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Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded: Shirin Neshat
A short film made for Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded (2013). World premiere screening on 28 August 2013 during the 70th Venice International Film Festival. —Venice International Film Festival.
Le journal des Alpes, histoire d'une télé régionale
Anna Lindh 1957 - 2003
Anna Lindh, the successful and popular, became history and a monument, in Sweden and around the world. But who was she really, the living Anna Lindh?
Jews for Sale
1947 saw the Communists come to power in Romania. It was also the year leading up to the formation of Israel. The two fledgling entities, the Jewish State and the Socialist Republic of Romania, both wanted something: the former, people; the latter money and supplies. Radu Gabrea’s fascinating documentary looks at the various deals struck to facilitate this transfer, which effectively resulted in a European country selling its own citizens.
August Burns Red: Foreign & Familiar
The documentary chronicles the entire 18-month touring cycle behind August Burns Red’s breakout 2011 album Leveler, whose critical and commercial success catapulted the band to the forefront of the modern heavy music scene.
Tubettajat
Tubettajat tells about Finnish unemployed men who videotape their lives to YouTube and get a lot of viewers for their videos.
Edwardian Insects on Film
In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the father of Natural History film, Smith was a hugely influential visual pioneer, inventing many techniques that are still used today. Being both a genius and an eccentric, we follow his life from his earliest films, to the collapse of his house from his mould experiment to his ultimate suicide. We also meet Natural History icon Sir David Attenborough, who was so amazed by Smith’s films in the 1930s that they inspired him to get into natural history.
Rotterdam 2040
Rotterdam 2040 is a film about the city’s future, departing from the principle of Gyz La Rivière that you can’t look ahead without considering your past (something that hasn’t always been Rotterdam’s strongest feature). At high speed, La Rivière reconstructs the history of Rotterdam from the time before the bombings until now, and expands the developments to the year 2040 (100 years after the bombing and the 700th anniversary of the city). La Rivière made a specific choice to expose his personal vision, which is sometimes radical or a little absurd. So no experts and no talking heads, but an assault of old and new imagery, held together by La Rivière as the narrator of the film. Although Rotterdam 2040 deals with architecture and urban renewal, it is actually a film about people. The subjective experience of the city by its (future) occupants mainly determines the parade of architectural blunders and suggestions for the future. All tongue-in-cheek of course.
Tommy and Frank
An intimate, funny and compelling take on the unique relationship and shared legacy of Tommy John, the chatty Indiana lefty who won nearly 300 Major League games, and Dr. Frank Jobe, the unassuming L.A. Orthopedist who conceived and performed a revolutionary elbow operation on John in 1974.
Taming the Quantum World
A group of European physicists are working on new generation of computers. These will completely revolutionize the global information technology by exploiting the most peculiar phenomena of quantum mechanics - Superposition and Entanglement. These paradoxical phenomena are today being exploited in order to create the global quantum information technology of the future. Quantum computers will literally possess completely revolutionary capacity and be able to process information quantities, which all of the world's existing computers would never be able to accomplish. It will be possible to crack any known security system in seconds as an experiment from Innsbruck shows. In Munich scientists are trying to generate an enormous virtual reality on a quantum computer that may prove to be the tool to solve problems from global warming to the final fate of the universe.
Northern Light
Set against the backdrop of a town's annual snowmobile race, this cinematic, observational documentary explores the American working class experience.
Behind the Curtain
A documentary following two operatic productions at the Madrid Royal Opera House.
Easier Said Than Done
Easier Said Than Done explores the ultimate motorsport - rallying. Following an international cast of characters including top drivers, mechanics and co-drivers from around the world. The film focuses on young three time U.S champion Chris Duplessis while he makes an attempt to reach the top level of the sport, the World Rally Championship. Rallying is extremely difficult. It's expensive, dirty, rough and one of the last pure motorsports in the world.
When Hari Got Married
Age-old customs and traditions collide with a rapidly modernizing India when Hari, a small-town taxi driver, has an arranged marriage to a girl he has never met
The Valley of the Jato
In the heart of Sicily, where the Mafia still rules, one man and his family-run TV station, has become the lone voice against corruption and organized crime.
Revelation - The Bride, The Beast & Babylon
Going to the very heart of the Bible's most challenging Book, this one hour documentary decodes the visions of Revelation 12 and 17 for everyone to understand. Journeying from the birth of Christ through the Christian era, this amazing video pulls aside the veil of hidden history to reveal the rise of Babylon, the persecution of the bride of Christ, and the real-world identity of the beast. Educational and inspiring, Revelation delivers the keys to understanding the epic conflict between Christ and Satan and what it means for your life today.
