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Cuba My Soul
Some twenty five years after The Buena Vista Social Club, traditional Cuban music lives on, but it's facing a threat from foreign styles and a disinterested youth. Interviews with many of Cuba's best and legendary artists help paint a tantalizing portrait of Cuban music, past and present.
Amazon
This documentary examines one of the most powerful companies on earth, Amazon.com. Amazon is an American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world."
Art for Everybody
Thomas Kinkade’s pastoral landscapes made him the most collected and despised painter of all time. After his shocking death, his family discovers a vault of unseen paintings that reveal a complex artist whose life and work embody our divided America.
Sound and Silence
Toshio and Shizuko Omiro, both over seventy years old, have lived in Kawasaki, Japan since 1981. With their free-spirited lifestyle, the improvisaton duo continues to pursue their vision of changing the world into a more peaceful one in an inappropriate and unseemly way.
Still Film
An ode to movie culture and its beguiling hold on our imagination, modeled on an actual legal deposition, and accompanied by a procession of 35mm publicity stills from studio press kits.
Electric Appalachia
Using found archival footage, the film offers a meditation on electricity and modernity in East Tennessee. Compiled by Eric Dawson (director at the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound – TAMIS) with score written and performed by guitarist William Tyler and harpist Mary Lattimore.
Rosas: The Song. The Journey.
Beyond the elections, we now tell the story & relive the moments of how Rosas helped bring people together —-to hope together.
Free Will? A Documentary
Free Will? A Documentary is an in-depth investigation featuring world renowned philosophers and scientists into the most profound philosophical debate of all time: Do we have free will?
Wade in the Water: A Journey into Black Surfing and Aquatic Culture
Wade in the Water: A Journey into Black Surfing and Aquatic Culture (2023) reclaims the 1,000-year-old tradition of Black surfing. Braiding historical accounts with modern-day testimonials, the film dismantles the racial barriers of conventional surf culture, delves into the overlooked history of Black surfing's legacy, and honors its current movement—inspiring the next generation of Black surfers.
Vai Cavalo
Dirlinho and his cousin’s childhood is marked by deprivation and violence. They try to escape by working as jockeys. While the punters bet on them, they gamble with their lives for a better future by riding doped horses.
Le Perche, les richesses du territoire
Through Philippe Ruhlmann, mayor of Margon, this documentary leads you into the province of Perche, in deeply rural Normandy. Places and people will bring the wealth of this province to light.
Santiago: The Camino Within
The Camino de Santiago is a well-traversed pilgrimage route dating back to medieval times. Legend recalls that the remains of the Christian apostle St. James the Great were mysteriously discovered at Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain after having thought to be lost. For centuries, pilgrims have traveled the route, also known as the Way of St. James, for spiritual reasons. This film, The Camino Within, follows pilgrims along this Way. Sharing their stories and profound experiences about how walking the Camino changed them in different ways, viewers will be inspired to experience this pilgrimage as their own interior journey of discovery. Added Value (30 minutes) Bishop Donald Hying, the Catholic Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, and Fr. Jordan Berhouse (assistant director) host discussion with an audience on the campus of Ave Maria University.
Klaas de Jonge, de Prijs van Vrijheid
The Dutch anti-apartheid activist Klaas de Jonge is arrested in South Africa in 1985 on suspicion of terrorism that resulted in deaths.
Attacking Life
After a gruesome shark attack, Brett Connellan woke in hospital to be told he may never walk again. Attacking Life follows Brett’s mental and physical recovery, and is an intimate exploration of a young man living life with a second chance.
Moses' Spies
The agents of the Jewish General Security Services (SHABAK) are known as "Moses' Spies". This film addresses recruiting undercover agents to infiltrate and assimilate into outposts suspected of hostile subversion.
Into the Shadows
As refugees and migrants face the dark underbelly of Johannesburg, this documentary illuminates their hardships and persistent hopes for a better future.
King Lear: How We Looked for Love During the War
Due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainians, fleeing the war, found refuge in Uzhhorod in western Ukraine. The local director decides to attract non-professional actors -displaced people - in bringing his dream into life - to stage the King Lear play. The theatrical performance helps them find themselves and their purpose in a new world where there is war, and the director finds an answer to the eternal question of what love is and why this world should not perish.
A Dance Class
Τhe teenage dance team of Neos Voutzas Sports Club continues its courses online, during the Covid-19 pandemic. They turn their rooms into dance halls and at the same time prepare for the exams, in an effort to overcome the trauma of a fire that devastated the area and marked the recent history of Greece.
Nuclear Nomads
The French workers who clean nuclear reactors are exposed to high levels of radiation. With impressive images the film portrays “nuclear nomads” who travel from one nuclear power plant to another in caravans, risking their health in the name of the future.
Just Before Death
Fourteen years ago, her husband died after a period of illness. The couple spent their last years at Bispebjerg Hospital. Today, Wivel returns to the same hospital to make an autobiographical and reflective film about life and death – and to portray the staff who work in this particular difficult field. What is it like to go to work every day to care for people whose lives are running out? What thoughts do you have? And how do you make the last chapter of another person’s life a good, vibrant time? Doctors and nurses share their thoughts on the philosophical, personal and practical dimensions of their work when we sit in on their meetings.
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
Legendary British actor Michael Caine, who began his brilliant career on stage during the 1950s, talks about his private life, his work in film and the books he has written.
