Two months before his death, the central figure of "The Guildford Four" Gerry Conlon meets Lorenzo Moscia to recount his remarkable life, from falsely imprisoned to world-famous human rights activist.
10,348 Matches Found
Two months before his death, the central figure of "The Guildford Four" Gerry Conlon meets Lorenzo Moscia to recount his remarkable life, from falsely imprisoned to world-famous human rights activist.
"BLOODY DATE" is a short film that delves into the life of Javier, a blue-collar worker with a secret life. By day, he's a mechanic dealing with the dirty grind of work, but by night, he's entangled in the world of drugs and danger. As financial troubles loom over his best friend, he finds himself owing a lot of money to some very wrong people. With a heart of gold and a tough exterior, Javier navigates a complex web of loyalty and betrayal. This thrilling narrative unfolds as Javier's past collides with his present. The film explores themes of friendship, sacrifice, and the consequences of choices made in the shadows.
A Father and Son join each other for dinner over conversations of Bruce Lee.
An allotment garden. A used voodoo doll. A conversation about selling.
Borchert hates it when people lie to him. From his very first meeting with murder suspect Xavier Schliemann, he has doubts about the man's sincerity. The smart diamond dealer is accused of shooting his ex-business partner. Instead of testifying to Captain Furrer as agreed, Xavier goes into hiding. Then, contrary to expectations, the enraged Borchert stumbles upon evidence that exonerates his client.
Imad, Nourdine, Walid and Hamza are a group of young Moroccan boys living in a cave under the lighthouse in the Spanish exclave Melilla. They wait for their chance to cross the sea, spending their time with drugs, video calls with their mothers, and filming themselves for YouTube while breaking into the harbor.
Tom Stade is bringing the heat to Liverpool with his highly anticipated new stand-up special “Live in Liverpool”, recorded at the iconic Hangar 34. Get ready to laugh your socks off as Stade unleashes his razor-sharp wit and unapologetic humour on stage, tackling everything from modern life to the absurdities of the human condition. This is one show you don’t want to miss!
Albert Gottwald is a retired dance teacher and has been a widower for three years. He misses his wife so much that he has lost all courage to face life, buries himself in his semi-detached house - and meticulously plans his death.
This documentary is a touching and intimate portrait of André Brasilier, both as a man and as an artist. Presented as a testament to his art, the film focuses on two main aspects: André's connection to his youth and early inspirations, and the evolution of his art. The film pays special attention to his wife Chantal, who was André's muse and who appears in many of his paintings.
A cinematic inversion of global power relations, 'Black Savior' parodies the idiosyncrasies of the white savior syndrome, through the story of the Agyeman family from Akanman, who travel to the heart of the cold continent with a goat to save the Swabian tribe.
Russian front, January, 1943. It's hell: the flurries of sleet take the breath away and Sergeant Bisi can make out nothing in the landscape in front of him.
A surrealist piece about a trio of bandaged BBQ guests being fed their own flesh.
Jon Holmes’s multi award-winning Radio 4 satire moves across to the screen for the first time and twists round for a retrospective look at the last three years.
Everyone knows Columbus, but few know Vespucci. And yet, the continent of America was named after the banker and explorer Amerigo Vespucci. This film attempts to find the truth about the almost unknown Italian – was he a swindler, as was later claimed, or a daring navigator who first recognised the significance of Columbus' discovery?
Dissatisfied with his life and unable to come out to his dying mother, a queer artist flees to a remote villa in Sicily, where visits from a classical Muse drive him to absorb himself in his art and forsake his real-life responsibilities.
A documentary short film.
Once upon a time, there was a castle on a mounting, with a man inside. The man placed all the conflict and all the beauty of the world inside the castle. His name was Franz. He came by foot from the Alps, leaving behind a history of violence, and he dedicated his life to the creation of a cenaculum for the arts to redeem himself from the trauma of fascism. Over the course of a ten-year story, as his latest young artist grows up, the gallery owner takes possession of her memories and approaches death.
In this new comedy special, comedian Felipe Avello analyzes different "light topics" such as crime and immigration, and recounts his adventures in Mexico and one particular encounter with a Morrisey impersonator
An Iranian couple clings to parenthood as a possible means to stay in Germany, unraveling a web of uncertainty and sacrifice in their desperate quest for asylum.
Dressing like Meghan Markle follows her transformation in fashion and style, as she grapples with the transition from quintessential Hollywood actress to a Princess in the British monarchy. Hear insight from leading royal fashion writers on how she navigated her way through or around royal rules to become a leading icon of the fashion world.
At around 3,500 years old, the Ebers Papyrus is the oldest completely preserved medical manual in the world. Recipes were written down here on 18.6 meters in ancient Egypt. When Georg Ebers set out in search of the scroll in 1872, its existence was questionable and its sensational condition only a rumor.
Talib Shah Hossaini, a 37-year-old Afghan filmmaker and asylum-seeker, lives in Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos – the biggest refugee camp in Europe until it burnt to the ground in autumn 2020. One year into his life in the camp, Talib Shah finds himself on the verge of losing hope. Instead of giving up, however, he decides to shoot a film called Picnic − an insider’s look at the lives of thousands of refugees stuck in a place sometimes described as a humanitarian disaster. Exploring topics such as dreams versus reality, art as a means of survival, or the current immigration policies in Europe, the film invites us to become better acquainted with the people who will soon be our neighbours.
A documentary crew film the final days of a dying man suffering from congestive heart failure, accompanied by his exuberant friend.
A man dressed in blue is waiting, very thirsty, in a poorly ventilated room. Suddenly, a man dressed in red enters the room with a water bottle dispenser, determined not to share. The tiniest of conflicts exploding within minutes.
