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Shadow Theater
By showing the performances of the Ayrudzi troupe in Armenia, the film acquaints the audience with one of the most interesting phenomena of national culture – shadow theatre.
Slow-Ahead
From mist to sunshine, from day to night, the brightly coloured metal behemoths glide along the river with a dull roar. Dozens of ships cross the Seine every day between the seaports of Rouen and Le Havre, their bellies heavy with wheat, coal and oil. From the shore, the sailors are mere silhouettes; from the bank, the landscape is a painting: two worlds that observe each other but never meet.
Gatherers of Sea Grass
Every year teams of seasonal workers come to Solovki islands to harvest sea kale. They go out to sea and mow it from car-basses. As the last of the teams go back to Arkhangelsk in October, only a watchman and his dog are left to pass the winter.
611: American Icon
611: American Icon is the story of the most famous steam passenger locomotive in the world. Exclusive restoration footage takes you inside the locomotive's massive boiler and firebox, the cab and iconic nose, interviews with the restoration team and historians give you the eye-opening insights to 611's superior engineering. Rare historical footage tells the story of the famous Norfolk & Western Shops and how the 611 became an enduring survivor loved by millions around the world.
Dreiden Suite
In September 2016, the St. Petersburg artist Sergey Dreyden turns 75 years old. He rehearses new plays, is shot by young directors. It is not assigned to any theater, it does not belong to any group. It exists by itself, suddenly appearing on one or another scene. The film is a unique experience of documentary observation of an actor for several years. The basis of the plot is rehearsals of one role in the performance of the St. Petersburg Youth Theater "Wine from dandelions, or Zamri." The process of the birth of a character is no less exciting and interesting than the performance itself. Around the main "rehearsal" story - episodes from life, stories about childhood against the background of their own drawings, paintings.
Nourhane, a Child's Dream
Nourhane was a singer and actress, active between the 1940s and the 1960s. In the mid-1960s, she abruptly ended her career. Her granddaughter, May Kassem, uncovers layer after layer of her grandmother's life to uncover the reason for her departure from the stage.
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Bickels [Socialism]
The ‘Casa do Povo’ cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers’ movement: a crumbling theatre flanked by staircases, entryways and corridors. Construction noise drones away in the background, clinking crockery, a broom sweeping over tiled floors, an expressive façade of countless adjustable panes of glass covered by a patina. It’s October 2016 and a group of young people are preparing a preview of Bickels [Socialism]. The venue is to form a prologue to the completed film, which tours 22 buildings in Israel designed by Samuel Bickels, most of which for kibbutzim. Dining halls, children’s houses, agricultural buildings, bright structures inserted into the Mediterranean landscape with great ingenuity. An architecture with a sell-by date: That many are now empty or have been repurposed at best is linked to the decline of the socialist ideals they embody.
Woman and the Glacier
The Lithuanian scientist Ausra Revutaite has spent 30 years in the Tian Shan mountain range in Central Asia, straddling the borders between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang. Some 3,500 meters above sea level with only her faithful dog and gray cat for company, she studies climate change on the Tuyuksu Glacier at an old Soviet-era research station. She loves the solitude and silence that her painstaking work brings her. Magnificent shots of her surroundings and everyday work are interspersed with archive footage of the people who preceded her by a century. Not much seems to have changed.
Mamadua: Born into Awareness
A documentary film about women's rights during childbirth in Argentina focused on the hospital and home birthing experiences of diverse women and their choices.
RockNRollers
The annual Azkena Rock Festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz serves as a backdrop for a meditation on the passion for Rock and Roll, its nature and extraordinary social impact. Dozens of bands, legendary artists, fans and workers showing their art and reflecting on the most influential music genre of the 20th Century.
From Parade to the Oscar
The filming history of the first Soviet film to win an Oscar in 1943, the documentary "Moscow strikes back", tells about the defeat of the Nazis near Moscow.
Riverbed
This is an image of a family. Through the memories of many people, it traces the growth, migration and different life experiences of several generations of the author's family. It shows the destiny of ordinary people and their inner scenery in social transformation. Each generation has its own joy and pain, and life still continues in hope, hardship and helplessness. The various imprints of survival that remain in the film are the hard riverbed of individual life and a period of micro-history washed out by time
Palabras de Caramelo
In a refugee camp in the Sahara desert lives a deaf boy who wants to learn to write. Welcome to the silent world of Kori and his best friend the camel Caramelo.
On Richard's Side
Director-producer Andrew Wiseman began filming Richard and his family in 1989, making the documentaries Driving with Richard (1992) and Wonder Boy (2001) before On Richard's Side - the culmination of his 27-year project. Richard was born with a complex disability. He needs 24-hour care, seven days a week. Now in her early sixties, his mother Deirdre is apprehensive about her son's future. She is determined to build a circle of friends and carers for Richard, and to find him sustainable long-term accommodation. Wiseman's intimate documentary, enriched by Deirdre's impassioned voice, reveals just what it means to care for someone who needs care for life.
