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The Burden of Fire
In 1982, a fire broke out in the Soviet Antarctic research station Vostok and destroyed the station's power plant. The expedition was left without light or heating right before the four-month long polar night set in, with an outside temperature of -70 °C. The men decided not to ask for help, because they knew that it was nowhere to be found.
The First Line in the Middle
The heroine of the film Marina, it would seem, has already passed her thorny path of dance from distant Turkmenistan to the championship of Russia, Europe, the stage of Los Angeles. However, today her life is a constant race in which Marina strives to ensure the prosperity of the dance company she created. What is more important, to raise a star out of your 4-year-old mulatto daughter Nicole, or still at least once again go on the stage of a giant show with the stars, albeit as a backup dancer, but in your favorite position in the first line in the middle?
Dear Fukushima, Letter from Chernobyl
March 11, 2011. What happened that day in Japan seemed absolutely impossible, but it turned out to be completely real. What is the future for the people of Fukushima? Will they be able to live a normal life? And will there be an end to the dark tunnel in which they, and indeed all of Japan, found themselves? The greatest nuclear tragedy occurred at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986. And I decided to go to Chernobyl to find answers to the questions that tormented me. I wanted to see with my own eyes the consequences and perhaps overcome them. I wanted to find a way out for the Fukushima people. You can't bring back the past, the clock won't turn back, and the only thing left for us is to move forward.
Pride and Prejudice
The journey of Russian mothers from St. Petersburg to the city of victorious gay propaganda.
Russians Are Coming
Journalist Andrey Loshak went to the Velikoretsky procession, one of the main solemn church processions in Russia. Together with the pilgrims, he traveled almost 150 kilometers along the Velikaya River (Kirov region).
The Art of Akira Kurosawa
Asian cinema expert Tony Ryans discusses Kurosawa’s career and influence.
Lektion der Unvernunft
The rainforest is a fascinating wildlife paradise. But the destruction of the tropical rainforest continues at an ever increasing rate. In the space of just one hour, intact ecosystems the size of 8,000 football pitches disappear irretrievably. What remains is poverty and destruction.
Grandir (O Happy Days!)
In 2002, on the occasion of her brother’s wedding, Dominique Cabrera begun to shoot the gathering, and decided to continue over 10 years, time imprinting its marks on her family and "becoming the film" as she expresses it. Halfway between Agnès Varda and Alain Cavalier, Dominique Cabrera delivers a sensitive film both intimate and universal: "Ten years ago, my brother Bernard got married for the second time. We all went to the wedding in Boston, where he lives. It felt as if we were four little children again with our mom and dad. I had brought along a small camera, which I began to use to film our family. I've continued to this day..."
La ruée vers l'art
Art professionals hold on to their sense of artistic merit as billionaires dominate the market.
Remoção
Through testimonies, the documentary recalls the enormous process of removal of favelas that took place in the south of Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s and 1970s.
Hijos de la Tierra
“Children of the Earth” is the testimony of people linked to nature who open their hearts to transmit to humanity the wisdom that Mother Earth treasures. People who have inherited their knowledge from their ancestors and whose practice shows that we have a living pharmacy within our reach, as long as we take care of nature.They are medicine men and women who propose “an initiatory journey”, a plea in favor of natural medicine. They also emphasize that the materialism and stress to which current society subjects us prevent us from searching for consciousness, leading us to distance ourselves from nature. In this way, the documentary leads the viewer to reflect on the current health system. But it also tries to make people see that the great challenge is to once again be able to think about the common good, the Earth, our greatest provider of life.
House of Fun
Near the Central Bus Station in the northern part of Israel, in the city of Karmiel, there is a 7-story building surrounded by a high fence with surveillance cameras. About 100 teenagers who came to Israel without families from the countries of the former Soviet Union live in this building. They undergo a nine-month adaptation course, after which they must turn from "Russians" into "Israelis". Excessively long stay in a closed atmosphere produces the opposite effect.
Ladies' Choice Dance
Three times a week, 15 women travel from different parts of the city by public transport, with transfers to a small club located in a former kindergarten. Here, on the outskirts of Minsk, is the only place in the city where they can take dance lessons for a nominal fee of 3,000 Belarusian rubles. The program includes belly dance, tango, blues. The students are no longer young, all at least 50 years old. Each of them had a very difficult life. Having gone through all the hardships, these women have not forgotten how to enjoy life and are still waiting for their "prince".
