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2014

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Exposure vol. II
Exposure vol. II
Exposure Vol II follows athletes Daniel Woods, Jimmy Webb, Alex Megos, Alex Puccio, and Dmitry Sharafutdinov as they push both both their own personal limits and the limits of climbing. This years film brings you stories and ascents from around the globe including Russia, Switzerland, Germany, Bishop, and Colorado in a heart-pounding, forearm pump inducing journey to discover the impossible. Catch Daniels ascent of Lucid Dreaming 8C/V15, Alex Megos on Action Directe 9A/5.14d, and Alex Puccio on her first V13/8B, Top Notch.
Exposure vol. II 2014
The Godmother
The Godmother
Α few years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, an unknown physicist from Eastern Germany, who was not interested in politics, is the most powerful woman in the world. Her teacher in the small town where she grew up remembers that she was the smartest student he ever had. Those who have worked with her claim that “Merkiavelli” exercises power without moral barriers, just as Machiavelli taught. A journalist, who knows her well, claims that she uses the methods of a Mafia godmother. In 2008, the German Chancellor was asked to handle the international financial crisis. The countries of the South were placed in the test tube. “If I had to write a book on the Shock Doctrine at this moment,” says Naomi Klein, “it would be on Greece.” How did Merkel manage to impose German hegemony in Europe?
The Godmother 2014
Our Tough Guy
Our Tough Guy
The December 1, 1977, game between the Minnesota North Stars and Boston Bruins started out as just another typical NHL game in the ’70s — no helmets and lots of brawls. One showdown that never actually happened turned this game into one of hockey legend. Shortly after Boston’s John Wensink and Minnesota’s Alex Pirus got untangled from their fight, Wensink famously skated over to the North Stars bench and motioned for the whole team to take him on. They didn’t. Through Wensink’s own words and anecdotes from die-hard fans, family, and fellow NHL players, this film takes us into the mind-set of the Bruins’ most legendary enforcer — and the journey one takes when that life is left behind.
Our Tough Guy 2014
Seeing Slavery
Seeing Slavery
Filmmaker Erica Jordan follows renowned photographer Lisa Kristine on an unforgettable journey into the front-lines of modern day slavery, witnessing intimate moments of human connection and devastation. Central to the story is Lisa's pursuit to document Sonagachi, the largest brothel in India. As Lisa struggles to gain access, we witness her dedication and courage to shine a light a light on slavery and 'give a voice to the voiceless.' Woven into the story, Lisa shares her work in the trenches of global slavery from the broiling brick kilns of Nepal and India to the illegal mine shafts of Ghana, and the hidden lairs of sex slavery worldwide. Through this experience, Erica confronts her own fears and together they bear witness to the indomitable human spirit.
Seeing Slavery 2014
Father Said, 'Let's Return Home'
Father Said, 'Let's Return Home'
After the death of a cultural icon and tribal chieftain in Bukidnon, his adopted son takes on his cause to preserve their cultural heritage through music.
Father Said, 'Let's Return Home' 2014
Wave vs. Shore
Wave vs. Shore
Martin Štrba’s inventive documentary tells the remarkable story of a group of Slovak photographers whose groundbreaking work challenged Communist orthodoxy in the 1980ss.
Wave vs. Shore 2014
The Joy of the Guitar Riff
The Joy of the Guitar Riff
Traces the history and mechanics of the guitar riff over 60 years from the 1950s, from Chuck Berry through Hank Marvin, Black Sabbath and others to the White Stripes. Featuring interviews with some of the core arbiters of change and new techniques.
The Joy of the Guitar Riff 2014
Kids on Stage
Kids on Stage
This short documentary follows the lives and stories of three college students involved in theatre at a Northern California junior college.
Kids on Stage 2014
The Longest Game
The Longest Game
Meet Hal, 87; Charlie, 87 and Maurie, 87. Three of a group of friends who gather every day at one p.m. in the village of Dorset, Vermont to play a game called "paddle tennis". They have been playing together for years. Moving beyond paddle tennis, The Longest Game takes on the 'game' of life, the stories we tell and the underlying forces that connect us all.
