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Testimony in first person of the Chilean human rights leader Mireya García about the history of her family and the break that meant, personally and nationally, the 1973 Civic-Military Strike. It's the story of a family, and through it, history of her country in the last 45 years.
Result of twenty years of patient and passionate collection, constituting a fund of several thousand images taken on the German side and most of them unpublished, The Red and the Gray offers an adaptation of the famous war story by the German writer Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel. Confronting History, photography and writing, carried here by the voice of Hubertus Biermann, the film documents the passage from the old world of 1914-1915, the Red of the 19th century, to the Gray which replaces it, that of "the inhabitant of 'a new world'.
South to south / is quiet waiting / Montevideo. Mario Benedetti.
A short documentary exploring the relationship between a father and son. Feeling as though he never bonded with his father Martyn, director Chris Chambers-Smith talks to those who knew Martyn best, trying to figure out why he feels as if they never connected like a father and son.
The institution is complex, and the French are wary of it, even though they contribute 20 billion euros to it every year. "Pièces à conviction" was able to enter the corridors of the European Union, follow members of parliament, bureaucrats, and even one of its top leaders to find out how these billions are spent. It all starts with the functioning of the European Parliament.
A short film about the experiences of Izah and Murilo as they go through their gender transition process.
All of Reese's first eighteen features are overlaid and timed to end at the same time.
The story of a couple who lived, witnessed and were inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and who are following his footsteps by providing home, building lives and giving hope for abandoned, orphan and physically and mentally disabled people (including children) in the holy city of Tirupati, India.
Growing up in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8 camera. Today, still living in the same place, Cassandra examines and edits these remarkable films, gaining insight into the challenges her mother faced as a creative black woman and the importance of her vision.
A documentary about acting and improvisation.
If there’s a message in the bottle, then Omotoso presupposes it’s not only about a winemaker but a country. Through the lens of first generation black vintners, The Colour of Wine looks at the history of South Africa wine-making and how we are still working to eradicate the ignoble rot of apartheid from our vineyards. The personal stories of four winemakers are blended with interviews of wine experts from around the world to tell the bigger story of a passionate group who are bringing about transformation in the industry, one glass at a time. This is the fifth film for renowned director Omotoso, whose works include God is African, Man on Ground and Vaya, all of which have premiered and won awards at festivals around the world.
Driven by a five-part composition – broken down by sea, shore, land, mountains, sky – this one-hour celebration of Planet Earth pairs artistry with science as it combines stunning National Geographic natural history footage with an original symphony composed by Bleeding Fingers Music, and a special musical collaboration with X Ambassadors, resulting in a powerful tribute to the beauty and wonders of our wild world.
Psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson has come to fame, or notoriety depending on your perspective, over the last year. But many of those who found him through his criticisms of political correctness are saying they have discovered one of the world's most significant thinkers - why?
Sela unravels the fate of Palestinian (visual) archives that were looted or seized by Israel or Jewish forces during the 20th century and are now buried in Israeli military archives. The film raises questions about archival institutions in zones of conflict and the necessity of digging into the hidden to reveal what has been erased or rewritten.
The Captivating True Story of Addiction, Loss, and Redemption. Wisconsin is the most addicted state in America. There’s no minimum drinking age. DUI offenders get a slap on the wrist – until tragedy strikes. Those who survive are branded as felons for the rest of their lives. Church of Felons follows four recovering addicts in a rural Wisconsin church who agree to reveal hidden truths about their criminal pasts. When they speak the unspeakable, the shockwaves reverberate from their own families through the entire Polk County judicial system.
A sensitive portrait of the Sorbian composer Juro Mětšk (1954–2022).
He made tons of enemies, faced more than 40 attacks and assassination attempts, and yet he got away without a scratch. How did Hitler protect himself? Obsessed with his personal safety, the dictator took extraordinary security precautions day in and day out: Surrounding himself with bodyguards, employing tremendous means and using surprising strategies to keep his relentless fears at bay. Based on archives and the testimonies of historians and psychiatrists, this film reveals the most intimate fears of this terrifying figure.
