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Behind the Smoke
Behind the Smoke
This documentary is meant to bring to light the issues that firefighters and their families faces later in life when the firefighter association and government resources are no longer available to them. Cancer can take more firefighters than anything else on the job. Behind the Smoke is a representative voice of every firefighter, "I was called to save lives, who is called to save mine?"
Behind the Smoke 2023
Canal de Marseille : un chantier hors normes
Canal de Marseille : un chantier hors normes
Canal de Marseille : un chantier hors normes 2023
Bad Things Happen In Philadelphia
Bad Things Happen In Philadelphia
A documentary showing the effects of gun violence on young men, women and mothers living in Philadelphia.
Bad Things Happen In Philadelphia 2023
Fairy Garden
Fairy Garden
On the outskirts of Budapest, in the heart of the woods, hides a ramshackle little hut. Inside, two social outcasts have formed the unlikeliest of bonds: Fanni, a 19 year-old transgender teenager, and Laci, a 60 year-old homeless man. Together, they form a cantankerous, convivial, makeshift family life, supporting each other as father and daughter through hardship and change. Life is tough, but it is theirs. Set on the margins of Hungarian society, this is a film about perseverance, finding home, and the triumph of acceptance.
Fairy Garden 2023
Born in Gunsan and After Seven Years, I Was Repatriated to Japan...
Born in Gunsan and After Seven Years, I Was Repatriated to Japan...
A bamboo forest becomes a city with bustling streets that then smoothly transform into photographs: never really in focus, ever more fragmentary and blurred. Born in Gunsan and after seven years, I was repatriated to Japan… begins as a formidable exercise in fūkei-ron, only to turn into a meditation on what remains of the past, with worlds, eras and personal views colliding.
Born in Gunsan and After Seven Years, I Was Repatriated to Japan... 2023
Dancing Free
Dancing Free
Three choreographers at the beginning of their careers selected for the first edition of the LAC Lugano Dance Project festival.
Dancing Free 2023
Return to the World of... the Kitchen Pimps
Return to the World of... the Kitchen Pimps
Albert, Hayden and Tindell adjust to life in private accommodation whilst simultaneously avoiding the first significant obstacles of adulthood; in attempt to maintain the soul of the group dynamic.
Return to the World of... the Kitchen Pimps 2023
Miho's Journey
Miho's Journey
Born in Uenohara, Japan, Amari Miho, the main character of the film, now lives in South Korea. Ever since she was a child, Miho loved music and dreamed of becoming a singer. Leaving her home for a new life, her journey as a singer and immigrant begins.
Miho's Journey 2023
Sisters of Ukraine
Sisters of Ukraine
Volunteers from Barcelona travel to a convent in Ukraine where nuns are aiding refugees following the Russian invasion. As missile attacks surge to unprecedented levels, they take a group of three dozen refugees and families of soldiers fighting in the war on a three-day journey across Europe to housing in Spain.
Sisters of Ukraine 2023
The Nettle Dress
The Nettle Dress
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand from foraged stinging nettles, all picked on the South Downs near Brighton. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion. It’s also his medicine, the way he survives the death of his wife that left him and his four children bereft.
The Nettle Dress 2023
An Hour from the Middle of Nowhere
An Hour from the Middle of Nowhere
One of the largest immigration detention centers in the United States is located in a remote location with no close-by private immigration attorneys other than Marty.
An Hour from the Middle of Nowhere 2023
Do I Need This?
Do I Need This?
A woman wrestles with the ideas of copious stuff, that is filling our lives and our landfills. She interrogates what is "want" and what is "need" as various life changes impact her family.
Do I Need This? 2023
Anim Na Dekada… Nag-Iisang VILMA
Anim Na Dekada… Nag-Iisang VILMA
To celebrate her 60th anniversary in showbiz, Vilma Santos sits down with Boy Abunda to look back and give insights about her multi-faceted career as a child star, sought-after endorser, box-office queen, movie producer, and distinguished politician.
