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The Zodiac
The Zodiac
The history of the infamous serial killer known as the ‘zodiac’ in the late 1960s. It takes you through his kill rampage and to the case that still to this day has not been cracked.
The Zodiac 2024
Saint-Ex
Saint-Ex
The story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Argentina. When his best friend who happens to be Airmail’s best pilot Henri Guillaumet disappears in the Andes, Saint-Ex decides to set out in search of him, against all odds. This impossible quest forces him to push beyond his limits, turning his capacity to dream into his greatest strength...
Saint-Ex 2024
The Eichmann Trial
The Eichmann Trial
In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. Through rarely-seen archival footage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials ever recorded, and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education.
The Eichmann Trial 2024
Lethière, le serment des ancêtres
Lethière, le serment des ancêtres
Lethière, le serment des ancêtres 2024
The Song of the Years to Come
The Song of the Years to Come
On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An ethno-fictional journey in which past and present coalesce, creating resonances between the volcanic landscape and Silbo, the whistled language of the island.
The Song of the Years to Come 2024
Black Codes
Black Codes
On November 4, 1979, the American embassy in Iran was captured by students. In an action, America blocks Iran's money in global banks and forms the first economic sanction against Iran. The students are trying to return the property of their country by taking the embassy ambassadors hostage. America is planning a military attack to free its people, but this operation will fail in the Tabas desert. In the end, America will return only some of the money to release its ambassadors by setting up a contract.
Black Codes 2024
Fragments of This Beauty
Fragments of This Beauty
A focus on one of Turkey’s most bloody political massacres. In 1977, two men in a hotel room over a period of two days eat, shower, watch a soccer match on TV, stare at a painting on the wall and daydream. These two men are killing time before they cause the deaths of 34 people.
Fragments of This Beauty 2024
Kant - Das Experiment der Freiheit
Kant - Das Experiment der Freiheit
Kant - Das Experiment der Freiheit 2024
Maria Theresa’s Dark Side
Maria Theresa’s Dark Side
Maria Theresa’s Dark Side 2024
Uncovering The September 20th Attacks
Uncovering The September 20th Attacks
Film-maker, Skye Skelton, unravels the secrets and lies behind the September 20 attacks in this gripping documentary blending the real-life footage of the events with interviews made with survivors.
Uncovering The September 20th Attacks 2024
Real Cavemen
Real Cavemen
In a depopulated world, an unnamed narrator explores just how little we know, and how much we want to, about our primordial cousins.
Real Cavemen 2024
La Storia
La Storia
Based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Elsa Morante, it follows a single mother of two sons, who hides her Jewish heritage and fights against poverty and persecution during the end of World War II and post-war Rome.
La Storia 2024
Chhatrapati Sambhaji
Chhatrapati Sambhaji
Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, son of Shivaji Maharaj, who grew up without parental love. Sambhaji proved himself a fearless and brave ruler, winning battles and instilling fear in the Mughal Empire.
Chhatrapati Sambhaji 2024
Stealing Chaplin
Stealing Chaplin
Loosely based on a true story. Roman Wardas and Gantscho Ganev dig up Charlie Chaplin's grave and plan to steal his body for a ransom of $600,000. Their plan is ruined when Chaplin suddenly wakes up and runs off to Hollywood. The two robbers chase him through the city as Charlie Chaplin begs strangers for help.
Stealing Chaplin 2024
L'Amore e la Gloria - La Giovane Deledda
L'Amore e la Gloria - La Giovane Deledda
L'Amore e la Gloria - La Giovane Deledda 2024
Das Grundgesetz der Tiere
Das Grundgesetz der Tiere
Das Grundgesetz der Tiere 2024
APOTHEOSIS 85
APOTHEOSIS 85
The best undercover spy in Brazil faces great danger when a foreign mega corporation begins funding paramilitary forces during the final years of the dictatorship. Sofia and three agents must engage in the greatest game of shadows ever to take place in Brazil, opposing the government and a dark force from abroad with immeasurable power over the population, even over Sofia herself.
