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The Balfour Declaration: Britain's Promise to the Holy Land
Jane Corbin explores the legacy of the Balfour Declaration on a journey that starts in her home village. She explores the role her ancestor, British politician Leo Amery, played in the drafting of the declaration, issued by the government in 1917.
Interior
In a motel room in Cali, different people arrive with their own lives on their backs, finding a short rest. These people have no intention of leaving anything behind but there is something left from them printed on the soul of this place.
The Best King We Never Had
Paul Murton takes us on a journey to investigate the mysterious disappearance from history of Henry Fredrick Stuart, the forgotten Scottish prince and maybe the best king Britain never had.
Para Não Esquecer
All the photos, never printed, were lost due to a damaged memory card. What a funny name for such a card. I can remember those lost images more than most of the photos I took during that time.
Rudy Maxa's World Exotic Places: Japan
Travel journalist Rudy Maxa and Washington, D.C. restaurateur Daisuke Utagawa present three distinct regions of Japan, focusing on the nation's food and food producers. From the ramen of the northern island of Hokkaido, to the sushi of Tokyo, to the Wagyu beef raised on the southern island of Kyushu, food is a window on the soul of Japan.
Abu Dhabi: The Island Kingdom of the Sheikhs
The Emirate Abu Dhabi was founded on an island, surrounded by a mangrove belt. In the meantime and many skyscrapers and artificially created islands later, the town has become one of the world's most modern metropolises. To ensure that the inhabitants of the sea are not in danger of losing their environment due to this turbo growth, Nathalie Staelens has been brought in. The Belgian environment engineer has the task of relocating hawksbill turtles to Saadiyat Island. In doing so, she often requi…more
24 Hour Movie Marathon VI: Return of the Marathon
In April 2017, after a series of bizarre events, Luke Ryan and his fiancee Connie Witzøe embarked on their sixth annual 24 Hour Movie Marathon. The challenge was laid out on YouTube in 2012 from Ryan Chattaway, and every year since, Luke has taken part, and once again Connie joins him every step of the way. Spread out over a few days and a long weekend, the two watch an indulgent amount of movies and talk about all of them, with random discussion and bickering along the way. With special guest appearances, time traveling confusion and easter eggs fit for an audience of two, 24 Hour Movie Marathon VI continues the tradition of throwing everything but the kitchen sink into one massive vlogumentary documenting the annual occasion of watching a boat load of films!
Alone through Iran: 1144 miles of trust
The 45-year old Swedish woman, Kristina Paltén, ran across Iran to challenge her own prejudices against a culture and people she knew little about. She felt the very human need to trust in people.
Pleasure Boys
Muscles, screaming crowds and non-stop attention. Is it ego or alter-ego that defines the 'Pleasure Boys’ strip group? Exploring the motives and sacrifices of four male strippers, this documentary challenges masculinity as a construct in the modern world.
Last Song to Xenitia
Last Song to Xenitia is a story familiar to millions of immigrants. Folk-poet, Vasiliki Scotes left Greece in 1931 during the Great Depression seeking to fulfill her dreams in America! The Greeks call this "xenitia," which means: living as a stranger on foreign shores. Part of an ancient oral musical tradition, Vasiliki recites 350 ancient songs from memory in the last years of her life. These songs are published in a book and at the age of 103 she journeys to Greece for the last time with her book of songs and a message of courage for the youth... who face xenitia once again.
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man
A double-screen work on violence and freedom. On one screen the ‘alphabet of violence’. The second screen's function is to evoke potential, possibility, aspirations and ambitions of a future where the value of the black man in society is revitalised through a lexicon of freedom; he runs towards his freedom.
Nazi Killer Magic
It is the great untold story of World War Two. The role the Occult played in shaping and determining the outcome of the fight. "Nazi Killer Magic" reveals how esotericism and mysticism influenced Hitler's wartime commanders.
Les Ovnis du passé, les effroyables signes du ciel
The Lake
The Filippov family live in the north of Russia, far from civilisation. Despite the lack of modern conveniences, they live in harmony with nature, create art, support and understand each other like no other people in this world.
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D'Inked: A Tattoo Removal Documentary
D'Inked is a documentary about the development of laser tattoo removal technology and how it has changed the culture of tattoos. The film follows a man named Jake on his 5-year journey through the process of removing a full color half sleeve tattoo. The film also features interviews with prominent figures in the tattoo and laser removal communities discussing the technological, physical and ethical realities of removing what has always been considered a definition of permanent.
