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Documentary about the Trial for crimes against humanity known as La Perla, which focuses on the day of the sentence and how six protagonists of this judicial process live that event, the judge in the case, the prosecutor, a lawyer, a witness, the mother of a disappeared person and a journalist.
How has China progressed from a starving country at the beginning of the 21st century to having one of the highest obesity rates in the world?
Documentary that testifies to an extraordinary ritual of vital celebration recorded in real time. It takes place within the framework of the Corralón de Floresta urban cultural habitat, a historical and memory space, with an autonomous, horizontal and self-managed organization, in which the worldviews of groups, tribes and people who build their happiness there daily are interwoven.
In America, nearly 30% of those exonerated by DNA tests had previously confessed. For more than half a century, the Reid technique was the favored method of extracting confessions out of suspects. This method of slowly building pressure often made it seem that admitting guilt was the easiest way out. But now, a number of police forces are abandoning the Reid technique because of the risk of generating false confessions. We hear from the men and women who have spent more than 20 years in prison for crimes they did not commit. They tell us about that moment when, in the darkness of the interrogation room, cut off from the world and terrified by police officers, they finally said what the interrogators wanted to hear…the moment their lives changed forever.
E., an old-time hippie lost at the foot of an extinguished Patagonian volcano, decides to pay homage to his friend and mentor Albert Hofmann, the first person to synthesize, ingest and know the hallucinogenic effects of LSD. This creative documentary focuses on E's idea to carve Hofmann's head into a granite stone, a mixture of Greek initiation sanctuary and Mount Rushmore.
'Stumped' is a documentary about the survival and physical rehabilitation of a filmmaker who suddenly finds himself a quadrilateral amputee. It highlights the trials and triumphs of adapting to a world he never could have imagined, including his first stand-up comedy performance.
Nang has written her own script. Born in the Trinidadian village of Basse Terre in 1934, she grew up poor, illegitimate, mixed-race and female, but she survived by defying convention. She left the first of five husbands when he cheated on her. With no formal training, she danced with choreographer Geoffrey Holder, who later won Tony Awards for The Wiz. In her twenties, she went to work in the Orinoco delta in Venezuela, and saved enough to buy a house. She started university in New York in her 40s. Stubbornness, resourcefulness and resilience have allowed Nang to surmount life’s scars and tragedies. As her many changes of first and last names suggest, she was constantly reinventing herself. In this vivid portrait, filmmaker Richard Fung gets to know his first cousin at her current home in New Mexico and on the road in Trinidad.
A biographical documentary on Viliam Turčány (1928-2021), Slovak poet, literary scientist and translator of Latin and Italian poetry, most notably Dante's Divine Comedy.
As a teacher for mostly disadvantaged teens in Harlem, Zee Pacifici coaxed poetry from her students in the form of rap lyrics. Now retired at age 86, she takes comfort in mementos from her time in education, including photos from her classroom and books of her students’ writings. This short film follows Zee as she attempts to track down one of her favourite students.
The Loire Valley has been the playground of kings and noblemen for three centuries, spurring the construction of countless castles, each more opulent than the last. The result: a collection of architectural treasures spread across a beautiful natural setting. Chambord is certainly the best example of this excess, with 77 stairwells and 282 chimneys. Chenonceau, nicknamed the “Château des Dames” (Castle of the Ladies), is notable for its location, spanning the Cher River, and for its magnificent gardens. The region also hosts imposing medieval cities, a majestic religious history marked by cathedrals and abbeys, as well as remarkable cuisine and vineyards. Come live like royalty on a trip into the heart of history!
In just half a century, the human population has doubled to 7.4 billion, and during that time, astronaut and satellite photos have been capturing the startling changes on our planet. See how humans have made their mark reshaping the planet in our quest for new sources of food, power, and shelter. From glimmering new megacities like Shenzhen, China to areas affected by climate change like Mt. Kilimanjaro and Florida, witness Earth's changing look--the spectacular and the shocking--from 250 miles up.
Since the Euromaidan revolution of 2014, Ukrainian politics has largely been contested between pro-European Union neoliberals and far-right nationalists, united only by their hatred of the Soviet past. Revivification looks at how contemporary artists in Ukraine, inspired by radical ideals as well as queer and feminist theory, are trying to work in this context, looking back at the socialist past and trying to build a more utopian future.
