A Brooklyn based artist moves to Paris to get married and start a new life. As an old life of crime catches up to him, he enters the depths of Paris' underground art and spiritual drug scenes to settle a score.
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A Brooklyn based artist moves to Paris to get married and start a new life. As an old life of crime catches up to him, he enters the depths of Paris' underground art and spiritual drug scenes to settle a score.
A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials scientists of our time.
In 1914, the suffragette Mary Richardson attacked the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery in London. But why did this painting fire such outrage? Professor Bettany Hughes embarks on a voyage of discovery to reveal the truth behind the Venus depicted in the painting, proving that this mythological figure is so much more than just an excuse for sensual nudity and chocolate-box romance. Because Venus Uncovered is the remarkable story of one of antiquity's most potent forces. And more than that - hers is the story of human desire, and how desire transforms who we are and how we behave.
When Jeanne, the recognized sous chef of the Ritz Paris, discovers her son has been kidnapped, she must make some difficult decisions.
Documentary in which Years and Years frontman Olly Alexander explores the mental health issues faced by members of the LGBT+ community.
"I'm black, born Haitian, French and Jewish by adoption... I feel all of those things, but people don´t look at me like that. It´s normal, but that makes it harder for me to find my place". At 34 years old, David dreams and, at the same time, fears going back to Haiti, where he was adopted a year after he was born, by Claire, a French and Jewish woman whose entire family died in concentration camps. From her solitude, another was born; one in the process of redemption.
It is with Yann Dedet, the great French film editor known for his work with Truffaut and Pialat that the Belgian Joachim Lafosse has chosen to edit his fifth film, L’Économie du couple (After Love), the chronicle of a divorce and its emotional and economic repercussions on the couple and their children. The film shows that the interaction, sometimes fluid and sometimes tense, between two collaborators depends on an “economy of the couple”, whose intimacy is bared to the outside world when the critical step of a first screening for the producers arrives.
In a conventionalised, excessive world where people conformistly wear black, the new classmate Rosa attracts attention by bringing colour into the class. Nero fears for homogeneity and coherence, so he starts making efforts to assimilate Rosa. Rosa stands up self-confident for her identity, going on to wear coloured clothes. As Nero rans out of patience for Rosa's behavior, he plans to force Rosa to integrate against her will. When suddenly the light expires and everybody feels threatened getting lost in black, Rosa wearing colour is the needed escape. A parable about conformism and the importance of diversity in society.
A heart-warming family film about one girl's dream of dancing in the lead and realizing the only way to do it, is believing that you can.
The career of French comic author René Goscinny was a living blend of cultures and an expression of the great importance this artist attached to the production and dissemination of sophisticated popular culture. Goscinny left behind an extremely extensive body of work: "Asterix", "Lucky Luke", "Isnogud", "Little Nick" and many more.
Something weird is happening... something will come in...
In a motel in the city, several couples stay on different dates to have sex, all have a connection with each other. Infidelity, loneliness and fear of being left alone on the coast breaking into the same bed.
Nanni Moretti talks about films while he works out with a personal trainer.
Spain, 1602. The knights of the order of the sword of Joan of Arc have been defeated. After generations of fierce fighting against the herald of hell, El Caminante, who has broken the armors and hearts of the generals of the Faith. Possessing the most celibate and virtuous of them all the ulterior enemy has achieved what no thousand leviathans and witches they never dreamed.
Tony was the exclusive photographer and video director for Ocean Colour Scene from Moseley Shoals to Marchin' Already, publishing his book 'Soul Driver' in 2014, releasing his feature documentary film 'SCENE' in 2017 and is currently launching his new coffee table 'book of the film' 'Behind the Scene' due for release in Summer 2022.
A bingo game. An allegorical, wild and humorous portrait. An hommage to eccentricity and entertainment, to those things that remain unchanged.
Just now, Adam Krustenstern was the recognized head of the development department of his company, but it was taken over by a global player. A wave of dismissal swept away most of his colleagues. But Adam was invited to the company's guesthouse for a weekend. It seems to be about his professional future. But target agreements or requirement profiles are not mentioned. For relaxation and holidays. But also from Challenge and High Engagement. Adam is under pressure to prove what he can do. But whom? And how? Nothing of what he has represented so far seems to mean something.
A former British Special Air Service Sargeant was made an example by his government and discharged dishonorably by the service. A year later his friend who runs a special covert operations group within the SAS contacts him to ask for his help ....
Imaginative young Stella learns the peril of landing in the real world after her mission in space is misdirected for her own growth and safety.
True love never dies, the loving heart never stops beating ... for Kerstin’s ex Thomas, who she still hopes will come back some day. Instead of Thomas, her mother Charlotte shows up at her door, mid-50s and freshly single again, too. Charlotte moves in with Kerstin and her flatmates, one of who shows her how to use a modern dating app to meet new men. As mom starts dating again, her daughter refuses to let digital reality intrude on her romantic daydreams.
Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died aged three, is buried. The sister about whom I was told nothing, or nearly nothing, and of whom my parents had oddly never kept a single photograph. It was to make up for the missing images that I decided to make this film. Thinking that I would simply chronicle a forgotten life, in fact I opened up the hidden door to a past that I was unaware of, to the subconscious memory that lies inside each of us and who makes us what we are.
Claude, a photographer in search for inspiration, makes a living by taking medical pictures for a surgeon specialized in eyelids reconstruction. One day, Frida is standing in front of his camera. Claude's artistic search will then confront Frida's deepest wounds.
A documentary about the opioid crisis with women in Kathmandu, Nepal.
