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Am Kölnberg
The tower block area "Am Kölnberg" has a bad reputation. People who - for any number of reasons - ended up on the edge of society, live here alongside refugee families and immigrants from all over the world. Unemployment, drug abuse and prostitution are part of everyday life for many of them. The film accompanies 4 people over a period of two years and portrays their life at "Kölnberg" with ups and downs. One thing they all have in common: The dream of leading a fulfilled life, far away from "Kölnberg".
Once My Mother
Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.
From .yu to Me
Through a wide range of archival materials and in-depth interviews, From yu to me narrates a history of the former Yugloslavia's .yu domain, the women computer scientists who administered it, and its relationship with the surrounding political upheaval.
Beats of the Antonov
The story of the people of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains in Sudan, showing how they deal with civil war. Traditionally music has always been part of daily life in these areas, but now, it has a new role in a society challenge by war.
Elsipogtog: No Fracking Way!
October 2013 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police descended on a peaceful anti-fracking protest led by the Mi'kmaq of Elsipogtog and their allies. In this film the voices of some of the people involved in the anti-fracking movement talk about what happened and why they took the stand against hydraulic fracturing and how the heavy handed police response has affected their people.
My Brother is Batman
Sergei is seven years old. He believes in Batman. Not wanting to discuss the tragedy that happened in the family, Sergei's older brother, Misha, starts playing superhero in real life. The brothers create their own world, incomprehensible to others. But can the game last forever?
The Real Death Valley: The Untold Story of Mass Graves and Migrant Deaths in South Texas
In "The Real Death Valley," The Weather Channel reveals the little-known story of hundreds of migrants who have died in the sweltering Texas brush over the past five years while attempting to evade a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint that's not even on the border - in fact it's 70 miles inside the United States. "'The Real Death Valley' is an important story that needs to be told," said Emmy-winning correspondent John Carlos Frey. "We take viewers on the same four-day, 40-mile trek, through tough terrain and sweltering heat that's taken by the migrants themselves. And we ride with law enforcement as they discover migrant corpses, up to four a week during the hot summer months. I think it soon becomes clear why so many people are losing their lives." "The Real Death Valley" was produced by the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning team of Solly Granatstein and Shawn Efran for Weather Films, the award-winning digital documentary unit of weather.com.
Welcome to Soldier Ride
A bartender and two wounded veterans ride their bikes from California to New York to raise awareness for wounded service members coming home from war.
Trace of the future according to Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti
Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie in which they expose their view of the future.
The Man Who Fought the Planners: The Story of Ian Nairn
Profile of architecture critic Ian Nairn who led a blistering attack on the soulless destruction of Britain by shoddy post-war planners, but who was a flawed, troubled character.
Wonder World of Ice
A group of Chinese sculptors arrive to build an exotic experience park in the middle of Finnish Lapland. Among them Huang Sheng a young Chinese student, who brings with him his dreams. Every day he dresses up as panda to attract tourists and as he wanders around in his panda outfit, Huang is led to reflect on the differences between the Finnish and the Chinese society - and the status of the Chinese in this modern world.
Ballast - São Pedro Hotel Stories
The short documentary explores the history of the old, and apparently forgotten, São Pedro Hotel, a historic landmark from the golden age of Iracema Beach (Fortaleza, Brazil), through the memories of those who lived or had some connection with the building. Despite using the building as a congregating element of the different stories exposed in the film, its protagonists are the memories and stories of those who became emotionally involved with the building. These memories, as well as the ballast with the same name as the title, serve as support for the "building-ship" that is slowly sinking.
10 Years Athens Pride
“In 2014, on the tenth anniversary of Athens Pride, I grabbed a camera and asked the thoughts of different people in the community: was there any change? Opinion was divided, but the opinion that came last was that of Zak Kostopoulos – who was right!”: these are the words of the influential figure Maria Cyber, as she looks back at her first attempt in filmmaking. “I think things are changing, getting better. They’re also getting worse at the same time, strangely enough. There’s an increase in people who are very anti [-LGBTQI+] and those who are pro… Let’s see who’ll win in the end – we will!” Zak charmingly said to the camera held by Maria, with whom he had a friendly relationship, four years before his brutal murder.
Att skära sig fri
Sofia Rapp Johansson is a young, talented and critically acclaimed author. She is also a singer, performer and poetry slammer. But behind Sofia's successful outer career she is carrying a darker inner story, formed by a childhood full of violence, sexual abuse and a long list of foster homes. Att skära sig fri (Cutting loose) is a story about a young woman, who is fighting against all odds and turning her inner rage to a creative output and a struggle for justice.
Steppe's Industry: Marmots
Work and life of the industrial hunters in Kazakhstan. Follow Nikolai and his team on the annual marmot hunting season where they have to hunt 600 marmots for the period of one month. And learn why this massive killing is essential for marmots' survival.
Superpower for Hire: Rise of the Private Military
"Vice takes an unprecedented look into the shadowy industry of Private Military Companies. For the past two decades these private companies, like Black Water, Aegis and G4S have silently consumed military operations around the world, doing everything from back end logistics, protection of government VIP's and diplomats to actual combat duties. In this documentary we explore the origins of this industry, their rise in the war on terror and their future operations around the world."
Martin Amis's England
Novelist Martin Amis, a fierce critic of contemporary society, examines his experience of Englishness. Richly illustrated with archive footage, he reflects on a nation barely recovered from the loss of empire. Amis brings a sharp, humorous and surprisingly affectionate touch to the exploration of sex, binge drinking, football hooliganism, the idea of fair play, multiculturalism, the royal family and the tabloid press.
