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A look back at three forgotten figures in the sport of boxing. Harry Wiley trained Armstrong, Robinson and Ali yet hardly anyone remembers his name. The Cocoa Kid fought in all of the major arenas yet he died penniless in a mental institution.
An imagined plague diary
A focus on the inner workings of a political party making headlines at district, state and national level as an “alternative for Germany”. Thanks to the film’s striking objectivity, it becomes clear where argument ends and contradictions begin.
Zimbabwean landmine clearers Shame and Cosimas, as well as medic Previous have been traveling to the other side of the world for years to clear mines in the British Falkland Islands. In the subpolar cold, between sand dunes and penguins, they defuse and blow up the legacies of a forgotten war.
The artists Zhanna Kadyrova and Denys Ruban spent two weeks in the basement of their house, fleeing from the rocket attacks and sabotage groups of the occupiers that were flooding the outskirts of Kyiv at the time, and then decided to evacuate to western Ukraine. Local residents of one of the Zakarpattia villages sheltered them in a picturesque house on a hillside, next to a river. Doing what you know and love for the benefit of Ukraine is the best thing an artist can do in times of war. This is how the Palianytsia project was born - a series of objects made of stones cut by a mountain river. Zhanna sells them to patrons and galleries and uses the proceeds to buy bulletproof vests, radios, thermal imagers and other things our soldiers need. Before she sends her ‘loaves’ to Venice for the Biennale, Zhanna holds an exhibition in the village where she now lives, so that the people who have taken her in can be the first to see her art.
A mother and son revisit the medical emergency that reshaped their lives, and the remarkable fragments that remain of that time, in this intimate blend of VR and performance film.
Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the impoverished community of Milwaukee despite internal struggles and disapproval from the city.
Following an illegal foreclosure order issued against his partner, Attorney Barak Cohen started a fight against the heads of the banking system, and created a new model of civil resistance demanding personal responsibility from the decision makers. The public uproar caused by the campaign led the heads of the banks, the attorney's office and the police to try to stop the activity of Barak and his friends in any way possible. The culmination of this attempted silencing was the "trial of the bankers" which included serious charges, as if taken from the world of organized crime. Barak and his friends did not panic and turned the trial into a serious indictment against the heads of the banking system, a move that was hailed as a resounding success and has since inspired all civil struggles in Israel.
Director Zoya Laktionova talks about her 2 months of experience abroad in a state of two realities. Her documentary essay interacts with two landscapes in the same space of the video work. The work uses archival family photos of the artist and texts written in the first weeks of the war. The work absorbs one landscape into another, but it is difficult to understand what kind of landscape this act carries out.
Inspired by New York City streetball, influential brand AND1 turned local legends on the court into international icons. So why did it come to an end?
We've all heard of the atomic bomb, but in the late 1950s, an idea was conceived of a bomb which would maximize damage to people, but minimize damage to buildings and vital infrastructure: perfect for an occupying army. This is the story of a man and his bomb: a melding of world events and scientific discovery inspire the neutron bomb, one of the most hated nuclear weapons ever invented.
Over the course of a single night in Nashville, Oscar, Golden Globe and GRAMMY nominated songwriter Tom Douglas narrates a letter of hope to a desperate world.
An inspiring feature documentary film about overcoming homelessness and addiction in the City of Los Angeles.
An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac were vibrant, excited mothers-to-be whose deaths due to childbirth complications were preventable. Now, their partners and families are determined to sound a rallying cry around this chilling yet largely ignored crisis.
Estrid is on the threshold of advancing from childhood into young adulthood. Along the journey, she experiences a serious accident: falling from the window on the fifth floor while sleepwalking. Miraculously, she survives and returns to life with a remarkable willpower. But the fall remains a trauma in her body and her family. Especially her mother is anxious about losing her. The film follows Estrid's transformation and her family's healing process. Estrid must regain her body and ability to walk, but she also has to find out who she is and wants to be, as she embarks on the journey of becoming a young woman. To do so, her mother must deal with the fear of losing her and come to terms with letting her go.