An insight into six months of life on tour with Maša Pavoković and Eva Kristina Filipčič, the managers of Koala Voice and persons from Porlock. The film crew follows the bands across Slovenia and internationally as the protagonists are reaching important milestones in their music careers.
A woman seeks to make the outdoors more accessible for fat people – just as they are and without shame. Armed with her slogan “Trails Not Scales”, she soon finds herself hosting events all over North America.
They've captured our imagination and are a source of childlike wonder, but what exactly are rainbows? Learn the science behind these weather phenomenon and how one day they might help pinpoint habitable planets in deep space.
Exploring current music technology, how music is consumed, and how the recording studio fits into that puzzle. The gateway to a new era of sound.
The Flight of the Condor traces the global circulation of the melody “El Condor Pasa”: from the Andes mountains to global metropoles; from Lima to Paris to New York, and back; from panpipes to piano and from symphony orchestras to the disco; from indigenous to popular music; and from world music back to national heritage.
Short film about the Trans Ladies Picnic community in Brooklyn, NY.
A family lives in a house on the mountain. The rhythms of the surrounding nature and love help her to overcome difficult situations.
Three young women reflect on adolescence as a period marked by loss of ‘voice’ and the struggle between competing desires for autonomy and connection.
Is the Albizia tree a destructive force, disrupting native ecosystems and causing economic damage, or the material that can awaken new paradigms through thoughtful design? PARADIGM NOW dives into the journey undertaken by architect Joey Valenti in pioneering Lika, a prototype that opens the door to sourcing timber locally, restoring native ecosystems, and designing for future island resilience.
Break the Silence features raw, powerful interviews with 18 diverse cisgender and transgender women about their sexual & reproductive health histories.
In 1997, Darius Clark Monroe was a high school honor student who had never been in serious trouble. But soon after his 16th birthday, he robbed a bank in Stafford, Texas, at gunpoint with two of his friends. Seventeen years later, he sat down with David Ned, a customer who was in the bank during the robbery.
In this video essay, Alex Vuillaume-Tylski explores the unique ways in which Agnès Varda opens and closes her films from the entirety of her career.
Often described as the oldest of the sciences, astronomy is today one of the most modern and dynamic. In four corners of the planet, giant telescopes are affected as our eyes pop out of the ground and affect our understanding of the Universe. In the most important observatories in the world, in Chile, Hawaii and the Canary Islands, a new generation of astronomers, engineers and technicians are writing the next chapter of our knowledge of the Universe. This documentary takes us to meet these "star people" to discover what makes their hearts beat, but also to understand how astronomy decrypts our past and shapes our future.
Sicilian summer. Città Giardino's immigrant help centre is a dilapidated building located between mountains and factories. Città Giardino is closing down and its only inhabitants are six boys between 14 and 18 years old. They came from Africa, traveled across the desert and the sea and are now waiting for a visa. The days are all the same, between sleep, meals and eternal immersion in their smartphones. The heat, frustration and boredom paralyse the children, under the watchful eye of a watchman who supervises them. Even a visit from a journalist cannot break the monotony: he comes to interview the young people but the words are hard to come by. No one wants to talk about himself. Omar trains in a makeshift gym, Jallow seeks refuge on his tablet, Jelimakan ora. Only Sahid, the newest, seems determined to break the paralysis: he is planning an escape.
An act of love for the American wild west. Lose yourself in these wild lands filmed on a 10-day trip from the south to the north of the United States across the West Coast.
Welcome to The Aetherius Society— a religion where prayer can be stored in a battery, Jesus was an alien, and an unusual but kind-hearted community works toward the betterment of humanity.
A trip of the director with her camera through the city. It’s a movie about cinema and the people that are in it, trapped. It’s like a box where the director keeps the objects of her life, her story and her anxiety, almost without opening it, a movie to be made, surrounded by fear. There is her family lying in a garden of nails, the womb, the city where at any moment, by chance, you can meet a monster.
A man details how he came to own several tens of tapes of Robert Zemeckis' 1994 masterpiece: Forrest Gump.
When spring comes, snow melting atop and rain falling on Oregon's Coast Range of mountains roars over waterfalls and rapids in Beaver Creek and Sweet Creek, making its way toward the Pacific Ocean.
This documentary concerns the growth of a particular child. Dajun and Xiaomei are a pair of siblings who live with their father and grandfather after their mother went to work in Shanghai. Without the presence of a motherly figure, both children gained more playtime but there seemed to be a conspicuous lack of motherly love and care. Nontheless with her frugal grandfather, their farm animals and the talented craftsmen of their hometown, Xiaomei's childhood has just began.
