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Popular Documentary Movies
The Flame
Fire, wind and smoke have been the fundamental elements for Aboriginal people for thousands of years. Their knowledge of the original power of fire is passed on from one generation to the next. A creative development of oral storytelling in audio-visual form.
La Planta
La Planta's team travels to Uruguay, the first country in Latin America to legalize cannabis, to meet characters who, through their experiences, tell us the trajectory of this plant.
Born of the * * * : On Zarathustra’s Going Under from Cairo to Oran
This film – neither performance nor fiction – is the third part of the artists’ attempt to revisit Anastas’s 2007 film, which sought to translate and put into play Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” onto the contemporary Arab World.
The Last Meal
The Golden Moose restaurant was a Turku legend. An old-fashioned funky establishment, opened in 1968 and seemingly never having changed since then. A meeting place for friends and family. A shrine for hundreds of locals. A place many called home. A family – for those who served there, as well as those being served. Now, in December 2016, the building has been bought by a major Finnish retail corporation in order to open a new supermarket, and the restaurant has to close its doors forever…
Bridge
On August 1, 2007, the sudden collapse of the I-35W bridge in downtown Minneapolis shaped a community. Spencer Patzman’s debut documentary follows the many personal stories of one tragedy and the countless ways it is felt more than 12 years later.
Placebo
What do we know about human clinical trials of drugs? Sometimes strange things happen outside the doors of medical institutions, which are usually kept silent. The film tells about several volunteers who decided to exchange their health for money without thinking about the consequences.
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Aliens & Hippies
Many involved in the counter culture explosion claim to have seen UFOs and Aliens, some of them leaders in today's digital technology revolution.
Borrowed from Nature
Borrowed From Nature explores the rich and complex history of Japanese gardens in western Canada. Through the principles and design philosophy of famed Japanese Canadian designer Roy Tomomichi Sumi, we visit Japanese gardens in Lethbridge, AB, Vancouver, BC, and New Denver, BC, revealing hidden testaments to an enduring Japanese influence in our country
Who Am I
A animated short film which shows glimpses of my life in my country of birth, before moving to another country at age 9.
Israel: The Forbidden Journey - Part III: Purim
Yo quería ser Tyrone Power
An account of the life and work, in his own words, of José Sacristán, one of the best Spanish actors of all time.
Tôn-Thât Tiêt… and the River Flows...
An intimate portrait of the man, the composer, and his connection to the two rivers of his life: the Sông Hương (Perfume River) in his home city of Huế, and the Marne River near Paris, where he has been living for nearly four decades.
3x Minispectacles Out Of Tune
Minispectacles is a series of one-minute films, cinematic haikus. Minispectacles 45-47/100 are making the rounds with the sounds in Hungary and Switzerland. All the way to the 100min feature film. Woman with pocket camera.
All this Roughness
An unnamed passer-by is forced to trace a circular route inside an abandoned tram station, facing loss and time. The broken walls act as a channel, transmitting fragmentary, blurred and analogical memories.
Jeunes de service
About twenty young adults engaged in civic service by the Unis-Cité association are trying to carry out civic missions in schools and institutions in Poitiers. But the reality on the ground brings its share of disappointments. Everyone reacts in their own way: adhesion, indifference, resignation or critical positioning. What prospects does civic service offer young people?
Residents
The heroes of the film live in isolation from the external world, in an asylum for patients with mental disabilities. We are trying to shut ourselves off from them, but the life of these people is diverse and interesting in its own way. But the joy in their eyes is making room for sadness and hope.
I Don't Like the Wind, I Like the Sun
The achievement of independence, social inclusion and employment, fuel the sense of happiness and brighten the lives of a group of people with intellectual disability.
Influencer
If you add up their followers and subscribers, it's over 1 million! Four influencers representing Korea in their respective fields have gathered together!
It Takes a Circus
Eighteen-year-old Aaliyah flies on aerial silks. Her 16-year-old cousin Bre twirls on hoops. They dream of escaping the violence that marred their young lives. Their possible ticket out is the after-school program Trenton Circus Squad. Now that Covid-19 has changed everything, will the circus and the girls’ dreams survive?
Nobody Famous
Set against the backdrop of a socially and politically volatile sixties, Nobody Famous traces the quick rise and steady fall of 60s folk/pop trio,The Pozo Seco Singers.
The Devil’s Instrument
An exploration of explores the history, lore, craft and haunting music of the Hardanger fiddle and the dances that accompany it as they are practiced in present day Norway. The national instrument of Norway, the Hardanger fiddle is similar to the violin, though it has eight strings, four of which resonate as drone strings. The instrument is often highly decorated with an extensive mother of pearl inlay on the fingerboard and black ink decorations on the body of the instrument. “The Devil’s Instrument” was the name given to the fiddle by religious leaders in the 19th century to discourage its use. The documentary interviews woodworkers who make the fiddle, the musicians who play it and the dancers who spin to it against the backdrop of the gorgeous Norwegian landscape.
All rivers flow into the sea and the sea is never full
An anthropological study of a small community in Sfântu Gheorghe, where the songs performed by the local choir are an important tradition. We see them singing as members of the choir and understand how their music becomes a bond of the community, present in moments of joy and sadness, at weddings and baptisms, but also at war.
Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 1: ’13 Minutes’
Patrice Endres abruptly vanishes from the salon she owned within a 13-minute window of time. Exactly 600 days later, her case takes a shocking turn.
Claude Monet: Capturing a Moment
Leaving the studio to go out and capture real life: that was the impressionist aesthetic. Claude Monet was its most famous proponent and artist. This documentary reveals the places that inspired the painter during his lifetime.
The Bodies
Each year in Galicia, one of the oldest forms of carnival is celebrated. Characters wear spectacular costumes, which include showy masks and a belt from which hang large and sonorous cowbells, and they run through the village, beating the visitors with their whips.
Kozan
This short documentary portrays a typical day of a Turkish farmer woman who lives in the village of Kozan, Adapazarı, Turkey. The film follows her everyday activities while also portraying her own opinions about her life.
A Film Called Blacks Can't Swim (My Journey My Story)
A Black Briton whose fears and anxiety of not being able to swim and drowning is dramatized as he battles with the stereotypes set by society.
Northern Range
It’s firstly the portrait of an area, France’s north coast between Dunkirk and Calais, where Olivier Derousseau lives and works: ransacked landscapes, port installations, plumes of smoke from the chimneys of petrochemical facilities, blown by the wind… It’s also a musical suite in five parts, a kind of minimalist blues lovingly composed in memory of time and people that have disappeared: the constant bass of juggernauts on the motorway, the percussion of the wind in the microphones, all the world’s sounds blending into a repetitive guitar thread. And it’s a melancholy meditation on the stuff of days, the flesh of the future, on irretrievable erasure and the traces waiting and hoping to be saved.
Georgia, the Open Wound
More than 10 years after the 2008 Georgian Russian War, wounds in the Caucasian country remain open. We travel to this beautiful country to get closer to its political, cultural and social realities, to learn a little more about that wound that still hurts.
Mrs. Happy
A platonic relationship between a young girl employed at a spa hotel and its former client develops through romantic letters full of old-fashioned respect, exchanged between the couple in the mid-50s.