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Asphyxia
Ana sometimes lacks the air. His father, Emil, was arrested and disappeared. Now in the silence and fear that remain in a post-war society, Ana is immersed in memory, where the possibility of finding her remains and getting justice for her father and a whole generation is housed.
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The Girls of Meru
Over five years, acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Dorfman follows the heartbreaking yet uplifting story of the girls of Meru and their brave steps toward meaningful equality for girls worldwide. In Kenya, one in three girls will experience sexual violence before age 18, yet police investigations are the exception. In The Girls of Meru, a multinational team led by Canadian lawyer Fiona Sampson and Tumaini Shelter head Mercy Chidi Baidoo builds the case of 11 girls to pursue an unheard of legal tactic. Together they created legal history.
A Night of Calypso
Documentary from Fernando Muñoz offers a history of calypso by profiling one of the last active Panamanian calypso ensembles, Grupo Amistad.
La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte
Cheikh Djemaï looks back on the genesis of Gillo Pontecorvo’s feature film, The Battle of Algiers (1965). Through archive images, extracts from the film and interviews with personalities, the filmmaker retraces the journey of a major work - from the events of the Algiers Casbah (1956-1957) to the presentation of the Lion of 'Or causing the anger of the French delegation in Venice - which left its mark as much in the history of cinema as in that of Algeria.
2018-05-05 (afternoon) Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK: Michael James answers questions
During the second session of a two-day retreat organised by the ‘Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK’ on 5th May 2018, following on from his morning discussion of the first half of the sixth paragraph of நானார்? (Nāṉ Ār?), Who am I?, Michael James answers questions on this subject and other aspects of Bhagavan’s teachings, particularly the practice of self-investigation (ātma-vicāra).
The Elephant Dancer
Everyone has childhood memories of a zoo. The 1950s were a paradise with monkeys riding bicycles and lions jumping through rings of fire. Animals of today are placed in an artificial, ‘virtual’ natural environment, and are subjugated as ‘humanised’ animals. They lose their natural habits and become physically and mentally warped. As we see elephants dancing, does this signify happiness, anxiety, or a bottomless pit?
Self-Censorship
This thought-provoking documentary explores how the Chinese government limits freedom in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Through extraordinary cases from the arrest of Beijing-based artist HUA Yong and the disappearances of five booksellers in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay to controversial scandals involving celebrities CHOU Tzu-yu and Leon DAI, director Kevin H.J. LEE and Lulu LU argue that even ordinary Taiwanese citizens may not be as politically and economically free from Beijing’s influence as they like to believe.
27 Years: The Exoneration of Valentino Dixon
Valentino Dixon is a talented artist that used art to keep his sanity while in prison, often drawing up to ten hours a day after he was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1991.
Battle Over Bears Ears
At its heart, it’s a battle for homeland and sovereignty. Bears Ears, a remote section of land lined with red cliffs and filled with juniper sage, is at the center of a fight over who has a say in how Western landscapes are protected and managed.
Solzhenitsyn. Remorse
The main character of the film is Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. The film uses materials both previously known and unpublished so far, as well as interviews with Alexander Isaevich, in which he talks about the future of Russia and the world in the 21st century, about modern literature and his difficult life. In addition to him, people who knew him closely, Evgeny Mironov, Alexander Sokurov, Georges Niva, Boris Morozov and his most important close friend and wife Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, participate in the film.
Remembering Deborah Watling
Family, friends and colleagues pay tribute to Debbie Watling who played Victoria Waterfield, companion to Patrick Troughton's Doctor.
Insomnia
A strange phenomenon happens in Kalachi village situated in northern Kazakhstan. During a season of thaw or rain the inhabitants routinely fall into an inexplicably long sleep, which can last up to two weeks.
100 Years Of The RAF
Including extraordinary and unseen historical footage of WW1 and 2 and narrated by Sir Martin Lewis, 100 Years of the RAF is a definitive film that pays tribute to the determination and courage our men and women take on in the theatres of war; to defend our freedom and bring relief to people in need.
No Man Is an Island
No Man Is an Island travels across Europe, from the farmers working together in the Galline Felici cooperative in Sicily to the architects, craftspersons and elected representatives who collaborate in the Swiss Alps and in Austria. All are engaged in politics through their work and all believe in a common destiny. Is the local level the last possible place for a viable utopia?
G is for Gun: The Arming of Teachers in America
A growing program in Ohio is training school staff to respond to active shooter situations with guns. Often reflecting a multitude of social issues, explore what both sides have to say about the issue, and the divide it has created in the town of Sidney, Ohio.
Bihar dok 13
At the Basque Culinary Center, 5 young talented students of cutting-edge gastronomy from all over the world will go back to the past to create the menu Bihar dok 13. They will travel to 1966 to discover the decade that would change everything in Basque culture. With five special events, we will discover the movements Gaur, Ez dok amairu and the spiritual father of the BCC, the Basque Nouvelle Cuisine. The “Bihar dok amairu” menu prepared by the young chefs will be served during a special meal and enjoyed by the most relevant personalities in Basque culture today, uniting new artists and musicians. The old generation will symbolically open the door to the new.