Broersen and Lukács construct a replica of Białowieża primeval forest. Roaming this virtual forest is Iranian opera singer Shahram Yazdani, who performs his version of Nature Boy, echoing Nat King Cole’s hit. In Forest on Location, nature is viewed as a mirror, reflecting our own perception.
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir broke records and barriers on her way to become the first Division I athlete to play basketball while wearing hijab. When a controversial ruling ends her chances at playing professionally, she re-examines her faith and identity as a Muslim American.
A son films his middle-aged mother as she undertakes a hallucinatory trip down memory lane, recollecting her superficially idyllic childhood in 1960’s Puerto Rico.
At the Basque Culinary Center, 5 young talented students of cutting-edge gastronomy from all over the world will go back to the past to create the menu Bihar dok 13. They will travel to 1966 to discover the decade that would change everything in Basque culture. With five special events, we will discover the movements Gaur, Ez dok amairu and the spiritual father of the BCC, the Basque Nouvelle Cuisine. The “Bihar dok amairu” menu prepared by the young chefs will be served during a special meal and enjoyed by the most relevant personalities in Basque culture today, uniting new artists and musicians. The old generation will symbolically open the door to the new.
Alexis Fleming tends to all creatures great and small in a storybook sanctuary, an animal hospice two hours south of Glasgow.
COMING HOME is a documentary film focused on five people returning back to their Vermont communities from prison. The film focuses on the innovative COSA program (Circle of Support and Accountability) that helps reintegrate folks back into their daily lives. The COSA program is run through Vermont’s Community Justice Centers and is part of the restorative justice model.
The thoughts and bodies of three queer boys are pierced by the LGBTQ Equal Rights Crisis in 2018 Costa Rica.
Dan Wetzel and Kevin Armstrong undertake an exhaustive journey into the mind and motives behind the murderous fall, and tragic suicide, of Aaron Hernandez, providing an unprecedented look into the most infamous athlete since O.J. Simpson.
A Documentary about Australian Artist Hego's journey to tell an under-told story of Australian Indigenous WW1 history through a mural in the Indigenous heart of Sydney.
At 70 years old, Martin "Coach Jake" Jacobson is the most winning high school coach in New York City history. Both on the soccer field and off, this season may be his toughest yet. With a rapidly advancing liver disease and age taking its toll, his legacy as a winner is on the line as the clock on his life and career begin to wind down. A documentary by Ian Phillips.
A short documentary set at George's Shoe Repair, a family-owned business in Portland, Oregon that has served the community for over 50 years. George is preparing to pass the store on to his son, Joshua, a former modern dancer. Mia, Joshua's young daughter, also learns the family trade.
They live on the edge of the known world - far from civilization but affected by its consequences nonetheless. The photographer Markus Mauthe visited these last indigenous peoples to capture the inherent beauty of their cultures, before they too fall victim to ever-advancing globalisation. The journey leads from South Sudan and Ethiopia to Malay sea nomads and Brazilian Indians in Mato Grosso, who have started to defend themselves against the destruction of their natural habitat. The result is a film that captures intimate and unadulterated encounters with sumptuous photography – while also serving as an appeal for the preservation of indigenous cultures, which will surely perish unless we rethink and act accordingly.
Dunchon Jugong Apts. at the edge of the metropolis, Seoul. It has been over 10 years since discussions of rebuilding these old apartment complexes began. The inhabitants tell us about their soon-to-be-demolished houses and apartments. Some of them have spent long spans of time here and some of them short. Some people are now raising daughters in the house they lived in since their childhood, some families came from other places and struggled to adjust. Each add their different forms of love to this space in their own way. As the long-postponed reconstruction nears reality, the day-to-day scenery of the apartment complexes and households is quietly coming to a close.
In that moment, all the news published published on September 3 2015 became real. Banalities of the day and personal memories got mixed up incredibly strongly.
A close look at the origins and present of portuguese hip hop.
The film gives a voice to three strong female characters from different minorities in Poland and explores the nuances of how it feels to be black, Muslim, or LGBTQ+ in the most homogenous country in an ever more right-leaning Europe.
Starting from personal memories, the film seeks to speak about black identity, masculinity and resignification of memory itself.
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