A documentary about the life and music of Justin Pearson. An enigmatic underground musician and owner of Three One G records.
The film depicts the lives of the two sole residents of an abandoned company town while unfolding a complex labour history and revealing the vestiges of environmental degradation. Combining large format cinematography and an inquiry into the archival record, it interlaces past and present.
With the city of Shinjuku as the motif, a physical urban theory is illustrated by the flesh of the dancers.
The portrait of poet, essayist, translator, dissident and professor of literature at Yale University - Tomas Venclova.
Documentary on the life and art of Marie Cermínová AKA Toyen or “the baroness” to her friends. Long considered a marginal figure, it was not until her death in 1980, when her estate was auctioned off, that Toyen’s masterpieces finally saw the light of day. This film is a portrait of an important figure of the European artistic avant-garde in the 20th century.
The cast of a documentary theatre show start to question the director’s motives when he excludes them from the creative process. Who has the right to tell anyone’s story?
Atopia is an introspective essay about the search for a place that exists between reality and imagination: a placeless place made up out of dreams, chimeras and a desire for gender fluidity.
In the documentary Brandstof (Energy), several young adults share intimately what it's like to be completely burned out at an early stage of life.
This coming-of-age story focuses on Kyle Westphal, an isolated autistic boy who’s fascinated by fabric and emerges from an experimental autism treatment program to become a fashion designer. Westphal’s family looks back on twenty years of his development with candor and humor. The film combines observational footage, archival material, and animation to chronicle how a passion for fashion transformed Kyle and his family.
In a hostile time for Asian Americans, the revisiting of an unlikely athlete's story 10 years later gives hope and shatters stereotypes on sport's biggest stage.
At a time when our eyes are tiring ever faster, we zoom in on new techniques to combat visual diseases and deficiencies.
Follows three young people who, diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, are about to embark on a life-changing journey at a specialised camp.
A portrait movie of the Godfather of American avantgarde cinema. Through material filmed primarily in the 1990s by both the directors and Jonas Mekas himself, a new insight appears on the filmmaking Lithuanian New Yorker who doesn't consider himself someone who makes films but a filmer.
Spring 2020: in Mexico City, a group of friends get together to rehearse a play. They gradually find themselves connected to the history of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán valley, home to the world’s largest cactus forest. Somewhere between a phantasmagorical fiction and a historical investigation, Ollin Blood challenges our relationship with nature and all its contradictions.
Meir Eshel, a 22-year-old beach-boy from Southern Israel, buys a one-way ticket to Paris and re-invents himself as an artist calling himself Absalon. He quickly rises to art-scene stardom, showcased by the most prestigious museums worldwide: the Venice Bienalle, Centre Pompidou Paris, Tate Modern Gallery London, Israel Museum. Absalon’s success was short-lived – almost 7 years pass since his arrival in Paris until his tragic death, during the peak of his success at the age of 28. More than 25 years later, his younger brother Dani Eshel’s first assignment as estate manager – is to sell Absalon’s final art piece. Through his journey we learn about the life of a unique Israeli artist.
Holy Cowboys offers a fascinating, disconcerting look at Indian youth indoctrinated as bovine vigilantes. This observational documentary from Sundance Institute alumnus Varun Chopra goes deep into a world of bigotry and division, where a genuine love for animals and a naive sense of righteousness are weaponised.
Swamps, marshes, billabongs, lakes, salt marshes, mudflats, mangroves, coral reefs, all are wetlands, with thousands of species depending on them for their survival, a natural network for life.
JOHN WAITE: THE HARD WAY is an intimate glimpse of the 80s rock icon John Waite as he reflects on his storied five-decade career. From pioneer rock-video band The Babys in the 1970s to his breakthrough as a solo artist and one of the first stars of the MTV era, to his time fronting supergroup Bad English, Waite has produced more than a dozen Top 40 and rock hits throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, with total sales of approximately 10M copies, including his iconic No. 1 hits "Missing You" and "When I See You Smile."
