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After several years of being away Oscar returns to his hometown wanting to relive the past. What he longs for is an impossibility, the town of his memories only exists within him. Things have changed drastically, and old relationships have withered.
Award-winning French writer Christine Angot goes on a business trip to Strasbourg where her father lived before dying several years ago. It is the city where she met him for the first time at the age of 13, and where he sexually abused her over the following years. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera and knocks on the doors of her family to push them to clarify their attitudes to her father’s crime that stretched over so many years. A cinematographic journey that challenges social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.
Kan Gyi, Par Gyi, and their friend, spend their days doing odd-jobs and begging on the buses.Neglected by their parents, society, they spend their nights sniffing glues and looking for a place to sleep in a wholesale market compound. But deep down inside, they are still the children who simply want to fit in, make friend, play mischief, and take care of each other, just like any other children.
C3 is an Evangelical church that opened in Toronto in 2013, quickly amassing a large following amongst the city’s young, hip and tattooed. #BLESSED offers an intimate look inside this fast-growing millennial church and follows the process of selling salvation in the 21st century as Pastor Sam and his team grow the church from two locations to three, living out their mission to save as many Torontonian souls as possible.
Helford Honeymoon is an intimate music documentary that delves into the life and creative world of musician Davey Hal, an artist whose work embodies the heart, landscape, and culture of Cornwall. Through a blend of performance, storytelling, and cinematic visuals, the film offers a portrait of a musician whose resilience and artistry have quietly defined a decade-long career.
Exactly 200 years after Simón Bolívar’s Colombian war of independence, a campaign that ran from late May to early August 1819, filmmaker Pablo Alvarez-Mesa follows the iconic Libertador’s route through the country. At each historic battleground, he calls on a medium to summon the general’s spirit, helping Alvarez-Mesa reveal Bolívar’s permanent and more or less visible presence in an array of social rituals and state structures. This historic legacy, after two centuries transfigured into a blend of political mysticism and unchallenged military doctrine, remains an integral part of Colombia’s collective unconscious. It keeps finding new expression in an endless cycle of violence, which this intriguing medium-length film seeks to exorcise. (Charlotte Selb)
The Unreturned is the story of five middle-class Iraqi refugees caught in an absurdist purgatory of endless bureaucracy, dwindling life savings, and forced idleness.
By deciding to stage an adaptation of Molière’s Précieuses Ridicules with her students, Cécile thought she was simply rehabilitating these early 17th-century feminists, unjustly ridiculed. Little did she know that this decision would overwhelm her and ultimately save her from her own self-effacement.
Documentary of the making of the groundbreaking Disney/Pixar animated hit movie.
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Pattinson, we are given an exciting glimpse into the work and personal life of the iconic artist.
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...
In the face of Berlin's current banking crisis, brought about by the Bankgesellschaft Berlin, a group of demonstrators, largely academics, sought to draw attention to the seriousness of this economic scandal.
Venturing into the wilds of China, "Born in China" captures intimate moments with a panda bear and her growing cub, a young golden monkey who feels displaced by his baby sister, and a mother snow leopard struggling to raise her two cubs.
Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population.
After twenty years abroad, Natalya returns to her homeland and tries to change life in her native village - to repair roads, remove garbage and build a first-aid post. Will the Western experience take root in its native soil?
The film, based on the artistic-documentary aesthetics, is about the fate of three sons of the Javanshir dynasty, who are connected to Karabakh and this corner of Azerbaijan - Mahammad bey Ashiq, who lived in the 18th century, Abdussamad bey Ashiq, who lived in the 19th century, and Khosrov bey Javanshir, who lived in the 20th century. These three personalities, influential poets and public figures of their time, were subjected to persecution and repression during the Russian and Soviet empires.
A young Swiss woman searches for her Armenian roots. Various lovingly animated drawers of the simultaneously accumulating family archive open. This very personal examination of collective traumas of post-migrant communities finds images and words for racism and the difficulties of talking about feelings with male family members. Its leitmotif is a wardrobe roaming through night-blue landscapes which – despite the cracks – holds everything and everyone together.
In 2013, a woman was taken to a maximum security prison, accused of a crime she did not commit, where her life was taken from her for a year and a half. Even after her release, justice remains only a simulation.
The film premiered on August 27, 1926 in the Estonian cinema Rekord (later called Helios). It was advertised as "Estonia Film's first trick film".
