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Inhospitable
Why are healthcare costs so high in the United States? Part of the problem lies with the business of hospitals, even those running as nonprofits. InHospitable follows patients and activists as they band together to fight a multi-billion dollar nonprofit hospital system in Pittsburgh that limits vital care for vulnerable patients. Filmmaker Sandra Alvarez explores the perspectives of patients, hospital workers, advocates, and politicians to shed light on an overlooked fight for justice.
Mr. Graversen
After years of substance abuse, Michael’s father returns to his life, but an old family trauma continues to haunt the Graversen family. A film with heart and courage about regaining the belief in life and each other.
Kantan Hereru
A aging blacksmith tells stories from his past and shares the importance of his craft to daily life in the past. Historical experts provide testimony on the role the craft and products had played in Guam.
Oski
'Oski' is an intimate portrait of a young prodigy and the culture that surrounds him. A film documenting a year in the life of skateboarding sensation Oskar ‘Oski’ Rozenberg as he transforms from cool street skater to celebrity sportsman competing in the Olympics. The demands of being a sportman with a shot at the gold medal in Tokyo weighs hard on Oski. It’s obvious that he is not your everyday athlete. Can his sport, and his culture survive the transition from underground to mainstream? And will he loose himself and everything dear to him in the process? 'Oski' explores the history of a subculture at a pivotal point in its history and how a humble and different thinking athlete, loved and adored by thousands of skateboarders all around the world, struggles to find his own path in life as an adult and sportsman.
Help Doc
A road movie that introduces us to the wards of the project — elderly people who are in difficult living conditions and equally need support and attention. The leitmotif of the trip was Stepan Brickspacer's search for material to create a large-scale NFT canvas assembled from artifacts and unusually expressive stories of the wards.
Musk vs Bezos, la nouvelle guerre des étoiles
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the two richest men in the world, have the same dream: to conquer space and send millions of people to live on Mars or in orbiting stations. In just twenty years, these two ambitious entrepreneurs have succeeded in developing and launching their own rockets, a feat previously reserved only for governments. Under their leadership, a new space epic is being written. Their "New Space" is turning space into a gigantic, ultra-competitive market. Behind this duel, another battle is being played out, that of the supremacy of the States in the race to the stars.
The Treasures of Crimea
It was a fateful coincidence that in 2014, just when the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam was staging an exhibition of Crimean artworks, Russia annexed the region. So now the question arises of who should the artworks be returned to? To the museums in Crimea who had been so kind as to loan them out? Or to Ukraine, perhaps, the country Crimea belonged to before the annexation? What should the museum’s director Wim Hupperetz do?
GKAY's Farofa – The Documentary
Why do some people say that Farofa is better than Carnival? Icon, phenomenon. In GKAY's Farofa – The dDocumentary, you'll be able to see what it's like to produce the biggest reality party ever broadcast. Press play and be on top of all the gossip that impacted more than 66 million people.
La night au frioul
A group of friends decide to spend a day on the Ile du Frioul, opposite Marseille. They dive, they discuss, run, sing, it dances. They fall asleep around a fire … A shadow, noises. They take shelter in a boat, they tell each other repeated stories, of the village, of adults, of djins … and there they meet a strange woman … We immerse ourselves with them, close to dreams, and to an adult life that is still far but close.
I've Lived Under Five Dictatorships
The hero of the film, violinist Helmut Stern born in Berlin in 1928. “I lived under five dictatorships. The first was German, Hitler’s, the second was Japanese in China, the third was Soviet in China, the fourth was Chinese communist, because there was already a civil war and we had communists, and the fifth... guess... These are the conductors", he says. The story of Helmut Stern, his forced trip around the world, his odyssey of a Jewish refugee recalls the story of Voltaire's Candide, who was expelled from his home. Life made him a cosmopolitan and democrat.
Golden Land
When Finnish-Somalian Mustafe discovers his ancestors’ land in the horn of Africa is full of copper and gold, he decides to swap his family’s safe but boring life in the Nordics for Somaliland, a self-declared state in East Africa. As Mustafe struggles to lift the treasures from underground, his children embark on a bumpy journey to uncover where they really belong.