Anim Na Dekada… Nag-Iisang VILMA 2023
Tres cosas básicas
Tres cosas básicas
In 1978, the militant Tulio Valenzuela was kidnapped in Argentina, along with his partner Raquel ─pregnant─ and their little son. At that moment, General Galtieri proposes that they save their lives in exchange for traveling to Mexico and handing over the leadership of the Montoneros. There, Tulio escapes and denounces the Argentine military. He knows that with this fact, Raquel will have a tragic end.
Tres cosas básicas 2023
Noëlle Perna - La vraie vie de Mado
Noëlle Perna - La vraie vie de Mado
Noëlle Perna - La vraie vie de Mado 2023
Re-belles
Re-belles
Re-belles 2023
Shaka: A Story of Aloha
Shaka: A Story of Aloha
A documentary on the origin, meanings and uses of the gesture. The shaka sign is reputed to be over a century old, but its origins are the stuff of myths and legends. It turns out that kupuna (Hawaiian elders) have kept the story secret for almost a century. Why? They didn't want it told incorrectly or commercialized. But given advancing age and a world in need, they decided it was time to share the story.
Shaka: A Story of Aloha 2023
The Books He Didn't Burn
The Books He Didn't Burn
Explores how Hitler's personal library provides a look into his mind and how it significantly informed his worldview.
The Books He Didn't Burn 2023
Blue roots
Blue roots
In the midst of the global environmental crisis, Jamie, a young Caribbean girl relocated to the city, must return to her native island, a world biosphere reserve, to take care of family property left behind by her father, including a mythical passageway said to connect the hill to the sea. Uprooted, Jamie intends to sell everything to pay for expensive medical treatment, however, her plans are postponed when her suitcase is temporarily misplaced with ownership documents. This incident buys her time to reconnect with the ways and customs of her people and eventually reconnects her with the sea, where swimming through plastic debris she is confronted with the dramatic global reality. Discovering her mythical maternal heritage, Jamie turns her actions into an example for the islanders' children and, rekindled by this small gesture of optimism, she finds the strength to challenge her fears, embrace her culture and fulfill her destiny.
Blue roots 2023
David Hallyday
David Hallyday
David Hallyday 2023
5 nanomoles – The Olympic Dream of a Trans Woman
5 nanomoles – The Olympic Dream of a Trans Woman
Valentina Petrillo is a visually impaired transgender athlete. In 2019 she started a difficult battle, asking Italian sports federations to give her permission to compete in the female category. Today, after a long struggle, she is the first Italian transgender athlete competing internationally in the women's category. Her story was featured in hundreds of articles and tv appearances in Italy and abroad. Her choice to challenge unscripted societal rules is an inspiring example across continents. Despite all odds, her dream to participate in the Paralympic Games continues to drive her forward.
5 nanomoles – The Olympic Dream of a Trans Woman 2023
Hoop Dreams 4Ever
Hoop Dreams 4Ever
Hoop Dreams 4Ever is the final film in an amateur film trilogy that borrows its name from the critically acclaimed Hoop Dreams. It follows a group of 6 boys navigating their final year of high school, while playing basketball along the way.
Hoop Dreams 4Ever 2023
Irreversible Time Fairy Tale
Irreversible Time Fairy Tale
At the time when Serbia was under international sanctions, while cities were bombed and citizens spent their days on the streets and shelters, some people found their happiness in the newly conceived rave subculture.
Irreversible Time Fairy Tale 2023
Big Five Spécial F1
Big Five Spécial F1
Big Five Spécial F1 2023
Zirka
Zirka
Film portrait of Zoryslava Romovska, a leading Ukrainian jurist and author of the Family Code project. A cinematic journey into the closed world of law along an untrodden path leads Star (in Ukrainian - Zirka) from Kosovo to Lviv, Kyiv and back, into corrupt politics and law - a path in the turbulent 80s, on which she strives to preserve her conscience and reputation, inspiring with her charisma.