Through interviews with key figures and previously unseen period images, the story of the 1982 World Cup and the Italian national team, seen also from a private perspective, is contrasted with that of a country led by President Sandro Pertini.
The world abounds with Paranormal and Alien encounters that defy reality and cross over into the realm of high strangeness, of which there have been many attempts to explain these mind-bending phenomena but still no one has the answers. With the US government finally admitting that many of the unexplained sightings of UFO craft may very well be alien technology, we are emerging into a new era, that of a "Unified Theory of the Paranormal" that may provide answers for many enigmas of the unknown. It involves the ancient eastern concept of "oneness" recognized by our forefathers, long before the arcane physics of quantum mechanics demonstrated it's reality. Let us explore the Book of Secrets and face who the aliens are, where they come from and why they are here.
Five Mexican children are chasing their dreams in hopes that they will find their way to where superstars are made: the bright lights of Mexico City. As we witness the sacrifices, highs, lows, and dead-ends of their perilous journey, director Carlos Carrera presents the raw, unvarnished truth of the pursuit of fame and fortune through a child’s eyes.
Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama.
Looking past caricature and propaganda to a searching and human character study, Alex's War draws on twenty-five years of Infowars archives, unprecedented personal interviews, and months of backstage access to examine the shattering of our shared national narrative through the rollercoaster career of one of America’s most infamous, charismatic and divisive public figures. Building around Jones’ first ever independent long-form interviews, behind-the-scenes footage from his studio and rallies, and full access to the Infowars archives, acclaimed director Alex Lee Moyer traces the twenty- five year rollercoaster of a career that brings him to the manic election in the winter of 2020—a moment Jones sees not just as the culmination of his lifelong mission, but the decisive point in the fate of humanity.
The great voyages to the "New World" were seen as expanding the frontiers of the visible and displacing those of the invisible, therefore maps from that time render the real and imaginary. The film follows a voyage of the Brazilian Military in search of an imaginary island with the same name as their country. In the myth from 1483 Brazil, or Hy-Brazil, is known to exist to the west of Ireland and above the Fortunate Islands. Visão do Paraíso is an examination of the capacity of the human imagination and computer simulations to construct environments. Amidst the fine threshold of the real, simulated, and imagined, the film analyzes the contemporary ideas of virtual reality and their ambition to expand the frontiers of the physical world into a "New World".
This documentary catalogues and examines early space age anomalies and UFOs. Cary and Stanton demonstrate NASA's interest in UFOs through astronaut testimony, examinations of declassified documents, and a history of cover up.
A grandmother, mother, and daughter quarantine together in a Tribeca apartment as they laugh about life over wine.
An investigator researches incels and the reasons behind their misogynistic attitudes on the Internet.
A time travel film incorporating truthful moments and confessions that takes us back to Beirut of the 80s, Palestine of the 50s, and dystopian Paris.
A profile of one of Britain's best-loved comedy actresses, who starred in 13 of the Carry On franchise's films and teamed up with Eric Sykes for popular sitcom Sykes. This documentary charts the highs and lows of Hattie's career, presenting her finest moments on screen alongside footage from her family archive. With contributions from family, friends, fans and co-stars
A story of siblings building a tree house together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy.
Mike Quarry fought under the shadow of his more famous brother throughout his boxing career. He would later suffer the exact same effects from the support, dying from pugilistic dementia in this look back at his life and career.
A young biologist searches for the remains of wildlife once present in the infamous Los Angeles River, attempting to show that its ecosystem is still rich and worth fighting for.
Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)
The dancer Fatima is the main attraction of the Oasis Bar. Two villainous couples are planning to kidnap her. Bruno Sukrow, the eccentric Scheherazade of German cinema, was born in Berlin in 1927. Initially working as a machine fitter, he started animating films using the program iClone at the age of 82, following the death of his wife. He died peacefully on Easter Sunday 2022, having directed around 80 films. “Fatima” is his last finished work.