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Mobilizing Movies! The U.S. Signal Corps Goes to War, 1917-1919
Focuses on the official military cinematographers that accompanied the American Expeditionary Force in France, how these men were trained, improvements in camera technique, the conditions at the front while filming the Great War and the uneasy relationship between the U.S. Signal Corps that was officially assigned to cover the war and the Committee on Public Information (CPI), America's wartime propaganda agency.
Xiu Xiu: For The Benefit of All Living Beings
May 2017. Forget tour. St. Petersbourg. Xiu XIu.
The Wandering Ghosts
In the last couple of years, thousands of illegal Thai migrant workers in South Korea are deported back to Thailand, while thousands more slipped through the borders to take up both legal and illegal jobs. Calling themselves ‘ghosts’, they left their homeland for a foreign country whose language they cannot speak, work towards an uncertain future, and hide like phantoms to evade the authorities. The film observes the situation of these workers, as well as visits the other generation of Thai migrant worker in South Korea, an 80 year-old Thai veteran who once fought a Korean war.
See You, Lovable Strangers
Follows Vietnamese migrant workers, to examine the reasons behind their numerous escapes and to trace the family situations of those who were deported from Taiwan.
Portrait or the Generation 00-x
Millennials are the children of default. Now they are 18 years old. They are lovers of Brodsky and strong alcoholic drinks. They talk about what needs to be done, they understand a lot of things that are almost impossible to understand, but they all end up with the same thing, vodka and cheap champagne. What will happen to them next?
Mizar
Vaghe stelle is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films…
Nights of the Bumblebee
An inside look at the evolution of several key figures of the alternative festival Night of the Bumblebee. Despair, happiness and devotion combined in a beautiful overview spanning six years.
The Disappearing Camel Caravan
People call those who haul camels to and from desert areas and take camel transportation as their profession camel caravans. However, with the development of modern transportation, the camel's transportation function in the desert has gradually disappeared, and the camel caravans have faded out of the historical stage. The documentary tells the story of the last generation of camel caravans in Minqin County, Gansu Province.
Smokey Robinson: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
Enjoy an all-star tribute to Smokey Robinson, the 2016 recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, with performances by Robinson, as well as Aloe Blacc, Gallant, CeeLo Green, JoJo, Ledisi, Tegan Marie, Kip Moore, Corinne Bailey Rae, Esperanza Spalding, The Tenors, BeBe Winans, and a special appearance by Berry Gordy, Founder of Motown, with Samuel L. Jackson as host and Greg Phillinganes as music director.
The Knowledge: The World's Toughest Taxi Test
A documentary going behind the scenes of one of the hardest exams in the world, the test that all black cabbies must take: The Knowledge of London. For the first time, a fixed camera rig has been allowed inside the gruelling, nerve-wracking oral exams or ‘appearances’ for which candidates known as ‘Knowledge Boys or Girls’ must pass to show they have the necessary expertise. To pass this legendary exam candidates must memorize and be able to recall the capital’s 25,000 + streets, 100,000 points of interest and how they all fit together. The film follows the surprising range of characters who are each at various stages of the process, including a single mum, Kosovan immigrant and a bus driver. It takes an average of four years to pass The Knowledge and with a 70% drop out rate any candidate needs a dogged determination to pass and join the ranks of the world’s most elite taxi service.
Livet Enligt Loreen
For two years, Bengt Norborg, reporter at SVT News, everyday followed the singer and songwriter Lorine Zineb Nora "Loreen" Talhaoui. The two met for the first time in 2013 in Afghanistan, got good contact and a year later the decision was made to make this documentary. In the film we will come home to Loreen's mother Choumicha in Västerĺs, but also to the family home in Morocco, where she among other things meets her uncles. The film contains several deep interviews with Loreen, which gives a more composite picture of what she wants with her life the time after the Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest.
The Devil's Hour
The Devil's Hour is a short horror film with one character and one location: Grace finds herself awakened by an uninvited visitor.
The Fatherland’s Smoke
The film tells the story of the actress from Kirov, Olga Bulycheva, who left for Amsterdam at the beginning of the 90’s.