Dreaming of Democracy
A desperate journey in the heart of Thessaloniki. Seven Iranians, each one for his personal reasons, leave their homeland and embark on a life journey. Europe can provide them with a different life. It can provide them with human rights. An obligatory stop on the way is Greece. There, they meet each other, they are imprisoned and they realize that “democracy” isn’t what they imagined. They try in any way they can to flee the country, living to the fullest every last moment they spend here. Thessaloniki is their new homeland for now. So, they try to become one with the city, to experience “Greek democracy”
Trucker and the Fox
The Life of Mahmoud Kain Flanagan; truck driver and film maker whose film "Ejareh Neshinha" was screened internationally
Voices from the Waves - Kesennuma
A companion piece to Voices from the Waves Shinchimachi that forms half of the second installment in a documentary trilogy on the Tohoku region, co-directed by Sakai Ko and Hamaguchi Ryusuke. Through numerous interviews, they concentrate on the experiences and emotions of people, not as victims but as individuals.
Istanbul Unveiled
In this documentary Istanbul is unveiled and the real Istanbul is shown by way of the back door, the philosophy behind the culture is revealed.
The Evolution of Home Theater - Big Tech of the Small Screen
See how the changes in technology have changed our own social attitudes towards how to watch movies.
V-Force
A fascinating insight into the V-Force development, includes Interviews with test and RAF pilots. Rare and exclusive film of test flights, operational scrambles, nuclear testing and in-flight refuelling, film of airshow appearances and an exclusive interview with John Reeve who flew the famous Black Buck mission to bomb Port Stanley in the Falklands conflict which saw the resurrection of the Vulcan Bomber
Katiyabaaz
In Kanpur, India, an electricity thief provides Robin Hood style services to the poor in the face of day long power-cuts. Meanwhile the first female chief of the local electricity supply company has vowed to put an end to all illegal connections, for good. In a summer of crisis, both come to terms with India's energy poverty.
Argo: Inside Story
Following the success if Ben Affleck's 'Argo,' which chronicles the CIA's attempt to rescue six Americans during the 1978 Iran hostage crisis, Discovery Channel's 'Argo: Inside Story', gains access to the top players involved in the crisis to hear their side of the story, including the CIA's chief of disguise, Tony Mendez, who was called upon to devise the rescue plan.
Steve Jobs: Secrets of Life
In 1994, Steve Jobs was interviewed by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association. What he said during that interview was remarkable. In this never before released film interview footage, Steve talks about his values, advice to entrepreneurs and his thoughts on how to best live life. Included in this film is commentary by: Steven Wozniak (founder, Apple Computer), Nolan Bushnell (founder, Atari), Scott McNealy (founder, Sun Microsystems), Larry Ellison (founder, Oracle), Mike Markkula (founder, Apple Computer), Regis McKenna (early advertising for Apple Computer), Fred Hoar (early Apple marketing), Kevin Surace (founder, Serious Energy), Lisa Jardine (Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London), John Warnock (founder, Adobe Systems), and Charles Geschke (founder, Adobe Systems).
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In Bob We Trust
Having faithfully served his South Melbourne parish for nearly four decades, the cantankerous, controversial Catholic provocateur affectionately called Father Bob is well known and loved, as much for his incorrigible media savvy and battles with Church hierarchy as for his staunch advocacy on behalf of the disadvantaged and disenfranchised. In Bob We Trust goes behind the scenes with Bob, documenting his everyday trials during one of the most turbulent times in his career: his forced retirement and eviction from the church he called home for 38 years.
Rosario
Rosario is the portrait of the intimate life of a woman. Her son disappeared in Monterrey City in 1975, changing her life drastically. She has become a tireless fighter on the search of her son, devoting her whole life to Human Rights in Mexico.
Bruno Mars - BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend 2013 Derry-Londonderry
The 3-day BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend attracted over 40K patrons and dozens of young stars but last evening, the event featured performances by a truly great artist. Back the other members of The Smeezingtons band, Bruno Mars ended this year’s festivities with an extensive set of his hits. Among the songs performed by Mars at Derry’s Ebrington Square were “Locked Out of Heaven”, “Just the Way You Are”, “When I Was Your Man”, “Treasure” and “Grenade”. The Big Weekend served as a warmup for the singer’s upcoming Moonshine Jungle Tour, which will kickoff in Washington D.C. on June 22nd before eventually venturing to England on October 5ht.