Zirka 2023
Fluchtburg
Fluchtburg
Fluchtburg 2023
Enquête au cœur de la fin de vie: Mourir n'est pas tuer
Enquête au cœur de la fin de vie: Mourir n'est pas tuer
Enquête au cœur de la fin de vie: Mourir n'est pas tuer 2023
Burning Out
Burning Out
Dad humour is declared a thing of the past at a fire station in Amsterdam, where diversity must be promoted and employees must learn to interact with each other anew. A witty and human film about finding yourself in a time of cultural upheaval where fires still need to be put out.
Burning Out 2023
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible. The silent past is a horror film. The smell of nitrate in the morning. How many ghosts can the cinema contain? 75 films. 22 years. What is the numerological significance? Too late. Never too late.
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) 2023
Nakache & Toledano, le cinéma hors normes
Nakache & Toledano, le cinéma hors normes
An incessant back and forth between real life and fiction, between the social and the cultural, drama and comedy.
Nakache & Toledano, le cinéma hors normes 2023
Versace: Billion Dollar Bling
Versace: Billion Dollar Bling
Versace: Billion Dollar Bling 2023
Askarov
Askarov
The film is devoted to Azimjon Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek, artist and Kyrgyz human rights defender, who had investigated and documented crimes of Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies. In 2010 during interethnic conflicts in the South of Kyrgyzstan (the city of Osh), Askarov was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. In 2020 Askarov died in prison under unclear circumstances. Askarov’s family and friends are trying to restore justice to him.
Askarov 2023
Parcours
Parcours
Parcours 2023
The Home Game
The Home Game
This feel-good sports doc is about one man's dogged attempt to finally stage a home game on the football pitch his father created 25 years earlier. By registering the non-existent team of their small town to the Icelandic FA Cup he gives himself a 50/50 chance to fulfill his fathers dream.
The Home Game 2023
Folk Bards - Moments of their lives and ours
Folk Bards - Moments of their lives and ours
The late Panos Geramanis talks to the forgotten heroes of the Greek Folk Song and retrieves moments from their lives, trying to record and revive images and values of an era, forever lost. Through his daily radio show, the legendary "Folk Bards", he presents the greatest, often forgotten, heroes of Greek Folk Song.
Folk Bards - Moments of their lives and ours 2023
Don Rickles Live in Casino Rama 2010
Don Rickles Live in Casino Rama 2010
Presenting the 2nd live Don Rickles concert ever released by the Rickles Estate! Travel to the legendary Casino Rama where Don has the audience in stitches with his classic humor. This special presentation is brought to you by Winbrook Entertainment in association with Wynnefield Productions and remastered by Sorcery Cinema for an unforgettable experience. Join us in celebrating the comedic genius of Don Rickles, with the full support of the Rickles Estate. Subscribe now to catch all the fantastic releases from the one and only Don Rickles.
Don Rickles Live in Casino Rama 2010 2023
Mon Reichshoffen
Mon Reichshoffen
The film is a cinematic love-letter to Reichshoffen, a small, modest town in Alsace, and its residents.
Mon Reichshoffen 2023
Smiling Georgia
Smiling Georgia
During its 2012 election campaign titled “Smiling Georgia,” the governing party promised its country’s poorest residents new teeth in exchange for their vote. Dentists began to pull people’s decayed teeth, but after the election defeat, the trusting public never received their new pearly whites…
Smiling Georgia 2023
Qu’est ce qu’on va penser de nous ?
Qu’est ce qu’on va penser de nous ?
Qu’est ce qu’on va penser de nous ? 2023
Right to Fight
Right to Fight
In their day, Marian 'Lady Tyger' Trimiar, Cathy 'Cat' Davis and 'Pretty' Pat Pineda were famous, earning headlines as they battled against sexist 1970s society for the right to fight. But today, they live anonymously, and in many cases, in poverty - their groundbreaking contributions to sport ignored by the men who've written boxing history. This feature documentary uncovers the hidden origins of women's boxing, and the remarkable story of the pioneering women who put their lives of the line to earn the right to fight each other in the ring. This is an inspirational story, but it is not a hagiography - the narrative takes dark and surprising twists and turns as the women's stories unfold in unexpected ways.
Right to Fight 2023