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On October 18 2019, a student uprising was triggered in Santiago over the Chilean government’s increase in metro fare. As the country awakens to the unrelenting abuse of power enacted by a neoliberalist government, and a mistrust in the political class intensifies, we follow Angy and Felipe—two parents who embrace their new roles as activists and enlist in the expanding movement that is fighting for a new Constitution and a just society.
Canvey Island is outside London. It suffered the worst natural disaster in modern British history. A storm surge flooded the island in 1953. Today, people still live there.
Originating in Europe in the 16th century, the Mennonites are a Protestant religious sect, related to the Amish. Instead of compromising their way of life, they have been continually forced to migrate around the world to maintain their freedom to live as they choose and have found a home in Mexico.
Ten years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant following the 3.11 megaquake and megatsunami, the once beautiful ‘satoyama’ landscape is now replaced by haphazardly spreading wilderness. The most conspicuous change may be in the local ecosystem.
This story is about two people who have been struggling for more than 40 years to remember Koreans forced into labor in the northern Akita region. Ha Jung-woong, a Korean-Japanese who succeeded as a businessman thanks to his outstanding abilities and the economic growth of Japan after the war, and Juroku Chatani, a Japanese historian who has built a culture village in the Akita region of northern Japan. Their efforts to unravel the mystery of the statue of Hime Kannon built on Lake Tazawa and to commemorate the Korean victims of forced labor are still ongoing.
The true story of Ghazaros Demirdjian, the son of immigrants displaced by the Armenian genocide, who went on to achieve the American dream.
The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family origins and by a founding trip to Africa. To portray this major painter of the 20th century, who died in 1988 at only 27 years old, is also to evoke the place of black American artists in the conservative and racist America of the Reagan years.
Aspiring drama student William Herff attempts to learn the inner secrets of football by following around the team in an attempt to make a hype reel. Through interviews and impromptu interactions, William uncovers the mysteries of the sport. Sort of.
Industry insiders, retail experts and former employees reveal the secrets of the the world's biggest furniture seller, IKEA: the tricks they use to get customers to spend, and how the massive maze-like warehouses are designed to keep people there for hours.
A choir of tired nurses sing to Anna-Mari Kähärä’s hypnotic tunes about the truths of everyday nursing work in a musical documentary directed by Susanna Helke and co-scripted by Helke and Markku Heikkinen. DocPoint’s opening film is new in its format, and jolting in its message. It is a cinematic-musical work of activism, calling for more humane work, life and old age.
Not to mention the story of the Estonian unit Estcoy-8, which suffered the biggest losses in the history of Estonian foreign missions in Afghanistan.
Refined, often millionaires, drug trafficker lawyers evolve within a territory where law, organized crime and corruption meet. They are smugglers, the visible actors of the collusion between criminal organizations and the legal, political and financial structures of countries crushed by narco-violence. This investigation penetrates into the depths of drug trafficking through a little-known angle, that of justice, and aims to deconstruct the preconceived idea of the drug trafficker as the sole responsible for violence. "If you kill, call me" debunks the myth of drug trafficking by penetrating, through drug trafficker lawyers, into the heart of the legal system to reveal its deep complicity with organized crime.
Teton Gravity Research and Indy Pass bring you a short film celebrating the independent spirit of the Midwest ski and snowboard community. Those who ride the Midwest will tell you - they don’t need endless storm cycles, 4,000 feet of vert or fancy base areas to have fun. A few rope tows and rails, a set of slalom gates to bash, reliable snowmaking and a sense of adventure is all it takes. The ski industry could learn a few tricks from these tried and true Midwest ski areas: Family-first means affordable passes, after school programs, volunteer-led race clubs and most importantly, a sense of camaraderie. In Pursuit of Soul 2: Midwest Independence was filmed on location at Buck Hill, Caberfae Peaks, Granite Peak, Little Switzerland, Lutsen Mountains, Nordic Mountain, The Rock Snowpark, and Tyrol Basin.
A documentary that threads on the hidden conundrums in the deaf world. Within the deaf and the hearing world is a fine line - so what's it like to live within as an in-betweener?
For every CITIZEN KANE, there's a FRANKENSTEINS BLOODY TERROR that needs preserving as well. The saving of cult, outsider film.
Water and paths of migration converge to shape the borderlands along the U.S./Mexico boundary when staging actors in a politicized landscape leads to the rupture of fiction for fact.
Lech is 26 years old. He lives in a flophouse in Kostroma, where people spend years (and sometimes they die right there, because it's easier to die well-fed and with a roof over your head). His wife left Lehi. Or rather, she offered to be friends, and he did not understand the joke. Lech is going through a hard breakup, so he decides to record a rap: suddenly his ex-wife will hear and understand who she has lost.
