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Daily observations and reflections of the second year of living in a pandemic. Our lives are limited to visits to the local Windmill Hill City Farm where animals and humans seem to live in harmony. I came across articles and videos about horseshoe crabs and their amazing survival through centuries and their impact on our survival. The farm shuts down and reopens as the vaccines roll out. The horseshoe crabs are on the verge of being added to the endangered species list. Like the old Farsi rhyme that Jonah tries to learn, we are in a circle tightly entangled.

In February 2021, the teams from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii unearthed an astoundingly well-preserved, almost intact Roman ceremonial chariot.

In the evening, when the buses have finished their routes, they are brought to the depot. There Nurcan and Marinko wait together with 5 others. Nurcan is Turkish. Marinko is from Croatia. The others are from Portugal, Albania and Syria. Every night they care for the buses – cleaning, washing and refuelling them. Into the early morning hours. Again and again. Refuel, clean, wash - and wait. Until all the buses have gone to sleep. Every night.

The volunteers who risked their lives to rescue animals from the areas that were abandoned in the wake of the Russian invasion.

For the first time in history, surf is considered an Olympic sport in Tokyo 2020 and has its first champion: Ítalo Ferreira. In BCN Surf Destination, the gold medalist leaves Brasil’s beaches to travel to Barcelona and get to know how surf is lived in the area and how are its people.

This documentary tells the story of the passionate and thwarted loves of four actresses who were stars in their times. Lya de Putti, the star of Phantom by F.W. Murnau (1922) and Variété (1935) by E.A. Dupont, loved her profession but died when she failed to make the transition to the talkies. Mireille Balin, irresistibly seductive with Gabin in Lady Killer (1937) paid dearly for her love affair with a German officer during the Occupation. Belinda Lee, the English actress who became a star at Cinecittà and a mainstay of la dolce vita, died shortly after her separation from the Prince Orsini, one of the great names of the Italian aristocracy. And Laura Antonelli, the star of Malizia and a long-time companion of Jean-Paul Belmondo, who did not survive her breakup with the last love of her life. Stars, celebrities and adored, but women above all…

The legendary transgender club The Way Out celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2018. The documentary looks back at the last three decades in the London trans scene, discovering the club's impact on the transgender community through interviews and archive footage. The club closed in March 2020 for the first time in 28 years due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. What does the future hold for this unique place?

Do you believe in ghosts? An incantation becomes a refrain in this two-channel projection of sequences from an old film, recaptured on a Lomo lens. It’s all in her* hands shaping his form, her* labour questioning his authority.

A PSA created to encourage people to spend some time off their phone

Organic mountain farmer Christian Bachler and "Oberbobo" Florian Klenk, editor-in-chief of the Viennese magazine "falter", argue in front of 100,000 viewers on Facebook about the responsibility of farmers for their cattle. This creates a friendship. When the bank wants to auction the farm, Bobo starts a fundraiser. 13,000 people follow the call and donate 420,000 euros, the farm is debt-free. A modern fairy tale that changes both of them: Bobo and the farmer are now fighting together for sustainable agriculture.

This film is a unique historical document, a cast of the tragedy. This film is about the disaster that happened to Russia and filmed in real time. Chronicle of a diving country.

When Otto Dov Kulka was 11 years old and had to start the death march from Auschwitz to Groß-Rosen, he saw a prisoner lying with a broken leg on the orders of the defendant Baretzki who then probably shot him. Unlike this unknown prisoner, Kulka managed to escape death. Nineteen years later, he testified alongside 210 other Auschwitz survivors against 20 indicted former SS officials, participating in a trial that confronted the German people with their past and gave voice to silence.

A short documentary about one of the cheapest cities in northern China--Hegang. A report about a flat for only 50,000 RMB (US $7,800) got a sensational impact on Chinese social media. So we went to Hegang and talked to the young people who moved there from big cities. Are they "losers" who failed in big cities? Or does Hegang give them a different picture of life? Check this out.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines is streaming a special series of dances reflecting the changing times and the ways artists are finding their bearings in the new world. The stream will showcase the work of five veteran choreographers.

documentary about the French artist Karl Beaudelere.

Amazonia, 19th century. Alexandrina was a woman whose features and skin color made her an object of observation. An exhibit that a white colonizer could examine, evaluate, and own. But the legacy that Alexandrina and hundreds of others with similar fates left behind survives to this day. In their faces, rituals, jewellery, and symbols.

