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Moses vorm Busch
A person travels to a place and performs a recurring ritual there while being accompanied by a film student, who documents the process.
Metamorphosis
Directed by Fernanda Parrado, Metamorphosis is a personal experimental film about the filmmaker’s own experiences as an immigrant in New York City. A tribute to all immigrants and their necessity of constant movement as a form of rebirth.
Banged Up for Blasphemy
Marcel Theroux and Masood Khan travel to Pakistan where they meet people - including children - who have fallen foul of the country's strict blasphemy laws, and the lawyers and activists who hunt them down, determined to ensure the death penalty is carried out as a punishment.
NIGHT CRUISING
NIGHT CRUISING follows congenitally blind musician Hideyuki Kato as he pursues the realization of an expansive sci-fi short called Ghost Vision, a film within its own making-of documentary. Working with a media production team and wide range of collaborators—including color experts, facial roboticists, hair stylists, voice actors, fight choreographers and VFX engineers—Kato directs the execution of his story about a non-sighted fighter and a telepath searching for a mysterious ghost in a future world. His pursuit becomes a deep interrogation of how sensory environments are perceived and rendered, offering new ways for viewers to think through their own assumptions about cinema and imagination. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Never Going Back
When Explorer left Honduras, she left everything behind. In the middle of the night, she didn’t have the chance to ask where she was going, but she’s never afraid, her father is always there taking care of her. This Honduran family travelled to Mexico looking for a safe place. A place where their two daughters could grow and their lives weren’t on the line. This is a brief chapter of this family’s journey to protect their daughters’ lives and their innocence.
Paedophile Hunters: The Rise Of The Vigilantes
In a new documentary for BBC Three, journalist Livvy Haydock investigates the rise of vigilante groups who, without official endorsement from the police, target suspected paedophiles.
With access to two UK-based paedophile hunting groups, Guardians Of The North from Sunderland and Predator Exposure in Leeds, Livvy observes their methods and stings to discover first-hand whether these groups are helping or hindering the police in their attempts to administer justice. The police have publicly said that they are struggling to tackle the increase in online child sex predators. The hunters say they are trying to help tackle the threat. While some of the evidence that the hunters gather is used in some cases to charge suspects, the police are concerned about people being wrongly targeted and hurt. As well as some groups naming and shaming people online before police can assess any evidence.
Szenen meiner Ehe
Filmmaker Katrin Schlösser turns the camera on herself and her husband for three years, creating a visceral and intimate snapshot of married life.
The Artist & the Pervert
Composer Georg Friedrich Haas and African-American kink educator Mollena Lee Williams enter into a complicated relationship.
Luc Durand Leaving Delhi
A portrait of the Canadian architect Luc Durand (1929 – 2018), who, after studying with Eugène Beaudoin in Switzerland, began his career in India. This period would be decisive for his career and would influence many of the projects he designed in Quebec, including the Quebec Pavilion at Expo 67, Place Dupuis, and the Olympic Village for the 1976 Olympic Games. Durand then decided to return to his roots in 2012, traveling from Montreal to Geneva, from New Delhi to Chandigarh. A portrait of an eminent figure in Quebec architecture.
I Was Anderssen
My father taught me to play chess, shortly before leaving home forever. I was a child. Forty years have passed, he has just died, and I have decided to complete the ritual that began on the day that I managed to beat him.
Billy and The Kids
An insightful look inside the boxing academies run by champion Kiwi boxer Billy Graham, through the eyes of the kids whose lives they have changed.
Facing the Beast
Theo, fourteen years old, dreams of being a manadier. He begins his apprenticeship guided by Mickaël, who works for him. During the summer, Theo will have to put his dream to the test and face the beast.
The Killers: Live at Glastonbury 2019
Live at Glastonbury 2019 captures The Killer's headline set at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival.
samyeong daesa documentary
samyeong daesa devoted himself to saving the country and its people amidst the harsh reality during the Japanese invasions of Korea. Samyeong Daesa's life itself was a quest and asceticism. On the occasion of Buddha's birthday, we reflect on the conflicts of the time and shed light on the path of compassion and Bodhisattva that he sought.
