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This Film Should Not Exist
THIS FILM SHOULD NOT EXIST is a slight-of-hand trick replete with all the details of a rock documentary. Archival footage from the orgiastic 1995 tour with The Oblivians and stories of everyday life leads the audience down a familiar path, and with a delicately insistent grin, transports us somewhere else completely. Echoing the artistic path taken by Ben Wallers, the film winds through the underground world of the 1990's garage rock band Country Teasers to form a portrait of a man, musician, and leader.
Quero seguir o caminho contrário ao que o cinema pode ir
Heitor Hissao makes an essay about old problems of brazilian cinema that remain current until today.
Bitter Love
A lovesick misfit, a mysterious beauty, a retired civil servant, a randy fortuneteller and a couple of doubtful, young, charismatic lovers meet in late summer on a Russian river cruise. They have one thing in common – similar emotional problems of suffering and doubts. However, they’ve come to the right place. River cruises in Russia are colloquially called “floating matchmaking agencies”. What does fate have in store for them?
La première marche
June 2019: four students lead the first-ever Pride March in Saint-Denis, working-class suburb of Paris. 50 years after the Stonewall uprising they pave the way for LGBT struggle in a territory no one had dared to think of, raising new issues such as intersectionality.
Dominic Fike, At First
The making of a pop star in 2020: A young musician is plucked from obscurity -- jail, actually -- and given a multi-million dollar record deal. Meet Dominic Fike as he prepares for his first international tour and makes his debut album.
TOMORROW X TOGETHER 'HOUSE FAIRY' 2021 SEASON'S GREETINGS
'HOUSE FAIRY', released December 16, 2020, is the second volume of TOMORROW X TOGETHER's annual Season's Greetings releases. The documentary includes behind the scenes footage of the concept photoshoots.
Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Art of Bodybuilding
The film consists of unprocessed, original 16mm material, which VanLoo shot during the Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding contest in the 1970s, and comes from an unfortunately lost art installation. Arnold Schwarzenegger, presented here as a living work of art, gives his vision on classical sculpture, body and mind, ideal beauty and more.
(In)Voluntary Retirements
On July 2nd, 2008, at five thirty in the afternoon, a 53-year-old man called Jean-Michel was run over by a train in Saint-Lyé, a town with a population of 3,000 located in the east of France. No one knew whether it was a suicide or an accident. The director investigates around the town, asks different inhabitants what they think of that tragedy. For many people, Jean-Michel had killed himself, after amassing too many worries and problems; the more the voiceover asks, the more mysterious it all gets. But there is a detail from Jean-Michel’s life that connects him to Argentina—he had been an employee at a phone company until a privatization left him without a job. (In)Voluntary Retirements is a documentary that shows how the kinship between Argentina’s politics in the ‘90s and France’s twenty years later damaged the lives of so many people.
The Recipe for Balance
Ricard Camarena bases his cuisine on Valencia’s local vegetable production. His constant search for harmony between flavours has seduced the critics and crossed borders. Alongside Mari Carmen Bañuls, the brain behind the management of their restaurants, the two form an indissoluble team which have overcome great adversity to achieve success, vouched for by two Michelin stars and the recent National Gastronomy Prize. The couple are enjoying their most balanced moment. Balanced? The Covid-19 outbreak has thrown them up against a hitherto unheard-of challenge: to reopen their restaurants with the uncertainty of the “new normal”. Heedless of the pandemic, the vegetable garden continues its natural growth cycle and offers the chef a new horizon of flavours.
Ermittlungen? Eingestellt! Das Oktoberfest-Attentat und der Doppelmord von Erlangen
Women of Impact: Changing the World
It all starts with one question: How will you make the world a better place? From household names to rising stars, meet the women who are changing our world. They live among primates in the jungle...dive the oceans for clues to the health of our planet, discover our human origins in African caves, and test new technologies in outer space. They break glass ceilings in newsrooms, boardrooms, courtrooms and classrooms. Women are reshaping our world, and how we see it, and here are their stories!
Between Us, A Secret
In 2014, Malian Toumani Kouyaté was urgently summoned to his native country to hear his grandfather tell his final story. Feeling death approaching, the experienced man decided to pass on the tradition.
The Divers
In Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, every day for over two hundred years, divers have plunged from the Stari Most, the “old bridge,” which was built in the 16th century. The tradition is handed down from generation to generation and didn't stop during the war, even though the bridge was destroyed in 1993. A few of the divers carry the signs of the conflict on their bodies and in their minds, while a young group, in search of the perfect form, think about the future. An intimate and exclusive view of the life of a group of men who embody the history and feelings of the population to which they belong.
Inside North Korea: The Next Leader
North Korea’s leadership has been in the hands of one family for over 70 years, claiming a divine right to rule. Who would be the next in line?
