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Popular Documentary Movies
Keeping Birds - A Documentary
Birds as pets is a foreign concept to many Singaporeans. Many would assume it to be an elderly man’s hobby. However, a new trend of keeping parrots is arising but many are still ignorant to the joys and issues associated with caring for these exotic pets. Focusing on three bird owners, this documentary discusses their experiences with keeping birds.
Me Chama Que Eu Vou
The documentary tells the story of Sidney Magal's 50-year career. The most significant moments in the life of the singer, dancer, actor and voice actor who has become an icon of Brazilian popular music. The man behind the idol, from the point of view of the participants in the story.
heroes
Displaying the faces and voices of transgender youth, the documentary short shows the authenticity of queer and trans people living in Toronto, while simultaneously discussing the struggles for self-acceptance that people who do not conform to cisgender and heteronormative ideals of gender face. Andy Nguyen, trans director and film student, captures his trans friends in their natural state on 16mm film shot on a Bolex h16 camera. Accompanied by narration written and recited by Salem Rao, this film represents that trans people exist and this is what we look like. Regardless of the obvious everyday transphobia, trans people find community and uniqueness within each other and themselves.
Di Volta In Volta
Documentation of the creation of a contemporary art exhibition by students of Media Production Management, Padjadjaran University class of 2019 with the theme "Media Throughout the Time".
Dinosaurs of Antarctica
From the Permian through the Jurassic, journey to the south polar landscapes of Antarctica hundreds of millions of years ago. Roam the primitive forests and thick swamps with bizarre dinosaurs and colossal amphibians. Enter a surreal world of bug-eyed giants and egg-laying mammals—where survival means enduring the sunless, six-month polar winter surrounded by meat-eaters with night vision. Join intrepid Antarctic scientists on a quest to understand the ice continent’s profound transformation—and to predict the future as humans drive dramatic change. Welcome to the lost prehistoric world of Gondwana. Welcome to Antarctica.
Stunned, I Remain Alert
Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after the end of the military dictatorship in Brazil, he's witnessing the return of those same practices.
Looking for Myself
This documentary tells the story of Deborah whom suffered from anorexia.
Big vs. Small
Big vs. Small is a small, artful film about the curious relationship between a tiny woman who dreams of surfing a 30-metre wave. It tells the story of Joana Andrade (39) from Portugal, currently one of only two women in Europe surfing the biggest waves in the world.
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The Troublemaker
In times of crisis we get to find out who we really are. ‘The Troublemaker’ delves deep into the ideas and emotions behind the international wave of civil protest that has emerged in response to the unfolding climate crisis. The pandemic has shown how fast and how far we can move when faced with a global threat. The film asks the simple question: if the science is right on climate change, what should you do? Facing up to crisis, transforming yourself by overcoming a seemingly insurmountable threat, is THE archetypal story of human civilisation. But this time the threat is global and may prove fatal. Now that we understand more about what a ‘global crisis’ feels like, it can no longer be ignored. This is our opportunity to live life without lies, a life that offers both resilience and joy through the power of collective action. thetroublemakermovie.com
Son of Sodom
In August 2017, Theo Montoya found a protagonist for a feature film: Camilo Najar. The following week, he died from a heroin overdose. Who was Camilo?
The Silent Generation
This documentary wants to pay a small tribute to Barcelona's LGBTI older people, both the pioneers of the movement and those who are anonymous, narrating in first person the events that have marked their lives, such as religious education, Franco's repression , democracy, the first LGTBI associations, AIDS or gay marriage.
Sudáfrica 2010: 10 años después de nuestra estrella
Kanata no Tabi Live at Yokohama Kaikō Kinen Kaikan
In the sound of the historic building, Port Opening Memorial Hall, the overlapping tone of the band formation with percussion Ryota Tanaka and guitar Gen Tanabe became a performance that felt a certain heat with the new wind. A new song "some site" written for this day is also included, and it will be released for the first time in this work. Following Kanata, Rinko Kawauchi is on the jacket. Beautiful photographs of the sun moving to the endless sea, shining a faint light and disappearing all the boundaries , gently snuggle up to this album.
The Way We Wait
Desperately building against the inevitability of time, a restless young woman is awaiting another upcoming loss. But maybe more important things never seem to be told. Soon after the director moves into her 22nd house, she gets a phone call that her Grandma, who lives far away, is in a critical condition. Elsewhere, a huge apartment made of sand is being constructed as the tide rolls in, while she belatedly tries to build a relationship with her Gran. As the camera sensitively observes how we wait for the upcoming days, the film embraces the fragility of life, full of uncertainty.
James
A child of war, born to a Neapolitan girl and an American soldier after World War II, James Senese was raised in the outskirts of Naples, of which he witnessed the transformation from countryside to suburb. In a fifty-year-long career, he has searched for an identity in a changing world, pouring his conflicts into his music. The documentary paints a portrait of the man and the artist, tracing the beating heart of his trajectory back to the formation of the band Napoli Centrale in the early Seventies, and investigating the latest evolution of that musical endeavor.
