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YAYA
YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the domestic worker who spent decades away from her family in the Philippines to raise his. This documentary is a tribute to all the domestic workers in Hong Kong, who has served as the backbone of Hong Kong's economy by unleashing a substantial female workforce into the economy and taken care of so many lives with love and care. You are all heroes in the hearts of the Hong Kong people. - Justin Cheung, the director
Syndebukken: Prosessen mot Harry Lindstrøm
Mads Ousdal discovers as an adult that his babysitter at one time was Norway's most hated man after a national crisis in the 1960s.
Hola, mi nombre es Oscar Lucero i les tengo una pregunta
A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.
Dyke Jails
Andrea took a drug mule trip from Argentina. She was taken directly from Barcelona airport to prison. Katia was imprisoned for two years at Martutene correctional facility in the Basque Country. Marta Dillon, journalist and feminist, visited over several years the female prisoners at the Ezeiza prison in Buenos Aires and captured their experiences in the book "Corazones Cautivos". These stories, along with those of other ex-prisoners and researchers, are part of the documentary "Cárceles Bolleras" (Dyke Jails), that pictures the reality of women behind bars and how gender inequality affects their lives there. Under these circumstances , lesbian desire becomes a form of resistance to the penitentiary institution. Through these interviews, we depict the prison universe we are unallowed to access.
Mercado
The soul of a town is in its market. San Camilo is the most emblematic of Arequipa; full of life, history and tradition, it is a clear example of Peruvian cultural identity. The characters in this feature film dance, laugh and yearn in a space that they do not want to stop being theirs.
More than Life
Freddy Grenzmann is Estonia’s last rockstar and the singer of a punk-rock band called Psychoterror. And a poet. The phenomenon of a rockstar stands outside of normality – is bigger than life. Recognizingly what we can say about Freddy, is that he is not normal – not on stage, nor in life. Freddy’s creation and life are equivalent – he puts everything out there. What makes Freddy interesting is not the social or textual play, but the ammount that he puts in. Possibility of total loss of self-control and the depth of a predictable human or metaphysical agony. This is the story of the last real rockstar and poet, his work and of a punkbands anatomy.
France Algérie : une affaire de famille
More than half a century after independence, the Algerian question remains a taboo subject in France and arouses passions. Whatever the words, whatever the decisions, there will always be a side that feels aggrieved. Why does time fail to cure resentment? From the signing of the Evian agreements in 1962 to the skid of the candidate Macron, who was in February 2017 in opposition to the "Pieds Noirs" community for comparing the colonization of Algeria to a crime against humanity. The story is told through the experiences of exiles, activists, former soldiers and politicians, all involved in the events.
Emmanuel Macron, le dynamiteur
LCI broadcasted, Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 22:30, an investigation by David Doukhan on the accession of Emmanuel Macron to power. From the preparation of his arrival at the Elysée to the way he attached himself the services of a part of the right, after drying out the left.
1968.DIGITAL: Yuri Gagarin vs the Moon
The world's first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin dreams of flying to the moon. Just like the 12th American astronaut Neil Armstrong. In 1968, the space race between the USSR and the United States reaches its climax, and it has to pay for it at the cost of human life.
Regreso a Coronel Vallejos
A bitter postcard of the town of the Buenos Aires countryside that Argentinean writer Manuel Puig (1932-90) portrayed with singular mastery, based on his own land, a town named General Villegas. Its inhabitants never forgave him. However, a woman, owner of a painful and enigmatic past, will build a bridge between Coronel Vallejos, the town created by Puig, and the real General Villegas, trying to reconcile the place with the writer.
As I Sat in His Car...
Through a collage of found footage, reenactments, and digital manipulation, the intersection between queerness and age is explored through a reflection of youthful regrets.
I Love My Muslim
No-nonsense Carla is a 62-year-old woman from the Netherlands who converted to Islam. Against the expectations of many, she married Fouad, a 33-year-old Libyan freedom fighter. Although the couple live contentedly together in Amsterdam, the political turmoil in the Middle East continually bleeds into their lives. Yet, since Carla is past a child-bearing age, it is when the pair seek a second wife for Fouad that their relationship is really put to the test.
In the Starlight
During the darkest hours of the night, while the rest of the world is sleeping, outdoor photographer Paul Zizka ventures out into the wilderness in search of the world's starriest skies. His journey to photograph the celestial wonders takes him from his home amongst the peaks of the Canadian Rockies to the wild, desert dunes of Namibia and remote ice caps of Greenland. Ever the adventurer, he must balance his work and passion for photography with his equal devotion as a family man. In the Starlight is an intimate portrayal of Paul's quest to capture the night skies, and what his time spent under the stars has taught him about life, love, adventure, and our place in the universe.
