Sabina's Shadow is a documentary film that reflects on the figure of the Shaman and the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in the traditional practices of the Mazatec culture, in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Sabina's Shadow is a documentary film that reflects on the figure of the Shaman and the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in the traditional practices of the Mazatec culture, in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Mireya Ramos, founder of Mariachi Flor de Toloache is the singer, violinist and arranger with Shea Fiol, vocalist and vihuela player. We follow their performances in NYC, California and India, while challenging the male music world.
Short film from James Larkin
Juan and Regina dream of their freedom. Is America the right country for this? A journey full of obstacles ...
44Wetsuit and À la vie à la mer work together to organise beach clean ups. We followed them from July to October 2020, filming their actions on different beaches of the French West Coast.
Enza, in her early twenties, is a singer and seeker studying the rhythms of life in Salento. She breathes music, collects old folksongs and thus connects the people, the present and the past. Rooted in Tarantism and in the tradition of the healers she uses singing as a means to fight alienation. Her portrait is a cinematic legacy vibrating with intensity. It reveals the thin line walked by those who refuse to be satisfied with relative freedom.
A disturbed man with unknown psychic abilities tries to unravel the mystery of his parent's disappearance while battling his own demons.
For more than forty years, Argentinean sportsman Guillermo Vilas, a tennis legend, has tirelessly demanded that the official rankings (1973-78) be revised in order to finally be recognized as the best player in the world. Eduardo Puppo, a sports journalist, making Vilas' demand his own, fought for more than ten years against a powerful sports corporation to prove that Vilas was indeed unfairly displaced from the top of world tennis.
Ange-Marie is a 45 years old fisherman in Cap Corse in Corsica. He lives with his brother and his old mother in a secluded place where women are becoming scarce. One day, on retruning from fishing, Ange-Marie finds himself alone in the "cow beach" and sees three beatiful swimmers. The image of these women then haunts him and draws him out to the sea.
Just how far is it acceptable to push actors in the name of cinema? And at what point do you cross the boundary where acting becomes sexual assault? These are the questions raised by the testimony of six young women who were manipulated and sexually abused during an audition.
Two friends discuss their relationships. Between polyamory and politics, they let their love flourish freely.
The choral work of 57 directors and filmmakers who tell stories of Milan at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Boredom makes people do a lot of strange things like try to save the world. Made for the film festival Straight8 2020, City Fishing charts the attempts of two friends to find a small way to help their community.
Cows With No Name is almost a diary, filmed one day at a time, of each stage of this process, documenting the operation of the farm with critical and incisive humour. But it is also an intimate documentary. By filming scenes of daily life on the family farm, around the kitchen table during meals, or in front of the TV in the evening while everyone falls asleep on the sofa, more personal questions are raised: the farmer’s connection to his herd, or even the handover that Hubert has chosen not to ensure.
Giuseppe lives in his van in the heart of Paris and has long since stopped communicating with his fellow men. His time, his physical space as well as his mental space are dedicated to the birds that inhabit the cities, abused animals that the old man defends and feeds, suffering threats and attacks.
What if Pokémon dethroned Marvel superheroes? What if Japanese cyberpunk hacked Hollywood's codes? What if manga adaptations were the lifeline of French comedy? At a time when series and films based on Japanese comics are multiplying on our screens, this documentary seeks answers to this new (r)evolution of manga, through a dialogue between Japanese creators and Western filmmakers, between Tokyo and Hollywood.
This flipbook-style animation demonstrates the emotions of people who hear voices
Ellie Flynn investigates people making money from selling their nude photos and videos.
An estranged father and daughter are pulled back together by his extreme new belief that he's the last living person on Earth.
A backstage pass to Micky Flanagan's career, from early raw material in the East End to staging the world's biggest comedy tour in 2017.
“Let’s describe it as a desire to be outward followed by a fear of being seen,” The 1975’s Matty Healy tells Apple Music. “I think that is the conversation that happens in this record.” This short film finds Healy reflecting on his motivations and complexities as he and his bandmates reveal the ideas that fuelled their fourth album, Notes on a Conditional Form. It’s a unique and unguarded look at one of Britain’s most venturous bands.
Thirteen-year-old Lovena, an undocumented immigrant of Haitian descent, has just been crowned chess champion in French Guyana. Her next rival will travel to Brazil to challenge her at a match. The preparation of this duel and unexpected events will drive her into a corner.
