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2016

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Living in an Unreal World
Living in an Unreal World
Short film for Vice Media about the illusion of stability, freedom, and prosperity in the West, comparing it to life in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. Ends with a trailer for HyperNormalisation.
Living in an Unreal World 2016
NOTRE HISTOIRE EST POLITIQUE - EMMANUEL MACRON, LA STRATÉGIE DU METÉORE
NOTRE HISTOIRE EST POLITIQUE - EMMANUEL MACRON, LA STRATÉGIE DU METÉORE
NOTRE HISTOIRE EST POLITIQUE - EMMANUEL MACRON, LA STRATÉGIE DU METÉORE 2016
Patrick Kielty's Mulholland Drive
Patrick Kielty's Mulholland Drive
The story of how an Irishman from Belfast, William Mulholland built the Los Angeles aqueduct to supply the city with water. Mulholland was self taught but managed to finish the aqueduct on time and on budget. However today, as Kielty discovers, water is still a sensitive topic, some people have it, others do not. It is a story of water, power and money.
Patrick Kielty's Mulholland Drive 2016
Passing the Torch
Passing the Torch
Passing the Torch documents a ninety year old Jazz master, Jimmy Heath, mentoring teenage musicians with a thirst for knowledge and an appreciation of America's homegrown art form, Jazz. Director Bret Primack captures Heath's gentle, humorous sharing of life lessons and the non-threatening way he guides aspiring artists to musical excellence. An esteemed mentor, Mr. Heath reaches a much younger generation by understanding his role, to be dependable, engaged, authentic, and finely tuned to their needs.
Passing the Torch 2016
Uncle Gloria: One Helluva Ride!
Uncle Gloria: One Helluva Ride!
A documentary about the macho owner of an auto wrecking company in Florida who goes into hiding from the law as a woman setting off a bizarre journey of self discovery. Undergoing a risky sex change operation, Gloria becomes a dominatrix, a transgender activist and finds a gender-bending love all while trying to reconcile with her dysfunctional family.
Uncle Gloria: One Helluva Ride! 2016
Panama Papers: The Hold-up of the Century
Panama Papers: The Hold-up of the Century
Panama Papers: The Hold-up of the Century 2016
Capoeira, um passo a dois
Capoeira, um passo a dois
Capoeira, um passo a dois 2016
The Devil's Horn
The Devil's Horn
From Adolphe Sax’s workshop to the legendary times of jazz and bebop, conquering the classical music stages, forbidden by Nazis and Communists and banned by the Pope: in its 170-year history the saxophone has always been the most seductive as well as the most feared musical instrument. Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Larry Weinstein illuminates and mythologizes the story of the saxophone, its most legendary players and its allegedly longstanding curse about saxophonists falling prey to the instrument’s dark powers.
The Devil's Horn 2016
Mga Kulay Sa Labas Ng Linya
Mga Kulay Sa Labas Ng Linya
A map of the experiences of children living in “informal” settlements inside the UP Diliman campus shows the possibility of a shared space, different from how students, professors and employees have come to know the university.
Mga Kulay Sa Labas Ng Linya 2016
Aracati
Aracati
Vale do Jaguaribe, Ceará. Following the route of the Aracati wind, the film moves from the beach to the countryside. During this path, it observes the relationship between man and landscape, thetransformations of space and the limits between nature and artifice.
Aracati 2016
Don't Look Down
Don't Look Down
Don’t Look Down is the untold story behind Sir Richard Branson’s daring attempts to cross the Atlantic and Pacific in the mid 80s and early 90s in the world’s largest hot air balloon. Daniel Gordon captures the intensity and passion of the team that was involved in this ambitious project, as well as the first-hand account from Branson himself. Branson remembers details of his journey with remarkable sharpness and clarity. It’s as if the perilous adventure he embarks upon, with engineer, and Balloonist, Per Lindstrand, just occurred.
Don't Look Down 2016
President Trump: Can He Really Win?
President Trump: Can He Really Win?
Donald Trump has emerged as the clear front runner for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Matt Frei investigates whether "The Donald" could make it all the way to the White House.
President Trump: Can He Really Win? 2016
Seven Songs for a Long Life
Seven Songs for a Long Life
The intimate story behind our changing relationship with death. A terminal diagnosis used to mean death within months. Modern medicine allows patients to live on for years. A passionate and touching film about uncertainty, about the future that faces all of us, following five patients who choose to sing their way through life, with a score by Mark Orton.
