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The story of American food, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, the Poison Squad, the FDA, and the fight for food safety laws. A documentary created for National History Day 2019, competing in the Senior Individual Category. Featuring interviews from Dr. Timothy Winegard, Dr. Erika Jackson and Victor Yahn.
All of the actors in the film were standing on the brink of disaster, and all of them courageously took control of their lives. With impressive images and simple clarity, this film shows both the vulnerability and the power of nature and human beings.
A documentary film that, through portraits of families, couples, and individuals highlights the everyday happenings of a tight-knit community fighting for their existence amid an ever-encroaching corporate real-estate power that threatens their future. The film simultaneously explores religious events, holidays, and resident-organizations that serve the greater Wyvernwood Garden apartments with cultural, communal, and spiritual empowerment amidst an imminent uncertainty. - Los Angeles Filmforum
Mitilesh, a young woman from rural Madhya Pradesh, as she is recruited by health workers in her village to undergo sterilization and decides with her husband to pursue the surgery. Her story is situated in the larger context of population control in India, revealing how these policies affect the lives of women.
Five Muslim Americans in Brooklyn and Queens, each once an immigrant and now a U.S. citizen, deal with the impact of the Muslim Ban as they are each forced to navigate what it means to be an American Muslim.
Every scene was filmed from a window. No actors. Real facial expressions. Real emotions.
A film by Manuela dos Campos
Archival interview
THE ISLAND is a mosaic film about the city of Taranto, which according to Pasolini, "glittered like a giant chipped diamond", but which also finds itself in the midst of a colossal urban renewal project and at odds with the steel mill that emits tons of airborne toxic substances each year.
Film about Russian weightlifters, participants of the Russian Weightlifting Championship 2019 in Novosibirsk. On the cleansing of Russian sports from doping.
Speculative documentary about a British expatriate doing a feature on the PNR Railways in Makati. It traces his trajectory from a snobbish academic to one of sobriety and empathy with the denizens in the margins of the railway station.
A film about the short life of Ernst Ludwig Oswalt, also known as 'Lux'. The son of the publisher of “Der Struwwelpeter” was deported from Frankfurt to the Majdanek or Sobibor extermination camp at the age of 19.
Documentary on the film Terra Formars.
A short subject about the parents of the director escaping from Saigon after the fall of that city to the National Liberation Front in 1975.
A reel of Super8 footage, shot in Brixen Im Thaleset, Austria, set to to the song "Burns" by George Fitzgerald. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYZO8xiNZA
In 1812 French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops for his invasion of Russia. Wellington saw an opportunity to strike. First he secured the strategic fortress-cities of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, both taken in bloody assaults, then advanced to Salamanca, where his Anglo-Portuguese army met Marshal Marmont's French army in one of the most decisive clashes of the Peninsular War.
Six weeks after his bloody repulse at the Battle of Aspern-Essling, Napoleon led his reinforced army back across the Danube. The resulting clash with Archduke Charles's Austrian army was the biggest and bloodiest battle yet seen in European history, and despite heavy French losses, resulted in a decisive strategic victory for the French Emperor
“Rape is a precise political program: the skeleton of capitalism, it is the crude and direct representation of the exercise of power.” Virgine Despentes
On August 23rd, 1944, the fascist regime was taken down and Romania changed sides in World War II. 75 years later, inside the Jewish Retirement Home, four of the last survivors of racial persecutions reflect upon the personal and political significance of the event. The different attitudes of the protagonists, their passionate debates and irresolvable conflicts reflect the diversity of the Jewish survivors` experiences, the cleavages in the community and the Romanian society as a whole, as well as the importance and controversy of the events in 1944.
"Zimbabwe is at risk of losing its youth to codeine cough syrup, as the addiction epidemic has already engulfed what the experts estimate could be over half the country’s young people. Despite the growing problem, Zimbabwe’s government has not yet opened rehabilitation clinics, meaning addicts are often sent to prison or psychiatric wards. "The cough syrup, often of the brand BronCleer, is imported illegally from South Africa, and is sold on every street corner, in bars, school yards and on busses for as little as $3 a bottle. "We meet current and former users, as well as the NGOs pushing the government to open up rehabs, to find out why cough syrup has become the drug of choice for so many young Zimbabweans."
Each day at the Oklahoma National Stockyards, the hypnotic chants of cattle auctioneers fill the exchange floor from dawn into the night. Livestock buyers gather from all around the country to outbid each other in a time-honored ritual that is just as much spectacle as it is a monument to competitive commerce.