The Longest Game 2014
City of Imagination: Kowloon Walled City 20 Years Later
City of Imagination: Kowloon Walled City 20 Years Later
The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was once the densest place on earth, a virtually lawless labyrinth of crime, grime, commerce and hope. A Wall Street Journal documentary tracks its colorful legacy and brings the place alive 20 years later.
City of Imagination: Kowloon Walled City 20 Years Later 2014
She is an Umpire
She is an Umpire
Liu Bo-Jiun is the first female international baseball umpire. “First” seems to be an honor, but in a male-surrounded baseball field, the first female must experience an unprecedented review. As she fixes her eyes on every pitch coming forward, people fix their eyes on every judgment she made. If judgments on pitches were personal out of technical aspects, how about those judgments on people? The game begins at three balls, two strikes and two outs. What about her?
She is an Umpire 2014
A Football Life: Terrel Davis
A Football Life: Terrel Davis
Terrell Davis - The too-short, remarkable career of Terrell Davis, the running back who changed Denver Broncos history.
A Football Life: Terrel Davis 2014
The House That Eye Live In
The House That Eye Live In
Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film reveals, his work is suffused with the trauma of migration, and the struggle to recognise himself as a ‘new Australian'. In conversation with documentarian Steven McIntyre, Dirk guides us through more than 40 years of his filmmaking: the early years exploring technique and technology, a subsequent phase of unflinching self-examination brought on by upheaval and overseas travel, and more recent projects where he attempts a fusion of personal, cultural, and historical identity. What emerges is an inspiring, rugged, and at times poignant portrait of an artist committed to self-expression and self-discovery through the medium of film.
The House That Eye Live In 2014
A Minute Ago
A Minute Ago
A Minute Ago, which debuted this fall at High Art gallery in Paris, revolves around rotoscoping, the animation technique Rose calls “collaging in time and space.” Her most impressionistic work to date, the work takes its point of departure from two pieces of footage: a YouTube video of a freak summer hailstorm on a Siberian beach, and a tour given by the architect Philip Johnson of his landmark Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, just a few years before his death at age 98. “I was thinking about the relationship between shocking, catastrophic weather conditions and collage, which has a similar uncanny, suturing quality,” Rose says. Accompanied partly by a down-pitched version of Pink Floyd’s 1971 concert played “to the dead” at Pompeii, the work has an unsettling, morose quality.
A Minute Ago 2014
Shipwreck
Shipwreck
On October 3rd, 2013, a boat carrying 500 Eritrean refugees sunk off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa and over 360 people drowned. Abraham, one of the survivors, walks through a graveyard of shipwrecks and remembers this nightmarish experience. Meanwhile at the harbor, hundreds of coffins are being loaded onto a military ship.
Shipwreck 2014
Wilczy szaniec
Wilczy szaniec
Wilczy szaniec 2014
Silent Waters
Silent Waters
What happened once the waters receded, the beaches were cleaned up and the aid organizations left? Silent Waters provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of fishing communities on an undeveloped Thai island in the Andaman Sea.
Silent Waters 2014
The Healing Effect
The Healing Effect
The Healing Effect Movie is a documentary about the healing power of food. Featuring best-selling authors and experts from around the world including: John Robbins, Joel Fuhrman, Daphne Miller, David Wolfe, Charlotte Gerson, John McDougall, Philip McCluskey, John Bagnulo and many more. The film follows the story of a police officer in the gritty city of Lowell, Massachusetts who has radically changed his diet and inspired his community. This movie explores the power of prevention, why bad genes are not your destiny, food and lifestyle secrets from the healthiest, longest lived people on the planet, as well as simple steps to get started right now in changing your life, one bite at a time!
