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In 1916, the highest paid silent film director at Universal Studios was a woman named Lois Weber. Yet today, she is virtually unknown. "Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber" examines the achievements of this incredible woman, as told through the eyes of a young magazine photographer hoping to impress her.
A documentary about a football veteran who must fight the unthinkable fight against the club of his heart, Rosenborg.
Grant McPhee's sequel to Big Gold Dream picks up where the previous film left off, and continues its thrilling tour of the pre-Britpop, Scottish music scene. It features bands, such as The Bluebells, The Pastels, The Soup Dragons and an early incarnation of Teenage Fanclub; plenty of rich archive footage; and fascinating interviews with some of the key people of the time, including Edwyn Collins, Bobby Gillespie, Jim Reid, Sean Dickson, Eugene Kelly and Alan McGee.
Filmed in Libercourt in the Pas-de-Calais, "Un figuier au pied du terril" orchestrates various testimonies, in particular those of Nanass and Hélène, two grandmothers of Algerian and Polish origin respectively, highlighting in turn the colonial management of the working-class population, male domination and the residential segregation to which Nanass's descendants are still subjected. The dialectic of the film does not exclude moments of poetry, in Nanass's garden, where the fig tree, which is the same age as Nanass's stay in France, is still cherished even though the cold prevents it from bearing fruit. The humble tree from the South transplanted to the land of the North is seen as an allegory for the family of this amazing grandmother, forever uprooted but still standing, who continues to hope for the good days when her "family tree" can finally bear full fruit...
A documentary exploring the underworld of online gaming.
In late 2015, a group of high school students arranged a four-day exchange program between an international school and a local school in Hong Kong. The exchange was filmed by a team of students from both schools and developed into a 40-minute documentary titled, “One Education, Two Systems”. The aim of the project was to develop mutual understanding and appreciation between students at international schools and traditional local schools in Hong Kong and help bridge the divide in the education system. At the same time, the documentary also seeks to spark discussion on education-related topics, various disparities and other differences between the two systems (teaching styles, mental health, learning attitude, general atmosphere and competitiveness).
The Goodiepal Equation is the first feature documentary directed by Sami Sänpäkkilä and produced by Moderni Kanuuna. It follows the life of the hacker, renaissance man, futurist, hustler, philanthropist, Rudolph Steiner dropout, programmer and art collector Goodiepal. Meet the man for the new millennium!
Using images of Earth taken from space across the last 45 years and stunning time-lapse sequences, astronauts reveal how humanity is transforming the world - for better and worse
Known for his campy, totally funky music videos, Todrick Hall—a vibrant, lovable, and fabulously gay artist bursting with creative energy—takes you behind the scenes as he launches his most ambitious project to date: the original stage musical "Straight Outta Oz."
One in five families in Croatia lose their apartment or house due to being unable to pay back credit or keep up with overhead expenses. The rigorous Seizure Law provides banks and other institutions with an easier way of gaining real estate. When the system fails, when a citizen has nowhere to apply for assistance and when the unscrupulous administration dislodges them from their flats or houses, then young activists arrive to help and with their bodies prevent the execution of the eviction. HOME has recorded grievous scenes from the very places where the cordons of special police use force to drag away children, women, the young and the old - whose one and only wish is to stay and live in their only home.
Zerzura is a feature-length ethnofiction shot in the Sahara desert. Mixing folktales and documentary, the film follows a young man from Niger who leaves home in search of an enchanted oasis.
Documentary about the life of Tomi Reichental, a Holocause survivor living in Ireland.
Documentary about the pogrom that took place in Kielce, Poland in July 1946.
Anderson is a middle-aged Brazilian who has cerebral palsy. He was invited to make a short film and only accepted if the film was not a drama. He relies on his brother's companionship and passion for his team to try to achieve that goal.
“The Inked Family” follows a couple of married Latvian-born tattoo artists – Anrijs and Monami Frost of online fame. They’re now living in Liverpool with their daughter, and their previous lives in Latvia seem almost surreal to them. The film traces Monami’s past, and the couple’s current lives and the success they’ve found as tattoo artists.