La lucarne des rêves
This initiatory voyage through the land of 'musique concrète' has two important protagonists as our guides: Bernard Parmegiani and Lionel Marchetti. It's also a history of encounters and transmissions between generations. The film’s ambition is to transform our perception of the sounds of the world and incite us to think of them as music. Sounds surround and shape us even when we don’t pay attention to them. By recording them, we can appropriate them.
Severe
This story is about the Russian North. The research undertaken by the author began with the villages in the Arkhangelsk region, near the White Sea, where his family came from and where he spent his childhood. A large part of the villages are remote from the cities and often have no connection with them, except for air transport...
Rester vivants
A documentary film following events after the Egyptian revolution of 2011.
America's Badlands
Enter the harsh world of the Badlands and discover the oasis within, brimming with charismatic animals.
Elegy for a Working Man
A study into Town End Farm Working Men's Club in Sunderland, England. Like all working men's clubs, Town End Farm has struggled in the past decade to compete with the smoking ban, cheap supermarket alcohol and changing cultural attitudes. The film will be look at the reasons the club is in the position it's in, and how the club has shaped its member's lives.
Ultimate Rivals: Cats vs Dogs
Deadly showdowns in the wilds of Southern Africa between big cats like lions, cheetahs and leopards, and jackals, wild dogs and hyenas.
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On April 6, 2006, Halit Yozgat was murdered by the National Socialist Underground at an Internet café in Kassel. State intelligence officer Andreas Temme was in the café around the same time. An architectural dissection of his police statement.
A Letter to Claudette Colvin
A short film entitled "A Letter To Claudette Colvin", written and directed by Victoria Wilson bringing awareness to Colvin's involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ignited due to her refusal on March 2, 1955.
An Italian Indian: The Pink Panther Princess With Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale offers her reflections on her acting role and American debut in "The Pink Panther"
Who Killed Angie Dodge? Keith Morrison Investigates
Keith Morrison investigates Angie Dodge's 1996 murder and the controversial confession and conviction of Chris Tapp. When the victim's mother becomes convinced Tapp falsely confessed, she launches a crusade to free him and find her daughter's killer.
Das Gift der Mafia: Und das europäische Gesetz des Schweigens
The Ties That Bind
An unexpected revelation within a Southern family prompts their poignant conspiracy of love and courageous journey of transformation. An unflinching portrait filmed for over twelve years.
Al-‘Awdah li Agadir
Al-'Awdah li Agadir (1967) films the reconstruction of Agadir after the earthquake that almost destroyed the entire city and is akin to a modernist constructivist moving image tableau.
Manfei
A pioneer in Taiwan’s contemporary dance scene, Lo Man-fei receives a beautiful tribute from director En Chen, a decade after her passing. Three years in the making, Manfei traces the life and work of the dance legend, including her early days at the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, her studies at New York’s most prestigious dance schools, and the founding of her Taipei Crossover Dance Company. Featuring rare footage of Lo’s graceful performances as well as candid conversations with her closest friends and collaborators, Manfei is a stirring journey into the heart of a true artist and a moving remembrance for a dearly missed member of the Taiwan art world.
The Secret Weapon That Won World War II
Discover how a small Florida town called Boca Raton was the site of a top-secret military project during World War II. Thousands of airmen were tasked with learning the ins and outs of an emerging technology known as airborne radar. See how this tiny device turned the tide of World War II for Allied forces.
The Expansions
The present, past and future of the conquest of the city known as Buenos Aires.
Dead On Arrival: The Punk Documentary That Almost Never Was
An in-depth look at the auspicious production of D.O.A. A Rite of Passage, the documentary funded by High Times founder Tom Forcade in which guerrilla filming methods captured the first (and only) U.S. tour of the notorious Sex Pistols.
Europe's Last Wilderness
A land of myriad climates and terrains, within whose boundaries lie some of the most complex and beautiful habitats on the planet. A continent whose limits stretch from northern realms of ice and snow to arid Mediterranean shores. A world shaped by the seasons, that gives life to wildlife as rich and vibrant as anywhere on the planet. This is Europe; wild and thriving.