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Tom
Tom Ballard lives with his father James in a campsite in the Dolomites. Tom's mother, Alison Hargreaves died descending K2 when he was just 6 years old. Despite this, he never wanted to be anywhere other than in the mountains. His whole life is dedicated to climbing and his last goal is to solo the Six North Faces of the Alps in a single winter season. Nobody has achieved this before, and he wants to be the first. In a white van driven by James, Tom will travel through the Alps to make his dream come true.
AKB48 Manatsu no Tandoku Concert in SSA 〜Kawaei-san no Koto ga Suki Deshita〜
Kawaei Rina Graduation Concert
Winona: A Copper Country Ghost
Winona, Michigan, a former copper mining town is fast becoming a "ghost town." This film tells Winona's story from the mouths of the old timers who lived through the boom and bust era.
Out of the Blue
Cyprian, Filip, Ola and Kuba – four, out of fifteen of young patients who are in a long-term coma. Their parents are determined to help the and bring them back to life. The film presents an unusual story of people, who are not giving up in the face of tragedy. They are filled with hope and fight for the health of their children at the “Alarm Clock” clinic located near Warsaw. Most Polish hospitals serve as a sort of a checkroom to children in a comma, while the Alarm Clock clinic is a worldwide phenomenon – it offers just fifteen beds, but managed to wake up eight patients in one year.
Catching Haider
How can it be that, despite the corruption scandals he has been associated with, Jörg Haider is portrayed as a hero after his accidental death? Nathalie Borgers goes to investigate in Carinthia. Her discoveries range from the comically bizarre to the strangely vexing.
About Jonas
Director Jonas Vaitkus speaks boldly, openly and politely in front of the cameras. This is how he talks about his long career. It dares to expose itself, without missing the creator's suffering, nor the endless doubts, nor the indescribable joy of success. Fights with actors and Shakespeare remained side by side in the memory of the 70-year-old Maestro. This is his story. From the first premiere to the last performance.
Antony Sher and Greg Doran in Conversation with Sue MacGregor
Sue MacGregor talks to Antony Sher and Greg Doran about their stage work together and their shared passion for Shakespeare. Over the last two decades the actor and director have collaborated on ten shows including Macbeth, Henry IV pts 1 and 2 and Death of a Salesman. In 2016 Doran will direct Sher in King Lear for the RSC, the company Doran runs. This is a rare chance to be in the audience for an intimate insight into a professional and personal partnership that is probably unique in British theatre.
Ile de Groix from the Sky
Go and live on an island in the third millennium? Far from the teeming cities and their overwhelming influence? Deliberately deprive oneself of mainland rhythms and access to anything, anywhere, any time? What an idea! And yet some have taken up the challenge. A crazy, offbeat, out of date challenge, or maybe one that is ahead of its time because life on an island is one that you create for yourself. Three new islanders realize that and have dropped anchor on Groix, an island in Brittany, rebellious but welcoming those who come to fulfill their project with an open heart: a doctor, because the island needs one; a divorced teacher who wants to rebuild her life; and an immigrant born of another Atlantic, who is so adaptable that he will be able to integrate. And so goes life on the island, which adopts unhesitatingly and offers its insularity as an identity.
Land of Tears
The film is not constructed as a lineal story, instead, each scene works as a painter’s brush freely tracing a distinctive shape; the lifestyle of the Raramuri people, the particular way in which they relate within the family, the community and their surrounding nature. Nararachi’s warm, intimate and profoundly human insight of the indigenous lifestyle and culture is so powerful that it enables the viewer to expand her horizon.
Eurovision at 60
Hosts and competitors tell the behind-the-scenes story of 60 years of Eurovision, the greatest and maddest song contest on earth.
Anthology of the Plot
This is a film about a time that we will never be able to return into. In the 1990s, cult cafe Suokalbis in Vilnius was already riding into the sunset of its existence, though it was still a gathering place for various artists of all ages, visitors and students of all kinds.
