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Cannabis Sets You Free
A documentary essay about activists from Slovenia, former Yugoslavia and other EU and world wide countries who have dedicated their lives to cannabis use. While some have fallen foul of the law, all of them have somehow gone down the road of the cannabis revolution.
Out of Breath
An approach to the pandemic with a focus on care, revealing the human face of the collective struggle against Covid-19 in interviews with doctors, nurses and community workers.
INSIDE THE MIND OF VLADIMIR PUTIN
As Russia continues to horrify the world with its brutal attacks on Ukraine, and its crush of dissent at home, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria takes viewers inside the mind of the man behind the ruthless conflict, Vladimir Putin. Throughout his rise to power and political career, Vladimir Putin has been an autocratic enigma. He was reared in Soviet poverty, served as a KGB intelligence agent in East Germany, and through a series of cunning maneuvers, rose from deputy mayor of St. Petersburg to the presidency of post-Soviet Russia. Zakaria gets answers to the many questions that surround Putin that have confounded leaders around the world, including at least four U.S. presidents: how did Putin’s mindset move from pro-global harmony, to isolation, fear, and loathing of the West.
The Goof Who Sat By The Door
A Documentary that tells the story of Thomas Washington, a Black man who was appointed CEO of The Walt Disney Company and intended to make "the Blackest movie of all time", which would be A Goofy Movie.
Living Wine
Merging sweeping wine country footage with insightful interviews, filmmaker Lori Miller showcases the dynamic natural wine movement that is transforming a growing number of Northern California vineyards.
Caroline: The Murder That Fooled The World
The shocking story of Caroline Crouch, a British woman tragically murdered in Athens.
The Dreamer
Chishang Township is known for its superior rice quality, golden rice waves, and unique cultural ambiance. From its initial struggles to the historic achievement of cultivating the highest-priced rice, the film traces the town's rich history and profound humanistic depth.
Beyond Begbie
A short film that explores the history of the land and its shared significance to Indigenous groups and mountain sports enthusiasts. Standing tall over the Revelstoke valley Mount Begbie has inspired an entire community. It is iconicized in the logos and names of local businesses, featured heavily in artists' works, is photographed by every visiting tourist, and most importantly of all, is explored by the outdoor enthusiast - no matter the season. Climbing Mt Begbie is a "right of passage" for every hiker, climber, sledder, and skier who chooses to make Revelstoke their home. While this peak has created an entire contemporary culture in Revelstoke, its name and story only represent colonial history, with no reference to the Indigenous heritage of this land. Is it the outdoor community's responsibility to help change this?
Never Coming Back
A reformatory for teenage girls in the Polish province. Many will be single mothers. The camera follows them gently and at a (not too close) distance. A gaze that does not judge and reveals painful truths.
Tequila. Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll
Tequila. Sexo, Drogas y Rock and Roll is a documentary narrated by Cecilia Roth and with the participation of the survivors of the mythical rock band Tequila: Ariel Rot, Alejo Stivel and Felipe Lipe. The film tells the tale of the legendary rock band who provided the soundtrack for the liberation of young Spanish people during the transition. Five young people who suddenly pull off their dream of making good and those destroyed by the fame and success. But their songs have succeeded in lasting over time as indestructible classics.
Iraq's Invisible Beauty
Latif Al Ani photographed Iraq for 30 years before multiple wars arose. At the age of 86, he travels through his devastated country in search of the people and places he photographed at the time, sharing his pictures with Iraqis who today cannot imagine that the world in the photographs was real.
Cosmic Chant. Niño de Elche
The film aims to answer two questions: What is flamenco? Who is the singer Niño de Elche? This child prodigy, who inspired artists such as C. Tangana, started challenging the rules of flamenco in his adolescence, which led to a violent confrontation with his family and flamenco fans that continues today.
BJ: The Life and Times of Bosco and Jojo
It's the story of a hilarious journey of a pair of talented and multiple award-winning Art Director, Bosco & Jojo, from Argentina, venturing out to make their first feature film. Bosco & Jojo's, early success in the '90s, sees them founded the legendary infamous club, 'Kim Y Novak', frequented by the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Rolling Stones, inspired song written about it by Benjamin Biolay in the 2000s. They went on to open an art gallery, POPA, showcasing controversial art collections. Especially for "Plastic Religion" by Pool & Marianela. Achieving headlines in The NY Times and Wire. The tribulation to producing their first feature film led them through a nostalgic journey when they had their first big break from making the film Happy Together, by the renowned Hong Kong Director, Wong Kar Wai. This journey takes them unpeeling layers of adventure and misadventure of their life.
Newsreel 4517 – Across the Water into Freedom
The film presents a portrait of Zied Abdellaoui who – seeking a better life – came to Austria through the Balkan route. He walked 4517km, experienced 26 illegal push-backs, several violent abuses and now resides without documents in Austria.
