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Vermint
Since the beginning of the war in eastern Ukraine, countless people have lost their legs, hands, or even their lives. Hidden land mines and unexploded ordnance threaten people and severely restrict their activities. A group of mine-clearers is working meticulously under hazardous conditions to clear fields and meadows of unexploded ordnance and land mines.
25 Years of Solitude
Love and death. The 1992-1993 war, which in Abkhazia is called the Patriotic War, ended long ago, but the small sovereign unrecognized state is unable to overcome the military syndrome. I want love so much! In the mountain village of Achandara, Lavrik Akhba, an actor of the Abkhaz drama theater, captain of the second rank of the border fleet and a farmer, is trying to help his friend Tuta find a bride through a dating site. But suddenly he himself, a war hero, a lover of books and women, is covered with love of such strength that it turns out to be more destructive than that terrible last war.
I Have Nothing To Add
Jacob Janzen was arrested in 1938 and his family never saw him since. 80 years later his great-granddaughter Maria Lotsmanova comes to the Federal Security Service (FSB) archive to find out his fate.
About Art, Being, and Dark Subject
Who are we? What do we know about ourselves? How do we differ from animals? Creativity! That's the only thing that makes us human. Only creativity is a sign of human nature.
Vitória
Vitória decides to stop taking the abuse at the factory and goes in search of someone who will listen to female workers. Made with employees from a textile company in rural Minas Gerais. An urgent story, now that Brazil's extreme right-wing government is destroying social structures at a rapid rate.
Ils ont brillé à la télé : que sont-ils devenus ?
ETs Among Us 5: Binary Code - Secret Messages from the Cosmos (with Linda Moulton Howe)
Peabody award-winning journalist Linda Moulton Howe analyzes parallel binary code warnings from UFOs 35 years apart. In 1980, a military officer in Bentwaters Air Force base (Britain) witnessed a landed spacecraft, and was later mentally bombarded with binary code. Similar binary code was transmitted to another military man in 2015 in the USA. Sadly, in 2020 these warnings have already come true.
Characteristics: A Film By Adam Lumir
An experiment film about A young man reflecting on his uneventful routine and stale life. Shot, directed, written, and narrated by Adam Lumir.
Purva bridējs - Uldis Pūcītis
A TV documentary about Latvian actor Uldis Pūcītis, featuring fragments from many of his films ("Swap Treader", "Four White Shirts" and others), as well as stories by people who knew him - actors and directors, former lovers and classmates.
Break Point: A Davis Cup Story
For the first time, the tennis world championship would be held for just one week and in a city: Madrid. Eighteen teams strove to win the prized “salad bowl” trophy. Lead by Rafa Nadal, the Spanish team were this year’s favourite until they suffered a serious setback.
Narodnaya
Filmed in the latter half of summer, 2019, 'Narodnaya' follows the travails of a garage gallery opened by members of the Nizhniy Tagil underground as it prepares and hosts concerts and an exhibition, revealing in the process the philosophies and principles of the curators and artists who create this one-season gallery.
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The Vasulka Effect
The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody through various TV screens. He does the same and replies. A perfect image of the relationship between the free-spirited, groundbreaking pioneers of video art. After meeting in Prague in the early 1960s, they relocated from Czechoslovakia to New York, where they later founded The Kitchen, their legendary art and performance gallery.
The Scroogening
The world is bad, the two huge cuts on my chest are still healing, and I’m deeply in need of holiday joy. Or any kind of joy, really, at this point I’m not picky. This is why I have decided to watch as many adaptations of A Christmas Carol as I possibly can, and then tell you what I think of them.
Cane Fire
Cane Fire examines the past and present of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, interweaving four generations of family history, numerous Hollywood productions, and troves of found footage to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as "extras" in their own story.
The House of Forgetfulness
The Journey of a young man who is making a documentary about forgotten narratives around an old piano, takes him through an unknown path towards restoring history, culture and identity of his homeland, Iran, in dusty and abandoned objects.
I Don’t Like 5 PM
"I Don't Like 5PM" is the portuguese director's journey of discovering the first love. The story is told through personal photos and videos captured in the nature of Norway, Portugal and Poland. Divided into four chapters, the film shows the search, the love, the separation and the memory. The search is his strong friendship with a young german woman. The following chapters show moments of his first love with a young polish woman. Incapable of living miles away from each other, the relationship ends and remains a memory. In a moss covered forest, the young polish woman sings about an impossible love.
The Fifth Story
After decades of devastating war in Iraq, the horrors are still fresh in the minds of different generations. Their disturbing stories are filmed in a poetic style that also cautiously opens a door to beauty and contemplation.
How to be Anne-Marie
Meet the real Anne Marie in this documentary special, which charts her life in front of and behind the camera, from her school days, where it all began, to emerging out of Lockdown, ready to perform again. With special appearances from close family and friends, go behind the scenes as Anne-Marie preps for the biggest, littlest gig of her life - performing her brand new track 'Problems', live on top of London's largest music venue, the O2.
