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2014

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Animal Doctors
Animal Doctors
Only twenty-five years ago, the first evidence of self-medicating behaviour among animals was reported among chimpanzees. On the basis of this pioneering research, led by the American Michael Huffman, a new science was founded: "zoopharmacognosy", or the study of animal pharmacopeia. Animals are apparently able to treat themselves actively, to detect natural substances that can provide a remedy for health problems, or to prevent them. The primatologist Michael Huffman explains how he discovered that chimpanzees can heal their diseases with medicinal plants from their environment. The scientist then comments on other very surprising examples: Birds that disinfect their nests by filling them with aromatic plants with repellent properties, a rodent that covers its coat with toxic sap as a poisonous defence against predators and elephants that place mud plasters on their injuries. Some therapeutic behaviours may even be transmitted socially among certain species.
Animal Doctors 2014
Totart, czyli odzyskiwanie rozumu
Totart, czyli odzyskiwanie rozumu
A documentary about Totart, an artistic formation from Gdansk whose iconoclastic and mocking appearances shook up the grim People's Poland reality of the 1980s. It is also a story about the phenomenon of the group's spiritual leader and ideologue Zbigniew Sajnóg and his surprising accession to the Niebo cult.
Totart, czyli odzyskiwanie rozumu 2014
Humanexus
Humanexus
The human race has long searched for meaningful interpersonal connections. Tools and technologies have made it easier to reach out and share ideas, but each presents a new, unforeseen challenge. We must always ask: "Is this what we want? What do we want?" ..
Humanexus 2014
Voyage au Mont Perdu
Voyage au Mont Perdu
Voyage au Mont Perdu 2014
C.S. Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia
The true story of the author of the classic series of books - "The Chronicle of Narnia", including "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".
C.S. Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia 2014
The Invisibles
The Invisibles
Presents the human face of the immigration crisis, following four migrants from Syria, Kenya and Cameroon as they wade through Germany's rigorous immigration process and await the final verdict on their applications for asylum.
The Invisibles 2014
No Cinemão
No Cinemão
No Cinemão 2014
Alone in Fukushima
Alone in Fukushima
"Alone in Fukushima" is a feature film documentary about Naoto Matsumura who remained in the nuclear zone with animals in Fukushima.
Alone in Fukushima 2014
Journey of a Freedom Fighter
Journey of a Freedom Fighter
A freedom fighter's journey from armed resistance to cultural resistance.
Journey of a Freedom Fighter 2014
Nini
Nini
In the summer of 1932, Gabriele Boccalatte and Ninì Pietrasanta met. They met on the Monte Bianco, they climbed it together and fell in love. Their great alpine years go exactly from 1932 to 1936 – the year in which they got married. They, as a roped party, pioneered some of the toughest alpine routes. They used to keep journals and take pictures in order to keep a record of their achievements. Ninì, that was one of the very few female climbers of those years, would carry a 16mm film camera with her, during her climbs. In 1937, their son Lorenzo was born, and, in 1938, Gabriele died, falling from a mountain wall. Ninì, then, gave up extreme climbing and focused on her role as a mother. Some years after Ninì’s death, in 2000, her son Lorenzo found the reels his mother had been shooting, hidden in an old case.
Nini 2014
Gaycrashers
Gaycrashers
Comedians Joel Creasey and Rhys Nicholson travel to a regional Victorian town where Joel was previously subjected to homophobic abuse, to find out what it's really like for LGBTI kids growing up in regional Australia.
Gaycrashers 2014
T
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"...I imagined that the Heroine was calling a Taxi, and, for example, was late for the airport..."
T 2014
Pirating pirates
Pirating pirates
Pirating pirates 2014
Thinking Money: The Psychology Behind Our Best and Worst Financial Decisions
Thinking Money: The Psychology Behind Our Best and Worst Financial Decisions
Thinking Money is an hour-long exploration on public television of what behavioral economics has to tell us about how and why we spend, save (or don't) and think about money. It presents some of the country's most innovative thinkers who mix economics with psychology. Their experiments and insights into our financial behavior enlighten and often amuse as we learn to recognize how both our brains and the marketplace can trick us into spending money we shouldn't. The program explores a whole raft of techniques, apps, websites and ways of thinking that help us to save for the types of things that make our lives more secure: emergency funds, our kids' education, and ultimately our comfortable retirements. A mix of fascinating theory and practical takeaways, Thinking Money is designed to decrease the stress and increase the bandwidth in not just our finance, but our whole lives.
