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Report on Chicha music, its origins, the main groups of the moment, through the testimony of Beto Cuestas, Lorenzo Palacios Quispe "Chacalón" and the group Los Ecos.

In the department of San Martín, in the high jungle, live the Lamista natives. The film deals with the coexistence of the Lamista culture with the mestizo culture and the problems that this proximity generates.

The painting focuses on the Belarusian writer Ales Adamovich and the events in Minsk in 1989.

A documentary in which subjects speak about their earliest sexual experiences.

The Second Ukrainian Front's combat path, from the Battle of Kursk to the battles for Czechoslovakia.

A profile of Johnny Rogers, a 30 year old plumber and father, who can't read. The film follows his progress as he takes reading classes at the local library.

Stingy land was shot on the territory of the Čitluk municipality. It speaks about preparation of the karst terrain and planting of the famous Brotnjo stone vineyards in Blizanci that were planted from 1981 till 1984. Indigenous Herzegovinian ganga song can be heard in this film.

Portrait of Tobagonian calypsonian Shadow performing in London and discussing his music.

Two villages are to fall victim to the port expansion: Altenwerder and Moorburg. From idyll to horror, the flushing sand is having a frightening effect.

The film is a snapshot of our time, an "authentic document" of our staged homeland. The municipality of Ketsch (population 12,000) symbolizes the entire country. Historical film and photographic material is interwoven with modernity and its colorful symbols.

A documentary report on Hu Jieqing, Lao She's wife.

Short documentary.

Fanad Head is a remote light house in North-West Ireland. This short documentary inspects the light house installations and service supply delivered by a helicopter even in bad wheather conditions.

Egypt, the cradle of history and culture traces its beginning to life developed along the banks of the Nile.

Filmed with a 16mm spring-wound Bolex camera, this story-driven documentary captures a pivotal moment in the life of the Sepik Iwam people of Hauna Village, deep in the Papua New Guinea jungle. Bible translator Marilyn Laszlo had been living among them for years, joined now by her sister Shirley. As the mission grew, the film introduced light reenactments to convey the depth of transformation taking place. When a neighboring village arrived seeking medical help, what unfolded was both unexpected and profoundly moving.

The story of 24-year-old Peruvian Viki Aguilar Cuba from Independencia, a poor settlement on the outskirts of the capital Lima. After spending 1 1/2 years in Berlin, where she worked as an au pair and learned German excellently, the young Peruvian returned to her homeland. The film shows her last weeks in Berlin, her farewell to new friends, the warm welcome from her family in Lima, the first four weeks of her readjustment, and the arduous search for work.

A look into the world of saucy Plymouth artist Beryl Cook, one of Britain's most popular painters.

A strike of Turkish workers at the company NORDDARM GmbH in Bahrenfeld, next to the beautiful Hermes high-rise building. "We want our money!", "We only earn 1000 DM gross, for this payment we do piecework", were the slogans. Interviews with the strikers about the unsustainable working conditions, the owner G. Politis does not want to say anything about the allegations. A broad solidarity builds up and ends in a great demonstration. The result: the strikers are fighting for re-employment and additional payment of wages.

A documentary on the renowned Marathi humourist Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, lovingly known as Pu. La. Deshpande.

A group of young people perform old traditional folk songs.

A documentary portrait of Odadaa!, a remarkable drumming and dance troupe from Ghana West Africa, in the early years of their residence in the United States. Odadaa! was formed by master drummer, cultural interpreter, and NEA Heritage Award winner Yacub Addy in the early 1980s when he brought over a number of renowned musicians and dancers from Ghana to perform the traditional music and dances of the Ga and other Ghanaian peoples. Odadaa! grew in size, impact and professionalism over the many years following this film though maintained its traditional character.

Video dissects a sentence taken from a propaganda statement by a party politician. With gradual decostruction author leaves only traces of a word socialism.

