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The Plastic Nile
An eye-opening investigation into the knock-on effect of single use plastic and how human habits are destroying the worlds longest river, the Nile in Egypt. As part of Sky Ocean Rescue, and presented by Alex Crawford, The Plastic Nile investigates the dire effects of plastic pollution on the world’s longest river, the Nile. The river is a crucial life source for millions of people who depend on it for food and livelihoods. Starting right from the source, Sky News' documentary for the Sky Documentaries channel can reveal the extent of the pollution in the river that runs through five countries.
War for Peace
War with Russia on the east of Ukraine through the director's lens who stayed for a year in the centre of the conflict zone. He became a paramedic volunteer and continued filming everything what was happening in front of his eyes, making a rare true document of this brutal war that continues to happen in the centre of Europe.
Souvenir, Souvenir
For ten years I pretended I wanted to get my grandfather to share his memories of the Algerian War. Today, I'm not sure I want to hear what he has to say, or whether I want to make this film at all.
Korridor
Confined in their flat in Berlin, March 2020, a Mother and her 7-year old son collaborate on a playful testament to creativity — a fantastical short made using only a clothes horse, a shiny hula hoop, and a lamp. In the process, they transform their ordinary corridor into a ghostly and experimental place marked by gamelan sounds and transfixing light imagery.
Las razones del lobo
The memories of an atypical family, in a typical and conventional place of Medellin-Colombia, make a portrait of the last 50 years of violence in the country. These memories, narrated in first person by the documentary filmmaker, range from the emergence of the M-19 guerrilla group in 1970 to the votes in the plebiscite for peace, the result of negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla group in 2016. The atypical family is made up of a conservative father who was the mayor of Medellín and a mother who is an academic, intellectual, and researcher of violence, threatened with death and exiled as a result of her ideas and research. The typical place, is a social and sports club of the elite of Medellín about to turn 100 years, and from where the political destinies of the whole country are still decided.
The Making of Sawayama
The Making of Sawayama is the behind the scenes of Rina Sawayama's debut album, Sawayama. The pop artist takes us through her songwriting process, the recording process, music production, touring and more.
The Art of Working in Pairs
Louise and Henrik are two aging professional circus acrobats who constantly search for new ways to perform their art form. They look upon their practice as a lifelong project, and they have no idea when or how it will end. But for how long can they keep it up, as they grow older and have become parents for the first time.
Los vendedores de tortugas
The Leguizamon family works every day on the edge of Route 9 selling turtles and cactuses in order to survive in the mount of Santiago del Estero.
Women's Day
Astounding stories by women born in the USSR, pioneers and survivors, that reveal their heroic experiences from the time of the Revolution in 1917 to the present day through personal testimonies and intimate conversations with remarkable women and unseen archive footage. It opens a door to their inner thoughts, feelings, fears and hopes. Their experience foreshadowed that of women of today and yet their fate is also the story of their century.
Luminous Experiences
A meditation on the supernatural in natural occurrences. How is magic made… and can it be measured? (Lauren Iverson)
Street Food: Latin America
In this vibrant docuseries, Latin American chefs tell their stories and bring a taste of tradition and innovation to their delicious offerings.
The Czechs Are Excellent Mushroom Pickers
How incomprehensible would a higher intelligence find the plodding human species and the way it treats the Earth? And do Czechs differ in the way they care for nature?
Nasi Padang
A filmmaker from Norway becomes an internet phenomenon and national celebrity in Indonesia after making a love song to the traditional cuisine nasi padang.
Playing Perfect
A couple undergoes a 6-day experiment, in which they have to live in a remote village and play perfect people. He is an experimental film director, she is an actress. They must avoid any kinds of conflicts and always be nice. They are doing quite well in playing perfect untill they start shooting their own film trailer. That is where their settings go off.
Grave Hands
In Nha Trang, Viet Nam, Tống Phước Phúc has made a deal with God—a deal that requires he devotes his entire life to collecting aborted fetal tissue from the local hospitals, naming them, and giving them a proper Christian burial.