APOTHEOSIS 85 2024
Projectionist
Projectionist
The story of this film is a loose adaptation of a novel of the same name written by Ruhollah Rashidi and narrates the attachments of a building painter who loves cinema, who has succeeded in producing several short films and dreams of making his first feature film.
Projectionist 2024
Willy Brandt und der Spion, der ihn stürzte
Willy Brandt und der Spion, der ihn stürzte
Willy Brandt und der Spion, der ihn stürzte 2024
The Volunteers: To the War 2
The Volunteers: To the War 2
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the war against the United States and North Korea, the trilogy “Volunteer Army” will be a panoramic, multi-dimensional three-dimensional display of this new China's founding battle. The second part of The Volunteer Army trilogy is about the third to fifth battles in the war against the U.S. and North Korea, in which the battle of Tiehwon blockade will be the main event of the second part. 63rd Army's Li Xiang (played by Zhu Yilong), Fu Chongbi (played by Wu Jing), and Cai Changyuan (played by Han Dongjun) will make their appearance one after the other.
The Volunteers: To the War 2 2024
Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer
When a pacifist is called to a political act that could change the course of history, how will a man of honor respond? This is the true story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who preached love while plotting the assassination of an evil tyrant. With world-shattering stakes, Bonhoeffer begs the question, how far will you go to stand up for what’s right?
Bonhoeffer 2024
La Snob
La Snob
Set in 1542, Marguerite de La Rocque was judged and labeled by the French aristocracy as a snob, but after she is stranded on The Isle of Demons, Marguerite breaks free of the stereotypes that have defined her. Based on a real woman who became a legend.
La Snob 2024
The First Portuguese in a German Town
The First Portuguese in a German Town
In Groß-Umstadt, a small town in the Oberwald region of central Germany, a community of Portuguese workers arrived in the 1960s. Legend has it that a young Portuguese man was travelling through the area in 1962 when his motorbike broke down… and he never left, becoming the first Portuguese person to settle there. This documentary looks at the immigrant story between Portugal and Germany.
The First Portuguese in a German Town 2024
Marlon Brando in Paradise
Marlon Brando in Paradise
In 1966, Marlon Brando (1924-2004), one of the greatest actors of all time, bought Tetiaroa Atoll, located in French Polynesia, with the purpose of creating a natural sanctuary dedicated to scientific research.
Marlon Brando in Paradise 2024
Urzeit-Mütter - Evolution durch Kooperation
Urzeit-Mütter - Evolution durch Kooperation
Urzeit-Mütter - Evolution durch Kooperation 2024
Lupin the Third: Kabuki
Lupin the Third: Kabuki
Set in the Azuchi Monoyama period (the last third of the 16th century ) when Goemon Ishikawa lived, it portrays Lupin and other characters boldly with the techniques and stage tricks of kabuki. It is the first official kabuki adaptation of the Lupin the Third franchise
Lupin the Third: Kabuki 2024
Portugal - Carnations against Dictatorship
Portugal - Carnations against Dictatorship
In April 1974, left-wing factions in the Portuguese military staged a coup against the authoritarian regime which had been in power for half a century. The uprising was largely peaceful and went down in history as the Carnation Revolution. But the path to a democratic Portugal was not easy and not without obstacles.
Portugal - Carnations against Dictatorship 2024
Morning Star
Morning Star
Christina, a British singer, arrives in Malta in 1937 to entertain the troops. She meets and falls deeply in love with daredevil RAF pilot, Warby, as the Second World War draws ever closer to their island paradise. Based on a true story.
