My Father's Journey explores how an individual of 82 years of age built his own spiritual castle to protect himself and his precious culture against constant political upheavals and the assimilation of the dominant Chinese modern culture.
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My Father's Journey explores how an individual of 82 years of age built his own spiritual castle to protect himself and his precious culture against constant political upheavals and the assimilation of the dominant Chinese modern culture.
With the solar eclipse in 1999 as her mirror image, an exiled film artist turns her analogue film camera on her family in ex-Yugoslavia in a work that maps how a dark past remains embedded in the present.
No one really knows the exact details of Special Action 1005. How many people were killed by the Nazis in the rear of the Eastern Front between 1942 and 1944? There were at least tens of thousands. This is the story of how the criminals covered up the traces of their clumsy and savage crimes.
The story tells an interesting moment in the life of Ennio Flaiano, his meeting with Federico Fellini and his relationship with the famous producer of the "Dolce Vita" Peppino Amato, until he decides to write a dictionary of the 'verbal errors' committed by Peppino Amato.
A time traveler gathers data to create an Afro-diasporic mythology. She seeks to build an Afrocentric narrative based on a decolonial language and a synesthetic experience of understanding the world.
It’s been twenty years since the G8 Summit held in Genoa in 2001 was marred by violence. There are two generations who went through that experience, in one way or another, and twenty years later they cannot consider the case closed. The dream behind the protests at Genoa 2001 is still alive: the issues then addressed are today’s issues, only more urgent. And the violence of Genoa 2001 is not over, since although that violence has been recounted many times, from different sides, and celebrated or condemned, it has never been understood or resolved.
In Adios Amor, the discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot—Maria Moreno, a migrant mother driven to speak out by her twelve children’s hunger. Years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta launched the United Farm Workers, Maria picked up the only weapon she had—her voice—and became an outspoken leader in an era when women were relegated to the background. The first farm worker woman in America to be hired as a union organizer, Maria’s story was silenced and her legacy buried—until now.
At the age of 20, Patti Smith arrives in New York and upsets the codes of rock, poetry, and genre. She has become a living legend without ever leaving the sidelines. A poet, actress, and musician. Also militant. An artist with a thousand lives, now 74 years old. The documentary follows the course of Patti Smith's life. Childhood first, and the artist who says: "I wanted to be someone special. I felt distant. Not just from other children, I felt far from the whole world. I spent my childhood in think I was an alien. " Little Patti grew up in rural New Jersey and received a religious education from her Jehovah's Witness mother. But Patti Smith leaves the movement, which does not suit her artistic inclinations.
From the surroundings of a non-place several refugees talk about their situation, where they lived and their dreams. It is a meeting to share non-fulfilled projects. They are part of a group of especially vulnerable refugees who have no choice.
Tropical fruits and vegetables radiate on a blizzard-struck street corner in Brooklyn, NY. A visual oxymoron, tugging at the edge of an interconnected and collapsing global order.
When, in 2014, the charismatic German-Bulgarian Ruja Ignatova introduced OneCoin, a new cryptocurrency, she claimed that it was destined to become the world's most important digital currency and would change the course of history.
50 years after the realization of their utopias, three old architects take the director on a journey to discover extraordinary housing. A joyful journey through time, from which emerges a crucial question: how will we live tomorrow?
A look at the relationship between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, exploring how a seemingly perfect love story became one of the most toxic feuds in Hollywood history.
Capture, document, record, share, restart. We are making ourselves more memorable than ever by archiving every bit of our daily lives. What if we lost something along the way?
Uncle Tom II is an odyssey depicting the gradual demoralization of America through Marxist infiltration of its institutions. The film explores how this deceptive ideology has torn apart the fabric of society while using black America as its number one tool for its destruction. From Executive Producer Larry Elder and Director Justin Malone, comes the continuation of their highly acclaimed film, Uncle Tom (2020). Uncle Tom II will take the audience deeper into black America’s often eradicated history of honorable men, entrepreneurship, prosperity, faith, and patriotism, to its current perceived state of anger, discontent and victimhood.
