Tornado Alley, in the center of the United States, is likely to be devastated every year by the impressive meteorological phenomenon that is tornadoes. Some study it closely to protect themselves, others exploit it as a profitable spectacle.
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Tornado Alley, in the center of the United States, is likely to be devastated every year by the impressive meteorological phenomenon that is tornadoes. Some study it closely to protect themselves, others exploit it as a profitable spectacle.
Valentina Petrillo is a visually impaired transgender athlete. In 2019 she started a difficult battle, asking Italian sports federations to give her permission to compete in the female category. Today, after a long struggle, she is the first Italian transgender athlete competing internationally in the women's category. Her story was featured in hundreds of articles and tv appearances in Italy and abroad. Her choice to challenge unscripted societal rules is an inspiring example across continents. Despite all odds, her dream to participate in the Paralympic Games continues to drive her forward.
On the occasion of the 30th edition of Sidaction, under the presidency of Line Renaud and Sidaction ambassador Jean Paul Gaultier, Julia Vignali and Vincent Niclo will form an original duo to welcome to the Dôme de Paris stage a host of artists celebrating 50 years of disco by covering the great classics of this musical phenomenon born in the 70s. Disco icons such as Sheila, Ottawan, The Weather Girls, Patrick Hernandez, The Gibson Brothers and Amanda Lear, as well as several generations of artists from different backgrounds such as M. Pokora, Isabelle Boulay, Jenifer, Véronic Dicaire, Chimène Badi, Hyphen Hyphen, Mentissa, Bilal Hassani, Élodie Frégé, Hélène Ségara, Corine, Marina Kaye and the Paradis Latin troupe revisit 50 years of French and international disco hits.
Love'n'Joy are three young Ukrainians heavily inspired by the golden age of British psych in the 60s and 70s. Now exiled to Berlin, they've toured heavily since last year in support of their foundation "Musicians Defend Ukraine."
What’s dating like when you’re famous? Is it a myth that famous people flirt more, or on the contrary fame is a repulsive for the game of love? Romantic comedy based on almost real facts.
For many, the Eurovision Song Contest is the chance for a Pan-European party. But it is also highly political, especially for countries in Eastern Europe. When Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra won in 2022, it was a message of European solidarity against Russian aggression.
Paranormal events in an empty classroom began just after Maria changes her exam score.
Every year, two friends host a competitive game day event, and every year their board-game obsessed companion, Steven, ruins the evening by taking the games too seriously. This year, he is determined to win, even at the price of his friendships.
In this adaptation of Franz Kafka's story of the same name, a streamer fasts for 40 days in front of a large online audience. Thousands follow and comment on his life in his 24/7 livestream. He receives support from his manager, an avant-garde ASMR artist. Interest in his performance suddenly fizzles out when he begins a new round of fasting. With less and less of an audience, he has to look for new management, but continues to fast anyway. Left completely alone, he finally breaks his old fasting records, but unnoticed by everyone. When one last viewer appears shortly before his death, the streamer reveals why he had to fast.
Las Vegas's finest rock ‘n’ roll band, The Killers, return to the legendary Reading Festival to headline for the second time, having first graced the top spot back in 2008.
Plasticine figures come to life and wreak terror on a not-so-friendly ghost.
A decade spanning story of love, loss, and memory, witnessed through the lens of a working-class family.
Lorraine Kelly returns to the small Scottish border town of Lockerbie to find out how the residents coped with the aftermath of Europe's deadliest terror attack. Lorraine was one of the first TV reporters to arrive at the scene after Pan Am Flight 103 exploded mid-air, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground. Before the police cordoned off the area, she saw first-hand the shocking aftermath of the disaster.
Setlist: "Dr. Stein", "Eagle Fly Free", "Power", "Ride the Sky (First part until chorus)", "Heavy Metal (Is the Law)", "Forever and One (Neverland)", "If I Could Fly", "Guitar Solo (Sascha Gerstner)", "Best Time", "Drum Solo (Dani Löble)", "Future World - In the Hall of the More", "I Want Out"
Christian Thielemann conducts "Walküre", the second part of the "Ring des Nibelungen", at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Having paid the giants for building Valhalla with the ring stolen from Alberich, Wotan is determined to get it back. For if he fell into Alberich's hands again, the fate of the gods would be sealed. But since he himself, as the father of the gods, is not allowed to break contracts, his children Siegmund and Sieglinde are to take care of that...
Can you organize a weekend with friends without drinking alcohol? Bruno and Thomas are hosting their friends for the weekend. They take care of the shopping. Bruno has convinced Thomas not to buy alcohol for a number of reasons. But after doing the shopping, Thomas changes his mind and blames Bruno for his decision. He's afraid of the group's reaction. The couple argue in the supermarket parking lot.
The epidemic isn't over yet, and new transmissions strongly concern trans, gay and Afro-descendant people. How is the Parisian ballroom scene, whose members are at the intersection of these categories, dealing with this reality? What knowledge can be transmitted across oceans and decades?
At the age of 38, Silvia Mittermüller is still one of the best German snowboarders. It seems as if her career is coming to an end, but the athlete is is struggling to leave the spotlight.