Malena, daughter of Sessano, a painter of the Spartacus Movement, begins a search to reconstruct the history of that militant artistic movement and repair the emotional and identity ties that generated the uprooting and exile of her family.
The tradition of watching graffiti on subway trains is passed down to a new generation.
Three decades after his second burial, Hungarian executed prime minister, Imre Nagy, is out of the grave again. In his wanderings through the streets of Budapest, Imre gets trapped. Hopelessly, he tries to find a way out; to die again. What is dead, will die again. Over and over. A city symphony with horses, pistols and a cowboy; a western film. A duel between "the image" and "the visual", inspired by Friedrich Schiller's "Das Lied von der Glocke".
"Portavoce" (Megaphone) traces back the evolution of a culture of protest in Romania, developing in recent years, through the voices and opinions of key actors involved in social mobilization, in direct actions and in the development of a cultural scene favorable to political involvement.
Daqi Village is located in Shichao Township, Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. The village has 985 households with 4119 people, including 435 households with 1803 persons. It is one of the 2,760 deeply impoverished villages in Guizhou Province.
In 'Principles,' investor and entrepreneur Ray Dalio shares his approach to life and management, which he believes anyone can use to make themselves more successful.
Chicha Mariani, Nicolás Berardi, and Cielo Tailmitte Toncovich tell us about the past and present of the houses on 30th Street (the Mariani-Teruggi House), 63rd Street (El Bichicuí), and 139th Street in La Plata, which were surrounded and raided in November 1976 by the last military dictatorship. Despite the fierce attacks, the murders, and the abduction of babies, memory lives, circulates, and is shared in these houses today, enabling us to continue building ourselves collectively.
The movie features three war veterans from Maglaj, who give account of war time developments and post-war reconciliation in this municipality
It is the story of an immersion in the age of rebellion. Do they feel heirs to 68? What are they questioning in today's world? In the high school environment, five students take up these questions and lead the investigation, between arguments and giggles, camera in hand and reflection in mind.
In conjunction with the 2020 Kennedy Theatre wayang listrik production of the Last King of Bali, this documentary on the 2015-2016 Balinese wayang listrik production of Subali-Sugriwa: Battle of the Monkey Kings, showcases the unique Asian Theatre Program at the University of Hawai‘i. The film takes a viewer through the 4-month process of rehearsals and training to produce a professional awardwinning theatre production with a primarily student cast and crew and a core team of Balinese guest artists. The majority of the cast had not studied any Balinese performance nor had ever been to Bali.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union most of TV commercials from that era were destroyed, except those directed by Harry Egipt.
A tour of the monumental stained glass windows that are part of the artistic heritage of Brasília, created by Marianne Peretti, the only woman in the team of artists who accompanied Oscar Niemeyer in the federal capital. The film discusses the arrival of the Franco-Brazilian to Brazil and the meeting with Niemeyer that resulted in an artistic partnership of more than two decades and made it possible to combine the colors of her stained glass in the light of the tropics.
One of six children today live in a war zone. This is a meeting with three of them, where they in simple terms describe their experiences of war and daily life. The film is set in Iraq, but could be set anywhere in the world.
During his lifetime, he commanded the burning of his complete stock of works, letters and writings after his passing away. Fortunately, his publisher and friend didn't carry out his wish and has in this way saved a crucial piece of world literature. But who really was the graduate lawyer Franz Kafka? The TV documentary reveals that his narratives and novels were not as incomprehensible as many might claim. Several text passages are cinematically implemented and, by doing so, easier to understand. The documentary proceeds towards Kafka's stages of life. To Prague, obviously. To Vienna and to the Baltic Sea, where he eventually found his last love. Going further into the question why he never seemed to come to fulfillment with anyone, even though he was popular among women. Theatre and opera performances, «The Trial» at the Salzburg Festival complete the film as well as investigations at the «Oxford Research Centre», which targets Kafka in its studies.
