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Popular Documentary Movies
Visit to Kaesong, the Place of Ginseng
Ginseng is also known as the «root of life». And the best ginseng the kaonsky koryo-insam ginseng – grows in the area of the city of Kaesong, the ancient capital of the state of Koryo (X-IV centuries). Through a story about the history of cultivation and farming of the miraculous medicinal plant, the film lends the viewers some insight about the great cultural traditions, that are sacredly honored by the people of North Korea.
Refuge
A story about an animal rights activist and a dog hunter who face each other in an invisible war for the definition of the concept of humanity, in a country where citizens are often forced to act instead of the government.
Aria
Aria, a film about queer parents, identity and family constructions. It is through a series of portraits, of people leaning their faces over her belly that the artist proposes a diversity of stories and reflections on motherhood, parenthood, the desire or not to have a child, descent, and childhood. Entirely shot using smartphones, the film proposes an intimate journey, told via sensitive, fun or moving words, a contemporary family album.
Camera Threat
Somewhere in the dreary nooks of Mumbai's film industry, Camera Threat explores the ambivalent relationship this film city has with the moving image. Seated on a casting couch, two actors are getting stuck in impromptu conversations on the side effects of a world that no longer bothers to tell facts from fiction.
Green River: The Time of the Yakurunas
The lush green of the foliage forms a quivering reflection on the surface of the Amazon. According to the legends of the indigenous people of the region, the Yacurunas live beneath the water, in submerged cities that are the mirror image of human ones. Yet the film deals neither with mythical creatures nor with legends, catapulting viewers instead right into the midst of this incredibly green world.
Love is Over
A documentary about June 2013 protests in Brazil aiming to refresh our own memories of struggle by listening to the stories from another part of the world from the view point of a Gezi protestor from Turkey.
The Truth: Lost at Sea
This film reveals the Israeli attack on the 2010 Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of humanitarian ships which tried to highlight the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, and break its blockade. Shot from aboard the Freedom Flotilla, directed and narrated by one of its survivors and following up on subsequent media coverage, the film shows how the dead activists & their comrades who defended their vessels were portrayed. The film reveals what really happened and how it was spun in traditional and online media outlets.
My Mother
Using the mother’s life and constant flight as the main thread, the film shows us a deeply religious, Jewish girl, born in the Ukraine in 1902, who died an atheist and communist in Copenhagen in 1985.
Unstuck: An OCD Kids Movie
UNSTUCK is an award-winning short film that explains OCD through the eyes of young people. It avoids sensationalizing compulsions and obsessions, and instead reveals the complexity of a disorder that affects the brain and behavior. As the group of resilient kids and teens roadmap their process of recovery, the film will inspire you to believe it is possible to fight your worst fears and defeat OCD.
The Unknowns: Mystifying UFO Cases
In this video I delve into the expansive and complicated history of American UFO research. More precisely, the government sanctioned undertaking known as Project Blue Book. Many hundreds of cases were left unresolved upon the project's conclusion in 1969. These were dubbed the unknowns. As someone who is largely unfamiliar with UFO history, I explore a select few of these unknowns in order to understand what makes them so mystifying.
Every Soul of my Body
After the passing of her mother, Lorena finds the diary that she kept all her life. The entries allow her to discover a different woman. Having grown up in the worship of her father who fought as a partisan during the war, Lorena realises that she must start digging in the secret story of her mother if she wants to understand aspects of her own life. The pages of the diary feel like a book from another time. Working as a nurse, her mother was covertly working for the partisans passing them intelligence that she astutely acquired from wounded German soldiers by administering more morphine than usually required to ease the pain.
The Most Dangerous Game of Football
Calcio Storico is football like you’ve never seen before! Dating back to the 15th century, this early form of the game is brutal. But behind the blood and punches lie a story of tradition, pride and honour. A sport as unique and loved in Florence as ACF Fiorentina are, next season will see a unique collaboration between the two...
Family Life
When we get together it is usually loud. The table is set, we laugh and eat. Just like in every family. Then silence falls. Daily life returns. That’s how life goes on. This finite life. Everyone carries their experiences within. One bends under the weight. Another shares them. Some bury them deep. Everyone does the best they can. I often ask myself how we found one another in our family. What are the ties? What is all of it about?
Nine Hypotheses about Charlie Flowers
An encounter unites two people with the same name, different lives and a city in common, Talcahuano. Carlos Flores, director of the documentary, attests to a link with Charlie Flowers, writer and rapper, whose real name is also Carlos Flores.
Secrets of the Carpathians: The Living River
It's the beginning of May. The roaring torrent, fed by the melting snow, turns the emerald water of the mountain tarns into white foam. Hundreds of springs of crystal clear water gradually flow through the Tatra wilderness to form one of the last wild rivers in Central Europe.
