A deep dive into the history of shark films with author/film journalist Michael Gingold.
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Cineminuto created amidst a pandemic.
Cuerpo pandemia
The making of a pop star in 2020: A young musician is plucked from obscurity -- jail, actually -- and given a multi-million dollar record deal. Meet Dominic Fike as he prepares for his first international tour and makes his debut album.
Dominic Fike, At First
A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed between glory, scandal and tragedy.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Phoenix From the Ashes
Plus haut que les flammes
Lionel goes to visit his father, who suffers from foot disease, after receiving news that he has had a relapse. This meeting will renew the family memory; the need to find themselves will unite them once again.
The Bonfire
What if waste suddenly became huge? When we discover that underneath an orthodox church (in Helsinki) there is a world data server, which uses recycled water to cool itself, we confirm that nothing is what it seems. From here we start a trip around the world, passing through South Korea, Ghana and Turkey. The constant exclamation “How Great” becomes part of our lexicon, to amaze us, always. The world seen through the evocation of waste can only make the world alert. Come back Greta!
Waste no.6 How Great
The life and work of the filmmaker Nikos Kavoukidis, through personal stories and documents. At the same time, the history of Greek Cinema unfolds, since cinema has always been a way of life for this cinéaste.
Nikos Kavoukidis – The Power of The Camera
Entre el monte y la marisma
On Oct 15, 2016, a brilliant aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, top of her class at Davis and highly respected across the industry, Nancy Paulikas, 55, tragically diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, and wandered away from the LACMA (Los Angeles Museum of Art), never to be seen again. Her husband Kirk Moody, led a relentless search that lasted years and resulted in systemic change across L.A. County. The constant search for her uncovers the gaps in the USA's social and health systems. Is Nancy still alive? If so, Where is Nancy? "Where Is Nancy?" is endorsed by Alzheimer's Los Angeles.
Where Is Nancy?
Film reveals the staggering human and material cost of illegal immigration to the U.S.A. Documentary is a raw depiction of death, torture and hardship suffered by Americans and foreigners due to illegal immigration.
America's Forgotten
A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning English, giving up your culture and a part of yourself.
Kindergarten
25 Anos da Feira do Menino Deus: A Cidade Encontra o Campo
Charlotte Rampling discussing her role and the process of making "The Night Porter
Charlotte Rampling - The Reality Of Emotions
The story of musician Thomas Muchimba Buttenschøn - born HIV+ in 1985 - and his crusade to use his music to wipe out AIDS in his native Zambia and beyond.
Doin' My Drugs
Bosnia was divided by war in the 1990s. The older population stayed while the younger population left. The film’s two mediums, documentary and animation, fluctuate along the border of two worlds, which separated time and historical events but are united by a longing for home and family. People are like dogs: they never forget their way home.
Dogs of Home
UK's Hidden Shadows is a new documentary examining the recent history of allegations of child abuse and cover-ups within the British establishment. Filmed over the course of a year, the 90-minute documentary features interviews with victims of child abuse, journalists and police whistle-blowers. Each interview offers a unique insight into the alleged Westminster VIP paedophile ring that has darkened politics for the last five decades.
UK's Hidden Shadows
The film documents the everyday life of people from a town in Ghana called Jamestown - also known as 'Sodom & Gomorrah’, a place that seems to have fallen by the wayside. Brief portraits of the inhabitants reveal a life marked by hopelessness and the struggle to move forward.
Sodom & Gomorrah
Expectations on all sides. In front of the camera and behind it. On the screen and in front of it.
Expectations
Flag, Blue Sky, Party
Gébé on arrête tout, on réfléchit
Basically, Robert reported lights over the Tesco car park. Then he told us an alien was coming to stay in his spare room. With the help of some historical abduction stories, a latex alien mask, and a bucket of flying saucers, we’re working out whether to believe him. Maybe this is a good place to believe him? Maybe you can help?
Lights Over Tesco Car Park
The film tells the inspiring story of a 50-foot wooden catamaran named Kekoa. Built by brothers Jamison and Ryan Witbeck, Kekoa faced numerous challenges, including being lost at sea and severely damaged by Hurricane Irma in 2017.
Kekoa
An endearing portrait of a South Asian father as he attempts to give life and marital advice to his bodybuilding and image-obsessed son.
Strong Son
A look at reality as it appears today in the streets and cities as an image of the crisis and decline of western society in the era of globalization. Between wealth and poverty, between homologation and loss of identity, between reality and illusion, nothing more than a great fairy tale, a deception, a collective lie of which the representation of daily life becomes its disturbing metaphor. As disturbing as the smile of Alice's Cat in Wonderland, who, at the girl's request for help to find the way that leads her out of the woods, replies with her characteristic grin: "It all depends on where you want to go". The narrative voice is by Marco Paolini.