Morning Star 2024
Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die
Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die
Kim Dae Jung, who stands next to people in the middle of caotic history! A young businessman Kim Dae Jung recognized the victims of ideology. He decided to be a politician to make his country where people's politic and democracy are rooted. The price of being leave from a guaranteed future and take the first step on a bumby road was kidnapping, death threats, imprisonment, and a death sentence that shook him to the core, but even in his final moments, when he was sentenced to death, Kim never wavered. "Democracy will be recovered. I believe in it." The life of President Kim Dae-jung, a death row inmate who survived from the throes of death, four parliamentary elections, and three unsuccessful presidential campaigns, is etched into the modern history of South Korea.
Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die 2024
The Birth of Korea
The Birth of Korea
Since South and North Korea's liberation in 1945, North Korea, a communist dictatorship that suppresses freedom and oppresses human rights, and South Korea, which has entered the path of economic prosperity and advanced countries based on freedom and democracy, have taken different paths. How did the two countries with the same language, history, and race, become divided into two extreme countries? A work that highlights the sacrifices and struggles of President Syngman Rhee and the first generation of founding members who worked to create and protect today's Republic of Korea over the past 70 years of history.
The Birth of Korea 2024
Jumprava: The Big Happening
Jumprava: The Big Happening
The epic story of one of the most iconic Latvian rock bands – Jumprava [Yumpravah]. The feature film tells the story about how the electronic rock group Jumprava was founded in 1984 and how it evolved throughout the years until 1991. With their songs and their unique style, Jumprava encouraged the “third awakening” in Latvia and inspired young people to dream big on this side of the Iron Curtain.
Jumprava: The Big Happening 2024
Şeytan Üçgeni - I. Barut Kokusu
Şeytan Üçgeni - I. Barut Kokusu
Şeytan Üçgeni - I. Barut Kokusu 2024
Rothko
Rothko
Dorian sits in a room with Basil. Consumed by grief and guilt over the death of Sibyl, he confides in the man.
Rothko 2024
The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelations
The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelations
Professor Alice Roberts uncovers the science being used by computer scientist Professor Brent Seales as he utilises cutting-edge technology to read hundreds of carbonised scrolls that were buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.
The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelations 2024
Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur
Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur
Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized homosexual men during the Nazi era - but the Nazis also discriminated against lesbians and trans people. They should be excluded from the national community. More than 50,000 queer people have been proven to have been persecuted. The documentary highlights three poignant fates in the context of Nazi terror: Elli Smula was persecuted as a lesbian, Liddy Bacroff was harassed by the authorities as a "transvestite" and Rudolf Brazda was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp because of his homosexuality. In order to tell their stories, the actor Jannik Schümann and the activists Julia Monro and Kerstin Thost go looking for clues in archives and talk to historians. You will learn how some people managed to live out their identity and assert themselves as queer people during the Nazi era despite the most adverse circumstances.
Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur 2024
25 de Abril - O Musical
25 de Abril - O Musical
25 de Abril - O Musical 2024
The new ruins
The new ruins
An amateur archaeologist obsessed with e-waste records images and sounds over ten years. His research takes the form of a personal, playful and musical diary, crossing borders and archives. One day, he arrives at an electronic recycling workshop where the ghost of a working poet manifests itself. The search takes an unexpected turn and he sets out, in the company of his cat Pendrive, to explore the links between technology and memory. In times of environmental crisis, overproduction and acceleration of consumption, he wonders: how will history be written in the future?
The new ruins 2024
Living with Monsters (Godzilla Found Footage)
Living with Monsters (Godzilla Found Footage)
Tape #2. The origins of Godzilla and the superfauna species are explored.
Living with Monsters (Godzilla Found Footage) 2024
Sisam
Sisam
A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s northernmost main island—then called “Ezo” and now known as “Hokkaido”—and the “sisam”, the Ainu word for ethnic Japanese.
Sisam 2024
Greta Garbo: Leave Me Alone
Greta Garbo: Leave Me Alone
An urgent, timely and compelling portrait of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, whose fame, isolation and loneliness still captures us.
Greta Garbo: Leave Me Alone 2024