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Popular Documentary Movies
The Rope of Death
An encounter with the last shamans of Bolivia's Beni River Valley brings the audience on an intimate spiritual journey through the Amazon Rainforest. Navigating the viewer through lush landscapes on a ritual of transcendence and forgiveness, this experimental documentary recreates for audiences the experience of the potent and sacred Ayahuasca Vine.
Detecting Danger: Africa's Giant Rats
Africa's giant rats – the size of a cat – can be trained to detect land-mines by smelling them. Giant rats are clever and they learn fast. Their sense of smell is better than a dog's, they have more stamina, and they're a lot cheaper to train. This documentary follows "Miss Marple", who was born in a training lab and who goes through a year's training before being sent on her first mission to Mozambique. A shorter version (43 minutes) screened at festivals in 2009 but was never widely released.
Gun Killers
Written and directed by Jason Young (Animals, Inside Time), Gun Killers takes us into the rural, secluded paradise that retired blacksmiths John and Nancy Little call home. As the tranquil light of a typical day of harvesting vegetables descends into night, we experience the secret work that John and Nancy are sometimes called upon to undertake for the RCMP.
Because We Are Girls
Three sisters have spent years bracing themselves for the pivotal moment that opens this film: the final verdict in their trial against their cousin, their childhood sexual abuser. From there, the story returns to their memories of growing up in a large and insular Punjabi-Canadian family in the small mill town of Williams Lake, British Columbia. With unflinching candour, the sisters discuss their family's dark secrets and expose a toxic family culture that relied on female subservience and obedience. These roles, they acknowledge, have deeper roots and have in part been reinforced by the Bollywood films that have structured their fantasies of romantic relationships. While the film tells a difficult and confrontational story of abuse, it is also a celebration of the loving sisterhood that allows these women to demand justice for the wrongs of their childhood years.
El Seed
A documentary film that tells the story of the artist Fawzi and the series of Experiments and experiences which he had in the field of Caligraphic art.
Seedlings Protection Rite
Seedlings protection rite (also called the parade of big rice dumplings) is a spring agricultural festival of Hakka people in Western Fujian, China. People worship the God of Grains (Shennong) in the rite. People collect thousands of fresh bamboo leaves, sew them together and make a pair of big dumplings filled with 120 kilograms of rice each. They also make tens of thousands of finger-sized rice dumplings for believers to take home. On the 15th day of the 2nd lunar month, villagers carry out the statues of the God of grains and big dumplings. Followed by flowers cars, eight sheds carry children chosen from every clan name in the village who are dressed up as ancient heroes, as people parade around the village. After the rite, villagers believe that farmland is awakened and that disasters are averted. A new agricultural cycle begins.
Linhas Tortas
Paths and deviations of a degraded profession. Workers seeking to flourish in institutional ruins.
Beyond Blood
High Tension, Inside, Martyrs, Frontier(s) and Them. In the years of 2003 to 2008, those sensational and innovative horror movies were made and left huge impact around the world. This movement is called New Wave of French Horror. This film explores the meaning and hidden secrets of this significant movement.
Ordinary Gods
Ordinary Gods is a feature-length documentary exploring the lives and sacrifices of the world's most promising professional soccer players.
On the Couch
An interview with Kimmy Robertson and Harry Goaz, reflecting on their experience with the revival of Twin Peaks.
Peacekeepers. In the Mountains of Svaneti
A story of the Ukrainian peacekeepers who arrived in 1993 in Georgia, where the war with the Abkhaz was going on. Fifteen helicopters from the Ukrainian side reached their destination in just twenty-four hours. The peacekeeping mission witnessed horrific events.
Alexander Kolchak. The Unfinished Story
The documentary is an investigation into why disputes and passions around the personality of Alexander Kolchak are still boiling, as a generalization – questions of historical truth, rewriting history, new views from a new time.
Senin's Day
Senya is a brown bear cub with an amazing and terrible fate. Classical literature has long revealed to us that such destinies do not happen only to people. But, of course, Tatiana Skabard's new film is still about us: about our cruelty and indifference, about bloody entertainment involving animals, which are arranged not by medieval barons, but by our neighbors, and about how our other contemporaries, at the risk of life and health, regardless of costs, save and treat birds and animals mutilated in these amusements.
Forbidden Children
The war is over. They stayed. Small members of the Caliphate. Five little girls from Russia were left completely alone in the middle of the Syrian desert after their parents were killed. However, the orphans reached the Al Khol prisoner of war camp in the so-called "Syrian Kurdistan". In the process of filming, they were found and returned to their relatives in Chechnya.
The Deer Rider
The film, based on archival travel notes by the foreman of the Soviet reindeer husbandry and the video diary of a modern reindeer herder, tells about cultural traditions and innovations among the Kamchatka Evens, a small ethnic group of the Russian Far East.
Brigade Commander
The film is about the Lugansk militia, whose fates are traced during the most critical period of the war, which has been going on in Donbas for the fourth year.
Flight of the Champion
Honored Master of Sports, two-time world record holder in long jump Igor Ter-Hovhannisyan, on the day of his 80th birthday, is preparing to receive guests at his house in the village of Zhuravikha and looks back at the years he has lived. It was like yesterday...
