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Myosotis
Switzerland in the 1950s: Electricity consumption is rising steadily. Two officials are commissioned by the city to convince the inhabitants of the Gettlichtal to leave voluntarily so that dams and reservoirs can be built. But the mountain farmer Marie, who has spent her entire life here, finds it difficult to leave the valley.
Chu Teh-Chun
A major figure in lyrical abstraction modernist art, Franco-Chinese artist CHU Teh-Chun (1920 - 2014) would have been 100 years old this year, and to mark the occasion, this documentary invites you to discover the story and remarkable work of this prolific artist. Directed by Christophe Fonseca, produced by Les Films de l'Odyssée, combining interviews with art experts and the painter's descendants with visits to the family archives, the documentary showcases CHU’s contribution to the lyrical abstraction movement, while at the same time highlighting his artistic skill and multidisciplinary approach to his work.c
Règlements de comptes à l'institut : Paris, août-septembre 1944
The Student
On 17th of November 1973, the Junta ordered the military to intervene in order to stop the 3 days demonstrations against the regime. Armored tanks surrounded the Polytechnic University of Athens and one of them entered the premises by bringing down the main gate. We are inside that armorded tank and we follow the events the very last minutes before bringing down the gate.
Le procès - Prague 1952
The new documentary made from the Slánský trial film and audio archives found by chance in 2018 in a warehouse in the suburb of Prague served as a starting point for the film. The director tells the trial through the descendants of three of the condemned: the daughter and grandson of Rudolf Slánský, the son and granddaughter of Rudolf Margolius, both executed after the trial, and the three children of Artur London, sentenced to life imprisonment.
La Mora
After her mother, Maria, passes away, Rosa, a young Spanish woman, discovers the secret of her biological roots in one of her mother's old letters. The letter recounts how Maria fell in love with Rosa's father, Choaib, who was one of the many young Moroccan soldiers (known as the Regulares) forced to fight alongside General Francisco Franco's troops in the Spanish Civil War. Rosa journeys to Morocco to meet her paternal family and discovers the reasons for her father's death.
The Length of Day
A film tells the emotional history of socialism in the United States. Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic seance animating FBI documents, political buttons, and appropriated scenes from Michelangelo Antonioni films to communicate with her deceased communist grandparents.
Witnesses of the Hour X. August Coup 1991
On the night of August 18, 1991, a coup, or putsch, was attempted in Moscow. The coup threatened to return the Baltic States to the occupation of Soviet Union. This documentary tells the story of how the event unfolded in Latvia.
100 ans de radio, le meilleur des ondes
For 100 years, radio has accompanied the daily lives of millions of listeners. Hosts, journalists, producers, and on-air directors relive the great moments in the history of radio, revealing the behind-the-scenes stories of yesterday's and today's programs, while recalling with emotion their first memories as listeners.
Side by Side
Through daily routines in a rural village, an indigenous elder couple recall their strange marriage to their grand-daughter, and sometimes to each other, in the changing rhythm of nature around them.
What Happened to East Detroit?
A documentary by Justin Arment that explores the 1991 rename of Michigan city 'East Detroit' to 'Eastpointe', and the racially motivated reasonings behind it.
La Tour de Nesle
During the reign of King Louis X the Hutin, his wife Marguerite indulged in parties of pleasure in the secrecy of the Tour de Nesle. Her young lovers were also her victims, and she had them murdered to avoid detection. Such was the fate that awaited Philippe d'Aulnay, who had barely arrived in Paris and who, in one night, had gone from the arms of the sovereign to the bottom of the Seine. What the queen doesn't know is that among his companions in debauchery that night was a certain Buridan. An adventurer, ready to do anything to conquer money and power - including blackmailing the Queen of France... This is the beginning of a merciless war between these two beings, with one spectacular turn of events after another, horrifying revelations and the crossfire of hatred and love.
The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland
The legendary British-American actress Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020), who conquered Hollywood in the thirties, challenged the film industry when, in 1943, she took on the all-powerful producer Jack Warner in court, forever changing the ruthless working conditions that restricted the essential rights and freedom of artists.
