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Filmmakers Isaki Lacuesta, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, Gonzalo García Pelayo, Alba Sotorra, and photographers Isabel Muñoz, Castro Prieto, Díaz Burgos, and Ana Palacios explore their fears and how they affect their creative process, speaking directly to the camera, alone with the viewer.
This 80-minute history has been 40,000 years in the making! Not only does this film feature all the jar dropping highlights we associate with the Aboriginal contingent over the past 30 or so years, it gives a holistic view of all the elements which total the indigenous contribution to our native game.
This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.
Wild tigress, Machli, is one of three sisters raised in India's Ranthambore National Park. Their mother, "The Lady of the Lakes," ruled the lakeside territory, until Machli rose up and took possession of her mother's throne.
It's a metaphor between the traditional hunting system in Catalonia and the financial system that trapped citizens in Spain during one of that country's worst financial crises.
An odyssey through Beethoven’s lasting presence and influence in our modern world – viewed through the eyes of the composer himself.
Elderly brothers Pierre and Willie Pittie still live together in their parental home in Bemelen, and are members of almost every local club. The small village of Bemelen resides five kilometres away from Maastricht and gradually changes under pressure of city officials and the rising tourist industry. A loving portrait of a small Limburg community against the backdrop of big, societal changes.
The Schigymnasium Stams is one of the most successful ski schools in the world. This is where young athletes grow up, who live out their passions without compromise. STAMS is a film that wants to understand the enthusiasm for competitive sports and the dream of success.
Elmar Hügler captures the preparations for and the actual ceremony of a wedding without commentary.
Images of Argentinian companies and factories in the first light of day, seen from the inside of a car, while the director reads out documents in voiceover that reveals the collusion of the same concerns in the military dictatorship’s terror.
Marble—in its raw state and as a noble product—is the matter that Quarry is made of. The film portrays two distinct interiors, a large underground marble quarry in Vermont, and several showrooms of Manhattan luxury condos. In between stands a solid reflection about the material choices associated to these architectures and the stone's value within a speculative economy.
The history of the comic book superhero, Superman, in his various media incarnations.
Ukrainian-born, Russian-bred, Afghan-raised, filmmaker once started to catalog all his fences, and then more and more new fences appeared.
Leo Brouwer, extraordinary, world famous composer, opens the doors of his space of creation and allows the spectator to explore his quotidian and his work. With a sharp and questioning look, he reflects about life and contemporaneity and shares anxieties that accompanied and inspired him throughout eight decades.
Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), the dreamer Robert Saint-Rose, known as Zétwall (Star in Creole), aspires to be the first Frenchman to step on the lunar surface.
The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
The connection between these three short films is initially indicated by their sound and music: In all three films, Lee Anne Schmitt does without direct sound and dialogue, letting the music of Jeff Parker accompany the images. In the first miniature, Schmitt films graves from the American Indian Wars as silent witnesses of a past that have left their traces on the collective American consciousness. Subsequently, we see blackandwhite street scenes in Hollywood, which are followed by almost familiar images – a garden bench, a bouquet of flowers. Thus history, the public and the private form a new, abstract and yet tangible unity.
