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Get Your Eurovision On!
BBC Eurovision Commentator for over 10 years Scott Mills loves the annual song contest and in this special compilation he is joined by EastEnders’s star, Natalie Cassidy for a celebration of the pure joy, unity and downright banging tunes that is… Eurovision. They will delve in to some of the most iconic performances and look back at incredible staging, memorable moments and of course costume.
Anibal's Paradise
Aníbal Alencastro worked in different cinemas in Mato Grosso in the 1950s and 1960s. Now, he recalls stories related to the job of projectionist.
Even Vergeten
Markenhof nursing home is located in the woods of Beekbergen. The unsuspecting walker might think it's a holiday park, but the buildings are home to 138 patients, all wandering around in various stages of memory-destroying Korsakoff's Syndrome. Korsakov's disease is caused by severe vitamin B1 deficiency, almost always the result of alcoholism. One patient can do little more than stare into space, while the other appears to be fine at first glance. Wracked by guilt, shame, addiction and a destroyed memory, patients Kenny and Christina try to create an understandable and livable world.
Parents' School
No one knows how an ordinary person in Russia comes up with the idea of taking a child from an orphanage. At first, it seems crazy: everyone is afraid of insurmountable difficulties, but gradually a person begins to act. Very soon, potential parents will find out that the most difficult thing in this quest is to go through the school of foster parents. Alas, not everyone reaches the end.
Omsk Bird
In 2021, for the fourth year in a row, the Omsk region became the first in Russia in terms of population decline, and the song of the Volgograd rock band “Your friend will also go to St. Petersburg” is the anthem of half of those who left. The heroes of "Omsk Bird" do not listen to modern rock and do not read Palahniuk at night, but they also have a desire to leave Omsk. Should they try or does this family have their own way?
The Black Death: A Plague Upon the World
Dan Snow and Raksha Dave investigate how the plague devastated Britain 700 years ago, killing around three million people across the country. In the first edition, Dan heads to Melcombe Regis in Dorset as he traces the spread of the plague and finds out how the disease reached Britain's shores in 1348. At The Old Operating Theatre in London, Raksha witnesses the horrific symptoms of this deadly disease and the terrifying outcome for those who fell victim to it, and also investigates the recent discovery of mass graves beneath a tranquil London square.
Yallah Gaza
Gaza is a small palestinian territory where more than 2 millions people live. Completely locked up by Israel since 2007, its society is still structured and organized, but for how many more times ?
No Place like Haddonfield
Return to the town where it all started and go behind the scenes with the cast and crew from Halloween Ends.
The Kharkiv Files
Shot over the entire first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, The Kharkiv Files documents the life of soldiers and civilians from Ukraine’s second-largest city and the surrounding oblast. The first half of the film shows life in the late winter and early spring, when Russian forces were relentlessly bombarding the city from its outskirts and Ukrainian forces were stubbornly resisting. The second half shows Ukrainian forces slowly pushing the Russians back towards the border, culminating in their famous counteroffensive in the fall. The film ends with the return of winter. The Russians have been almost entirely expelled from Kharkiv oblast, and a semblance of normality has returned to the city. But with the war still raging, no one knows if the battle for Kharkiv is truly finished.
My Place Ozerna
Escaping the urban anxieties of London, a Polish woman connects with a distant aunt in Ukraine. Their shared feelings of melancholy and alienation provide the foundation for a deep cross-generational bond that reveals tender perspectives on life and aging.
Gilda Love
Gilda chose Gilda because of Hayworth and at 98 years old is the oldest active drag queen in the world. And lives in Barcelona. Two hours following Gilda's daily life, from morning to night, where you can see what the person behind the makeup, the feathers and the heels is like.
Poet Laureate
An unemployed man tries to become the poet laureate of his hometown, a small Canadian town in the middle of nowhere.
Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris
Step onto the stage of the Théâtre du Châtelet alongside superstar soprano Renée Fleming in Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing: Paris. Tenor Piotr Beczała and performers Axelle Fanyo and Alexandre Duhamel join an exquisite cinematic journey into the sights, sounds, and history of the City of Lights.
