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Samir Abdallah, the director, leads his son, Nessim, a teenager, for his first fast in Ramadan, in a spiritual quest. We are at the dawn of the second millennium. In the Muslim calendar, we are in the Hijri year 1420.
Documentary about the creative process of photographer Lua Morales, produced by the studio Bad Chinchilla.
A documentary on the nature around Sogið in Iceland and the people living there. The focus is on the farmers and visitors staying at summer houses.
Ignacy Szczepanski's documentary is a record of a lesson in jazz improvisation given to Polish trumpeter Piotr Bal by an accomplished musician and dean of the jazz faculty at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The rehearsals are complemented by shots of the city and fragments of a concert filmed at the Pink Crocodile Club.
Martin Duckworth is a staunch defender of peace and justice and one of Quebec’s most important documentary filmmakers. Helped by his 47-year-old daughter, who is on the autism spectrum, the octogenarian supports his wife, photographer and activist Audrey Schirmer, through the final stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Characterized by captivating resilience and strength, this moving biography soberly directed by Jeremiah Hayes allows Duckworth to reflect candidly on the key personal and professional moments of the couple’s lives. Dear Audrey tells a story marked by incredible twists and turns and a consistent attitude toward challenges. The film takes place more in the present than the past, becoming a powerful testimonial to the growing and unshakable love of a husband for his wife.
We want cheap fruit and veg, all year. No problem. The Pickers deliver, but they are paying the price for us: Exploited migrants harvest our oranges, strawberries, olives, blueberries and other fruit and vegetables in Greece, Spain, Italy or Portugal.
Far from being a heroic story or a rational explanation, this film is a polyphonic composition where the proper noun -- Antonio Gil -- is the signifier around which multiple and heterogenous stories come together. A mosaic of campesino voices, like a choir with its own peculiar cadence, narrates the myth's construction over the course of the 20th century, and accompanies us on a visual journey through its celebration.
This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by nascent global changes embodied by Perestroika, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and many other contemporaneous events.
When Rosie was in her twenties, she was the drag-racing queen of Sweden, a brilliant star in this almost exclusively male sport. Then life intervened, with marriage and children putting an end to her racing days. Now, after a 34-year break, Rosie is making a comeback. Urged on by her daughter and self-proclaimed manager, she tries to find sponsors. The road is uneven and behind her dreams of a comeback, there are depressions, burnout and family tragedies. This film is a revealing and complex portrait of a woman who gains strength by allowing herself to be weak. The fight to become the world's fastest grandmother is really the fight to reclaim one's own life.
An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her international success as a photojournalist, war reporter, and pop culture chronicler.
A series of lawsuits and allegations have legendary rap mogul P. Diddy on the ropes. TMZ has the troubling inside story from people who were there.
Goes deep into the heart of Britain’s New Romantics scene, tracing how a group of outsiders transformed London's underground art and music communities and its enduring influence and impact across the globe. A decade in the making, this groundbreaking film follows how the New Romantics – AKA the Blitz Kids – became one of the most iconic cultural movements.
The creators of the skateboarding magazine Big Brother go on an East Coast tour, and get into some pretty wild shenanigans.
Documentary that explores the value of play and the ways we learn by playing through testimonies of mexican game developers.
A collage of poetic performances leading through an audiovisual experience of being black. Looking at the black history of the port region in Rio de Janeiro, the film affirms the beauty of this black zone of the city, compiled to strengthen the feminine and the sacred sense of being.
Explores the rise, impact, and enduring mythology of Aziz Shavershian – “Zyzz” – the unlikely internet icon whose transformation from anonymous teenager to global symbol of fitness culture reshaped how a generation defines influencers, identity, and self-invention.
How do women, who have lived affective relationships that involved some form of violence, live and relate to the world? "Anastácias", portrays the lives of five black women from communities in the Jabaquara region, on the southern outskirts of São Paulo, from the premise of affection.