Ten years after the last season, those responsible for one of the most watched series on Canal Brasil meet again to tell stories and, of course, produce a guerrilla recipe by culinary master Paulo de Oliveira.

Night, a full moon shown in a long shot. Sasha Pirker divides this miniature into three movements with different types of sound to accompany the dark image. “Ma” refers to the Japanese concept of negative, empty space. After “me” and “ma” comes the “moon” in the audio form of a rousing music track, whose dynamics build up extreme tension against the image. Now the unfinished film is perhaps finished after all—as a liberated dance under the Moon.

Amazing advice on cutting your bills with ingenious hacks, how to eat more cheaply, shopping tips, transport savings and personal finance for surviving the cost-of-living crisis.

The Only explores the highest triumphs and darkest defeats throughout the extraordinary life of U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame goalkeeper Briana Scurry. The documentary explores the inspirational glory and deeply dark corners of a Hall of Fame goalkeeper who stood alone on the field as the only Black starter and the only openly gay player. While celebrating the historic legacy of Scurry's career, including two Olympic gold medals and a penalty save to help the U.S. win the 1999 Women's World Cup, the film also tells the story of how she overcame racism and homophobia at the time of her greatest triumphs before later finding herself on the edge of suicide following a career-ending concussion.

A long-lasting lockdown. The last days of a grandmother. In between, a speculative film diary: a distant homeland, a grieving state possessed by light.

In this musical documentary, alter egos Jonny Toxic and Jacco Macho set out on a journey across Italy and The Netherlands, exploring masculinity in contrasting cultural settings. Italy's shameless machismo and the frugal Calvinist-influenced Netherlands serve as backdrops for their introspective exploration of masculinity. Rather than relying on academic theories, they focus on personal experiences and the evolving nature of their own masculinity in these distinct cultures.

A forty-five-year history of a folklore group from Novo Mesto.

When filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki fled her native island of Crete as a young adult, she hoped to leave her violent childhood behind her. But in Spain, her memories are reawakened when a man asks her to make a film about him and his violence.

Vincenzo and Antonio, sentenced to life imprisonment, embark on a difficult but humane path of restorative justice, opening a dialogue with victims and the public in order to find an opportunity to redeem themselves with their help.

Splash, a team within the San Diego Women’s Basketball Association composed of women 85 and up are forever changed by the sisterhood that comes from being in a league of their own.

Karla Pontigo was a victim of femicide on October 28, 2012, in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Her mother, Esperanza Lucciotto, narrates the tough struggle she and her family faced in search of justice.

At the end of summer 2021 boys spend their last lazy days together in a small town by the Volga River. Their childish routine of roaming streets, riding scooters and vaping will change so soon — only Slava stays in Yuryevets with his foster family, most of his friends are leaving to study or work in a week. Vlad dreams about a military career. He wants “to save lives” just like characters in his favorite computer games and to earn enough money for his poor parents who work in a local supermarket. At his birthday party the teens argue and try to dissuade Vlad but he has already made his choice. Hope there will be no war in the future — they say.

Vertical Freedom is an epic, feature-length documentary film highlighting the professional and personal lives of six communications infrastructure workers in the United States who possess diverse backgrounds and compelling stories, on and off the job.

The story follows the Imalawa Tribe of Vintar, Ilocos Norte, as they strive for cultural preservation, rights, and acceptance. Tribu Imalawa is based in Barangay Isic-Isic at Sitio Dasar, deep in the Valley's hinterlands, within the mountain peaks. The plot revolved around the elders' desire to preserve their culture and pass it on to the next generation. They are worried that new technologies and the passage of time may cause them to lose their heritage.

In 1936, after the coup d'état perpetrated by Franco against democratic Spain and the subsequent dictatorship that followed a bloody Civil War, women suffered physical, sexual, economic, educational and political violence, leading to the largest theft of babies in the world. History of recent Europe. 'Las vencidas y no derrotadas' is a documentary with the testimonies of these women, whose faces bear the mark left by unhealed wounds. Its protagonists tell us about real events, reliving events that were milestones in their families, towns and cities, supported by graphic documentation of family and personal memories, as well as images and audios from historical archives.

Vivamax, the leading streaming platform for Pinoy movies, has recently launched an exciting new feature called "5 in 1 Behind the Scenes". This feature takes viewers behind-the-scenes of their favorite movies and provides a glimpse into the hard work and creativity that goes into making them.Through this feature, viewers can now experience behind-the-scenes exclusives, including interviews with the cast and crew, never-before-seen footage, and insights into the production process.

