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A partisan at 16, a trade unionist defending female workers, the first female minister, chair of the commission of inquiry into the P2 Masonic lodge. Tina Anselmi's life was the story of our democracy.
Documentary about Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Iranian economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran from 27 January 1965 to 7 August 1977.
It’s called “Whatever It Takes.” Why? because Scuderia AlphaTauri does exactly that, whatever it takes, to design, build and develop our cars to race at over twenty race tracks around the world. Filmed from when the team began working on their 2022 challenger up to its initial shakedown prior to the start of the season, the first car to be built to radically reshaped technical regulations, the film crew was a fly-on-the-wall in meetings, in the design office, the wind tunnel, as well as the manufacturing and assembly areas to bring you a truly unique insight into the life of a Formula 1 team and what happens on a day to day basis in the crazy rush to get two cars ready for action in the world’s fastest paced sport.
The fight for democracy in Hong Kong has long been a battle of systems, as well as a brutal game of economic dependencies. With a collage of found footage, interviews with experts and sketches of the thoughts of young activists, the filmmaker paints a picture of a city between wild hope for change and resignation to the Chinese regime.
Abi is going cold turkey, her family have taken her to a cabin in the woods so she is away from the city. However, little do they know, The Three Blind Mice is more than just a fairy tale.. And they may be next up on the menu.
Guided by the Minahasa’s influence, this speculative fiction of mystical belief interlaces care and ancestral dialogues, embracing a healing renewal across numinous, material and technological realms.
Thomas meets someone wonderful and it's love at first sight. But something is wrong: a door.
A couple has a date whose outcome makes them doubt about their true reality.
Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.
Shy photographer Rita and her rebellious classmate Raquel team up in a late-night attempt to make visible the power games at their school.
Tiziano is a little boy almost like the others, who grows up between the demonstrations in Chile, the history of his family and the innocence of his age.
Fashion designer Amy Powney is at the peak of her career, but she’s troubled by her industry’s wasteful practices. Fashion Reimagined follows her transformative global journey to create a collection that’s sustainable on every level.
When the US embassy opens the green card lottery visa, Assad writes hundreds of stories about imaginary families running away from the war and submits them. When one of the stories is accepted, Kamal, a repatriated Somali-American, helps him to find the right characters for the embassy interviews. The two have sent hundreds of fake families to the US but now their scam is about to be discovered.
Paris, today. 38 y.o. Inès, mother of teenage Adam whom she is raising alone, is threatened with eviction. She absolutely must get a stable job to find them a place to live. She is taken on 2 months trial at “Anti-Squat,” a start-up company offering temporary housing in empty suburban office buildings. But the rules are very strict and the tenants have no rights. As a manager, Inès must live and sleep in the building to monitor the residents. But children are forbidden... She has two months to go, two months to complete her trial period, two months to start a new life at the risk of losing her most cherished values.
The young adult Emil grows up in a conservative family in a small town in the 1960s. Because his father wants to make him a "real man," it is not easy for Emil to accept his own personality and therefore homosexuality. He only finds refuge in art, mainly painting.
Everything started from the house of Celebrity Big Brother after statements by Adua Del Vesco and Massimiliano Morra. With the death of Teodosio Losito on January 8, 2019, an inquiry was opened by the Prosecutor’s Office of Rome for incitement to suicide, at the end of which the dismissal was requested.
A historical documentary that follows the inquisition trials that took place in South Tyrol (Italy) in the early years of 1500, after which more than 10 women were convicted and executed for alleged witchcraft, marking the official start of the infamous worldwide Witch Hunt.
Beth and Mark are a couple heading to a country home for a weekend break to fix their rocky relationship. But when Mark goes missing in the middle of the night Beth is faced with the truths of a haunted past.
A woman in a man's world. Though strong-willed, intelligent and passionate, Queen Elizabeth I is keenly aware that her life is in constant peril. With her died the Tudor dynasty, but the changes she made to politics and parliament show the beginnings of the conception of the England that we know and love today.
Hit after hit, pop-icon Harry Styles, once the centerpiece of the world's biggest boy bands has grown into someone who isn't afraid of self-expression, continuing to reject the traditional confines of masculinity.
When an indecisive people pleaser is running late for the world’s busiest day, his misguided decisions escalate towards a single choice that risks everything he holds dear.
A criminal psycholgoist is faced with understanding her toughest case yet.
Set in the heart of rural England, Rudy finds her relationship with her father being tested. Stuck as a proxy parent to her younger siblings and dealing with a recent loss, she feels increasingly pushed out when her home gets opened up to a paying guest. Through a newfound friendship with a boy from Coventry, she discovers fun, freedom and autonomy, but is it at the sacrifice of unspoken family wounds?
Jan works at her father's old fashioned clothing shop but her life is about to change when singer Helen comes in to buy a suit.
A short animated documentary about love, death, and knitting.
During a call, he tells her the noises and memories of a sight he no longer has, but which she could translate with him. “You know, I would love for us to find a common language". Maybe in the end they'll grab each other?
Actress Emily Atack explores why she is sexually harassed online on a daily basis, and seeks to understand why the blame for unwanted sexual attention is so often put on the victim.
A Serial Killer, a Witch, a Mad scientist and a girl followed by zombies cross their paths during the halloween night
Gender-swapping Gen-Z narcissist Charlie must balance their perfect night out with the whims of their Fairy Godmother when coerced into a magical quest, in order to pay rent and get the girl of their dreams.
In her native Iran, Saba is not free to express herself through dance. When she rebels against the rigid rules in a poetic act of defiance, the lines between documentary and fiction begin to blur. A powerful and moving directorial debut.
Shot over ten years and prompted by the death of her father, filmmaker Joan explores Britain's colonial past and the legacy her dual black and white heritage has had on her life.
