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Top Gear France - Meet me in Japan
The three hosts are assigned a new mission: if they want the producers to green-light another season, they must find The Stig who mysteriously disappeared on his trip to Japan.
All That for a Piece of Paper
this documentary takes unused footage from two Guinness World Record Attempts and blends them with interviews and information on the history of World Records to tell the story of one man and his battle against the impossible.
A Memory in Khaki
A MEMORY IN KHAKI is a cry out for that which is embattled inside the spirits of individuals who lived under the oppressive Syrian regime. The auteur's personal narrative is interwoven with those of other Syrian characters who were forced, because of their political beliefs, to leave the country before or after the revolution. The film sheds light on years of silence, fear and terror, and it dives into the stories, which were behind the eruption of Syria’s society and the start of its revolution. It is a Syrian account, which, by laying out the past, tells the story of the future.
The Way of Folk
In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside Llywin Davies and possible origin of the stories they tells, the folk movement during the 1960s and the social and cultural ideas that it represented, the authenticity and the identity of folk music and the balance between the two, the future of folk music, etc. Included with the featurette are illustrations by Drew Christie. The featurette was created exclusively for Criterion in 2015.
Host Nation
Maria has been dreaming about escaping from her slum neighborhood in Davao, Philippines, and getting a job abroad. When Maria was introduced to a talent manager, Madam Yolie, her dream was about to come true.
America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience
Chronicles over four centuries of African American influence on the development of the modern-day United States. Before Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, St. Augustine, FL had built a multicultural colony of free and enslaved men and women. This small colony would eventually set the stage for the first Underground Railroad in the late 1600s. Then, 300 years later, be the epicenter of events that would lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Papa Rainbow
In China, most families have difficulties facing their lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT) children. They have to contend with common social beliefs that homosexuality is shameful, abnormal, a perverted condition caused by deviant family relationships. Many parents see their kids as their property, and fathers often assert their authority to ensure that no harm comes to the family reputation. The documentary 'Papa Rainbow' features six Chinese fathers who talk openly and freely about their experiences with their LGBT children. Speaking out against discrimination and stigma, they redefine what it means to protect a household. They fully embrace their kids for who they are, and become pioneer activists fighting for an equal and diverse society.
Child Mother
These are the memories of a lost girlhood. When they were only five or six or ten years old, their parents snatched them from the playground and handed them to much older men to be married. They recall the violence and fear they were subjected to, the pregnancies at the age of eleven or twelve, becoming mothers when they were still little girls themselves. It was an open secret but one they put aside forever, because revealing it might tear their family apart, causing commotion and creating chaos. The memories of their tragic childhood never healed – they were simply suppressed for the sake of their children, their livelihoods, and their husbands. No more.
Autumn, Winter and Summer
Two families' oral history of the Cultural Revolution and their current life.
Doubt: The Scott Watson Case
In the early hours of New Year’s Day 1998, Olivia Hope and Ben Smart boarded a yacht with a man, and were never seen again. The case enthralled the nation, and 18 months later Picton man Scott Watson was convicted of their murders. Watson has always maintained his innocence. Legal expert Dr. Chris Gallavin re-examines the case from a fresh perspective. Going back to the night of New Year’s Eve, 1997.
The Ark
The northern white rhinoceros is the most endangered animal on the planet. Only three remain, and they are protected at all times by armed bodyguards. “The Ark” is a virtual reality documentary that puts viewers face-to-face with the last northern white rhinos, and tells the story of the global coalition scientists who are fighting to rescue the species from extinction.
Lights That Never Fail
Documentary film shot in Brittany about lighthouses and lighthouse keepers on the island of Ouessant and coast of Finistere.
Terreno de juego
Documentary film about how hooligan culture arrived to Mexico taking behaviours from Argentina in order to support soccer teams.
It's Getting Dark
"Hello Rufus! Today they took my mother..." A little Dwarf writes to his brother from Magnitogorsk to Moscow. Karik is only 10 years old, but he already knows words like “search" well. Only when he goes from the description of the arrest to the description of the birthday dinner, you can guess what the child is writing. This letter will soon be eighty years old, but it could have been written today. After all, each of the numerous child heroes of this film has already experienced the same thing as Karik in Stalin's time.
Touching
Nina, Edith and Ronald are sexual assistants. Their clients are people with disabilities, their job: to satisfy their desire for physical contact. Is this a form of prostitution? A study of a taboo subject.
The Blind Monkey
China's Taihang Mountains are a tough place to be a baby monkey, particularly a blind baby monkey, and most die within weeks. The devotion of one macaque mother has an extraordinary result and suggests that compassion may not be uniquely human.
Rustlers
Albertina Carri wants to make a film about Isidro Velázquez, an almost mythical outlaw figure from northern Argentina who was shot dead by police in 1967. She’s not the only one interested in him: her sociologist father Roberto Carri wrote a book on him called “Pre-Revolutionary Forms of Violence” and a film was made about his story, although both father and film disappeared during the Dirty War. Legends, families, political alignments, cinema: none offer a stable foothold and Carri’s passage through them is like wandering a garden of forking paths, only to arrive at a landscape of cracked earth and thorns.
