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2013

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Borscht - Uma receita russa
Borscht - Uma receita russa
Escaping the Russian Revolution and World War II, two couples immigrate to Brazil and share the same house in São Paulo. A series of romantic complications mark the family’s history, which registers the marriage of two identical twins with the same man and other unusual situations, showing how reality often outdoes fiction.
Borscht - Uma receita russa 2013
Consider
Consider
A short film about Tay, a ladyboy, and his daily life, traveling to and from school, and silently touching up his makeup in front of the mirror.
Consider 2013
Pipeline
Pipeline
Director Vitaly Manskiy sets off on the trail of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline to find out what it’s like for ordinary people living in its vicinity. This visually refined road movie, eloquently illustrating the absurd banality of modern Russia, is also an unsettling portrait of a gas line on which most of Europe is reliant.
Pipeline 2013
Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded: Pietro Marcello
Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded: Pietro Marcello
A short film made for Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded (2013). World premiere screening on 28 August 2013 during the 70th Venice International Film Festival. —Venice International Film Festival.
Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded: Pietro Marcello 2013
Venice 70 - Future Reloaded: Shekhar Kapur
Venice 70 - Future Reloaded: Shekhar Kapur
Venice 70 - Future Reloaded: Shekhar Kapur 2013
Milunka Savic: Heroine of the Great War
Milunka Savic: Heroine of the Great War
Documentary about the life of the most decorated woman warrior of all time, Milunka Savic and her struggles after the end of WW1 in her homeland of Serbia.
Milunka Savic: Heroine of the Great War 2013
Montaje: Caso Bombas
Montaje: Caso Bombas
Montaje: Caso Bombas 2013
The Boys from Kingsbridge - from Grammar School to Ground Zero
The Boys from Kingsbridge - from Grammar School to Ground Zero
Ten years after 9/11, the filmmaker shares the unique perspectives of his four lifelong friends, as they reveal, for the first time, their uplifting stories of survival, duty, and humanity as each of them dealt with being at Ground Zero on that fateful morning. A Bomb Squad detective, a fireman, an engineer for building 7, and an electrician give us a rare glimpse into the character of blue collar New Yorkers, faced with life and death situations. They reflect on how their sense of community, from growing up in an 'old school' neighborhood, influenced them and how they continue dealing with the legacy of that historic day. It's an intimate portrait of friendship and resiliency as told to their buddy, in a uniquely Bronx way.
The Boys from Kingsbridge - from Grammar School to Ground Zero 2013
Curtain of Water
Curtain of Water
Photographer Joe Guerriero sets out to make sense of the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba. Through conversations with people from all walks of life, in and outside of Cuba, he tries to shed light on the political and human sides of this conflict.
Curtain of Water 2013
Shot by Kern
Shot by Kern
Seasoned photographer Richard Kern, best known for his images of scantily-clad, amateur models, travels around the globe to interview and shoot hundreds of women in their homes and apartments, capturing them even during their most intimate moments, including everything from brushing their teeth topless to lying naked in bed.
Shot by Kern 2013
Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded: Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded: Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded: Amiel Courtin-Wilson 2013
Teagan
Teagan
Three animators tell a story of transition - from male to female, and from despondency to happiness.
Teagan 2013
Birdfish
Birdfish
What happened to Lina Mkrtchyan, a unique singer who in the 1990s was the first in post-Soviet Russia to sing in the Vatican and to sell out in the best concert halls in the world? Sokurov said about her that he could not live with such a huge gift. So she failed, taking a kind of vow of public singing silence.
Birdfish 2013
Hard Case
Hard Case
Lyudmila Vaulina is a pediatrician. I have worked in the village all my life. This is the first time she has encountered such a child.
Hard Case 2013
Pátio
Pátio
In the prison yard, the prisoners play football, dance “capoeira” and talk about freedom.
Pátio 2013
To Rule, to Work, to Earn, to Pray, to Collapse
To Rule, to Work, to Earn, to Pray, to Collapse
According to the leading Czech Egyptologist, professor Miroslav Barta, more and more signs of the impending collapse of our society are coming. On the background of his reflections we watch documentary short stories that ask whether these signs are so ubiquitous that they pervade the society even in the insignificant moments of everyday life.
To Rule, to Work, to Earn, to Pray, to Collapse 2013
About Vladimir and Pitirim
About Vladimir and Pitirim
The life of father Pitirim and novice Vladimir in one of the abandoned corners of the Perm region, where every day is inextricably linked with the taiga.
About Vladimir and Pitirim 2013
Pursuit: The Search for Bigfoot
Pursuit: The Search for Bigfoot
In October 2012, two young filmmakers discovered a journal that documents a series of Bigfoot sightings across the US. The detailed entries provide witness names, locations and testimonies of each creature encounter. In an effort to prove or debunk the journal entries, the filmmakers, Lue Simcoe and friend Chris Gordon, begin to research the data.
Pursuit: The Search for Bigfoot 2013
Legend of the Keto People
Legend of the Keto People
A film about the unique culture of the Keto people living on the banks of the Yenisei. Their isolated language and peculiarity of their way of life are living evidence of ancient traditions and rituals that have survived to our times. Passed from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation, songs and poems have survived to this day in their original beauty and wisdom. The keto people live in the conditions of the North according to their own rules and laws.
Legend of the Keto People 2013
Dell and His Space to Dwell
Dell and His Space to Dwell
Once upon a time, a stage director with German surname Dell read from Saltykov-Shchedrin that «Skopin is such city where any person has no reason to dwell». So he decided to create a real theatre there, in Ryazan region, in a small provincial town, «where any person has no reason to dwell».
