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So Filthy and So Happy
Hija de Perra was a transvestite artist who would become an icon of dissidence and a benchmark for Latin American underground, after she died in 2014. Multiple intimate and unpublished audiovisual footage, captured by her filmmaker best friend, reveal how this character came about. She experimented in music and film, wrote texts for the academy, and turned his cross-dressing into a political action, questioning gender and sexual identity.
Rise Up
Together with five extraordinary political activists, "Rise Up" seeks answers to the devastating ecological, economic and authoritarian developments of our time. It is said that every social advance had to be fought for by courageous people - but how did they succeed? Can the enormous global crises of the present be overcome at all? Driven by questions, doubts and visions, the film roams through wild worlds of images, through the promises of happiness in the modern age, frozen in the face of overpowering enemies, experiences resistance, failure and new beginnings. And we're beginning to understand - thanks to the inspiring stories of five people who have been involved in overwhelming social upheaval. Together they wrestle with the authors of the film and the audience for answers. Trace that point where people start fighting. The point at which the decision is made to leave normality and safety behind in order to dare something completely new.
Inside Scofield
Inside Scofield is a feature documentary about master guitarist and touring musician John Scofield.
South Beach Shark Club
In the early 1970s on the shores of sleepy Miami Beach, a group of teenage outcasts are ushered into adulthood by the enigmatic Rene De Dios, the self-proclaimed "greatest shark fisherman in the world."
Let It Shine: The Story of the Keene Pumpkin Festival
A heartwarming documentary about the world famous Keene Pumpkin Festival in Keene, NH.
Polan
After running an antiquarian bookshop for 35 years, Kyosuke and Chiseko decide to close down their shop due to the pandemic-induced recession. The elderly couple continues their daily routine even as they prepare for the closure. Kyosuke continues filling in the shelves with a new selection of old books stored in a rented warehouse. Chiseko starts managing an online shop, while Yuki, a staff member, decides to open her own bookshop. POLAN portrays how all three relate to the customers through the books they sell.
The Garbage Man
On a hot August afternoon, the family gather at the table and remember Uncle Botão: the Colonial War, and emigration to France where he lived and worked for thirty years as a garbage man.
Ukraine: 30 Years of Independence - The Everlasting Present
Ukraine is a country that was unknown to most citizens of the United States, but it was always known to the political establishment of the USA. But since February 22, 2014, Ukraine quickly came to the attention of Americans, as well as the entire world. Ukraine - 30 Years of Independence explores the competing narratives about country's journey through the eyes of an American filmmaker as it is being told through the words of the men who governed the country.
Nowhere
An essay film about gay men's identity in the present time told through an electropop 90s song, the story of a doorless alley, and the color blue.
Norma Aleandro, el vuelo de la mariposa
Based on short stories and poems written by the actress, this documentary compiles fragments of the artist's life, configuring a story about the path traveled and an extensive career in film, theater and television.
Fragments of Humanity
In the Kosovo War, human dignity was shattered by the terrors of the Serbian government and the Albanian liberation army. Truths about the victims’ fates faded away, which is why a Finnish forensic research group led by Helena Ranta got a mission to act as an unbiased agent and investigate the real course of events.
Camouflage
In Camouflage, writer Félix Bruzzone embodies a runner who has an obsession with Campo de Mayo, the biggest military unit in Argentina. It is also the place where his mother disappeared in 1976 and the main clandestine center of detention, torture and extermination during the last dictatorship. The film will follow Félix as he finds characters that allow him to enter and explore this place so loaded with history.
Spice Girls: 25 ans déjà, qui sont-elles vraiment?
Bora Bora, le laboratoire du futur
Bora Bora is the most popular destination in French Polynesia, certainly because of its lagoon, considered the most beautiful lagoon in the world. In this context, the islet could have sunk under concrete and pollution, and the reef could have been irreparably impacted. However, thanks to the will of a handful of inhabitants including the mayor of the island, Bora Bora is today a model of sustainable development, with water treatment technologies that are 15 years ahead of France, programs to rebuild corals and protect wildlife, educational actions and the rehabilitation of Polynesian traditions such as “rahui” and the establishment of a monitoring network using new technologies. All of this makes the island a veritable open-air laboratory that shows the way for all tropical coastal environments around the world.
The Despair of the Monkeys
The first films of Patagonia - where I grew up - show a territory that no longer exists, as the araucarias, millenary trees from the Patagonian forests, were in part replaced by more productive pines. Near my new home, in Belgium, I find araucarias that adorn front gardens. We hear some girls playing in the car, pointing out araucarias on the road. How did these plants become a petty-bourgeois fashion in northern Europe? I confront these archives with contemporary technoscientific images, used by a lab to explore plant modifications. What can these modes of representation tell us about our time?
Shiny Objects - The Conductor with ADHD
Recently diagnosed with ADHD, a symphony conductor uses the career shutdown of the 2020 pandemic to dive into her mental health. She looks for ways to face the challenges and honour the gifts of being neurodiverse.
