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A couple of children from Portobelo Colón discover the musical genre “Calypso”. In an attempt to regain their identity, and despite the apathy of some towards their culture and roots, they begin rehearsing for the grand opening gala, where new generations of calypsonians will be presented.
A subtle-spherical text-image composition about South Georgia, an island group of the Antarctic—a stretch of coast into which humanity’s devastating overexploitation has been inscribed.
Bakosó follows Havana-based DJ Jigüe as he goes on a journey to connect with his African roots in his hometown of Santiago, Cuba, where he discovers Bakosó and finds a connection with its diasporic origins.
Stateville Calling is a documentary exploring parole reform and the struggle of aging inmates in Illinois. Bill Ryan, 84-years-old and with a southern drawl from his Kentucky upbringing, has spent the last several decades befriending and advocating on behalf of a group of men and women incarcerated for life, helping to abolish the death penalty in Illinois, publishing a newspaper written by prisoners, and ceaselessly negotiating with victim's advocates, legislators and lobbyists from both sides of the aisle. The hour-long film illustrates the forces that created our system, and surveys the competing arguments and data points at play to equip viewers to decide for themselves what should be done about criminal justice in Illinois.
Through the creative and philosophical journey of three steamers, this film offers a fascinating incursion into the heart of an international artistic community, inspired by science fiction and the Industrial Revolution. More than just a portrait, it invites us to reflect on our own modern life and relationship to technology.
Follows a Chinese political artist in exile, on a personal challenge to stop the Communist regime's whitewashing of history and abuse of human rights - and in the process, risking his family's freedom.
The Roca brothers embark on a new challenge: exploring Scotland. Their journey will see them rediscover a cuisine that has kept itself hidden from the world in the past years.
A group of friends in America's heartland navigate their post high school lives.
The film is about an expedition that is looking for the lost biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. “Turning to the biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, we wanted to establish whether these cities really were, and if so, where they were. After all, these cities are mentioned simultaneously in the Bible and the Koran. Nobody seems to doubt that they existed, but where they were, nobody can say for sure today, ”the author writes about the film.
In a greenhouse in the Lima desert, Mr. Takehara has been perfecting a bonsai oasis for 20 years. A Doc Fortnight/Cinema Tropical collaboration.
A video essay on James Bridges' 1984 film "Mike's Murder".
Hurdle provides an inspiring and visceral look at the next generation of Palestinian youth living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The characters, separated from one another and living in the shadow of the Israeli separation wall, are united in their pursuit for self-determination. In an unexpected turn, the characters utilize the sport of parkour and the documentation of daily as tools to attain personal and political freedom. In a world with towering walls and constrictive checkpoints, the characters must bury self-doubt in order to lead their communities through a dramatic year of political and violent conflict.
In Indonesia, in the Padang district, an open landfill site borders the forest. A landscape of precipitous terrain, with its crest lines and its chasms, serves as a pasture for several hundred cows. Amidst the dance of the diggers and trucks discharging their loads onto the slopes of a mountain of rubbish, a herd makes its way through the chaos, in search of something to graze. This nightmarish decor in which bovines live, copulate, play, sleep and die, becomes the scene of an appalling spectacle.
The Constituyentes is the evocation of the ideological and political battle, which gave rise to the Constitution of 1916, as documentary work and artistic recreation, of a historical event transcendent 100 years ago in national life.
Yorgos Maniatis (1939–2018), a legionnaire in Algeria at the age of 18, an author and later a musician, defines himself as a “public menace.” This film is not a biopic, but it rather seeks to explore the adventure of his soul: an inflammatory conscience in constant vigilance, which immolates itself. Life changes by those who change their lives, he says.
Two brothers – Skill and Buddy – have been making hip-hop for over 10 years and releasing DIY albums. In their native Serbia, they belong to the disadvantaged Roma population and in Germany, where they live now, they are migrant workers with a temporary residence permit. In their songs, they fiercely criticize racism, segregation of Roma and neo-liberal capitalism. They’ve just released their third album and set off on an unusual European tour.