A Video Essay on Pirates Of The Caribbean
One short film by Eva Stefani
"Ours is a Country of Words" takes place in Shatila, a refugee camp built in Lebanon when thousands of Palestinians fled their country in 1948. The story begins at an unknown moment in the future, when the dream of the Palestinian refugees to go back to Palestine becomes reality. The film balances on the thin line between fiction and documentary, between dream and reality. Families are preparing for their fictional return, while it slowly becomes clear that this dream is far removed from their daily life in the camp. Through the words they use as actors to talk about the dream of returning to their homeland, we can understand more deeply what it means to them to live in exile.
The movie The Last Ice Hunters tells a story of the present generation of hunters in the Inuit community of Eastern Greenland, the final chapter in their 4000-year-old history.
An old woman, Paradise, walks through the endless corridors in a boarding house for the elderly. While the rest of the residents are preparing for the dances, she stubbornly searches for her house and cannot find it in any way.
An intimate look into the life of composer Mikis Theodorakis from 1987 until 2017: comprising three decades, four continents, 100 locations and 600 hours of film material. The film interweaves personal moments with archive footage, documentary recordings and fictional pieces, all accompanied by Theodorakis’ music in jazz, classic, electro and rap versions.
A short arthouse documentary about mental illness as seen through the eyes of Niklas Kvarforth of Shining. Cold Void is a personal portrayal of the man behind headlines of suicide, drugs and self-destruction. Addiction, bipolar disorder, passion and schizophrenia.
A tribute to millions of Filipino foreign domestic workers, A Piece of Paradise is an intimate portrait of three Filipina women as they persevere to build their lives as immigrants and foreign domestic workers in Toronto, Canada.
Surrounded by his drawings, papers, photos and figurines, a man loses touch with reality as he remembers an aggression he experienced.
QT aka Quinn Thomas is an international pop star and CEO of "Super Natural" energy drink ‘Drink QT’. We Join QT as she journeys to South Korea to explore new ways in which we communicate through tastes and flavours using her research to inform a multi-sensory debut performance in Seoul.
Filmed in the mountains of Barotac Viejo, Iloilo, Pagrara Sang Patipuron revolves around a group of indigenous women who work as weavers. This documentary follows their creative process and how they maintain their place in an increasingly modern world.
Ultrarunners overcome every kind of hardship. During her first run of the season, Mirna Valerio has to silence those who think she's not fit for this sport.
Tony Jeffrey aka Tonetta is a musician and visual artist with a considerable following on Facebook and Youtube. Featured in Vice, The Guardian and on Tosh.0, Tonetta has fascinated, terrified and captivated audiences alike with his avant-garde style and infecticiously catchy songs.
Documentary about a 90 year old farmer living alone in the countryside.
A meeting with Michael Krohn, the vocalist of legendary Norwegian rock group Raga Rockers, where he tells about his life before and with music.
As a teenager, Sergei Eisenstein signed his drawings with "Sir Gay". Mark Rappaport sees clear signs of his sexual preferences throughout the Russian’s film oeuvre. Numerous asides illustrate how Hollywood productions likewise frequently played with nods and winks and typical motifs from gay culture.
Comedian Nick Cannon is back - and using his potent voice to attack the haters and naysayers, while discussing everything from the controversial times we're living in to how getting old affects his dating. Plus, there's Nick's scoop on how a trip to Australia was the straw that broke his marriage to Mariah Carey's back. Filmed live at the Ebony Repertory Theatre in South Central Los Angles.
After drawing a picture of underground gangs and corruption and prostitution in them, i.e. escort services and explaining how they operate, narrates the story of a case of their infiltration into Iran and the trafficking of Iranian girls.
The psychological and physical burdens that cardiac surgeons must bear are borderline. There are two opinions. The first: if you are not fully dedicated to heart surgery without any other interest you can not be a true professional. The second opinion: if you do not have an outlet, something else in your life, you will quickly fall apart and you will not be able to work quite well. At the center of the film is Mikhail Alchibaia, MD, director of the Coronary Surgery Department of the Bakulev Cardiovascular Surgery Research Institute and one of the world's leading collectors of contemporary art.
The impact of mass incarceration is explored through an annual charity trip that takes children to visit their imprisoned mothers.
A young woman tries to reconstruct the trip her friend took to Brazil for the Football World Cup. While she has no news of him, she relies on the images he sent her to find his trace.
