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Mrs. G
Mrs. Lea Gottlieb is the legendary designer, founder and owner of the Gottex swimwear empire. The film follows her complex relationships with her two daughters, and her unbridled passion, for which she paid a heavy price.
Surviving on the Moon
50 years on from the moon landings, researchers worldwide are working towards an ambitious goal: a permanent research station on the moon. This documentary gives an overview of the most recent progress in lunar research. Could man survive on the moon?
Amira Hass: An Israeli Journalist Speaks About "Occupation"
Amira Hass, a leading journalist covering the occupation of Palestine visited Japan in the fall of 2017. Amira is an Israeli who has lived in the occupied territories for more than 20 years, covering the occupation from both the Palestinian and Israeli sides. During her stay in Japan, Amira Hass talks about the Israeli occupation, and through her coverage of Okinawa, makes incisive comparisons between Palestine and Okinawa.
Rebellion for Love
At the end of the seventies, Yan María Castro became one of the founders of the first group of lesbians in Mexico. In a context of discrimination and repression, she and her companions organize a political movement to gain their place in society.
PRAISE BE!
Three students set off to make a documentary in memory of their beloved professor, but they aren't prepared for what they find.
The Cleaner
A short documentary about a man on dialysis who recounts moments from his life, as well that of his brother who has a habit of cleaning after others.
Omarska
An attempt to erect a virtual memorial for the victims of the Bosnian war, using archive material, videos and statements from survivors in a 3D animation.
The Slovenian Who Flew Through a Century
Jurij Kraigher was an Austro-Hungarian pilot and flight instructor, who also served in the air force of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. A pioneer of intercontinental flights at Pan American Airways, he broke the world speed record for passenger aircraft.
Travelers
The documentary film "Travelers" is an emotionally extremely powerful story of repression and rebellion, the art and the love that breaks through the limits of socially acceptable, survives despite destructive social norms and relations. Love, that is, as our main protagonists say, ready for sacrifice. And a common artistic project that mirrors themselves, incarnates their life energy.
Experimentieren mit LSD - Das Comeback der Hippie-Droge
Lily
An intimate portrait of the first female comic book artist, Lily Renée, and her journey from Nazi-controlled Austria to New York's Golden Age of comics
Librarians
Librarians documents communities and librarians struggling to preserve books and the culture of reading in the digital age. Will they succeed? How do libraries function these days ad are they able to adapt to changes? What will be the fate of printed books? The movie exposes the unique characters and fascinating life stories of librarians and enthusiastic readers, who are still in need of the smell and touch of books, and the stories and history of the small and remote settlements, mainly Kibbutzim (collective settlements) in the Negev region, in which they live and operate.
GUCA: Serbian Detox
When you detox in Serbia, you eat, drink, and enjoy the music. The greatest brass band festival in Europe is in GUCA. Paradoxically, it is a backwoods village located in the very heart of Serbia, but it beats with a passion and rhythm that unites the whole world. The whole region is a unique place where East meets West and the North borders with the South. The Celtic rhythm, a southern warmth, the Latin romanticism, and the Slavic sentimentality is present everywhere. It radiates within the culture, the food, the people and the music. The festival has been around for for the last 55 years. By its size and vibe it has often been compared with Woodstock and the Festival in Rio. About half a million people come to visit every year and they stay for a week during the month of August. What is really magical is that everyone feels rejuvenated after spending day and night in this place. No matter how long your trip will be, you will always want to come again.
Up Close and Personal
Join Ray Comfort as he shares the gospel with gang members and defense attorneys in what has been called the murder capital of America. Compton, infamous for gang violence, sidewalk assassinations and drive-by shootings, is, according to the FBI, the number one city in the United States for rape, robbery, assault and murder. Its homicide rate is a staggering eight times higher than the national average. In the one city, more than 50 street gangs vie for control of a massive crack cocaine and methamphetamine market. But watch how using the biblical principles taught by The Way of the Master cut through to the consciences of even hardened gang members.
Last Scene
Gukdo Art Cinema located in Daeyeon-dong, Busan is one of the most representative cinema in Busan for independent films and arthouse films along with Cinematheque Busan (currently moved to Busan Cinema Center) and Art Theater C+C. Gukdo opened in 2004 in Nampo-dong and moved to Daeyeon-dong in 2008 and has been a home for cinephiles in Busan and nearby areas for the last 10 years. The theater closed its operations on January 31st, 2018 after the building owner had refused to renew its contract. The last month of the theater is recorded in the movie Last Scene.
