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People in Motion
Cedric Dahl traveled the US west coast with 5 parkour practitioners who shared a passion for movement. This film documents the experience over 9 months.
Dear Mandela
When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three ‘young lions’ of South Africa’s new generation rise from the shacks and take their government to the highest court in the land, putting the promises of democracy to the test.
Secret City
London and the City of London are not the same place. London is a metropolis of 8 million people. The City of London is the famous square mile in the middle, with about 7,000 residents but many more businesses. A Corporation older than Parliament, the City of London has played a key historical role in protecting and promoting the interests of finance capital. Secret City investigates the power wielded by the Corporation of London over British economic policy, through which it sustains London's prime position at the hub of global finance capital - not least through control of the majority of the world's tax havens.
Sex for Sale: American Escort
The world's oldest profession is now a thriving black market economy, with an underground workforce that's just an Internet connection and a phone call away. National Geographic's Mariana van Zeller journeys to the heart of the American escort industry and uncovers the gritty reality behind the supply and demand of high-end sex work.
Kubrick's Odyssey II: Secrets Hidden in the Films of Stanley Kubrick; Part Two: Beyond the Infinite
This provocative and insightful film is the second in a series of documentaries that will reveal the secret knowledge embedded in the work of the greatest filmmaker of all time: Stanley Kubrick. This famed movie director who made films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut, placed symbols and hidden anecdotes into his films that tell a far different story than the films appeared to be saying. In Kubrick's Odyssey, Part II, Beyond the Infinite, author and filmmaker, Jay Weidner further explores the esoteric secrets allegedly hidden in Kubrick's films.
Made in New Mexico
A documentary that takes a look at the film and media industry of New Mexico and its impact today.
Away To Live
In 2009, Nowhere Train went on a train journey through Austria – five musicians, two film-makers and a writer. St. Pölten, Podersdorf, Salzburg, Klagenfurt, Vienna – one concert at every stop. Exceptional places, exceptional shows, exceptional adventures. The result is a film portrait of a very special tour showing the journey, the concerts and the people Nowhere Train met on the road.
Becoming Traviata
How can emotion come to light on the opera set? Does it come from singing, acting or music? How can someone become the incarnation of Verdi's masterpiece? Following world famous French soprano Natalie Dessay from the first repetitions until the premiere under the direction of Jean-François Sivadier, we meet a very special woman, a piece of art, a myth: LA TRAVIATA.
BBC Earth - New Guinea
Lost Land of the Volcano is a three-part nature documentary series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit which follows a scientific expedition to the island of New Guinea. The expedition team, which includes specialist zoologists, explorers and the BBC crew, travels to the extinct volcano of Mount Bosavi in central Papua New Guinea to document the biodiversity of this little-visited area and search for new species. At the time of filming, logging was taking place about 20 miles (32 km) south from the volcano, and one of expedition's aims was to find evidence to support the case to protect the area. Some members of the expedition team travelled to the island of New Britain several hundred kilometres to the east to chart an unexplored cave system and observe an active volcano. The series was broadcast in September 2009 on BBC One in the United Kingdom in a three-part run. In the United States, it was broadcast the same month in seven parts on consecutive nights.
Blackberry Smoke: Live at the Georgia Theatre
Blackberry Smoke; Live at the Georgia Theatre is the critically acclaimed southern rockers first ever live DVD. It was filmed during a concert in front of a sold out audience at the Georgia Theatre in Athens, GA. The DVD brings Blackberry Smoke's high-energy show to fan's living rooms with 11 songs and other thrilling features including performances with special guests Zac Brown, Clay Cook of the Zac Brown Band, and Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie. The live event features some classics such as "Good One Coming On" and "Son Of The Bourbon" as well as new material from Blackberry Smoke's highly praised new album "The Whippoorwill."
Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman
African-American painter Mickalene Thomas pays tribute to the life and longings of her mother and muse Sandra Bush in this documentary short. A former runway model with a poignant backstory filled with dreams, regrets and redemption, Sandra is the focus of this emotional portrait for her New York-based artist-daughter Mickalene, for whom she serves as a model and inspiration.
Sweet Dreams
A group of Rwandan women embark on a journey to heal the wounds of the past and create their own unique path to a future of peace and possibility.
Reconvergence
Reconvergence offers an intriguing exploration of mortality, consciousness, and identity in the modern age from the perspectives of four distinct characters: a naturalist, a neuroscientist, a poet, and a historian.
Eating Alabama
In search of a simpler life, a young couple returns home to Alabama where they set out to eat the way their grandparents did – locally and seasonally. But as they navigate the agro-industrial gastronomical complex, they soon realize that nearly everything about the food system has changed since farmers once populated their family histories. A thoughtful and often funny essay on community, the South and sustainability, “Eating Alabama” is a story about why food matters.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dollar?
An intimate portrait of the Great Depression of the 1930′s with scholarly and upbeat comparison to today’s Great Recession.
East End Babylon
The story of London's toughest and poorest part as told through the eyes of the iconic band Cockney Rejects.
Trains of Thoughts
An audio-visual essay, which reflects upon & compares metro systems around the world. It is an exploration of a world inside the world as well as feelings, fascination, obsession, fear and themes - of survival, control & silence.
If It's Loud It's Cool Bonus - Bingin Bits
If It's Loud It's Cool Bonus - Bingin Bits (2012)
Tchoupitoulas
A lyrical documentary that follows three adolescent brothers as they journey through one night in New Orleans, encountering a vibrant kaleidoscope of dancers, musicians, hustlers, and revelers parading through the lamplit streets. The filmmakers fully immerse us into the New Orleans night, passing through many lively and luminous locations and introducing us to the people who make the city their home.
