13,939 Matches Found
The film focuses on skaters from Carazinho, Rio Grande do Sul, and their only skatepark. It exposes, through interviews and tracking shots, the DIY approach taken by them due to the local government's inability to provide decent parks.
On the closing day of his beloved roller-rink, a retro robot does his best to survive his final shift despite his scummy boss, kinky coworker, and a whole host of eccentric new-age customers.
An undaunted filmmaker searches for inspiration... and a bathroom.
A portrait of Japanese master chef Hiroji Obayashi and his wife Yasuyo over a sixteen-year year span as they managed the day to day operation of their LA restaurant Hirozen Gourmet.
Fans get a front row seat when Jack White's Boarding House Reach tour stops in Washington, D.C..
Jelena Maksimović and Dušan Grubin explore coming of age and masculinity in the township of Zemun in their joint directorial debut.
In order to help pay for his mother's increasingly expensive medical bills, Ori takes up a dark trade that targets Philadelphia's homeless population. When he has an unsettling encounter with one homeless man, Ori is forced to track him down to satisfy his superiors. Over the course of 24 hours, Ori must maintain the secret he is hiding from his family while trying to navigate the unethical duties that pay for his mother's treatments. As Ori's path inches closer to the man, the boundaries between class, ethics, and family are pushed to the limit.
Comedian Shane Mauss goes on a series of adventures to deepen his understanding of psychedelics. He describes the indescribable and takes us through some of his most intense experiences, while getting the added perspectives of some of the top scientists and experts in this realm. With moments of both confusion and clarity, this is as an honest account of the experiences of a genuine Psychonaut.
Julie sent a notification to Yvette about her inheriting her great great aunt house, when strange things started happening. Yvette saw the face in the mirror and her name was Tabatha.
Catt breaks out in a rash and thinks she might have become allergic to her long-term partner.
Documentary focusing on the conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent downing of civilian airliner MH17. With access to both Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists, the film offers a unique insight into this war on Europe's doorstep.
Behind the scenes of "The Man Who Cheated Himself" (1950)
When the word volcano is even mentioned in the context of the North American continent, most people’s minds automatically go to the “super volcano” that's located in Yellowstone National Park. But is this Yellowstone eruption theory in fact a distraction to the real danger at hand on the Western Coast of the USA? The Cascade Region of the Northwestern Coast of the USA boasts 11 of the 18 most dangerous volcanoes, yet the fervor over a Yellowstone explosion overshadows that very real threat of Cascadia.
Documentary about Christian Dior's history exposition at the Museé of Arts Décoratifs
Richland Black & White
Cobby's Hobbies was a 1960's children's TV program featuring a chimpanzee getting hmself into all sorts of mischief. For filmmaker Donna McRae, the show was a crucial part of getting through a lonely childhood. McRae seeks people that made the show, Cobby's zoo friends, zoo keepers and the animal rights activists that help her piece together the story of an animal stolen from his natural habitat to work on TV before, being retired into the San Francisco Zoo at age 7. Most primates chimps in entertainment suffered horrifically, becoming research animals or caged in roadside zoos. This documentary examines how we perceive animals in entertainment and how we address their plight now.
A non-narrative cine-essay that collaboratively explores the potentials for trans feminine representation in film.
After a decade as a sex worker, Iman attempts to pursue her dream of becoming a social worker to help her transgender community members. As she explores the option of going back to college, One Leg In, One Leg Out questions whether tenacity, ambition and a life long dream are enough to overcome a challenging personal situation.
Michelle Obama, Meryl Streep, Freida Pinto and CNN's Isha Sesay take a journey to Morocco and Liberia, where they meet young women overcoming incredible odds to change their lives.
A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot from 1972-76.
"A Cambodian Spring" is an intimate and unique portrait of three people caught up in the chaotic and often violent development that is shaping modern-day Cambodia. Shot over six years, the film charts the growing wave of land-rights protests that led to the 'Cambodian spring' and the tragic events that followed. This film is about the complexities - both political and personal, of fighting for what you believe in.
A woman must decide whether to come out to her parents after her brother walks in on her and her girlfriend.
A short film with text by Ben Okri (Booker Prize Winner) was commissioned to accompany Albert Camus’s ‘The Outsider’ adapted for the stage by Ben Okri.
