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Icahn: The Restless Billionaire
Explore the contradictions at the heart of famed financier Carl Icahn. A polarizing figure described as both an activist investor and a ruthless corporate raider, Icahn rose from modest beginnings in Queens to become one of the richest men in the world, embodying the American Dream. Yet, he openly criticizes corporate excess and the huge wealth inequality gap.
I Am Hope
Through fly-on-the-wall footage and insightful interviews, director ShakaJamal chronicles the effort to create a first-of-its-kind yoga and mindfulness program for Oakland Unified School District middle schools. Aimed at expanding students’ awareness and refining their goals, the initiative has been a unique success, and I Am Hope offers a poignant portrait of the day-to-day struggles of diverse young people united in their desire to pursue big dreams.
Brotherly Love: The 2023 Phillies Video Yearbook
2023 brought one of the most likable teams in Phillies history and a mutual love between the team and its loyal fans.
Each Day in a Moment: 2023
One person's perspective of the year 2023 shown through an accumulation of 365 unedited shots with one shot from each of the 365 days.
Testerep
A team of scientists search for the lost island of Testerep in front of the Belgian coast, venturing into artificial landscapes and virtual realities.
While the Green Grass Grows
First, there is the Appenzell countryside, and the melting snow that makes the streams overflow. Then the death of his mother, and the need to spend time with his father. On top of that, a global pandemic. Peter Mettler is a rare gem of a filmmaker. Here he (re)constructs the filmed diary of his intimate relationship with the world and the beings that inhabit it, in this work of documentary goldsmithery.
R 21 AKA Restoring Solidarity
The growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980 was supported by radical left-wing movements worldwide, also in Japan. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films by militant filmmakers from various countries, which were dubbed and screened in Japan. Their Japanese audiences felt oppressed by the US after World War II, and not only sympathized but also identified with the Palestinians.
Homefront
The Ukrainian Lymar family flees from the war in their village. They end up in a rural village on the other side of the country, remote and unfamiliar. At the same time, two documentary makers arrive. They find the Lymars to be their ideal characters. Until one day, the family disappears.
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
A 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth.
Captain America: The First Avenger - The Transformation
A brief piece that offers an in-depth look at the process of digitally shrinking Actor Chris Evans for the film's first act.
Die Farbe Rot
A black-and-white film about the color red. What sounds like a pointless endeavor is perhaps the smartest solution. The Color Red is about learning to see red with different eyes. The film accompanies - representative of 8 billion pairs of eyes - an optical physicist and a painter in their preoccupation with the color red. The question of how different red can be is ultimately joined by curiosity: do we "see" the color without the film having to show it?
The Transplant
Anime has been broadcast in Iran for more than half a century, this documentary takes a look at the history of the beginning of anime broadcasting on television in Iran until today, when it is able to have extreme fans in this country and the emergence of a cultural subculture called otakus in Iran.
Sir Alex Ferguson: Secrets of Success
A look at Sir Alex Ferguson's guide to succeed at leading after his 26 year career as Manchester United's manager.
Make a Circle
Documentary. No one can deny that children are our hope for the future, yet the dedicated workers who nourish these vital forces of nature now face an existential challenge of epic proportions. Since emerging from the intense upheaval of the pandemic years, many essential yet often invisible childcare providers have continued to feed young minds even while literally unable to feed themselves. The result: a new wave of unlikely political activists. This powerful film follows educators at three childcare centers in California over several years, and culminates as thousands march on the State Capitol demanding better working conditions. Weaving together the magic they create in the classroom, the struggles they endure at home, and their drive to change the system for the better, Make a Circle extends a rallying cry for a childcare system in crisis.
Resistance Climbing
In 2014, during a trip, American Tim Bruns discovered cliffs in a small village five minutes north of Ramallah in Palestine and got to work equipping all the easy routes, then setting up climbing routes so that we can start teaching people how to climb. Bruns and Harris also opened Wadi Climbing, the first indoor climbing gym in Palestine. Today, gathered in the conflict-torn hills of Palestine, a diverse team of Bedouins, activists and urban professionals have embraced climbing as a much-needed respite from the burden of Israeli occupation. American writer and climber Andrew Bisharat visits the West Bank to explore his own roots and the power of climbing to transform lives. This documentary is part of the Reel Rock 17 series released in 2023.
Passion Fanny Ardant
A portrait of the famous French actress Fanny Ardant, who has worked with great figures of cinema such as Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sydney Pollack and, above all, François Truffaut (1932-84), with whom she had a sentimental relationship and whose death marked the rest of her life.