The Healing Effect 2014
Naziha's Spring
Naziha's Spring
Naziha is a 45-year-old woman of Moroccan descent and the mother of 10 children. She’s been without a partner since throwing out her violent husband. In 2007, she was in the news when her teenage sons were causing serious trouble. In perfect Dutch she tells the story of how as a young girl she was married off to a man 30 years her senior, and of how he turned her household into a “terrorist training camp.” She speaks bitterly about this dark period, which had led to her sons’ criminal behavior. She wants her story to break the taboo on getting help. “There’s still so much shame”, she says about her mostly Moroccan neighbors. When it emerges that one of Naziha’s sons was involved in the death of a soccer referee, the normal quiet life she dreams of looks further away than ever. This is the story of an articulate, modern woman who, despite the burden of her youth and continual problems with her children, is tireless in her struggle for better life.
Naziha's Spring 2014
The Making Of Word Of Mouth
The Making Of Word Of Mouth
'Making of' documentary accompanying Word Of Mouth deluxe album edition
The Making Of Word Of Mouth 2014
A Royal Hangover
Prime Video
A Royal Hangover
A Royal Hangover is a feature length documentary about the ambivalent alcohol culture of Britain. Think Bowling For Columbine, only with alcohol instead of guns. Drinking for Britain: We don't shoot ourselves to death here, we kill ourselves with drink - much more dignified!
A Royal Hangover 2014
The Lot of Fun: Hollywood’s Fun Factory
The Lot of Fun: Hollywood’s Fun Factory
A documentary about film producer Hal Roach.
The Lot of Fun: Hollywood’s Fun Factory 2014
Sine, Laging Kasama
Sine, Laging Kasama
The biggest names in the country’s film industry speak up about the evolution of Philippine films and how it has transformed today’s industry.
Sine, Laging Kasama 2014
Guerra ou Paz
Guerra ou Paz
100,000 Portuguese young men left for war in the countrie's former colonies. In the same period, 100,000 fled the country so as to not be part of that war. What was the former's role in shaping Portugal?
Guerra ou Paz 2014
Hand Made with Love in France
Hand Made with Love in France
Ever since the sixteenth century, French craftsmen, with their expertise, have been creating the very essence of luxury. Who are these craftsmen today? What is their vision of luxury? Four artisans take us inside their world. With great sense of humor and strong straightforwardness, they freely criticize the fashion industry. Made in France products that are not made in France, clients who don't know what they buy... And everyday, a more uncertain future for real luxury items : the craftsmen's workshops are closing down one by one... The four artisans we follow are a few years from retiring, and they have no one to take over. Who will assure the making of Haute Couture if they are all gone?
Hand Made with Love in France 2014
Hashima My Love
Hashima My Love
Off Nagasaki, my boat docks on the shores of Hashima, an abandoned island which once harboured an important mining community until one day, in 1974, its population was summarily evicted. I collect archives on the life that was once lived here, I wander through the ruins as I wander through my memory, looking for a missing image.
Hashima My Love 2014
Lost Heroes
Prime Video
Lost Heroes
Lost Heroes is the story of Canada's forgotten comic book superheroes and their legendary creators. A ninety-minute journey to recover a forgotten part of Canada's pop culture and a national treasure few have ever heard about. This is the tale of a small country striving to create its own heroes, but finding itself constantly out muscled by better-funded and better-marketed superheroes from the media empire next door.
Lost Heroes 2014
Over the L'Arc-en-Ciel
Over the L'Arc-en-Ciel
The documentary of the largest world tour in Japanese Music History, made into a film. Celebrating their 20th anniversary, L'Arc-en-Ciel made the challenge to have a huge scale world tour which had never heard in Japanese rock band history.
Over the L'Arc-en-Ciel 2014
The Syndrome
The Syndrome
An explosive documentary focused on a team of doctors who expose the junk science behind an unprecedented criminal justice crisis.
The Syndrome 2014
The Myth of Garrincha
The Myth of Garrincha
Doctors told Mané Garrincha he was unfit to play pro soccer. He proved them wrong with two World Cups. Unfortunately, his life's story ended tragically. Still, people remember him as a legend.