Erkans Farben
Documentary about German pro wrestler Erkan Sulcani a.k.a. Cash Money Erkan.
Into the Fire
Greece is in crisis. But the economic crisis is not the only one. An asylum crisis has gripped the country at this time of severe austerity. And it hits the most vulnerable: Refugees, including minors, who have left everything behind fleeing their countries to find safety. In Greece, they are left destitute and on the streets, unable to apply for asylum and threatened by escalating racist attacks. Trapped in Greece, they have one message for Europe and the rest of the world: Let us leave!
Venus VS.
We know about the swing. We know about the swagger. But what most Americans don't know about Venus Williams is how she changed the course of her sport. In a stunning case that captured the European public beginning in 2005, Williams challenged the long-held practice of paying women tennis players less than their male counterparts at Wimbledon. With a deep sense of obligation to the legacy of Billie Jean King, Williams lobbied British Parliament, UNESCO and Fleet Street for financial parity. And it was her poignant op-ed piece in The London Times that convinced many people that the Wimbledon tournament organizers were "on the wrong side of history." Roland Garros and Wimbledon finally relented in 2007. That year at Wimbledon, Venus became the first women's champion to earn as much as the men's singles winner (Roger Federer). VENUS VS. chronicles Williams' fight for pay equality.
We Will See Tomorrow
Preserving American Jazz and the efforts of Dr. Albert Vollmer for his life's work in honoring Jazz's Senior Citizenry through the founding of the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band. Founded in 1973 by trombonist Clyde Bernhardt and jazz aficionado Albert Vollmer, the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band became the world's most authentic swing band. It stars veteran jazz and blues musicians (64 to 96 years old) whose roots reach back to the classic period of the 20's and 30's. These 'originals' actually did 'jump' at the Woodside and 'stomp' at the Savoy, with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton
Israel: Facing The Future
John Ware journeys to Israel for a fresh look at how it has responded to the changes sweeping the region in the wake of the Arab Spring. He meets Israelis from all walks of life to go beyond the news clichés and analyse what is next for the world's only Jewish state as both the religious and the secular battle over its future.
The River Twice
The River Twice is a feature documentary about a group of friends that build Huck Finn inspired junk rafts and set out for a month long trip along the Susquehanna River. But the river winds deep into the heart of Pennsylvania's natural gas industry, and soon they are confronted with the impact this largely unregulated industry is having on the lives of the people they meet along the river.
Night Labor
Night Labor follows Sherman Frank Merchant, a forty-six year old 6'6" Downeaster during his transition from an independent and rugged clam digger by day to manning a factory at night. With his white smock, arsenal of knives, and signature black beret, Sherman performs the tasks of preparing and arranging tools for the day laborers who arrive to their 6am shift.
Radiolab Live: Apocalyptical
Cataclysmic destruction. Surprising survival. Radiolab turns its gaze to the topic of endings, both blazingly fast and agonizingly slow, in its live show Apocalyptical. With their signature blend of storytelling, science, and music, hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich romp through hundreds of millions of years of history to arrive at the end, again and again. Comedians Reggie Watts and Kurt Braunohler join the party, while musicians On Fillmore and Noveller create a cinematic live score before your eyes. Recorded live on stage in Seattle.
Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball
In Pride And Prejudice: Having A Ball, social historian Amanda Vickery leads the action as a team of experts recreate a Regency ball in honour of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s popular novel. Joined by Alastair Sooke and a coterie of professionals – a food historian, a costume expert, music history academics and a choreographer who trains a team of dance students to take to the floor– cameras will follow the recreation inspired by Austen’s Netherfield ball. This intimate country house ball drives the plot of the Pride And Prejudice, and is a key turning point in the romance between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy.
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Raw Herring
Every year millions of people look forward to the first preparation of Hollandse Nieuwe, the popular snack of raw herring from the North Sea’s spring catch. But how do you find glory in the grueling pursuit of a once-iconic fish that even the queen no longer accepts as definitively Dutch? Raw Herring celebrates the cultural legacy maintained by Holland’s last great herring fishers even as new trends and foreign competition threaten their way of life.
Unclaimed
A missionary attempts to repatriate a man claiming to be a Vietnam veteran who is thought to be dead.