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Okinawa/Santos
Okinawa/Santos
During World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another place. Matsubayashi draws attention to the fact that 60% of the immigrants were from Okinawa. Based on testimonies from interviewees, this film reveals the hidden historical relationship between Okinawa and Brazil.
Okinawa/Santos 2020
The Green River Killer: Mind of a Monster
The Green River Killer: Mind of a Monster
Beginning in the early 1980s, Washington state was gripped with fear as the bodies of young women began appearing along the banks of the Green River. As the number of victims grew, investigators created a taskforce and enlisted the help of the FBI, but it took almost 20 years to finally catch their man. Through startling and chilling tapes and video archive of Gary Ridgway’s police interviews, The Green River Killer: Mind of a Monster reveals, in Ridgway’s own disturbing words, insight into his evil: from how his troubling behavior as a child morphed into his morbid motivation to murder as many women as possible.
The Green River Killer: Mind of a Monster 2020
Pichi, el jesuita del pueblo
Pichi, el jesuita del pueblo
Pichi, el jesuita del pueblo 2020
The 49th Hexagram
The 49th Hexagram
​The 49th Hexagram explores the construction of cultural memory and political narrative surrounding the history of the Korean peninsula. Employing the services of an animation studio in Pyongyang, North Korea, Ho Tzu Nyen’s work reinterprets scenes of political uprising and mass demonstration as depicted in South Korean narrative film and television. The project aims to form a direct relationship between South Korea’s political history and the tensions that still define the country’s relationship with its northern counterpart. The result is, in the artist’s words, a “game of exquisite corpse across geopolitical barriers.” The artist developed the experimental soundtrack in collaboration with Korean artists and musicians Bek Hyunjin, Park Minhee, and Ryu Hankil. Offering two vocal renditions of texts from the forty-ninth hexagram of the I-Ching, an ancient Chinese divination manual, the soundtrack composites historical interpretation with translation to speak of revolution and renewal.
The 49th Hexagram 2020
Pyrale
Pyrale
Summer 2016, somewhere in French provencal Drôme, a mysterious plague strikes in the villages: swarms of white butterflies invaded the area. At dusk, everyone is locked up home, trapped by the seemingly unstoppable vermin. As the big swarm approaches, Lou discovers both the strange insects and her feelings for her friend Sam. By the end of the season, the moths will have devastated the entirety of the century-old box trees, leaving a ruined landscape behind them.
Pyrale 2020
BTK: Chasing a Serial Killer
BTK: Chasing a Serial Killer
A three-part documentary series that recounts the notorious killer's crimes, the decades long investigation that captured him, and the effect his brutal murders had on everyone in his orbit, especially his daughter who speaks openly about what it is like to be the daughter of a serial killer.
BTK: Chasing a Serial Killer 2020
Space Launch LIVE: America Returns To Space
Space Launch LIVE: America Returns To Space
Space Launch LIVE: America Returns To Space 2020
80.000 Schnitzel
80.000 Schnitzel
Battering, breading, frying – Berta has prepared thousands of schnitzels in her old cast-iron pan over the years. This 83-year-old landlady’s life on the family farm with adjoining guest house in the Upper Palatinate has been marked by constant hard work. A life that her granddaughters Monika and Hannah never wanted to lead. Now, the deeply indebted farm is on the brink of collapse. Despite having an academic background and contrary to her intentions, Monika, in her early thirties, decides to give up her modern life and save the family business. The two women join forces and give themselves a year to sort out the farm’s problems.
80.000 Schnitzel 2020
The Fight for Greenland
The Fight for Greenland
The world's largest island has been part of Denmark since 1721, but a significant majority of the 56.000 inhabitants now want independence. They feel their culture and language is threatened and is the main reason for the many suicides among young people. But the Danish speaking Greenlanders feel discriminated and want to keep the ties to Denmark. The film follows four strong young Greenlanders, who each in their own way insist on taking responsibility for the future of their country. The documentary explores the difficult balance between the right to self-determination and xenophobic nationalism. Between traditional culture and globalization.
