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There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This documentary traces the progression of colonial history from the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 to the systematic elimination of cultural traditions, religions and lifeways which would occur sporadically through genocides and warfare until the early 20th century throughout the African continent—surveying the inquiries and movements for historical justice, the relationships between European institutions and colonial violence and following enduring struggles against these organisations to regain what was taken.

It has been 70 years since John Rhodes Cobb made his ill-fated world water speed record attempt on Loch Ness on the 29th of September 1952. To mark this anniversary a short video has been put together capturing parts of the events held by the Glen Urquhart Heritage Group to honour his memory and his impact on the local community of Drumnadrochit and the surrounding area. An exhibition was held in Blairbeg Hall in Drumnadrochit on the 30th of September and the 1st of October 2022 to mark this occasion.

Through the unlikely mediums of dance, graffiti, and elementary school dress-up, these French boys young and old show that whether it's about coming out or getting the guy - you had better do it in style. The short films are: Fairyocious [Féeroce] (2019); The Graffiti [Le graffiti] (2019); Eva (2016); A New Breath [Second souffle] (2021); Masculine (2018); The Tightrope Walkers [Les équilibristes] (2017).

As a result of the negotiation of the agreement in Bazán Ferrol, thousands of workers marched in a demonstration on March 10, 1972. In the midst of the dictatorship, the Armed Police fired on the demonstration, with dozens of wounded and two workers killed: Daniel Niebla and Amador Rey. The film addresses the entire process of penetration of the worker commissions and the communist party into the shipyard, the tensions in the negotiation of the agreement, the events of March 9 and 10 and their international repercussions. as well as the so-called 'Process of the 23' in which the main labor leaders were tried three years later.

A body is pulled out of the sea and it becomes clear this was neither a suicide nor accident… it was murder.

(para)site is an ongoing, multi-stranded artistic project by zack mennell. The project reflects on class, disability, queerness & ecology through the lens of zack’s experience. The (para)site works emerge through zack’s psychogeographic explorations of sites of industrial, working-class history, where they scavenge for materials and undertake strange performative actions. "I am not the water or the land. I am the sediment - the shit poisoning the river, I am the parasite washed from the shorelines into the depths."

Popasna is located in Luhansk in the Donbas region. In 2019, the battle threat is still in the air and many in the population have fled. Still, every morning the children go to one of the few elementary schools that is still open.

Thylacine takes the ARTE Concert Festival audience on a journey with his latest album: 9 Pieces.

The Harz village policeman Frank Koops cares little about adventures and even less about birthdays. So he only reluctantly goes on a survival weekend with Heiner, which his colleague Mette gave him for his birthday. When they set off, organizer Nora has no idea that fun is going to be serious this time.

She was once the most loved member of the royal family. Expelled from her fairytale lifestyle, the tragic end of Princess Diana, Queen of hearts, stunned the world. Although she has left us, she has not been forgotten.

A tormented Emma, runs on her treadmill while doing online counseling, deluding herself to escape from her past. This balance will break when, after twenty-six years, her younger sister bursts in with an unsustainable request.

The raising of King Henry VIII’s flagship Mary Rose in 1982 remains one of the most significant events in the history of maritime salvage. Comparable to the recovery of the 17th century Swedish warship Vasa in 1961, the climax of this complex and expensive operation was watched by around 60 million people worldwide. But 300 reels of film recently found in the archive of The Mary Rose Trust provide additional insight into the operation.

Whaling has been around for centuries. It seems to be the fruit of man’s violence, destroying himself by destroying nature. Accompanying the rise of capitalism, the practice survives today, reflecting humans’ eternal destructiveness of nature and the creatures unable to resist them.

A couple of ghosts wandering in a lonely city at night

The roofs of A86 North, exit 10 are above-ground platforms, words and silhouettes inhabit them. They're like neighborhood bar counters, areas to explore, workshops, film sets. Above the standard of living, facing the space, eclectic people take the air, have fun, confide. The places are calm, no need to speak loudly. They and they tell unique stories, many stories.