Seven Songs for a Long Life 2016
First Lady of the Revolution
First Lady of the Revolution
While visiting an aunt and uncle in the exotic countryside of Costa Rica, a young southern belle from Alabama accepted a ride on the back of a motorcycle belonging to a local charismatic farmer — a ride that would propel her down narrow mountain roads and into history. First Lady of the Revolution is the remarkable story of Henrietta Boggs, who fell in love with a foreign land and the man destined to transform its identity. Her marriage to Jose ‘Don Pepe’ Figueres in 1941 led to a decade-long journey through activism, exile and political upheaval and, ultimately, lasting progressive reforms. First Lady of the Revolution is not only a depiction of the momentous struggle to shape Costa Rica’s democratic identity; it’s also a portrayal of how a courageous woman escaped the confines of a traditional, sheltered existence to expand her horizons into a new world, and live a life she never imagined.
First Lady of the Revolution 2016
Life in the Air
Life in the Air
Flight is the ultimate superpower, an extraordinary ability that humans can only dream of. Yet an astonishing number of animals have mastered the skies. Now, new technology allows us to join them in their previously hidden world, ‘flying’ alongside these gravity-defying animals and experiencing their unique point of view. With exceptional skills and breath-taking design, creatures ranging from frogs to fish, from spiders to squirrels, spend their lives mid-air. Life in the Air captures this extraordinary animal behaviour and reveals – in incredible detail – the amazing science of flight.
Life in the Air 2016
Forever Bridgeless
Forever Bridgeless
A story of how these two barangays have opposed all measures for a bridge to be put up to link them together and make life easier and productive for them.
Forever Bridgeless 2016
Untouchable
Untouchable
When a powerful Florida lobbyist discovered that a nanny sexually abused his daughter, he wielded all of his considered political capital to pass some of the strictest sex offender laws in the country. Today, 800,000 people are listed in the sex offender registry, yet the cycles of abuse continue. Moving from the halls of power to the cardboard homes of a marginalized pariah people, this enlightening documentary defies expectations and challenge assumptions to argue for a new understanding of how we think about and legislate sexual abuse.
Untouchable 2016
Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi?
Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi?
Yehudi Menuhin was the 20th century's greatest violinist. He was a child prodigy but the man behind the violin was harder to know. Endlessly touring and crossing continents and cultures, his contract with EMI was the longest in the history of the music industry. He took classical music out of the concert hall because he believed music was for everyone and had the power to change lives. An impassioned idealist, Yehudi wanted to give more to the world - he became a tireless fighter for humanitarian issues he believed in. In this film, commemorating the 100th year of his birth, family and close friends recall his extraordinary musical life, in which he embraced jazz and Indian ragas as much as Bach, Beethoven and Bartok. And incredible home movies take us on an intimate behind-the-scenes journey from his childhood in California, to meeting gypsies in Romania and travelling to India and beyond.
Yehudi Menuhin: Who Was Yehudi? 2016
Abduction
Abduction
Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime.
Abduction 2016
Speaking Is Difficult
Speaking Is Difficult
Harrowing police scanner audios are set against placid landscapes in this urgent treatise on an American epidemic.
Speaking Is Difficult 2016
Allen Iverson: The Answer
Allen Iverson: The Answer
NBA TV will feature the primetime special — Allen Iverson: The Answer — during its extensive 2016 Finals coverage on Monday, June 6, at 8 p.m. ET, with the fearless and sometimes misunderstood Iverson looking back at his Hall of Fame playing career and the moments that made him one of the most talked about figures in NBA history. During the hour-long special, NBA TV’s Steve Smith interviews Iverson about the difficult journey from Hampton, Va., to Georgetown University, his selection as the first overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft, his close relationship with “The City of Brotherly Love” and carrying the 76ers to The Finals, his unapologetic scoring mentality, the famous “Practice” press conference, regrets about leaving Philadelphia, and his impact on pop culture.
Allen Iverson: The Answer 2016
91%
91%
A film that shares the heartbreaking accounts of those impacted by gun violence and reveals new hope for common ground in the debate over guns in America.
91% 2016
La Suisse, coffre-fort d'Hitler
La Suisse, coffre-fort d'Hitler
La Suisse, coffre-fort d'Hitler 2016
Johnny l'immortel
Johnny l'immortel
Johnny l'immortel 2016
Pâtisserie, le beurre et l'argent du beurre
Pâtisserie, le beurre et l'argent du beurre
Pâtisserie, le beurre et l'argent du beurre 2016
Alien Crash Retrievals
Alien Crash Retrievals
Learn the shocking truth about extraterrestrial beings on Planet Earth. World governments and military factions are not only aware of the Alien presence; they may be in communication with alien races via an exchange program.
Alien Crash Retrievals 2016
Kazwa: A Million Lanterns
Kazwa: A Million Lanterns
At the onset of monsoons, millions of fireflies come out to mate in the forests around the remote tribal village of Purushwadi. The villagers tell us a story of how the surreal natural phenomenon intertwined with their lives.
