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Invisible to the Eye
The same route after three and a half centuries... A creative documentary following the footsteps of the Ottoman-Armenian intellectual and traveler Eremya Celebi Komurciyan into the cosmopolitan Istanbul of the 17th century. Long before the invention of cinema, Komurciyan situates himself as a subject who observes the city of Istanbul as if he had a camera in hand. Borrowing Komurciyan’s timeless cine-eye, we delve into contemporary Istanbul to capture what is “inaccessible to the human eye” through the remnants of his route.
My Village 2020
As a videographer of the villagers, I felt that this year's epidemic could be recorded, so I held the camera at the village's epidemic prevention duty post and spent it with the villagers.
Alice from Wonderland
The heroine of the film is ill with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Masha can no longer move and speak, only her fingers move a little and make it possible to control a computer mouse. Masha lives in a poor apartment with a small daughter. Alice is a successful musician living in two countries - Russia and America. She comes to Masha as a music therapist. But sometimes she does not really understand how to behave, she is afraid of this meeting ... Women from different worlds – and the contact might not have happened, but something is happening between the heroines very important, which makes them both not so afraid to look into the future…
AC/DC: The Story of Back in Black
In this 23-minute documentary interview clips from the album's entire recording lineup — Brian Johnson, Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd — collectively recall the crossroads the band was at following the tragic death of Bon Scott in February of 1980. Brian Johnson was officially named the new singer of AC/DC on April 1, 1980 and the group quickly got to work with returning producer Mutt Lange, who was at the helm of the group's previous record, Highway to Hell. Ultimately, Back in Black was a tribute to AC/DC's late singer, with the black album cover serving as a memorial.
Construção
After being evicted from her house, Andréia returns years later to the Getúlio Vargas community with her children Augusto, Gustavo and Bruno. With their help, she starts building her own house.
Eight Hundred Times Lonely
Anna Hepp meets with renowned German director Edgar Reitz in one of Germany’s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. Reitz talks about his life, his view of art and his sometimes philosophical viewpoint.
Saoirse
Dublin is a city in the midst of a property development boom but with that traditional ways of life in the city are disappearing. Saorise takes a look at inter-generational horse culture and what it means to the men of Dublin's inner city. The already marginalized culture is in decline and likely won't exist in the near future.
FREM
Incomplete thoughts and fragments of dialogue, diverse music interrupted by rushes and glitches, and the seemingly confused, unanchored camera, create a disturbing, philosophical reflection on the limits of anthropocentric thinking.
40 Jahre Böhse Onkelz - Ein kurzer Abriss der Geschichte
Forty years of Böhse Onkelz. We let it melt on the tongue with cake and beer. And because we can't celebrate this insanity, which cannot be expressed in words, with you personally, we chopped our heads together to serve you something for the anniversary - the result was a 45-minute punch of the very best. A distillate, an outline of our years together and the ups and downs of the rapid journey from the first punk pogo party in the youth center to the sea of flags in the Waldstadion. Well get it.
Hear Me
Based on letters from 20 lesbian and bisexual women written during the pandemic, a single quarantine letter is made up. An interrupted love story, a shattered country, a persistent living body.
Six feet of separation
Millions of people forced into solitude for months, struggling with the anxiety, loneliness, and fear of losing everything they have.
70072: la bambina che non sapeva odiare. La vera storia di Lidia Maksymowicz
Film tells the story of Lidia Maksymowicz, a two-year-old girl, who in 1942 was imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where Dr. Mengele carried out his insane experiments on Jewish children. Her mother, forced to participate in a death march, swore to the child that one day she would return for her. Lidia, like all Auschwitz prisoners, was freed in January 1945 by Soviet soldiers and was given up for adoption to a Polish family. She lived out her youth thinking that her mother had died on a death march. But one day, in 1962, someone knocked at her door.
Eye to Eye
For the family members of murder victims mourning is often postponed indefinitely. To unlock the trauma and begin the grieving, a method called restorative dialogue brings two parents - and the audience - eye to eye with the murderers.
Last Time I was an Actress
Wayang, or Chinese Street Opera, has become a dying art in Singapore. Grace, a millennial filmmaker, visits her larger-than-life Aunty Maggie, who used to be an amateur Cantonese Wayang actress. Together, the charming duo reminisces and recreates the thrills of donning traditional embroidered costumes and performing together—a bridge between generations.
Breakthrough: Virus Fighters
Scientists, virus hunters, medical detectives and public figures battle viruses at warp speed.
Patient’s Copy
A hand-made reflection on the underconscious and on the illustration of ideas on plastic.