Klarsfeld
For more than half a century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, and exposed Nazi war criminals. Now in their 80s, they still continue their activism against today’s new Nazis and far right extremists.
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For Love
In this searing documentary, Indigenous people share heartbreaking stories that reveal the injustices inflicted by the Canadian child welfare system.
Arnaques, fric et politique : le vrai business des influenceurs
For weeks, a real media war opposes Booba, the millionaire rapper, to the influential agent Magali Berdah and his influencers. The artist accuses of fraud several of these stars of social networks. The influencers have become the idols of teenagers, who follow their adventures on their smartphones. On their accounts, they expose their lives, their looks and their silhouettes in Miami or Dubai. And to earn money, they turn into sandwich men and women, thanks to product placement. Brands pay up to 10,000 euros for a few seconds of video. Because this universe generates millions of euros, from which influencers, TV producers or agents profit. Among them, a woman crushes the competition, Magali Berdah. The powerful boss of Shauna Events agreed to open her doors.
La Huella. The Story of a Beach Bar/Resto
Twenty years ago, three friends in the flower of their youth met to take up a challenge: to build on the beach of a small Uruguayan village a beach restaurant like the ones that used to exist in the 50s. Pure simplicity and honesty. A wood and straw ranch on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, where tales of Argentina, Uruguay, sea bass, silverside, the great artist Pedro Figari, fishermen, good wines, Francis Mallmann and the omnipresent fire, toasts and friendship as their starting and finishing point interweave.
Chico Para Sempre
Twenty years after his death, Chico Xavier, from Minas Gerais, has his life told in the documentary "Chico Para Sempre", directed by Wagner de Assis (Nosso Lar; Kardec) and with the participation of journalist Marcel Souto Maior, author of one of the most successful biographies of the medium.
Into the Land of Ice and Fire
Two parallel stories are gradually unfolding the everyday life of two very different persons - that of 86-year-old Sara and 7-year-old Mihka - both residing in Guovdageaidnu - Kautokeino, in the middle of the Norwegian arctic tundra, through the drastic change of the arctic seasons and the passage from the long winter’s darkness to the never-ending light of the summer season.
Absent Reflections
Three women tell their stories, related to each other by the issue of baby trafficking in Argentina. Together, they delve deeper into what it means to live with a missing piece of their identity. In the face of loneliness and uncertainty, the three of them share the need to function as a support network for people who have gone through the same thing.
I Wish
Hong Kong started and flourished as a fishing port in the past, and its people have long been committed to worshipping ancient deities for their blessings. With over a hundred Tin Hau temples (Goddess of Sea) in Hong Kong, there are three on Lamma Island alone, located respectively in Sok Kwu Wan, Luk Chau and Yung Shue Wan. The film documents the states of Tin Hau temples on the island and beyond, as an attempt to contextualise the everyday practice of the fishing community, islanders and city dwellers visiting the temples.
Julia Don't Get Married
Photos, home videos and especially a series of audios recorded without Julia's consent are the essence of this film that tells the story of a woman who got married despite having many doubts and who never tired of seeking her own happiness.
À la recherche de la jeunesse perdue
What if science could reverse the aging process? Follow the researchers as they decipher these mechanisms, with the promise of finding the elixir of youth so you can live longer, healthier lives!
The Traverse
Valentine Fabre and Hillary Gerardi, two high-level complete athletes, take on the challenge of establishing the first female record on the non-stop Haute-Route, a legendary ski mountaineering endurance race linking Chamonix to Zermatt in 100km and 8000m altitude difference. A feat that the two women take on, as much for personal reasons as for the representation they offer by achieving this great female first.
Irradiated
A film about people who have survived the irradiation of war and recommended to those who believe they are immune to it.
WWE Rivals: Triple H vs. Mick Foley
From street fights at Madison Square Garden to battling inside Hell in a Cell, Mick Foley becomes the measuring stick for "Hunter Hearst Helmsley" (aka Triple H) to prove his true toughness.
Tartessos: The Lost Civilization
Documentary about the culture of Tartessos, which is believed to be the first civilization in Western Europe. Tartessos was located in the triangle formed by the current Spanish provinces of Huelva, Seville and Cádiz. A mixture of history and legend, for some, is the Atlantis mentioned in the Bible and in Avienus' Ora Marítima. The National Geographic Society grantee, historian, archaeologist and professor at the University of Huelva Claudio Lozano Guerra-Librero travels to the Guadalquivir delta and Extremadura to show us the latest archaeological discoveries of this great civilization that was considered a myth. Adventure, science, new technologies... A trip to the past, where the Tartessian culture will be excavated and technologically recreated, to understand how they lived and disappeared
WWE Rivals: John Cena vs. Edge
Cena and Edge relive their epic conflicts against one another; Freddie Prinze Jr. breaks down what made this rivalry all so memorable in a roundtable discussion with Kevin Nash, Cody Rhodes, Beth Phoenix and Jonh Bradshaw Layfield.