In the five years since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, other planes have been lost and found, but MH370 and every single one of the 239 people on board remain missing. This documentary sorts through the theories and charts the search. Can hi-tech hydrophones and cutting-edge submersibles provide an answer? Or is MH370 doomed to be one more of the ocean’s many unsolved mysteries?
Mike Kunda is the world's #1 Rocky fan, he has spent the last 40 years of his life focusing on every aspect of the Rocky films and on his fictional hero Rocky Balboa. This film documents Mike's life as he struggles to find meaning in his Rocky obsession and become the person he really wants to be.
Italian filmmaker Ruggero Romano has called Vancouver home since 2016 and witnessing the struggle of homelessness, poverty and addiction in his adopted city, was moved to make a film about the inhabitants of postal code V6A: the area commonly known as the Downtown Eastside. Designed to challenge expectations and inspire locals to think about their fellow citizens in a new light, V6A is also an unexpected celebration of the resilience and beauty of the human spirit. In the search for truth and authenticity, the film explores human nature in its fight against the toughest, often man-made odds by questioning the definition of "Home".
“Cat Bowl” will showcase adorable and adoptable adult ‘cat-letes’ as they compete on the gridiron for a special place in viewers' hearts. Inspirational stories of senior and special needs cats will highlight the special event. With Hallmark Channel's partner North Shore Animal League America, “Cat Bowl” and companion program “Kitten Bowl” will be a part of the biggest pet adoption event in the country.
The Mental Traveller meditates on the passing of time, external behavior and sensory reality for five men on a psychiatric ward. The film was conceived from the director’s connections to his parents and companions as they went through states of sickness, impending death, dementia, grief and temporary insanity. At the same time, it echoes the turbulent years of political upheavals and repercussions in Thailand, resulting in a nation in a state of delirium, lunacy and trauma.
Claudia, a trans-Chilean midwife, remembers the hardest and most difficult moments she had to face in order to live her identity. The documentary tells her history, her struggles and the constant abuses she had to live on a society that still excludes those that are considered "different".
Follows stories of people who are creating new relationships with landscapes that have been disrupted by human activity in vastly different parts of the world
A trailer compilation released by Something Weird.
A romantic Lama poet, being influenced by materialistic China, chooses to live a secular life and gets married, thus skillfully avoids the disastrous influence of the materialism on religion.
A man who is the guard at a grave yard take care of Ajitnath, urban blind boy, his only hope , he leave sin the field with his uncle but none is able to find treatment for his eyes. in 13min documentary set around the outskirts of Pune, India about the story of a homeless orphan child dreaming to join school by overcoming his blindness.
Behind Doc Gynéco's apparent nonchalance lies a deeper malaise. Spleen, disenchantment, nostalgia... all symptoms of an increasingly lost youth in search of meaning. Plunging into the France of the early 90s, we explore the themes explored in the cult song Nirvana and the classic album Première Consultation.
Firearm and footwear. Food and space. Memory and reality. It’s a story of Chinese women immigrants using shooting guns and dancing to fight their insecurities.
We explore the vast rail network that crisscrosses the Tokyo metropolis. With 148 train lines carrying some 40 million passengers daily, Tokyo hosts the world's largest and most interconnected urban rail network. Actor Sato Takeru takes on a riddle-solving mission tied directly to the train schedule, putting the railways' famed dedication to punctuality to the test in the process. We uncover a fascinating history and meet the people whose tireless dedication keeps the whole intricate operation running like clockwork.
A man prepares a recipe for a very special guest...
With no state, no bank system, a scarce army, and an under-equipped police force, the majority of Somalia is completely out of government control.
Narrated and produced by former KARE 11 news anchor Diana Pierce, hear stories about Ardis Wells from Alexandria, the Walt Benton Hillbilly Rainbow Band from Dovray, WE Fest in Detroit Lakes and the Flame Bar in Minneapolis. The program features interviews with Mylan Ray, Jeffrey Krueger, Sherwin Linton and several other figures who contributed to country music in Minnesota.
It is a brief diary in which the succession of shots explores the complexity of the most immediate daily environment and the transition from black and white to color.
A documentary film that explores how, in a world explained by science and technology, our surroundings are still imbued with storytelling and wonder.
