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War
In a Christian culture, suicide is a taboo, and a soldier's suicide is a double taboo. Rivo, who has been on a military mission to Afghanistan twice, suffers from a post-traumatic disorder, which ends in suicide. For four years, Rivo's girlfriend Hanna tries to battle his psychological disorder, but then gives up and moves from Estonia to Australia. Six months later Rivo steps in front of a train.
The Lobby
Al Jazeera Investigations exposes how the Israel lobby influences British politics. A six-month undercover investigation reveals how Israel penetrates different levels of British democracy.
A Life from Death
In a hospice, every day is somebody's last day alive. The sheets are changed, and someone elsebrought in to die. Before the end, hands are held, and there is time for coffee. And for some of us, all this dying is just the usual everyday life.
Rubber Coated Steel
May 2014: two unarmed Palestinian teens are killed by Israeli soldiers on the West Bank. Abu Hamdan made an audio analysis to ascertain whether rubber or live bullets were used. The film centres on the gunfire, yet no shots are heard. "Rubber Coated Steel" does not preside over the voices of the victims but seeks to amplify their silence, questioning the ways in which rights are being heard today.
Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety
Thirty years after his BBC film The Auden Landscape, director Adam Low returns to the poet and his work. Following surges of popularity - from featuring in Four Weddings And A Funeral to being the poet New Yorkers turned to after 9/11 - Low reveals how Auden’s poetry helps us to better understand the 21st century and the tumultuous political climate in which we now live.
The Best FIFA Football Awards 2017
The Best FIFA Football Awards™ will be held for the second time on 23 October 2017, the latest incarnation of the annual awards events that FIFA has staged since 1991, when the FIFA World Player Gala was founded. FIFA.com has all the details on this new event, which celebrates the very best of the 2016/17 season.
Dance Fight Love Die: With Mikis On the Road
An intimate look into the life of composer Mikis Theodorakis from 1987 until 2017: comprising three decades, four continents, 100 locations and 600 hours of film material. The film interweaves personal moments with archive footage, documentary recordings and fictional pieces, all accompanied by Theodorakis’ music in jazz, classic, electro and rap versions.
Funeral for a 747
Each year, hundreds of airplanes reach the end of their lives and are crushed for scrap metal. At a facility in Arizona, a group of “undertakers” carries out this final act for a Boeing 747.
The Trees
Macias had 17 children and created a forest in a mountain. It was his wish that the urn with his remains was buried under a little cedar tree, so that when it grows, the roots would embrace the urn. This film depicts and accompanies his youngest children in their visits to the small tree.
104 Wrinkles
Hady follows his grandmother Henriette as she ages and crosses the centenarian milestone to reach 104 years. He witnesses the transformation of her memory, her emigration from Lebanon to Brazil and the stories of love, children and suspended time.
The River's Bed
Following disastrous floods, a vast construction project is in the process of revitalizing the Rhone by removing the concrete straitjacket, and instead enlarging the river's bed to promote river life. The filmmaker follows the development of this unusually inclusive project through its diverse protagonists, including hydrobiologists, fishermen, farmers, engineers and concerned citizens. Their divergent concerns permit a fuller and unbiased understanding of the complexity of such a project. As a result, this engaging and lyrical film is a journey that prompts a universal questioning of our past and future relationship with nature and territory.
All Fiancees Are Little Bit Pregnant
Natasha works as a wedding photographer, her boyfriend Nikita is an aspiring artist. Natasha got pregnant, but she doesn't dare tell the guy about it. He is clearly not interested in children or family.
Afloat
'Afloat' is an experimental film that paints a portrait of Japanese performance artist: Ayumi Lanoire. The film opens as a telephone call between Ayumi and Person X, which meanders the audience through the various layers that make up her personas leading one to wonder whether she is in fact a myth or reality.
Bacteria. War of the Worlds
This global war began almost a hundred years ago. Man has invented a deadly weapon, an antibiotic. And for the first time he tried to establish control over the world, which was beyond his control. The battle continues to this day. But bacteria have learned to resist antibiotics, they have become resistant, resistant to our weapons. According to the WHO, more than a hundred antibiotics have been discovered in the last century. Over 80 of them are already outdated. At this rate, sooner or later we will fall back into the era of epidemics. Humanity is in a dead end. What to do next? How to find a way out of the dangerous trap that we all fell into?
