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Meet A 105-year-old Olga Markovna Kolyadenko, a former Bolshoi theater opera singer and the only remaining student of director Konstantin Stanislavsky. She still teaches vocals in her Moscow apartment. Konstantin Stanislavsky, who taught Olga Kolyadenko, created the famous acting system that was later adapted in the USA by Lee Strasberg.
The stories of two single mothers, bringing with them some essential reflections on how the responsibility for raising children falls on women and exposing the issues surrounding the lack of support and acceptance.
Comedians come together for an honest look and real conversations about comedy + mental health because when the cost of bringing others joy is your own joy...the cost is too high.
Documentary examining the Puerto Rican musical traditions of bomba and plena from a historical and humanistic perspective.
Prodigal Korea is a documentary that highlights the cultural divide between the first and second-generation Korean-Americans, particularly in the context of the church. The film showcases the struggles of the second-generation Koreans as they attempt to navigate the cultural expectations of their parents and their own identity crisis as Americans. The documentary features interviews with second-generation Korean-Americans who share their stories of growing up in a culturally traditional Korean family in America. They speak about their struggles to balance the expectations of their parents, who often hold onto traditional Korean values, and their own desire to assimilate and become more American.
'The Architect: From Myth to Challenge' analyzes the surprising turn of events in Xabi Alonso's career since his arrival at Real Madrid's bench. In just four months, the manager who seemed destined to build in a new era has gone from being a symbol of hope to being questioned by the board, fans and the media. This documentary contrasts Alonso's glorious playing days and his initial successes as a coach at Real Sociedad B and Bayer Leverkusen with the current reality: a weakened project on the verge of collapse. Through exclusive interviews and expert commentary, this film offers the first in-depth look at the manager at his most critical moment, when the myth faces the challenge.
Conductivity is a film about creative leadership told through the story of three young conductors at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland; I-Han Fu (Taiwan), Emilia Hoving (Finland) and James Kahane (France). When stepping on the podium, they are put under a magnifying glass. Conductor training, in essence, is leadership training. The film gives a unique viewpoint to follow the students, as this is the first film about conductor training at the Sibelius Academy.
Summer comes to an end in the tropics and twilight begins in the City of the Sun. The turn of the decade is a trance of nostalgia, light and darkness.
An underdog basketball team under the helm of an idealist school teacher from hard scrabble Diyarbakir in Southeastern Turkey goes beyond winning games in their mission to rise above prejudice, poverty and political turmoil created by the decades long conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebels who are fighting for local autonomy and cultural rights.
Carboncito, Río Bermejo. Salta, Argentina. A group of indigenous teachers develop an innovative teaching method, which produces a great integration of aboriginal children into the educational system. The work carried out by the teachers is remarkable, since they teach to read and write in the Wichí language, without forcing the children to acculturation.
Tinnitus is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present. While often described as ringing, it may also sound like a clicking, hiss or roaring. The film is supposed to be the first one dedicated to music as an instrument for death exploration.
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
This follow-up to 2017's "A Rainbow's End" tells the true story of seven HIV-Positive youths, aged from 8 to 16 years old, who live at the Rumah Jaireh foster home in Batu Arang. Due to the stigma attached to HIV, these children are abandoned, abused and shamed despite suffering from the illness through no fault of their own. The movie aims to fight for their right to receive a proper formal education and to educate the masses that these youths future lies in everyone's hands.
Since the year 2000, there have been several waves of suicides among the indigenous population of the Colombian Amazon. I discovered that the men commit suicide because of love sorrow. Their wives leave them for white men. The latter think that the Indian feels nothing because they do not express themselves in the same way and, in their language, there are no words to describe feelings. Is it possible that a whole people, the Cácuas Indians, do not feel anything?
Through words, music, and mischief, Bono pulls back the curtain on his deeply personal experiences that have shaped him as a son, father, husband, activist, and U2 frontman.