A Visit to The States
First in the "A Visit to" series, where Sam, Kaden, Jenny and others visit San Francisco, for the first time.
Livin' The Dream
A mockumentary going over the life in the 1910s-2010s. You can watch this full mockumentary right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jByiX2SuU4Q
Space Men
In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the space age long before NASA's acclaimed Mercury 7 would make headlines. Though largely forgotten today, balloonists were the first to venture into the frozen near-vacuum on the edge of our world, exploring the very limits of human physiology and human ingenuity in this lethal realm.
Straßensamurai
'Street Samurai' is a doku-noir film that explores the lives of an unusual group of bouncers making their way in Berlin's hip night-life. The film follows five protagonists as they struggle to find balance while surrounded by excess, and come to terms with the uncertainty that the life of a bouncer can bring.
Posso entrare? An ode to Naples
A tour through the alleys of Naples between works of art, music and theater.
Jon Henrik Fjällgren – mina världar
Behind the artist Jon Henrik Fjällgren's success hides a life edged by darkness, vulnerability and bullying. As a child he was adopted from Colombia to Mittådalen's Sami village and for the first time he is now traveling back to his hometown of Cali in Colombia. In the program he talks openly about his life and history. There will also be guerilla recordings with Greta Thunberg, a look behind the scenes at Melodifestivalen and everyday life among reindeer and mountains.
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates.
Free to Run
Free to Run tells the amazing story of the running movement over the past five decades, the struggle for the right to run - especially for women – against conservative Federations, the explosion of grass roots road races and marathons, until the boom of running as a vast business enterprise.
Germany 9/11
September 11, 2001: The people in Germany learn of the terrorist attacks in New York with horror. In front of the world’s eyes, hijacked passenger planes crash into the towers of the World Trade Center, killing thousands. The world will be different. The documentary “Deutschland 9/11” takes a look at the event and its consequences from a German perspective on the 20th anniversary of September 11th. The television images of the pentagon in flames and the collapsing towers are burned into the minds of people all over the world within a short period of time. After a long period of “felt” light-heartedness, the Germans are suddenly faced with a tragedy of unimaginable proportions.
Global Eugenics: Using Medicine to Kill
"Global Eugenics - Using Medicine To Kill" - A shocking new movie that covers topics such as the swine flu, vaccines and vaccinations, martial law, medical news, water. depopulation, eugenics, Monsanto, gm seeds, agenda 21, and codex Alimentarius. A must see for all.....
Star Trek: A Captain's Log
Star Trek: A Captain's Log was a CBS television documentary which aired on 30 November 1994 across the network. It consisted of film and video clips mixed with interviews from the Star Trek: The Original Series actors William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Nichelle Nichols. Star Trek: A Captain's Log is a retrospective of the episodes of TOS and also features archival footage of astronautical engineer Scott Crossfield, President John F. Kennedy, astronaut Alan Shepard, and Trek actors Marj Dusay and John Glenn. Michael Mahler worked as director and writer and also held the same position on the William Shatner's Star Trek Memories documentary.
Khaled El Sheikh: Between the Thorns of Art and Politics
The Bahraini singer "Khaled Al Shaikh" is synonymous with musical innovation, earning him numerous awards. This film follows his creative journey from his early days as a student at Kuwait University. We trace Khaled Al Shaikh's path from Kuwait University, where he initially studied economics and political science, to the music institute in Egypt. After leaving university to pursue music, we follow his years of fame and struggles.
Earth's Natural Wonders
Across our planet there are a handful of places that just take your breath away: Everest, The Grand Canyon, Victoria Falls, The Amazon. We call them Natural Wonders. Three Episodes
Ludovico Einaudi - "Like a Breath" (Live Footage and Documentary)
'Like a Breath' combines intimate storytelling, live performance, Ludovico Einaudi's personal photography and videography and never before seen footage in order to showcase several of Ludovico Einaudi's personal favourite pieces in a whole new way.
Interior (The Spectator)
Contemplates the filmmaker’s relationship to the painter Howard Hodgkin. The highly personalised domestic interior of Hodgkin’s London home becomes a container to explore this relationship: as objects and belongings draw out themes of personal loss, memory and identity.
Tbilisi. Mental Maps
Personal maps of Tbilisi, created by its recent inhabitants – emigrants from Russia. The urban landscape transforms from being unfamiliar and occasionally intimidating to becoming intimate and recognizable. A shared environment for living, working, and creating is slowly taking shape.