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Our Earth - Our Oceans 3D
What is it, that makes our world so wonderful, yet incomprehensible at the same time? That enables new life to emerge in places that appear unsuitable to support life? How do natural wonders originate? Which forces are necessary, in order to enable flora and fauna to develop in the respective locations we find them in today? For more than 2 years, the film crew of this production travelled through six continents and from natural wonder to natural wonder. Always on the trail of the connections between unique habitats for flora and fauna and the structures of ocean currents, geological formations and climate zones. In doing so, never-before-seen 3D images originated of the most different regions and animals species.
Joe Hill's Last Will
The scene is 4AM, November 19, 1915. Legendary labor songwriter, Joe Hill, is in his cell at the Utah State Prison, hours away from his execution for a trumped-up murder charge. A reporter has been sent from a local paper to record his last words. Maybe Hill will give them to him, maybe he won't. But first, the reporter will have to hear the story of Hill's life, the history and thinking behind his songs, the philosophy of the industrial Workers of the World for whom Hill writes, his thinking on life and labor, love and death, And he'll have to hear many songs.
Routine
What does it mean to be living? This experimental short briefly explores the daily routines that humans, animals and machines go through daily, to better understand the difference between living and non-living.
Object
A creative image of an underwater search in the dimensions of two worlds-ice desert and under water-told from the point of view of the rescue team, of the diver, and of the ordinary people waiting on the shore.
Jimmy Goes to Nollywood
Actor Jimmy Jean-Louis offers a tour of the raucous and fast-growing Nigerian film scene as he arrives to host the Africa Movie Academy Awards.
The Gun, the Cake and the Butterfly
An award winning documentary drama of the life of Amanda Eliasch showing the true feelings of a woman.
Snåsamannen
He started as as poor herdsman in the Snåsa mountains, and has ended up as Norway's most famous healer through the ages. It's estimated that over 50 000 people have gotten help from the snåsa man Joralf Gjerstad. Today he tries to live a calmer life along with his wife Signe and their close family. Who exactly is this fabled man everyone speaks of? What has he experienced through the course of his life? How does he view his own psychic and healing abilities, and what thoughts does he have on the life that he's lived? Meet the human behind the snåsa man in an honest and close portrait in domestic surroundings in Snåsa.
After the Last River
In the shadow of a De Beers diamond mine, a remote indigenous community lurches from crisis to crisis, as their homeland transforms into a modern frontier. Rosie Koostachin delivers donations to families who live in uninsulated sheds, overgrown with toxic mold. She is determined to raise awareness, believing that if only Canadians knew, her hometown's dire situation would improve. Over five years, filmmaker Victoria Lean follows Attawapiskat's journey from obscurity and into the international spotlight twice - first when the Red Cross intervenes and again during the protest movement, Idle No More. Weaving together great distances, intimate scenes and archive images, the documentary chronicles the First Nation's fight for justice in the face of hardened indifference.
My Husband's Not Gay
In Salt Lake City, Utah, seven Mormons live their lives a little differently. The men (Jeff, Pret & Curtis) are attracted to their wives (Tanya, Megan & Tera), but they are also attracted to other men. They refer to it as Same Sex Attraction...not gay, SSA.
The Past Is In The Present: At Home With Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller discusses his life and work in his home.
Finding Beauty In the Rubble
In Japan, a survivor of the 2011 tsunami turns beach debris into gorgeous jewelry.
On the Margins
"Margina" reflects upon life in the Roma community, giving very intimate insights into the life of a Roma family in Macedonia, who exists "at the edge" of European society. Without overt pathos, the film shows everyday family-life, marked by social marginalization and economic hardship, but also the usual domestic problems
The Sandwich Nazi
Deli owner Salam Kahil is an art collector, a former male escort, an amateur musician, and a sandwich maker to the homeless in Vancouver's poorest neighbourhood but his true passion is talking about blowjobs. This is a 2015 feature film documentary, not to be mixed up with the 2012 documentary short with the same name.
Stand by for Tape Back-up
Poet Ross Sutherland takes fragments of old films and TV shows and rebuilds them into an audiovisual meditation on memory, death and reruns.
