Superfan David Whiteley celebrates how an unassuming band of designers and factory workers in Leicestershire created the toys which were to define a generation.
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Superfan David Whiteley celebrates how an unassuming band of designers and factory workers in Leicestershire created the toys which were to define a generation.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. El Rubio left the crime underworld years ago, but a serious family problem forces him to rethink his life choices when drug dealer Júnior proposes him to steal his bosses' frontman…
After so many generational repetitions and beneath so many layers is a territory to be negotiated beyond each person’s skin, inside: the cavity that echoes the intimate and singular identity of everyone. The voice that populate this film bring us to various spaces in Matera, from tourist agglomerations to the town’s internal spaces (grottes, caves, cisterns, lanes, rooms) and the body’s own unassailable space: pleasure and desire for other bodies that no one can cancel.
The story of a fortune cookie who has to break himself into pieces on his pursuit of happiness.
Twenty-six people talk about love and hardship, hope and bitterness, fear and happiness accompanied by celluloid images of Berlin at night. A symphony of life, a magical cosmos. The third part of the filmmaker’s “Chants” trilogy on space, time and the body.
Who creates order creates calm. Excessive clutter can drive people crazy. Gaël is convinced of that. In order to bring this idea closer to his drunken friend Maurin, Gaël begins to arbitrarily destroy their surroundings, a green oasis far away from the big city, driving Maurin step by step into madness.
Story of a communist human.
They're called the "vocal trinity": Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Céline Dion are the first divas of the pop era. But what defines a diva?
A short doc to explore what it's like to be a girl in Brunei.
The German (punk)rock band DIE TOTEN HOSEN is a phenomenon of superlatives. In this music & concert documentary we accompany Germany’s legendary and most successful rock band with 19 millions records sold with unparalleled access on their biggest tour in band history – both in the limelight and backstage with „access all areas“.
Four little stories are interconnected. Their ordinary and repetitive aspect is completely subverted when the perspective suddenly changes, questioning every daily rule of reality and perception.
Get Off My Turf is a short film about a transgender woman that finds out that her neighbour is transphobic. The film touches upon some of the main themes of modern transphobia, and tests a friendship between two very different women.
A researcher hunts for her friend and stumbles upon a terrifying entity.
It was Thursday when we met her at Puerta del Sol. Sandra is a seventy three years old woman who’s life is dedicated to fight injustices, towards others and the ones she suffered herself. Everytime we meet we learn something new that she once was not allowed to say.
A group of friends - a tomb raider, a chatty salesman, a naughty journalist, a lazy nerd and the shy assistant of a mysterious blind and silent shopkeeper - meet again in the quiet small town where they had shared a terrible secret. When a skeptical policeman discovers the link between a weird animals slaughter and some occult practices, strange things start happening. Together, they will discover the ancient curse of Kaisha and have to face the demons of the past.
Two drunk friends accidentally walk into a crime scene.
Luc has just learned that he has cancer. Consumed by denial and anger, he despite himself attends a discussion meeting between patients... If it is a question of showing that cancer affects all generations... Strength, hope and resilience are also transmitted through them...
Katie Derham introduces highlights from the past ten years at the Royal Ballet, weaving the history of ballet through carefully curated excerpts from the past decade, and goes behind the scenes to see what it takes to be a dancer in the company of The Royal Ballet as they prepare to take to the stage. With stunning solos, passionate pas de deux and jaw-dropping numbers for the corps de ballet, it is a chance to see your favourite dancers up close, including Carlos Acosta, Marianela Nuñez, Natalia Osipova and Steven McRae, alongside rising stars like Francesca Hayward and Matthew Ball, who will introduce their favourite ballets and share stories of their life on the stage.
When Huntington's disease occurs, it changes body, soul, moods, thoughts, emotions, energy and also relationships with nearest and dearest. Once diagnosed, every carrier faces the test of time in a unique way. How to reinvent oneself, while evolving together with the disease? A film about the art of living in perpetual metamorphosis.
Facing the gate of a fancy property under surveillance, a lonely dog falls in love for a female dog sitting on her balcony at the very end of the garden. Determined and charmed, he needs to do everything possible to reach and seduce her.
The extraordinary story of children born in High Himalayas of Nepal. At 4 years old, they're sent to school in the city, hoping education means a better life. They do not see their parents again for 12 years. Now, aged 16, they trek home.
Two construction workers in Hamburg have to deal with the residents of a skyscraper within a day - because on the one hand it is to be demolished shortly and on the other hand no one was informed about it in advance. Various disputes and strange incidents result only the tip of the iceberg, in which even the first mayor of the city is involved!
