chapters.

Writer Cédric Gras follows in the footsteps of Stalinist mountaineers in Kyrgyzstan. Pioneers of Central Asian exploration, they were first on the highest peaks of the Celestial Mountains. The film traces one of their expeditions to the Khan Tengri, which has become an amazing glacial trek.

After a life-changing epiphany, the CEO of a global public company embarks on a high-stakes quest to eliminate all negative environmental impacts by 2020. To succeed, they must overcome deep skepticism, abandon the status quo, and ignite a new industrial revolution. Beyond Zero offers an inspirational roadmap for how business can reverse climate change.

Héctor Martínez, a veteran football player, singer of West Indian music and traditional cook, tells us aspects of his life, which brings us closer to the popular history of Cali in the mid-20th century, a city in constant transformation that neglects his memory.

What keeps popular policies of social welfare from the seat of power? Over nearly two decades, Arata Oshima follows a politician navigating splintered opposition parties in a landscape dominated by the right-wing.

Port Adelaide Football Club is one of the world’s oldest and most successful sporting clubs, celebrating 150 years in 2020. Love it or hate it, the club has become an integral part of the history of Adelaide people. Share the passionate first-hand accounts from players and one-eyed supporters who bleed for the club.

Infodemic, pandemic, pandemonium.

The COVID-19 pandemic scars the citizens of Mexico City.

Shabazz's portrait of artist Ken McCalla who worked on Time and Judgement.

Being trapped in the United States and self-isolated, I had a video chat with my family in China. Back in January, I shot a roll of film recording the sunset at Santa Monica beach, and rewatching it now, I decided to prolong the dusk as an attempt to erase the decisive boundary which separates night and day.

Spurred on by the death of her husband, Peabody-award winning NPR journalist Diane Rehm crosses the country to investigate the right-to-die movement in America.

Young people are protesting on the streets of Hong Kong in order to bring about change. Air soaked with tear gas, the dark uniforms and loud commands of the police officers in the colourful umbrella sea of the protesters. In the midst of the action, the film documents a brand new protest movement.

They Ain't Ready For Me is the story of Tamar Manasseh, the black rabbinical student who leads the fight against gun violence on the south side of Chicago. Tamar's identity and personality combine to make her a force to be reckoned with.

The image of Paris as the capital of love seems to be obvious today. However, it is only in the 19th century, with its "haussmannisation", that it acquired this title. How did this reputation impose itself on the whole world? From the grand boulevards to the banks of the Seine, through the darkness of the porte cochères, the documentary "Romantic Paris, Erotic Paris" looks back at the making of this myth and revisits, through emblematic characters and tasty archives, a century of cultural and social history. From the boudoirs of the great courtesans of the Second Empire to free love in the post-war Saint-Germain-des-Prés, through the interloper nights in the cabarets of the Occupation, a look back at a part of the history of the capital.

Jaan Poldaas: New Work explores the artistic career and methodology of an important yet forgotten Toronto artist as he emerges from retirement to complete his most important work to date.

Travis and Seamus’s new show has begun filming. While the guys are getting ready, Seamus’s conspiracy becomes a reality and the two have to find a way to fix it. So sit down, grab your beef jerky (and eat the "do not eat" packet) cause here is Finger Lickin the SHOW Episode 1!

Mitsue's routine changes with the visit of his grandson.

The film is edited, the audio description of the forgotten sound of the film is recorded. Half a year (I thought to myself that it should be) I check potential festivals. Is this a movie about the love of mountains or not? Is it virtual reality about the feeling of freedom or not? Is this a film about cross-border friendship of Central European peoples or not? Is this a movie-musical about finding yourself or not? Is this a film about the problems of the lgbt community in the Carpathian region named after Andy Warhol, or not? Is this a film that promotes silent film values ​​or not? Is this a short experimental debut film of a young director about challenging stereotypes or not? Is it an innovative film that does not fit into the box and will be shown at six festivals and fairs in the most beautiful places of the wine tourism region or not? After an extremely successful development, pre-production, production, post-production and festival history, the film is posted online.

After the abolition of slavery in the US, the world still had racist and colonial policies. This episode showcases those who fought for a more equitable future.

Eugénio de Andrade (1923-2005) is one of the greatest Portuguese poets. He was born in Póvoa de Atalaia, a village in the interior center of Portugal. The film visits the place where his house still exists.

Jin Thai girl returns to her homeland after 12 years living in Italy. In this journey and we will discover its origins, in a rural territory of northern Thailand, up to the borders with Myanmar and Laos.

"Kunst & Ukunst" was the name of an exhibition that was shown at the National Gallery in an occupied Norway in 1942.

"Oh Christmas Tree" dives into the disposable fate of one of society's principal symbols of joy and unity, the beloved Christmas Tree.

An experimental/art-leaning short, screendance film in which four human characters appear stuck in an interior, futuristic landscape outside of time. As they struggle with themselves as well as with each other, they seem to reach upon dance (whether experienced or internalized, solitary or otherwise) as an instinctive/conceptual way out of an inescapable void.

On the night of November 12, 2019 Venice was hit by a series of floods that submerged the city for a week. Starting from the images of his home and his studio flooded the director tells firsthand what it means to live day by day with high water and how his city faces catastrophe.

Are Vaccines Proven Safe and Effective? Its Time for an Adult Conversation about this Topic and it starts here.

Digital intimacy is about exchange, but what is it that it is made of and how are we exchanging it? A PERSONAL PROJECT is a series of online artifacts ranging from videos and erotic stories to photos and snapchats created to expose power dynamics in online, browser-mediated affairs. Who or what controls who's arousal? Who gets paid? Are there different kinds of currency used for pay-outs? Who gets what kind of currency-- is it all equal? Guilt and shame are explored as a possible substance that can be communicated through interface obfuscated online interaction. This project was exhibited in an account on XTUBE until 2019, an amateur porn site. nothing_fucking_matters_II: cuter on the internet.mp4 (2014) is an artifact from that XTUBE channel.

A celebration of Parquet Courts' 10th anniversary, including a live performance at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, archival footage, and interviews.

Guided by host Nina Parker, Bravolebrities offer their thoughts and personal stories on the Black Lives Matter movement, racial inequality in America, the value of allies, Karens and privilege, the role voting plays in changing the system, and many other topics. The three doctors on the panel also offer their perspectives on race in the medical world.

This short documentary explores the situation of the incarcerated male trans population and their health problems generated by the gender binarism that dominates the prisons.