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As a small girl, Adèle Shaykhulova had to leave Russia for France, leaving the rest of her family behind. To make up for this absence, she secretly films their conversations. But when she learns that her cousin Sonia, with whom she grew up, has cancer, film becomes perhaps the only way to bridge an immeasurable distance.
Delve into a musical concert and relive moments from "One Day We'll Talk About Today," a film about family and intergenerational trauma.
An experimental short film shot on Soviet Sveta 8mm film stock expired in 1984. It documents the 25th birthday of the filmmaker.
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.
As the world races to lead the way in blockchain technology, could Africa have an advantage? This documentary follows the journey of Bitcoin pioneers as the continent seeks to leverage cryptocurrency to leapfrog standing world economic powers.
Produced for Audiotalaia's Ruido Vírico festival in May 2020.
The film was created by teens who worked with an artist mentor over Zoom, using their phones as cameras and cardboard boxes as animation stands. It is a production of The Righteous Conversations Project, a collaboration of Holocaust survivors and teens, based in Los Angeles and founded in 2011.
The Golden Moose restaurant was a Turku legend. An old-fashioned funky establishment, opened in 1968 and seemingly never having changed since then. A meeting place for friends and family. A shrine for hundreds of locals. A place many called home. A family – for those who served there, as well as those being served. Now, in December 2016, the building has been bought by a major Finnish retail corporation in order to open a new supermarket, and the restaurant has to close its doors forever…
A filmmaker travels around time and space through the magic of montage, developing a conflict created by the gathering of different moving images he recorded with his girlfriend, making a love story given only by the love to cinema.
The mad proliferation of the wind gives the trees strange outlines. The wet thread of our slumber ruptures in the night. The hand plunges into the beginning of the fire. The burning entrails of the fields suddenly appear at dawn. Here man is alone. In this loneliness, the shadow of sugar cane flows into eternity.
The United States may never have another commander-in-chief as loved and hated as Donald Trump. Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo and Wall Street Journal Editor James Freeman did an accounting in their new book 'The Cost' and found not only is Donald Trump an underrated chief executive but the abuse of federal investigative power against him is the greatest scandal of his era.
The story of Lebanon is one of ongoing tragedy. A march of follies orchestrated by heads of state, sects, and militias. The Palestinians, French, British, Iranians, Syrians, Americans, Israelis and the Lebanese themselves, have all, at one point or another, contributed to the country's tragic history. Caught up in the chaos were the Lebanese themselves - made up of different sects, religions, and ethnicities - writing their own history in a string of political assassinations, massacres, and betrayals.
Notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s brutal regime ended in a hail of bullets. In Escobar’s infamous reign of terror, he smuggled four hippos into Colombia to join his growing collection of exotic animals at his $63 million estate outside Medellin. Left to fend for themselves in the wake of his death, these extremely dangerous beasts – responsible for more deaths in Africa than lions or crocodiles – broke out. Today, breeding at twice their typical rate and with no natural predators keeping them in check, more than 60 roam the Colombian wilds, wreaking havoc in villages at night and threatening the ecosystem that feeds into the Magdalena River, Colombia’s main watershed.
The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 innocent people and began the new age of terrorism. Bound together in tragedy, the victim's relatives fought for justice, only to watch it unravel for Libyan oil.
A Movie about Water, Thievery, and Being a Prisoner to Conventional Thoughts.
Over the past 18 months, journalist Thilo Mischke has conducted research for ProSieben within right-wing networks and met supporters of various right-wing and right-wing extremist groups. In the "ProSieben Special: Right. German. Radical." he pursues the question: "Is our liberal democratic basic order in danger?
Two skaters from Russia and two skaters from American come together to find friendship and redemption.
Here For A Good Time tells the story of Hampshire College, a tiny liberal arts school in Western Mass with a reputation for really knowing how to party.
PWA Studios celebrated International Womens Day 2020 by extending the stories of Australia's top female wrestlers in this documentary piece, Girls to Fight For. Hear the perspectives of Australia's top female performers, from those who started this year to those who began over a decade ago. Starring: Madison Eagles - Pro Wrestler Shazza McKenzie Jessica Troy Xena Kingsley - Pro Wrestler Cherry Stephens Frankie B
Short film about the city Lopburri, which is mostly inhabited by monkey.
From the makers of the acclaimed series The Game, which examined the rich history of hurling, comes this one-off documentary looking at the life and times of one of the greatest ever exponents of the game, Cork’s Christy Ring.
An old Finnish athlete travels alone through eastern Europe with his van.
Migration is one of the great phenomena of the natural world. When it’s time to move some take to the skies or the oceans, but the migrants we know best are found in the awe-inspiring herds running across our planet.
Slaughterhouse workers—some of whom are still on the job—describe their work. Their accounts reveal the toll that this “world apart,” on the fringes of the human condition, takes on the workers’ health. The film captures the struggle that the men and women working in slaughterhouses must wage against their own emotions in order to “hold on” day after day. Through their fragmented accounts, the mental images that haunt them are gradually revealed, and at times we can sense all those they would prefer not to share. Filmed in the forest, a symbolic space of refuge and isolation, the documentary shows no footage shot inside a slaughterhouse.
A young transgender man born into an environment of violence, drugs and crime returns to the neighborhood after serving a seven-year sentence for complicity in homicide. Before being able to regain his freedom, his sister, mother and grandmother are murdered.