Maiko: Dancing Child
Life as a prima ballerina over 30 is tough enough for Maiko when she decides to start a family....
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Islands of Creation
In the jungles of the Solomon Islands, a remote archipelago in the South Pacific, a biologist is attempting to do something Charles Darwin and Ernst Mayr never accomplished: catch evolution in the act of creating new species. Albert Uy is on the verge of an amazing discovery in the Solomon Islands, but there's a threat looming on the horizon. The islands' resources are being exploited, putting all local wildlife at risk. It's a race against time to gather the evidence necessary to prove the existence of a new species before it's lost forever.
Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana
Speaking of serious things by making you laugh has always been the characteristic of Ettore Scola’s cinematic style. With the same intent, his daughters Paola and Silvia, using Pif’s verve as an interviewer, retrace their father’s career.
All About Bolex
"I developed a need to try to retain everything I was passing through, by means of my Bolex camera."
A Report from Venice
Opening of the Internet Saga Pavilion. At Palazzo Foscari Contarini, Venice. May 6 and 7, 2015.
Neither live nor die in Tashkent
Chronicles of the cultural life of Tashkent (2007 – 2015). From the murder of Mark Weil to the wedding of Alisher Usmanov. Tashkent Biennale, apartment buildings, video art festival, conversations about nothing, amateur performances and operational shooting, advertising and much more. Tashkent, which no longer exists, just as these people are no longer in it.
Dreams Rewired
Tracing anxieties about technology back to the 1880s, DREAMS REWIRED combines clips from nearly 200 films and newsreels with an insightful commentary by Tilda Swinton on our eternal love/hate relationship with a hyper-mediated world.
Subject to Change
Formerly Known As follows three transgender men who are completing their physical and social transitions.
Papouasie, expédition au coeur d'un monde perdu
Pursuing Happiness
Join the journey and discover the secrets to living a truly happy life as two filmmakers travel the country in search of the happiest people in America.
Bacon & God's Wrath
A 90-year-old Jewish woman reflects on her life experiences as she prepares to try bacon for the first time.
Rif 58-59: Break the Silence
From 1958 to 1959, the inhabitants of the Rifian provinces suffered fierce repression in response to their uprising against their economic and social situation. In their eyes, the central power has destroyed their political, social and economic structure. Fear has been installed for more than 50 years and creates a real taboo around the subject.
The Send-Off
Emboldened by a giant block party on the evening of their high school prom, a group of students enter the night with the hope of transcending their rural town and the industrial landscape that surrounds them.
The Bluebeard of Happiness
A video essay about Elaine May's 'A New Leaf' by critic David Cairns.
Jungle Sisters
In 2008 the Indian Government launched an initiative to train 500 million of the rural poor to work in tits growing industrial sector; a policy that new prime minister Nerendra Modi intends to continue. This is the story of two village girls caught up in India's rapid expansion into the globalised world. Jungle Sisters follows best friends Bhanu and Bhuntu as they make the journey of their lives. Travelling 1000 miles to find a new future in Modi's business-friendly India, they take their place in the ranks of factory workers. But as the reality of life on the factory floor forces them to make a dramatic decision, the film becomes an epic tale of love, hope and survival.
More Hate Than Fear
A graffiti artist in his early 20s, begins a 3½ year prison sentence for vandalism. He must attempt to cope with the struggles of his new life on the inside: sharing a cell with an aggressive murderer, being moved to high security, living 23 hours a day alone. An unlikely allay soon teaches him how to survive. Questions then begin to arise. Who can he trust? Will he ever find solace?
Ascendance: The Angels of Change Documentary
The models in the 2014 Angels of Change calendar rise above their own challenges to help others do the same.
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Sweaty Betty
On the border of Washington DC, two stories of big dreams take place – a family is determined to turn their 1000 pound pig into the Redskins’ football team mascot, and two teenage fathers scheme a better life for themselves and their children.
True Smile
The thrilling reality of an autistic and blind boy who accepts life with a smile.
Attabu 2
The film documents the rise and fall of the Wufeng Lin family in Wufeng, Taiwan over the turbulent years of Taiwan under the administrations of the Qing dynasty, Japan, and Republic of China.