Svenja and her 16-year-old daughter Kira have traveled the world a lot. Svenja is a hotel manager and is currently bringing an aging hotel in Australia back into shape. But her biggest challenge is her daughter, who has switched to complete refusal and doesn't let Svenja tell her anything anymore. Kira doesn't avoid confrontations at school either, which in turn leads to conflicts with Svenja. After another argument, Kira decides to go to Jack. Jack is Aboriginal and Kira's only friend. Together, the two young people go in search of their “special place”, their own particular locality. Svenja is beside herself with worry when she notices Kira's disappearance and gives chase with Jack's father Kalti, a deeply relaxed hotel boat guide whom Svenja had released two days earlier. An adventurous journey begins in the barren deserted Outback - for Svenja and Kira a strange world, fascinating, but also life-threatening!
For over 50 years, iconic activist Ted Brown has fought for queer and black identities. But after losing his partner, Noel, under heart-breaking circumstances, a devastated Ted questions the impact of his activism and struggles to mount a new campaign. Can Ted find the strength for one last fight for LGBTQ+ rights?
Carpenter Jan had actually planned to go to the land registry office, but then he gets caught up in a drug deal.
Two actresses, a dressing room, and some green slippers.
A begrudging 16th century peasant must traverse the eerie and unrelenting Cumbrian fells to deliver the body of his loathed late mother-in-law to holy ground.
Back in Genoa for the first time in twenty-five years, to attend the funeral of his best friend from when he was growing up, Luca reunites with the old gang of yore. All of them are sure that the late lamented had brought it on himself, with his dissipated lifestyle. Not Luca: he wants to know, investigate, understand. He searches his memory, in a city as changed as he is, as characters and situations reemerge ghost-like from a buried past, along with Luca’s own true nature, which he thought he had definitively tamed.
Murphy, a young black girl of Congolese descent, suffers from depression. Twenty years old, she cannot find the strength to confront her mother and confess her unhappiness. Faced with a family that is particularly religious and attached to appearances, Murphy has no other choice for survival than to hide in her bed.
Mark Jenkin explores his fascination with the magic of film and its life-giving properties in this brand new short film, commissioned by the BFI to mark the Film on Film Festival.
Nikolaï was abandoned at birth and has been in foster care ever since. Although a family would like to give the sixteen-year-old boy a home, he decides to make one himself. He meets Camille, an intriguing fifteen-year-old wiseacre, and tries to convince her to make a child together. Nikolaï is convinced that he can handle any problem and wants to avoid at all costs that an adult thwarts his plans. Camille and Nikolaï flee together from the home and isolate themselves in the woods. In the heart of this gloomy, mysterious forest, Nikolaï will have to face his first feelings and learn to become a man. Soon, he feels that there are many things he cannot control.
Finn has some bad luck. First, the paddling trip with his father falls through, and then he is robbed on the train to Berlin. On top of that, neither the conductor nor the police believe that his backpack and ticket have disappeared. Luckily, he meets the adventurous Jola, who quickly hijacks a rickety tractor. An exciting journey to the sea begins, where a brazen gang of rockers, a real wolf and many other fist-pumping adventures await the two runaways.
After unexpectedly finding a connection in the waiting room of an assisted-suicide clinic, Mallory and Drystan are left with a choice: do they stay or do they go?
Marcel Goldhammer does not want to be pigeonholed – as an openly gay model, actor and former sex worker, then a journalist who converted to Judaism and did his military service in Israel. As a millennial, this is all just fodder for his social channels. Yes, even the sex with his punters. And next? Politics!
Simone lives and works in a shabby camping, while taking care of her old cantankerous mother. One morning, 15 years old Joe arrives there, well decided to get to know them.
Year 1987. Rubén is a ten-year-old boy who grows up playing tag in the village. He lives with his parents and his grandmother, with whom he spends the afternoons. Rosa tries to keep her grandson as a child and not to be aware of the dramatic situation at home, which is spoken about in a low voice.
When they were in elementary school Leopoldo and Amanda swore eternal love to each other and that's how they got to the threshold of marriage twenty-five years later. He has become a famous pastry chef, she a dance teacher, putting aside her dream of being a ballerina. However, when, a week before the wedding, she receives an urgent request for collaboration from none other than the Paris Opera, instead of supporting her and accompanying her to France Leopoldo cancels the wedding, forcing her to leave alone. Shocked and confused, he soon realizes that he has broken the promise he made as a child and that he has disappointed her and decides to find ways to win her back.
Farmers in the Île-de-France region, they filmed life on the farm, working in the fields, and family and village celebrations on 8 mm or Super 8 film. From the 1950s to the 1980s, these testimonies unfold a history of rural life: we move away from a peasant and family model to industrial agriculture for export. Through these family images, I attempt to answer my own questions about our agricultural future. In the 1950s, the land of Île-de-France fed us.
Thrust back into society with PTSD, we witness Ryan, Amber and Stuart trying to cope as civilians outside a war zone.
Behind the iconic Eiffel Tower lies the story of an incredible challenge to erect a thousand-foot tower that went far beyond a design competition, and marked a major turning point in engineering history. It was the beginning of radical transformation where iron was pitted against stone, engineering against architecture, and modern design against ancients. Press campaigns, lobbying, public conferences, denigration of opposing projects, bragging about big names - all participants engaged in a fierce battle without concession. Using 3D recreations, official sources (reports, letters, drawings...) and intimate archives obtained from their descendants, this film will bring to life this vertical race through a fresh and visual way to mark the centenary of Eiffel death.
Since joining the special forces, Mirko's life has been torn between his family and his unit. When the suspicion suddenly arises that his girlfriend Rabea might have reported a radical right-wing chat message from the unit to Internal Affairs, Mirko is in danger of losing both.