Huella y Camino: Kraken, la Historia
Every man is a story, says one of Kraken's best-known songs, but only a handful are a legend and that is the case of Elkin Ramírez, the Titan, the mythical leader and vocalist of the most famous rock band in Colombia. Through testimonies from those who knew him well, his friends, his family, his musicians ... valuable archive images and of course a lot of rock, the film draws the past to bring us to the present, at the moment when a new vocalist , Roxana, and the band itself, wonder whether or not they will be well received, knowing that rock fans are among the most demanding and faithful audiences that exist. A documentary for nostalgics, for rockers and for music lovers in general, but also for those who want to know more about the national history of a genre that is also a country, less mainstream, if you will, but whose voice resonates strongly who we are.
Quaranteens Around the World
Teenagers from Belgium, Turkey, and the U.S. talk about their experiences during quarantine, share their opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic and explain how people in their countries cope with the situation.
Black Bauhinia
Two young Hong Kong activists reflect on their resistance against China, are forced to decide between long-term imprisonment and refugee camps for a life in exile, while their movement inspires mass protests in the city they love.
The Last Admiral of the Soviet Union
The film is dedicated to the legendary Admiral Igor Vladimirovich Kasatonov, thanks to whom the Black Sea Fleet was preserved as part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Knight of many orders, author of a number of books. The heir of a noble family: grandfather - a full St. George cavalier, father - Admiral of the fleet. I.V. Kasatonov became the last to whom the title of admiral and commander of the fleet was awarded by the President of the USSR.
Que s'est-il vraiment passé? Carlos Ghosn les dessous de la grande évasion
Southern Sorceresses
Through artistic manifestations, a group of LGBTQIA+ people performs public stagings that raise debates on issues of gender, social inequality and prejudice in the streets of downtown São Paulo. Messing with the popular imagination and providing debates, the artists explain their daily struggles to anyone who is interested in acquiring a new perspective on the most subtle layers of intolerance.
Threshold
An autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son: between 2016 and 2019 she interviews him addressing the conflicts, certainties and uncertainties that pervade him in a deep search for his identity. At the same time, the mother, revealed through a firstperson narration and by her voice behind the camera that talks to her son, also goes through a process of transformation required by the situation that life presents her with by breaking old paradigms, facing fears and dismantling prejudices.
Helstrom: Art of the Scare
What makes horror truly scary? Go behind the scenes of Hulu’s Helstrom, a darker, more chilling take on Marvel.
45 Saniye
45 Seconds is a documentary that tells the story of children who disappeared in the earthquake of August 17, 1999 and have not been found yet. According to official data, in the August 17, 1999 Marmara Earthquake, one of Turkey's biggest disasters, 17 thousand 480 people lost their lives and tens of thousands were injured. The losses caused by the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that lasted 45 seconds are not limited to these. One of the greatest pain experienced after the earthquake was dozens of children who disappeared... According to some, the children who could not be reached despite the passing years were kidnapped by the organ mafia, and according to others, they were given up for adoption. The documentary is about the efforts of families who searched for their children from city to city for 19 years, dreaming of the day they would be reunited with them, and their unfinished lives.
Policing the Police 2020
George Floyd’s killing triggered mass demonstrations nationwide calling for racial justice and police accountability in the United States. In the wake of those protests, New Yorker writer and historian Jelani Cobb returns to a troubled police department he first visited four years ago (Policing the Police) to examine whether reform can work, and how police departments can be held accountable.
Elizabeth Junor
In Elizabeth Junor, Ashanti Harris expertly maps a kind of settlement, recounting the life of the Guyana-born daughter of a Scottish carpenter and timber estate shareholder from the Black Isle – deploying voiceover, superimposition, frames within frames and onscreen text to highlight the modes of narration by which a life is catalogued.
The New Generation Baul
"Notun Projonmer Baul which means The New Generation Baul is my journey into the Baul world, it was made in the year 2003. I was deeply 'effected', by the Baul Philosophy and their Music. Bauls are Mendicants or Bards in search of the, "Moner Manush", or the Man after my heart. They have deep suspicion of all man made boundaries and believe in the religion of mankind. Their world has no Maps or Countries, they believe in the religion of mankind, for them the worshipper and the shrine, reside inside the body and one has to dive deep below to soar beyond. Their songs are very esoteric and deeply spiritual." - Bonnie Chakraborty (Director)
Wild Life: The Big Freeze
Bertie Gregory braves arctic temperatures to encounter a unique group of hardcore animals.
The Last Out
Three young Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the Major Leagues.
By the Way, Woody Allen is Innocent
Cartoonist Rick Worley's in-depth and unapologetic analysis of the 1992 Woody Allen / Mia Farrow custody hearing and its (factually muddled) online reevaluation amidst the #MeToo movement.