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A documentary about the life choices of seven men and one woman who left their home countries and moved to Yugoslavia at the time of the non-aligned movement. In Slovenia, they started new lives, had families and made careers. Coming from different cultures, there are two traits they share: determination and persistence. In their personal accounts, they speak of their experience and share their memories of the time since their arrival.
A day in the life of 58-year-old Arulanantham Sinnadurai, a Quebecker of Sri Lankan origins. He has two main occupations: his diving job and his Hindu spiritual life.
The documentary tells the story of Camille Cabral, Northeastern woman, transsexual, first Brazilian elected in France.
Bits and blocks are the home of the Super Vario Birds who are dancing to the 8bit symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven.
An estimated 500,000 U.S. citizens, veterans and children are homeless across the nation. A newly-released documentary by filmmaker Dennis Michael Lynch tackles the homeless crisis in America head-on. "United States of Tents," takes you on a journey to several homeless camps across the country, and includes interviews with leaders in many communities who are addressing this devastating crisis.
This film about caving is not meant for cavers. It was made for all those people who stay outside and ask questions such as: " How can you breathe? ", “Aren’t you afraid of being trapped there?" "But...what do you do in there?"
On April 14, 2014, the sleepy agrarian town of Chibok, in the North East zone of Nigeria, was thrust into the global spotlight when the terrorist group Boko Haram stormed the community at night and abducted 276 teenage schoolgirls from their dormitories. Daughters of Chibok deals with the aftermath of the kidnappings, and explores topical global issues of gender rights and the right to education.
Director Mikel Cee Karlsson is working on a film with and about his best friend Mathias – a young father who one day reveals that he is living a double life. Circumstances have driven Mathias into a criminal underworld where debts seem impossible to pay off. In a spiral of threats, lies and violence, Mathias is desperately looking for a way out. When things finally seem to look up for him, the pressure he has lived under for several years has fatal consequences, leaving Mikel forced to make crucial decisions about the film he is working on.
Samen Winnen follows Team Jumbo-Visma behind the scenes of the Tour de France 2019. With four stage wins and Steven Kruijswijk finishing on the podium in Paris, the only Dutch cycling team was one of the most succesful teams.
A short documentary, composed entirely of archive footage, on "Praça Onze," a Brazilian samba song by Herivelto Martins based on actor Grande Otelo's efforts on saving Praça Onze, where Carnaval parades were held in Rio de Janeiro up to the late 1930s, from being demolished.
In 1974, a local TV news station crew came into the filmmaker Daniel Robin’s home during the Rosh Hashanah celebration to document it and learn about Jewish rituals. A narrative begins with the formation of American-Jewish identity. But then the director of this unexpected autobiography draws an analogy with the current rise in anti-Semitism and nationalism. He believes that in the United States the attitude towards unfamiliar cultures resembles the one people take towards animals in petting zoos, where one can safely touch and pet them.
The film follows Sam, a falconer and naturalist living on the North Mountain of the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. Through performance and documentary, Tetrault conducted interviews with Sam on the relationship a falconer has with a bird of prey, and the possibility for over-identification and projection onto the bird.
"A Love Letter to Oneself" describes six young men and women who play roles that are 80 years apart from the Japanese rule and the Republic of China era, concatenating the different identities of the 1930s and 2010s, comparing the two The generational differences in occupations, lifestyles, concepts, and political environment profile the influence of the development of Taipei’s West District on Taiwan’s history.
Ruba grew up in an exiled family and internalized her mother's memories and difficulties. She seeks to deconstruct her memories in order to recreate a new narrative that allows her to face her sense of permanent alienation. But a question remains: is life as attractive when you are no longer a stranger?
Novorzhev is a small town in the Pskov region. After six in the evening, its streets are empty, and it seems that life in this place has stopped. But she is in full swing at the House of Culture, where local residents rehearse the play based on a play by a Spanish playwright. The heroes poison each other, try to shoot their relatives, die writhing in convulsions - and at some point it is no longer clear where life is and where is the theater.
Stranded in space for thirty years. How does it feel to finally come home? A reflection about migration and the sense of belonging.
This is a film portraying a remarkable life, a life dedicated to cinema, telling the story of Umit, a story that spans from Lefka to London. It will recount his boundless love for cinema, his bond to his grandfather who introduced Umit to the big screen, following his journey from London to his roots. What we will tell is a heartfelt, naive "cinema paradiso" story.