An upbeat, positive film about a group of women dealing with mid-life and menopause. The women come from a wide range of backgrounds, careers and lifestyles. Some are married; some are divorced. Interviews alternate with sequences showing the women both at home and in the workplace. Based on the women's experiences, the film effectively dispels popular myths and fears about life during and after menopause.

An ethnographic documentary.

Cichociemni ("the Silent-Dark Ones" or "The Unseen and Silent") were elite special-operations paratroops of the Polish Army in exile, created in Great Britain during World War II to operate in occupied Poland.

Excerpt from a discussion among teachers at the Adam Czartoryski High School in Puławy on issues related to education and upbringing.

The protagonist of the film is film director Krzysztof Nowak-Tyszowiecki. The film is a humbling story of the protagonist confessing to the camera about his personal disappointments. The film is a symbolic journey through life.

Short film with footage of the Vietnam and USA war

CHEESE! Anglo-Saxon expression whose pronunciation invites a smile... SMILE... French word widely recommended to cheerleaders. The popular festivals and the parade of drum bands seem to no longer be able to do without the participation of the cheerleading troops. This habit, directly imported from the U.S.A, is particularly widespread in the cities of the Nord Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin. CHEESE therefore invites us to dive into this small world with well-established habits. The gaze is sometimes critical but the general tone is humorous. CHEESE was entirely filmed in Somain, in the North, on the occasion of a large gathering of cheerleaders coming from many cities of the region.

“If Tibet had not existed, probably no human imagination would have sufficed to invent something equally strange.” This is how English writer John Keay characterizes the still-mysterious land on the "Roof of the World." Photographer and author Dr. Jaroslav Poncar, together with filmmaker Wolfgang Kohl, shot this extraordinary documentary there in the late 1990s. They traced the routes leading to the sources of the Indus River. In this 90-minute documentary, they present a land in breathtaking images—one that no longer exists in the same form today. They filmed in locations that, if at all accessible, remain extremely difficult for tourists to reach. The shoot lasted several weeks and was marked by immense hardships for the film crew, carried out under extremely challenging climatic and logistical conditions. The result is an impressive cinematic work that was awarded at the Mountain Film Festival in Trento, Italy. Music composed by Michael Ranta.

Scenes of Chicago summertime nightlife in three different parts of the city: downtown at Rush & Division streets, a concert at Grant Park's Petrillo Music Shell, and Logan Square.

After the Unveiling is a film about change. It is a personal documentary done in diary format of my mother's life immediately following my father's death. It begins with cultural rites proceeding death, that of sitting "shiva," and goes on to record the many daily acts my mother once shared with her husband and now must face alone. Delineated, is the integral place that my mother's religion and culture holds for her, the inevitable influence it has on me, and the resulting conflict that is created for my mother and myself by me selecting a mate from a different religious background.

Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five percent black, faces widespread poverty, [despite being] run by some of the civil-rights movement's most effective and militant organizers, including Mayor Marion Barry

Documentary about the Potsdam landscape painter and art teacher Hubert Globisch.

The film depicts the 75th anniversary and funeral of Edgar Kauliņš, the chairman of the collective farm "Lāčplēsis."

In the style of a guidebook, the film provides information on healthy movement development in the first year of life, gives tips on how parents can promote this and identifies signs of treatable damage.

Mountaineering documentary on the Nanga Parbat expedition, in India, in 1982. Led by mountaineer Pierre Mazeaud, this international expedition brings together eight French people, two Germans, an Iraqi, an Austrian and an Englishman including Michel Afanassieff, Michel Berrueux, Walter Cecchinel, Kurt Diemberger, Hans Engl, Shah Jehan, Karim Imamdad and others. On July 14, 1982, Hans Engl reached the summit after twelve hours of struggle.