Thinking Money: The Psychology Behind Our Best and Worst Financial Decisions 2014
Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown
Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown
Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown recounts his flying experiences, encounters with the Nazis and other adventures leading up to and during the Second World War. Illustrated with archive footage and Captain Brown's own photos.
Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown 2014
Taraz in the Stream of History
Taraz in the Stream of History
Taraz is the largest modern city in the south of Kazakhstan. Few people know that its history goes back more than one and a half thousand years. The archaeological study of ancient Taraz began in 2011, reaching its climax in 2014. In the very center of the city, under the layers of asphalt, archaeologists discovered medieval temples, baths, stone-paved streets, and a developed water supply system.
Taraz in the Stream of History 2014
Lebanon's Illegal Arms Dealers
Lebanon's Illegal Arms Dealers
"With Lebanon's security situation worsening every day, business is booming for the country's illegal arms dealers. With a porous border with Syria next door and vast stockpiles of weapons left over from the country's civil war, anyone with enough cash can buy any weapon they want, no questions asked - so VICE News went window shopping to see what's available."
Lebanon's Illegal Arms Dealers 2014
Senjahopen - på innsida yttersia
Senjahopen - på innsida yttersia
Senjahopen - på innsida yttersia 2014
The Most Genial System Ever
The Most Genial System Ever
From the early hours until home time - there is a lot to do. Routinely the work will be done : precisely, full of skill and carefully. Prepared, dissected and filled up - A laborious work against the death, a technical profession. Bent forward in green coats over the most genial system ever - the human anatomy.
The Most Genial System Ever 2014
Índio Cidadão?
Índio Cidadão?
The Kaiowa and Guarani Nation, oblivious to Law and Justice, reveals the testimonial narrative of the indigenous genocide underway in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Índio Cidadão? 2014
Children of the Holocaust
Children of the Holocaust
Six remarkable stories of survival from eyewitnesses of Nazi atrocities during World War 2.
Children of the Holocaust 2014
100 Million People Adrift The Ripples of China's Urban Upheaval
100 Million People Adrift The Ripples of China's Urban Upheaval
In 2014, under the "new type of urbanization" plan, a nationwide urban village renovation program was rolled out, affecting about 100 million people. At the same time, the residency permit policy, which is seen as a transitional means of "household registration reform," began to be fully implemented, claiming that it would give migrant workers benefits almost equal to those enjoyed by the urban household population, but the migrant workers, who are supposed to be the beneficiaries, were not convinced. For them, the massive demolition and relocation have destroyed their only cheap living environment in the city, and the price they need to pay to "become a city dweller" is too high for them to afford, so they prefer to wander without a home.
100 Million People Adrift The Ripples of China's Urban Upheaval 2014
D-Day:  Hidden Traces
D-Day: Hidden Traces
D-Day - June 6th 1944 : Uncovered by recent archeological digs, traces left behind by soldiers and civilians on the battle ground such as helmets, badges, bullets, weapons, and cans plus findings of underground passages and secret blockhouses provide new insights into WW2 history.
D-Day: Hidden Traces 2014
À mots couverts
À mots couverts
Twenty-five years after the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda, filmmakers visit a country still haunted by the massacres of spring 1994. A group of inmates try to understand what made their participation in the fourth genocide of the 20th century possible. In Kigali Prison, some testify about their abuses against Tutsis. Directed by Violaine Baraduc and Alexandre Westphal as part of a thesis on the participation of women during the genocide, the film questions the generalization of violence to all layers of Rwandan society.
À mots couverts 2014
The Gull Theorem
The Gull Theorem
This is a portrait of a gull in a classical nature documentary about birds in the city. But it is also a philosophical contemplation of immigration issues that touches us all on many levels.
The Gull Theorem 2014
Huligladni: The 2014 February Protests in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Huligladni: The 2014 February Protests in Bosnia-Herzegovina
The 2014 unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a series of demonstrations and riots that began in the northern town of Tuzla on 4 February 2014 but quickly spread to multiple cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including Sarajevo, Zenica, Mostar, Jajce, and Brcko, among others, for social reasons and with the aim of overthrowing the government. The riots were the most violent scenes the country had seen since the end of the Bosnian War in 1995. The rioting largely took place in the entity of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the same level of unrest or activism did not occur in Republika Srpska.