Documentary exploring the street art scene In Ireland, from its humble beginnings in political murals on Belfast's walls to today's superstar artists's influence on modern Ireland.
Stories united by the Revolution of Dignity. Charismatic and honest characters tell about their own Maidan: Lesia Khomenko, Alevtyna Kakhidze, Maks Vehera, Oleksii Furman and Bohdan Kutiepov.
This is a live performance shot by smartphones and was taken at Ben Gurion International Airport while on the way back from abroad. Thru the act the artist is collaborating with Oz Marinov and they try to pass through the border with a unique clothing.
In an old town on the banks of the Ural River Neiva, the action of the film unfolds, a dialogue is started between the older and younger generations about the meaning of life. Which way to go? How to deal with alcoholism and drug addiction? Adults instruct the young not only by their example, but also by bitter mistakes.
The protagonist of the film is a homeless man. Before, his life was going well. Athlete, businessman. Money, trips to different countries. But everything changed in one moment. Valera became homeless. He lives on the heating main for more than 8 months. He eats what caring people serve on the street, and there is hope that he will still break out of this swamp.
During the Great Patriotic War, there were legends about the submarine "Shch-406", which fought in the Baltic Sea. 39 sailors of the crew, led by commander Yevgeny Osipov, could attack the enemy at depth or engage in battle on the surface, which others did not dare to do. And then the boat disappeared…
From Antarctica to Afghanistan. Heroes of real human destinies, military doctors on the line of fire and cold. About what was a feat yesterday, and today it becomes an epic for young polar explorers. Ballad about the struggle for life.
A television documentary dedicated to the anniversary date – the 90th anniversary of the birth of actor, director, screenwriter, writer Vasily Shukshin. "I came to give you Free Rein" is a novel by Shukshin about Stepan Razin, which he dreamed of making into a film. But they didn't give it to him. The film tells in detail about the tragedy of the artist, who for many years fought for his idea, but turned out to be doomed…
A lone woman is forced to confront her body whilst those around her voice their experiences living in their own skin. Experimental short film where sound and music is placed on equal footing with the visuals.
Trans woman? Homosexual? Pansexual? Beijinger? Geek girl? Beatbox？Christian? Game addict? Actress? Bean pole? Cosmetic surgery failure? Long haired? Flirt? How many more tags to you need to fully understand her? Let us enter the world of Sisi together.
This is Black is a conversation with and for the black community. We aim to dismantle the stereotypes and get rid of the stigmas by telling a few people's stories! Embark on a journey of spoken word and true stories!
Two night shift workers reflect upon their loves, lives and losses as they work their way around Mumbai after dark.
A short documentary about The Kentucky Theater, the state of independent cinema, theatrical exhibition, and the theaters long time manager: Fred Mills.
This is the story of Raul and Pere, a mountaineer and filmmaker united by a common dream: to climb for the first time a mountain higher than 8,000 meters.
Talking about emotions is almost impossible for many Finnish men. In this short documentary four men and one trans person share personal stories and experiences about growing up into Finnish manhood and how they are learning to break the silence. The protagonists are frozen within the frames of still landscape.
In Nepal, in the foothills of the Himalayas, the metal scene is vibrant. Since its beginnings at the end of the 90s when only a few groups existed, it has grown and today has about forty active groups throughout the country. In 2017 and 2018, director Aurore Laurent met five of the actors of this underground movement: a new generation of Nepalese who want to free themselves from the traditions and violence that the country has known for the past twenty years.
A man and a woman are watching television on the beach. The television shows a film taken a year ago on the beach, which is adapted from the man's novel. Frame In Frame foregrounds the concept of intellectual play related to the cinema.
The story of four elite athletes who have faced mental health challenges: Justise Winslow, Nathan Braaten, Hayden Hurst, and Clint Malarchuk. Six-time Pro Bowl receiver Brandon Marshall also appears in the program.
In Toloriu, a small village nestled between the Catalan pyrenees, the people tell the story of Xipahuatzin, daughter of the aztec emperor Moctezuma, taken there by the baron Joan de Grau during the Spanish conquest. Several years later, incapable of adapting to the cold mountains, Xipahuatzin died of sadness. Drawn to this story, Mexican filmmaker Patricia Ordaz travelled to this village to explore the landscapes that harbored the princess, and record the traditions of an almost ghost town. Do we exist beyond the stories we tell?