This is a short film about the history of Kingston upon Thames. Through a tour guide experience you learn the different events that have happened in Kingston that are important to not only the towns history but England's history as well.
In a small rural village in Jeollanam-do, senior ladies learn to read and write from Mrs. Kim at a 'Sall Library at the Road,' a community library and learning center. When they were young, they couldn't go to school because their families were poor. Getting married, they couldn't make time for their education while raising their children and supporting family. After the long and suffering years, they finally have an opportunity for education, a chance to tell their stories with their own words. Their beautiful works were published as a book in 2016. The documentary follows the senior poets' daily lives as they write about their lives of joy, laughter, tears, and happiness.
Soldier, banker, lawyer, professor; William Tecumseh Sherman was more than a Civil War General. Sherman voyaged the world, influenced the California Gold Rush, started banks and Louisiana State University. He advised and entertained presidents, and changed the dynamic of war. Later he set decades of policy in the American West. Few leaders have had such a contentious impact on America as Sherman.
7 Reasons (2019) is an explicitly Christian pro-life documentary. Ray Comfort presents seven biblical and scientific arguments defending unborn life as sacred image-bearers, exposing abortion as child-killing while affirming God's design and the Gospel call to protect the innocent. From Living Waters—powerful evangelism equipping believers to dismantle pro-choice lies with Scripture and logic. Uncompromising truth for the culture war, not neutral debate.
Sivandivan is a documentary about an uncompromising royal singer who refused to adapt to the norm of how a female artist should behave. And for that, she has had to pay dearly. She is now 72, has no family, not many know who she is and to those who do, she is an outcast.This movie is about Siv’s revenge and comeback.
In May 1968, workers, students and young people rise up against the morality and power of the establishment. Faculties and factories are under occupation. Barricades are erected. Paving slabs are launched. Words give way to actions. This is the confrontation. These images bear witness to the men and women who, in their indignancy, march towards their revolution. 50 years ago, as part of our ARC collective, we filmed the uprising of May and June 1968. Out of this material and scenes borrowed from our other filmmaker friends, we created this film.
An in-depth look at the full-cycle breeding program for bluefin Kindai tuna pioneered by Kinki University’s Aqua Culture Research Institute.
In three symbolic places of a global production, "Spirits I've called" describes the impact of the mining and steel industry on the fragile natural balances and on the health of people living close to the production sites.
Four paranormal enthusiasts travel to a haunted farmhouse in the middle of nowhere to come face to face with pure evil.
Holding Fire is a short documentary that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the work of a grassroots Muslim activist in South Brooklyn during a time of unprecedented Islamophobia. The film follows the trajectory of rising Yemeni-American activist Somia Elrowmeim, an immigrant woman of color, whose work challenges expectations within her own community and reaches for higher positions of power. The film provides timely insights into an activist's transition from organizing to politics, as America gears up for the 2020 elections.
Wedding photos are the development of emotions. The unique cultural etiquette and true temperament of the Chinese society are all recorded in the wedding photos. It makes everyone believe that this is a dream factory that can exchange money for concrete happiness. Before entering into marriage, the prince and princess are looking forward to a happy and happy love and future. On the other side, the couple who are already in marriage, what they hear is a frank conversation between them. Looking back at the photo that symbolizes the marriage contract, what kind of form does the "intimacy", "happiness", or "love" between the two transform into?
A present moment, a memory or a wish.
Writer, musician and filmmaker Chris Wade explores the life and career of legendary movie director KEN RUSSELL, one of cinema's most innovative and daring figures. Featuring new interviews with his son Xavier, and collaborators Judith Paris, Emma Millions and Scott Antony, this is a warm homage to a true maverick, a man who did things his way, while refusing to compromise his unique vision.
The movie follows the Krempig family as they travel through the north-western parts of Greenland.
Before sliding into the uniform of his father, the dictator and founder of the “Republic” of North Korea, Kim Jong II was passionate about film. He was said to have a collection of 20,000 videos, with a predilection for action films… from the West of course. One-time director of Arts and Humanities at the Department of Agitation and Propaganda, he wrote in the 1970s an essay on the theoretical practice of how the 7th art should express the ideology in place. Jan Iljäs drew inspiration from the clear principles of the “Shining Star” to create a short film composed of shots taken during a touristic trip to the country.