The Fox Clan
Throughout the year, we will follow a creature that lives near us and is part of many fairy tales... Not so long ago, the most widespread beast in the world was the wolf. But today the red fox took first place. And it didn't happen by accident. Evolution has equipped her with remarkable abilities and excellent senses. The fox can adapt to human society and changes in the natural environment. Even the extreme conditions of the mountains in winter. But the life of a fox is not easy even in other seasons.
Rapha Rides // Boulder
An Olympian and former national champion, Connie Carpenter’s sporting history is remarkable. See Boulder from her perspective
Luisa Rendón Martell: La utopía truncada
Truncated Utopia tells the story of Luisa Rendón Martell, a republican activist who was retaliated against in the province of Cádiz during the civil war and Franco's regime.
Nobody Dies
Indie singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen makes her first trip to Vietnam with her mother, who hasn't been back to the country since the fall of Saigon.
Der Mensch von morgen - Ein evolutionärer Reisebericht
En búsqueda del ser Machi
A trip to Wallmapu, Chile, is part of the first meeting with Mapuche communities, through various stories we will know the relevance of the Machi for the community, who is the political and religious entity of the culture.
Noronha's Spinners
Video about the life of spinners dolphins at the Fernando de Noronha archipelago that shows the activites of the NGO Projeto Golfinho Rotador.
Nosso Sagrado
In the First Republic (1889-1930) as well as in the Vargas Era (1930-1945) the traditional terreiro communities were criminalized, their religious leaders were persecuted and their sacred objects were seized. In Rio de Janeiro, more than 200 objects were seized by the police, and after the end of the official criminalization, they became part of the collection in the Museum of Civil Police. The documentary The Sacred within us deals with the past of persecution towards traditional terreiro communities, the "Black Magic" collection found in the Police Museum, the difficulty of access to the collection by religious, researchers and the population in general, as well as the struggle for to release the sacred objects that have been in the possession of the Civil Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro for 100 years.
Ghosts
Van Ngoc Dang reflects on the end of her most formative long term relationship while wandering through Da Lat, a hauntingly beautiful town located in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, and the last place that Van (who is Vietnamese - Canadian) and her ex visited together as a couple. Her memories are framed through the lyrics of 5 songs that were especially meaningful to her during the breakup.
Notes to My Father
A VR experience about love, grief and reconciliation between a child trafficking survivor and her father.
Overwinter
Belarus, Vileika district of Minsk region. Lonely elderly people are leaving for winter to the home of seasonal residence. Each of them carries their own experience and beliefs, but they will have to stay the winter together. The days pass in sicknesses, conversations, watching TV... In mid-winter, there appears a new resident of the house, and the life inside changes.
Mon Marquès: el combat de la memòria
Mon Marquès, a professor, already retired, of pedagogy at the University of Girona continues working, after more than thirty years, in an investigation into the exile of the Spanish Republican teachers. Mon travels from the education system of the second Spanish Republic 1936-39 to today, emphasizing the differences between the Republican educational system and the Franco dictator's system, as well as the repression suffered by these and forced exile to France and Mexico. This document brings lights to the darkness that has always existed on the subject of Republican exile, since as Mon says: of the remaining people we had data, but from those who marched there was no documentation, so they did not exist.
The Third Uncle
Li is over 70 years old, he sits in front of his window in the afternoon every day and smokes the cigarette to pass the time. The sound of water drops in the kitchen, two pigeons are roosting on roof of the opposite building, and the sunshine comes into the room, which make Li feel alive. His emotions usually could be fluctuated with the plot of the TV programmes, because he even could find out his own fitful memories from it. One was is the whole family, another one also is the whole family. During worshipping of the ancestors, he listened to his mother's arrangements and felt sincere concern from his brother. However, happy time was so short. After he returned to his rental place, the only thing that he can do is to look at the dream which was outlined in the New Year's Gala, and which gradually away from his dream. Everything just was the same as the past in this new year, he was still feel so lonely.
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Foreign Land
As Israeli society slips into extremism, an Arab actor and a Jewish journalist search for a place where they can belong.
C'est qui la plus belle ? Le making of de Blonde aux yeux bleus
Men Lahm wa Salb
Visually captivating, Men Lahm wa Salb (1959) films a day in the life of the Casablanca port, without dialogue or voiceover, with the images flowing to the rhythm of music.
Meu Corpo, Minha Vida
Talking about abortion in Brazil is still taboo, however, in recent years, protesters have protested against criminalization laws and highlighted the need to debate the subject.