Alive! Sixty Days Under The Snow
This is the story of Peter Skyllberg, who defied the weather, biology and human science by surviving for 60 days inside a car buried under snow with nothing but sandwiches and snow to eat or drink. Skyllberg was eventually rescued by a man on a passing snowmobile. This incredible special tells Skyllberg's story of survival and explores the implications he has for the future of medical science and our understanding of the limits of human endurance. This exclusive documentary will air never-before-seen interviews with first responders on the scene, local acquaintances and friends from his hometown, as well as expert testimony from the doctors on the limits of human endurance in light of this case.
The Vampire of the Villas
A behind the scenes look at the real vampire case that inspired part of Victorian Vampire web series, 'Blood and Bone China'.
Conakry
"Conakry" is a homage to the Guinean-Bissauan and Cape Verdean anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral. This poetic film is a single shot 16mm film staged at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and based on the archival images. The film-maker Filipa César, invited the Portuguese writer and artist Grada Kilomba and the American radio activist Diana McCarty to reflect on the images and their history, questioning what these film archive mean in a post-African liberation world.
Four Votes
11 JUNE 2013 is one hundred years since Norwegian women got full voting rights on an equal basis with men. Norway was among the first countries in the world to introduce universal suffrage for both women and men. The work for universal suffrage for women went on for many years and was an issue that many people got involved in. The Voting Rights Committee has chosen to highlight four women who played a decisive role in the suffrage issue.
The Final Migration
In this documentary, we follow the twenty-three families strong nomadic Guoshan tribe, a sub-group of Yaos. They follow a thousand year old tradition of selecting a new temporary home every two or three generations, usually distancing themselves from their previous temp-home by several hundreds of miles. Provided now with a substantial piece of land for them to build their own permanent village and farm their own land, the tribe's leader as well as thirty members decide to precede the tribe's move. Although they have a strong sense of community they are used to operating individually for their survival. In this instance, as they learn to become farmers, it has been decided between them to operate under a collective scheme, just as in the early days of China's communist revolution.
Baskin
Portrait of Eino Baskin, an entertainer who has attracted audience (esp women) for years. His private life has been tragicomic, full of laughter and tears. Baskin has been admired by ones and cursed by others, has been imprisoned after a fabricated porn court case. He has outlived his wife and kid daughter. Eino Baskin has established two theatres from the scratch. After a second haemorrhage he was in coma for 47 days but returned. Rollercoaster is a cheap thrill compared to Baskin´s life.
The Town of Iitate: No Longer Home
In March, 2011, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant exploded, causing a large amount of radioactive effluent to leak. Iitate Village, designated by some as "one of the most beautiful villages in Japan," was more than thirty kilometers away. But because of the direction of the wind, snow, and rain, it was heavily effected by radiation. For this reason, a month after the nuclear disaster, the Japanese government ordered the municipality to evacuate entirely. As a result, approximately 6,000 residents were forced to leave their homes.
Yksitoista ihmisen kuvaa
A documentary co-directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio presenting the mind and thoughts of artists who lived before the history of writing.
Les Visionnaires
What kind of world had the architects who were designated as utopians imagined? Les Visionnaires is a journey into the world of prospective architecture. Through the testimonies and archives of the greatest radical architects, the film retraces 20 years of experiences, creations and inventions.
Le Pain Que Le Diable A Pétri
Chronicles of rural life, misadventures from the past century, fights one must win to muster misery and resistance against servitude and wage labor in the South of Portugal.
Frau, Frau, Where’s the Road to Pillau?
In 1987, United Nations Commission on Human Rights approved the Resolution on Conscientious objection to military service based on “thought, conscience and religion”. In Russia, the right to have an alternative civil service was guaranteed for the first time by the 1993 Constitution.
Moviemaker
The film tells about Aleksandr Khanzhonkov - the first Russian cinema producer and famous film maker of pre-revolutionary Russia.
A Boy Like Her: A Personal Story About an Unavoidable Journey
The documentary "A boy like her" is about the Icelandic boy Halldor who believed from a young age that he was a girl. When he came to realize that his gender would not change even if he prayed and wished he soon realized that he only had two options in life - to take his own life or to undergo a sex-change. As a teenager he went through terrible periods and people around him started to ask questions about what was wrong. He did not dare to tell his parents, family and friends that he was girl. He decided to move abroad and live as a girl in foreign countries. At the age of twenty he realized he had to return home and face his past. With the population of only 320,000 people, returning home was not easy. Only about 20 Icelanders had undergone a sex-change and he wanted to become of of them
Cousin is Online
The new film 'Ibn al-'Am Online' is a portrait of the opposition figure Riyad al-Turk from inside the Syrian Revolution. This important opposition figure remains active underground in Syria until this day. The film resorts to Skype and other social networks not merely as part of its narrative and construction, but also as part of the filming process itself. In the end, the Internet was the first means through which we decided to present the film. Filming took place over the course of several of months, and began at start of the Syrian revolution on 15 March 2011 and was completed at the beginning of 2012.
Amplified Gesture
The film explores the journeys and philosophies of a select group of experimental musicians including Keith Rowe, Evan Parker, Eddie Prevost, Otomo Yoshihide, Toshimaru Nakamura and Christian Fennesz.