The director, who is of Tartar descent, believes her family has been struck by an ancient curse. A shaman, very popular on Instagram, agrees to help her.
The great history of Egypt is inscribed on its monuments, temples and tombs, but hieroglyphs – the written language of the ancient Egyptians – fell silent until 1822 when a young French scholar, Jean-François Champollion, became the first person to decipher their texts for over a thousand years. Champollion’s insights and the work of other scholars helped bring an entire civilisation back to life. Today, researchers are increasingly interested in the authors who created these hieroglyphic works. Near Luxor, The Latest Secrets of Hieroglyphs follows a new generation of Egyptologists as they unlock the texts inscribed inside a richly adorned tomb, revealing the beliefs and lives of the priests, scribes, painters, engravers and builders who created this grand funerary monument.
Two BMX riders from different sides of the globe fall in love and take on the world. A single training accident takes everything they have known away from them. Sam can no longer walk, Alise no longer wants to ride, together they help each other become World Champions again. This time as rider and coach.
Cherilyn has returned to her grandparents’ farm on the Navajo Nation to grow produce for the community. Big Water Summer follows her as she navigates a changing climate and devastating family loss during a summer where nothing goes as planned.
Moving Day tells the story of the people who were left outside – quite literally – during a global pandemic. With the rise of Covid-19, shelters closed, jobs were lost, and homelessness in "Victoria B.C." (unceded L'kwungen Territories), swelled. A community formed in the city’s biggest park and as they learn of an ambitious plan to house everyone by March 31, 2021, uncertainty in the park, and in their lives mounts.
The second-biggest nuclear accident in the world happened in Goiânia, capital of Goiás, Brazil. In September 1987, two scrap collectors looking through an abandoned clinic (Goiânia Radiotherapy Institute) found an old radiotherapy device. Moved by curiosity with the machine, they took it to a junkyard, where they disassembled it and extracted a capsule containing a blue powder that glowed in the dark. From that night onwards, the radiation spread unseen throughout the city, contaminating more than a hundred people, leaving deep marks and traumas. From a collage of contaminated images, radioactive ghosts emerge, embedded in the history of that place.
A touching and almost festive story about how to remain optimistic and continue to do your job, despite all the hardships of the times. One of the film's main characters is a chaplain, a current priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Dmytro Povorotnyi. He invites musicians with guitars to travel to military locations in Donbas. The entire musical tour led by the chaplain takes place in one day. The chaplain and the musicians are accompanied by a film crew from Suspilne Culture. The film, which was supposed to tell about a New Year's Eve volunteer trip to the military in the grey zone, became a story about mercy, understanding of need and help as a state.
A documentary about the Kresala film club, San Sebastián's oldest film club, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Audience members, members, and collaborators associated with this film club located in San Sebastián talk about what it means to belong to this community. A tribute to cinema and their love for it.
An inspiring documentary about the role of Saint Michael in Scripture and in our lives. Various religious experts from different parts of the world, discuss Saint Michael from a religious, historical, and cultural angle and present the most sacred Churches and sanctuaries associated with Saint Michael. Audiences will experience powerful testimonies of faith, riveting Church history, and beautiful architecture and art in Christian culture that will bring everyone closer to the extraordinary figure of Archangel Michael, a friend, and warrior for today.
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Plus Jamais Silencieuses is a minimalist documentary work of art, centered on the liberation of speech and listening. This film is inspired by the role played by social networks during the #MeToo movement. Potent tools against the culture of silence, these networks raise the voices that long stayed voiceless or suppressed.
A documentary about the protests against Covid measures in Austria in 2020 and 2021.
How Johanna Maria Magdalena Ritschel became Magda Goebbels (1901-1945), wife of the notorious and sinister Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), and the true First Lady of the Third Reich…
This documentary portrays the life of Xime Minutti, a young university who dedicates her time to taking care of the puppies on the streets of Cholula Puebla.
On Channel 4's 2021 Alternative Christmas Message, Tom Daley wished for 'a brave footballer to step forward and say, I'm gay'. A year later, Tom chats to Jake Daniels - who did just that.