Kazwa: A Million Lanterns 2016
Close Ties
Close Ties
Forty five years of marriage is an impressive anniversary. Barbara and Zdzisław could be proud of themselves if not for the fact that the husband left the wife for his lover eight years ago. But now they are together again, although Barbara claims that if it were not for his infirm legs, Zdzisław would still be chasing skirts around Kraków. Despite the past resentment, everyday problems with paying bills, an occupied bathroom and rearranging furniture, they have a hard to define bond.
Close Ties 2016
Island Earth
Island Earth
Facing the destructive forces of modern agriculture, a handful of Hawaiians seek to use the wisdom of their ancestors to make Hawaii a beacon of hope for an uncertain future.
Island Earth 2016
Screenagers
Screenagers
An award-winning film that probes into the vulnerable corners of family life and depicts messy struggles over social media, video games, and academics. The film offers solutions on how we can help our kids navigate the digital world.
Screenagers 2016
Letter from Korlai
Letter from Korlai
In a quaint village on the Indian Konkan coast, in the time of yellow grass with steps receding and prayers unanswered, a desire for oblivion forks the search for images of exile and belonging.
Letter from Korlai 2016
My Last Failure
My Last Failure
There are many films piercing through Cecilia King’s first feature; there’s a film about a family (her sister, her mother, her aunt, her grandmother)… There’s also one about being an Argentinian woman of Korean descent visiting Korea. And another one about being a Korean woman who, at the same time, acts like someone from Buenos Aires. There’s family love, friendship, the small tragedies and the great ones, emancipation, heartbreak, creativity. And none of these storylines drives us to a feeling of drift; they are parts of a mosaic that is pieced together in the viewer’s head thanks to a solid, strongly emotional core: the life of the director, who, in a spontaneous and loving display of generosity, dedicates My Last Failure to (in this order) a teacher from childhood, her eternal friends and her sister.
My Last Failure 2016
CAP: 2 Intentos
CAP: 2 Intentos
A full on examination of the two presidential terms of Carlos Andres Perez in which he led the venezuelan fates: 1974-1979 and 1989-1993, known respectively as "La Gran Venezuela" and "El Gran Viraje". Two models of government that, separated by ten years, were very different but produced a change in the history of the country.
CAP: 2 Intentos 2016
François Mitterrand: Family Albums
François Mitterrand: Family Albums
Twenty years after his death, François Mitterrand remains an enigma. Never before has a French politician generated so much contradictory comments, both during his lifetime and after his death. Beyond his political career, his complex and mysterious personality continues to fascinate. To lift a corner of the veil, Jean-Christophe and Gilbert Mitterrand and Mazarine Pingeot agreed to share some private memories of their father. By leafing through François Mitterrand's photographic albums, it is possible to reconstruct his personal journey, from his childhood years through to his life with Anne Pingeot and his daughter Mazarine.
François Mitterrand: Family Albums 2016
Sun. Thunder. And Mārtiņš Brauns
Sun. Thunder. And Mārtiņš Brauns
Documentary about the legendary Latvian composer Mārtiņš Brauns.
Sun. Thunder. And Mārtiņš Brauns 2016
Borges Está Vivo
Borges Está Vivo
Documentary about the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. It is divided into ten episodes, each one with a central theme, in which young writers discuss various fragments from interviews, conferences, symposiums, and lectures by Borges. Pedro Mairal, Mauro Libertella, Romina Paula, Tálata Rodriguez, Juan Martin Sklar, Wison, among others, comment on topics related to Borges such as writing, the library, Buenos Aires, the world, the Nobel Prize, and blindness. It won the Premio Fund TV de Oro.
Borges Está Vivo 2016
And Man Created the Cow
And Man Created the Cow
And Man Created the Cow 2016
Baker Street Live
Baker Street Live
The sort film “Baker Street Live” is being produced for December 2016 exhibition “The Masterpieces of Russian Cinematography”. The film is aiming to intrigue the viewer by the strength of British culture taking place within Russian cinematography influencing and shaping the soviet and modern Russian society. The story of two puppets – Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson - undertaking an investigation and finding the lost pages scattered around London by which they are mostly intrigued. As the puppets keep finding page by page, they unveil their own story as if one discovers himself from within. And as ever, the successful investigation by Serlock results in the re-union of the lost pages with their lawful owner.
Baker Street Live 2016
Paint Drying
Paint Drying
10 hours of paint drying on a wall.
Paint Drying 2016
Wrestling with Disaster
Wrestling with Disaster
This film documents the inner workings of the world of wrestling, giving our audience a unique understanding of the incredible physical and mental demands that wrestlers must meet before, during, and after a night of entertaining the fans.
Wrestling with Disaster 2016