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Man on the Bus
Can a secret change who you are? Mysterious events unfold and reveal how Martha, a Polish holocaust survivor, managed to lead a double life in Australia. The vivacious Jewish artist and doting mother, died without ever revealing her secret. The film follows Martha’s daughter Eve, over a decade, as she unlocks the mystery behind the streets named Eve and Martha. Clues are found in old recordings and Martha’s home movies revealing a mystery man gazing into the lens. Eve’s investigation leads her to the Sobieski castle in the Ukraine, the site of a massacre where her grandmother died, and the Eichmann trial as she explores her parents’ holocaust survival and her father’s heroic escape from a concentration camp. When a ‘doppelgänger’ contacts Eve, her life is forever altered, as she uncovers lies, tracks down her mother’s young lover and reveals the family secret that led her to rewrite her entire life.
The Passengers
Two young men represent their final abandoned community of Ethiopian Jews on a fateful trip to America as representatives in an advocacy campaign, with the ultimate goal to enter Israel as citizens.
A Life Among Monkeys
A Life among Monkeys’ tells the story of Smithsonian primatologist, Dr Wolfgang Dittus, through the unfolding narrative of the lives of the toque macaques monkeys, living among the spectacular ruins of an ancient temple in the heart of the Sri Lankan jungle.
Street Food: Asia
Embark on a global cultural journey into street food and discover the stories of the people who create the flavorful dishes.
Unbelievable: Virginia's Improbable Path to a Title
The Cavaliers pulled off one of the most dramatic turnarounds in NCAA tournament history in 2019 – winning the program’s first NCAA title after suffering a devastating loss to No. 16 seed UMBC in the first round of the 2018 NCAA tournament.
Spitak. Thirty Years of Solitude
Spitak. Thirty years ago a terrible earthquake happened here. Tens of thousands died, and the survivors seemed forever frozen in time. The father and son of Manukyan live in front of the huge Spitak cemetery - and it seems that some unknown force does not allow them to escape from hopelessness and poverty.
Teslafy Me
A vision for a world free of pollution and climate problems, with energy available in abundance - are we ready to take up legacy of ingenious inventor Nikola Tesla?
Punks
The parents are at their wits’ end, so a temporary supervision order is the last hope for a group of teenagers in Punks. Now, on a remote farm in France, they’re going to have to get their lives back on track, with the help of a counselor. If they want any chance of a happy life, they need to engage in some frank and painful conversations. Mitchel has to find a way to get along with his father, but maybe too much has already happened since his mother died. Jahlano is already at the next stage: he’s no longer allowed to live with his mother, and needs to get over the disappointment. Mike, meanwhile, is struggling with his image as a boy who’s “got a screw loose.” Filmed in constant close-up by director Maasja Ooms, the teenagers try to tame their demons with music and therapy, but problems from the past keep resurfacing. In this intimate and sincere portrait, these troubled kids show us their most vulnerable sides.
Understory
Men and plants have always traveled together in a reciprocal relationship that - for better or for worse - has drastically transformed the world. The mythical cacao tree, native to the Amazon Basin, has spread throughout the world along the narrow equatorial belt. Planted on a large scale using forced labor, the history of cacao has always been linked to the dark side of industrial production and the greed of the mass markets. The director Margarida Cardoso ("The Murmuring Coast", "Yvone Kane", "Kuxa Kanema, the birth of Cinema", "Christmas 71") follows the path of his previous films, exploring and revealing the relations between the brutality of colonial history and its effects in the present.
Hand Rolled
Hand Rolled: A Film About Cigars is a feature length documentary on the artisanal craftsmanship of premium cigars, and the beautiful people that are involved in the process! You might have thought that cigars are factory made like cigarettes, but in actuality, over 300 pairs of hands are involved in the making of each and every premium cigar. This is a truly one of the last remaining industries that manufactures 100% hand made products and uses only 3 ingredients to do so: tobacco, distilled water for fermentation, and vegetable based glue to hold the wrapper on.
