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In the evening, when the buses have finished their routes, they are brought to the depot. There Nurcan and Marinko wait together with 5 others. Nurcan is Turkish. Marinko is from Croatia. The others are from Portugal, Albania and Syria. Every night they care for the buses – cleaning, washing and refuelling them. Into the early morning hours. Again and again. Refuel, clean, wash - and wait. Until all the buses have gone to sleep. Every night.
The film focuses on themes of parental love, and time and decay. The film's moral is centred around a mother's love for their child with its anime-inspired visuals and Hong Kong styled landscapes.
For the first time in history, surf is considered an Olympic sport in Tokyo 2020 and has its first champion: Ítalo Ferreira. In BCN Surf Destination, the gold medalist leaves Brasil’s beaches to travel to Barcelona and get to know how surf is lived in the area and how are its people.
This documentary tells the story of the passionate and thwarted loves of four actresses who were stars in their times. Lya de Putti, the star of Phantom by F.W. Murnau (1922) and Variété (1935) by E.A. Dupont, loved her profession but died when she failed to make the transition to the talkies. Mireille Balin, irresistibly seductive with Gabin in Lady Killer (1937) paid dearly for her love affair with a German officer during the Occupation. Belinda Lee, the English actress who became a star at Cinecittà and a mainstay of la dolce vita, died shortly after her separation from the Prince Orsini, one of the great names of the Italian aristocracy. And Laura Antonelli, the star of Malizia and a long-time companion of Jean-Paul Belmondo, who did not survive her breakup with the last love of her life. Stars, celebrities and adored, but women above all…
The legendary transgender club The Way Out celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2018. The documentary looks back at the last three decades in the London trans scene, discovering the club's impact on the transgender community through interviews and archive footage. The club closed in March 2020 for the first time in 28 years due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. What does the future hold for this unique place?
After a young man agrees to help a reclusive elderly neighbour with their weekly grocery shopping through lockdown, they form an unlikely friendship that changes them both.
When Otto Dov Kulka was 11 years old and had to start the death march from Auschwitz to Groß-Rosen, he saw a prisoner lying with a broken leg on the orders of the defendant Baretzki who then probably shot him. Unlike this unknown prisoner, Kulka managed to escape death. Nineteen years later, he testified alongside 210 other Auschwitz survivors against 20 indicted former SS officials, participating in a trial that confronted the German people with their past and gave voice to silence.
Ellie Simmonds investigates a controversial new drug that promises to help children with dwarfism grow closer to average height. If it can prevent dwarfism, should we embrace it?
Amazing advice on cutting your bills with ingenious hacks, how to eat more cheaply, shopping tips, transport savings and personal finance for surviving the cost-of-living crisis.
In this musical documentary, alter egos Jonny Toxic and Jacco Macho set out on a journey across Italy and The Netherlands, exploring masculinity in contrasting cultural settings. Italy's shameless machismo and the frugal Calvinist-influenced Netherlands serve as backdrops for their introspective exploration of masculinity. Rather than relying on academic theories, they focus on personal experiences and the evolving nature of their own masculinity in these distinct cultures.
When filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki fled her native island of Crete as a young adult, she hoped to leave her violent childhood behind her. But in Spain, her memories are reawakened when a man asks her to make a film about him and his violence.
Inhuman experiments give sight back to a boy born without eyes. But vision can be a terrifying thing to get used to. Overwhelmed by the horror in his home, he charges into the arms of a murderous kidnapper. Now his formerly distant father must embark on a journey to save him – and bring their family back together. A modern-day silent film, The Eyes in the Box is a story of pride, parenthood, and love, made in the style of German Expressionism.
In this film, Melina gets the chance to prove herself as a musical actress while learning about the beauty and difficulty of love.
In 1936, after the coup d'état perpetrated by Franco against democratic Spain and the subsequent dictatorship that followed a bloody Civil War, women suffered physical, sexual, economic, educational and political violence, leading to the largest theft of babies in the world. History of recent Europe. 'Las vencidas y no derrotadas' is a documentary with the testimonies of these women, whose faces bear the mark left by unhealed wounds. Its protagonists tell us about real events, reliving events that were milestones in their families, towns and cities, supported by graphic documentation of family and personal memories, as well as images and audios from historical archives.
Recorded at the iconic Olympia Theatre in Dublin ‘Changed’ was a show over 2 years in the making. With hilarious stories of financial stupidity and both sexual & spiritual awakening Paul walks us through the many ways he’s changed since his last full show. Luckily though none of these events have changed how funny he is. With over 70 minutes of never before seen material don’t miss this highly acclaimed performance from one of the UK’s most popular comedians.
He wakes up dazed and confused in a gloomy room. Tied to a stretcher, he tries to free himself and call for help. His anxiety increases, but the true terror arrives when he discovers his captors: two bizarre creatures who are subjecting him to all kinds of experiments and tortures. Sometimes, things just aren't what they seem.