Surviving the Outback
Michael Atkinson places himself in the historic predicament of two stranded German aviators in 1932 to see if the his skills as a survival instructor, pilot and adventurer will allow him to escape to the nearest civilisation.
Hair Strength. Hair Suspension in Chile
Circus research project about hair suspension, financed by the national Fondart, call 2019.
Joy in Iran
Documenting the performance journey of the artists Susie Wimmer, Andreas Schock and Moni Single from "Clowns Without Borders" to Iranian aid institutions - homes for orphans and street children, hospitals, psychiatric clinics and refugee camps.
The Borderline. Hrubieszow Operation
Two warriors of the guerrilla movements, the one from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the other from the Polish Home Army (AK), narrate on the atrocities of German and Soviet occupation in 1939-1946, argue about the mutual harms of the past, and reveal what made them unite after all they've been through.
Thinking like a Mountain
The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colombia highest mountain, the Sierra Nevada Santa Marta. They draw from this unique environment a preserved and singular spirituality. For the first time a director was invited to visit the heartland of the sacred mountain. Hick tells the story of resistance which is a voyage through space and time: from the shores of the Caribbean to the stars that light up the night on the glacier and from the encounter with the first colonizing whites to the return of the warriors following FARC's laying-down of arms.
Passing Time
Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting signs in her grandmother: Alzheimer’s is slowing her down. A new film begins, a tougher one: the story of a couple that must face a tremendous challenge. Struggling against the tide of oblivion, the task of filmmaking becomes the ultimate act of resistance. Trying to retain the last images of her grandparents, an intimate conversation begins and echoes through the songs that play on the radio, conjuring lost stories and memories.
Abused by the Police?
During an arrest in 2017, teenager Anna Chambers was raped by two NYPD cops. who claimed she consented. Anna's story is far from the only one in the USA. Ellie Flynn investigates the increasing number of similar events, explores the true scale of sexual misconduct cases against police officers across the USA, and discovers a loophole in some state laws that may allow officers to avoid getting charged for sexual assault and claim sex acts as consensual.
Visualist-Those Who See Beyond
From the underground and alternative new media art scene to mainstream giant events for hundreds of thousands of visitors, "Visualist, those who see beyond" tells the untold History of audiovisual art
Century of Smoke
Laosan, a young family man, spends all his time smoking opium. For his community, lost in the heart of the Laotian jungle, opium farming is the only way to survive. But opium is also the poison that puts men to sleep and kills their desires.
The Colloquial Orchestra: Live at Bandito's
The Colloquial Orchestra is an experimental improvised music ensemble founded by Dave Watkins in 2009 as an excuse to be in a band with his favorite musicians. The project returned to the stage after a five year hiatus at Bandito's Burrito Lounge in Richmond, Virginia. This is the document of that experience.
Burn the House Down
In the lead up to the next great Kiddy Smile concert, diverse and passionate members of Paris’ glamorous ballroom community break down issues of race, immigrant culture, queer visibility, and free expression in a diverse but also deeply divided contemporary France.
Confessions of a Serial Killer
Samuel Little claims to have killed up to 93 women in 40 years. This chilling documentary examines how such a prolific killer could be on the loose for so long.
When All is Ruin Once Again
A recessionary tapestry of the rural communities of Gort and Crusheen in the west of Ireland. A newly-built motorway carves through their land, causing the areas' inhabitants to reflect on the misuse of natural resources, the value of memory, and the impermanence of their own existence.
Sugar Cage
In an attempt to find meaning to the concept of ‘Home’, the filmmaker trains her camera to examine her intimate surrounding through examining her aging parents’ daily life over the course of seven years since the beginning of war in Syria.
Listen to the Radio
Europe’s most successful public cultural radio station is struggling. The film follows the passionate radio crew over a period two years as they attempt to reinvent their program. Just when the station begins to regain listeners the right-wing government starts to threaten its independence.
Confessions of a Serial Killer with Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan sits down with Bernard Giles, a convicted serial killer who is willing to admit to his heinous crimes, and asks what motivated the man to commit those brutal acts.
The Green Gold of Africa
A documentary about the efforts to ban the global khat trade in Great Britain that routes its way from from war-torn Somalia to the streets of London.