Huligladni: The 2014 February Protests in Bosnia-Herzegovina 2014
Louis - Seven times you fall, eight times you get back on the horse
Louis - Seven times you fall, eight times you get back on the horse
A documentary film focusing on Leonidas Lambrou, a businessman born and raised in the city of Nafplio,an 86 years old ordinary man with an extraordinary life.
Louis - Seven times you fall, eight times you get back on the horse 2014
Medveď obdivovaný aj zatracovaný
Medveď obdivovaný aj zatracovaný
A gripping nature documentary on life and conditions of brown bear in the Poľana Mountain region.
Medveď obdivovaný aj zatracovaný 2014
Yulya and Shamans
Yulya and Shamans
Tuvan Shaman need to transfer his knowledge to the student and become a "white" shaman. Maybe it's just the game or maybe it's an unknown reality hidden from us. Who knows?
Yulya and Shamans 2014
La visione romantica
La visione romantica
La visione romantica 2014
Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document
A comprehensive document of the six-month production of "Casting Blossoms to the Sky," mixing truth and fiction.
Casting Blossoms to the Sky: A Movie Document 2014
La Nuit des éléphants
La Nuit des éléphants
La Nuit des éléphants 2014
Crepuscule
Crepuscule
Maria, aged 82, and her sick son Sashko live out their days in a remote province. Sashko went blind because of serious illness. He’s afraid that his mother is dying, but Maria desperately clings to life as she realizes that no one will take care of her son. They may seem to be acting irrationally, but they are heroically unwilling to surrender. Maria buys a calf, Sashko starts to build a tractor, groping his way in the darkness…
Crepuscule 2014
À coup de couteau denté
À coup de couteau denté
Pneu is a French rock band consisting a drummer and a guitarist who write their own songs then play their own concerts.
À coup de couteau denté 2014
Freak Out!
Freak Out!
Long-haired, barefoot people. Free love! Veganism! Experiments with drugs... The sixties, right? Not quite. In 1900 a group of middle class kids revolted against their time and started the original alternative community - Monte Verità, the mountain of truth. A community based on veganism, feminism, pacifism and free love. This creative documentary mixes interviews, archive and animation in a beautiful combination bringing you straight back to the early 1900 as seen through the eyes of these young radicals. The documentary Freak Out tells the untold story of the birth of the alternative movement and unfold the uncanny similarities between our time and what they revolted against in the early 1900s.
Freak Out! 2014
Sunshine On The Pilgrimage
Sunshine On The Pilgrimage
A group of young boys are going on a pilgrimage. Their journey gradually turns into a mosaic of spiritual pursuit, as well as jokes, games, laugh and moments of daydreaming…
Sunshine On The Pilgrimage 2014
Heritage Fight
Heritage Fight
There are still some clean places on earth, but for how long? Broome is located in the far remote Kimberley region, which is the last great Wilderness of Australia. This is where Colin Barnett, Premier of Western Australia, and the multibillionair oil & gas company, Woodside, decided to settle the second largest LNG precinct of the planet. Broome citizens and the traditional custodians of the land - the Goolaraboloo - united together to protect what is priceless to them...
Heritage Fight 2014
Switchfoot: Close to Our Hearts, The Bro-Am Documentary
Switchfoot: Close to Our Hearts, The Bro-Am Documentary
San Diego-based, Grammy-award-winning rock band Switchfoot gave four local teen filmmakers behind-the-scenes access to their 10th annual Bro-Am surf contest and concert, which has raised more than a million dollars for San Diego underprivileged teens. The Canyon Crest Academy student filmmakers who created this documentary attend the same public school district where members of Switchfoot grew up and developed their love for music, surf, and beach culture. A production of the school program CCA-TV and Envision Cinema, this short film focuses on the band members' desire to give back to the community that invested in them when they were teens.
Switchfoot: Close to Our Hearts, The Bro-Am Documentary 2014
Remembering 16 March
Remembering 16 March
Survivors tell the inside story of the massacre of the leftist students at Istanbul University on 16 March 1978 and the political atmosphere before the coup of 12 September 1980.
Remembering 16 March 2014
Ghost City
Ghost City
Documentary about the history of rock music in Kosjerić (Serbia).
Ghost City 2014