A dark dramedy that follows Lea and Court Matheson, a happily-married lesbian couple, and their three-year-old son as they return to Lea's hometown to attend the funeral of her best friend from high school. The deceased, Connor James, also happens to be Lea's sperm donor and when his family discovers that the Matheson's little boy is biologically related to them, they decide they'll go to any lengths to keep him in their lives.
A retrospective of the Football Italia show
An ugly sweater party turns into a bloodbath when an evil Christmas sweater possesses one of the partygoers.
When a director dreams of bringing India's classic Mughal-E-Azam on stage as a musical, doubts arise whether he can recreate the magic. It's the opening night where the world is waiting to either take a bow or rip it apart.
Hotel Bardo is an effort to convey something of the artist and author Brion Gysin in present time. Resisting biography—refusing historicisation—and instead attempting to harness a narrative borne by Gysin himself. A transcendent un-biography, Hotel Bardo is an ultra-travelogue set in a vision of the public domain in which the living and the dead pass freely to play with the idea of origins and posterity. It manifests primarily through experimental film, documentary, intervention and literature.
Friends are a special gift - or, are they? An obsessive ex lover meticulously tries to manipulate his former girlfriend into taking him back, as a mysterious being lurks in the shadows.
A young man who was deemed weak by the villagers is chosen by the gods to redeem the village from a disastrous king but he must face numerous challenges.
A mother takes her minivan through an automatic car wash, drives home, scoops up the mail, pulls into the garage and kills herself. She leaves behind a husband (Dad), a daughter away at college (Riley), a set of teenage twins (Caitrin and Eli), and a dog (Leadbelly). Among the whitewashed fences, mailboxes, and manicured lawns, a despondent family deals with the drudgery of grief and their growing detachment to each other-- all through the eyes of their depressed dog, Leadbelly.
First, they commissioned it and then they banned it. This is the tourism advert the Greek National Tourism Organisation doesn’t want you to see. Recently hacked from the government database we give you Athens as you deserve it.
Predictions underlie nearly every aspect of our lives, from sports, politics, and medical decisions to the morning commute. With the explosion of digital technology, the internet, and 'big data,' the science of forecasting is flourishing. But why do some predictions succeed spectacularly while others fail abysmally? And how can we find meaningful patterns amidst chaos and uncertainty? From the glitz of casinos and TV game shows to the life-and-death stakes of storm forecasts and the flaws of opinion polls that can swing an election, 'Prediction by the Numbers' explores stories of statistics in action. Yet advances in machine learning and big data models that increasingly rule our lives are also posing big, disturbing questions. How much should we trust predictions made by algorithms when we don't understand how they arrive at them? And how far ahead can we really forecast?
Obsessed by the end of the world, Ernesto has spent years designing an island where humans will go to live should everything disappear. Following a particular method of research, the Cuban scientist shows us his prototype for a perfect universe, the “Metatron”, a sort of strange figure that articulates the circle and the cube, these perfect forms that exist in nature and should save us during a potential doomsday scenario.
Three generations of women face years of family resentments, betrayals and revelations during one life altering night together.
Can a clinical method to accelerate emotional intimacy begin healing the social rifts exposed by the 2016 Presidential Election one conversation at a time?
A bride and best man have a very heated conversation 30 minutes before the wedding is to take place.
Writer and Rookie editor in chief Tavi Gevinson explores THE VIRGIN SUICIDES through the lens of adolescence, suicide, and memory. It features Gevinson’s own writing and imagery from a fanzine she made about Sofia Coppola’s movie in 2012.
After discovering that their little band FROG is a big hit in England, Danny and Tom decide to try their luck on the other side of the pond. Part tour documentary, part road movie, KINGS OF BLAH is about the distances we sometimes have to travel to find our audience and how the only way to keep a dream alive is to chase it.
On the day of the release of their new album Youngblood, the boys of 5 Seconds of Summer played an intimate, one-night-only gig for fans in New York City. Interspersed with some stage banter from several of the members, this live set sees the band run through album cuts such as "Moving Along" and "Valentine" as well as past fan favorites like "She Looks So Perfect."
Return of the Roar chronicles the 2017-18 season that saw Woods overcome a career-threatening back injury to win on the PGA TOUR for the first time in five years.