Back From the Dead: Inside The Revenge of Frankenstein
A documentary on The Revenge of Frankenstein
The Dynamic Duo
Tony and Julian - Wales's two most unlikely press barons - attempt to relaunch the Abertillery Dynamic, one of the valleys' last free local newspapers. Meet Tony Flatman and Julian Meek, Wales's two most unlikely press barons. Four years ago they launched the Abertillery Dynamic, a free local newspaper, with the aim of holding power to account. Combining opinion pieces with regular features such as 'Sheep of the Week’ and 'The Pub Review’, this is no ordinary paper. After 36 editions, worn out and broke, they were forced to close down. But now they are back and ready to relaunch. This wry, warm-hearted documentary celebrates these two lovable characters, as their old-fashioned approach to local journalism collides with the modern world.
Crimes de guerre au Yémen, les complicités européennes
A look at the arms manufacturers supplying Saudi Arabia
Jürgen Klopp: From the Black Forest to Europe's Football Throne
At a similar pace to that at which German football coach Jürgen Klopp won over the whole of Germany with his charisma and conviction for the then still unknown style of full-throttle football, he is now conquering England's traditional heart of football with Liverpool FC. In parallel with the Reds' rise as a top European team, Klopp's authentic and emotional approach to the national footballing shrine of Anfield has won him all-round respect and enormous popularity on the Mersey and among Liverpool's nationwide fanbase.
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.
Jamie Oliver: The Naked Chef Bares All
Jamie Oliver takes a trip down memory lane with Davina McCall, discussing his career over the past 20 years, including his rise to fame, his campaigning and the closure of his restaurant chain.
Dopamine
A bunch of indie filmmakers came to the grassland，everybody stayed in a tent, just open their mind and be sincere. They made conversations, which were about their confusion for life and be puzzle for artistic creation. Multifaceted sentiments were created. The goats were not vegetarian animal anymore，and the interlocutors were eating goats. An old man wanted to possess a young girl, the so-called artists were actually a tribe of infantile children. The goats were naked and waiting to be sparked…
A Tree Is Like A Man
A tree is like a man is an attempt to touch the otherworld through its edges. Shot on 16 mm in the Colombian Amazon, the film serves as personal witness to shaman Don William's lifetime relationship to Ayahuasca and other plant medicines that are native to the jungle. With the rainforest a rich labyrinthine background, this portrait is at once intimate and spare, opening up to alternate realities as dense as the jungle itself, with kaleidoscopic multiplicities in both the natural and the spiritual realms.
The Last Male on Earth
Ever since there’s only one male northern white rhino remaining on earth, armed bodyguards protect him, tourists are standing in line to make a selfie with him, journalists rush to Kenya to tell his story and scientists are determined to find ways to reproduce his species. What is so attractive about the threat of extinction? How does this reflect on us?
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Shalom Allah
When Muslims are shown in the media, they are often portrayed as the bad guys. And yet every year, over a hundred Swiss people convert to Islam. «I testify that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammad is His prophet.« The heroes of Shalom Allah study the new religion and begin their journey into Islam.
Shut Up Sona
Shut up, Sona is a tongue-in-cheek take at a feisty female singer's unrelenting fight for an equal space in modern day India, a country deeply uncomfortable with her emancipation.
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.
Sisyphus
Sisyphus is a journey through the rehabilitation of addictions in Mexico. In the absence of a public infrastructure to combat this problem, the annexes are the alternative that addicts themselves have created. The annexes are unofficial rehabilitation centers in which a method of rehabilitation thought apart from medicine or professional therapy is offered.
A Fool's Paradise
A cinematic road trip through South Africa. As a Dutch-South-African filmmaker, Saskia Vredeveld asks herself the question: 'did I become a racist, because I grew up in a racist country?' Therefore she embarks on a journey, from Cape Town to the heart of South Africa, to the towns whose 'white' names are about to be erased from the map such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam. What contradictory feelings does she have regarding her country? Is there still a future for the white people in the new South Africa?