My Son The Serial Killer
A documentary examining one of the UK's most notorious criminals, as Steve Wright's father Conrad offers his deeply personal insights into the horrific crimes his son committed. Steve Wright, dubbed the Suffolk Strangler', murdered five women who worked as prostitutes and dumped their bodies in the countryside around Ipswich in 2006, and was jailed for life in 2008. The programme also features an exclusive interview with Isabella Clennel, the mother of one of the women brutally murdered by Steve Wright, as she opens up about the impact her daughter Paula's death had - and continues to have - on her family.
Awesome Beauty: The Art of Industrial Britain
Lachlan Goudie explores Britain's industrial landscapes and the artists and artworks inspired by them in a thought-provoking journey that challenges our national stereotypes.
Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas
Film by Tatyana Borsch “Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas" (2017) talks about the Central Asian expedition of the outstanding artist, thinker and public figure Nicholas Roerich. It was the largest journey of the 20th century through the most unexplored areas of Asia. The route ran through the majestic, inaccessible mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Tibet, China, Kashmir, Mongolia and Altai. ... Altai - Himalayas.
Room for a Man
A young gay filmmaker who shares a Beirut apartment with his mother and pet dog sets about reconstructing his identity by renovating his bedroom. But as the male construction workers come and go in the freshly embattled household, new questions, old arguments and unexpected passions get stirred.
MakinG of My house walk-through
Behind the scenes video of the short horror film My House Walkthrough.
Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America
This is the story of Kent State University students who stood up to question racism, violence against protesters, and the long American involvement in the Vietnam War. On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot thirteen of them, killed four, and all were forever changed.
Brexit Blues on Immigration Street
Marco, a free-spirited Scotsman who feels he has a great deal to say, asks random folk in the streets of Glasgow about their thoughts on Brexit.
Seu Biu, Meu Atlas
Mr. Biu (Seu Biu) was the last native resident of Tatuoca Island in Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil), a place now considered part of the territory controlled by the Suape Port Industrial Complex. The Suape Complex controls the region and through its #miliciasuape it has been intimidating, expelling and removing the local populations. A carpenter, Mr. Biu has fabricated tables for years; in her project made for “Convocatória para um Mobiliário Brasileiro” (“Open Call for a Brazilian Furniture”) an installation at the MASP (Art Museu of São Paulo), the artist Carla Lombardo dubbed these tables as “Gentrificada” (“Gentrified”). The movie builds a regime of visualization with technical images that invite us to think about representation and orientation in a world of data.
Illegal Job Centre
From the landlords who house migrant workers like sardines, to the white van men who exploit them, who's benefiting from the underground jobs market and what are the tragic costs?
Gentrified: Ethnic Cleansing American Style
The first in-depth analysis of the unspoken ethnic component behind the most devastating socio-economic movement in America today.
Péripherique de Paris, les secrets d'une mégastructure
Soul of The Cat
Most people in the world who know a domestic cat understand the wild look in their pet's eye. This film looks at those thinly veiled behaviors between domestic cats and their wild cousins and ancestors, specifically to draw those parallels and to explain to 'owners' what they are seeing when they watch their cat. There are scenes of cats leaping, landing, running up trees like leopards and all the behaviors we are used to seeing in domestic cats, but drawn exactly from their wild equivalent
Sniper: Into the Kill Zone
Amazing feats of marksmanship are recounted by the men who pulled the trigger. Gripping accounts of the longest shots and the deadliest ambushes take us to battlefields from Vietnam, to Iraq, to the Alaskan wilderness. There is no escape for those who enter the Kill Zone.
Nomadic Doctor
This documentary follows the remarkable local doctor who has been providing healthcare to nomadic families living in isolated regions of Mongolia.
João's House
João’s House is a renovation project for a small house located in the old part of the city of Porto, close to the Douro River. It is a traditional 19th century ground floor building with wells made with stone, and a wooden roof structure covered with tiles.
Memory Eternal
For 15 years, Natalia has been working in the city of Kimry, Tver region, in a workshop where she paints portraits of people on tombstones. Different people come to her. Someone orders portraits for the loved ones of the deceased, and someone-for themselves for the future...
The Architecture of the Trees
A fifteen minute, structurally contemplative exploration of the superimposed juxtaposition of urbanism and naturalism, exhibited via a scrapbook of landscape images with a progressively eerie tone.
Vrika
An eight minute, audiovisual/anthropological short form collaboration between Eli Hayes & Andy Patterson.
Deadline
Where do the opinions of a gravedigger and an astrophysicist converge? Since we are something more than what our feelings perceive, how do we stand against the unknown and how do we ease our fear of death? Through scientific views and individual experiences, the film seeks out the relationship that renders us free and responsible before the mystery that surrounds.