Ride
Bareback bronc riding is not for the faint of heart. The risk of serious and possibly fatal injury looms with each buck and kick. For Liam Marshall, it’s a thrill he’s always known growing up in the Big Muddy Valley, in rural Saskatchewan. Training to compete and become a bareback champion requires his complete focus. It’s clear that it fills his every waking moment (when he’s not checking his cellphone). Surrounded by family and providing inspiration to his three younger brothers, this brave teenager holds on tight to a tradition that’s been passed down through generations.
Dia de Feira
A group of ladies who have given new home to more than 7600 animals in the city of Santos, show what the day of an adoption fair is like, making it very clear who is going, who is staying, and why.
Beauty
In a world of fixed positions and prescribed roles, expanding the definition of gender requires the courage to dive deep into understanding and acceptance. Written and directed by Christina Willings, Beauty explores the lives of five gender-creative kids, each uniquely engaged in shaping their ideas of what it means to be fully human. Claiming your own sense of gender when everything around you insists that you comply and conform can be challenging, and sometimes scary—but family and friends are there to help. Free-flowing animated elements, ranging from images of octopuses to astronauts, draw together the kids’ shared experiences in beautifully rendered fantasias that celebrate the power of imagination and the flourishing force of self-determination. Playful, goofy, loving and brave, each of these remarkable young people—including Ladner, B.C.’s transgender advocate Tru Wilson—have found their own way to break free and show the world what it really means to be your true self.
We Will Not Sell Our Future
Dimitra and Garyfallia, two teenage girls, live in Halkidiki, which is threatened with an unprecedented environmental disaster by an open-air gold mining project. The two girls are drastically propelled into adult life. Plunged into the heart of the conflict over the mine's operation and the Greek financial crisis, they decide to fight for their future.
Thoughts
The film is about the fact that humanity can lose its world, the Earth, if it does not begin to take better care of the place where it lives. In the film, you can see how quickly humanity is losing what God created for human life.
The Admiral: Pub, Drums and Food
A documentary short catching up with John Halsey a.k.a. Barry Wom of The Rutles
Well-Spent Years
A film about a veteran of the Great Patriotic War Semyon Simonovich Kalinin. He was born on July 12, 1920. From 1939 to 1958 he served in the Soviet Army, went through the war from beginning to end. He was a paratrooper, scout, partisan, then graduated from flight school and became a pilot. Participated in battles near Moscow and Stalingrad. Participant in the 1945 Victory Parade in Moscow. He flew fighter jets and, in peacetime, jet planes. He made an emergency landing several times and survived. They planned to take him to the cosmonaut corps. After the war, he found his destiny, got married and lived with his wife for 53 years. They have four children, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. This legendary man passed away quite recently, at the age of 97, but he managed to tell the whole world about his years, lived not in vain.
Bruno
Witness the life and career of the most celebrated athlete in Madison Square Garden history, the "Living Legend" Bruno Sammartino!
The 685-lb Teen
The 685-lb Teen is a powerful story about an extraordinary teenager chasing an enormous dream. Justin Williamson is the most overweight teenager in America. As a high school senior, obesity has transformed everyday tasks, such as walking down the hallway to class or fitting into an average family car, into an overwhelming challenge.
The Igloo Protzekt - 2 Weeks of Pure Outdoors in Vasilitsa
Late in the winter of 2018, a handful of wandering snowboarders decided to establish the first ever igloo village in Greece, on Mt Vasilitsa in the Pindos Mountain range. After 2 weeks of abstract weather shifts, bear and fox visits and lots of burnt snowboard boots, this nomadic group was left with nothing but soaking socks and swollen faces. Oh... and good times.
3 Antônios & 1 Jobim
Get ready for a feast. In 1993, four of the greatest Brazilian cultural personalities, four Antônios, were brought together by Rodolfo Brandão and Bebeto Abrantes for a recording in Rio, around a lunch table at Chácara do Céu. None other than the critic Antonio Candido, the writer Antônio Callado, the composer Antônio Carlos Jobim and the philologist Antônio Houaiss.
The Creek
Filmmaker Warren Harrison captures the memories and experiences of people who grew up as part of a unique community at Greatham Creek, a salt-marsh near Hartlepool in the Tees Valley. One of those who’s memories are recorded is photographer Ian Macdonald whose haunting images of the creek are used in the film along with family photographs, archive film provided by the North East Film Archive and contemporary footage.
De Gaulle and Pompidou
This documentary invites us to dive into the heart of the longest relationship between a President and a Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic: De Gaulle and Pompidou. On a story read by Catherine Nay, return on the 24 years that the two men spent side by side, thanks to numerous colorized archives, unpublished interviews and animated sequences created especially for the film. The documents allow us to understand how at first accomplices, the two men will gradually turn against each other, their duo ending in a tragic break.
Living in Tents
In January 2011 Paul Crane discovered a tent city in downtown St. Louis, along the Mississippi River. He was curious as to who these people were, how they ended up there, and what life was like for them each day. He initially thought he would simply go down during the day and capture footage when possible, but he quickly realized that if he wanted to truly capture how these people lived and the full reality of their collective and individual existence, he would have to be there full time and become a part of the place, so he moved in with them.
Egypt: The Temples Saved from the Nile
For centuries, Egyptian temples were victims of looting, earthquakes, desert encroachment, and floods, and were almost swallowed up by the waters of the Nile in the 20th century. This film aims to better understand the history of these temples. Thanks to an unprecedented international mobilization, discover the exceptional heritage saved at the cost of a "pharaonic" trip.