When Profesionals like Pilots , Engineers, Marines , & Navy Question The Shape Of The Earth !!!
An elderly taxi driver is a hopeless romantic and a crude observer of life who has lived through hardship and witnessed despair. The route to the destination leads through the labyrinth of his own memories as he roams the streets.
Marie-Thérèse and Christian have turned their town into a ZUT—a Urgent Zones to Transform. They want pesticides gone. Completely. Immediately. And forever. The radical stance of these 'zutists' echoes a growing thirst for change across Belgium. From tiny garden plots to European institutions, from farm to farm, from laboratories to grassroots struggles, ZUT keep popping up—each one revealing just how dependent we’ve become on chemical inputs, and how deeply we long to break free.
The documentary is a portrayal of the lives and struggles of six influential Iranian women activists, now living in exile, engaged in a number of areas of political and social activism. These areas encompass the fight for women's rights and equality, for secularism, free thought and expression, for civil liberties, the abolition of the death penalty and stoning, redress for families of executed political prisoners, and for workers' rights. The six women in my film, together, thus represent important areas of social protest in the current Iranian society.
Documentary looking at one of the most high-profile miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Colin Stagg was wrongly charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992, it would take 14 years for the real culprit to be caught.
150 years have passed since the first thoughts of organized leadership in the High Tatras. The ancient tradition has basically not changed. Even today, mountain guides help fulfill the dreams and aspirations of those for whom the highest peaks would be inaccessible. However, this craft is not only about freedom, romance and adventure...
After losing his entire life's work in a fire, photographer Mark McInnis assembles a team of surfers and sets out on a grueling mission to track down undiscovered waves on the most unlikely of islands, located in the violent Bering Sea.
On January 26, 1950, a US Airforce troop plane left Anchorage for Montana with 44 people on board. The crew of the Douglas C-54 Skymaster #2469 was supposed to check in every half hour along the route. As the aircraft crossed into Yukon, they radioed the tiny outpost of Snag to say that there was ice forming on the wings, but otherwise all was well. After that, the Skymaster disappeared. And to this day no sign of the aircraft or its passengers has ever been found. This fascinating Yukon-shot documentary tells the stories of the victim’s families and an intrepid group of Yukoners striving to give those families closure by searching every summer in hopes that the Skymaster will finally turn up.
The film immerses us in the imaginary world of witchcraft crimes. This historical Swiss documentary reveals the workings of a hellish judicial machinery that put thousands of men, women and children at the stake.
A grandmother faintly narrates her quilts, as seen through the warped glass lens of a broken camera, a laptop webcam, and a clunky Xerox scanner.
In a room of the Cineteca di Milano, Giancarlo Consonni and Graziella Tonon observe old films that have just been digitized: they tell of the life and projects of the architect, urban planner, painter and photographer Piero Bottoni. The film follows the couple's research among the materials stored both in the film library and above all in the archive. They tell of a multifaceted and socially committed artist, who has dedicated his life and his work to the primary intent of instilling dream and enchantment into reality, making use of the contribution of all the arts. Through the multiplicity of materials at our disposal - drawings, films, photos, surveys, projects, voices - the film shows the realization of Piero Bottoni's most ambitious project: the construction of a mountain in Milan, Monte Stella, born from the rubble of the Second World War.
Documentary charting the experiences of projectionists who work or worked in cinemas in London, exploring the skills and dedication required for this unique role, set against changes in technology, society, and entertainment.
Set in an isolated mining town on the outskirts of Death Valley, SONG OF SALT is an immersive glimpse into the struggles and celebrations within a tight-knit community as its residents, suspended between the past and the future, face the present realities of an eroding economy.
A portrait of female photographer and freelancer Nanna Kreutzmann, who struggles to find her inner peace after spending her life documenting disasters and conflicts.