After a victorious battle, three witches predict that Macbeth, who commands King Duncan's army, will ascend the throne of Scotland. Urged on by his wife to force fate, he takes advantage of the monarch's stay in their castle to murder him... The daring Krzysztof Warlikowski revisits Verdi's most powerful Shakespearean opera, with baritone Vladislav Sulimsky and soprano Asmik Grigorian in the roles of the murderous spouses.
Taking a critical view of football, including vintage footage of a 1996/1997 football match between Coventry City and Aston Villa, TACKLE tackles homophobia within football.. Observant of English leisure rituals, in places offering snapshots of a less cosmopolitan England, Englishness and a nostalgia for an England that may or may not have existed. In Tackle, a football match between two regional teams. Even ‘tackle’ is 1970s slang.
Passions run high as Manrico and the Count di Luna compete for the affections of Leonora. Little do they know, Manrico’s mother Azucena has been keeping a terrible secret for decades. Soon a curse from the past will rise up from the ashes with devastating implications for them all. Starring Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Yusif Eyvazov, Gregory Kunde, Ludovic Tézier and Jamie Barton, Adele Thomas’s energetic staging sets Verdi’s tale in a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired universe of medieval superstition. On the podium, Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi’s dramatic score, featuring the famous Anvil chorus.
Carli was shot several times in the horrific attack on a movie theatre by James Holmes. Carli is in financial troubles, so she turns to a dark corner of the internet to make some money out of her misery.
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.
Remember those loooong days inside the house, when there were no planes in the sky, no sharing pizza, no way to see your friends other than by zoom (and plenty of wild hairstyles!). How did it feel when we could FINALLY go out, and we could give a big, BIG HUG to our friends, laugh over beers, dance & enjoy music together! THIS is what this music video is all about. Celebrating togetherness through music, feeling the love! Oh... and that kisssss.
Mark Jenkin explores a world he found most unsettling.
Through exclusive testimonies and clandestine videos, this documentary gives voice to courageous women in Iran who risked their lives to share their stories and to prominent women in culture, art and academia who were forced to leave their beloved country. They are a guiding force, able to explain through their individual, perilous and often tragic experiences, the drastic shift of a nation, caught between patriarchy, deep economic crisis, corruption, rigid religious and ideological beliefs.
Modern classical music that speaks direct to the heart: that is the aim of Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks. Across the world, orchestras and choirs, soloists, conductors, and an ever growing public have discovered the emotional power of his compositions. The film follows the composer in Riga, at rehearsals, composing alone, in private and in the nature, he loves so much. A sensitive portrait of an artist, and a very special person with a special view on our world. Vasks: "I am a sad optimist".
When a precious hoard of gold is stolen from the river Rhine, it unleashes a chain of destructive events, pitting gods and mortals against one another for generations. Wagner’s Ring cycle boasts some of the greatest music ever written for the opera stage. Join us as we embark on a spectacular journey into the world of myth, dream and memory, with the figure of Erda – Mother Earth herself – at its centre.
Marine biologist and diver Dr. Albert Jose “Doc” Jones dove into the first lost slave ship ever to be recovered, and co-founded the National Association of Black Scuba Divers.
Told in the Cornish language and set in a Cornwall that is urbanised, deprived, and struggling, An Tarrow follows young Peder as he seeks out characters from local folklore to take him away from the violence of his home life.
Super 8 (Black & White) film by Helga Fanderl
In the heart of Creuse, butchers prepare and sell meat. But their butcher shops are not the only place where heritage is passed on. The slaughterhouse is another. A collective of farmers was formed to find a solution to the tension between ethical farming practices and the industrialization of slaughter. The goal: to reclaim meat production and accompany the animals until their death, in conditions worthy of the respect with which they are raised. This balanced position, between the demands of industry and those of activists, remains precarious.
'You made me see the sky' – a nice title inspired by a song by Shakira – is a mutant film that keeps changing, and it seems to be influenced by Donna Haraway’s thought. It encourages us to reconnect with the buried chthonian powers, and to merge with the trees and with each other.
In 1996, Rémy Schejbal, a seasoned spelunker, assembled a small team and headed to Malaysia. His goal: to photograph the largest cave in the world for the first time.
The birds of Nark Zug’s magical realm are trapped in an eternal cycle of sensation, exploring both pleasure and pain.
Brave and intrepid warrior Enyo is determined to find his mentor who is lost in Hell.
Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most influential, popular and disputed artists of the last 30 years. Koons transforms mass-produced, everyday objects into the highest art forms.
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand from foraged stinging nettles, all picked on the South Downs near Brighton. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion. It’s also his medicine, the way he survives the death of his wife that left him and his four children bereft.
Titled after Holly Johnson's iconic anthem, Legendary Children [All Of Them Queer] follows many of the original pioneers of the 1972 and first European Pride March during events over the summer of Pride 50 when the UK marked its 50th anniversary in spectacular style. The headline cast encompasses some of the most genuinely influential figures in UK LGBTQIA+ rights activism and its history. Like their US counterparts in the two years following the Stonewall Riots, these remarkable individuals were there at the very start when Pride was taking its first steps in Europe too. We won't quite see their like again. Not a history lesson, the film is a lively, informal celebration and personal recollection of many stages along the way of 50 years of activism, both then and now, by those who were there.
Experiencing violence is commonplace for Syrian women but they do not discuss the prevalence of – often sexual – exploitation for fear of revenge. A collective of young women want to break the taboo with a theatre project. But how free are they themselves?