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Having cancer isn't always the hard part. On top of managing your own fears and expectations, you feel obliged to wear a brave face for your loved ones. Dani brings such a conversation to life, as 30-year old Danielle delivers her grim breast cancer prognosis to her mother. A story that's as unique and personal as it is disturbingly universal. Using stop-motion animation, Dani shows us how a simple phone call can be a study of human courage, faith, and love.
The movie musical occupies an interesting position in the film industry. On one hand, like action movies, its dance scenes are all about bodies in motion: dynamism, choreography. Yet, with notable exceptions such as Busby Berkeley, those responsible for putting star hoofers on-screen tended to let them strut their considerable stuff uninterrupted. It’s not to say that the camera always remained static; but you could imagine the likes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, or the gravity-defying Nicholas Brothers, taking it as a personal affront if they weren’t shown full screen, to fully appreciate their elegance, their athleticism.
My Favorite Food is Indian Tacos, my Favorite Drink is Iced Tea and my Favorite Thing is Drumming is about the passion for drumming and traditionnal singing that Derius share with his friends. This film is the affirmation of Derius' courage.
At the luxury hotel "Panorama" in Oberhof, over 1,000 people are celebrating a lavish New Year's Eve party in 1978/79. Suddenly, the power goes out. At the same time, one of the most spectacular spy thrillers in the GDR is unfolding in the hotel.
A film on the social movements upholding the right to live in the city of Lisbon at a time when the struggle for urban space builds up as the result of the expansion of financial capitalism, which concentrates wealth in the hands of a few and increases social inequality. A film on those who challenge the conversion of the city into merchandise and disobey injustice by empowering those who seek a place to live.
A man's journey with his giant paper-mache carrot forces him to confront his traumatic past
A small, seeming quiet town is home to a vibrant business.
This is my interpretation on Toshio Matsumoto's Ki or Breathing.
When a middle-aged couple went to the mall, they heard the sound of the wind chime at the store and bought it. They want to feel the sound of the wind chimes in the mountains, so they left the workplace and went to the mountains to live off the grid. In nature, they hear the sound of the wind and like to share the sound of the wind chimes.
After the unexpected death of the filmmaker’s cousin in Vietnam, KYLE CHANT increasingly mixes real and digital memories, guided by Christmas carolers.
Three stories. Three fates. Three women. How to survive a mental crisis? How to love yourself? What does it mean to find your happiness in life? This is discussed by a student, an artist in the image and a children's poet. Girls are eternal children, from college to retirement.
A young woman named Alfinaz, the mother of two children is going to leaving for a long journey. Husband is a life prisoner and the wife is an exemplary muslim woman and submissive to her husband. She is waiting for him and not losing hope for his release. The film tells us about a female power and submissiveness of a wife to her husband and to God. The message of the film also concerns hardships and praise to God, resignation of a woman who is destined to be a Wife.
The documentary is set in the backgroud that the government replaced rural primary schools with town schools. It tells a story about the teacher Wu Zhisi and four students in Luming Primary School of Luming Village, Zuoquan County, Shanxi Province and recorded the choice made by teachers and students in this background. This work shows the disappearing process of a rural elementary school hidden in the mountains and the passive choices of this five families influenced by this event.
This documentary unravels the events that led to two Boeing 737 MAX passenger jets falling out of the sky, and investigates how the fastest-selling aircraft in Boeing's history ended in tragedy
Lookout is a film about a way of perceiving life beyond our common senses through an intimate portrait of the daily life of Pablo, blind since age three, who lives by himself on a wild area close to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he makes liquors and records poems.
As an early exponent of a new wave of auto-fictional writing, Tomas Espedal has established himself as one of Norway's most influential contemporary writers. We follow charming Espedal through life and writing, from hiking in the french mountains, journeys to Gran Canaria and Provence and at home with his aging father, always via his typewriter at home in Bergen. A portrait that lives up to Espedal's self-proclaimed goal, to see what is beautiful.
Once the populous Russian-Tatar village Tankaevka gradually comes to desolation. Abandoned wooden houses gap with windows failures, orchards overgrow with swan and bird cherry trees. Nevertheless, the life of the remaining twelve inhabitants continues: they leisurely repair a rusty tractor, knit birch brooms, sculpt dumplings and, recalling the past, sing old forgotten songs.
Gas comes to a distant village. But the village is already full - with its natural sounds...
Every day Alena walks kilometers through snowdrifts and railway tracks to get to training. Fencing is all that she has in her life. A tough and demanding coach sees talent in her and wants to make her a champion. And what does Alena want?
A Russian traveler-photographer, after serving 3 years in captivity in Syria, is returning to his homeland...
Simply start recording the niece grow up, mother in the process accidentally into the shot, watching his mother take care of nieces look, as if I saw my childhood, in the lens of the mother, suddenly became very different from her in the impression and saw her anxiety, irritability, weakness, fear, but often are niece intrusion becomes funny, witty.
Nine Asturian filmmakers reflect aloud, alone in a hotel room, on the existence, the main characteristics, and the current situation of the cinema made in Asturias.
Fear and circumstances – that’s what makes us choose. From the moment of awareness to the moment of making a decision, we are like in a dream. This is a story about Alena Zavarzina – snowboarder, Olympic medalist in 2014, World Champion.