The Polish Imprint
Russia and Poland. The history of the two countries has been filled with conflicts and political intrigues for centuries. Periods of war alternated with years of truce. From the film, the viewer will learn what historical events and figures were behind the centuries-old confrontation between the two Slavic peoples. What role did the struggle against the Mongol conquerors play in relations between the Slavs. How the divisions of Poland between other countries led to its disappearance. How Poland was reborn from oblivion, what role did the Russian rulers play in this.
The Greatest Painters of the World: Paul Gaugin
Documentary that charts the life and work of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gaugin, who became famous only after his death.
Memories of Chengdu
Director Vincent Lan returns to his hometown Chengdu and reflects on the past years.
Girl in Wheelchair
In Yuncheng County, Shandong, there is a girl born in the 90s named Han Wenjing who was paraplegic in a car accident in her childhood. As Han Wenjing gets older and older, she is worried about her future life. Marriage has become the biggest concern of parents. Han Wenjing got acquainted with a soldier online, but finally broke up under his father's opposition. The younger sister-in-law also had a dispute between the two over her marriage. When Han Wenjing was depressed, her father proposed to carry her to Liangshan. First, fulfilling Han Wenjing's wish was also compensation for Han Wenjing. Later, Han Wenjing met a dumb while studying e-commerce sales. The dumb liked her very much. Both parents were satisfied when they met. However, Han Wenjing felt that she still couldn't accept the disabled and wanted to try to combine healthy people, even if it failed. Under the pressure of her parents and sister-in-law on Han Wenjing, Han Wenjing still insists on her choice
Jin Han Yu
The film records a middle-aged woman Han Mei who longs for life. In the fight against the disease, the experience makes her redefine the meaning of life...
Crollo Nervoso - La New Wave Italiana degli anni '80
Liaoxi Memento Mori
In 1959, a group of intellectual “Rightists” from colleges and universities in Shenyang, and criminals from prisons, arrived in the desolate area of western Liaoning Province. They wanted to build a railway here for a mine. Taking the fate of Yin Shaoyao, a lecturer at Liaoning University, as its focus, this film records this group’s experience of being labelled as rightists, of “Reform through Labour”, of being starved, and killed. Their personal files reveal the details of their transformation: their personalities encouraged them to betray each other, incriminating materials were put in their files, and their political lives were destroyed. Ideological reformation killed their spirit, while physical labour and hunger destroyed their bodies. The film also records how people who resisted were suppressed and what happened to people’s humanity in this most cruel of environments.
2.5 Million
"2.5 Million" follows American skier Aaron Rice as he sets out to ski 2.5 million human-powered vertical feet in the backcountry and set a new world record. To be successful Aaron will have to ski over 330 days in the calendar year and chase snow around the world. The challenge is both physical and mental, and injuries are simply not an option.
Rilke and Russia
The film is dedicated to the journey of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Louis Andreas Salome to Russia in 1900,
LOLAGA
The film, as a crystal of seven years observation and three years shooting, recounts the social changes of Xiaoluoshui, a Mosuo village by the side of Lugu Lake in Yunnan Province of China. With the emergence of commodity economy and tourism, obvious changes have been brought to the village within a few years. They rest not only on the surface, but also in people’s confusions, pains and paradoxes at the advent of the tremendous social reform.
A Bastard Child
In 1909, in an undemocratic Sweden, a bastard child is born and given the name of Hervor. Her mother is unmarried, due to which she is called a "whore' and is driven from her home. Hervor grows up at shelters and orphanages, unwanted, rejected by society. As an adult she spends her life struggling for social justice. In old age she tells us her story. Director Knutte Wester brings his grandmother's memories to life thought hand-painted animated images and has us witness someone being rejected in order to unite others. A story that all too often still repeating itself.
Alkaid
Vaghe stelle is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films creating new combinations or possible narrations.
Am Ballermann von Thailand - Deutsche in Pattaya
Documentary about the city of Pattaya in Thailand, which is visited by thousands of Germans every year. Not only the weather attracts men to the coastal city...
O Mar de Corisco
Son of the cangaceiro couple Corisco and Dadá, the boy Sílvio is scared when confronted with his true origins; the boy Sílvio goes in search of his biological mother; and the man Sílvio begins a journey to give his father's remains a minimum of dignity.
Dark Waves
Once you start feeling the effects of what invisible radiation can do, you might be trapped in an ongoing cacophony of terrible noise; but other symptoms can also occur in people affected by an intolerance to electromagnetic fields. And there’s virtually no getting away from it.
The Painter's View
A documentary on a Korean painter Lee Jungseob. After the Korean War broke out, Lee and his family left Wonsan to flee to Jeju. While his wife and sons stay in Tokyo, Lee settles in Busan by himself.