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Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense
The film gives voice to the growing trend of Afro-descendants moving back to the continent of Africa to live. It highlights the life of a professional educator and their journey through the Texas school system to find freedom amid issues surrounding school equity, racism, and miseducation. This is juxtaposed against the life and legacy of the founding father of Tanzania, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who enacted empowering policies such as Ujamaa and Education for Self-Reliance, and the life and times of Dr. John Pombe Magufuli, the president who denounced COVID-19.
Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: What is the proper way to attend to ourself or brahman?
In a Zoom meeting with the Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK on 11th May 2024, Michael answers various questions about Bhagavan’s teachings.
With Grandmother
The film is a visual and musical love letter to the director’s late grandmother, Niillasaš-Jovnna Máret, one hundred years after her birth. Archival interviews and the joik of áhkku unspool as a connecting thread across time, and the melancholic yet playful story offers lessons for the new era defined by giving and receiving.
Good Snow, Good Ranches, Good People
On February 29th, 2020, the town of Wisdom held their annual Skijoring Festival. Relatively isolated in Southwestern Montana, the people of Wisdom were excited to share their experience of the niche winter sport with a student documentary crew from Montana State University.
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Combining unprecedented access to Davis' vast personal archives with original interviews, this documentary reveals a startling portrait of one of Hollywood's most gifted and enigmatic stars.
Ms. Information
As the nation plunges into pandemic, Gwen Isaac’s observational documentary delves into the trenches with Siouxsie Wiles, the fuchsia-haired microbiologist who emerged as a national hero and a satanic witch in the minds of a divided New Zealand.
Los Xey: A Real Movie Story
The incredible story of Los Xey, a musical group born in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1940, which achieved and maintained an extraordinary worldwide success until its dissolution in 1961.
Behind the Moomins
Interviews with the English language voice cast of 'Moomins and the Comet Chase.'
Victor, the man of today, the young man he once was
In 1982, a few weeks before his legal age and with the grade of Second Corporal in the Marine Forces, Victor, together with his comrades, was notified to carry out a mission: to recover the Georgia's Islands. Forty years after the events, he proudly tells us his story, impregnated with the values and beliefs of the young man he once was and which continue to be alive in him.
¡Viva Maestro!
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel sets the music world afire with his original interpretations of the greatest symphonic works. He is named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People" and serves as music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Amidst social unrest in his native Venezuela, he devises an innovative concert that celebrates the power of art to renew and unite.
Pier
After a natural disaster takes away the home of the grandmother and grandfather, they search for happiness in a new place but cannot let go of the past.
Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer?
Whatever happened to this promising young actress from Hollywood? A search for "the woman in the car" through the never-ending suburbia of Los Angeles, where the myth of cinema reigns. A sort of thriller without a corpse.
Waiuku Vistas
Waiuku Vistas is observational documentary exploring the feeling and mana of Waiuku, New Zealand. Follow two filmmakers as they shoot, capture and document the beauty of the land in the space of a day.
Michelin Stars: The Madness of Perfection
Food writer and critic William Sitwell investigates the passions, pressures and obsessions behind that apparently all-important description, ‘Michelin-starred chef’. ‘It elevates your average stove monkey to superior cheffy status; it puts you in a completely new culinary class. But how relevant is Michelin? Do we want poncey food? Or can you get a Michelin star for a good steak and chips? Is the Michelin Guide harmful in its influence? And does the path to Michelin-starred perfection lead to dangerous obsession?’
"I Thought Maybe I'd Get to Meet Alan Whicker": A Conversation with Bill Forsyth
An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth
Big Moves
After a lifetime of being told that she, as a fat person, could not dance (and believing it), Glasgow filmmaker Sarah Grant was very surprised to learn when doing dance classes over zoom in the pandemic (with the camera off, of course), that this was a big fat lie. Big Moves is an exploration of the mythology surrounding dance and dancers’ bodies, and how its cultural depiction of perfection has unintentionally fed Sarah's lifelong struggle with perfectionism.
BLACKPINK: The Show
A real journey into the quartet's sound and aesthetic, and the ways they've transformed over the years. The four members — Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa — each got her own chance to shine, while also proving the magic of their unity in live versions of songs old and new.
KEATS: A Documentary
A west-coast bible camp staff is documented as they host hundreds of campers in the summer of 2023, taking on every obstacle that comes their way.