Fifty years on from the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, this BBC Two documentary explores how safe it is to be gay in Britain today. With homophobic hate crime on the rise, this film takes a 360 degree look at the issue, hearing from the victims, their families and the police. What makes someone attack another person because of their sexuality? How do victims deal with these unsolicited and unprovoked assaults? And what are we doing about this in Britain in 2017?
54-minute long documentary on the making of Frank Henenlotter's cult classic, Brain Damage.
The filmmaker’s grandfather, suffering from Alzheimer’s, remembers, obsessively, an episode from his youth: an elegant young woman climbs over the railing of the pier and jumps into the water; he saves her. The old man’s speech becomes more confused; the women of his family repeat the story, now become mythical, using re-speaking techniques inspired by “verbatim theater”; the filmmaker reconstructs the scene, casting a young woman whose blonde chignon brings to mind Vertigo’s Madeleine. Yet the moment comes when the grandfather has to be brought to a nursing home, where, gradually, he fades away. His mind, his breathing, fly away with the passing time, along the flowing water. The last image that stays with him, is that of the pier…
An intimate portrait of a newborn baby boy Tibor and his two mothers, Daja and Jedrt, who fight against the social discrimination of their family. They are the only homosexual parents to have taken an active part in the campaign for the same-sex marriage referendum that took place in Slovenia. The challenge of motherhood was exacerbated by Daja and Jedrt's political opponents, who have publicly accused them of paedophilia and labelled their relationship as unnatural.
A young art student from Switzerland arrives for six months in Tel Aviv. Through drawing he will learn to analyse, understand and open himself to this contrasted environment.
Ji-hwang wants to be a farmer rather than an office worker, Ha-seok is striving to find what he truly wants, and Du-hyeon dreams of being the head of his hometown village Gangnu Maeul. These three guys gathered to form a team called the ‘Emergency Rations.’ Determined to live well as farmers in Korea where it’s hard for farmers to make ends meet, the trio decide to go for an agricultural around-the-world travel to explore how farmers in other countries farm and live. The goal: to come up with an ‘acceptable’ business model.
A father films the daily efforts and struggle of his son to do his homework. Completing the school tasks is an agony that oppresses the creative passion of a restless, imaginative boy. His father gets deeply involved so he can understand what the problem is, and spends an hour every day to help him with his homework. Days, weeks, years go by, and we observe how the eagerness to learn clashes with the ghost of school dropout. The endearing relationship between father and son, a real rollercoaster of emotions, reveals with a sense of humour the contradictions in the French education system.
The story of the creation of Philip Kirkorov's most ambitious show.
These are love stories of people lawlessly separated by prison. Most of the characters in the film, which was shot for 4 years, suffered from imperfect laws or due to failures of the judicial system. The movie is about how difficult it is to wait and fight when there is nothing to hope for. About salvation by love. "After all, not only those who are in prison are sitting-their loved ones are sitting with them!" - says one of the heroines of the film, journalist Olga Romanova.
The story behind the “American Pie” album featuring all new interviews with Don McLean, the producer Ed Freeman and musicians involved in making the record.
Historian David Starkey tells the story of the Protestant Reformation and how it transformed the face of modern Europe, unleashing fundamentalism, terror and religious violence.
Historical re-enactments of athletes performing various sports at the University of Virginia are seen as Kent Merritt, one of the first African American scholarship athletes at the university, reflects on his experience.
It's a dark world in which you have to know how to travel encrypted and anonymized on the Internet: the darknet: stomping ground for drug dealers, arms dealers and child molesters. But also a haven for journalists, whistleblowers, and the politically persecuted in many countries around the world. Due to ever more comprehensive digital surveillance, the darknet is essential for survival for people in an increasing number of autocratically ruled countries around the world. Annette Dittert has embarked on a journey to get to know the light and dark side of this digital parallel universe.
Inflation has resulted in the Zimbabwe dollar completely losing its value. Banknotes are literally recyclable goods, turned into tablecloths and lampshades, for example. In the Harare slums, which are rife with crime, valuable US dollar banknotes must be concealed in clothing, which means that the notes quickly become breeding grounds for bacteria. According to money launderers, dollar bills can best be gently hand washed with Omo detergent in warm water.