An attempt to encapsulate an encounter through time between a mother and her son. Through a third entity, two subjects can meet, understand and recognize each other as human beings, with personal and shared passions, through the vastness of time.

In 1960 Frank Glynn, a west of Ireland shopkeeper, bought an 8mm film camera. He would go on to record the social history of his village and much more besides.

Aneta is the manager of an erotic massage parlor in France. She left Poland to find her own path but nothing goes as she would like it to. Pressing problems with her partner and growing up children motivate her to take her life in her hands.

The story of Title IX's impact on the University of Texas, with a spotlight on its first director of women's athletics, Donna Lopiano; driven by the spirit of Title IX, Lopiano's legacy has paved the way for female athletes in Austin and beyond.

In 1925 a polar expedition led by the explorer Roald Amundsen managed to reach 88º North, the northernmost latitude ever reached by a man at that time. How to represent the conquest of a place that is an absolutely empty geographical abstraction?

Although the late Republican Party consultant Arthur J. Finkelstein was little known in his native US, his kingmaking powers had played a major role in the rise of right-wing populism around the world over the last two decades. In 1968, aged just 23, he helped Nixon get elected, and later masterminded the stunning victories of Reagan in 1980, Orbán in 2010 and Netanyahu in 1996, a mere few months after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Finkelstein’s ability to manipulate public opinion and the media – using it to advance his clients’ careers while zealously protecting his privacy – however, could not stop the leaks about his long term same-sex relationship. Attempting to square Finkelstein’s gay, urban and Jewish identity with the views of the politicians he worked with, this fascinating film sheds light on a life full of mind-boggling, moral contradictions.

The documentary tells about the illustrated diary of a salt worker from the flooded village of Dedyukhino. His whole life is in it, as well as the life of an entire generation at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

On March 17, 2019, Kristian Ayoungman was fatally shot in a racially motivated murder that shocked the Siksika Nation. In two Alberta, Canada, communities, a movement arose demanding Kristian’s murderers be brought to justice.

The House of David story has fascinated the minds of millions for over a century! It was a place in Michigan that was surrounded by mystery, religion, romance, baseball, travel, sex, scandal, and huge wealth. It was all based on an unusual religious colony that called themselves the “House of David”. Their leader and founder Benjamin Purnell preached that he was teaching the way to have “eternal life of the body” and the way to live forever on earth. Converts traveled from afar to hear the message and many would join their colony, giving up all of their worldly possessions in exchange for the promise of everlasting life. They came from all corners of the globe to see what they were being told was “Paradise on Earth”.

For a century, EMD has built the majority of diesel locomotives in North America and the world. Noted videographer Rich Luckin looks at this builder's origins, growth and development, supremacy, and its role today as an arm of Progress Rail. This documentary includes the history of EMD, exclusive footage at the Indiana plant, many interviews with employees, and more!

Bazilik Patikola is a Haitian martial art and game of skill, practiced with a stick, and in its most advanced stage, with a machete. The documentary shares with us the initiatory journey of a young woman in the practice of this combat art.

In Generation Impact: The Guardians we meet three Costa Rican teens who became friends in high school and bonded over their passion for technology. Together, they are using their talents to help make public spaces safer for women in their country, where six in 10 women say they've experienced sexual harassment—on the street, at work, and in universities. With their startup, Roshe, which includes an app, wearable tech, and a community of women and allies, they're working to make Costa Rica a place where women can move freely and without fear.

What do French presidents have in common since 1948? Queen Elizabeth II! In June 2022, England will celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. And even though France hasn't had a monarchy for nearly 150 years, French interest in royalty is not waning. This documentary examines 70 years of Franco-British relations between Queen Elizabeth II and the Presidents of the Republic. Elizabeth II, the most French of British queens, was born in 1926.

A documentary dedicated to the discovery, almost forty years later, of the lost negatives of Mohammad Reza Aslani's film CHESS OF THE WIND (Iran, 1976).

Four sex workers caught in the spiral of addiction turn to a self-proclaimed healer offering friendship and a path to salvation from the streets inside his roadside RV. But just as they begin to rebuild their lives, a shocking betrayal comes to light that will change them all.

It is an experimental film in which the best of the structural film tradition merges with an urban symphony. A busy intersection is a plentiful source of the scenes that form a rhythmical unit with its own structure and meaning. The celebration of cinematography in its very own realm of images and sounds!

Special about Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde.