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Born in France to Senegalese parents, Halimata was excised at the age of 5. Her story is that of many other women, who are trying to forge an identity for themselves, between traditional education and a thirst for emancipation. In the first person, the story of a trauma and a reconstruction.
Børge Ousland, one of the world’s greatest polar explorers, is joined by the no less famous South African adventurer Mike Horn for a 1,500 km journey on skis across the polar cap. In addition to the extreme cold and the physical and psychological challenges caused by the darkness, there are the almost daily dangers of this ice that is getting so thin that it requires enormous risks to maintain their progress.
Some people love squirrels others see them as pests and glorified rats but we can all agree that the characterful rodents are speedy quirky exceptional climbers and go crazy for nuts.
Karan and Rohan, two biracial brothers raised in a marginal environment, are finding ways to get stimulated on a normal summer day. They embark on a trip to buy candies to avoid boredom. This film plays with the sense of boundaries between what is real and what is fiction. It is a film about the love of two brothers and their singular reality in the countryside of Quebec.
A documentary featuring survivor stories of state-sponsored violence during the Martial Law years of the dictator, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Thousands were jailed, tortured, raped and killed while communities were massacred in the crossfire between state forces, Maoist rebels and Muslim separatists. In 2013, the Philippine government passed a landmark law which officially recognized these atrocities and mandated compensation for the victims, funded by the illegally-acquired wealth of Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos hidden in their Swiss Bank accounts. 11,103 victims were given compensation as a result of the law.
This documentary tells the story of The Secret Cup, the only cannabis competition for creating hash. It showcased the finest authentic achievements in the industry and those that participated had an incredible adventure while avoiding the law.
Every month, hundreds of unemployed nurses travel from the south to the north of Italy in search of work. Two of them organise the trips by overnight buses; a long journey of hope that often leads to nothing at all. Shot as a road movie, the two filmmakers paint a pitiless portrait of modern Italy before, during and after the health crisis.
This documentary movie explores the professional life of Parviz Fanizadeh, Iranian actor of the 60s and 70s cinema and theater, with investigating through archival footage of his works and referring to his fellow artists.
The story in the movie takes place in the vicinity of the Mara River (Kenya and Tanzania). A baby wildebeest and a baby buffalo were born nearby. At the end of their lives they die beside each other.
Hosts Billy Jensen and Alexis Linkletter investigate the one-and-done-killers phenomenon and discuss how DNA genealogy plays a significant part in solving decades-old cold cases.
Follow Ed Sheeran and his team as they prepare for the largest shows of the ‘Mathematics’ tour at the iconic Wembley Stadium
Shot in Brooklyn, NY in November of 2021, comedian David Cross tackles Covid-19, anti-vaxxers and more.
This documentary charts inventor Tom Dickson's pioneering use of YouTube to launch the highly successful viral marketing campaign "Will It Blend?"
A pop culture essay film on the makeover movies we grew up loving—and all the ways they taught us that we needed to fix ourselves.
Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers battling the forces of nature to try to save this historic city for future generations. Discover the innovative projects and feats of engineering currently underway, including a hi-tech flood barrier, eco-projects to conserve the lagoon, and new efforts to investigate erosion beneath the city.
Thai filmmaker Sepia Gore's first outing in documentary filmmaking entails a melancholic half fiction half docu post modern poem captured during a trip in Thailand's Phuket. A visit to his distant aunt (on his father's side) who he hasn't seen for more then a decade since his father abandons him, Isolated Silence like a ghost is a project of heavy uncontrollable reflection ribbing through Nannapat's only trusted outlet; cinema.
OBSADA means “film crew” in Polish, but can also mean “task force”. The crew here is dual purpose. First the film crew, in front of and behind the camera, who are all women – art and film students brought together for the occasion at the Sztuki Museum in Lodz.
A look at the lives of LGBTQ professional wrestlers past and present, and the history of LGBTQ representation in professional wrestling, told through a combination of archival footage and interviews with out performers, wrestling journalists and historians, friends and allies.
Investigative Reporter, Lisa Evers, proves the murders of three of the most significant hip hop artists of the last decade.
50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the world. Taking a fresh lens this is a bold dive into a year of protest and revolutionary change for First Nations people.