Stories from Our Land Vol. 2: Finding Home
This short film chronicles filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk's emotional journey to Nunavut to connect with the land of her ancestors and with her Inuk father, whom she has not seen in over 20 years. Nyla's return to her Igloolik birthplace culminates with a lesson on lighting a qulliq, the traditional Inuit oil lamp.
Fedor
This is the story of an ascetic artist who is preparing for death. He betrayed all those who loved him, exchanged a happy family life for vegetation in poverty in an abandoned cellar, whispered to the whole of humanity with its morals and foundations and challenged God. He wanted to proudly call himself an artist and draw pictures that to this day no one has ever seen. The story of the hero's life, narrated in three chapters from birth to death, turns into a metaphysical quest and test of the spirit, a global revelation of what life is.
Ishtwan Konyr Mandoki
Istvan (Atlan) Mandoki Konyr is an outstanding Turkologist of the 20th century, the founder of European Kypchak studies, the author of unique works on the history, culture and language of the Turkic peoples. He died at a creative peak in 1992. The Kazakhs called him "Konyr". This name became symbolic in Kazakh society in the 80-90s of the last century.
Left Behind or Led Astray?: Examining the Origins of the Secret Pre-Tribulation Rapture
Take a fascinating journey with us as we examine the shocking origins of the secret, pre-tribulation rapture doctrine. You will be amazed as we look into admissions by pre-tribulation leaders who admit that the theory is without clear biblical and historical merit. Join us as we discover the origins of this relatively new doctrine, explore its possible origins among mystics, Jesuits and theologians, and how this doctrine was ultimately disseminated throughout the church. You will be surprised by our stunning conclusion.
Meine Reise in die DDR - 25 Jahre später
About a journalist and his cameraman visiting East Germany, former GDR, 25 years later again after their journey which took place in January 1990, just between the Fall of the Wall and the reunification with West Germany, comparing the old pictures with the present of 2015 and meeting former interview partners a second time. An impressive work of time documentary showing seemingly surreal scenes about the changings of cities, industrial locations and lifes in different political and economical systems.
The Wolf's Lair
Every family has its secrets, the family of Portuguese filmmaker Mourão included. As the granddaughter of the well-known writer Tomaz de Figueiredo, she picks apart several of them in an intimate yet universally meaningful way. As such, her film also becomes a portrait of dictatorship and resistance and of the urge to create art.
Betinho: Hope on the Line
Documentary on the life of Brazilian sociologist Herbert de Souza, engaged in the struggle against hunger, SIDA and military dictatorship.
Jerusalem Conflict: The Ali Jiddah Story
The Conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Old City of Jerusalem dates back many years. Since the birth of the State of Israel in 1948, there has been an influx of violence in the Old City. But is it really a religious war, or is it political? In this documentary Ali M. Jiddah, an Afro-Palestinian whose participation in the national struggle lead to him doing a lengthy prison sentence unveils truths and facts regarding the Old City, like never before heard on mainstream media.
Ed Sheeran: VH1 Storytellers
Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran will kick off an all-new season of “VH1 Storytellers” LIVE from Dublin, Ireland on Saturday, January 24, 2015. VH1 is rewriting the script on its critically acclaimed music franchise “VH1 Storytellers,” and for the first time in network history, the series will be broadcast LIVE from a venue of special meaning to the performing artist. In this tradition, Sheeran will perform and share personal stories from his life that have inspired his chart-topping songs from Whelan’s in Dublin, the venue where he first saw the artist that made him want to pursue music — Damien Rice. “It’s amazing to come back to perform at a place that means so much to me personally,” says Sheeran. “I was only about 11 or 12 years old when I saw Damien play at Whelan’s, and that night literally changed my life. The time he spent talking with me after the show made all the difference. It inspired me in a way that I only hope to do for someone else.”