The House in 35 Kraljevec
Over almost half a century, the house in Zagreb at 35 Kraljevec has sheltered many diverse people. At some point in life, it was everyone’s home. Many of the house’s tenants were prominent in different fields of artistic and social activities, so it was the place where amazing books, film scripts, photographs, illustrations, music, shows, films were made… The house, originally built by Slobodan Praljak, hosted, among others, Abdulah Sidran, Goran Babić, the Ayllu group, Igor Kordej, Goran Pavelić Pipo, Milan Trenc, Davor Slamnig and Pjer Žardin, with Mirko Ilić, Vilim Matula, Davor Gobac and frequent visitors. The tenants later scattered across the world: South America, Canada, New York, The Hague, Belgrade, Sarajevo and Ljubljana. Following their destinies, the current house owner and film director Pero Kvesić speaks about the past as well as the present time. Written and directed by: Pero Kvesić.
Rotraut: The Energy of the Line
Discover the extraordinary life of internationally renowned German-French contemporary artist Rotraut Klein-Moquay, known simply as Rotraut. Based in Arizona, she uses organized shapes to create paintings and sculptures that explore the magic and mysteries of the natural world, including the sky, stars, and universe. Rotraut: l’énergie de la ligne (Rotraut: The Energy of the Line) provides an intimate look into Rotraut’s life and practice, specifically her long fascination with the universe and how her work explores the energy of the seasons and the cosmos. Now 84 years old, the artist reveals for the first time the magic of her life with Yves Klein, how her poetic thoughts and authenticity feed her work, and how she forged her own way in the art world. The 60-minute documentary created by Bliss Photo and Video is presented in French with English subtitles.
Philosopher of the Sea
Elderly sailor Sven Yrvind takes on a daring solo voyage from Ireland to New Zealand. What seems like a reckless journey on the unforgiving seas is also inner journey that prompts the thought - how do we wish to lead our lives?
Our Father
Toni, an attractive Catholic priest, impregnates several women in the Swiss countryside of the 1950s until the bishop revokes his priesthood. The six children only meet after Toni's funeral. They talk about their fatherless youth, their brave mothers and the fatal silence they now want to break.
The Village of Roses
Close portrayal of a Romani family living in Italy where fascism is on the rise.
Women According to Men
Before the Islamic Revolution in Iran, women's lives were strongly determined by two contradictory factors: the traditional patriarchy and the shah's modernisation policies. This film-excerpt collage starts in 1932 – the year the first Iranian film with sound was made – and ends in 1979 revealing how, during this period, women were depicted by generally male film directors.
Synthetiki: A Film about Something
Synthetiki was founded in 1985 in Athens by Apostolis Loverdos and Dionisis Avgerinos. The music documentary A Film about Something highlights the late recognition that this electronic band through the web, while recording moments from their concerts and jouney as a band. Apostolis refers to this early period as a “perfect rejection toward us.”
In the Sky of Nothingness with the Least
There were moments when I closed the door and my mind was flooded with questions. One of them was strong enough to turn on the camera. Do they love each other? Nota and Ilias are an elderly couple living in different worlds. The only common thing in these worlds is the slow and difficult decaying of the mind and body.
Thanks for Your Service
When director Carina Randlov’s father retired, it happened without trumpet fanfare. In fact, he was financially screwed and got no goodbyes or thank yous on the way out. Retirement is a huge change in one’s life, identity and self-perception – and these are exactly the three things Randløv sets out to explore. From a warm, anthropological angle, she talks to a large cast of ordinary people about their experience of the transition to a retired life. And if there’s one thing everyone agrees on, it’s that recognition outweighs cold hard cash. And when recognition costs no one anything, why should it really be so hard to pass on?
Mother of the Station
The documentary follows the lives of Greek women immigrants who came to Germany during 1960–1973 and worked in hard jobs. The Second Word War was a landmark both in European and Greek history. Since then, one million people immigrated to Germany. Some decades later, the scenario remains the same.
The Chamber
This film, directed by Cristiane Bernardes and anthropologist Tiago de Aragão, reveals the everyday political work of Brazilian women MPs from across the political spectrum. We see them navigating tense relationships with other politicians, staff, the media and citizens, during the last turbulent year of Bolsonaro’s government.
Gyütö
To hear the sound of the ocean in the Himalayas... This unlikely wish takes a film director and her three girls to Gyütö, where a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, perched high, echoes day and night the sound of sacred tantric chants of meditation, «which sound like the waves of the ocean». Wandering freely about wherever their curiosity leads them, they discover the daily life of 400 monks living there. Over time, a dialogue develops and a growing complicity emerges. From this intimate immersion, a film takes form, unfolding like a wave both visually and in sound. The reality of Buddhism is revealed in a way that is unprecedented, in the spontaneity of the questions asked, as well as with the sensitive understanding of a child's point of view and with no proselytization at all.
Bridges to Liverpool
At Eurovision 2023, Estonian singer Alica Milova started off as an underdog but eventually became one of the favorites among both the jury and the audience. Discover how she fulfilled her dream at the age of 20, silenced the haters, and uncover the secrets of Europe's most renowned music competition in Mikhail Valtfogel's film "Bridges to Liverpool."
Vigneronnes
True pioneers, those winegrower ladies work close to nature. They unlocked the secret of wine and create worldrenowned nectars.
Feminine Singular
A documentary featuring 30 Argentinian women aged between 4 and 80, sharing their stories of resilience, strength, and unique perspectives on womanhood through performance art.