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Walk Against Fear: James Meredith
In 1962 James H. Meredith became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. This film documents the life and times of one of America's greatest and most controversial civil rights icons.
Wild Life: The Big Freeze
Bertie Gregory braves arctic temperatures to encounter a unique group of hardcore animals.
Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton
The inspiring true story of a poor Irish immigrant who sets sail for America in 1928 with dreams of becoming a millionaire but, with the help of the most iconic celebrities of Hollywood, ends up spending his life championing the message, "The Family That Prays Together Stays Together."
MOUNTAIN RIVER - The Esopus Creek: Headwaters to the Hudson
The 73 minute film, MOUNTAIN RIVER, follows the Esopus Creek, from its headwaters on Slide Mountain in New York’s Catskill Mountains, to the Ashokan Reservoir, and on to the Hudson River at Saugerties - a fascinating journey of 65 miles. The story begins with the ancient geologic forces that formed the Catskills and goes on to explore the Native American and colonial settlements along the Esopus. The documentary covers the history of New York City’s Ashokan Reservoir, the development of water-power on the stream, and the innovative beginnings of the American Industrial Revolution along the Esopus in Saugerties. The film celebrates the Upper Esopus as a world class trout fishery, a recreational resource and a critical source of clean, unfiltered water for millions of New Yorkers. Below the Ashokan Reservoir, the Lower Esopus flows through steep gorges, rich agricultural lands and several towns on its way to the Hudson River.
Oeconomia
What is money? What are debts? What are the consequences of both? And how can images be found for them? In Oeconomia, Carmen Losmann undertakes a journey in the strategic heartlands of neoliberal policy.
Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 1: ‘Mystery on the Rooftop’
After rushing from his home, Rey Rivera disappears. Days later, his car is found — and a strange sight at a historic hotel triggers a baffling mystery.
Perro
Perro and his grandmother fear for their homeland in southern Nicaragua, an area which is threatened by the planned construction of the 300-km-long "El Gran Canal". The documentary accompanies the silent and nature-loving boy amidst the inevitable farewell to his old life in the jungle and his new beginnings in the city.
The Vigil
Marguerite Paquin lives in a seniors’ home where 14 nuns from her religious congregation have succumbed to COVID-19. The film takes us from the grandeur of the landscapes of Côte-Nord, Quebec, where Marguerite has worked for 47 years, into the room where she sits confined today, finding a sort of liberation through prayer and unshakeable solidarity with her sisters who are suffering.
An Italian Aenigma: Appraising Late Day Fulci
A discussion of the later day period of Lucio Fulci's career, incorporating his bad health through to his eventual death and a retrospection of the supposedly "lesser" motion pictures that emerged, including "Aenigma" (1987) and "Cat in the Brain" (1990). The interviewees include those who worked with Fulci and academics and authors.
Cadê Edson?
A film about popular movements in defense of housing. Introducing: the State against the Homeless, in the capital of Brazil.
Almost Thirteen
A father’s heartfelt plea to have lifesaving talks with pre-teens and teens comes after his 12-year-old son’s suicide from COVID-related isolation.
Maggie's Farm
The portrait of an art institution: James Benning explores the building and grounds of the California Institute of Art. Each image creates a tension, a constant urge to move on the next one, as if landscape and space could be the scenes of a crime.
One Word
A documentary about the impacts of climate change on the Republic of the Marshall Islands and its people. Most parts of the Marshall Islands are less than 5.9 feet above sea level. Forecasts predict the uninhabitability of the country by 2050.
Russia's Alcatraz – The toughest prison on Fire Island
Behind bars in Russia is no fun - in our Documentary about Russia's toughest prison we show why! Terrorists, gunmen and mafia bosses are serving their life sentences in the Russian penal camp "Vologodski Pjatak". The fortress on the island of Ognenny was built as a monastery in the 16th century. Later the "Fire Island" was converted into a gulag for enemies of the state after the October Revolution of 1917. Since 1994 it is a maximum security prison for serious criminals. Christoph Wanner is the first western TV reporter to manage to shoot behind the prison walls on the island of the damned.
Re-Electing Lincoln
Leading Lincoln historian Harold Holzer masterfully recalls a dramatic Presidential Election that redefined racial politics and changed the course of history.
Heatstroke for the Siberian Reindeer
In the Yamal peninsula, in the northwest of Siberia, the Nenets live to the rhythm of seasons that are now out of order. Faced with increasingly mild winters and an unstable ice cap, these nomadic reindeer herders are forced to delay their transhumance, caught between a food that is drying up and the risk of drowning in the Ob River. Elsewhere in the Arctic, signs of global warming are mounting.
A História de Um Silva
Life and career story of MC Bob Rum, author and singer of "rap do Silva", one of the greatest funk classics during the 1990s.