Della is a sweet, adorable girl. She's an Instagram celeb. Her name was mentioned when a big case of fraud happening. Numerous witness confessions made the prosecutor confused. Behind her glamorous Instagram content, who the f is Della?
Shot at and named after a remote recording studio on a Norwegian island, the footage offers a behind-the-scenes insight into the recording techniques of two of modern progressive music's most talented composers. The content captures Iamthemorning's live set-up from the last three years, with the setlist consisting of songs from their first three studio albums and an unplugged recording of Blue Sea (the first track to be written for the duo's upcoming fourth album and exclusive to the Blu-ray). The studio was designed with panoramic windows that allow the stunning back-drop of Giske Island and the Norwegian Sea to be integrated into the performances (a location that is featured in glorious high-definition on this Blu-ray). Marjana commented, "It was the most inspiring place for us to work in, surrounded by the sea, mountains, wild flowers and gorgeous Norwegian sunsets. All of the natural splendour we don't see that often."
Toby is trapped in his own Imagination, with a crippling fear of being gay.
Smithy & Dickie is a short documentary about love letters written in the 1940’s, young people’s reactions to them and an exploration on how the current explosion of digital information may be obliterating our most precious memories, making them less accessible in another 70 years.
Florida thriller short
Set on a cobblestone street bathed in moonlight, a young girl leads her grandmother towards her final journey.
A distorted portrait of an artist that explores storytelling, ego, delusion, conviction and memory. VON LMO is a musician/artist and self-proclaimed alien-hybrid who was a part of the late 70s New York No Wave music scene. Between trips to his home planet of Strazar and multi-dimensional travel, VON has also spent some very real time in prison and on the streets of Earth. Challenged with translating his Future Language for audiences across the galaxy, Lori, our filmmaker and VON LMO fan, gets sucked into VON's orbit and finds herself lost in his story.
A virtuous young woman falls head over heels for a man harbouring a secret.
Man in Camo takes a close look at the life of visual artist, writer and filmmaker Ethan Minsker and his drive to create and crusade the making of art. Through the lens of old photographs and films, Minsker leads viewers on a journey through the hurdles that once held him back, from dyslexia to the violence of 1980s Washington D.C. It was these hurdles that forged his love of film and art, and his work now spans across three decades. Man In Camo brings forth not just the love of art, but the reasons for making it in the first place.
'Red Tragedy' shows heartbreak and violence as the lead suffers from a breakup and spirals out of control as she realizes there is no hope for her without love.
Bar Wrestling 10: March Of The Pigs
In a realm where the ocean meets the ethereal sky, a mesmerizing symphony of nature unfolds. Behold the epic saga of 100 Foot Surfing Days a surfing documentary that transcends the boundaries of big wave surfing. Nestled along the rugged shores, Mavericks, the mythical surf sanctuary, unveils its colossal waves, each crest a titan of liquid power. All men are made of water. If they leak out, they die. This is a surfing film with some of the biggest waves ever ridden. Also included are interviews with the surfers willing to risk it all for the ride of a lifetime.
A pumpkin invites a boy into its house and sings him a short song
The Hive Queen returns with a new plan for creating cross-bred human/aliens.
The sole survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore on an island at the extreme north of the British Isles. The survivor, Victor, is restored to health by the local inhabitants but guards the secrets of his haunted past and of an evil which has found its way to this remote world, hell-bent on vengeance. So starts the dramatic and violent chain of events in which the tale of Victor’s sinister experiments gradually emerges.
A young woman can no longer hold back unsaid feelings for her childhood friend emigrating abroad.
John, an old reformed criminal, is stranded after his release from prison and is forced to take public transport to a halfway house. His abrupt return to society instantly exposes him to old temptations that challenge his righteous, new-found path and John begins to realise his faith may not be enough to keep his inner demons at bay.
Feature documentary In the Zone tells the story of American Terrance Wallace. In 2011 he launched The InZone Project; its aim was to transform the lives of disadvantaged Māori and Pasifika teens by moving them into supportive homes, in zones that enable them to receive opportunities at top Auckland schools like Auckland Grammar. Director Robyn Paterson (Finding Mercy) follows Wallace as he attempts to take the programme back to his hometown of Chicago. Paterson developed the project after winning a 2015 pitching competition at Kiwi documentary festival Doc Edge.
Three perceptions of only one truth - hers, his and ours. This film has a trigger warning associated with it.