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L'Chaim!: To Life!
L'Chaim! is an intimate portrait of a man with a rare and significant story. It is the tale of Chaim Lubelski. He gave up a career as a chess player and successful businessman in New York to dedicate himself to his elderly mother, a Holocaust survivor.
Godspeed: The Story of Page Jones
'Godspeed: The Story of Page Jones' is a feature-length documentary about a racecar driver's remarkable and continuing recovery from a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Twenty years chronicles Page Jones' redefining victory while advocating for access to long-term rehabilitation for others with similar injuries. Page is living proof that with support, quality lives are within reach.
SuicideGirls: Relaunch
Chronicle of the day-to-day operations of alternative female pin-up site SuicideGirls, following founder Missy Suicide and her team as they relaunch their website, and prepare for a series of nude photoshoots.
Dwarves Kingdom
Dwarves Kingdom is a documentary film about a theme park featuring performances by little people with dwarfism who live in a fantasy recreation of a magical empire. Built by a wealthy Chinese businessman, this other-worldly kingdom, officially called World Ecological Garden of Butterfly and Little People Kingdom, is located in the mountains surrounding the city of Kunming in Western China.
Masterspy of Moscow - George Blake
Documentary about the Cold War spy George Blake, who betrayed his colleagues to the KGB, then escaped from Wormwood Scrubs five years later and fled to the Soviet Union.
I'm With Phil
I'm with Phil is a feature length documentary concerning a series of events that transpire in a small Alabama town with a very unique name, Phil Campbell.
Reel in the Closet
Never before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to save them before they are lost forever.
Rebel Citizen
What began as a video master class evolved into a film about the political documentaries of Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Comprised of footage from his films as well as interviews, the film is an intimate portrait of the genius behind the camera.
Litefeet
Scott Carthy’s debut film ‘Litefeet’ documents the recently criminalised art of subway dancing. The footage is of one of NYC’s most prolific dance groups, the W.A.F.F.L.E crew, leading up to their last dance on the improvised stage of a subway car.
High There
Hunter S. Thompson meets Barry McKenzie in this dark nonfiction comedy about a real-life, legendary but down-and-out tabloid television journalist who heads to Hawaii to film a marijuana travel series, only to become lost in a fog of drugs, sex and paranoia as he uncovers a secret government war to control the marijuana trade. - Written by Sam Peters
TV Family
A Texas family reflects on the forgotten television documentary produced about them in 1960, describing how the program both mirrored and distorted the reality of their lives. Combining rare footage with new interviews, TV FAMILY opens a window onto the limitations of television and representations of family in midcentury America.
Transgender, at War and in Love
A transgender airman is deployed to Afghanistan as the gender he knows himself to be. But everyday he risks being discharged because outdated U.S. policy bans open trans service.
Macan and the Eagle
One of the last eagle trainers in China, Macan teaches his son how to hunt with eagles in order to save an ancient custom.
Egypt's Modern Pharaohs: Nasser
From Gamal Abdel Nasser to Anwar Sadat, to Hosni Mubarak, “The Pharaohs of Modern Egypt” follows the path of the successive regimes in power, and reveals their common goal to carefully lay the basis of a solid independence, but which, on the other hand, led to the revolution on Tahrir Square in 2011. President Anwar Sadat led the country down the diametrically opposite path. He forged an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, the regime’s life-long enemy, and rerouted the country onto the road of capitalism. By ignoring increasing wealth gaps and insisting on peace with Israel at all political costs, the “pious” president opened up the Pandora’s Box of radical Islam, a decision that cost him his life, and which has since had repercussions on the entire world.
Police Record from Jungmann Square
A testimony on a pipeline damage incident, theft and two official records from one police station in the Prague city centre, disturbing the peaceful Christmas spirit during which blood is drained.
Frankfurter Filmtheater – Eine Geschichte in Bildern
Little Island
Little Island is a short documentary about the story of a man who chose to abandon all other life and for almost 40 years live on a small greek island in the south of Crete. Through the years, he became one with the environment and managed to survive despite the many difficulties. When his stay on the island is disturbed by the tenacity of the forestry commission he is still not willing to leave the island. A person’s destiny always lies in his worst fears. And unlike all our worst fears a strong will hidden behind a life makes it always a worthwhile story to tell.
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[...] craving for narrative
Set in a desktop-like visual space, «[…] craving for narrative» analyses and decomposes a famous scene from the film Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. This clip becomes the starting point for a reflection on obsession, nostalgia, rhythm, repetition, and media theories, and their exponential development over the Internet.