Documenting the performance journey of the artists Susie Wimmer, Andreas Schock and Moni Single from "Clowns Without Borders" to Iranian aid institutions - homes for orphans and street children, hospitals, psychiatric clinics and refugee camps.
It all started in July 2018. Groups of migrants coming from Africa endeavouring to cross the border with France started arriving at Irun train station. They would sleep in the street. The charities working in the town succeeded in convincing the squatters’ movements to take a hand in the matter by letting them use their places. The wave of generosity spread to the people of Irun.
An hour long interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek made by Russia Today for his 70th birthday. In this documentary Žižek answers questions from the public in regards to politics and ideology, gender and sex, philosophy and psychoanalysis, hardcore pornography and sexual liberation in the West, in his usual style of polemics and comedy.
In Costa Rica, Panchita has just turned 109 and hopes for a visit from two of her children: Pablo, 93 years old, and Calixto, 88 years old. Sarita, who is 93, has no hesitation in confessing her love for Denis, a young policeman. Pachito’s daughter, fearing that something may happen to her 98-year-old father, tries to prohibit him from continuing horse-riding. In Sardinia, for his 93rd birthday, Adolfo wants to fulfil his dream of flying a plane. In Okinawa, Tomi, 93 years old, cannot recover from the death of her first son. Her friend Haru, who is 98, encourages her to return to the pop group formed of the island’s grandmothers.
Two actors are holed up in a remote house somewhere on the Argentinian coastline. The characters crosses the space-time threshold: Leon Trotsky, in his Mexican exile, asks André Breton to write the first draft of a revolutionary manifesto.
Aminodin's father always smiles because he says that happy people live longer. That's why, at age 8, Aminodin puts on her best smile while working at the Papandayan dump, where she lives with her family. At Instead, his cousin Aliman lost his when bombs began to fall from the sky in the town of Marawi.
50 years ago, Sydneysiders were shocked and the art world astonished by Christo's wrapping of the Little Bay coastline. Hungarian migrant and entrepreneur John Kaldor, who initiated this monumental work, has said “it all started with a stale sandwich, in Christo's studio in 1968 New York.” Now, Project 34 (by Asad Raza) is about to be unveiled, and UK artist Michael Landy is designing the exhibition to celebrate 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects.
Robert Paul Champagne has captured the hearts of America since before any of us knew his name. His brutally honest appeal on Instagram to meet men who can move in, get a lease and a key, has inspired and enlightened almost everyone who has come across it. No matter your race or creed, whether from jail or homeless, Robert opened his heart and home to the world. Now, Josh Potter from Your Mom's House Studios steps inside that home to try it out and learn more about the beautiful mystery named Robert Paul Champagne. He's home here now.
A docudrama with fascinating aerial footage of the restoration of the statue of Archangel Michael and its historical importance for the town of Piran. In the spring of 2018, strong Bora winds tore off one of the wings of Archangel Michael, a 3.5m copper sheet statue placed at the top of the Piran church tower. While taking the viewer through its thorough restoration, the film also transports them 250 years back in time.
Ezequiel is a documentary about the life and work of Ezequiel Gallo, one of the country's most important historians. The documentary focuses on the personality and legacy of an intellectual who ventured into multiple fields of thought.
For millions worldwide, the Rose Parade is an iconic New Year’s Day tradition. Members of the Burbank Tournament of Roses Association, a self-funded, all-volunteer organization, compete in the world-famous Pasadena Tournament of Roses.
As a fixture of the New York music scene for 30 years, Sonic Youth performed in New York City innumerable times, and served as ersatz cultural ambassadors for the city when traveling. As part of the 2019 Rooftop Films programming, Sonic Youth will present a New York-specific collection of film and videos from their private archives. Much of the material to be presented is completely unseen, threaded together with a few items which are out there in the public knowledge but here presented from the best source available to the band.
From city to outback, from torrential rain to tinder dry, a journey through the unique Australian landscape.
A documentary about the rebirth of the Neapolitan neighborhood Rione Sanità
Offside captures the commitment, passion and comradery of a female Polish football team during their gruelling, but critical pre-season training as their coach, sets the foundation for the new season ahead by pushing them to new limits.
In an island on the south of Spain, a lone man collects olives from a landscape made of water and dry branches.
The first documentary about vyshyvankas (Ukrainian embroidered shirts). Everyone has their own vyshyvanka. But there is one most valuable for everyone.