Don’t miss this in-depth interview with the Barça captain after he surpassed Andrés Iniesta to become the player with the third most all-time appearances for the club.
The follow-up to the firefighting movie BURN. 12 years in the making, BURN X explores stories and introduces characters never seen before...and continues the journey for many of the Detroit firefighters audiences met in the first film.
Documentary covering the making and eventual release of Heartland of Darkness.
A found footage / object film: the colorful 1960s in Italy, a joyful time, live-giving coating of born-again found images, re-animated, examined, reviewed in a past time, revisited.
“Breaking Myths” aims to open the world’s eyes to the fragile and “catastrophic masculinity” of Brazil’s current President Jair Bolsonaro, a fanatical far-right politician who can best be described as the Brazilian Donald Trump — and who is up for a second term this October. The story is told through the lens of the critically acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker and LGBTQ activist Fernando Grostein Andrade (“Abe” Sundance 19), who directed, wrote, and produced the feature alongside creative partner Fernando Siqueira as the first release under his production company in California, FilmSoul Studios.
Two filmmakers and three representatives travel across Quebec and harvest collective desire at its source: cafes, parks, community events, Aboriginal communities, street corner discussions, etc.
I meet Pierrot in the fall of 2018. We demonstrate together in the heart of the Yellow Vests movement. The earth trembles and so do our hearts. Our bodies mingles with thousands of others who express their anger in the street every Saturday.
Singer Lee Seung-bin's live performance film where he gathers Internet singers and holds a contest
Bob Childress was the founder and builder of the famous "Rock Churches" of southwest Virginia, all established between 1919 and 1954. In 2022, Buford Jessup and his family set out to visit all seven of his great uncle's churches.
Riveted: The History of Jeans reveals the fascinating and surprising story of this iconic American garment. At any given moment, half the people on the planet are wearing them. They have become a staple of clothing the world over, worn by everyone from presidents and supermodels to farmers and artists. More than just an item of apparel, America’s tangled past is woven into the indigo blue fabric. From its roots in slavery to its connection to the Wild West, youth culture, the civil rights movement, rock and roll, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop, jeans are the canvas on which the history of American ideology and politics is writ large.
Taking to the skies with the latest drones to give SharkFest a fresh perspective, with eyes in the sky, they will reveal shark action from above.
From time immemorial, the Bretons have fought many battles to safeguard their culture, rich in language, music and dance. However, Brittany was for a long time a forgotten land, neglected by the Republic which forbade its language. From the 1960s onwards, the agricultural revolution turned peasant life upside down. Its culture, which had long been supported by Catholic priests, was emancipated in the seventies, carried by a new breath of air that accompanied the Breton angers. The youth then reappropriated their language and culture. From the long years of relegation to their great anger, the Bretons have written a fascinating saga since the end of the 19th century.
One hundred years on from the first Everest expedition, the film explores the history of the expeditions in 1921, 1922 and 1924. Julie Summers, the grandniece of Sandy Irvine, guides us through the history with contributions from many distinguished climbers. The film brings the past into the present using John Noel’s original film and many images from the Alpine Club Collection.
Behind the Scenes / Making of documentary of Neil Young's 2022 album, 'World Record'
In Música Natureza, iconic figures of Brazilian music, jazz legends and highlights of the new generation tell about the influence of Léa and her music. The delights, difficulties and challenges of being a musician and being a woman.
Dewayne Johnson, a Bay Area groundskeeper, suffered from rashes in 2014 and wondered if they were caused by the herbicide he'd been using for the past couple years. As his health deteriorated, Johnson became the face of a David-and-Goliath legal battle to hold a multi-national agrochemical corporation accountable for a product with allegedly misleading labelling.
In the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced an unprecedented artistic explosion: painters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals were so prolific that they were able to make a living from their talent alone; so much so that, within a prosperous society, thanks to wealth from overseas colonies and financial speculation, collecting works of art became a status symbol.
Shark expert Kina Scollay and his elite team return with a unique one-person submersible, the Mechashark, to a top secret location off New Zealand attempting to do something that's never been done: locate a great white shark mating ground.
