Documentary Movies

A Venture in Faith: The History and Philosophy of the Calvary Chapel Movement

A Venture in Faith is the true story of Chuck Smith's obedience to God's calling and the great movement of God's Spirit as the result of the obedience. In his own words, Chuck Smith details the beginning of the Calvary Chapel movement and sets down the Biblical, spiritual principles of ministry that have kept the movement a fresh, unique, and vital part of the modern church. Comments and observations by many respectful church leaders make this documentary a living segment of church history.

Jaws, a Monstrous Success

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin and an unmistakable two-note main theme composed by John Williams. With the horror from the deep, a man-eating, gigantic great white shark, the film of the same name became a similarly traumatic reference as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho": it triggered lasting primal fears across generations. On the beaches of the world, there was clearly a "before" and an "after". Steven Spielberg, who was only 28 at the time, not only set new standards for the thriller genre, but also hid his biting criticism of US capitalism in the 1970s behind it.

Fogo-Fátuo

Les Ânes ont soif

The french mainstream media ignored the last visit in Paris of the leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. It's however this small country of Latin America, Equator, that serves as a model for Greek activists who are taking part in Syriza party or for non-orthodox economists from the spanish movement Podemos in order to solve the issue concerning the public debt. The Correa government declared a part of this debt « illegitimate » to implement public investment, and social inequalities reduction policies.

The Deposition

1993. Emmanuel is a young village boy in Eastern France. He believes he's found a friend in Hubert, the local priest. One rainy afternoon, Emmanuel leaves the presbytery after promising Hubert not to tell anyone what had just happened. Thirty years later, Emmanuel remembers that day. At the police station, he discretely switches his phone recorder on and starts his deposition.

The King

Brief portrait of a conformist.

L'Espionne aux tableaux, Rose Valland face au pillage nazi

Paris 1943. Hitler set up the systematic looting of works of art in France. Rose Valland, infiltrated as intendant at the Jeu de Paume museum, which has become the sorting station for works leaving for Germany, will take all the risks to oppose this spoliation enterprise.

Chapéu de Couro

Mesa Posta

Mesa Posta is a film that lives off the violence of a life, which is shown in the simplicity of the gestures of the person who plays it. The habits, beliefs and moments of this story are told in the act of setting the table, then the brutality of life is confronted by the beauty and the grace of the objects that make it: the table is set as life is told.

The Deliverer

Facundo is an eccentric man with a variety of jobs and interests, but few people remember one of his greatest talents. After years of being sidelined in the industry, he receives a call with an offer he can’t refuse. He’ll become The Deliverer once again.

BRUTE

There were 100,000 of us

Iceland

an unforgettable journey across the Icelandic landscape as mixing live action and pixilation to produce an enchanting, timeless short film. Shot on Kodachrome Super 8mm in western, northern, eastern and southen Iceland including interior Iceland in late summer 2004. Dedicated to Buddy King Leiser.

Tubarões

People of Moon, People of Blood: Yanomami document 1972-1982

Unversöhnliche Erinnerungen

This film examines two parallel German lives: that of a Nazi general who continued in his job during the democratic era and a communist bricklayer who could hardly make ends meet after the war. Both had fought in the Spanish Civil War, but their stories can’t be merged; the audience gazes into a wound that will not heal.

Boire

BELLUM

BELLUM is a film about how war trauma still grips the lives of three generations today. In a hiding room created for this film, we see a Jewish family breaking the silence by finally starting a conversation about suppressing and passing on war trauma. We examine how trauma is passed on from parent to child. Are later generations able to break free from a traumatic experience that they have not experienced themselves?

Magda

Podhale, Poland. Winter of 1939. Magda, an excellent skier, joins the Polish Resistance and helps by bringing documents and fugitives across the mountains into Slovakia. One day she learns that a group of 23 pilots urgently need to cross the border, as Gestapo is on their heels. She comes up with a risky plan.

Teenage Paparazzo

A documentary that examines the relationship between celebrity and society.