The Fight for Greenland 2020
In The Tracks Of - Special Edition
In The Tracks Of - Special Edition
This documentary brings the audience into the creative process of film scores by featuring the interviews of some of the world’s most renowned film composers, including Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia), Bruno Coulais (The Chorus), Georges Delerue (Jules and Jim) and Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water). With the participation of collaborative personalities, the film revives the memories of these composers, explores their careers and individual works, and probes into their creative universe.
In The Tracks Of - Special Edition 2020
Austria 2 Australia
Austria 2 Australia
Austria 2 Australia 2020
La première marche
La première marche
June 2019: four students lead the first-ever Pride March in Saint-Denis, working-class suburb of Paris. 50 years after the Stonewall uprising they pave the way for LGBT struggle in a territory no one had dared to think of, raising new issues such as intersectionality.
La première marche 2020
Ztracený břeh
Ztracený břeh
Ztracený břeh 2020
it's a girl!
it's a girl!
A self-portrait short film on 16mm from a trans male perspective.
it's a girl! 2020
videomemoria
videomemoria
videomemoria 2020
Anders essen - das Experiment
Anders essen - das Experiment
For the film “Eating Differently – The Experiment” a field is planted for the first time with precisely those grains, vegetables, fruits, oilseeds and grasses that end up on our plates per person – and which the industry processes into animal feed, among other things. A field of 4,400 m2 is created, the area of a small soccer field that the "average" citizen needs.
Anders essen - das Experiment 2020
Actress Quarentine
Actress Quarentine
The life of actress Alina Nastase in Quarentine.
Actress Quarentine 2020
Spontaneous
Spontaneous
You never know when someone is miscarrying; it could be happening right next to you.
Spontaneous 2020
Buried Secrets of Keros
Buried Secrets of Keros
An investigative journey set in the heart of the Aegean Sea. A team of archaeologists unveil what may be the world's oldest maritime sanctuary.
Buried Secrets of Keros 2020
François Truffaut - Des films d'amour !
François Truffaut - Des films d'amour !
"I only film people who are always active. Even if their activity is strange, weird." The activity François Truffaut talks about here is love. Romantic or filial love. Love as an educational, political and social action. The love imagined by a filmmaker who wanted to show that love is within everyone's reach ! To gather Truffaut's formulas in a documentary rekindles how Truffaut communicates the essential.
François Truffaut - Des films d'amour ! 2020
Olea… ¡Más alto!
Olea… ¡Más alto!
An account of the life and work behind the camera of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Olea, whose very personal viewpoint, interested in all kinds of subjects, approached in very different ways, but always with a very characteristic style, has analyzed the social and political life of Spain for more than five decades.
Olea… ¡Más alto! 2020
Queer Diaries
Queer Diaries
A mixture of documentary, diary and personal fiction, Queer Diaries is a sensitive and philosophical journey. For the starting point of an unfinished film, a filmmaker lives, travels and records his memories in the shape of audiovisual poems and short stories. The result is a political manifesto in favor of queerness. What are the models of family and happiness that we follow? What movies shall we make for the new world?
Queer Diaries 2020
Los acordes de la memoria
Los acordes de la memoria
Los acordes de la memoria 2020
Pompeii: The New Revelations
Pompeii: The New Revelations
Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a variety of new excavations, including two never-before-seen discoveries.
Pompeii: The New Revelations 2020
Victoria
Victoria
California City, a planned city in the desert, where a young African-American man dreams of starting a new life. Documentary impressions, mobile phone videos, diary entries and Google Maps views are combined into a portrait of this otherworldly place.
Victoria 2020
The Voyages of Matisse, Chasing Light
The Voyages of Matisse, Chasing Light
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pompidou which will be dedicated to him in 2020, this art documentary brings us back to life of the journeys made by Matisse that influenced his art. And particularly his last trip to Polynesia in 1930 which will bring him to the threshold of contemporary art with the invention of his gouache cut-out papers.
The Voyages of Matisse, Chasing Light 2020
Neojiba - Música Que Transforma
Neojiba - Música Que Transforma
This documentary traces the impact of the State Centers for Youth and Children Orchestras of Bahia and the program's powerful community music projects.