Dell and His Space to Dwell 2013
Zelim's Confession
Zelim's Confession
Imagine you've never held a weapon in your hands but are forced into admitting that you were involved in a terrorist attack. This is precisely what happened to a young Chechen named Zelim. One early morning, he was arrested in his mother's house and held for five days at the police station for a crime he never committed. Despite being subjected to the most brutal forms of torture, he maintained his innocence, much to the cops' dismay. Zelim denied any wrongdoing until he was near death, and finally he can tell his story to director Natalia Mikhaylova. She accompanies him as he wanders around Oslo recalling these painful memories.
Zelim's Confession 2013
Planet Baikal
Planet Baikal
For several years, scientists studying images of our planet from space have been talking about an unusual phenomenon that periodically appears on the surface of the deepest lake in the world, at Baikal. Every year, when the lake is covered with ice, huge concentric circles of regular shape appear on it. They are not visible from the earth, but from space these huge geometric figures are clearly visible.
Planet Baikal 2013
Jimbo
Jimbo
'Dream, Scheme and Self-Esteem.' Stricken, but not struck down by a slough of mental illnesses, Jimmy Leung's drive to become an action movie star becomes something of a reality as he and director Ryan Flowers train to become healthy, stable, and make a movie together.
Jimbo 2013
Is the Museum a Battlefield?
Is the Museum a Battlefield?
Steyerl’s new lecture, pro­duced for the 13th Istanbul Biennial, takes as its departure point her March 2013 talk ‘I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production’ and focuses on the arms industry, a phenomenon constantly re-conceptualized by the media through the regular flow of images. It asks the question of how a museum and a battlefield could be related. The question emerges when Steyerl follows the trace of an empty bullet casing which she found in the area where the mass grave of Andrea Wolf and her friends were located in Van, Turkey.
Is the Museum a Battlefield? 2013
Across the River ... The Last
Across the River ... The Last
Ust-Tsilma is only seven hills and the coast. On the one hand, there is the mighty Pechora, on the other, there are impenetrable forests and swamps. Everything in this distant land breathes death. The Old Believers honor and respect her, because the path to the grave is nothing more than a test, preparation for the eternal. By accepting death, one can learn to understand life.
Across the River ... The Last 2013
Voyage au centre de la mer
Voyage au centre de la mer
Voyage au centre de la mer 2013
Party 51
Party 51
Duriban, a humble noodle restaurant visited often by lonely indie musicians in a bustling city of Seoul, Korea, was brutally evicted and demolished by greedy construction company and pro-conglomerate-only city government with mere $3,000 as a moving expense. Outraged by the situation and related to their disadvantageous performance and poor contract conditions, 51 and plus indie bands in the area join the long 500 and more days of protest till Duriban receives socio-economically reasonable and acceptable compensation and reopens its new venue in a new in the area. A striking social activism demonstrated among the young indie musicians and their growth as artists through unity in modern day in Seoul, Korea.
Party 51 2013
Princesses
Princesses
Princesses 2013
Dirigent z gulagu
Dirigent z gulagu
When he was sentenced to death, he was not even 15 years old, so they had to change his sentence. He got 10 years in the gulag. There he met excellent conductors, theater directors - also political prisoners. Almost 60 years ago, Leontín Dohovič conducted the prisoners' choir for the first time. After the death of Stalin, he too was freed. Together with his mother and three sisters, he came to see his father, who as a priest fled from Ukraine during the war to Czechoslovakia. He founded choirs in Prague, Prešov and Košice. He still conducts today, because there is a force in music that helped him survive.
Dirigent z gulagu 2013
Schornsteinfegerglück
Schornsteinfegerglück
Schornsteinfegerglück 2013
Basel Tattoo 2013
Basel Tattoo 2013
Basel Tattoo 2013 2013
Fontelonga
Fontelonga
Fontelonga is a village of Trás-os-Montes, in the interior of Portugal. A mirror of exile in the eyes of their own people. A reflexion where memory is the last object of beauty and redemption.
Fontelonga 2013
Nae Pasaran
Nae Pasaran
The true story of a group of factory workers in Scotland who stood up to a military dictatorship in Chile.
Nae Pasaran 2013
The Flower-Drumsong
The Flower-Drumsong
The arrogant Hua Pozi, the first-time brother who is full of joy. Even the seemingly greasy, exaggerated, and gaudy drum art seems to be unrelenting in the villages and villages.
The Flower-Drumsong 2013
Process Anatomy
Process Anatomy
In order to put an end to dissent at once, the Soviet secret services organized this show trial. Viktor Krasin and Petr Yakir were convicted of participating in subversive propaganda against the USSR. The liberal opposition was temporarily demoralized. It was forty years ago, but it seems that it will be tomorrow.
Process Anatomy 2013
Brigitte Fontaine : Reflets et crudité
Brigitte Fontaine : Reflets et crudité
Brigitte Fontaine : Reflets et crudité 2013
The Red Carpet
The Red Carpet
158 million people live in Indian slums under very extreme insalubrity. Millions of children play surrounded by rubbish, cows, rats and excrements. Garib Nagar slum, in Bandra district (Bombay, India) is Rubina's home, a 12-year old girl who aims to become an actress and change the slum into a more clean and habitable place.
The Red Carpet 2013
My Stolen Revolution
My Stolen Revolution
As a student, the director managed to flee revolutionary Iran. Many who stayed behind did not survive. When there are renewed protests in Teheran 30 years later, she goes looking for a couple of other survivors who fled. An emotional, very personal documentary.
My Stolen Revolution 2013
Subway Ballet
Subway Ballet
Young men perform daring aerial dances in a crowded New York City subway car.
Subway Ballet 2013
Will Work For Free
Will Work For Free
The film explores the potential for automation in every sector of employment and questions the integrity of our methods of resource distribution going into the future.
Will Work For Free 2013