Lost in the Baltic
During the Great Patriotic War, there were legends about the submarine "Shch-406", which fought in the Baltic Sea. 39 sailors of the crew, led by commander Yevgeny Osipov, could attack the enemy at depth or engage in battle on the surface, which others did not dare to do. And then the boat disappeared…
City of Scientists
Young scientists are highly appreciated outside Russia. Western universities are hunting for them, seducing them with big money and good conditions. In this film, scientists will tell you why and for what they stay, what they dream about and what they think about the world around them.
Saint Cloud Hill
In a hidden urban encampment on Saint Cloud Hill, a self-governed tent community unravels amidst the city’s threats of eviction and the impending destruction of the forested environment of which they call home. Fortified by a vision from God, former crack-addict and long-time camp resident “CAPTAIN” Chris Scott has made it his mission to build a transitional sanctuary for Nashvillians wanting to get off the streets and benefit from the safety and community of others.
Got Pain?
Got pain? documentary hopes to make viewers see the world in another way, to give hope, and doubt against doubting on overcoming chronic pain and diseases.
American Illuminati 2
The Illuminati, a secretive group controlling global affairs, influences governments, religion, and business to shape a new world order. Through manipulation of technology, politics, and media, they pursue their sinister agenda, which involves destabilizing nations, promoting terrorism, and controlling information. This documentary exposes their network, revealing connections to powerful organizations and historical events, challenging viewers to confront the unsettling truth about the world's hidden rulers.
Life After the Oasis
In 2008, feature documentary, The Oasis, shocked Australia with its gritty insight into the lives of homeless teens at a notorious youth refuge in inner city Sydney. An outpouring of social and political goodwill followed, with the then Prime Minister pledging to halve homelessness by 2020. A decade later, with social inequality and homelessness worse than ever, the original participants reflect on where their lives have taken them.
False Belief
The love story of a couple caught up in the gentrification of a neighborhood that is wiping out a seminal African-American cultural legacy and displacing its original residents. In 2008 Norwegian artist and filmmaker Lene Berg moved in with her partner, a Black New York publisher, who will be referred to as D. After giving a statement to the police about being harassed by his neighbor in Harlem, D. was arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned. But for what exactly? His arrest initiated a journey over the course of which D.’s faith in the American justice system put everything he cherished in life at risk.
A Little Testament
A free-flowing, poetic short film filled with expressionist imagery, old photos and abstract moments, led by a voice-over in which the director tells us personal memories of his youth and his recent life in the hopes of sketching a clear image of the complex struggle of growing from an innocent child to a weary adult.
Common People Songs
Interweaving newsreel footage and film extracts with the voices of ‘Ajan laulu’ – a workers’ choir based in Kemi, the most leftist city in Finland – the essay film takes us on a historical journey examining the collective memory, dreams and traumas of the working class. Is there a future for the Finnish labour movement?
Бегущие по краю. Часть 2: Сирасэ Нобу
A film about the first Japanese expedition to Antarctica at the beginning of the last century. This trip involved Sakhalin dogs under the guidance of mushers from the village. Ochikho (now the village of Lesnoye, Korsakovsky District).
Grandma about Grandpa
Images reflecting on a solitary life in a Swedish apartment. In old age, a woman confronts her feelings towards the man she used to live with, but whom is no longer around.
Кolokol
The bell is the only musical instrument used by the Orthodox church, and its connection with the Russian spiritual culture is incredibly strong. In 2016, popular techno-producer and DJ Philipp Gorbachev had been trained by a bell-ringing master and later became the bell ringer at the St. Nicholas Church in Aksinino. Being influenced by Peter Mamonov, Moscow-based electronic musician believes in the spirituality of the Russian dance floor. This film is an attempt to reflect it through the prayerful experience of the modern bell-ringer, who hides the red mechanic jumpsuit, Gorbachev’s usual clothes for sets, under the monastic robe. Following Philip, the camera tries to find and capture in detail the fragile atmosphere in which the sound of bells becomes a source of divine revelation and turns people into brothers and sisters.
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Gioia
In her psychoses, Gioia had her greatest dreams and darkest nightmares. But reality allows little room for imagination. A dance documentary on the border of delusion and reality.
Les yeux de la parole
Even if you kill a poet, a thousand songs will survive him. College students from a suburb of Aix-en-Provence attend the creation of an opera in Arabic, written by a Syrian poet in exile. Words that will resonate well beyond their schoolyard.
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The main character of the film is Svetlana Kanitskaya, who was left without work during perestroika. She moved from town to village and, left alone with nature, a new world opened for her, which she tried to show in her paintings.
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Dear Babylon
The future of social housing is threatened by the AC30 Housing Bill. Set in London's East End, a trio of art students are eager to raise awareness about their neighbourhood especially the lives of tenants and people who work on the estate.
MS Valentina
The cargo ship MS Valentina covers 1640 danube kilometers on its route from Linz, Austria to Russe, Bulgaria. It crosses through seven countries while doing so. The River as an „European Road“ is full of opposites and differences.