Join fans from across the globe in celebrating Black Stone Cherry, the self-described “brothers first and a band second” and their two decades of music and milestones. This exclusive streaming event includes a live performance at Skydeck in Nashville, backstage interviews with the band, plus a conversation and performance with Lzzy Hale of Halestorm.
Puerta a Puerta records the preparation of a shipment in the United States and its attendant unboxing in Venezuela.
OMAR SOSA'S 88 WELL-TUNED DRUMS is a feature-length documentary on the life and music of Cuban-born pianist and composer, Omar Sosa (b. 1965). Multiple Grammy-nominee Omar Sosa is one of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today.
Esteban ‘Topo’ Mena is an Ecuadorian mountain guide and rising star in alpine climbing whose dream is to climb the first ascent of a new route on Mount Everest. He teams up with Cory Richards, a National Geographic photographer and the first American to climb an 8,000-meter peak in winter, and they attempt a never-before-tried climb on the north face of Everest. Though they fail on their first attempt, they vow to return the following season. However, due to the global pandemic, the North side of Everest remains closed, so the ambitious duo turns their attention to a futuristic new route on Dhaulagiri, the seventh highest mountain in the world. When the risk of death on Dhaulagiri stresses the team to a breaking point, the climbers are forced to confront the question of why they climb—and why it’s all worth it.
In the middle of the Atlantic, a film student, along with the crew of a sailboat, faces the temptation to mutiny against the captain in the face of his intolerable mistreatment, giving rise to stories interconnected by ocean currents.
A group of Indigenous Achuar children that moves self-determined through the endless green. Along the course of the Pastaza river, on the border between Ecuador and Peru, they catch fish, hunt and cook, play with lianas and watch videos on their smartphones. Director Inês T. Alves respectfully follows the everyday life of this young collective living in deep connection with one another and with the environment.
The documentary tells the stories of people whose homes were destroyed by the Russian occupiers in order to help Ukrainians rebuild their homes.
In an associative documentary, we encounter the knowledge and experiences that are forced on us during the pandemic. Portrayed here with poetic forcefulness are the feeling of loneliness, yearning for closeness, and our need of others.
A documentary about Crack Bang Boom, the most important comic convention in Latin America.
This film takes us on an emotional journey from sacred ground above Byron Bay to Antarctica, Indonesia to Pakistan, and is sure to light a fire under the strongest climate change denier. THE POWER OF ACTIVISM focuses on six highly spirited female activists as they are put under the microscope to ascertain the financial impact of their environmental solutions… and the results are astonishing. From shark conservation to indigenous practices, intensive farming to plastic pollution; all their ‘causes' fall under the umbrella of "climate change", but they should also fall under the umbrella of "saving tax payers hundreds of millions of dollars!”
In a pathetic attempt to host his own children’s nature show, a failing filmmaker travels 3,000 miles asking North Americans how to save the endangered monarch butterfly, and ourselves, from extinction.
Did you know that the first cowboys were black? Using magnificent archives and testimonies from historians, Cécile Denjean restores justice to African-Americans in the story of the conquest of the West.
Mexico DF.; 70's. 30 buildings. 904 apartments. 5000 people. 3,000 exiles. Alejandra, 3 years old, Chilean. Pablo, 2 years old, Argentine. Villa Olímpica, your place in the world. Years later, end of the dictatorships in the south. The return of the parents is the exile of the children. The largest exile community in the world becomes a diaspora. Leave everything behind and start over.
On stage, senior Cantonese opera singer Sam Chan is bright and well-received. Yet at backstage, how could she deal with her fear and difficulties and a complaint against her regarding National Security Law in Hong Kong?
A documentary about women and their experiences having ADHD/ADD. Women are often forgotten and underrepresented when it comes to diagnosing and talking about ADHD/ADD. The documentary unfolds some of the misconceptions about ADHD/ADD and shows it through the eye of women who have it. As well as showing how it feels to be inside the mind of a person with ADHD/ADD.
Two men in Bahia, Brazil, try to prove their UK ancestry to qualify for a small plot of land in the city’s finest location: the British Cemetery.
Michael Thompson is the longest serving non-violent offender in the history of Michigan and he is finally up for clemency. After 25 years, 3 appeals, and 2 denied applications for clemency it seems like Michael may finally have a chance at freedom.