Neojiba - Música Que Transforma 2020
First Ascent / Last Ascent
First Ascent / Last Ascent
Best friends Hazel Findlay and Maddy Cope journey to the rocky outer reaches of Mongolia, on a quixotic search for new trad routes.
First Ascent / Last Ascent 2020
Plastic Defence
Plastic Defence
Plastic Defence is a documentary about illegal 3D printed firearms in Europe and the decentralised network behind them. These guns are robust, they don't blow up in your hands, and they're untraceable. What's more, they're being made in people's bedrooms. At Popular Front, we got access to the network designing and building these downloadable rifles. It goes by the name "Deterrence Dispensed". Its members are determined to give untraceable DIY firearms to the world. We spent time with the founder of the movement—a man known as JStark. He argues that his group is helping people living under authoritarianism fight back against their oppressors. Whilst this might be true, Deterrence Dispensed is sending their technology out into the world for free to anyone and everyone. If it gets into the wrong hands, which it easily could do, many innocent people could die.
Plastic Defence 2020
Yasuni Man
Prime Video
Yasuni Man
YASUNI MAN is the award winning documentary feature about a conflict raging deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon. It's a real-life Avatar story. Once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilize them, the Waorani people battle industry operatives and their own government in a fight to survive. Join filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey and his Waorani friend Otobo as they embark on an expedition into the most biodiverse forest on Earth. Witness what may be lost as oil companies encroach, human rights violations run rampant, and a forest Eden is destroyed - all for the oil that lies beneath Yasuni.
Yasuni Man 2020
Brexit: Das Endspiel
Brexit: Das Endspiel
Brexit: Das Endspiel 2020
The Making of Spider-Man: The Animated Series | Art in Motion
The Making of Spider-Man: The Animated Series | Art in Motion
A look behind the scenes of Spider-Man: The Animated Series
The Making of Spider-Man: The Animated Series | Art in Motion 2020
The Many Lives of Kojin
The Many Lives of Kojin
In a first-person documentary, Diako Yazdani, a political refugee in France, returns to see his family in Iraqi Kurdistan and introduces them to a 23-year-old gay man from Kojin who seeks to exist in a society where he seems unable to find its place. With humor and poetry, the director delivers a moving portrait where the meetings of each other invite to a universal reflection on the difference.
The Many Lives of Kojin 2020
KULOB34
KULOB34
Kulob is everyone who believes in nothing
KULOB34 2020
Queen: The Band that Rocked the World
Queen: The Band that Rocked the World
The classic rock band's career highlights. From their first TV appearances through to Live Aid! and the recent blockbuster biopic.
Queen: The Band that Rocked the World 2020
Bread and a Blanket
Bread and a Blanket
On December 13 of 1943 the Nazi occupation army in Greece executed all the male population of the town of Kalavryta while burning it to the ground. Three men who witnessed these events as kids remember.
Bread and a Blanket 2020
Fantasmas do Império
Fantasmas do Império
Ariel de Bigault's work has been connected to the routes of the Lusophone World. In Fantasmas do Império we are guided by the saotomean actor Angelo Torres through some works of the Portuguese cinema that explored its colonial past. Some directors as Fernando Matos Silva, João Botelho or Margarida Cardoso help to understand imperialism, colonialism, and propaganda seen through the "family album" which is the Portuguese cinematic collective imaginary.
Fantasmas do Império 2020
Within A Few Degrees: A Little Gest of Bob Frank
Within A Few Degrees: A Little Gest of Bob Frank
Explores the enigmatic career of late folk-musician Bob Frank, his disappearance after the release of his 1972 debut album, and the cult-following it accumulated in the following decades.
Within A Few Degrees: A Little Gest of Bob Frank 2020
Peng Yu Sai
Peng Yu Sai
Malaika Vaz follows the illegal manta ray trade pipeline from fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean, to the Indo-Myanmar border and finally undercover in the wildlife trafficking hubs of Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
Peng Yu Sai 2020
La Grande Aventure du France
La Grande Aventure du France
La Grande Aventure du France 2020