In a secret place, there exists Wendy. Restless and with no grand objective, she dances in fear. The colour red haunts her, obfuscating her reality in a sad shade of pink. A macabre perception of femininity composed by the troubled imagination of its director, who has moulded his transgender experience into a semi-autobiographical absurdist horror, which dissects his experience of gender - both physically and mentally.
A celebration of the work of songwriter Lamont Dozier, who passed away in 2022, featuring a rich selection from the BBC's archive of performances of his work from over the decades. This collection features Dozier’s best loved and most recognisable hits, performed by the artists like Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Four Tops, and Martha and the Vandellas, whom he helped turn into international stars, as well as those who have kept his work alive and relevant to this day including Phil Collins, Kylie Minogue, Rod Stewart and Rag'n'Bone Man.
Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and lutenist Thomas Dunford perform Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, and Handel in this musical exploration of the Renaissance in the Lombard city.
Anatole Lacoste and the Eye of the Squid General Picture – Episode 13 On his return to Paris after his discovery of the tomb of the giant squid Kheptar in the Nile Valley in Nubia, the Egyptologist Professor Anatole Lacoste falls into the hands of the malevolent Venezuelan scientist Madeleine Varga…
Closure/Continuation. Live. Amsterdam 07/11/22 documents Porcupine Tree’s triumphant return to the stage perfectly. A live recording captured on 7th November 2022 at Amsterdam’s 17,000 capacity Ziggo Dome, it places the listener/viewer right at the heart of the stage for the duration of the show as psychotropic visuals explode behind the band as they play a superlative set of songs that features - to use Steven Wilson’s words - “no hits”, where each one is received like an anthem from an alternate universe. Closure/Continuation Live includes live recordings of much of their 2022 reunion album (including the singles Harridan and Of The New Day) as well as classic tracks like Trains, Fear of a Blank Planet and Anesthetize.
A documentary that reflects the diversity of experiences of the LGTBIQ+ collective of the Southern Basque Country. It does so through the experiences of eight activists of diverse backgrounds, ages, identities, orientations and trajectories.
Music video for song by Maryus feat. Qualsiasi (featured at MONTIFF 2024)
After the death of his wife after a long illness, Joaquín (Tito Valverde) decides to leave the city and take refuge in the small town where he was born. Seventy-five years old and with loneliness as his new and only companion in life, he can only wait for his turn. Poli, his best friend in the village, refuses to let him fall into his own abandonment: he has made a list of single women in the village to meet them and see if something comes up. Joaquín takes him for a madman and rejects his proposal completely. But Poli does not give up and ambushes him to learn that love has no wrinkles.
An unboxing video for the May ’68 generation
Gaby, Zoé, Sarah, and Kenza are sixteen years old and inseparable. One evening, they come home soaked to the bone.
The last man on Earth must escape the British Isles before the country’s unmanned nuclear power stations go into meltdown. STONEMAN is an eerie and enigmatic slow-burn performed, filmed, edited and scored by the director. It was made - on and off - over five years and was shot around the world on several generations of the iPhone.
The concert of Alexander Dolgopolov/Sasha Capadya in Berlin, shot in October, 2023.
In the vast plains of Kyrgyzstan, men have been cultivating a group sport with a long tradition. The aim of the game buzkashi is to steal the trophy of a dead goat from the rival team of riders, all while staying on horseback. Into this tough masculine world enters Atirkül, a woman with an enterprising spirit and a sense of humour. The film follows the everyday life of the headstrong horse lover Atirkül, whose ambition is to build her own buzkashi team of local young men to preserve the heritage of her native region. The ethnographic perspective alternates with a purely personal one, gradually revealing the possibilities of overcoming gender roles
Ana and Sergio are a couple. He wants to have sex, but she refuses because she has to finish a work assignment. Sergio does not accept her refusal and is willing to do whatever it takes to get Ana to say "yes."
A portrait of the actress Isabella Rossellini as an artist, farmer, author, and inspiration. Shot over a single season, A Season with Isabella Rossellini unveils Rossellini's unique charm, following her on the set of Alice Rohrwacher's La Chimera in Italy; rehearsing her monologue for Darwin's Smile in France and Spain; sitting for a beauty commercial in Los Angeles on her 70th birthday; and back home at her 28-acre farm, Mama Farm, in New York.
Until the death of their mother, siblings Luke (20) and Maggie (13) were inseparable. But because neither of them knows how to deal with their grief, the distance between them grows even greater.
A social influencer looses her Pomeranian puppy, Belle. Now held up at a ranch with a new family where she meets another Pomeranian. Will Belle be able to find her way home for Christmas? Or will she learn a new meaning to Christmas.
In doubt after a 3 year relationship, Nicolás, searches in his closest friends the meaning of romantic love. Without a clear idea in sight, he turns to his grandmother.
In this remarkably tactile animation, Alisi Telengut reimagines the formation of a sacred lake in Siberia and draws connections between an endangered Indigenous language and matters of history, ecology, and humanity.
Swimming, Dancing examines audiovisual representations of the Yangtze (1934–present), from silent film to video art to the contemporary vlog. Inspired by the city symphonies of the 1920s, Swimming, Dancing pieces together a “river symphony”, evoking the images, sounds and contradictions that make up the river’s turbulent history.
Maddie is haunted by her past but when the mysterious Mike Donovan shows up, her life turns upside down and her inner demons take the physical form of a demonic bear.
A vision from Limbo, where the canoeist of the eternal lake floats in his boat, between sleep and wakefulness. When he sleeps, he dreams of the everyday of a parallel time. when he wakes up, the same song haunts him again and again. his boat, “ara” (time, in guarani) travels through time like a shooting star.