Big Water Summer: A Creation Story
Cherilyn has returned to her grandparents’ farm on the Navajo Nation to grow produce for the community. Big Water Summer follows her as she navigates a changing climate and devastating family loss during a summer where nothing goes as planned.
A Devil with Harpoon
The story of Lars "Faen" Andersen, the man who killed the most number of whales in history
Short Years, Eternal Days
Three years in the lives of different women, including the director of this film, who tries to make an observational documentary about life after giving birth. But little by little, her protagonists leave her, while she discovers that this task, like motherhood, is more complex than she thought.
Tsumu - Where Do You Go With Your Dreams?
Lars, Eino and Thomas are fighting for a better future for themselves and their friends in Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland. A youth film about hope, dreams and the right to be yourself in turbulent times.
Gloriavale
With unprecedented access, filmmakers Noel Smyth and Fergus Grady lift the lid on the secretive Gloriavale Christian Community following a family of survivors searching for justice.
Solastalgia
A lagoon in Cuba suddenly dries up. All that remains of this lost landscape is an old painting with faded contours. This is the starting point for Violeta Mora’s quest: how does one remember a landscape that is no longer there? She then interviews those who do remember it, in an attempt to make the lagoon reappear.
L'ami, portrait de Mix & Remix
How a shy young man living off odd jobs became the funniest and most popular cartoonist in French-speaking Switzerland.
Skeleton, Dust, Soil
The Atacama Desert is the driest place on earth, and out there artist Pierre Huyghe has found a skeleton that might bring life to a place where nothing else can.
Asie-Pacifique - la nouvelle poudrière
As soon as he came to power in 2012, Xi Jinping clearly stated his ambition for a national renaissance. He will combine this with the construction of a powerful army and a certain vision of Chinese territory, which includes the reunification of Taiwan. In this quest, control of the oceans has become a crucial issue, and America an obstacle. In the South China Sea and the Pacific, the Chinese Communist Party has been pursuing a strategy to undermine American influence for the past decade. Relying on the active participation of maritime militias - fishermen trained by the military - China is creating a grey area between war and peace that destabilizes both its neighbors and the world's leading military power.
The Porters
Some kids in Brussels play a game based upon objects that were brought back from the Congo and which were used during the Hutereau expedition.
Panorama
Between the scars of the past and the uncertainties of the future, Jardim Panorama resists. A little over ten years ago, the favela was ripped in half by a monster. Today, the monster sleeps. Until when? A film about the dreams, memories and daily life of those who live in a community surrounded by the walls of an upscale neighborhood in São Paulo.
MAX! The Dog-umentary
A documentary about the friendliest politician in America, a golden retriever by the name of Mayor Max; the current mayor of Idyllwild.
R.J.W.
“R.J.W.” are the initials of Rodolfo Jorge Walsh. The documentary builds a parallelism between life and work, accounting for the self-referential component in his writing, from his childhood to “Operación Masacre”.
Femicide - Nel nome delle donne
This documentary film looks into femicides in Italy, where one woman is murdered every three days. By focusing on cases that rocked the country, the film tries to understand the reasons behind the phenomenon.
Legend of the Far East
The robinsonade of the Polish settler of the XIX century Mikhail Yankovsky in the Far East today directly rhymes with the national project "Far Eastern Hectare". Already 78 thousand people have taken advantage of the unprecedented support of the state and have taken land to dare in the fields of free farming. Twenty–year-old descendant of Mikhail Yankovsky - Egor Bordovsky goes from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok to find himself and master his hectare. Having lost contact with his son, his father also goes to the Far East after Egor.
Hekabe's Question
Direct and meticulous observation of interpersonal relations is a classic subject in documentary films. In this film the title of which alludes to “Hamlet”, we will observe the birth of compassion in people. Compassion is something that has to be dealt with in very rigorous terms, something that needs to be stripped of the layers of clichés that this word has amassed over the years. Is it always a true feeling or just an imitation? How does a deep compassion spring forth? Who are the true “masters of compassion” and what are they like?
When the Camera Stopped Rolling
Eight years in the making, Jane Castle's poignant documentary about her filmmaker mother Lilias Fraser is an intimate mother-daughter story and eye-opening chronicle of women's roles in the film industry.