The Myth of Garrincha 2014
ARCTIC DEATH SPIRAL & THE METHANE TIME BOMB
ARCTIC DEATH SPIRAL & THE METHANE TIME BOMB
This movie was created to highlight the overwhelming amount of scientific information pointing to human extinction in the very near future.
ARCTIC DEATH SPIRAL & THE METHANE TIME BOMB 2014
Change
Change
Adam Ondra has been considered the best climber in the history of climbing for several years now. Even though he is only 19. Despite the fact that he is studying at a demanding grammar school, he is maybe the most traveling and definitely the most watched climber of today. It is almost an impossible task to combine and manage top sporting performances on the rocks, a difficult studying and the never ending carousel of competitions, interviews, festivals and slide-shows. Adam is taking his A level exams in a few weeks. Even though he is a top student, he decides not to go to university. Instead, he and 3 of his friends are setting on a long journey to the unknown north of Europe. Remote areas of Norway and Sweden are hiding some undiscovered climbing and natural treasures. The first really FREE journey beyond the limits of human possibilities may begin...
Change 2014
The Off-Season
The Off-Season
After losing his job, a record-holding professional football player refuses to sacrifice his blindingly obsessive dreams of returning to the NFL in the face of his new, harsh realities.
The Off-Season 2014
The Original Food Truck, Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner
The Original Food Truck, Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner
"The Original Food Truck," Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner tells the story of Haven Bros. Diner, the oldest operating diner on wheels. The original fast food, the first food truck owned by woman, this late night lunch cart has served patrons for over 120 years. Located in the birthplace of the American diner, Providence, RI, the documentary centers around the fact that Haven Bros. was almost lost to the modernizing of Providence. The diner was moved from its reserved parking spot next to Providence City Hall, and this was considered blasphemy to its loyal followers. In the words of lifelong Providence resident and founder of artists' collaborative AS220, Umberto Crenca, "It's not just the physical reality of it being here, but the conceptual reality of it being not here. What would be missed?" The story of Haven Brothers is the story of the American Dream, the American diet, and what it is to be a success. Written by Haven Brothers Movie
The Original Food Truck, Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner 2014
Armada Presents: Oil and Water
Armada Presents: Oil and Water
The Armada team has always been a group of skiers who have brought new life and unique perspective to an industry in need of change. The “oil in the water”. Take a journey into the lives of five of these skiers and see their approach to skiing and why they do the sport that they unconditionally love.
Armada Presents: Oil and Water 2014
Destination: Lusby!
Destination: Lusby!
A "counterfactual documentary" about life in and around Lusby, Maryland... a place like no other.
Destination: Lusby! 2014
Ink, Blood and Spirit
Ink, Blood and Spirit
Ink, Blood and Spirit 2014
Evaporating Borders
Evaporating Borders
Evaporating Borders is a poetically photographed and rendered film on tolerance and search for identity. Told through 5 vignettes portraying the lives of migrants on the island of Cyprus, it passionately weaves themes of displacement and belonging.
Evaporating Borders 2014
Battles Bouts and Brawls: The Story of Pro Wrestling in Detroit and the Surrounding Areas
Battles Bouts and Brawls: The Story of Pro Wrestling in Detroit and the Surrounding Areas
A documentary spanning the decades of wrestling in the metro Detroit area from the 1950s through today with interviews and segments with the legends and greats of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Battles Bouts and Brawls: The Story of Pro Wrestling in Detroit and the Surrounding Areas 2014
Throw Like A Girl
Throw Like A Girl
The best summer of her life is only the beginning for 13-year-old Mo’ne Davis. With the support of her family and passion for sports, Mo’ne stands for girls who want to play with the boys. She embodies the spirit that drives an athlete to push further, work harder, and overcome challenges. Are you ready to listen to her open letter, America?
Throw Like A Girl 2014