Svetlana
SVETLANA talks about challenges and uncertainties one faces during life. Milan is a man who had been sidetracked during transition from communism to capitalism, finding himself in an in-between land. Story of his life is difficult, turbulent, filled with emotions and sometimes cruel experiences. He finds salvation from the memories of his hard life in endless work and waiting for Svetlana.
What It's Really Like to Fight for the Islamic State
"VICE News has obtained footage taken from the headcam of an Islamic State (IS) fighter who died in March while battling Kurdish peshmerga troops in northern Iraq. The clash took place about 30 miles north of Mosul. "Unlike IS propaganda, which often presents sweeping battlefield victories, the video shows chaos, panic, and the fighters retreating. "VICE News shows the grim reality of an IS foot soldier."
The Flying Stars
Bornor plays amputee soccer in Sierra Leone to cope with the trauma he suffered in the civil war, but his demons threaten his World Cup dreams and the family he loves.
Faultlines
Rapper Charles Hamilton seemed to have it all after landing a million-dollar record deal, but a combination of misfortune and circumstance ripped it away. This is his story of survival and redemption, both creatively and emotionally.
The Embroiderers
Commissioned for the 2016 exhibition At the Seams: A Political History of Palestinian Embroidery, this documentary compiles several personal interviews with Palestinian women whose skillful hand-embroidery is rooted in the rich traditions and regional symbols of their homeland.
The Greatest Painters of the World: Paul Cézanne
Explore the life and work of the painter who formed a bridge between the Impressionist and Cubist art movements at the turn of the century.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, the so-called ‘painter of the Rothschilds and the Rothschild of painters’, was the first Jewish painter of the modern era. Oppenheim came to represent the emancipation of German Jews in the nineteenth century, although his work depicting traditional Jewish life has mostly been forgotten. With an extraordinary collaborative soundtrack fusing electronic music with classical composition performed by the string quartet of the Frankfurt Philharmonic Orchestra, this powerful documentary explores the seminal artist’s traces — and lingering impact — across Germany, France and Israel.
Charles Pathé et Léon Gaumont premiers géants du cinéma
Chinese Ink
In Chinese Ink, composed from a series of shots taken with an iPhone, Salhab expands questions of location and the act of filmmaking itself. Some images were captured in the moment ‘without quite knowing why’, and others were filmed at an earlier time ‘with no apparent motive’ or as a result of specific circumstances. Salhab jotted down notes all along, excerpts from books he read or reread, sounds he recorded and preserved. He approached this film essay as a work in progress with no preconceived structure; instead, he let the work gradually reveal itself. All at once, in terms of ‘place’ and his relationship to ‘here’, with all its entanglements, it became clear to him that he needed to invoke the ‘elsewhere’, to start with the first place, his childhood in Senegal, and ‘retrace’ certain steps: his connection to armed struggles, the Palestinian cause, the present moment.
Colossale sentimento
A group of visionaries decide to take a baroque a statue of Christ where it was planned to be by its sculptor, Francesco Mochi. During the trip, Christ breaks the four-hundred years silence and speaks to John the Baptist.
Out of the Rubble
In Out Of The Rubble, Woolcock shows how planners grappled with the grimmest poverty imaginable in the post-war era, from Brixton to Glasgow, Islington to Birmingham, believing that tower blocks would transform the lives of those living in decaying slums. She follows the cycle of optimism, building and eventual decline, meeting people who 50 years on bear witness to the effects of housing on real families, striking a contemporary chord with the theme of immigration and gentrification affecting working class communities. The irresistible nostalgia of scenes from the 1950s, 60s and 70s is tempered by a realisation of the force of history at work.
Samuel in the Clouds
In Bolivia, the glaciers are melting. Samuel, an old ski lift operator, is looking out of a window on the rooftop of the world. Through generations his family lived and worked in the snowy mountains, but now snow fails. While scientists are discussing and measuring ominous changes Samuel honors the ancient mountain spirits. Clouds continue to drift by.
Faggots, The Documentary
This documentary is a collection of interviews of homosexual boys who are proud to be labeled queers. They discuss the stigma behind the word and how they reacted to homophobic attacks they've face at some point of their lives.
Night School
Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Night School follows three adult students living in the city’s more impoverished neighborhoods as they attempt to earn their diplomas while juggling other difficult responsibilities and realities. Through their stories, the filmmakers explore many issues that low-income Americans deal with, including unjust minimum wage and working conditions, arbitrary legal hindrances, and race and gender inequality.
Wrestling With Faith
A chronicle of "Million Dollar Man" Ted Di Biase's journey from childhood to wrestling stardom to becoming an ordained minister.