The Bastard King
The Bastard King chronicles the life of a lion from cub to King - battling against an unimaginable enemy that is ravaging a world where blood is becoming easier to find than water. This unique story challenges traditional storytelling - serving as an allegory for endangered species - and our very own fate
Kunst on ainus pääsetee. Konrad Mägi eluloofilm
Marianne Kõrver's documentary is about the life and work of the painter Konrad Mägi (1878-1925). According to the author, when creating the film, she was primarily interested in Mägi's controversial and sometimes inexplicable personality, the various aspects of which are also transferred to his work.
The Anarchist Who Came From America
The documentary film tells about life and death of Gaetano Bresci, the Italian anarchist who came back from USA to Italy to kill king Umberto I, on July 29 1900, shooting him three revolver shots in Monza.
Addiction
We are all dependent on something. Addiction to communication and loneliness, sex and abstinence, food and sports, drugs and religion. But sometimes we are afraid to admit to ourselves and others in our phobias, fears and complexes. It is necessary to confess, because this is the only way to get rid of addiction. This strange year bared our fears, made us more vulnerable, we had a lot of time for ourselves, we became more honest. Let's try to talk about why and what we depend on. And how can we help each other become stronger and cope with everything. Addiction is not licentiousness, not permissiveness, but a disease of loneliness, which is almost impossible to overcome alone with yourself.
Hello We Lied
Fake news have entered the mainstream, thanks in part to “fake news king” Jestin Coler. A film that tackles journalism, memes, truth and lies in the U.S.
There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse
"Nicolás Zukerfeld’s third feature is a wry, surprising work of filmmaking-as-criticism that begins as a kind of supercut of moments from the work of pantheon Hollywood auteur Raoul Walsh. This rhythmically entrancing parade of images traces a mysterious and amusing arc across the director’s vast oeuvre—but at the halfway mark, the film reinvents itself as an idiosyncratic, essayistic investigation into memory, cinema, and their shared mutability." - NYFF
Under the Cold Stars
Set in the mountains of northeast Italy, this film may be considered an observational documentary about rural life. Although this is undeniably the case, at the same time Under the cold stars can hardly be considered a documentary: the microcosm on which it focuses appears to be a reflection of a broader reality and perhaps a way to deal with the themes of man’s existence and his relationship with animals, nature and, most importantly, with time. As written by Franco Piavoli “it is a film which essentially relies on images and sound, where words themselves are sound and the music of life, of the relentless flow of time”.
La Muerte Está en Los Catres
Karen, a former professional soccer player born in Puente Alto in the southern part of Santiago. Rosa, her grandmother, assumes the role of mother and becomes a fundamental piece in Karen's life and career. In 2008 Karen begins a love relationship with her neighbor Mariel, a year later they get married in the company of family and close friends. Coto, Mariel's father, never questioned the relationship and accepts that Mariel and Karen move in with him. They will share, joys, fears, life and also death. A record that moves between madness and lucidity, an invitation to feel the heroic act of simply being and being. To resist.
40 år med Stig-Helmer - en störd nörds börd
A twisted and exciting meeting between Lasse Åberg and Stig-Helmer.
Is It Not A Goal Too?
When Azize loses her father at a very young age, her family moves to the village where her uncle lives. In elementary school, when she is sent to watch over her siblings, she meets football that changes her life. No matter how hard she tries to fulfill her dream, it always ends in failure. Just when she starts losing hope, she becomes a licensed football player at the age of 48. However, struggles never finish for a woman football player.
We Are The Geordies
Whistler and Scud, Davy and Sara, Elaine, Gorgeous George, Erik, Matt, Dr Dave, Fordey and Sima have one thing in common, they are obsessed with Newcastle United. We follow their joys and pains, as the black and whites, led by the mighty Rafael Benítez, fight to get back into the Premier League.
The Cost of Silence
An industry insider exposes the devastating consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and uncovers systemic corruption between government and industry to silence the victims of a growing public health disaster. Stakes could not be higher as the Trump administration races to open the entire U.S. coastline to offshore drilling.
Deutschlandreise – Ein Roadmovie zwischen Gestern und Heute
A journey through time and East Germany, 30 years after reunification as well as the first trip that the director and cameraman undertook through the then newly collapsed GDR. A curious road trip has turned into a road movie as well as a document of time.
Jacques Désiré Laval - Un homme parmi les autres
To Live or Die on Everest
Eleven lives were lost after deadly weather conditions struck Mt. Everest in the spring of 2019. Now, the world’s most experienced climbers reveal what it’s like to survive those conditions and what it would take to prevent another similar tragedy.
L'Affaire Caravage
In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately about the attribution of the painting's authorship to Caravaggio. The documentary follows a famed art expert in charge of organizing the sale of the painting on behalf of the owners, while specialists debate on its authenticity.
Frank Maselskis: From WWII POW to Chosin Reservoir Survivor
Frank Maselskis was a prisoner of war in World War II. Despite the horrible experiences of being a prisoner Frank decides to join in the Korean War, where he participates in the battle of Chosin, a brutal combat that took place in the most extreme weather conditions.
David vs Goliath
From boxing heavyweight to poker lightweight. Can David Haye defeat Goliath, the world's biggest live poker tournament.