The smile of the cat
This film was created as a gift for our loved ones while we were all in isolation. The sole utility of the piece is to brighten up your day and to bring you back to the little pleasures of childhood. Filmed and in-camera edited in Super 8mm by Rocio Mesa with an original soundtrack by Landon Caldwell. Spring 2020.
Dear Friend
Audiovisual record of a show on the "Anti-Herói Tour", by Brazilian singer Jão, made on the night of November 2, 2019, in São Paulo, the eve of the singer's birthday. Contains the songs from his second album, and some from the first album.
Turnê Anti-Herói (Ao Vivo)
Unique footage of how the otter hunts its food, how they play, and even how a mother otter gives her cubs swimming lessons. Filmed in the beautiful natural environment of the wetlands in The Netherlands. With increasing population numbers amongst the otter, they look for new territory to expand. The Province works to protect them on a large scale, by for instance blocking roads with gauze, and creating fauna-tunnels. There's still a long way to go until a full recovery, but the otter is showing us the right track.
The Otter: A Legend Returns
A train journey reveals Costa Rica's diversity, challenging the myth of a predominantly white population. We meet Maritza, a Nicaraguan refugee; Emerita, a Panamanian coffee worker; and Janis, living in an abandoned Caribbean village.
El Mito Blanco
A short TV special covering the revitalization efforts of young people returning to their small hometown of East Liverpool, Ohio.
East Liverpool, Ohio: My Town
When Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire in 2019, Paris came perilously close to losing more than 800 years of history. As engineers rebuild, researchers use cutting-edge technology to piece together what happened and restore the cathedral.
Saving Notre Dame
Michael Nyawade was 22 years old when he left Kenya and his family in 1990 to look for greener pastures in Europe. Although he always kept the thought of his motherland alive. After 30 years he decided to return to Kenya definitively. The Dutch-born filmmaker Festus Toll travels after his uncle and poetically investigates what the concept of home means to Michael, himself and his newborn cousin Genson Kiumbi. The three family generations each have to deal with it in their own way. Moral issues, the search for identity, old and new visual material come together in this short documentary about the meaning of home for a half-European, half-African child.
When You Hear The Divine Call
The coronavirus is affecting the entire planet, killing thousands, changing the way we see the world and pushing our societies to rethink its habits deeply. One habit to improve above all others to be able to win the fight against this new common enemy is… hand-washing. But what about those places where fresh water is not a given primary commodity
22nd of April, the Earth Day
During the quarantine in 2020, the two friends Mariano Llinás and Matías Piñeiro sent each other video letters – 8 in total, 4 each of them – to create a compilation of ideas, thoughts and exchanges commissioned by Sergi Álvarez Riosalido for La Casa Encendida (Madrid). Llinás is in Argentina and Piñeiro is in New York, and they begin to order each other portraits of places, reflections on artists, ideas on cinema.
Correspondencia Llinás-Piñeiro
Thirty-five years since his legendary stage direction of the Bacchae, Theodoros Terzopoulos is part of the elite of theater innovation. The film follows Terzopoulos’s footsteps to stardom, from his home village in Northern Greece, all the way to the Berliner Ensemble, Russia, China, the US, Attis theater in Athens –his brainchild and foothold–, and finally, Delphi: the birthplace of everything.
DIONYSUS, The Return
A fun and sweet film about a family experiment during the corona crisis. This Czech family explores the accidental adoption of chickens and discovers the challenges inherent in the egg industry, animal rights platforms, and family tensions in times of pandemic.
Hens, Virus and Us
At night, the streets of Harlem are haunted by lost souls. Bodies that drift around in the darkness and bear the weight of the past on their shoulders. The Haitian man Frenchie is one of them, and his accentuated stutter bears witness to exile and years of abuse. But he is more than just that in Khalik Allah's new, hypnotic film opus, which turns the American tradition of social realist street photography into its own art form.
I Walk on Water
A number of Amsterdam school classes are followed for a year in various school gardens around the city. Here, the schoolchildren learn how to sow carrots, to fertilise the soil, when to harvest vegetables and what burrows through the garden while you are asleep.
The Schoolgarden
The rise and fall of prominent New York sports radio personality Craig Carton. Through a series of candid interviews with Carton, the film reveals how the radio host’s secret insatiable gambling addiction, financed by an illicit ticket-broking business, brought his career to a sudden halt when he was arrested by FBI agents and charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, and securities fraud in 2017.