Lean A Ladder Against Heaven
At his parsonage over the Tatra Mountains, Marian Kuffa readily takes care of more than 200 people in need. This unostentatious movie is not just a portrait of a remarkably selfless man but also a more general contemplation of the complicated lives of alcoholics, junkies, and all other social outcasts, as well as an elegant reflection on mercy and the forms that faith can take.
Mother Earth Breathing: The Garden
The laws of nature offer a model for a reconsideration of time and value; a model that also considers decay, death and stillness; processes beyond growth.
A Nagy Fafilm
Trees are very special creatures. They grow very slowly and hence they live for very long. Simply by existing they provide shelter and food for thousands of other creatures. Trees are so different from other life forms that sometimes they look as if they were out of this world. They spend their time on a different scale. For them, a day is like a moment. A season is like an hour. And a year is like a simple single day. This story is about an oak tree. A giant, which have been standing in the same place for centuries now, still, a lot of interesting things happened to it.
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Dressed as a Girl
The story of East London’s exciting drag scene with touching personal stories at its’ heart. Individuals questioning their friendships, family and personal ambitions whilst dressing up to shock the world.
Our Brazilian Story
History of national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina from war to World Cup 2014 in Brazil.
Freefalling: A Love Story
I meet Herbert in the same week I get diagnosed with cancer. We fall madly in love and plan to stay together for the rest of our lives. Three months later, he is dead. Herbert was a BASE Jumper. Leaping off a cliff with nothing but a parachute, he loses his balance, slams into the rock face and falls to his death. His loss in the midst of my chemotherapy completely throws me. Why does he gamble his life away, while I fight for mine? Desperate for answers, I return to Lauterbrunnen, the scene of the accident where Andreas, his best friend and coach, introduces me to the world of BASE. The jumpers teach me not only about the sport, but about facing fears, harnessing and controlling them. To make the most of the life we get. In the Swiss Death Valley I slowly find my way back to life.
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Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty
A down & dirty documentary on the life and career of blues legend Johnny Winter, featuring Edgar Winter, James Cotton, Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Luther Nallie, Tommy Shannon, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks and more.
Fascism Inc.
Unknown short stories from the past, the present and the future of fascism and its relation to the economic interests of each era. We will travel from Mussolini’s Italy to Greece under the Nazi occupation, the civil war and the dictatorship; and from Hitler’s Germany to the modern European and Greek fascism.
Camp solskinn
An existentialist youth festival documentary set on the small Norwegian island of Tromoya
WildMed The Last Mediterranean Forest
An undercover world of wild nature. The largest Mediterranean forest in the world, with an area of one million hectares. The only place still fly heraldic imperial eagles, abounds mythical legendary wolf and lynx hunting. However, this paradise is threatened. Oaks are dying victims of a process called "dry". Scientists estimate that on current trends the forest could disappear. The problem is aggravated due to the overpopulation of herbivores that impede natural forest regeneration. The solution is to restore the ecological balance and leave it to nature itself that recovers the forest.
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Kids' R!ghts
Having personally witnessed Sir Elton John's failed attempt to adopt a child, a young couple questions themselves if they are ready for kids and whether everyone should match a certain criteria to be either biological or adoptive parents. The search for the answer pushes them into an entire journey through Nepal, Ukraine, China, the United Kingdom and the USA where they face corruption of the adoption system and have to stand against billions of dollars behind it... They meeting people who managed to adopt and those who failed because of their skin color, weight, or habits... In the middle of their investigation, they reveal that the right to have kids can be easily taken away from people even in most civilized countries... no votes needed, the regulations are already in action! Should we just accept these regulations or should fight against them?
Cemetery Life
The Metro Manila Cemetery is built like a ghost town, one and two-storey high mausoleums, with winding staircases and air-conditioning, were built as the last refuge for the wealthy deceased. Social Outcasts have discovered this place, and have begun moving into these 'Villas of the Dead.' An infrastructure was formed, complete with shops, karaoke joints and cosmetic salons built within the tombs. At first sight, it seems almost idyllic, the poor who have set up their homes within the walls, live in makeshift suburban Utopia.
Overfed & Undernourished
Overfed and Undernourished examines a global epidemic and our modern lifestyles through one boy's inspiring and personal journey to regain his health from the inside out.
Amma and Appa
Documentary - When Franziska announces her engagement to her boyfriend, Jayakrishnan, her parents journey from Bavaria to India to meet Jay's mother and father. But coming to terms with their children's plans forces each couple to question their cultural bias. -
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Wrenched
Activist/author Edward Abbey's legacy lives on in his best-selling books and now in director ML Lincoln's lively documentary. Lincoln pays tribute to Abbey and the environmental movement he inspired, reenacting his "monkeywrenching," and interviewing notable eco-warriors and present-day activists.
Parts of a Family
Gonzalo and Gina live in a world of their own, a magnificent villa on an immense estate, near Mexico City. Walls with barbed wire keep the outside world far away. Their son, filmmaker Diego Gutierrez, tells their story. Parts of a Family is a portrait of how a relationship between two people can change after many years from great love to a strangling imprisonment. It is a bittersweet and universal love story.
My Granny the Escort
A portrait of three of the UK's mature prostitutes who sell sex in hotel rooms and their homes.
Witchcraft: The Making of Bayonetta
This 78-minute documentary covers every aspect of this iconic game’s creation through interviews with director Hideki Kamiya, Bayonetta character designer Mari Shimazaki, producer Yusuke Hashimoto, designers Hiroshi Shibata and Masaaki Yamada, and a selection of other important members of Platinum Games, the creators of the Bayonetta series. The documentary will take you deep into Bayonetta’s origins, in the words of the game creators themselves!