Leading political strategists Wolf and Hare are busy discussing news of current politics! They are destroying the political elite from Putin to Trump, from Erdogan to Merkel. They reveal all the scandals, high-profile events, intrigues. Politics is available and without embellishment-in the satirical show DW "Zapovednik".
In community honey harvest rituals, queen bees are courted in ceremony by men who climb high into the canopy to sing nocturnal forest love songs. These songs express gratitude to the bees, enticing and imploring them to give up their sweetness and maintain their seasonal visits. This film is the outcome of a long-term collaboration between researchers Balthasar Kehi and Lisa Palmer and the people of Balthasar's homeland of Lookeu. It portrays a border community who, despite changing farming practices and increasing commodification, are determined to maintain the bees' movement across the region and preserve their shared identity.
In the streets of Salamanca, fear and uncertainty abound. The recent wave of violence in the region generates an atmosphere of distrust, but there are some spaces in which trust and peace still abide.
On October 14, 1955, at the intersections of Route 1 and Route 3 on the National Highway, the Chevrolet driven by Delia Nieves hit the Cryssler driven by Nelson Rodríguez. Because of this collision, a year later my mother was born.
An exploration of the ethics and aesthetics of pleasure.
For two years Hanno Mackowitz has been filming with the 2017 Freeride World Champion skier Lorraine Huber, one of the strongest female big mountain skiers in the world. The result is a film focused on the increasing human impact on nature and the man-made structures in the natural space using the example of Arlberg, Austria's largest ski area and one of the most significant in the world. Lorraine carves her turns in perfection, meticulously captured and represented in an aesthetic picture language.
An interview with Irena Kovarova, Czech film programmer and expert, discussing the emergence of the Czechoslovak New Wave in the 1960s and the significance of director Jan Nemec's 1960 film Diamonds of the Night.
Vado verso dove vengo offers a complex meditation on emigration, immigration, and belonging. From New York City to Aliano, from London to Castelmezzano, the voices of emigrants and of their descendants narrate tales filled with emotions of leaving and of remaining, of desertions and returns to small towns on Italy’s fringes, where emigration and depopulation have left enduring scars and where economic and geographical health are emergencies desperately requiring attention. Governmental inattention is to blame, and it still runs rampant in Italy. Is it possible, after more than 100 years of emigration, to forge a new balance between local communities and global flows? Can small towns hold the key to innovative projects and sensibilities that will inform the future?
While big part of the europeans celebrate Christmas with their families, Mariam, a young mother from Ivory Coast, gives birth in the borderline between Morocco and Spain, wanting eagerly a decent future for her newborn in Europe. On that same night, thousands of sub-Saharan immigrants try to jump Melilla's fence while the Moroccan civil guards and the police attempt to prevent it. Before the birthing, the mother of the baby, consious of the dangers for giving birth and her irregular situation, writes a letter to her son Treasure.
It’s about an old man, who had a rather hard life. He started off poor, then wealthy; from wealthy to unwell; And from the illness arises his determination to write.” This is what my father told me, the director to say about this film. And as the director, I documented his life which could be missed 9 years ago, and his journey, from where he lived now to his hometown, from life to death.
An old railway station in a remote valley of Georgia suddenly becomes a site for a big change, when hundreds of Chinese settle around it to build the New Silk Road.
I used to take metro and ride bike to work during my foreign years. After years now back to my country Tainan, I find myself could only drive or choosing motor bike in the city, because there are so less regular bike lanes, and no bikes on them. It looks I was forced by the city to make the only choice to drive. I goto my 2 friends, one is the bike shop owner and the other is NCKU Urban Plan PHD. I finally understand how to bike in Tianan.
Acts Of Quiet Resistance is a documentary steeped in the slow cinema tradition. Five years in the making, it continues a thread in Ian Nesbitt's work of collaboratively made films, blurring the line between subject and filmmaker.
Ramsgate FC take on Arundel FC in an FA Cup qualifying match.
Shaun Lewis AKA Stormin was one of the pioneers of Grime. While sharing the story of his rise to mainstream fame from the underground scene, his battle with cancer returns.
