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Aestheticising Reality
Aestheticising Reality
An analysis of the rise, fall, and possible rebirth of the found footage genre.
Aestheticising Reality 2023
The Conqueror (Hollywood Fallout)
The Conqueror (Hollywood Fallout)
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that help bring the catastrophe to light.
The Conqueror (Hollywood Fallout) 2023
Kretsul
Kretsul
The amazing and tragic life story of the Russian Paralympic judoka Oleg Kretsul. Having lost his sight in a car accident, Kretsul did not give up the sport and was subsequently able to win Olympic gold at the Paralympics in Beijing.
Kretsul 2023
Elena
Elena
Elena. An indigenous woman, pregnant and alone, must leave her home to look for better opportunities in the city, always keeping in mind where she comes from.
Elena 2023
The Reichstag Fire
The Reichstag Fire
Berlin, February 27, 1933. The Reichstag is in flames. A young Dutch unemployed man, Marinus van der Lubbe, was found alone in the building. For Hitler, it was a plot by the "Reds". One hundred thousand communists and sympathizers were arrested during the night and in the days that followed and locked up in the first Nazi concentration camps. In March, the Chancellor obtained full powers. On September 21, the trial opened in Leipzig, broadcast on the radio. For the Nazis and the Communists alike, van der Lubbe was the perfect scapegoat. On December 23, 1933, he was sentenced to death, while his four co-defendants were acquitted.
The Reichstag Fire 2023
"Somnis"
"Somnis" 2023
The Charge of Texel
The Charge of Texel
1795, Holland. The French vanguard is pushing towards the north, through a strong blizzard, beyond the enemy lines. At the head of the cavalry, Major Lahure learns that a British fleet, seeking to escape to England, is trapped by the ice off the coast, and prepares one of the boldest ventures of its time.
The Charge of Texel 2023
Kabuliwala
Kabuliwala
Rahmat, a middle-aged Afghan man, whose heart overflows with fatherly love for a little girl Mini, in the bustling city of Calcutta set in the year of 1965.
Kabuliwala 2023
The Other Way
The Other Way
Russian front, January, 1943. It's hell: the flurries of sleet take the breath away and Sergeant Bisi can make out nothing in the landscape in front of him.
The Other Way 2023
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream
The story of the city of Newark, in the state of New Jersey, USA; unlikely capital of the struggle for civil rights in the legendary sixties of the convulsive twentieth century, told through the eyes of writers Philip Roth and Amiri Baraka, who were born and grew up there, in the ominous shadow of the immense New York.
Newark USA: Far from the American Dream 2023
Hitlerputsch 1923: Das Tagebuch der Paula Schlier
Hitlerputsch 1923: Das Tagebuch der Paula Schlier
Germany 1923: Inflation, starvation, unstable political conditions. During this time, 24-year-old Paula Schlier goes undercover at the “Völkischer Beobachter”, the Nazi Party’s official newspaper, and gets caught at the centre of Hitler’s attempted coup.
Hitlerputsch 1923: Das Tagebuch der Paula Schlier 2023
I Killed Bapu
I Killed Bapu
The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi made Nathuram Godse one of the most hated assassins in the history of India. The film depicts Godse's reason behind the extreme step.
I Killed Bapu 2023
Gaadi
Gaadi
In 1814, a nobleman from the Kandian Kingdom of Sri Lanka helped the British army to revolt against the king of Southern India, but was driven to a traitor. His wives have to choose between committing suicide or marrying outcasts. Instead of suicide, young and beautiful Tikiri chooses to marry an untouchable, named Vijaya.
Gaadi 2023
Luningning
Luningning
After a 14-year-old bomba starlet, Luningning, filed a rape case against three popular comedians, she meets the TV host Ricardo Magtibay at a restaurant and gets threatened. After she was forced to drop the charges, she have no choice but to continue to being a performer while being the talk of the town.
Luningning 2023
Death Mask
Death Mask
This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older German sexologist and gay rights pioneer during Nazi Germany.
Death Mask 2023
Journey to Yazdegerd Castle
Journey to Yazdegerd Castle
The documentary tells the story of how a young British-Canadian archaeologist went to Iran in 1962, largely on an adventure. There, he became fascinated by Iranian culture, and began to study the country’s history in earnest, specialising in the pre-Islamic Sasanian era. In 1964, Edward Keall explored the ruins of the so-called Yazdegerd’s Castle, which local legends attributed to the last of the Sasanian king of kings. After he had secured a job in 1972 as a curator at the Royal Ontario Museum (Canada), Keall’s proposal to re-activate his old exploration of the castle of King Yazdegerd was endorsed by the Iranian archaeological authorities. The first Canadian expedition was mounted in 1965; the last one was terminated abruptly in February 1979 when the Shah of Iran was toppled by the supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini. The film documents the events of these times.
Journey to Yazdegerd Castle 2023
大人父母官
大人父母官
大人父母官 2023
The Dropping of The First Atomic Bomb. An R & L Studios short.
The Dropping of The First Atomic Bomb. An R & L Studios short.
The bomb, the intensity, the moment. A story of the mental impact of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb.
The Dropping of The First Atomic Bomb. An R & L Studios short. 2023
Eiffel's Race to the Top
Eiffel's Race to the Top
Behind the iconic Eiffel Tower lies the story of an incredible challenge to erect a thousand-foot tower that went far beyond a design competition, and marked a major turning point in engineering history. It was the beginning of radical transformation where iron was pitted against stone, engineering against architecture, and modern design against ancients. Press campaigns, lobbying, public conferences, denigration of opposing projects, bragging about big names - all participants engaged in a fierce battle without concession. Using 3D recreations, official sources (reports, letters, drawings...) and intimate archives obtained from their descendants, this film will bring to life this vertical race through a fresh and visual way to mark the centenary of Eiffel death.