Return of the White-tailed Eagle
The documentary Merikotkan paluu (Return of the white-tailed eagle), tells the tale of the past and the present of the white-tailed eagle. The second protagonist of the film is the human - the animal that can be blamed for the eagles’ distress but also credited for its rescue.
Building Blox
The emergence of "online games" or Virtual Traslacion in Roblox has become a bridge for the youth to continue the tradition in the NCR region.
Last House of Horror: Behind the Screams
A behind the scenes documentary on the making of Manny Velazquez's 2023 slasher film, The Last House of Horror.
Experimentally
There is an opinion that science is born within the walls of metropolitan universities. But there are other researchers as well. Their inventions appear in small villages and urban suburbs, in home workshops and garage boxes.
Hoop Cities - NBA Feature Documentary
An 8-part, in-language docuseries that explores the local culture, history and basketball communities surrounding the game throughout Belgrade (Serbia), Bologna (Italy), Cologne & Leverkusen (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Kaunas (Lithuania), Paris (France), Seville (Spain) and Thessaloniki (Greece).
Paved Paradise
The more food we produce on less land, the more space there will be for plants and animals to thrive.
Por arriba Juan, por abajo Jean
In 1973, Juan Chopin Thermes found Juan Cayambe playing his harp in the Ibarra market (Ecuador). He takes it to his house and records his music on magnetic tape. As a result of this encounter, the music and poetry of Juan Cayambe survives. At the end of 2022, musicians from Imbabura and musicians residing in Paris will record new versions.
The Butterfly Effect
Documenting her daughter Willow's preparation to sing a heartwarming song in front of an audience for the first time, filmmaker Kelly O'Brien offers a tender glimpse into the highs and lows of pre-teen life as Willow makes an unexpected choice.
Secrets of the Supermarket Own-Brands
Denise Van Outen reveals the truth behind who really makes the supermarkets' own-brands, digs into the alternatives, and names big brands that also make the budget own-label option.
Chinese Room
A video essay consisting of Uyghur detention portraits and a narration chronicling the persecution of Uyghur people by the Chinese government with an emphasis on the role of technology and AI.
Offshore
An observational mini-documentary following the home lives of Eve and Barry when Barry's work takes him offshore.
Adel Emam ..an Egyptian memory
A documentary that highlights the role played by artist Adel Emam in conveying his messages about the political and social issues that Egypt went through over more than 60 years during his artistic career.
Who Is D.B. Cooper?
Examines the only unsolved air piracy case in history; in 1971, a man hijacks a Northwest Orient Airlines flight, demanding four parachutes and $200,000; he jumps out of the plane with the money and is never seen again.
SOBER TOGETHER
Out of addiction, into a drug-free life! "Sober Together" accompanies four people over the course of a year at Hof Fleckenbühl, a self-help facility for addicts. For many, this seems to be the last resort to abstinence. But under strict rules and without therapeutic and medical care, some of the residents reach their limits. The documentary observes its protagonists in their struggle against addiction and leaves it up to the audience to develop their own attitude towards the unusual concept of Hof Fleckenbühl.
Confusion Valley
The theater group Valendas from the Safiental in the canton of Grisons adapts Friedrich Dürrenmatt's grotesque novel.
Wake The Dead
A feature length documentary about the making of Gorotica, a shot on video horror film by Hugh Gallagher. Includes new interviews with a lot of the cast, crew, and other filmmakers and never before seen behind the scenes footage from on the set of Gorotica.
Credere a tutto
Designing artificial relationships between found or stolen elements is a technique that seeks to discuss found footage. Credere a tutto tells about houses and living beings and has developed by intertwining ancient photos, a text, a film sequence and original video footage. Materials that take on time, space and new meanings within the expanded vision of the so-called “spectators”. A techno music session while séances and panoramic views of derelict houses question us about what we see and what we cannot see.