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Jesus Goes to Hollywood

From popular piety to blockbuster, from musical to social criticism - Jesus Christ has many faces in film history. And the Italian city of Matera has often served as the backdrop for the Holy Land. Both Pier Paolo Pasolini's early masterpiece “Il Vangelo secondo Matteo” and Mel Gibson's controversial interpretation “The Passion of Christ” were filmed here. Gibson's film and Martin Scorsese's “The Last Temptation of Christ” caused a stir and scandal in 1988 and 2004 respectively. Milo Rau's interpretation also goes beyond the traditional. In “The New Gospel”, the Swiss director links the story of Jesus with current social struggles and presents a revolutionary Christ.

Jesus Goes to Hollywood

5.0 2024
Theodore Ushev: Unseen Connections

While visiting his native country to shoot his first live-action film (PHI 1.618), animation filmmaker Theodore Ushev recounts the highlights of his life in Bulgaria and recalls the various underground artistic movements that have influenced him. Featuring archival footage, film clips and talking-head segments with friends and family, this fascinating documentary takes a personal and political dive into the teeming creative universe developed through experience with people and events by the award-winning director of LIPSETT DIARIES, BLIND VAYSHA and THE PHYSICS OF SORROW.

Theodore Ushev: Unseen Connections

NR 2022
How to Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson

In this provocative state-of-the-nation film, Stevenson travels across the country meeting those most affected by the widening wealth gap, alongside multi-millionaires and billionaires who sit at the other end of the economic spectrum. Having made millions during his career in finance, Stevenson now campaigns against the expanding divide between rich and poor, and examines what he believes is driving inequality in Britain today. The documentary sees him engage with economists, financiers, public sector workers and individuals from across society, going head-to-head with critics of his views while also hearing from those who support his proposed solutions. At the heart of the film is Stevenson’s belief that meaningful change requires a wealth tax, with the super-rich contributing more to address what he sees as a broken system.

How to Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson

NR 2026
Mama's Boy

Traveling back to the places where he grew up, Dustin Lance Black explores his childhood roots, gay identity and close relationship with his mother, who overcame childhood polio, abusive marriages and Mormon dogma, while becoming Black’s emotional rock and, ultimately, the inspiration for his activism. With a wealth of personal photographs and candid memories from Black’s family, colleagues, and friends, this documentary embraces the personal to tell a universally hopeful tale of resilience and reconciliation through the power of love and shared stories.

Mama's Boy

3.0 2022
Collective

In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.

Collective

7.6 2019
1995: Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken 30 Nen Kyumei Genba no Koe

March 20, 1995. As Tsurugi Tatsuhiko, head of the hospital's emergency center, walks down a deserted corridor before the start of treatment, nurse Hoshino Nao comes up behind him and starts talking about dealing with late-night emergencies. At the same time, at Kita-Senju Station on the Hibiya Line, Sonoda Naoki, the driver of the A20S train from Kita-Senju to Nakameguro, gets into the driver's seat and performs his usual duties, such as inspections. With Sonoda at the wheel, the train starts moving. However, the passengers gradually start coughing, and some even become ill. One of the passengers presses the emergency button, and the train stops at the next station, Tsukiji, for a check. For some reason, the passengers' feet are wet... When the train arrives at Tsukiji Station and the doors open, passengers who are feeling unwell tumble out onto the platform. When Sonoda came out of the driver's cab, he was shocked by the sight before his eyes...

1995: Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken 30 Nen Kyumei Genba no Koe

NR 2025
Dark City: Memories of Shell Beach

Beginning with an introduction to the creation of the story, this featurette delves into all facets of the production of 1998's Dark City, and eventually provides a ten minute discussion of the film's reception. A retrospective that runs the gamut of the cast and crew's experiences on the film. We get a look at some storyboards, hear about weirding out the MPAA, and see star and amateur shutterbug Rufus Sewell present the many photos he took on the set.