Eiffel's Race to the Top 2023
Rašín
Rašín
Rašín 2023
The Assassination of JFK
The Assassination of JFK
The Assassination of JFK 2023
Memoirs of a betrayal
Memoirs of a betrayal
A retelling of a crucial story of Bulgaria's troubled times based on the memoirs of Zahariy Stoyanov
Memoirs of a betrayal 2023
Hasat Zamanı
Hasat Zamanı
Hasat Zamanı 2023
Gurkha Warrior
Gurkha Warrior
Gurkha troops battle Communist insurgents during the Malayan Emergency.
Gurkha Warrior 2023
American Maroon
American Maroon
This film presents the untold history of Foundational Black American rebellions and maroon colonies that existed during the antebellum slavery period in America.
American Maroon 2023
Women Under Hitler's Flag
Women Under Hitler's Flag
German women may be perceived as passive witnesses to the horrific crimes committed by the Nazi regime, but many were active participants that were as brutal and merciless as their better-known, male counterparts. Over the past 15 years, a new generation of international historians has been digging into the truth of how deeply the Third Reich’s women were involved in the atrocities. Combining their fresh analyses with striking archival footage, this film reveals previously unknown stories about the women who refused to live in the shadow of Nazi men.
Women Under Hitler's Flag 2023
Freedom's Path
Paramount+
Freedom's Path
A Union soldier flees from battle and is rescued unexpectedly from free Black man Kitch and his friends. Risking everything, Kitch takes William deep into the woods to the safety of his adopted home. It's here that William discovers Kitch is a part of secret community of freed slaves, who run a portion of the Underground Railroad. When a ruthless and desperate slave catcher discovers the underground network, he conspires to bring it burning down to the ground.
Freedom's Path 2023
Les Tribunaux d'Hitler
Les Tribunaux d'Hitler
Les Tribunaux d'Hitler 2023
Face Down
Freevee
Face Down
On the 27th of December 1973, a nightmare began for an entire family. On that night, a German businessman called Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. He was never seen alive again by his friends or family. He became one of the "disappeared", and it seemed that no-one knew what had happened to him.
Face Down 2023
AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…)
AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…)
Greece, 1977. A proposed law brings gay men and “transvestites” together in a historic event and sparks the creation of the first Greek LGBT movement. For the next 13 years, AKOE and its magazine Amfi, would define the way LGBT Greeks think about themselves. This film celebrates their story and legacy.
AKOE/AMFI: The Story of a Revolution (*Just to sleep on their chest…) 2023
Oppenheimer: O Gênio Arrependido
Oppenheimer: O Gênio Arrependido
Oppenheimer: O Gênio Arrependido 2023
Chile: A Troublesome Legacy
Chile: A Troublesome Legacy
The rejection of the project for a new, more socially just constitution by the Chilean people in 2022 has reignited the conflicts that have plagued the country for five decades. On September 11, 1973, in a bloody military coup, General Pinochet ended the socialist revolution launched by President Salvador Allende, legitimately elected in a democratic election. The subsequent dictatorial regime with fascist features brought great violence and terror to the Chilean people. The accompanying neo-liberal economic system, which made the country one of the richest in the region, led to an ever-widening social gap in society, which in turn fell into a kind of passivity. In 2019, long after the dictator was voted out of office and the democratization that followed, a new social movement is shaking the prevailing order. From Allende's socialism to Pinochet's fascism, this historical fresco in documentary form returns to the origins of the rupture.
Chile: A Troublesome Legacy 2023
Tour de Cinema: The Eighties
Tour de Cinema: The Eighties
Dive full-force into the most electric, profound, action-packed, and emotionally resonant decade in the history of filmmaking with the fifth installment of the “Tour de Cinema” series.
Tour de Cinema: The Eighties 2023
Yaathisai
Yaathisai
Set in the 7th century, Kodhi, an young hot-blooded warrior from the Einar clan, believes that his birth is destined to free his fellows from the nomadic life that they lead and goes on an impossible mission, to revolt against and defeat the Pandiyan king Ranadheeran.
Yaathisai 2023
Erdogan, la revanche du sultan
Erdogan, la revanche du sultan
Erdogan, la revanche du sultan 2023
Black Sugar, Red Blood
Black Sugar, Red Blood
Anna... She doesn't know if that's her real name. Because apart from the vague memory of the sound of this name, she only associates one thing with her early childhood: horrible fear. Of doctors, of injections and the bitter-sweet taste of a piece of sugar on liberation day. Anna Strishkowa is a toddler when she stands on the ramp of Auschwitz on 4 December 1943. She neither knows the names of her parents nor where she was born. For Luigi Toscano, Anna Strishkowa is the first Auschwitz survivor he portrays for the exhibition of his project "Against Forgetting" in Kyiv.
Black Sugar, Red Blood 2023
血月记
血月记
血月记 2023
The Last Dinner
The Last Dinner
The movie takes place in the kitchen of Cankaya Mansion on Sunday night, October 28, 1923, a day before the proclamation of the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and formally marking the end of the Ottoman Empire.
The Last Dinner 2023
Sinatra and Kennedy: Dark Secrets
Sinatra and Kennedy: Dark Secrets
With his mafia wise guy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helps John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960, but it all comes to a bitter end.
Sinatra and Kennedy: Dark Secrets 2023
Asiunia
Asiunia
The story of a little girl for whom the war began just after her fifth birthday, when one night her mother and the whole house disappeared. You had to go to sleep in someone else's house, where instead of your mother there was a foreign lady, foreign furniture, and you had to drink milk from someone else's cup instead of the usual one
Asiunia 2023