Monster Fish: Extreme Sharks
Zeb Hogan knows fish. And he's taking on his most ambitious task yet - entering the realm of the shark to find the ultimate Monster Fish. On his journey, Zeb encounters fearsome bull sharks, freaky hammerheads and giant whale sharks, and dispels myths about these creatures along the way.
The Giant Panda
Since 2003, nine giant pandas from China's Wolong Nature Reserve have been reintroduced into the bamboo forest of the Qinling Mountains. Born in the breeding and research station of the reserve, they did not have close contact with humans before their relocation to the natural environment. For three years, a team of scientists followed one of them, from its birth to the discovery of its new environment.
Undocumented in the Pandemic
With The Marshall Project and the Pulitzer Center, a look at one immigrant mother’s struggle to keep her children safe and housed, with her husband detained by ICE in a facility where COVID is spreading. Also in this two-part hour, Love, Life & the Virus.
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story
Delphine Seyrig decided to work on a film project about Calamity Jane to reveal Jane’s sensibility and insight about life in those letters to her daughter. The reading of those letters permits a self-reflection about feminism and motherhood.
Frey: Part II - The Architectural Interpreter
In this second film, Frey further develops a design style that blends industrial techniques with his love of nature. He also falls in love with the possibility of shaping a brand-new city. Returning to Palm Springs, Frey's new design language is Desert Modernism, beginning with his own house, Frey I, a renowned Modernist landmark.
Sensitive Lovers
Dr. Elaine Aron and Dr. Arthur Aron explain how negative childhood experiences and buried traumas affect our adult relationships and provide suggestions for for wiser, more skillful and fulfilling relationships.
Tipaerui bees
Follow-up of the beekeeping training provided in Tahiti for six months by Stéphane Brouttier. The training takes place on the heights of the Tiapaerui valley. The most important thing is to learn how to look for wild swarms in the wild. Among the students, Romus Nanaia, who has lived in the heart of the valley for years, guardian of the Tipaerui Valley association.
Brasa
Through Marcelo Perdido's search in the process of researching his album called Brasa, musicians, singers and composers reflect and sing the chapel in silent black and white. When the music stops, what we hear is the cry of the world.
Five Days of Fear
The central characters of the film are randomly selected residents of a capital city in a country that lies at the heart of Europe. Do they fear the same thing as you do? Look them in the eye. Listen.
Annie Girardot selon son cœur
A gifted student, Annie Girardot thought for a while of becoming a nurse, before passing the entrance exam to the Conservatory. She leaves with two first prizes in comedy. In the theater she triumphed in "The Typewriter" by Jean Cocteau. It was Cocteau who made her cut her hair to adopt his famous short cut. The cinema opened its doors and she turned with Pierre Fresnay, then with Jean Gabin, in "Le rouge est mis" by Gilles Grangier. The Comédie-Française then asked her to make a choice. It would be the cinema.
Vom Zauber der Berge
Breathtaking pictures of the variety and diversity of the Carinthian mountains, their untouched natural and ancient cultural landscapes.
Yesterday's Songs
While looking into a collection of old vinyl records, a young filmmaker ponders the ideas of mortality, legacy, connection, and family.
In the Fire of Dancing Stillness - Reflections with Vimala Thakar
Is it possible to live a more peaceful and creative life on our planet? In a time when the state of the planet poses important questions: What is life worth to us? And what do we still consider sacred? These questions inspired the Director to meet the Indian mystic, philosopher and grassroots activist Vimala Thakar (1921 – 2009). It was an encounter that deeply inspired and changed her life. Almost twenty years later, she researches the profound work of this fascinating woman again in the context of our time, and translates her urgent call for holistic thinking and action into a cinematic work of art.
St. Patrick: Pilgrimage to Peace
This film unearths the true story of this fifth-century Christian who was brought to Ireland as a slave, where he labored six long years before finally escaping. But after returning home, Patrick shocked his contemporaries by voluntarily returning to the place of his enslavement in order to bring the gospel message to the Irish people.
A Pilgrimage Into Tibet
Eight intrepid pilgrims trek through the Himalaya into occupied Tibet, hoping to circle Mount Kailash—Asia’s most sacred peak. As they contend with the stresses of officialdom, altitude and physical exertion, we receive rare glimpses of present-day Nepal and Tibet.
The Guanche mummies of Tenerife
Documentary that discovers all the secrets of mummification in the Canary Islands thanks to pioneering research. Regis Francisco López approaches the mummification techniques that took place in Tenerife for more than 10 centuries.
Live In San Francisco '16
King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Recorded live at the Independent, San Francisco, May 25 2016