In 1925 a polar expedition led by the explorer Roald Amundsen managed to reach 88º North, the northernmost latitude ever reached by a man at that time. How to represent the conquest of a place that is an absolutely empty geographical abstraction?
Ana lives her youth in Valle de Abdalajís (Málaga). But her life took a complete turn and, together with a group of courageous and determined women, she began a charitable work in favor of the needy, especially the abandoned elderly, orphaned children and people in vulnerable situations. She would eventually found the Congregation of Mothers of the Homeless and St. Joseph of the Mountain. 30 years after her death, her remains were stolen in the midst of the Spanish Civil War.
What do French presidents have in common since 1948? Queen Elizabeth II! In June 2022, England will celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. And even though France hasn't had a monarchy for nearly 150 years, French interest in royalty is not waning. This documentary examines 70 years of Franco-British relations between Queen Elizabeth II and the Presidents of the Republic. Elizabeth II, the most French of British queens, was born in 1926.
A documentary dedicated to the discovery, almost forty years later, of the lost negatives of Mohammad Reza Aslani's film CHESS OF THE WIND (Iran, 1976).
A refugee washed ashore finds himself in the body of a donkey and captured by a man who tries to sell him for labor as a packhorse.
Special about Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde.
A wallet gets dropped on the ground and twenty pound note within it finds itself in the wallets of other strangers who want it for themselves.
The “At Home with…” team spends some time with Timothy Rawlston, the seasoned theatre performer behind the YouTube sensation that is @TheTimTwenty. Timothy talks us through the many intricacies to being a successful YouTube star and how he has turned himself into a hugely profitable worldwide brand, all the while keeping himself out of the public eye. That is, until now.
At the 2021 Salzburg Festival, Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin gives a colourful recital of works by Gershwin, Berg and Chopin.
Funny woman Karen Dunbar considers how a comedian navigates taste and offence in the current cancel culture climate. She explores the new boundaries of offence, meeting old friends, producers, comics and commissioners as she sets out to perform a live comedy show to an audience too young to have known her first time round.
(para)site is an ongoing, multi-stranded artistic project by zack mennell. The project reflects on class, disability, queerness & ecology through the lens of zack’s experience. The (para)site works emerge through zack’s psychogeographic explorations of sites of industrial, working-class history, where they scavenge for materials and undertake strange performative actions. "I am not the water or the land. I am the sediment - the shit poisoning the river, I am the parasite washed from the shorelines into the depths."
An aging clockmaker repairs watches and recounts his memories as a political prisoner during the Romanian dictatorship. A film about routine, resilience and the echoes of time.
When Hong Kong’s basic freedoms come under attack, media tycoon Jimmy Lai finds himself in the crosshairs of the state and must choose between defending Hong Kong’s long-standing liberties, or his own freedom.
In the heart of a quiet suburban neighborhood, Corinne and Romain enjoy peaceful days. They are happy to be home in France, as they often like to remind themselves. Until their daily life is disrupted by the arrival of new neighbors, Kevin and Agathe, a young couple of zombies...
Apartments and photos. Initially, a game. There, meet David Bowie. I dive into boxes, I open albums. Bowie, cats, Tours, postcards, a stamp album, movie posters, a Lulu, bridesmaids' dresses, numbers ... I cross time.
The parish priest officiating mass in a small hermitage acts disoriented, nervous, troubled. The parishioners eagerly await the moment to sing the liturgical hymns that the pastor skillfully leads. But today, he struggles to find the strength and faith to make a long-desired decision: to declare his love for one of his devoted parishioners. Music ends up giving him the vital push he needs to do so. On the run, liberated and full of joy, they leave the chapel holding hands in search of a new horizon, in the name of love.
An idyllic family breakfast in the Tyrolean mountains – or so it seems. Behind the peaceful facade lies a family life full of tensions between closeness and distance, love and envy. A mother for whom harmony within the family is the most important thing, a father for whom tranquility is paramount, and two daughters who seemingly couldn't be any more different.
One-off Channel 5 (UK) documentary exploring the career of former glamour model and TV personality Katie Price.
Sparks burn below the surface. They carry the secret of what I experienced before. Into which distance was I? Where were the tears that now are so cold on my cheeks? I'm sure they've been here for a long long long time. A found footage unsigned film made from various videos collected on youtube (clips, film scenes, video tests, filmed escapades, foggy documents, etc.) created under the impulse of Carlos Casas and the work of Wang Yuyan, Mary Helena Clark and Stefano Miraglia.
A retired bricklayer wants his grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away, to stay with him. Will he convince the young man despite the lack of opportunities in the country?
A lady in her mid-70s was social and active. Although she took heart medicine every day, she continued to participate in various gatherings and activities. However, after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, she gave up all outdoor activities, spending most of her time in or around the home. Since then, she has unfurled conversations with plants on the balcony, plants in the kitchen, and those rooted in the vegetable garden too. ‘Get Some Sunshine’ explores a day in the life of this lady (the film director’s mother) and the solidarity she developed with companion plants during the pandemic.
A girl struggles to maintain an unbalanced long-distance relationship.