Writer and adventurer Will Millard returns with more of Wales’s hidden wonders as he explores some of the country’s forgotten historic buildings. In Wales, we are in danger of losing vital pieces of history that tell us who we once were. Beautiful buildings that are architectural gems but also some of the most endangered in the UK. These extraordinary structures, which can give us vital insights into how we once used to live, are in danger of disappearing forever. From extravagant mansions to a 500-year-old farmhouse, crumbling chapels to a massive military fort, and from spectacular industrial sites to a stunning 19th-century theatre, Will travels the length and breadth of Wales to find some of our most vulnerable old buildings, telling their incredible histories and meeting the passionate individuals who are trying to rescue them before it is too late.
The moon and stars rising from the east, people entering their sound sleep, it is the end of the day for most ones, but the start of the day for a few. The film records various types of night workers in Taiwan’s metropolis. The Night Carnival is about to begin. Get ready for the pure immersion in cinematography and music. And remember to show up on time because it is a MIDNIGHT SCREENING only.
Anxious Nation explores the epidemic of anxiety and why we are such an anxious nation. The film lifts the shroud of shame around mental health, while giving emotional insights into how anxiety shows up in our children’s lives, impacts families and what parents' contributing role may be in the journey. While there is no cure for anxiety, we can learn to manage it, so it doesn’t define us.
The making of ATHENA covers the entire production of the film and gives us an in-depth perspective of the scenes that everyone is talking about, from the 12-minute long shot sequence to the scene that sent the cameraman 30 meters above the ground. Highlights include how Romain Gavras brought his vision to the screen, along with his co-writer Ladj Ly and Dali Benssalah (Abdel) and how the music, composed by GENER8TION, plays a unique role to make ATHENA a modern tragedy.
British filmmaker Mark Jenkin (whose latest feature Enys Men is part of this year’s Main Slate) mails this postcard from a melancholic holiday in New York and its environs, rendering the city in grainy monochrome Super 8 and a familiar urban soundtrack of jackhammers and traffic hum. In voiceover, the filmmaker relates his experiences of celeb-spotting and visiting movie locales, buying overpriced essentials, and counting MAGA bumper stickers on Long Island.
Conversations about life, love and loss, naturally ensue between friends, old and new, over shisha and coffee. Generations reminisce about their shisha adventures, from underground shisha dens in Sudan, to the bustling shisha scene in Russia.
People across the world are fleeing hunger, climate disaster and violence. The Vertical Border looks at what happens when forced migrants head to the US-Mexico border to claim dignity and rights, but arrive to a hostile welcome.
Part of the Almost Famous series. As an investigative reporter, Jason Berry exposed the church’s systematic cover-up of sexual abuse. Somehow, it wasn’t enough.
Maria Alexandrova and Vladislav Lantratov are international ballet superstars. Everything in their lives is connected to dance. Being on stage means everything to performers, no matter if it is a theatre in their city, the Bolshoi Theatre, or other famous venues. But their lives take a dramatic turn in the spring of 2019 when Masha and Vlad both get their Achilles tendons injured, she during rehearsal, and he — in the middle of an important premiere in front of a big audience. Their careers, beloved work, and the joy of routines are put on hold. The feet of the artists turn into independent characters, whom their owners address accordingly. “What if this time she doesn’t want to?” asks Maria Aleksandrova, an extraordinary ballet dancer, who is experiencing this trauma and recovery for the second time.
This film is for those who really miss Paulo Gustavo! 'SON OF A MOTHER' shows the delightful complicity between the actor and Dona Déa, his inspiration to create Dona Hermínia. With never-before-seen footage, the film follows the funny and exciting backstage of the artist's last tour. Get ready to laugh, cry and remember why Paulo Gustavo is unforgettable.
