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2021

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Once Upon Amsterdam
Once Upon Amsterdam
Presents a day in the life in Amsterdam, a city in transformation, captured shortly after the turn of the millennium, and shortly before the digital revolution would speed up the pace of life considerably. Shot in a fly-on-the-wall style.
Once Upon Amsterdam 2021
Call Me Madame Maestro
Call Me Madame Maestro
Documentary about female conductors.
Call Me Madame Maestro 2021
Why Is Covid Killing People Of Colour?
Why Is Covid Killing People Of Colour?
David Harewood investigates what the high covid death rates in Black and minority ethnic patients reveal about health inequality in modern Britain.
Why Is Covid Killing People Of Colour? 2021
The Perpetual Leek
The Perpetual Leek
"This film begins on the 5th of March. Every year, on this exact date, an ant comes in under my front door and I watch it. For her, it’s the beginning of spring, for me it’s my mother’s birthday. The ant feeds its queen who then lays eggs and I ask myself the question of whether I do or do not want to have a baby just at the point when my mother, who is suffering from cancer, is approaching the end of her life.” – Zoé Chantre
The Perpetual Leek 2021
Quoll Farm
Quoll Farm
This is the story of a charismatic family of endangered animals and one man’s extraordinary devotion. It unfolds in a distant wilderness, in a land forgotten by time. But change is coming. In less than a year, this magical place, along with those who live here, may be lost forever. Welcome to Quoll Farm.
Quoll Farm 2021
The Wall of Shadows
The Wall of Shadows
A Sherpa family breaks a taboo and climbs the most holy of mountains to earn money for their son’s education. They accompany a western expedition on East Wall of the Khumbakarna Mountain, a wall that has never been climbed before. ‘The Wall of Shadows’ tells the story of an encounter between a young Sherpa boy and an experienced western mountaineer at the foot of the sacred mountain. Will they face the wrath of mountain Gods?
The Wall of Shadows 2021
Der Fall Nawalny
Der Fall Nawalny
Der Fall Nawalny 2021
The North Drift
The North Drift
A german bottle of beer, washed up on the shore of an almost inaccessible Lofoten island in the Arctic Ocean. Where did it come from? Did it really travel all the way up from Germany? Back in his hometown, Dresden, filmmaker Steffen Krones can’t get this incidence out of his mind. Is Dresden, by any chance, connected to the Arctic circle via its waterways?
The North Drift 2021
Jaimen Hudson: From Sky to Sea
Jaimen Hudson: From Sky to Sea
Jaimen Hudson's inspiring story of his quest to become the world's first underwater cinematographer with quadriplegia.
Jaimen Hudson: From Sky to Sea 2021
We Are The Menstruators
We Are The Menstruators
Celebrity chef Nadia G dumps her day job to start an all-Grrrl punk band and pursue her American Dream in zip-crotch leather pants. But when she embarks on a search for her biological mom, she goes from the frying pan into the fire.
We Are The Menstruators 2021
The Terrible Children
The Terrible Children
In Keskincik, a village situated near the Syrian border of Turkey, a young man, Mahmut wishes to divorce his newly-wed wife. Guilt-ridden, he doesn’t know how to end the marriage. Recently, Mahmut’s sister Zeynep has ended her engagement as well. Resolute to quit the village, Zeynep enrols in an open high school and finds a job in a factory. Against her father’s wishes, Zeynep hopes to leave the village and study at a university. Mahmut and Zeynep become the centre of a genuine conflict in their family and community. As resentments and dilemmas come to light, the film aims to magnify this upcoming generation as they try to escape child marriages and create a new way of life for themselves.
The Terrible Children 2021
Becoming Duru
Becoming Duru
An unorthodox music documentary about the marginal diva Nükhet Duru from the perspective of Turkish musicians. Her fame transcended borders when The Weeknd sampled her song in his platinum hit "Often". A journey is taken across Istanbul along with the creative process behind Duru's new album "Hikayesi Var" which comprises her interpreting her own classics together with young generation of musicians Sıla, Kenan Doğulu, Teoman, Mabel Matiz, Funda Arar, Ceylan Ertem, Ata Demirer, Kalben, Zeynep Bastık, Rubato, Sena Şener ve Evrencan Gündüz.
Becoming Duru 2021
Sakharov. Two Lives
Sakharov. Two Lives
Avenue, university and even an asteroid bear his name. Academician Sakharov is known all over the world: someone as the creator of the hydrogen bomb, someone as an outstanding public figure and human rights activist. All his life Andrei Sakharov lived between two fires - science and humanism - and this dualism formed the basis of the film. The picture will show the scientist as he saw himself, through his dialogues with the Conscience.