In the midst of winter, a Venezuelan woman exiled in Brooklyn deals with daily work, a recurring appearance and unsettling messages from back home.
11-year-old Silvia's life at home is consumed by her mother’s clinical depression. When no one will take the time to fulfill her dream to visit Rome, she runs away, determined to see it for herself. On a train, she meets a Roma girl, Emina, and begins following her through the streets of Rome to her gypsy camp.
The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, plays, interviews and letters, the film pays tribute to the major author and popular filmmaker, who made his life a work and his work a life's project.
Jimmy is trapped in a spiral of street drug addiction and withdrawal. One day, Jimmy is forced to get back in contact with his family. The pariah’s return to the pack reawakens old demons in his elder brother Nathan.
Renowned fashion designer Lisa Hembach irritates her surroundings with her behavior. She looks erratic, unfocused and feels persecuted.
When her disastrous wedding night leads to an accidental killing, Natalie flees her rural town in South Africa's desolate Karoo region.
Living in surreal universe, Mathilde, a young girl who is studying the violin in a peculiar school, finds her everyday life changed when her hands fuse with her instrument. Panicking, she flees the classroom and unsuccessfully tries to get rid of her instrument. Worried, she attempts to find an exit. However, walking by many other classrooms, she discovers the truth about the place in which she is trapped. Scared, anxious and hunted by the school's authorities, she will finally succeed at getting rid of her instrument and find a door that will take her to the unknown.
Lucy and her daughter Katy are under siege from a street gang. The gang leader Rabbit wants to make them feel as low as he has been made to feel; as he fights a war against himself and the world around him.
The pessimism and optimism of love and relationships is explored when a lonely romantic encounters a cynical sex worker during a spontaneous evening drive.
Care to join us for a visit to the most haunted churches in the whole of England? These doomed souls lust for the night when they can bring to fruition their true darkness. Paranormal expert, Christopher Halton, takes us on a journey few will forget.
Tracing the story of a student uprising this documentary explores how the NRA manages to keep a permissive gun law alive, and why it has such a strong hold over American society.
Desert Rave, is a film by capturing the one-off electronic music festival Under The Desert Stars, which took place in the Moroccan desert over the last weekend of September 2019.
Jade has been in a hidden relationship with Alice for a while. When her friends start to suspect something, she has to face the stares of others.
On the night of November 13, 2015, a woman who lives behind the Bataclan and a man who happens to pass by help the injured as they flee the terrorists and the hell of the attack. A few days later, they are contacted by the people they rescued, who want to meet the strangers who helped them that night. The man and the woman meet again. Is the passion they feel real? Or is it just the romantic illusion they invented to compensate for the trauma they experienced together? From hospital rooms to cafe encounters, from individual destinies to love stories, from suffering to resilience, from anger to fraternity, the film portrays the days following the attacks and each person's journey to find their way back to life.
Feeling neglected by her mother and sister on their holiday in Spain, 13-year-old Claire tries to help a young Senegalese beach vendor to escape his misery.
Clumsy romantic Sunny is infatuated with glitzy but deadbeat, Francophile bingo-caller Pauline Dupondt and forgets the important things in life, like his 80 year old Grandmother Dot's birthday.
In a small village of the North of France, an attack alert has been set off due to the combination of two events: the beginning of the hunting season and an argument between drunk Polish workers.
A documentary about Peter Lindbergh.
The greatest British film company emblematically deconstructed.
At only 26 years old, the adventurer Matthieu Tordeur undertook an expedition of 1150 km by skiing from the coast of the Antarctic continent to the South Pole, alone, without assistance and in total autonomy. This immersive documentary plunges us into the intimacy of the 51 days of this exceptional and very moving expedition.
Like every year, Maike and her husband Sören invite family and friends over for New Year's Eve. This time, however, the raclette dinner turns out differently than the meticulously planned Maike had hoped: In addition to the cheese, all three couples sitting at the table reveal hard-to-digest truths and intimate secrets.
Fashion reporter Laura Hansen's research in Tuscany, accidentally reveals that her late mother Gloria, who spent holidays in Prato for 25 years, had a secret adulterous affair in Lucca with surviving local gentleman Emanuele della Torre. Laura falls in love with business attorney Alessandro della Torre, before realizing he's Emanuele's son and works for an Italian luxury-label that exploits thousands of Chinese sweatshop laborers selling "made in Italy" without European labor conditions, as if her mother's secret weren't enough complications, yet lets them be drawn into a web of deceit.—KGF Vissers
Two young men - a dancer and a pizza delivery man - inadvertently become trapped on the rooftop of an apartment building.