From time immemorial, the Bretons have fought many battles to safeguard their culture, rich in language, music and dance. However, Brittany was for a long time a forgotten land, neglected by the Republic which forbade its language. From the 1960s onwards, the agricultural revolution turned peasant life upside down. Its culture, which had long been supported by Catholic priests, was emancipated in the seventies, carried by a new breath of air that accompanied the Breton angers. The youth then reappropriated their language and culture. From the long years of relegation to their great anger, the Bretons have written a fascinating saga since the end of the 19th century.

An exercise in observing repetition, following patterns and deciphering loops. Drawing focus through the lull of recurring images and repeating sounds, a clearer image emerges of industrialised labour and the vulnerable bodies of those performing it. This film finds a rhythm, much a like a machine, to manifest the misgivings of the working class.

Short movie about a bee

In the majestic tropical island of Palawan, three environmental crusaders confront murder, betrayal and political corruption in this thrilling documentary about land defenders battling to save and preserve paradise in the Philippines.

April 1939. Fascist Italy occupies Albania. Thousands of Italian workers, settlers and technicians are transferred to the country. November 1944, Albania is liberated. The new Communist government closes the borders and places dozens of conditions on Italy for the repatriation of its citizens. In 1945 27,000 Italian veterans and civilians were still held in Albania. Among them there is a cameraman, Alfredo C. An operator of the Fascist propaganda effort, he has been traveling around Albania with his movie camera for five years. Before that, for almost two decades, he had immortalised the great machine of the regime. Now, by a twist of fate, being the only cameraman around, Alfredo has been asked to work on behalf of Communist propaganda. Shut up in his storeroom, surrounded by thousands of reels of film, Alfredo watches what he has shot again on an old Moviola. It is his film that we are watching. And perhaps, not his alone.

It’s feels like a vision of a pilgrimage gone south. Desperately looking for the gate in the forgotten lands where only military planes dare to fy. By using gouache painting and their digital processing, animation artist Francesco Rosso imagines two monks rehearsing, fnding perfect pitch which fows through walls and fences, despite their layers. The impulse for this animation comes from an existing musical composition by Karl Saks who recorded Buddhist monks chanting while on a trip to China.

A lost young girl enters the service of a couple of misfits with incomprehensible morals. Madame only wants to wear her wedding dress and the gentleman observes the spiders and sprays their webs with paint. They live in a bushy area, in a house overrun with boxes, and take charge of leaving without any idea of ​​their destination. An inspector is trying to figure out what he can and God is walking around the property. One thing is certain, there is something wrong.

On August 23, 1973 a bank robbery at the Kreditbank in Stockholm went badly wrong. It turned into a hostage situation which lasted six days, and gave its name to a phenomenon. Stockholm Syndrome is a way of describing the emotional bonds which some people can form with a captor or abuser. And it all started in that bank in Stockholm. During the siege, despite being held against their will in a dangerous situation, the four hostages bonded with the bank robbers and turned against the police. They continued to defend their captors after their release and refused to testify against them. In fact, they even raised money for the bank robbers’ defence. This survival mechanism came to be known as “Stockholm Syndrome.” In this film, nearly fifty years after the events, we hear directly from the hostages, bank robbers and police and find out what happened during those six eventful days.

In Barcelona, the Casa Batlló alone sums up the genius of Antoni Gaudí. During the exhibition devoted to it by the Musée d'Orsay, we take a guided tour of this eccentric, colorful residence, completed in 1906.

Obsessively referring to the traumas and wounds that the Spanish civil war (1936-39) and Franco's dictatorship (1939-75) caused in their day no longer serves to explain the impassable abyss of incomprehension and hatred that the abject policies and radical positions adopted by both the right and the left in recent decades have opened up before the citizens of a country that is barely known beyond hackneyed cultural clichés.

In the maternity ward, Céline awaits the arrival of her first child. It is Jeanne, her partner, who will bring her into the world. At night, in the entrance hall of the hospital, she meets men who are waiting, like herself.

Whenever Vanja searches for her older sister, who is hiding from her, everything scares her: the giant snake that lurks for her in the dark courtyard and the cellar with its strange noises. This artful animation film tells of the power of the imagination, which turns shadows into monsters, but which can also give one the ability to become a true tiger which is afraid of nothing.

Tudur Owen's new stand up show, filmed in front of a live audience in Neuadd Dwyfor, Pwllheli. He has stupid answers, but answers? Hardly! Tudur Owen's new live stand up show.