5.24 seconds passed and a caramelized peanut changed the life of Nicole Quintero and her son Mani. It’s been six years since her son’s petrification, and with Nicole’s imminent aging, it’s time for her to make an important decision about their future.
When Jay, a nineteen-year-old fashionista is left home alone, she discovers that not all of her clothes are quite as harmless as she thinks.
A film poem by Gérard Courant.
Yom Al Ard is a portrait about the fragmentation of the land, the experience, and the people of Palestine, showcasing the systematic efforts to disperse, fragment, and destroy the audiovisual memory and collective identity of Palestinians. It is composed of rare footage shot in the Galilee (Nazareth, Deir Hanna, and Sakhnin) in celebration of the 5th Land Day Anniversary on March 1981 which has recently been restored and digitised.
Depicts the incredible story of the contributions made by the Italian Canadian community of Montreal to the fashion industry and how impactful these contributions were to the design culture and labour market in Quebec.
Rufus finally wants to regain his mistakenly revoked gourmet star. The ideal opportunity presents itself at the congress of chefs on the sunny island of Madeira. There he wants to show that his new, down-to-earth gourmet cuisine à la Kupferkanne is even better than the previous one in his posh Cologne restaurant.
Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming the father of the Nouvelle Vague and one of the most iconic directors of French cinema.
The wildlife of the tundra on Alaska's north coast is particularly threatened by climate change.
Two women have been seeing each other through a window for months. Little by little their gazes seem to become complicit. March 14, 2020 arrives, the state of alarm caused by the COVID-19 crisis in Spain is declared and many love stories are interrupted by the confinement. This is just one more.
It's Christmas! Come & celebrate the festive season with Bing... at the Cinema! Meet Nicky... Sula's adorable cousin and open presents with Bing, Flop & all of their friends! Pico's here to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Come and make leaf pictures in the woods with Amma, watch Bing & Sula perform a Puppet Show, and enjoy a grand finale of extra special Christmas stories! So, come on! Let's celebrate together - let's go, go, go, go, goooooo!
Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes: “What’s driving there, on a cart and stretches out his long trunk?/ It is a mammoth! It is a mammoth! It is a mammoth which wants to go home.”
I Mortali is a live-movie created by Ground's Oranges, a video agency specialized in music videos since 2011
Paflo and Alex ordered a mysterious "self-defining cognition test"; and they are ready to solve it even if it costs them their lives.
This year's performance was broadcast from Blackpool. Because of the Covid 19 pandemic this was a virtual performance.
Filmed over five years, we follow Lily Jones, 20, as she transitions from male to female, leaves her seaside home for the city, undergoes gender reassignment surgery and finds love.
A struggling disabled actress gets a job advising a film star how to be disabled for his latest role.
Charlie Chaplin is still one of the most famous figures in film history, both in front of and behind the camera. However, one aspect of Chaplin's artistic work is little known: his work as a film composer. Dominik Wessely shows this side of the brilliant all-round talent in original visual and audio documents.
Barcelona, 1992. A historian has a conversation with a mysterious man who claims that, after the Spanish Civil War, witnessed one of the darkest episodes of Franco dictatorship. The meeting soon becomes an exchange of personal memories of that year 1940, the autumn of history.
The acclaimed singer-songwriter KT Tunstall sets off on a journey to discover more about the life of musician Ivor Cutler, before recording a cover-version of `Women of the World'.
Nothing but the gentle sound of creaking trees in the wind and sparkling stars above us. Astronomer Herbert explains his passion for the darkness.
August Klar has a dream. He’s trying to make a movie, that has never been done before. His ambitions are high, his methods are unconventional and to some extendeds even absurd - But his biggest obstacle is: August has no clue how to make a movie. The Documentary „How to Poetry Film“ follows the young Slam Poet through the Development process of his first shortfilm and dares to take a look at what lies between Euphoria and Rock Bottom while portraying the mind of wild creative that struggles to catch up with his ideas...
Who are the young people who are involved in the "Fridays for Future" movement and who relentlessly take to the streets for environmental and climate protection? What are their life like and how will their activism be influenced or changed by current events in 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic? The documentary accompanies them and shows how diverse, creative but also exhausting the protest work is, in that the filmmakers impressively tell of the fears, dreams, successes and defeats of the young people portrayed.