Dark City: Memories of Shell Beach

NR 2008
Gijs

Soldier of Orange, Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden, Havinck, Paul Verhoeven, Frans Weisz, Joop van den Ende and Barbra Streisand. There's one man who connects this all: Gijs Versluys. The documentary 'Gijs' focusses on his career and everything he has meant for Dutch film and television from the 60's up until the late 90's. Through personal stories from his inner circle, including famous film directors Paul Verhoeven and Frans Weisz, we are given a look into the life of film of this man. With every film and project, we get to know him better: who Gijs was and what he has done for the film and his surroundings. His unique way of producing makes that he was able to accomplish so many great things. It is a personal approach of an important period in Dutch film and TV. By highlighting the life of Gijs Versluys, we find out how much he has meant for the careers of many.

Gijs

NR 2017
Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet

Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of China’s greatest poet, Du Fu. In this film, the first to ever be made about Du Fu in the west, Michael follows his tracks by road, train and riverboat. Along the way, he meets ordinary people, dancers and musicians, who help to tell the amazing story of a poet whose words have resonated through the centuries, describing the experiences of ordinary people caught up in war, corruption, famine and natural disasters. "I am one of the privileged. If my life is so bitter, then how much worse is the life of the common people?"

Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet

10.0 2020
Last Party 2000

Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than in the orchestrated conventions. Hoffman shows an obvious distaste for money politics and the conservative right. He looks seedier and more disillusioned the campaign progresses. Eventually Hoffman seems most energized by the Ralph Nader campaign as an alternative to the nearly indistinguishable major parties. The high point of the film are the comments by Barney Frank who says that marches and demonstrations are largely a waste of time, and that the really effective political players such as the NRA and the AARP never bother with walk ins, sit-ins, shoot-ins or shuffles. In the interview with Jesse Jackson, Hoffman is too flustered to ask all of his questions.

Last Party 2000

6.8 2001
The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery

In the early twentieth century, a mysterious ecological crisis nearly wiped out the fish that most people cared about in the largest freshwater ecosystem on earth—the Great Lakes. The impact reverberated across the region, ruining local industries, damaging small town economies and indigenous communities, and destroying the livelihoods of people in the United States and Canada. With little reason for hope, a dedicated group of scientists, policymakers, and conservationists tackled the mystery.

The Fish Thief: A Great Lakes Mystery

6.4 2025
Andrey

A short feature-documentary film dedicated to the bright memory of Andrey Tarkovsky - the great master of world cinema. In 1965 A. Tarkovsky visited Armenia, Geghardavank. It is hard to say what he has been looking for and what he has seen there. Fortunately has fixed (on occasion) several frames (6min., 35mm, b/w) from the visit of the greatest master in Geghardavank. Anyway, such frames provide an opportunity for connecting the past and the present by making new shootings and fulfilling the "gaps" which have been missed by the camera 45 years ago. What is the ideology? Indeed, what was Andrey Tarkovsky looking for at the church of the XIII century in such a rocky place? Probably, he was looking for God. ... because nothing else is significant in Geghardavank and around. Only the presence of God is felt in that place.

Andrey

5.0 2006
Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star

Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the greatest number, focus is rarely put on the strategy he devised and implemented in order to carry out his actions, nor what his actions reveal of the man and artist, and of the resulting metamorphosis from opera singer to pop artist. Through this angle, this film sets out to pay tribute to the man who summed up his credo, obsession and life’s work, in the following way: “They led the public to believe that classical music belonged to a restricted elite. I was the way to prove to the world that was wrong.

Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star

8.0 2017
Live from Tokyo

Live From Tokyo takes one into a world where ideas and genres are pushed to their extremes, with the general sentiment that there is new music waiting to be created. The documentary looks at Tokyo's music culture as a reflection of Japanese society and in relation to international music culture. Tokyo's reputation for an overwhelming variety of global information, media-saturated urban environment and cutting edge innovation, makes it the perfect sample for addressing a new outlook on music culture as it explores this eccentric music culture set within a modern Japanese megalopolis.

Live from Tokyo

6.0 2010