Prueba de fondo
Explores the daily life of a group of marathon runners from the Central Highlands of Peru who seek to break more than just their own records. Around the practice of athletics, many stories of overcoming challenges are woven in the Andes. One of them is that of Inés Melchor, multiple Pan American champion, who in the last two years has experienced unexpected defeats and the need to rearm herself.
Clash of Tigers
Two royal Bengal tigers in Ranthambore, India, are sisters, natural born killers, granddaughters of the most famous queen tiger in the world and heirs to her throne; they want only to remove their mother, destroy the other sister and reign supreme.
Hédi Fried - Min oro
The horrors of the Holocaust and the loss of both mother and father has given Hédi Fried (1924-2022) a worry that cannot be calmed. She harbors hope for the future and a strong and stubborn belief that something like this will never happen again. Hédi Fried was a Swedish-Romanian author and psychologist. A Holocaust survivor, she passed through Auschwitz as well as Bergen-Belsen, coming to Sweden in July 1945 with the boat M/S Rönnskär.
Darkness To Brightness
The film is about the story of Ihsan Polat whose job is to lighten the darkness “with his own words.” He is the first end last Braille repairmen of Turkey. It is mentioned about that blind people can use their fingers just like their eyes and they read the books by touching them. It is expressed that braille is very important for their own world. IhsanPolat is lightening their world by means of this job.
Dietrich Icon
Film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White consider the collaboration between Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, as well as Dietrich's role as a Hollywood icon.
Tobacco Trails
With the arrival of Austro-Hungarians to Bosnia and Herzegovina and by establishing certain elements of a modern European society, Herzegovina has developed an "activity" that has been one of the leading for more than half a century.
The Young Sea
A uniquely styled nature doc about the life of the Baltic Sea, where National Geographic photographer Mattias A. Klum follows the cycle of seasons around one of the most beautiful inland seas in the world today. By capturing the hidden life and beauty of the amazing species that live in the Baltic Sea, Klum delivers a timely reminder of our role in the survival of these fragile ecosystems, as the Baltic Sea comes under increasing threat from human activity.
Three Seconds
The story of the grand victory of the Soviet Union national basketball team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In the final, the Soviet athletes had to compete with the leader of world basketball, the US national team. The Americans have never conceded Olympic gold to anyone before. The main time of the match ended with a score of 49:50 in favor of the Americans. The United States team was already celebrating the victory. There were only three seconds left. No one believed that these three seconds could change not only the outcome of the meeting, but also the entire history of basketball.
Untamed Albania
Albania in the southeast of Europe – situated between Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro – hosts an astonishingly diverse landscape. Harmonic coastal areas lead to harsh karst landscapes. Snow-covered mountain regions, wild canyons, waterfalls, deep-blue lakes and untouched rivers are perfect conditions for an immensely rich flora and fauna. Decades of war preserved wide areas of the country from industrial exploitation, so the natural environment is still untouched.
Leaders of WWII: The Early Years
A look at Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and Marshal Petain, and the roles they play in the Great War of 1914 to 1918.
Yury Kublanovsky. Homeland Is Near
The poet and publicist Yury Mikhailovich Kublanovsky has many places on Earth that are dear to him. To the poet for seventy, and his flash-memories, being experienced anew, “close” times: what was experienced once and lived now. The film is about the fate of a man for whom the Motherland, wherever he is, is always there.
Kundbypigen - Hvorfor ville min lillesøster være terrorist?
Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth was one of America's most popular, but lease understood artists. Through unprecedented access to family members, archival materials, and his work, "Wyeth" presents the most complete portrait of the artist.
Small-scale Societies
Two living bodies have been installed and improvised within a museum space, scattered with archaeological artifacts, terracotta pots and shreds, where acts of sacrifice and resurrection are being performed like a re-enactment of a lost and forgotten ritual. The video art got created mainly from unused rush material and still images gathered over last one decade, at different locations of archaeological, geological and anthropological importance in India starting from Palaeolithic to Megalithic cultures and held together by performances within museum spaces and poetic inter-titles related to the ideas of ritual love-death relationship.
BAM: Builders of the Ancient Mysteries
Are we really the first advanced civilization on Earth? This is the bold and controversial question raised by this movie. Embark on a great and fascinating tour of the most amazing archaeological sites on Earth, as you have probably never seen them before, for a great journey, deep in the origin of our civilization a trip that may change forever your vision of our past and more.
Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics
An investigative look at the life of Latvia’s first foreign minister Zigfrids Anna Meierovics is also a chronicle of the inception of the statehood of Latvia. In a time of deep political turmoil, one man had to make the choices and sacrifices necessary to achieve the legitimacy of an entire country.