The Mysteries of Cosquer Cave
Over 35 meters below sea in France’s Calanque National Park hides the entry to one of cave art’s greatest masterpieces: the Cosquer Cave. Only accessible underwater, this incredible cave adorned with paintings more than 27 000 years old is little known, yet threatened by rising sea levels. In order for its preservation and to make it accessible to the largest number of people, the Southern Region (Provence-Alps-Cote d’Azur) is creating a full-sized replica of this hidden gem and its incredible paintings.
Intentional Crime
A documentary about the last days of Baktash Abtin’s life, who was murdered by the Iranian regime. He got infected with covid in prison and the authoriti simply refused to do a myth about it until it was already too late.
Shirampari: Legacies of the River
In one of the most remote places in the Peruvian Amazon, an Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant catfish using only a hook to start his journey as an adult.
Life (Short 2022)
This short film invites viewers to take a moment to embrace the everyday things we take for granted, and celebrate the miracle of life itself.
Every Time I Die
An hybrid feature film between documentary and fiction that approaches cinema as a ritual of symbolic transformation of death in the experience of 7 trans women. In this film, testimonies are combined with scenes that plunge into the surreal and the fantastic to narrate death from different angles, death related to transfeminicides, only in the year 2021, 36 trans women were murdered in Colombia; social death that seeks to annul in exclusion and silencing the life that makes it uncomfortable; and the multiple deaths that we experience in life, which speak of renunciations, forgetfulness, separations, changes.
The Sound of Time
Is it possible to use sound to travel through time and experience the fate of other people? This story of a sound engineer studying recordings of war conflicts from the past transports viewers smack dab in the middle of a ravenous rampage where the horrors of the past come to the fore. The film also presents a philosophical reflection on the role that sound plays in our world. The film was developed on the program of the AAMOD Premio Zavattini.
La memoria se filtró por una grieta
Film shot on 16 mm that works as an essay on memory and territory from Xochimilco, through the transformation of the landscape of the Valley of Mexico and the organization of communal life after the earthquake of September 19, 2017.
Monsters of the Wild: Creepy Crawlers
The natural world is full of beauty, but it can also be quite weird. Witness a world of cunning assassins, strange parenting and nautical oddballs.
Monsters of the Wild: Wonderfully Weird
Mother Nature...creator of breathtaking beauty. And it seems there’s no end to her evolutionary inspirations…or perhaps? Twisted imagination. From unexpected killing machines and freaky fliers to cheeky masters of disguise. Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of creatures so bizarre…so frightening…and so strange that sometimes, they even scare each other.
My age, yours, and the age of the world
After the earthquake, my grandmother is facing the loss of her apartment.
Aqui Jaz o Teu Esquema
Felappi Montparnasse receives an invitation to dinner with old friends, but does not know whether to accept it.
Alonso 2021, el origen del plan
In this documentary, the Asturian rescues for Dazn some of the key moments of the season. When Noemí de Miguel asks him what he felt after getting back behind the wheel of a Formula 1, the Alpine driver does not hesitate: «It has been fun to feel the adrenaline of racing again, of competition. I think I'm going to experience many things again and I look forward to doing so. Everything was exciting, those first laps and being in the fight with the other cars has been a bit of adrenaline that continues to rise. Even though the two cars in front of you are fighting, you already have a little excitement and your heart beats a little faster.
Beauty of the Beast
Csonka, Yvette, Eszter and Noemi are middle-aged women who transform themselves into a sculpted mass of muscle. Their physique is both a temple and a tool – outer and inner strength manifested as one. Unlike previous documentaries about individuals who pump iron, Nemes avoids a kitsch portrait of a subculture. Instead, she is fascinated by these women’s lives out of the spotlight and beyond the gym, exploring the reasons that made them choose this singular and often punishing lifestyle. What emerges is a determination to face down stereotyping and ridicule as each dedicates themselves to achieving their dream.
Belfast's Victory in Vienna: A Footballing Odyssey
Presenter Holly Hamilton tells the feelgood story of the Glentoran team who left Belfast on a European football adventure just before the First World War to win the Vienna Cup, the first ever European Cup.
Tokyo Giant: The Legend of Victor Starffin
As a child, Victor Starffin fled the Russian Revolution and settled in Japan, where he grew up to find success as a baseball superstar. However, he constantly battled to overcome many hardships such as poverty, xenophobia, and a world war. Starffin is survived by his two daughters who take us on a wild ride of shifting identities, international rivalries, tragic love, and one heck of a fastball.
Visit to Death
Four experts in different areas such as religion, philosophy and thanatology, share their wisdom when it comes to death.
The Rocking Horses
Ewa, a woman with intellectual disability, creates handmade dolls and toys. Through them, she talks to the people around her and communicates her emotions. We also see fragments of animation based on Ewa’s tale inspired by her life.
Estcoy-8
Not to mention the story of the Estonian unit Estcoy-8, which suffered the biggest losses in the history of Estonian foreign missions in Afghanistan.
Another Spring
In 1972 Yugoslavia became the site of Europe’s last smallpox epidemic. This gripping archival documentary, aptly described by its creators as a medical thriller, reconstructs the dramatic events of those spring months, and viewers will find it difficult not to draw comparisons with the worldwide events of the past two years.