Nature's Boldest Thieves
Presenter Lucy Cooke sets out to explore the phenomenon of seagulls, foxes, squirrels and badgers which are now living in our towns and stealing our food.
Life After Guantanamo: Exiled In Kazakhstan
"What happens after detainees are released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility? The answer to that question has, for the most part, been shrouded in secrecy."
The Redfern Story
The National Black Theatre movement in Redfern, Sydney formed at a very crucial time in Australian political history, culminating with the establishment of a political movement and the setting up of a number of significant Aboriginal organisations. The National Black Theatre has left a lasting legacy on national politics, social welfare and the Australian arts scene.
Från Haverö till Osaka
An exciting meeting between film & music. The film takes us on a musical journey that begins in the small village of Haverö in Västernorrland. Folk musician Göran Månsson goes with the band Mittfolk to Japan to spread his folk music. This will be an exciting meeting where two worlds are set against each other and where music is the common denominator.
The Power of the Chair
In Mexico, citizens outraged by the rampant corruption and the way of doing politics are questioning power every day. This documentary shows the personal and direct experience involved in the act of governing through four protagonists who reveal what is “the power of the chair”.
Eric Rushton Won't Die Alone
Fledgling comedian Eric Rushton has never been on a date - until this documentary.
What Means Something
A portrait of the painter Rose Wylie at work in her studio at home in Kent. Shots from her house and studio, including details of encrusted paint pots, brushes, paintings, drawings and magazine clippings demonstrate Wylie’s divergent reference material which ranges from historical figures and celebrity culture to the everyday objects around her.
The Urban Nest
A documentary about the housing situation in Buenos Aires. It shows how access to housing, which is both a human and constitutional right, is an issue that affects all social classes since it is entangled with the market.
Between Two Lights: Suárez. First Part
From a screeching lo-fi sound to luminous pop songs; from a split with Juana La Loca to a Le Mans tribute EP; from a cassette tape with a red star in the groundbreaking film Rapado to the lead singer's main role in Silvia Prieto. In sum: from 1989 to 2001, Suárez rode the scene and stages of Argentine indie rock with great freedom, elegance and intelligence. Also during all those years, its members recorded on video many of its intimate moments and public tours. Blanco wisely sticks to organizing and polishing that analogic repertoire without adding anything else, and he lets Suárez dazzling mystery reveals itself slowly amidst jokes, music videos, dodgy video-camera effects, and lots and lots of other answering machines.
Refugees in Their Own Land
Refugees in Their Own Land is an intimate portrait of a man and what belongs to him, an inner struggle forged by the forces of nature.
Space of Pure Thought
Philosopher Jan Jõemets embodies all Estonian humanitarians of 1990s. While flying too high and being too free he burned his fingers and now the viewers can decide themselves whether Jan has enouth will and power to rise from the ashes. Only Jan's friend Margus Ott has survived in today's desinfected and chlorinated pool of education among the former philosophy students of the School of Humanities. The documentary points out the commercialization of today's higher education and suffocation of free thinking. The protagonists' journey reveals how educational system attempts to cast creative thinkers into similar moulds.
Seven Days in St. Petersburg
After a twelve-year separation from her son and from the city of her dreams, Liza travels to St. Petersburg to visit them both. The purpose of her trip is to convince Leonid to return with her to Israel, but an insurmountable barrier stands in her way, in Israel Leonid is waiting for a prison.
Near Far East
A personal road-movie where a Czech filmmaker goes to Ukraine, a country where he has familial ties, friendly bonds and which has been the place for a long working relationship. Individual meetings are a way and an opportunity for him to think about how local recent events are affecting him personally, but also helping him create successful social interactions.
Film Me!
Novosibirsk: a town in deepest Siberia, where the absurd and the comical are in constant rivalry within the walls of its crematorium. Death can cause the crossing of paths of those never destined to meet, and I, standing in its midst, am learning to grapple with it.