James Turrell: Passageways
Artist James Turrell uses the sky as his studio to explore his creative interest in light and space. This fascinating documentary examines Turrell's work, especially his ongoing project at Roden Crater -- a natural cinder volcanic crater near Flagstaff, Ariz., that Turrell is transforming into a giant observatory for beholding celestial phenomena. In interviews, Turrell discusses his research on natural light and his interest in Hopi mythology.
Buranovskiye Babushki . Goal
"Buranovskiye Babushki", a group created in the mid-1980s, became famous for rehashing famous rock hits in their native Udmurt language, in a singing style inherited from their ancestors. None of the experts can give a clear definition in what style and genre they sing. One thing is known for sure, that this ethnic project is of interest not only in Russia, but throughout the world.
Music Don't Cost a Dime
Many musicians have their music freely available online. There is hardly a Slovenian band which hasn't given a free concert. On the other hand, production is on the rise, both in terms of music and events, although it seems that it is beginning to lack audience. How to come to terms with this "gratis culture", who foots the bill, what are the pros and cons of this – these are some of the questions the documentary film attempts to answer through interviews with more than twenty Slovenian players on the scene – from venues, labels, the media, journalists, to musicians. How to put a price on music?
Occupy the Imagination: Tales of Seduction and Resistance
Filmmaker Rodrigo Dorfman goes in search of his revolutionary roots in Chile and in the process finds it in the euphoria of the Occupy Movement.
Crazy About You
The film follows the lives of residents in an institution for people with mental disabilities "Komanski most" for a year. In a hyper-realistic way, the film deals with the most intimate aspects of their lives, and through different situations, comical, shocking and sad, the heroes of the film reveal their different world, parallel to ours, so to speak normal. The story is based mostly on a dramatic love story between Ismet and Vladana, the residents who are ex partners, but still in a secret relationship, despite being with their present partners.
Broadmoor: A History of the Criminally Insane
Criminology professor David Wilson uses interviews and archives to highlight Britain's most notorious criminals and the place they call home.
By the River
Amidst the tranquility of the deep woods in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, a young man who goes on a daily dive in a contaminated river to catch fish for his lover goes missing. He is unable to come back to a loved one who eagerly waits for his return.
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Some Idealistic Future
An unprecedented look at the ten year history of The Postal Service, from the initial collaborations that created 2003's sleeper classic Give Up, through to their recent sold out show at New York's Barclays Arena. The Creators Project provides an intimate look at the band and its process: from the dressing room to the digital (re)construction of the music to the moment the band takes the stage.
Hello, It's Me!
For the first time in Kazakhstan, a documentary feature film was shot about people suffering from cerebral palsy.
Children on the Internet
A short film about the horrors that await children on the Internet. The director is sure that the World Wide Web is capable of severely traumatizing the psyche of teenagers.
Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk
During a hospital stay in 2001, the Polish painter, sculptor and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk compiled a handwritten list of the objects and animals that were featured in his films. While he had used both encyclopedias and dictionaries to order chaos in his own films, this list saw Borowczyk putting his own life in order.
São Paulo in Hi-Fi
Historical documentary about São Paulo's gay night life during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. With testimonials from people who lived through that time and images of unforgettable shows at classical night clubs of the city. Bringing back to memory the stars, the heroes, and even the bad guys: military dictatorship and AIDS epidemic.
The Lust Killer
Does gloomy fascination that surrounds serial killers tell us something important about ourselves? The figure of Joachim Knychala, who murdered five women between 1975 and 1982, is used to focus our attention on those whose lives were marked by the infamous 'vampire from Bytom'. Among them there is a former journalist, Edward Kozak, who, despite his old age, admits he has a variety of obsessions. The film about the 'vampire' offers him an opportunity to enter the limelight one more time.
Wonderful worlds of Nak
Guided by a mix of new age philosophy, comic book ambition, and a fundamental belief in the interconnectedness of events, Winnipeg artist Robert Pasternak creates a fast-paced and fun vision of a colourful and eclectic universe for all to marvel at.
Stacey
The film is a portrait of the life of Stacey, a woman who lives and works in Thessaloniki.
Body Dialectic
Surveys the life and work of Justin Credible, a performance artist who mobilizes trans* issues by means of personal experience and reflection, and embraces the historical use of the personal to make larger political claims that do not attempt to neatly categorize the polymorphous relationship between gender and bodies.
Do Outro Lado da Cozinha
The story between a “black mother” and the boss’ daughter. A naïf relationship of pure love bounds a child to her nanny, but also hides a certain Brazilian social cultural system.
Clouds Over Cuba
Revisits the Cuban Missile Crisis 50 years later and explores what might have been.