Ani, the Nuns of Yarqen gar
Yaqen gar, an immense "Buddhist settlement" where about 20,000 monastics reside, two thirds of them are nuns. It is a holy site that the Chinese government wants to demolish.
Megrez
“Vaghe stelle” is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films creating new combinations or possible narrations.
Talents for the Country
Russian prodigies! They dream of making discoveries, solving problems that no one else in the world has ever solved. There are more and more of them every year. In 2019, at the 50th anniversary World Physics Olympiad in Israel, Russian high school students performed triumphantly, winning four gold and one silver medals.
Coming Back from Khan Tengri
In 2018, three inexperienced climbers went on a two-week expedition to one of the most difficult mountains of the Tien Shan.
Cutting Moments: The Trailer and Other Tales from the Edit Room
Interview with Jack Sholder, who edited the American trailer for The Street Fighter (1974). Included on the Blu-rays "The Street Fighter Collection" (Shout! Factory) and "The Street Fighter Trilogy" (Arrow Video).
The Antechamber of Hell: The World's Largest Refugee Camp
A gripping portrait of trauma and resilience of the Rohingya people in the world's largest refugee camp. The film approaches the Rohingya crisis from the personal point of view of the victims. Gang rape survivors talk directly to the camera with unprecedented candor. Building upon a heartening thought from Albert Camus, the documentary follows a dramatic arc from hell to redemption, with stories of survival and endurance. Harrowing yet uplifting, THE ANTECHAMBER OF HELL is both a searing testimony of crimes against humanity and an enlivening testament to the human spirit.
Tucson Salvage
A meditation on five humans living on the margins in Tucson, Arizona. Through perseverance, each has found their own path through hardship and suffering.
El camino de Tico Tico
Documentary about how Tico Tico, a very difficult to watch cult Argentinian film, was shot.
Blinded by Moonfire
A collection of thoughts and images captured by Fabio González during a trip.
For The Love Of Food
Go behind the scenes with the influencers inside the food media industry capitalizing on the public’s growing appetite for culinary-related content.
Basilea, a photograph for all time
Basilea, a photograph for all time. Documentary made for Barça Studios commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Basel Cup Winners' Cup (1979), FC Barcelona's first major European title.
Lifetime: 3 Brothers 1 Story
Follows the family journey of Michael Carr the pastor, Joe Carr the boxer, and CL Carr the musician. Showing the rise from the streets of North Newark to connections with famous faces throughout the music industry.
Bitter Bread
Among the countless Syrian citizens who have fled their country, about one-and-a-half-million have relocated to neighboring Lebanon. In this patient, heart-rending portrait, Iraqi-born filmmaker Abbas Fahdel, director of the epic Homeland (Iraq Year Zero), settles in with a community of refugees living in a tent camp in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, most of them children.
Lagos at Large
Weave your way through the bustling streets and idyllic beaches of Lagos. Lagos at Large is an immersive 360-degree documentary told from the perspective of poet Njideka. Featuring her bracingly affectionate words and buoyed by its vibrant, percussive score, the work takes in a range of spaces – from markets and monuments to seasides and more – and emerges as a poignant love letter to the titular city.
Inside Air Force One: Secrets of the Presidential Plane
Exploring the £350m plane dubbed the White House in the sky.
Koulakov’s Supreme Ultimate
Mikhail Kulakov, the protagonist of the film, is a prominent figure of the Russian unofficial art scene of the 50s-60s. He was an abstractionist, a tachiste, a participant in the first underground expositions. He lived and worked at great extremes, advocating the idea of freedom as the supreme value.
Ultimate Viking Sword
The Vikings were among the fiercest warriors of all time. Yet only a select few carried the ultimate weapon of their era: the feared Ulfberht sword. With cutting edge science and old-fashioned detective work, National Geographic reconstructs this revolutionary tool.