Ancient History Documentary
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Ancient History Documentary
This film is an uncompromising response to religious obscurantism in regards to homosexuality. It follows the story of a young man whose past was plagued by his abusive father.
Save your trip to church using your own Confessional 9000! And confess yourself when and where you please!
A woman emerges alone in a forgotten world with urban remains gradually invaded by a wild nature.
Everyday lives carry on in a small fishing village in the Kola Peninsula of Arctic Russia during the hottest summer on record.
Gianni Reinetti is a quiet 81-year-old man, living in Turin. After a joyful life, his dream finally comes true on 6th August 2016: after spending 52 years together, Gianni finally marries Franco Perrello. They are the first gay couple to be officially married at the Turin City Hall. Franco and Gianni become a family also in the eyes of the Italian state and a symbol of hope for the younger generations.
The remarkable true story of Michael Cohen, a charlatan art dealer who swindled over $50 million from the art establishment before going on the run.
A journey through abandoned cinemas of Sardinia interspersed with memories of three senior projectionists, a profession now suppressed by technology.
In Turkey, an MP, a former Police Commissioner, a right-wing assassin wanted by Interpol and a woman named Yenge are all involved in a car crash.
The movie "Blaues Licht" (Blue Light) is the most extensive of the street art collective "Rocco and his Brothers" work to date.
Matt Baxter performs a cover of a song by George Michael in his friend's pub.
Since 1980, water management has been privatized throughout Chile, leading small farmers to ruin and weakening thousands of families.
It snows in the image. The light samples recorded in the periphery of a memory account for a space that fulfills its orbital cycle. And the snow goes away, because by inertia the matter manifests itself. The earth offers its gaps to a central force that turns reality into an eternal dèjá vu. Does the Sun strike in the same place as it already did? The senses are disengaged so that the present is suspended in a conflict of perceptive tensions. Now, the memory refers to a place; or green.
The funniest thing happened to me the other day...
When I got to Rignano, the Ghetto residents told me: "You mustn't keep any trace of our lives here in these precarious houses. This despair is not yours to display." The misery in the Ghetto is the first thing that struck me, the first thing I wanted to show.
Languidly lying under the sun, “Incompiuta” is a timeless witness to life happening around it. Its open walls symphonize the feminine voice of the earth, echo the daily chatter about fruit and figs and of the collective consciousness, soul of the world, condensing the vertigo that comes from connecting to the archaic time of our childhood. Simply observing ordinary places and people, an intense and symbolic reading emerges of our fall from paradise reflecting upon the human condition, precarious and painful, on its unbridgeable loneliness, and on its destiny of death.
Images reflecting on a solitary life in a Swedish apartment. In old age, a woman confronts her feelings towards the man she used to live with, but whom is no longer around.
Through a series of enchanting encounters, Fern discovers how to see the world from a different perspective.
The perpetual struggle of a teenager who sees the world as an art and not as reality. A struggle to live exclusively in an imaginary and poetic world created from scratch. A struggle to abandon the connection at the present instant.
Explore the notorious Aylesbury Estate, concrete monument to the history and legacy of social housing in the UK, and home to a community affected by forces beyond their control.
Documentary on the exhaustive and controversial work of the musician Álvaro Peña, born in Valparaíso and settled decades ago in the city of Konstanz (Germany)
Domenico is a young shepherd. He walks around with his flock and secretly harbors the dream of obtaining his driver’s license. But he lives far away from the first village. His daily chores test his ability to focus. But his sheer determination helps him through the difficulties of studying. A poignantly nuanced coming-of-age film.
When 17 year-old Axel finds out his girlfriend is pregnant, he tries to build a better future for them by accepting a dangerous "job" to make some extra money.
In southern Japan, the erupting Sakurajima volcano dominates and threatens to devastate nearby towns and cities. From there, Pierre Carniaux asks his friend Yusuke Oba what he would miss most if everything were to vanish.
The cargo ship MS Valentina covers 1640 danube kilometers on its route from Linz, Austria to Russe, Bulgaria. It crosses through seven countries while doing so. The River as an „European Road“ is full of opposites and differences.
‘The Geometry of Pie’ follows Executive Head Chef and renowned pastry expert Calum Franklin around London, capturing glimpses of churches, museums and architectural details – from Whiteleys to the British Museum – that influence his pie designs, as well as showing the process behind the pies served to diners each day at Holborn Dining Room. Fascinated by his attention to detail, the film delves into the intricacies of perfect pastry and reveals the inspiration behind his spectacular creations. From art to architecture, MC Escher exhibitions to antique moulds, Calum draws on both historical references and everyday details to design and build pies that look as good as they taste.
A documentary which depicts Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers at their most personal, featuring unseen footage shot during the band's 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours' campaign and tour.
the idea of life and time is explored through an abstract interpretation on the process of existing.
When the children are not there, the parents dance... Comedy about a couple who entrusts their children to the grandparents for the first time and finds themselves face to face. Finally a moment to say all that they couldn't say when the children were there and bawling!
Using a vocal religious poetry recitation from old television archives mixed with a video game soundtrack, the camera in Divine Memory (2019) follows several octopuses swimming nonchalantly in water, while artificially distorting their colors. A kind of music video attuned to natural phenomena; the work attempts to delve into our innate memory as creatures of this world, perhaps a pre-human genetic memory, so as to stimulate feelings of awe and wonder at the construction of being.