In Hanover, Germany 1924, the discovery of bones and skulls catches the authorities’ attention. Media covers the case and a suspect – Fritz Haarmann – is quickly arrested. Haarmann is a local butcher who manufactures his own sausages. Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of a minimum of 24 boys and young men between 1918 and 1924 in Hanover, Germany.
Self proclaimed actor, writer and director Donal O’Ryan starts a new acting workshop.
Stephanie, a phone sex worker, is threatened by an unknown caller who knows way too much about her.
Chloe thinks she's just going in for a routine test. Things do not go as planned.
Ciccio “O' Pazz” and Ciruzzo “Pesce bello”, are two powerful, blood-soaked Mafia characters. The legacy left to them is a violent, depraved narrative of murderous dominion over the weak. But still, enemies muscling their way into this realm of the wretched. These apparently harmless enemies are nevertheless viewed as potential usurpers by Ciccio and Ciruzzo, who, alienated by their imposed surroundings, develop a deep paranoia towards two animals: Severino, leader of the famous donkeys of Campu Perdu, and Piero, top boar around the Olive field area. The day of reckoning is near. There has to be a showdown. They have to get rid of the two animals. There's no way around it. A letter is delivered. A Pinter-like ultimatum with a crystal-clear demand: it's you or us. Men or animals. Coexistence is out of the question. Power has room for only one big chief. The final, inevitable apocalypse draws near.
60-year-old Harry Stockowski imagined his fresh start in the Canadian wilderness differently. Instead of finding the peace he longed for on a deserted island, someone who is anything but friendly awaits him there. The rough-necked Susan claims to be the owner of the island and tries to drive away the unwanted newcomer with a shotgun. A fight for the log cabin begins, in which the German dropout takes a huge hit. However, Harry doesn't give up that easily.
One Thursday, someone orders a veggie burger but accidentally receives a fish burger. His world is turned upside down because he absolutely cannot stand fish. Although Thursday is a beautiful day, disaster inevitably takes its course...
Who would kill a Carthusian monk and why? As the investigators will find out, the key to the mystery lies in the ultra-secret formula of the Chartreuse plant liqueur.
The relationship between Jack and Steve two flatmates takes a sinister turn when Jack becomes obsessed with a mysterious droning sound. Is this maddening sound coming from the TV, the fridge, the lights or is it something darker, more terrifying. A horror beyond human comprehension?
The body of a Turkish film student is found in the Wittelsbach fountain in Munich. Apparently Ömer Özkan drowned, but not in the fountain water, but in the beer. His lungs are filled with beer from "Minga Bräu", a traditional Munich brewery that is allegedly being sold to Istanbul. A Turkish student drowned in Bavarian beer. A puzzling case for Inspector Pasha and his Migra. While Pius Leipold enters the beer milieu with great vigor, Zeki's investigative zeal is very subdued.
Dr. Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book also made it famous. It is a tale of passion and fear, set against a backdrop of revolution and violence. The film is what most people remember, but the story of the writing of the book has more twists, intrigue and bravery than many a Hollywood blockbuster. In this documentary, Stephen Smith traces the revolutionary beginnings of this bestseller, to it becoming a pawn of the CIA at the height of the Cold War.
Dale Winton narrates a compilation of disastrous game show moments. Featuring contestants on The Million Pound Drop failing to pay attention to a question with a fortune at stake, the least successful player to appear on The Chase, the woman who broke her leg on The Krypton Factor and still finished third, Catchphrase host Nick Weir damaging his career by falling down the stairs, and the Princess Diana-themed episode of Channel 5 quiz show 100%.
The hard-working brothers Lorello and Brunello are filmed throughout the seasons on their farm in Tuscany. Their efforts look like a labour of Sisyphus, in which all progress is destroyed by prices on the world market and the return of packs of wolves hunting sheep. Respectful, detailed and filled with earthly beauty.
Les Malheurs d'Orson Welles reveals the ravages of time on the print of Too Much Johnson , the first feature film Orson Welles shot in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane , his first official feature film. By selecting and slowing down the most damaged parts of the American filmmaker's film, I managed to create an object with abstract forms and, paradoxically, give a second life to a major work of art.
Archive film of the Lascaux cave
On the dishonest practices made by corporations to extract more money from their customers.
Juan has become the laughingstock of the small fishing village, due to his wife being unfaithful and getting pregnant by another man. He has left fishing and now obsessively cares for an ostentatious mansion of a wealthy family from the capital. One day, the young son of the owner shows up at the house, without his father's permission and loaded with alcohol, with a foreign friend and a village girl they just met. During the course of the weekend, Juan will be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of his life.
Two inexperienced young girls rob the man who gave them a lift... but him, Carlo, is not a person like anyone else.
Remember the culture clash in THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY? This time it's real. One of the most ancient cultures on our planet is undergoing a major change. The Ju/Hoansi Bushmen in Namibia are not allowed to hunt anymore and need to converge with our so called “civilized” lifestyle. For the first time the Ju/Hoansi Bushmen travel through the Kalahari and then right into the heart of Europe. What starts as a look at their fascinating culture becomes an even more fascinating look at our Western lifestyle. A warm and humorous reflection of our habits through the eyes of people who are about to give up their million year old traditions.
Dreads, colourful clothes, and an explosive character... At first glance, Sarah McCoy does not correspond in any way to the image one has of a stuffy pianist. And yet, as soon as she puts her fingers on the keys of a keyboard, magic happens.
We reveal how the oil industry has been secretly funding scientific studies, launching false media reports and systematically deceiving the public about climate change - since 1946. At the same time, they used their knowledge about climate change to gear up for a warming planet. Now, the first lawsuits have been filed, holding them responsible for global warming.
An unexpected event brings together an unlikely group of students.