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Unstrung
Unstrung exposes the dramas of the juniors tennis world, hitting the road with a handful of teenage competitors as they head for the national championship.
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Luminous traces obtained through in-camera optical manipulation of nocturnal imagery.
To live and to die in Samarkand
Having gone to Samarkand in search of traces of colonial culture, of which there were quite a few left there, having carefully photographed them, we suddenly discovered that it was not the dead buildings that were much more interesting, but the living carriers of this very colonial culture. The result is a film about people who live on the ruins of an empire.
Grandmother of Russian Feminism
Portrait of a typical European feminist - Olga Lipovskaya (1954-2021), journalist, translator, poet, founder of the women's non-profit organization St. Petersburg Center for Gender Issues (an educational and resource center for women and women's organizations), editor of the samizdat magazine Women's Reading.
The Hairdressers
Ana Luisa is single and has been getting up early to open the hairdresser's shop in her living room for 30 years. Tato is married, and has been getting up even earlier to go to the Brasil neighborhood and attend Ana Luisa's hairdressing salon for 40 years. Hairstyles and cuts, it is the only thing left to offer. The hairdresser's is her refuge in the middle of a neighborhood that has become too young for their eyes. Among those who visit them is Aurora, a goddaughter who offers Ana Luisa an opportunity to try to revive the business. The plan is simple: she makes some flyers to be handed out in the square. Ana Luisa doesn't see the point of trying something like this, Tato believes that nothing is lost. They agree on one thing: handing them out will mean accepting anyone who wants to go for a cut, even the young people who they say mistreat the neighborhood.
The Town That Was
An intimate portrait of John Lokitis, the youngest remaining resident of Centralia, Pennsylvania, and his quixotic fight to keep alive a hometown that has literally disintegrated under his feet. His unbowed determination and steadfast refusal to acknowledge defeat reveal a man, a town, a region, and a way of life abandoned and forgotten.
Guerrilla Radio: The Hip-Hop Struggle Under Castro
Facing threats of jail and censorship, four hip-hop groups struggle to reveal the boundary of artistic expression in Castro's Cuba.
Jean Seberg
After a much-publicized but brief stint in Hollywood, Jean Seberg was selected by Jean-Luc Godard to star in BREATHLESS. It was to become the legendary actress’s best-remembered role. This 2007 video essay by Mark Rappaport, director of the 1995 film FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG, reveals the true story behind her iconic face.
Oh, Saigon
Accompanied by gripping images from the war, 'Oh, Saigon' is an in-depth, compelling documentary about one refugee family's attempts to face its divided past and heal the physical and emotional wounds of the Vietnam War.
The Universe
This educational show explores many scientific questions and topics about the universe (Big Bang, the Sun, the planets, black holes, other galaxies, astrobiology etc.) through latest CGI, data and interviews with scientists.
Idoler mot alla odds
Documentary about the theatre group Glada Hudik as they bring their musical about Elvis Presley to Stockholm for the first time.
Tarabatara
"Why is it that I've never lived in one sector definitively? Because I feel bad. I feel bad about the air of one place." Tarabatara is a call to daily life and the charms of a gypsy family from the hinterland of Alagoas. The documentary captures moments of a period of pause in the nomadism of these gypsies. In the figure of the eldest and their memories, in the women and children of the group, with their speeches and gestures, with their looks and tasks.
Fractricide in Burkina, Thomas Sankara and French Africa
Burkina Faso, West Africa. October 15, 1987. Automatic gunfire breaks the evening night’s silence and kills President Thomas Sankara. Had the assassins been sent by his brother in arms, Blaise Compaoré, with whom he had launched the Marxist Burkina Revolution a few years before, and who took control of the country right after the assassination?
Thursday Jan. 4, 2007: Pedro (São Paulo) or The Right Way To Make Capirinha
Pedro, at Nick Cave's favorite caipirinha bar in São Paolo, gives a lesson in how to prepare the classic Brazilian drink.
Kirill ... From the Army of the Missing
From 2001 to 2007, Russia lost more than 3,000 soldiers killed. There were no wars, at least no official ones, at that time. But the soldiers died. Mostly conscripts. The reason is army crime.
Zina. Once Upon a Time
The history of human life in photographs. A very personal film made by a director about his beloved late wife.
The House
An old village house. He looks like an old mighty tree. He is also wise and majestic. And at the same time he is very kind and talkative. He speaks the language of objects accumulated over a long life, cracks, holes, cobwebs, sooty corners, blackened icons in the corners, basins, jars…
The Making of Stranglehold
The Making of Stranglehold is a fantastic look into the development of the classic video game being the last time Chow Yun-Fat and John Woo collaborated together.
The Hunt for the Boston Strangler
Police closed the case of the infamous Boston Strangler when handyman Albert De Salvo confessed to the grisly murder of 13 women. But recent forensic evidence reveals that in at least one of the murders - and possibly all of them - police may have had the wrong man. Some even theorize that the strangler may be walking free today. Now, the National Geographic Channel investigates in The Hunt for the Boston Strangler.
My Class
In 1982, filmmaker Ekaterina Eremenko was among 26 students accepted into Russia’s elite natural science school. A golden future lay ahead of them, but the birth of perestroika and the collapse of the old order meant that that future was no longer certain. Eremenko sets out to discover what happened to her classmates and how the seismic political changes of the 1980s affected her generation.