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Money Bots
A documentary about the race for the fastest connection and the most powerful algorithm in the high speed world of automated trading.
The Making of Outer Wilds
The YouTube documentary channel Noclip talks to the developers at Mobius Digital Games about the design of their breakthrough hit, Outer Wilds.
Perenne
Early/alternate edit of what became the final sequence of the film I'll See You Again.
One Life
Considered by the United Nations to be "the most persecuted minority in the world," the Rohingya have fled from their home country of Myanmar into Bangladesh following a military-led terror campaign. Almost a million stateless people now amass in makeshift refugee camps, their survival banking entirely on humanitarian aid from international organizations like the UN's World Food Programme. "One Life" takes a cinematic journey following eight-year-old Nur Kalima as she adapts to life in the world's largest refugee camp. Moving from the individual to the global stage, the film delves into the ever-larger powers holding the fates of Nur and the rest of the Rohingya in their hands.
Top Gear France - Driving with a kilt
As a tribute to John McAdam, the team will drive across 700km in the Highlands with a BMW M3 E46, a Honda S2000 and a Jaguar XKR. They will play golf, spend the night in a haunted castle and look for Nessie! Could it be any cliché-er?
Bleached Bones Avenue
Myanmar-based director Fujimoto returns after his documentary-like feature drama Passage of Life (JC 2018) with an affective, drama-like documentary. The local Zomi people of the Chin State in western Myanmar dig to recover the remnants of 30,000 Japanese soldiers who fell in the “Battle of Imphal” 75 years ago—a form of daily labor for the Zomi that is complicated by the fact that many Burmese people died in the battle fighting for the Japanese. In this Japanese-Myanmar co-production, Fujimoto trains the camera to unravel the multiple perspectives and consider the act of digging up bones as both a metaphysical and physical act of reconciliation.
Fat Boy: The Billy Stewart Story
From piano player to famous R&B balladeer, mastering word-doubling and scatting throughout his songs and performances, Billy Stewart had a style that was untouchable. His hits include the original “I Do Love You” and his masterful remake of the Gershwin tune “Summertime”.
Struck by Lightning
Raul and Romet are two film school students who one day wish to become world famous film directors. However this is not the reason they made this film. They had a really cool friend Brandon. He was an up-and-coming rapper and also their favourite actor. But during a summer holiday in America the brothers get a call that Brandon has killed himself. It all seemed so sudden and they couldn't even say goodbye. So the brothers attempt to understand the mysterious end of their friend by making a movie about it.
Desert Island Comics
When I heard that my local comic book shop in Brooklyn was temporarily closing due to COVID-19, I reached out to its community to learn what comics mean to them.
Fragmentos ao Vento: 1945
Senhorinha is a black woman who lives in a German colony in southern Brazil in 1945. In the midst of the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, she struggles to survive among the oppressive forces and immigrants being watched and persecuted.
Faça Você Mesma
The documentary presents relics of the Riot Girrrl scene in Brazil that landed in São Paulo through cassette tape coming from the US state of Washington, where the movement was born.
On recommence ! La musique nouvelle de l‘Allemagne d’après-guerre
My Room
Through the creative use of archival footage, documentary filmmaker Maka Gogaladze tells a story of her family – from her birth till the present day, intertwined with the turbulent history of Georgia over the last 30 years.
Tell Me All About My Body
Short documentary on Naila Rabel and her relationship with her body as she grew up having to navigate the stigma that fat people experience in our society.
Giorno di Scuola
"Giorno di Scuola" is the story of a day for pupils at the Pieve Torina primary school: the morning school bus that collects the children on the hills, the hours of lessons with syllables and questions, recess with its meetings; but also the contrast between the carefreeness of a normal school day and the surrounding difficulties, evident in the walk of a class outside the school. Hour after hour, "Giorno di Scuola" becomes the portrait of women and men of the near future who, caught in the act of learning, in turn give a lesson in lightness and teaching to see with new eyes, to observe the horizon from the of a school desk.