Using their smartphones, a diverse ensemble documents their confinement and strip down the walled-in everyday life during quarantine. The Lockdown is an intimate and sincere portrait of the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Every summer is special, but some summers are legendary. "Did these really happen?" We are in Istanbul in the summer of 1993, with Michael Jackson, Madonna, Metallica. In addition to Ahmet San, who is in charge of the giant stadium concerts, Teoman, Meltem Cumbul, Mabbas, Yasemin Mori, Melis Danişmend, Şafak Ongan, Güven Erkin Erkal, Kanat Atkaya, Özer Sarısakal, Doğu Yücel and Deniz Toksoy have witnessed this special year. , commentators, music writers and journalists tell.
The movie tells the story of Zhang Guo-Zhong, who since 2010 has measured the world with his feet, backpacked all over Southeast Asia, driven into Europe four times, held a variety of cultural activities along the way, and extended the tentacles of China's cultural exchanges with foreign countries to the streets and lanes along the way, which has led to the enactment of a monumental legend!
NFL Films presents a look back at the best moments from the 2021 Buffalo Bills season. The Bills finished 11-6 and captured their second-straight AFC East Division Title.
Ronaldo travels to the city of Soure, on the island of Marajó, and plans to renovate his parents' house, which has been unoccupied for a long time.
This is the big story of a tiny country of just 2.8 million people. It tells the story of the path of scientists, of the unforgettable eureka moments, of unique inventions that are both astonishing in their abundance and engaging in the story of a new, safer, and more sustainable world that we can build together.
The final decades of the Roman Republic: For nearly a hundred years, the rival aristocratic cliques that dominated politics had been fighting each other for power. The newcomer Octavian, underestimated by many, fought ruthlessly and cruelly for sole rule. He was the nephew of Julius Caesar, who allied himself with Mark Antony after his assassination. Soon, these two, too, were fighting each other. Historians have called Octavian a "butcher." Yet, with the honorary name Augustus, "the Exalted," he went down in history as a peacetime emperor.
From the Austrian Alps to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Marco Rossi's path to the NHL has been both unique and challenging. Take a look at the life on and off the rink of the rookie centerman.
Told through episodes, the filmmaker describes the places where they used to go with their late grandfather. As they revisit these places, they notice that the lands are no longer the same.
Forty years after `The Snowman' was first broadcast, the story of how Raymond Brigg's classic tale was made and became a Christmas institution in over 29 countries, spawning hit singles, a cameo from David Bowie, and a host of snowy spin offs.
Natural History film about the camel, the “ship of the desert”. More than a beast of burden, he is a revered mainstay of the Arab people, enabling travel and trade.
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Aslan is in love with Yassi. Together, they run an underground dog shelter in Iran.
From South London spivs to the upper reaches of the 1960s society, this extraordinary true story reveals who stole the World Cup trophy in the lead-up to England's triumph in 1966.
A musical-documentary film follows Samuel and Isaac, South-Sudanese teenagers deported from Israel who dream about being musicians. Amir, an Israeli musician, comes to their refugee camp in Uganda to work with them. Through rhythm and sound, the film follows hardships and the high-hopes of young refugees, as they deal with Dreams in a complex reality.
Enrico is a under-motivated and unfriendly boy who grew up mostly in front of the computer. His sexuality has evolved accordingly, climbing up pornographic sites and erotic images, which he seems to be obsessed with. It's clear that his happiness comes from two different sources: on the one hand Clarissa, his girlfriend, a real and living being who accepts him in his imperfections, and on the other hand pornography, perfect and inexhaustible, but virtual and non-existent.
In 2022, for the first time in the history of the Venice Biennale, Italy will be represented by a single artist: Gian Maria Tosatti. Since 2018 Tosatti has concentrated all his practice on a project entitled "My Heart is a Void, the Void is a Mirror", an episodic visual novel, developed around the world with the aim of witnessing the state of crisis of democracy in the West. The Odessa Episode - which follows the stages of Catania, Riga and Cape Town - is the installation developed by the artist after a long period spent in Ukraine, in the most dramatic moment of the Covid-19 emergency, when the country was closed to foreigners. The film recounts the efforts made to carry out a powerfully visionary work in those difficult months.
What did it mean to live in a perpetual siege, coupled with total communication blockade on top of a triple lockdown for the women of Kashmir. This hybrid documentary will try to delve into these questions exploring how the idea of life/living, time and space completely transformed for Kashmir post Article 370 abrogation.
In addition to being a popular excursion destination, Äskhult's village outside Kungsbacka on the west coast of Sweden is a place where our past is kept alive while creating opportunities for a more sustainable future.
From glorious wagyu beef to luscious lobster, this special takes viewers to the world's most decadent buffets for heaping plates of luxurious food.
Star actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Ida Lupino establish herself as a director after World War 2. Here's the portrait of an independant filmmaker, whose films, imbued with dark realism, have to be rediscovered.