47 years old Samantha Davies, a famous sailor, take part of a race around the world. She has a brush with death and question her adventurous lifestyle. Supported by her team and family, will she have the strength to set off again, in spite of it all ?

The world is not always beautiful, my mother says. My child wakes up. My parents smile at each other and recount – The house in which my mother never wanted to live, my uncle’s mental illness, which my grandparents never wanted to face, the nuclear war that never arrived. They speak of unrealized intentions. To be sterilized, to take one’s own life, to pack up and leave.

After a blackout paralyzes the country, the residents of a small town manage to organize themselves in order to survive. However, their fragile peace is threatened by a group of feral children. For the teenagers, who have been locked up with their parents for some time, their presence is a problem.

In the mountains, Eva and Thomas witness an avalanche that ultimately turns out to be harmless. She reproaches him for running away while she stayed behind to protect their children.

Two men find themselves working together to complete a deal for a mysterious item of common interest.

Inspired by the novel "Tenebra" by David Pratelli, the film revolves around a mysterious killer who begins killing women and leaves a message: This is my revenge.

A look into María Jesús' everyday life, a six-year dream born in the Baztán Valley (Pamplona). María Jesús is the fifth generation of a prosperous family and her business has been running for a long time; but her daughters don't want to inherit it. It's time to buy or sell. This is a small goodbye to a whole life in the countryside through the generations. A museum to the work of women in the rural world.

This unusual rainbow family chronicle was filmed over a period of 12 years. In 2009, the documentary journey begins with two mothers and their three sons and a man. From diapers to soccer, babies mature into teenagers with their own opinions. Old family secrets are revealed, love comes and goes. An unexpected letter arrives from a girl to her half-brothers. Surprisingly, this constellation develops into a family universe by 2021.

The sun rises happily over the horizon and is welcomed by the most beautiful landscape. The humans also wake up and do what they always do: cut down trees, construct aimlessly and pollute without shame. Their ideas and actions, usually very disrespectful to the planet, are putting in jeopardy the whole environment. What they do not realize, is that whatever they do, it will affect them sooner or later. However the cosmos is not that patient…

The story of an exceptional painter talent, the Belgian-Hungarian Kim Corbisier who left a brilliantly powerful oeuvre behind after her tragically short and intense life. And a camera at her filmmaker friend. The mesmerising and often shocking footage of the camera bear witness to Kim's struggles with methadone addiction and, above all, her identity crisis caused by a series of unfortunate and criminal accidents in her family. After the unfinished attempts, with this film, the filmmaker is realising a project they had planned together 10 years ago.

An exploration into the world of someone's psyche and how they find the words to explain the way they are viewing the world around them.

Banter, gossip and drama as two long-term queer friends chat at the laundrette.

Catalan artist Miró and his family and friends try to express their artistic concerns during a tough history period

The story of a man in his thirties who is possessed by a Toraja funerary statuette stolen by his companion in an Indonesian cemetery. This film, worthy of an Edgar Allan Poe tale, is the incredible but authentic account of a man who, although he does not believe in spirits or the afterlife, was, for more than ten years, the victim of the vengeful rage of a cult object.

An old man with a package full of photos and letters sits every day on a bench in Wash. Sq. Park. To all those sitting next to him, he shares the love story he had with his loved wife for over 50 years. In this way, he keeps her alive.

Following Inside Hotel Chocolat series on Channel 5, this Channel 4 special takes you behind the scenes at Britain's largest independent chocolate maker at one of their busiest times of the year, as they dream up a new luxury Easter egg, retro flavours and enticing sweet treats.

Jose and Rosa dance to the rhythm of Fleetwood Mac. Two love stories are intertwined beyond time and space. The farewell songs become those of the birth of an intimate and mysterious romance where through an everyday dance we can glimpse an entire life.

Without Camille Pissarro, there is no Impressionist movement. He is rightfully known as the father of Impressionism. This film explores and highlights the enthralling and hugely important biography and output of an incredible artist.

Sikisa is the life and soul, the hostess-with-the-mostess and the party don't start 'til she walks in. Join her for an epic house party and highly anticipated debut hour. Parties are fun... right?