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"La Sed" explores the world of alcoholism, attempting to decipher how to quench the impossible, how to confront that insatiable thirst that consumes everything. Pushing all boundaries, dragging its possessor into human degradation.
In the Hautes-Alpes, Jeff breeds, cares for, and slaughters his own animals. He joined forces with other farmers in a peasant-run slaughterhouse. He accompanies his livestock until the very end, performing the slaughter himself.
At the foot of Europe’s largest glacier, seven Icelandic siblings once lived in deliberate isolation, dedicating their lives to observing ice and nature long before climate change had a name. Their abandoned farmhouse becomes a living archive, animated by photographs, objects, and a 16mm film that restores gestures, spaces, and a vanished way of being in the world.
A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election.
What's it like to shoot a series that takes place in Rio de Janeiro during the summer and São Paulo during the winter? What were some of the challenges related to producing a series during a pandemic? Author and screenwriter Luly Trigo takes us behind the scenes in this "live" special.
Watching High Rollers – The Golden Age of Arizona Skateboarding is like finding a lost artifact that helps complete a larger mystery from the past. In this case High Rollers adds a much needed layer of knowledge to the origins of radical vertical, and over-vertical, skateboarding. The skateboard boom of the 1970’s went from “sidewalk surfing” and driveway antics to aerials out of backyard swimming pools in an astonishingly short span of time. This evolutionary leap was for the most part well documented in the pages of Skateboarder Magazine and the 2001 documentary Dogtown and Z-Boyz. However, the field of vision both of these forms of media is narrow (although both are excellent), they both deal almost exclusively with what was happening in California (with occasional nods to Florida). It is understandable as skateboarding was born and given life in California, but what happened next? What was going on elsewhere?
Weeping Rocks follows Art, an entomologist nearing the end of his life, who has spent over five decades walking the same ten trails counting butterflies. His eccentric practice has uncovered patterns of environmental decline that went unnoticed for years. As time reshapes the landscape and species fade, Art’s journey becomes a meditation on mortality, change, and the beauty of what remains.
As Stockholm grows and shifts, a single subway line becomes a moving portrait of the city’s hopes, divisions, and quiet rhythms. Along its course, we meet people from different walks of life; each is dreaming of a different future, though none are quite sure how to get there.
In Córdoba, Spain, budding filmmakers and actors from the Federico García Lorca primary school are working on a film project. An idea takes shape… to bring to the screen the story of the Roma people from the Punjab, who have lived in Spain for several centuries and yet are still perceived as foreigners by the local community.
A parable, portrait or record around Daniel Melero’s Travesti. An entropy that’s the convergence between the secrets behind its production, the anniversary show -25 years later- and the winding career of a transverse artist.
This documentary follows the life and climbs of legendary alpinist Jeff Lowe, through his visionary ascents around the world up to his final dance with a terminal disease. Centered around Jeff’s most daring climb, Metanoia – solo, in winter, up the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland — which changed his life and prepared him for the greatest adventure of all: facing his own mortality. It is a mind-bending adventure through time and space that gives physical form to Jeff's unique philosophies and inspiring creative genius.
Deathwish destabilizes any sense of sanity with hellacious hill bombs, kinked rail madness and moves so buck they defy definition. The bar has been raised.
A history of Lebanon’s Shiites, based on personal writings and memoirs. The film retraces the twelfth sect’s journey through Jabal Amel, the Bekaa Valley, Mount Lebanon and Beirut, while while exploring the major events and factors that influenced a people’s existence.
Tells the story of the Swiss religious community of Methernitha, which still exists today, its founder Paul Baumann – the inventor of a mysterious energy machine – and the young women who brought him down on charges of child abuse.
To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.
