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For twenty years the Wiesenbergers cultivated the same rituals. Practising once a week in the local chappel and singing for weddings and birthdays. Meanwhile, their world turned upside down. Their CD is rising up the charts and they're overwhelmed with concert request - showbusiness is calling. Now, they even were invited to perform in Shanghai. But the tempting offer puts their solidarity to a test.
Norwegian alt-pop artist AURORA plays her biggest ever headline performance at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes as part of her What Happened to the Earth? Tour. Filmed live on Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), the arena is transformed into a space of spellbinding sound and light, and filled with fans in festive dress. AURORA’s ethereal voice is ever-captivating as she sings haunting ballads including 'Dreams' and 'Exist for Love' as well as fan-favourites 'Runaway', 'The Seed' and 'Churchyard'. Known for blending electronic pop with folk and vivid storytelling, AURORA’s performances are always immersive and emotional, and this concert – celebrating nature and the human experience – solidifies her as a beacon of originality and inspiration.
Since 2009, Seiny alias Platoch, president of the Ladies' Turn association, has had a greater ambition than a simple career as a soccer player: to organize a women's soccer tournament in the heart of the neighborhoods. Because the time has come for these Senegalese women to replace the dress with shorts and to find an alternative, as they themselves say, to the field/well/household refrain in order to hope to reach the grand finale.
In the secret forests of Northern Italy, a dwindling group of joyful old men and their faithful dogs search for the world’s most expensive ingredient, the white Alba truffle. Their stories form a real-life fairy tale that celebrates human passion in a fragile land that seems forgotten in time.
Following the Fisga in the solitary journey through the waters and exuberant nature of the Amazon, we witness the patient search for the fish that will feed his family, and his struggle to catch it.
Fabula Rasa is a film about regenerative agriculture and a filmmaker’s search for identity. In the short film, documentarist Pieter-Jan Van Damme follows the year-round life of his farm. As the seasons change, there are changes in the vegetation, and the filmmaker contemplates his own relationship with his craft. On the journey into the secrets of ecological farming, Van Damme creates a serene and meditative space for the viewer’s own self-reflection.
A formally free poetic documentary filmed through a summer depression in northern Portugal.
Straddling a 2,400-kilometer-long wall constructed by the Moroccan army, the Western Sahara is today divided into two sections — one occupied by Morocco, the other under the control of the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement’s Polisario Front. Drawing from stories of flight, exile, interminable waiting and the arrested, persecuted lives on both sides of that wall, this film bears witness to the Sahrawi people, their land, their entrapment in other people’s dreams. In an esthetic that sublimates the real, Lost Land resonates like a score that juxtaposes sonorous landscapes, black-and-white portraits and nomadic poetics.
Feast, Pilgrimage or Souk, the Moussem is the most popular and the most regular Moroccan event. The one of Moulay Abdallah is the most renowned for its Fantasia. It gathers every year around one thousand horses and their magnificent horsemen. Through successive waves the troops unfurl up to the official platforms, shooting all together the honour "baroud". Toufik Naomi, 22 years old, one of the more impassionate and gifted riders, will win once again that coveted victory.
At the Masters of Musical Whistling competition, where virtuoso whistlers compete for global supremacy and bragging rights, we follow an array of quirky personalities and dazzling talents in a film sure to be a crowd-pleaser.
YU Wooseong who had been working as a civil servant is on trial for espionage following his sibling’s confession. A reporter who has been laid off begins following the traces of a spy story manipulated by a government agency. The clues lead to a confession and false evidence that society and the press have turned their back on.
Anoosh and Arash are at the center of Tehran’s underground techno scene. Tired of hiding from the police and their stagnating career, they organize one last manic techno rave under dangerous circumstances in the desert. Back in Tehran they try their luck selling their illegally printed music album without permission. When Anoosh is arrested, there seems to be no hope left. But then they receive a phone call from the biggest techno festival in the world. Once landed in Switzerland, the haze of the instant euphoria evaporates quickly when the seriousness of the situation starts to dawn on them.
Pull back the curtain on the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, from Sean Connery’s Dr No through to Daniel Craig’s final outing in No Time to Die.
The director chronicles his last trip to Japan with his girl friend (Yukika Kudo), an attempt at Eastern and Western observations.
'Astral', a 30-meter sailboat built in the 1970s, had always been used as a luxury pleasure boat, until its owner gave it to the NGO Proactiva Open Arms. 'Astral' became a surveillance and rescue boat and set sail for the coast of Libya to carry out its first rescue mission.
Tax Wars takes viewers behind-the-scenes of a global effort to put people before profits, hold multinationals accountable, and demand the world’s most powerful corporations pay their fair share of tax.
Gain an immediate insight into the pressures on the decreasing tiger population in India by following the sad trail of one young tiger who left the Ranthambore preserve.