Paying the Price
Toby Price knows that completing The Dakar Rally is a triumph in itself. The South American terrain knows no regard for man or machine, breaking both at will over the course of 14 days and some 9000km traveled. But to wipe the sand from the eyes and the blood from the boots to hold The Dakar trophy aloft, takes more than just strength. Victory demands sacrifice. And the Australian off-road racer has known more than his fair share of pain - including more than 27 broken bones and a broken neck that very nearly rendered him motionless for life. From first jumping on a bike as a two-year-old to dealing with his sister's death and then witnessing the death of his best friend in succession, Paying the Price follows Toby's emotional journey from country kid to becoming Australia's first ever winner of The Dakar Rally.
Wild Expectations
Adventurers, wildlife fanatics and good friends Rene and Wayne travel to Patagonia in search of a very unique puma. Encountering a host of other interesting critters along the way, they remain true to their quest of finding the elusive "No Tail".
Michael Sheen: The Fight For My Steel Town
Michael Sheen returns to the town he was brought up in to see for himself the impact hundreds of job losses at the steelworks is having on families. Port Talbot's iconic steelworks is under threat, and Michael follows the ups and downs as the local community finds itself at the centre of a fight for the very future of British steel.
Nemtsov
A story told by those who knew Boris Nemtsov at different times: when he was a young scientist and took his first steps in politics; when he held high government offices and was considered Boris Yeltsin's heir apparent; when he led Russia's democratic opposition to Vladimir Putin.
The Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue at Royal Albert Hall
Kacey Musgraves performing her Country & Western Rhinestone Revue Tour at the Royal Albert Hall.
The Nazi Jesus
While Nazi ideology dominated Europe, Adolf Hitler used all dogmas to divert them to his advantage and feed the cult of his personality. How did the Führer manage to transform the Bible, the Church and Christ himself into instruments of power, winning the support of the Germans? This documentary traces the rise of a little-known theological organization: the “German Christians”, which became the most powerful propaganda tool of the Third Reich.
Los ganadores
A reflection on success and happiness from the observation of the world of amateur awards granted to artists and communicators.
Scars
A poet boxer. A child under the sun in a cotton field. The persistence of a young amateur boxer. A woman. Tenderness and absence. A portrait of a man with the wit and wisdom of those who have faced death.
Late Anthropocene
Hand processed expired Kodak 7291, Camera: Beaulieu R16, Lens: Angenieux 12-120mm with +3 Diopter, Polarising filter for the clouds. Hand processed in C-41 chem using a Lomo UPB-1A tank. Still haven't mastered removal of the rem-jet anti-halation layer (thats all the white 'static' on the film). The film expired about 40 years ago.
The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind The Myth
The voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 has come to define the founding moment of America, celebrated each year at Thanksgiving. A lavish new drama documentary by Ric Burns, based on governor William Bradford's extraordinary eye-witness account, the Mayflower Pilgrims reveals the grim truth behind their voyage across the Atlantic. The Pilgrims story has come to define the founding moment of America and all it stands for. Celebrated each year at Thanksgiving, it is remembered as a pious crusade aimed at founding a Puritan paradise. However their journey from a harsh, often violent part of England to a colony assured of survival less than ten years later is also one of wealth, cruelty, and entrepreneurial genius.
[Pewen] Araucaria
[PEWEN] ARAUCARIA shows the journey of a young poet after a long grief and loss to the ancestral land of the Pewenche people, in southern Chile. This diptych film reveals in one side as the poet establishes a relationship with the landscape marked by the wounds of the spanish colonization, marginalization by the state and abandonment that the indigenous peoples are subjected in Chile, on the other side, the film let us to glimpse a delicate and profound dialogue with this apparently strange world through the poet’s encounter with images of two Pewenche brothers and their relationship with the trees on which they base their livelihood.
Under the Sacred Dome
Khoja Ahmed Yassawi, popularly known as Khazret Sultan, Sufi poet, one of the Sufi mystics. The film shows the mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, which is the central object on the territory of the historical and cultural museum-reserve "Khazret Sultan". The mausoleum is located in the city of Turkestan in the South Kazakhstan region of Kazakhstan.
The Lady in the Book - Sylvia Plath, portraits
"The Lady in the Book" is Sylvia Plath, a major author of 20th-century American poetry and a feminist icon following her sudden death at the age of thirty. This film offers a glimpse into her world and work, through encounters with women who live today in the places where she grew up.
It Aint Pretty
A documentary about the challenges and triumphs of female big wave surfers fighting sexism in the water, in competition, in the media and in the surf industry with the support of a closely-knit community of like-minded women. Probing, incendiary and thought-provoking, this film takes you inside a growing movement of women that are shattering the shallow and sexualized images of female surfers in the media. Featuring interviews with top female athletes and awe-inspiring big wave surf footage filmed in the icy waters of Ocean Beach, San Francisco and Mavericks - one of the biggest waves on the planet - this film is meant to empower a new generation of girls to live their dreams and overcome the challenges they face along the way.