Documentary about dentists treating disabled and poor children.
This story of two trans people – an ex-soldier and a theatre actress – shows the different dimensions that gender transition means.
Vidyadutt Sharma has for decades nurtured his farm in a small Himalayan village. Around him, 7000 ghost villages bear chilling testimony to widespread migration for employment. Chronicling the changing landscape in verses of resistance, he persists, hoping to return Moti Bagh to its old glory.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, CBS News photojournalist Mark LaGanga's cell phone and home landline rang simultaneously. An editor on the CBS News national desk was calling and directed LaGanga to drive to downtown Manhattan to shoot what, at that time, was thought to be a small plane crash at the World Trade Center.
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Ancient History Documentary
On the vast Kazakhstan Steppes, nine 16 year-olds prepare to graduate from the Akkol orphanage. Rockets launched overhead from the nearby Cosmodrome inspire their dreams as they write about and perform their imagined future-selves. Guided by the nomadic spirit and natural beauty of the Steppes, the orphans explore questions of time and truth in relation to the challenging reality of their lives. Traditional Kazakh culture, global popular iconography, and space travel are infused throughout their performances and imaginatively used as protective talismans on their journey into an uncertain adulthood.
I haven’t seen my father for a decade. Together with my colleagues from cinema school, I return to the place where I was born, and a reunion seems inevitable.” Miguel de Jesus
A young argentine director travels to Spain for the first time and re-discovers his grandfather's past as a Franco soldier and Civil Guard. This fact will affect his own present.
Evil lives and grows in women just as much as men. It grows to the point where they murder again, again and again. Jolly Jane, Death Nurse, The Beautiful Throat Cutter, Avenging Angel, Killer Wife, Shopping Slayer, the Grandma Serial Killer, Angels of Mercy, Angel of Death, Giggling Grandma and Black Widows. These are just a few of the nicknames for some the most monstrous female serial killers.
China's elite and infertile are flocking to Southern California to hire American surrogates to have their babies for them.
The Professional: A Stevie Blatz Film is a documentary film directed and produced by Daniel LaBarbera and Dylan Avery. The film chronicles the real life of Stevie Blatz, a local entertainment celebrity in Bethlehem, PA as he contemplates closing his business that he has owned and operated for 10 years.
This film is about young LGBT-activists around the world. The filmmaker embarks on a journey to human rights defenders who fight for equal rights.
Short movie about the amateur racer, who is going to be the first racer from russia who took part in one of the toughest race in the world.
"Idol" is China's first independent music series documentary, produced and produced by Beijing Maichao Film. The "Idol" documentary focuses on Chinese independent music practitioners, presenting their relationship with the world and telling how they use independent attitudes to prove that music is still alive. The plot revolves around the popularization of individual types, the restoration of objective records and the story emotions. Through "Idol", more people know and understand Chinese independent music and independent music circles, making "Chinese independent musicians" no longer just thin. The literal meaning of the word, let more people see the life and stories behind the "Chinese independent musicians" works. The documentary will be available for exclusive broadcast on the Youku Documentary Channel on January 10, 2019.
A portrait of Jamaican-born artistic polymath Barbara Samuels. Featuring an account of her first generation, diasporic experience in Southend and London, and her discovery of hippiedom and the personal freedoms offered by entry into creative life.
The remarkable true story of Michael Cohen, a charlatan art dealer who swindled over $50 million from the art establishment before going on the run.
A Tibetan couple in Lhasa clings to their traditional way of life while watching the emergence of an unfamiliar social order through the eyes of their daughter. For her parents, she's a bridge between the past and present in this reflection on the loneliness of generational gaps. Mariam Zaidi
David Finklestein is an ultra-Orthodox Jew who belongs to a secluded Brooklyn sect. He’s also a talented, aspiring stand-up comedian who finds comedy an essential outlet for his crippling anxiety. When David is offered a career-making show that falls on the Sabbath, he must finally make a choice between the life he wants and the life he’s always known.
A year on, Warwick University is still reeling from the fall-out over a Facebook group chat where male students made rape threats against their female peers. After two of the men had ten-year campus bans reduced to 12 months, serious questions were raised about the university’s handling of its investigation into the messages. In this documentary, those at the centre of the scandal reveal new details about what went on behind closed doors, in a story that is far from over.
At the edge of Araçá Bay and in the middle of the urban and industrial-port context of São Sebastião-SP (Brazil), a group of people lives in close relationship with the sea and its cycles, a place where they produce and reproduce socially. Recognized for their typical caiçara culture, they have lived since the 1980s with recurrent environmental problems and with the constant threat of port expansion over their territory. Pulsating: a film about the Araçá Bay reverberates through facts and testimonies the various voices that seek to translate the desire of the Araçá Bay and the life that pulsates there.
Documentary about anchieta avenue and houses around.
New York restorer Christian Scheidemann is the "art whisperer". Anyone who is concerned about the durability of their sculpture made of eggshells or their painting made of elephant dung or chewing gum automatically ends up in his studio. Works of art by the most renowned artists await treatment there - today it's works by Warhol and Beuys, tomorrow by Paul McCarthy and Robert Gober. Like an empathetic doctor, Christian Scheidemann treats them in the event of accidents - he accompanies them from their creation to their total loss and is thus the central point of contact for artists, collectors and museums.