Produced in 1979/80 by the Valle Imagna District Library System and shot on 16 mm film, acquired by the Lombardy Region's Department of Culture, Erba d'Imagna is a delicate and realistic portrait of the people of Imagna. The most striking features of the valley's reality emerge in the old men, tough and resilient, tempered by hard work, each locked in their hard-won plot of land. The real thing, indeed. Men—like blades of grass—generated and preserved in their land.

"That's It, Forget It," Miller's first collaboration with young people, celebrates pop culture, fashion, and music video, L.A. style. Miller follows six West Hollywood teenage girls as they shop, dress up, dance, flirt and drive down Melrose Avenue — all to an audio track of disco music and scratch dialogue (with the title phrase forming a constant refrain). A brief excerpt from MTV self-consciously and ironically places the work in the music video realm, even as it acknowledges the influence that music video has had on contemporary teenage life(styles).

Dreams from China, shot from 1983-85 while working in Tianjin and Beijing, is a highly lyrical, diary-like film essay, lending perspective to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. "Extremely sincere...presenting a paradox of Chinese politics and society." (New York Times)

Nico live in Koln, Luxor 12 nov, 1987.

Documentary produced by the Canadian Union of Public Employees that traces the experiences of women in the CUPE union. Topics covered include the need for women’s leadership, the fight for equal pay for work of equal value, the importance of bystander intervention, the impacts of precarity on women workers and struggles with balancing caregiving responsibilities.

Tour along the Amazon River¸ from its source to the mouth¸ observing the people on the banks and the areas they inhabit as well as the landscape.

A documentary short that profiled autumn scenes and focused on the malting of apples

A biographical film on Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan (Badshah Khan). He was also lovingly known as the Frontier Gandhi for his firm belief in the non-violent movement. This film presents Badshah Khan's visit to India, when he came to receive the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Award for International Understanding. This Award was handed over to Badshah Khan by India's President, Mr.VV Giri in 1967.

The reshaping of the St Kilda landscape into a Hollywood fantasy of the Riviera, reflected upon from the narrator’s balcony overlooking the bay. An introspective look at the nature of the landscape and the human response to it.

The Best of Electric Blue, volume 6. The World's Most Beautiful Girls.

The story of an astonishing real-life adventure, when a scientific expedition went wrong. Mountaineers, adventurers and scientists set out in Cheynes 2, a former whaling vessel, on a voyage from Hobart to Heard Island, south-west of Perth, near Antarctica. Bad weather forced them to dock at Albany and they made another stop at the French island of Kerguelen for fuel and water. By the time Captain Laurie McEwan sailed the final two days to Heard Island, a six-week voyage had taken 12 weeks. The ship was declared a wreck and the extended time at sea had left them with just two days worth of fuel.

Short documentary by Siegfried Krämer

In an attempt to solve the mystery, Stephen Knight concluded that five women-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-were murdered in 1888 to cover up a secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor, and Annie Elizabeth Crook, a working class Irish Catholic girl. Knight's main source, Joseph Gorman (Annie Crook's grandson, Walter Sickert's self-proclaimed son with Annie's daughter Alice Margaret Crook), later retracted the story and admitted to the press that it was a hoax.

Promotional film about British Rail’s Rail Drive service which offers business travellers combined rail tickets and car hire.

This documentary reports on sixteen- and seventeen-year-old girls and boys in the 10th grade of the Extended Secondary School (EOS) 33 in Potsdam. Concerned and loving parents talk about their educational experiences, educational discussions and their trust in their own children. Certain character ideas of the parents of boyfriends and girlfriends, which are rarely accepted by the young people, contradict the open statements of the teenagers in front of the camera. Questions about contraception and the uncontrolled leisure activities of the pubescent pupils are included in the interviews, and their answers do not always correspond to their parents' ideas. During the final class trip to a youth hostel, the teachers in charge have their hands full keeping the teenagers under control and returning them safely to their parents' homes. Lydia talks openly about her "first time", but her parents are surprised to learn about their sheltered daughter's love affair via a tape recording.