P.M. Die Wissensedition - Meilensteine der modernen Kommunikation
Dublin Day
An examination of Dublin as it is today and as it was in 1904, retracing the steps of the characters in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.
Caspar David Friedrich – Der Gedankenmaler der Romantik
Let's All Hate Toronto
Inspired by the unguarded animosity that the mere mention of Toronto incites among the majority of Canadians, filmmakers Albert Nerenberg and Rob Spence follow a character named "Mister Toronto" as he launches a coast-to-coast Toronto Appreciation tour. Along the way, the crew will encounter everyone from those claiming to be "recovering Torontonians" to folks who have vowed never to set foot in the city cited by the United Nations as the world's most culturally diverse. Could this seething resentment be something as simple as envy, or have the denizens of this worldly metropolis truly done something to offend their embittered fellow countrymen?
The Unusual Adventures of Diego Diegovich in the Country of the Bolsheviks
The fate of the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera is closely linked to Russia: Russian artists Angelina Belova and Maria Vorobyova-Stebelskaya gave birth to his children, for a long time he was a friend of Leon Trotsky, joined the Communist Party several times, was friends with progressive figures of young Soviet art. It was to Soviet Russia that he came in the last years of his life in the hope of recovering from a serious illness…
Plume
The hero of the film has not only the talent to reveal secrets. He himself is a big mystery. Leonid Parshin is the son of a Russian intelligence officer, an illegal immigrant from the age of two. In the 80s, his investigation of Bulgakov's riddles aroused particular interest among the KGB. And then surveillance, an attempt to escape from the Soviet Union, to swim across the Gulf of Finland, in the 86th there was an arrest and a prison. In 2001, his report "Computer study of the psychology of M. Bulgakov and his literary heroes" was a success at an international symposium in Bucharest. In the course of the film, Parshin talks about his unusual adventures, and sometimes severe misadventures in the 70s and 80s of the twentieth century.
I'll Get Up Anyway
This film is about three modern Russian singers (Irina Bogushevskaya, Svetlana Surganova, Anna Gerasimova), whose life and creative path can serve as a model of fortitude. Each of them had to overcome difficult life trials and remain true to themselves and their creativity. The author of the film and their colleague Elena Pogrebizhskaya talks about these outstanding women with a tragic revelation.
Into the Limelight: Tribute Bands
An affectionate look at what goes on behind the scenes of the Limelight Club in Crewe, where for ten years tribute acts to the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Phil Lynott have been providing a post-industrial town the chance to hear some legendary live music. In the Limelight, a converted Methodist church, the spirit of rock is alive, along with Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Phil Lynott - in reality John, Keith and Wayne. The posters on the club walls display more than a decade of tribute-band entertainment by the likes of Pink Fraud and Stairway to Zeppelin. Arena reveals the characters offering locals the opportunity to hear their favourite music performed live.
Scotch Mist: A Film with Radiohead in It
Radiohead plays songs from their album In Rainbows for a webcast broadcast on New Years Eve. The film was made by Radiohead, Nigel Godrich, Adam Buxton, Garth Jennings, Stanley Donwood, Ric Jerrom, Hugo Nicolson and Dan Grech-Marguerat.
Andrey Mironov. An Ordinary Miracle
20 years after Mironov's departure, his wife, actress Larisa Golubkina and his closest friends, for the first time with their participation, will reveal little-known pages of his theatrical and private life.
Holiday Train Show With David Hartman
From Thanksgiving through January each year, visitors of all ages, by the thousands, stream into the Haupt Conservatory from wintry cold New York to a miniature make-believe New York City, a wintry wonderland warmed by sparkling holiday music, all beautiful and fun. The video takes us to rural Kentucky to join Paul Busse and his talented team of artists as they collect their plants, roots and berries, then design and construct the new additions to the show, guiding us through the creative process. Video of New York City's "real" buildings mirror the make-believe as we rejoin Paul and the team reinstalling the fairyland city to celebrate the new holiday season.
Wings of Defeat
Wings of Defeat is a feature-length documentary exploring the human experience of surviving kamikaze pilots. When director, Risa Morimoto, learned that her beloved uncle had trained as a kamikaze pilot in his youth but carried that secret to his grave, she decided to retrace his footsteps and ask surviving pilots about their provocative experiences. Sixty years later, survivors in their eighties tell us about their training, their mindsets, their experiences in a kamikaze cockpit and what it meant to survive when thousands of their fellow pilots crashed to their deaths. Their stories insist we set aside our preconceptions to relive their all too human experiences with them. Ultimately, they help us question what responsibilities a government at war has to its soldiers and to its people.
Aoluguya, Aoluguya
Aoluguya, Aoluguya is the first film in Gu Tao’s Ewenki Trilogy. A tale that unfolds in the Aoluguya forest, featuring such unique characters as a mother who dulls her sadness over the absence of her son, Yuguo, with alcohol; her brother; and Maria, the tribal chieftain who watches over them.
Liam Brady's Dalymount Days
Liam Brady presents a history of Dalymount Park, the home to Bohemian FC and Irish football, and a stadium that has played host to many of the game's greatest players.