Documentary Movies

2005-2006 NBA Champions: Miami Heat

The Miami Heat led by young superstar Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal go on the quest for the franchise's first NBA Championship. Heat President Pat Riley takes over as head coach after an average start for the season and guides the team to the it's first NBA Finals appearance. Get an inside look at the NBA Champion's regular season, triumphant playoff run and NBA Finals victory. Provides an all-access pass to exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes action and an unforgettable courtside view of the NBA Finals. Loaded with clutch bonus features including profiles on your favorite players and in-depth analysis. Experience what is is to be a champion.

The Lady with the White Hat

Documentary about the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes in the former Soviet Union. Hanna Michailenko, an Ukrainian schoolteacher from Odessa was locked up in a psychiatric ward from 1980 until 1988 for refusing to work for the Soviet Secret Service, the KGB.

Presente

Presente is a reinterpretation of space, an evocative memory where connections and chance establish a flow between the urban and the familiar landscape.

Caos Danado

Created in parallel to the show Teoria das 3 Idades by Sara Barros Leitão, Caos Danado accompanies this creative process as its departure point. Based on the archive of the Teatro Experimental do Porto, it challenges our capacity to evoke and preserve memories through the various types of perception we possess. Caos Danado is a narrative deconstructed between fiction and documentary (lie vs. truth), because the one is not more important than the other.

Home Movies

In this home movie collection of gay men, memory serves as an act of hope, power, and above all, resilience.

The Search Continues

Follows the search and use of solar, wind and geothermal energy in the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Saudade

What are you willing to do for love? Nilde, when she was in her early twenties, followed the person she loved from Brazil to Italy. Here she started a family and here she got stuck. Saudade is an intimate conversation between a grieving mother and her son who tries to understand her. Memories resurface and sculpt the present, creating the complex portrait of two different families who have inevitably united.

Intersection

The documentary Intersection presents the everyday life of Eduard Bigas, in his current residence in Berlin. The audiovisual piece goes into Bigas' way of looking, while he himself tells his story. And through the interviews with his closest circle, both the social and the professional one, it seeks to expose the way of doing things of this artist with surrealist roots.

Anselm

This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting, allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer. Wim Wenders shot this unique portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.

From the Bottom

Even before the pandemic, there were almost 24,000 homeless people in the Czech Republic. In the following months, many more Czechs faced housing crisis due to the increase in the unemployment rate. Filip, a social work student from Prague experiences their reality first hand. The protagonist of a video journal was shooting in the streets of Ústí nad Labem. In the hot summer days, his existence shrank to finding a mere place to sleep and a meal to eat. Growing tiredness and apathy are temporarily brightened by joyful moments of human solidarity and warm meals. In such circumstances, things like that are not at all common; they represent a means of survival.

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

Take a stroll down Sesame Street and witness the birth of the most influential children's show in television history. From the iconic furry characters to the classic songs you know by heart, learn how a gang of visionary creators changed the world.

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Laush

A documentary-narrative film which looks at real events and personal phenomena of artist Zarko Lausevic. "Laush" above all tells a story of an evil time we've all been through, represents both sides and is made with empathy and respect towards everyone involved in the tragic incident. Through recreations, narration, memories of colleagues and quotes from the book "A Year Passes, a Day Will Never Pass" which the artist wrote during the hardest stage of his life, the weight of his fate is presented. The aim of this project is to portray the life of brilliant actor, who in the midst of great fame, disappeared from the scene through the cruelty of dubious times.

Threshold

THRESHOLD is the story of Olympic gold medalist and most decorated American cross-country skier ever, Jessie Diggins, and the struggle behind her smile– a painful fight with an eating disorder at the peak of her career.

People, Let's Assemble

This short film is part of the many documentary materials through which the National Strike Council (CNH), the heart of the 1968 student-popular movement, disseminated its activities and proposals in university film clubs.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

With mesmerizing footage and time lapses of animators at work, this behind-the-scenes special captures the artistry of a unique tale years in the making.

The Rememblace

Never let go.

Touch Life

A blind woman prepares to be introduced to her partner's family three thousand miles away.

What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas

A unique feature-length retrospective documentary bringing together the directors, author David Mitchell, and key cast and crew - including Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant, and Susan Sarandon - to share new reflections and untold stories from the making of Cloud Atlas. The film celebrates the artistry, collaboration, and enduring impact of the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer's visionary production.

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