Big ambitions clash in tiny kitchens, all in the name of Singapore’s beloved hawker dish — chicken rice. Apple presents a documentary about hawker pride and conviction, set against the backdrop of the famous Maxwell Food Centre.
Emil Skamene has written more than 250 scientific publications, won dozens of distinguished awards, and was even on the verge of winning the Nobel Prize. He is the founder of the Institute for Clinical Research at McGill University in Montreal, a member of the Czech Learned Society, and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. Not so long ago, he discovered that he was someone completely different – he had devoted his whole life to unlocking the secrets of genes, and yet he had been unaware of his own identity for decades. His life was a history that changed the whole of Europe and the world. His story is full of unbelievable and completely absurd situations that can only happen in real life.
Gastón “Tonga” Reyno is a mixed martial arts competitor. He is the most important Uruguayan in this competition. Every time Gastón gets into a fight, he puts his whole career and his life at stake. But beyond the economic aspect, for him it is a matter of honor. His dream was always to be a professional fighter. His goal was to be on a poster, he never imagined that he would be able to train with the idols he had hanging in his bedroom and be watched by thousands of people on television and live from Uruguay.
In 2010, Forrest Fenn published a set of clues about a secret trove, estimated to be worth at least a million dollars, that he'd hidden in the Rocky Mountains. Some still seek this treasure, captivated as much by the mystery as the promise of riches.
The story of Italian soundtrack composer Piero Umiliani, from his post-war beginnings in the jazz combos of the Allies, to being one of the first to experiment with lounge and electronic music in Italy.
The story of the friendship between Silvester Krčméry and Vladimír Jukl, who were called "generals of the secret church" and played an important role in the fight against totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia. They were already critical of the Slovak State and participated in the Slovak National Uprising. After the arrival of communism, they were persecuted and spent many years in prison. Nevertheless, after their release, they continued their activities. They founded "circles," small islands of freedom where people could think and believe freely. They distributed literature banned by the regime, published samizdat, organized signature campaigns, pilgrimages, and rallies. The culmination of their efforts was the Candlelight Demonstration, in which thousands of people participated and peacefully protested against the communist regime. The whole world learned about their actions. It wasn't long before their movement became actively involved in the Velvet Revolution.
The mighty bull shark has the strongest bite force of all sharks. And one is coming to a lake near you.
Alpine pastures have been used for agriculture for centuries. Their number has been declining for years. A young farmer is renaturalizing an abandoned area high above Lake Chiemsee. In hundreds of old orchards in the Alpine region, forgotten and rare varieties of fruit were sought out and new varieties were planted. The so-called Bavarian Sea stretches over a length of 14 kilometers. A section on the southern shore of Lake Chiemsee is closed. In this protected core zone lies the delta of the Tiroler Ache, an ideal resting place for migratory birds.
Behind the scenes at the confectionery company's base in Bournville near Birmingham as staff gear up for the festive season, hitting the factory floor to discover how popular treats Roses are made, with the focus on the creation of the hazelnut in caramel. Historians and Cadbury insiders tell the story of how Cadbury first turned Britain on to festive chocolate, while Santa and his team prepare for the rush at Cadbury World.
Nick and Michi roam the streets and meadows of their neighbourhood inseparably, but when Michi surprises Nick with unexpected news, they try to suppress it in their own way.
The plot follows professional wrestler Gia Adam and Teacher Gabrielle Brown as they slowly unite and face their biggest challenge to date.
In the village of Temska, a group of students organizes a festival of documentary film. They hope to bring together the inhabitants of the village, as it was decades earlier. Documentary films released, and the festival itself allow the residents to revive the memories of the past.
The documentary "La Lezione di Oscar" (translated as Oscar's Lesson) tells the story of guitarist Oscar Ghiglia, heir to the legacy of Andrès Segovia, and pillar of the last 60 years of the history of classical guitar. Through his words and memories, the films narrates his teaching, his career, his playing, and his life: it is a biopic and a musical documentary all in one.