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A is for Agustin
In a remote mountainous region of the northern Philippines, an illiterate indigenous man gets fed up with being exploited by his employers and decides to go to school. With the goal of making a better life for himself and his family, 41-year old Agustin Tiburcio starts learning his ABCs.
Puerto deseado
The seasoned captain of a fishing boat along with his crew of thirty men resist their ninth month on board in the icy waters of the Argentinian South Atlantic Ocean. This will be the very last adventure for the captain, that in which he confronts his forty-year-long past at sea with his coming future: finally, life on the mainland with his family in Galicia (Spain). But, for this last voyage, his daughter, the Director, will also embark to try and find the Captain, who has always been an absent father. An intense adventure drama full of silences covering truths and gazes in search of answers.
Novaya
'Novaya Gazeta'. One of the first independent editions of post-Soviet Russia. One of the last remaining today.
Lenchik
A young American, born in Crimea and adopted by a family from the United States in 1993, returns home for the first time in 25-odd years to meet her long-lost family and find out the details of her difficult past.
Cerro dos Pios
I haven’t seen my father for a decade. Together with my colleagues from cinema school, I return to the place where I was born, and a reunion seems inevitable.” Miguel de Jesus
Voy
The film tells the story of the Russian Paralympic Blind Football team which is preparing for the most important event in their lives - the European Championship. The team has only one goal - to win the gold medal at any cost!
A Mom for Julia
Julia is seven years.old. She was born in prison and had a different mother at three different periods of time. All of these women attempt to mother her now. They want what’s best for the child, but their actions threaten the future of the girl. The director Natalia Kadyrova met the film’s protagonist when she was shooting her previous film. It dealt with an experiment – the children lived together with their sentenced parents in jail.
Magic of the Wild Horses
It explores the challenges facing wild horses around the world and the efforts being made to preserve their existence.
Eletronica: Mentes
"Eletronica:Mentes" takes a look inside the mental world of the Brazilian legends in this field, examining the forces, the experience and the effects of synthetically created noises and their distillation into experimental music.
Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest
The incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has been regenerated back into beautiful New Zealand native forest over the course of 30 years. Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”. Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without a doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.
Palace of Ghosts: The Last Anniversary of the GDR
East Berlin, October 7, 1989: While the state elite was celebrating the GDR's 40th birthday before the eyes of the world, resistance was forming in the streets. Guests celebrated in the Palace of the Republic in Berlin. In front of it, people loudly demanded reforms. There were also demonstrations outside Berlin, for example in Plauen. The situation escalates ...
Rainey
Stylized documentary about a young musician, who trough battle against his biggest lifelong insecurities, grows into a local star and becomes a symbol of hope and persistence.
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.
Feri
The documentary about Feri Lainšček, one of the most prolific and highly acclaimed Slovenian writers and poets, foregrounds the essence of his creativity shaped up by his commitment to love, the Pannonian landscape with the River Mura, friendship with the Roma people, the blending of the magical world and reality, and the ongoing search for answers to the most fundamental questions of life. In the film, sections of his life are juxtaposed with his poems about demons.
Radar, Um Time! Uma Nação!
When women's football was authorized in Brazil in 1979, a club left the beach to dominate the fields and the sport in the 1980s. RADAR EC was the precursor of women's football in Brazil, filled Maracanã, and was responsible for the formation of first Brazilian team. A passionate story of a club that represented a nation.
Diary without Words 2018
A collection of video diaries shot by Shô Miyake with his iPhone.
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
Little Sons
Kan Gyi, Par Gyi, and their friend, spend their days doing odd-jobs and begging on the buses.Neglected by their parents, society, they spend their nights sniffing glues and looking for a place to sleep in a wholesale market compound. But deep down inside, they are still the children who simply want to fit in, make friend, play mischief, and take care of each other, just like any other children.
To the Limit: Fabio Wibmer
Experience an action-packed urban mountain bike adventure with extreme sports athlete Fabio Wibmer. Why does he keep pushing his limits and expose himself to high risks of injury? Find out what's going on in his mind and witness how they conquer the craziest urban spots in France - including security & police, as well as spectacular crashes. His videos have millions of clicks but is it really worth the risk?
You Are What You Eat
The documentary analyses the relationship between producers and chefs based on their own testimonies. It touches on subjects such as the importance of the produce in the kitchen, sustainability, the generational takeover and promotion of the rural world.
Una Sombra Oscilante
Celeste, a young photographer, delves into the old collection of negatives that belonged to her father, a photographer who fought in the 70s and 80s against the dictatorship in Chile and who went into exile in Ecuador. Thanks to the pictures, she will find a way to access her father’s elusive memory, while asking herself about the meaning of the struggle, the density of exile and how it fits in with the present day.
Years of Construction
Demolition of the old and building of the new Kunsthalle in Mannheim in the years 2013 to 2018.
Disco Confessions: John Morales, a Life in the Mix
John Morales, one of the most influential producers of the disco and dance music scenes, was responsible for more than 700 mixes and productions during the 1970s and 1980s, and was the creator, along with Tom Moulton, of “club mixes” and the extended 12-inch single. Filmed in New York, Ibiza and Lanzarote, the film is a biographical portrait that includes Morales discussing music and life with his friends and collaborators Louie Vega, Danny Krivit, DJ Spinna and DJ Spen. Now in his sixties, we see him here more passionate than ever about playing and making music and sharing it with the world.
Breeding Ground
From Sunday to Sunday, the Arcozelo football field is battered by the North wind. The lawn has to be swept and lots of clothes washed. - The boys are coming! - The two equipment managers, São and Cunha, know the name of the little players. Everyone is taken care of and the socks drying on the goals are also to be lent.
Symphony of the Ursus Factory
The Ursus factory once covered 170 hectares and employed 20,000 workers, producing 100 tractors a day. Now, its buildings stand derelict and empty; half have already been demolished by investors with new plans. The symphony of mechanical sounds and gestures that is gradually built up throughout the film is produced by former factory employees. Proud of their factory, they reminisce about the huge numbers of people and the parties they had. They were a community, passionate about supporting agriculture through their factory. The Ursus tractor was well-known, not only in Poland but throughout the world.
Pandora's Box: Lifting the Lid on Menstruation
Pandora's Box unmasks the global pandemic of menstrual inequity and period poverty. From Maasai villages, to Mumbai and on to London, we meet young women who are forced to stay at home from school, or even drop out, merely because they don't have access to menstrual supplies. We meet formerly incarcerated women in the U.S. prison system who talk about their struggles to menstruate safely while deprived of basic human hygiene. One of them asks: "Isn't the ability to menstruate with dignity a basic human right?"
After Birth
I love my baby. But I was unprepared for how childbirth would change my body.
Frederick II - Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen was a highly significant German king and Holy Roman emperor. Raised in Sicily, he was a sponsor of science, a reformer, perhaps even the first modern ruler. But Frederick could also be a brutal tyrant. He had his son Heinrich rot in the dungeon, for his imperial honour went before everything else.
Bare
An experimental documentary exploring the concept of nudism in Singapore, told through the voice accounts of two naturists.