Metalanguage and irony about what makes a film, film.
Gando is the story of Hawa, a 9 year old girl who lost part of her arm to a Gando, a type of Iranian crocodile, while fetching water. Nevertheless, she and others of this province honor the Gandos. They believe when there is a Gando, there is Water.
The poet Eirik Havnes performs a self-written poem as 50 filmmakers, dancers, extras and musicians are in action. Livet av Havnes is a hybrid between poetry, theater and concert. A live existential journey through Oslo's streets over the course of 45 minutes on 12 September 2020 between 19:02 and 19:47.
Riau Province has been a habitat for Sumatran elephants since ancient times. Massive forest clearing occurred and resulted in almost the entire forest as elephant habitat being lost to oil mining factories, infrastructure buildings, community gardens and settlements. Loss of habitat causes elephants to enter populated areas and destroy plantations, even people's homes. Until finally a conflict arose between the residents of Karya Indah and wild elephants. This living space conflict occurs almost every day and causes losses and even casualties between the two parties.
Documentary film on the plight of Western Australia's forests and their real value in drawing down and storing carbon.
The Encantadeiras is a group formed by a group of babassu coconut breakers from Maranhão. The film accompanies the 7 women on a tour and unveils the story of each one. Babaçu, feminism, land reform and music. A lot of music.
A child experiments with a toy.
A dance group rehearses for their latest performance Inabitáveis about black homosexuality. While the choreographer conducts research and gives guided tours, he meets Pedro, a young trans girl looking for her own means of expression. She desperately wants to be taught by him.
A found footage film compiled from countless YouTube videos in which the people of Russia make a direct appeal to president Putin. A kaleidoscope of the mood in the country – from submissive pleas to pure rage about injustice and rampant corruption.
An Irish immigrant moves to New York in 1989 to study acting. He works through the grief from the loss of his mother's passing and the death of his friend Philip Seymour Hoffman.
This documentary follows wildlife, including monarch butterflies and gray whales, that migrate to or through Mexico.
October 23-26, 2002 – one of the many bloody periods in the modern history of Russia. And the most terrible days for people whose relatives and friends have become a bargaining chip in this tragedy. What were all these lives worth, cut short overnight by a horrific crime? What do the fates of the survivors mean to a state that ignores their pain? What do they mean to a people for whom "NORD-OST" is just a terrible combination of words?
Breaks open the hidden history of the U.S. Armyʼs Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II – a story made possible because of a few aging veterans with a little Internet savvy and a lot of determination. Thereʼs little doubt the 7,000 soldiers of the Military Intelligence Service helped shorten World War II by as much as two years. They were fluent in Japanese. They were interrogators, interpreters and linguists. But who were they? With documents classified and buried in government vaults, historians struggled to tell the MIS story. “The Registry” profiles surviving MIS veterans Seiki Oshiro and Grant Ichikawa and other vets who help tell the unitʼs story.
The episode of Gérard Courant's Carnets filmés, Crime contre le cinéma (December 25, 2006 to December 2, 2006) is divided into four parts: Colas Ricard at Centre Pompidou, Joseph Morder at La Rochelle, the Filmer à tout prix Festival in Brussels, and Michel Nedjar and Jakobois at Centre Pompidou.
House of Light is an intimate portrait of one family’s daily life when forced to remain together in their apartment in Dhaka, Bangladesh during the Covid-19 health crisis. Filmed by the director on his mobile phone during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the documentary transcends the quotidian and illuminates the every day with moments of aesthetic simplicity and ultimately, the spiritual sublime.
A humorous documentary about the uncomfortable growing up of students at the University of Tokyo, who spend most of the day overwhelmed with their studies, struggling with the pronunciation of digraphs or rehearsing a performance of Faust in Polish. What is it like to get to know a country that is geographically and culturally so remote only through textbooks? In the second year, a handful of students finally travel to Poland at their own expense. Their enthusiasm encounters both different customs and good-natured locals trying to explain why they consider kebab their national dish. What the students have been dutifully reading at home for the past year takes on unexpected dimensions at sunset over the Vistula.
A look at the relationship between the future King and Queen.
Fajar Merah (21 years old) is the son of Wiji Thukul – a poets and human rights activist who was ‘made to disappeared’ in 1998 by The Soeharto Regime. Together with ‘Merah Bercerita’, a band established at 2010, and supported by his family, he tries to bring back his father’s poems to life, covers them with music notations and creates a music album. In a dynamic background of 2014 Presidential Election, 16 years after the 1998 tragedy, Fajar and family develops a new hope on one candidate; Joko Widodo, to solve some Human Rights Violation cases, to find Wiji Thukul and other victims.
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.
A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed between glory, scandal and tragedy.
Drawing upon a rich repository of images—from digital renderings of Kashmir’s mountains to the textured materiality of 16mm hand-processing and direct animation techniques—Letter From Your Far-Off Country maps a hidden vein of shared political commitment and diasporic creative expression, linking a poem by the Kashmiri American writer Agha Shahid Ali, interviews with the filmmaker’s father, and a letter addressed to Prabhakar Sanzgiri, a leader of India’s Communist party and a distant relative of the filmmaker.
A resident of a ghetto’s neighborhood of São Paulo amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Gustavo has severe anxiety attacks. When he receives a call from a friend who lives in the same street, he reflects different stories of neighborhood residents in parallel with his family's daily life during social isolation.