Wild Card: The Downfall of a Radio Loudmouth
Själö means 'the island of souls', and no name could be more fitting for the island in the Baltic Sea, which for centuries was a last stop for women who were considered social outcasts – and who are today forgotten. They were forcibly placed in a closed institution to be studied, measured and weighed – exactly in the way that nature itself was starting to be examined around the same time. Today, the place is a research centre. A young female scientist collects samples on the island, while the whispering voices of the past and never-sent letters echo in the empty hallways.
Själö - Island of Souls
A film essay MINOTAUR covers 15 years of the author's life. Through various formats of private archives, from cell phone recordings, Instagram posts, segments from the author's previous films, vacation videos, we experience a Proustian journey through fragments of the recorded and cathartic confrontation with transience, dear people, poetry of small things and growing up.
Minotaur
On the outskirts of Buenos Aires, there is a neighborhood built around two cemeteries. Amidst virgins and pagan offerings, the elders recite memories and forget ghosts. Children invent their childhoods with graves and hammocks. Oblivion is a territory where these creatures glide, feeling the passage of time, even though they are no longer part of it. Fears wander among the shadows of the disappeared; there is silence where voices should have been, and the everyday becomes ritual.
El ritual del alcaucil
Soigner à tout prix
Three generations of Vietnamese metalheads struggle against an indifferent culture to make their passion heard.
Saigon Metalhood
In the summer of 2008, Enzo travels to Berlin to work on a creative documentary and find a former lover.
In a Strange Room
On 28 October 2015, a migrant boat left the coast of Western Turkey heading to the closest European coast – the Greek island of Lesvos. The shipwreck resulted in the death of at least 43 people, making it the deadliest incident of that period, also known as “the long summer of migration.” One of the survivors, the artist Amel Alzakout, recorded the journey and the shipwreck on a waterproof camera attached to her wrist. This footage – which also forms the basis of her subsequent film Purple Sea – provides a unique situated perspective on this tragic event at the threshold of Europe.
Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea: 28 October 2015
Kim Chang-ok, a top communications expert in South Korea, resonated and brought comfort to a lot of people. A road movie showing the journey of healing and reconciliation with his hearing-impaired father, and the search to find the 'Real Kim Chang-ok'.
Can You Hear Me?
Exploring the interweaving lives and narrative of female tennis royalty as told through the words of the players themselves, Unraveling Athena provides an extraordinary insight into the mind of the professional athlete and the ultimate exploration of what it takes to make a champion.
Unraveling Athena
The first two decades of Dolly Parton's career sees her cross over from her rural Tennessee country roots to become one of the world's most popular and celebrated artists on stage, television and film; narrator Pam Tillis.
Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You
Métiers Hors Norme - Tireurs d'élite
Boris Lehman à Toulouse
For thirty years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered new alien worlds, black holes, and the age of the universe itself; NASA astronauts reveal the secret history of the life-or-death missions to keep this complex machine working.
Hubble: Thirty Years of Discovery
Newman covers a lot of ground in under a half hour, including Let's Scare Jessica to Death's connections to Hammer Horror, vampire movies in the Seventies (which is a genre he claims experienced an "enormous boom" during that era), and much more.
Tactics: Reflections on a Seventies Horror Classic
Over the course of five years, a pair of documentary filmmakers visited the American prairies, the Mediterranean coast, and the Mongolian steppe to better understand one of the longest-running, human-predator relationships – falconry.
Overland
Public health physician Noel Nutels' ideas and the footage he made of Brazilian indigenous peoples between 1940 and 1970 come together to denounce the historic massacre against native communities.
The pink indian against the invisible beast: Noel Nutels' battle
Salto je kráľ
Passionate about the magic of cinema and historically imposed on a place of invisibility, prejudices and stereotypes, how can women challenge, break with oppression, look after precious archives, play remarkable characters, produce and direct successful films? The documentary illuminates the trajectories of dreams, challenges and victories of talented Brazilian women in our audiovisual sector.
Women's Cinema
In 2018 it came to light that Dr. George Tyndall, the gynecologist at the University of Southern California's student health center, had been engaging in sexual assault for decades. With hundreds of accusations, how had he escaped punishment? A story of abuse and institutional enablement told from the point of view of the women advocating for change.
Breach of Trust
Broadcasters Lenny Henry and Suzy Klein celebrate black classical composers and musicians across the centuries whose stories and music have been forgotten in a 90-minute special.
Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History
Shot over the 2019-2020 season, this 17-minute film tells the story of “ski divas” who are pushing the boundaries of freedom, creativity, and sisterhood on and off the mountain. After years of freestyle competitions, Ballet-Baz wanted to focus on something else for the project: passion, creativity, and friendship.