Sakharov. Two Lives 2021
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for did not happen. But, before his death in 1991, three years after learning of his HIV-positive status, he engraved in his literary and photographic work "the places of [his] suffering", "the stations of [his] way of the cross". With his thin body and sunken cheeks, the handsome man with curly hair that he was, the one whose clear gaze radiated from the seaside photos, fought a fierce battle against AIDS. A fight of every moment against the decay of the body, observed and commented with a methodical care in his autobiographical novels, in particular "To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life" (1990) and "The Compassionate Protocol" (1991), and of which he testified on television on the set of "Apostrophes"...
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande 2021
Extraliscio - Punk da balera
Extraliscio - Punk da balera
A portrait of the dancehall punk band Extraliscio headed by the volcanic Mirco Mariani and the Casadei legend Marco Ferrara.
Extraliscio - Punk da balera 2021
Édouard, mon pote de droite - Épisode 3 : Aux manettes
Édouard, mon pote de droite - Épisode 3 : Aux manettes
July 3rd, 2020: Édouard Philippe leaves Matignon. During his three years as Premier ministre serving under Emmanuel Macron, from May 2017, to July 2020, he told to his friend director his life «holding the controls».
Édouard, mon pote de droite - Épisode 3 : Aux manettes 2021
1232 KMs
1232 KMs
Weeks after the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, seven migrant labourers, on the verge of starvation, decided to go to their village just like millions of others.
1232 KMs 2021
The Last Lap Dance
The Last Lap Dance
The film first reveals the struggle to close the strip clubs in Tel Aviv, from the point of view of the strippers and documents the first public struggle of sex workers in Israel, a struggle that was almost completely ignored by the media. A follow-up film over the years reveals to the audience a different and unfamiliar view of sex facts in Israel and of the organizations that struggle with them.
The Last Lap Dance 2021
Hugo in Argentina
Hugo in Argentina
A promising Italian cartoonist lands in Buenos Aires in 1950, with the dream of reaching the United States, to discover that, for him, America will be Argentina. The country immediately overwhelms him with its massive economic boom and a cultural scene among the most vibrant in the world. We are at the dawn of Argentina's most delirious decade, and the young immigrant feels that the vast promise of this country is within his grasp. His name will indeed make itself known: Hugo Pratt.
Hugo in Argentina 2021
Gregg Wallace's Grand Christmas Adventure
Gregg Wallace's Grand Christmas Adventure
Gregg travels across Lapland to see what makes the home to Santa Claus so unique, investigating the culture, food, history and landscape. He spends a night under the Northern Lights and turns his hand at helping Santa's elves to make sure all the presents are wrapped ahead of the big day.
Gregg Wallace's Grand Christmas Adventure 2021
Load Cycle
Load Cycle
A visual trance that traces the daily odyssey of the dockers of the Port of Masusa in the Amazon. Dozens of ships dock at this dock that supply Iquitos, the largest city in the world without a land connection. A continuous transfer through which the resources of the jungle are also bled towards the mainland.
Load Cycle 2021
That's how Broken Flesh Was Made
That's how Broken Flesh Was Made
Making-of of an explicit film in which the plot is intertwined and confused with what happens behind the scenes.
That's how Broken Flesh Was Made 2021
Aqueducts
Aqueducts
Aqueducts transport water. Images transmit the memory. Images of aqueducts are useless.
Aqueducts 2021
Brexit Through the Non-political Glass
Brexit Through the Non-political Glass
On 1 January 2021, the UK's transition period with the EU ended and new rules and regulations were agreed at the last minute. This is a time for reflection on the social phenomenon that is Brexit - which has now become a British trademark world-over, alongside the Royal Family, fish and chips and Sherlock Holmes. Brexit Through The Non-Political Glass puts politicians and public sentiments to one side, and seeks the opinions of non-partisan world-class experts - the scholars and professional advisors who specialize in this very topic; no politicians and propagandists, and no social media and populism; among the experts is Vernon Bogdanor, the Oxford tutor of former British prime minister David Cameron, who was consulted before the referendum was offered to the nation; you will hear what his advice was.
Brexit Through the Non-political Glass 2021
Merkel-Jahre - Am Ende einer Ära
Merkel-Jahre - Am Ende einer Ära
The film shines a light onto federal chancellor Angela Merkel and her now ending 16-year-long tenure. An era, not an episode. And a vagarious relationship history between the chancellor and the Germans. Who has changed whom here?
Merkel-Jahre - Am Ende einer Ära 2021
Marisa Monte - Portas e Janelas
Marisa Monte - Portas e Janelas
The musical special shows an intimate and casual version of Marisa Monte, which features some tracks from the album “Portas”, her latest release.