Waterloo: Hidden Traces
Using new archeological findings, first hand accounts of the battle, expert interviews and CGI and 3D animations this program helps us understand the dynamic elements of strategy and weather that led to Napoleon's historic defeat by the Duke of Wellington on the fields of Waterloo.
United Sharks of America
A showcase for breathtaking shark behaviour, covering a wide variety of species across the coastal waters of the US.
Winner Takes It All: Pain and Gain of Russian Rhythmic Gymnasts
Rhythmic gymnastics competitions are a huge favorite among sports enthusiasts. The discipline originated in Russia, and this country continues setting the bar for excellence and creativity. Russian rhythmic gymnasts have gained quite an amount of fame worldwide because of the famous legendary coach Irina Viner Usmanova. She is said to have had a revolutionary impact on the lives of the many famous athletes she has trained. She is well known for creating routines for them that have wowed international judges.
Maybe someday, another history of French rap
In the early 2000s, the landscape of French rap undergoes a transformation, opening up to new horizons. A look at the birth, evolution, and legacy of an original rap that left a mark with its boldness and the novelty of its sounds and themes.
Empire
24-hour surveillance film of the Empire State Building (an homage to Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas) but shot at 10-second intervals, and set to Furtwängler‘s version Ode to Joy.
SP
The biggest, most populated, and frantic city in South America. While Cariocas are like tropical birds, Paulistas are like frenetic ants. Distances are longer and they're always in a hurry. A busy journey through this beautiful Brazilian beast which cannot help but beating irregularly.
Sleeping with Tito
Jelka and Egon are elderly people who spend the autumn of their lives together.
Lost in Manboo
A four-square-metre box with a screen and computer. This is what Japanese cyber-cafes offer, around the clock. Most customers just spend an hour or two here. But there are thousands who spend their lives in them. The Manboo in Tokyo has its own permanent residents: Masata and Hitomi. It is a home for them, even though they sleep on the floor.
American Dreamlands
The Christmases find beautiful pieces of untamed wilderness and transform them into incredible homesteads. After each renovation, they sell the land to families and help them reconnect with the great outdoors.
Giraffe: African Giant
Long legs, tall neck, wide eyes – giraffes are the beauties of the African savannah. But there is so much more to these gentle giants: their exceptional body, their distinctive behavior, and their social lives. So far, giraffes have been decorative extras in many wildlife films, towering over the savannah. Our production takes a fresh look at the tallest animals of all, revealing brand new details about the African icon. We present giraffes in the savannah of Kenya, in the South African grassland as well as in the desert of Namibia. Experience never before seen material that will add up to a comprehensive and entertaining portrait of Nature’s High Society.
Searching for Rushdi
A journey of a Director searching for a beach photographer who took a picture of his father in the 1970s.
From Another Life
Ludmila is in a difficult place of her life right now. She lost her husband a year ago. Ending up alone she is stuck between past and present where memories are louder than reality.
No Destination
The film records a long journey by Guo Kuan and his friends, as well as a post-cycling biography. The changes in Dali after one year, and the hurried passing by around. These subtly melt into life, and then there is this instinct documentary that needs to be expressed.
The Cold Winter
The Cold Winter was shot from the end of 2009 to early 2010, and focuses on the struggle of artists near Beijing’s famous Chaoyang District 798 Art Zone to protect their land and studios from demolition by developers. During the exceptionally cold winter of the title, the artists formed the “Warm Winter Plan” movement as a means of defending their rights and raising public awareness, being subjected to threats and brutal violence in the process.
Navidad en el fin del mundo
Collective creation of a short fiction film made in a single day during the so-called "Express Cinema Workshop" carried out by the Cinema with Neighbors Foundation of Argentina together with the INCAA (National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts) and its Federal Action Management. From 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM, a group of residents of the city of Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, participated in the intense experience coordinated by Argentine filmmakers Fabio Junco and Julio Midú. The collective process allows participants to pitch ideas in the morning, vote on a story at noon, and immediately start filming expressly, with a camera and microphone. The collective work was titled: "CHRISTMAS AT THE END OF THE WORLD" and tells an attractive intersection of stories of families living in the extreme south of Argentina on a date as sensitive as Christmas.
Gallipoli 1915
The six months of the war that was fought on the Gallipoli peninsula was the culmination of months of British errors. The transferal of Imperial prejudices to military planning ended up costing thousands of their lives and showed the incompetence of British generals.