Die Rastatter Prozesse - Kriegsverbrecher vor Gericht
Unprovoked: A Creative Process
Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process of making shit because it looks cool, she's met with comradery, debauchery, and people's brains interrupting art whatever way they want to-ery.
Make Me A Sanctuary
After nearly fifty years in a building built by Holocaust Survivors, members in a synagogue reflect on their congregation's history and how they have come to need a new house of prayer.
Sooyii
A Young Pikuni Man, the lone survivor of a deadly curse that decimates his village, joins forces with an unlikely ally to finally face the unknown.
To Believe
The film describes the story that takes place among the prisoners in the camp, who are secretly praying and being bullied by the guards. At the same time, the screen shows the lives of believers who, while remaining in the Vinnytsia region, continue their quiet struggle for the faith. The film is based on real events.
Destiny Fulfilled | The Gerwyn Price Story
From giving up his rugby dream to fulfilling his darting destiny, this is the story of an unprecedented rise to the top...
SHADOW (VR)
SHADOW is a realistic virtual reality experience based on the British air raid against the Shell House on March 21 1945, during which a calamity led to the accidental bombing of Institut Jeanne d’Arc. The raid caused the death of more than 120 individuals, 86 of whom were children. Created as an original companion to the feature film THE SHADOW IN MY EYE by Ole Bornedal, depicting the life at Institut Jeanne d'Arc before, during and after the bombing, SHADOW simulates the tragic event, seen through the eyes of a young RAF-navigator.
Manny and Hugh's Imperial Escapade
Manny and Hugh travel through time with eccentric time traveler Ben Jowett to settle a debate regarding the U.S. supreme court.
Con il mare negli occhi
A young Calabrian woman just back from Gorizia tells a friend about her trip: what prompted her to go to Friuli-Venezia Giulia was her discovery of the poems and novels by one Carlo Michelstaedter, an author and philosopher who had died young, in 1910. What was the reason for his tragic death? And that odd yet familiar figure glimpsed on the beach, at the end of the trip, as the woman told it: who did it belong to?
The Monster Among Us
In the Bagong Lipunan Negros Island, Philippines of 1985, a family of dumaan farmers and their community faces a brutal threat of the Amomonggo. While the community struggles for their rights and safety, the Magbuelas family is haunted by the tragic loss of their first-born Isio in Escalante and the trouble of preserving the childhood life of their remaining child Ani.
Legacy of a Superpower: 30 Years After the Collapse of the USSR
Thirty years ago, in 1991, the Soviet Union, founded in 1922, disappeared, giving birth to fifteen new states, located between the Baltic Sea and the Pamir mountain range, which went their own way. How many of these republics have succeeded? How much real influence does Moscow exert over them? What role do NATO and the European Union play in this very complicated economic and political maze?
Redefining American Capitalism | Libertarianism
Free-market Capitalism was not always part of the American way of life. How did Libertarianism make its way into the political mainstream?
ITA Live: Kings of War
In Kings of War, director Ivo van Hove focuses on political leadership. The original texts were retranslated by Rob Klinkenberg and then thoroughly adapted: the Hundred Years' War between England and France, and the Rose Wars between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, which are emphatically present as a historical context in the original pieces, were referred to the background in the adaptation in order to accommodate a varied portrait of successive kings. As leaders in times of political instability and war, they show remarkable affinities with world leaders today.
Valiyor Silar
The struggle between a youngster and a cop. When the policeman snatches the youngster's money, he must find a unique way to get his money back.
The Mauthausen Resistance
During World War II, the photographer Francisco Boix and other Spanish Republican prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp, where 120,000 people died, managed not only to survive their indescribable experience, but also, after the war, to reveal to the world what really happened in that hell, saving from destruction thousands of official photographs taken by the SS.
The Seine's Tears
On October 17, 1961, the “Algerian workers” in France decided to demonstrate peacefully in the streets of Paris against the curfew imposed on them by the police headquarters.
ÖSV Präsident Peter Schröcksnadel
The era of Peter Schröcksnadel is looked at from its beginnings to the end. A success-story.