Marisa Monte - Portas e Janelas 2021
No Hay Camino
No Hay Camino
“There Is No Path” follows legendary director Heddy Honigmann on a real and spiritual journey. Today, facing a terminal illness, she will travel to her country of birth, Peru and through Europe revisiting all the important places and moments of her life, richly illustrated with clips of her films. Is it a farewell journey in which she lets go of her family, her loved ones and her work? Or is it a celebration of life? Her travelling companion is taxi driver Hussein, a refugee from Iraq with whom Heddy has a tight bond. As they trace Heddy’s family history they find many common themes. They are no longer taxi driver and customer, but two souls who each find joy in life in the face of adversity. It is a life affirming film about universal connection and comfort.
No Hay Camino 2021
The The - The Comeback Special - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
The The - The Comeback Special - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
The Comeback Special documents The The's triumphant Royal Albert Hall Concert on 5th June 2018. The Royal Albert Hall concert was the first of a trio of London shows during The Comeback Special tour—the others taking place at Brixton Academy and The Troxy—all of which sold out within minutes of going on sale. Performing live for the first time in 16 years with a headline appearance at Denmark’s Heartland Festival a few days before the Royal Albert Hall concert, the rejuvenated The The, which featured previous members James Eller on bass, DC Collard on keyboards and Earl Harvin on drums and new member Barrie Cadogan on guitar alongside Matt Johnson, would go on to play sold-out shows and make festival headline appearances across the globe throughout 2018.
The The - The Comeback Special - Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2021
Out of the Dark: Akeem
Out of the Dark: Akeem
Slam poet AKeem Rollins delivers a powerful performance about facing the greatest challenge of his life and finding a strength he never knew he had.
Out of the Dark: Akeem 2021
Our NHS: A Hidden History
Our NHS: A Hidden History
As we emerge from a global pandemic that has turned our world upside down, David Olusoga explores the hidden history of the nurses, doctors and health workers who, for more than 70 years, have been coming to Britain from overseas to serve in the NHS. Without them the NHS would have been in danger of collapse - not least during the current COVID crisis - but from the very start the story of this beloved British institution has been intertwined with one of the most divisive social and political issue of the age, immigration. The people who came to this country to work in the NHS have found themselves fighting battles they neither sought nor expected.
Our NHS: A Hidden History 2021
Vikken
Vikken
Vikken is transgender. He’s about to take hormones for the first time. He records his voice that will disappear, and summons the figures of the past from all over the world for an intimate dialogue with himself.
Vikken 2021
China's Secret Monkey Kingdom
China's Secret Monkey Kingdom
China's Secret Monkey Kingdom 2021
Den deprimerte klovnen
Den deprimerte klovnen
Drama teacher Knut has always been interested in clowns. He has researched them and taught about them, and he has played the clown. But as a 61-year-old, he became deeply depressed and disappeared into his own darkness for over two years.
Den deprimerte klovnen 2021
The Greatest Race
The Greatest Race
Swimmers on both sides recall the story of the epic 4x100 relay freestyle American comeback win against France at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The Greatest Race 2021
Face to Face with The Fear
Face to Face with The Fear
The making of The Fear
Face to Face with The Fear 2021
Walter: A Life in Football
Walter: A Life in Football
Documentary paying tribute to one of the most successful managers in the history of Scottish football, Walter Smith. A winner as manager for Rangers and Scotland, Walter Smith was a man whose character won respect across the hard tribal lines of our national game. Featuring rare archive, and told with interview contributions from the people who knew him best and who worked with him throughout his long and varied career, the programme explores the numerous successes at Rangers, his experiences as a manager when he headed south to Everton in the English Premiership, his leadership of the Scotland national men’s team and his sensational return to Rangers in 2007. Walter: A Life in Football follows the highs and lows of Smith’s career, exploring the characteristics that made players, fellow managers and supporters venerate him. He was genuinely loved and revered by many, including titans of the game such as Pep Guardiola and Sir Alex Ferguson.
Walter: A Life in Football 2021
Renaud, my brother
Renaud, my brother
Documentary on Renaud, told by his twin brother David and his younger sister Sophie.
Renaud, my brother 2021
Hydrogen Documentary
Hydrogen Documentary
Hyundai and BTS present a short documentary on hydrogen for the first time in the world to increase Gen Z's involvement in 'hydrogen' and to make a difference through solidarity. Available on Youtube.
Hydrogen Documentary 2021
A Grain of Sand in the Gear
A Grain of Sand in the Gear
A chronicle of a year of health crisis. A film that travels to the four corners of the planet to question us about our model of society. The grain of sand is Covid. The gear is the system in which we live. The subject: how could a small piece of genetic code stop our system?
A Grain of Sand in the Gear 2021
Hillsong Church: God Goes Viral
Hillsong Church: God Goes Viral
A Storyville feature documentary that explores globally trending megachurch Hillsong, revealing its explosive growth in younger members and shedding light on darker stories within the organisation.
Hillsong Church: God Goes Viral 2021