After millions of bees suddenly died in the state of Campeche, Mexico, the Mayan beekeeping communities and their representatives decided to organize to find the cause and confront the authorities and the transnational company Monsanto, who have put their subsistence in danger by the sowing transgenic soy in their territory.
In his documentary Sarapanta, Cristiano Saturno goes to Alaska to explore the beauty of the Aurora Borealis and discover northerners marvelled with their sky. Sarapanta addresses the need for contemplation. It is an invitation to escape from the pandemonium of confusing information of this touchscreen era.
The Herens cows, native to the Swiss Alps, are created for tournaments, where the winner is entitled "Queen". In the four months she has been keeping them, Laura Marques followed the advice of the pastor who preceded her: to become the Queen.
Heavy Blows portrays the life of Pollo, Panda and Barbas, who are convicted criminals in some of the harshest prisons in Mexico City. Once a year, they prepare and build up for the famous penitenitary boxing tournament, which brings together the best fighters of different prisons of the area.
The video work "The Sun Monopoly" by Dimitri Lurie explores the phenomenon of sunlight deficit in modern cities.
For the past decade the German doctor Volker Schoeffl and his wife Isabelle have been coming to Laos. The country, squeezed in between Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia is one of the poorest in the world. Once a year the two doctors perform difficult operations, teach and support the local team and bring new equipment to the hospital. Not only do they work though. Both are astonishing climbers and so they spend their free time setting up new routes all accross the country.
“The AKB that I used to know, that fought to the end, that shined with limitless light – I wanted to see it once again.” “The group we must defeat now isn’t AKB, but Nogizaka!” “This is clearly just a fantasy… but hopefully everyone will come to recognize us again.”
Little Brown Girl explores the power of representation in the 21st century. The film examines the effect of a lack of meaningful, three dimensional representation of women of colour on the screen and in print.
Victor is alone here. He looks back at his life in order to figure out why he is here. Silence interrupted by the lonely voice of a man pronouncing his own name.
Go inside a fascinating and disturbing crime story, set in one of the most lawless places on earth: our oceans, where perpetrators traffic in an illegal product, and front-line workers are modern day slaves. It's part of a multi-billion dollar outlaw industry funded by the global appetite for salmon, tuna, and other seafood, though few are aware of the human and environmental wreckage left by illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Three women participate in social movements throughout Mexico City, where the songs from folk singer, León Chávez Teixeiro, have accompanied these social fighters for the last 50 years.
"I have done many paintings of which I am proud, in the middle of the chaos, without money", responds the artist Julio Ruiz to the questionings of his daughter, who tries to make him a film portrait. For Ruiz, the value of being congruent with oneself carries more weight than the promises of stability offered by traditional daily life.
Contrary to the standardization of a single hegemonic point of view, the “center” in the tropics is not the whole. It is the starting point of a powerful range of visions. This is a trip into the core of its multiple indomitable condition.
‘The Invisible Player’ is the first documentary about homophobia in football in Italy and tells the story of the Florence-based gay-friendly Revolution Team. Through interviews with the Galatasaray and former Italy, Fiorentina and Roma manager Cesare Prandelli and the former Milan centre back Alessandro Costacurta the documentary promotes a debate around the topic and offers support for gay players.The film also looks at the relationships between players, clubs and fans and the impact of these in promoting a diverse and welcoming environment in football for gay players.
Uncle Art tells the story of the man behind some of the most memorable gaming music of the 80's and 90's - Starglider, Carrier Command, Beneath a Steel Sky, After Burner and more. Dave Lowe broke technological boundaries of the period and inspired legions of gamers worldwide with his music.
The film analyzes the reasons why people who have succeeded in their social, personal, professional life devote their energy and time to getting in touch with and helping homeless people. The film is based on the work of members of the theatrical documentary project "The Untouchables" (director: Mikhail Paltasov), dedicated to the theme of the homeless and which was successfully presented on the stages of Saint Petersburg in 2016.
The mis-adventures of an American Punk Rock band self-destructing on the road, as the country takes sides during the fall of 2016.
Documentary of a young man coming out to his loved ones at their old summer home in the north of France.