Kokoda Front Line!
This iconic and Academy Award-winning newsreel shot by Damien Parer contains some of the most recognised images of Australian troops in the Second World War.
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon
Are the manned moon landings of Apollo one of the greatest hoaxes ever devised - perhaps even the greatest government conspiracy of all time? Were the moon walks filmed in a secret studio? Do you believe in the Moon Landing Hoax? The evidence will surprise you!
Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
Original 1973 short promotional documentary on the making of the 8th James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973).
The Farc Guerilla, a History of the Future
Under the auspices of Rio Chiquito, Bruno Muel and Jean-Pierre Sergent’s 1965 report on the birth of the FARC, and Dunav Kuzmanich’s 1981 fiction film Canaguaro about the end of the Liberal guerillas, this is look back on 70 years of clandestine life in the Columbian forest. Women and men who took up arms amid profound social inequality and political violence recount their years as fighters and their return to civilian life, without disowning their past. From 2012, when the peace negotiations began, to 2022 — the story of a new struggle.
Broken Eyes
What starts out as an attempt to hang onto her lifelong passion turns into a harrowing investigation into a multibillion industry and the discovery of an underground network of thousands of patients permanently scarred by Lasik, the so-called “safest elective surgery on the market.”
The Alchemists of Sound
A documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, responsible for creating some of the most memorable television and radio music in British popular culture, including "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Doctor Who (1963).
Liam Gallagher: 48 Hours at Rockfield
Unparalleled access to the world renowned rockstar, Liam Gallagher, as he heads to the famous Rockfield Studios in Wales with his sons, Lennon and Gene for 48 hours of music, memories and mayhem.
Lucha Mexico
An exciting inside look at the stars of Lucha Libre, Mexico's distinctly colorful brand of professional wrestling, where flesh and blood Superheroes have performed for generations of fans. With unprecedented access to some of the top Luchadores in the world, LUCHA MEXICO goes behind the mysterious mask to explore one of the most cherished traditions of Mexican culture.
EXTRASENSORIAL
Aliens? Extraterrestrial life? UFOs? Is it real or is it a myth? Luis, a journalism student, decides to look for answers to the out-of-this-world unknowns with the help of Esteban, a professional ufologist (and a total romantic) who hides a secret behind the interview. Luis will find himself involved in a world full of extravaganza and incoherence to get the answers he seeks.
Braving the Peak
Taiwan’s Central Mountain Range features 138 peaks with altitudes exceeding 3,000m, stretching over 300 km from north to south. KU Ming-cheng and CHOU Ching, two trail runners with very different temperaments and a 30-year age gap, spend three years training and exploring with the aim of traversing the Central Mountain Range on foot. This documentary captures their record-breaking eight-day, 16-hour feat from the very beginning, traversing self-doubt and disagreements, to finally achieving their goal, every step resembling a peak of life marked by unwavering determination.
Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall
Members and crew members of the band Pink Floyd tell the story of their band up to their historic performance of The Wall at Earls Court.
Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa
New historical documentary on the largely unknown period of South African B-movies, and the later cinematic identity of the nation that was established under the apartheid regime.
A Border Between Us
When a Bangladeshi man moves across the world to be with his partner in the UK, they discover the unforeseen costs of following your heart. In A Border Between Us Director Riad Arfin explores his personal experience of being in an interracial relationship and trying to settle in a culture very different from his own; between visa rules and cultural norms, is it possible to find a place to call home that works for them both? In a challenge to the idea that all you need is love to make you whole, when faced with the impact of loneliness and discrimination on his mental health, is love really enough? When the sacrifices feel one sided, what does it take to make it work?
City Museum / My Paradise
An essay film that describes the city as a subjective paradise in which systems of order and chaos constantly override each other. An ode to chaos, hidden signs and the city as an eternal palimpsest.
Making Athena
The making of ATHENA covers the entire production of the film and gives us an in-depth perspective of the scenes that everyone is talking about, from the 12-minute long shot sequence to the scene that sent the cameraman 30 meters above the ground. Highlights include how Romain Gavras brought his vision to the screen, along with his co-writer Ladj Ly and Dali Benssalah (Abdel) and how the music, composed by GENER8TION, plays a unique role to make ATHENA a modern tragedy.