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I am grateful to the Chinese for the invention of gunpowder — it feels as if they made it for me. Its discovery happened by accident, originally conceived as a way to ward off evil spirits. This film begins in China, then moves to an event in Cartagena, and ends centuries later in Bogotá.
In Spain, between 1938 and 1996, thousands of babies were stolen from their mothers at birth. Carolina Escudero, an Argentinian with a degree in journalism and a doctorate in social psychology, lives with her family in Barcelona. She has been researching the issue for several years and works with members of the group S.O.S. Stolen Babies Catalonia.
In Rwanda, KUBANA explores, through stories and silences, how a society chooses unity and coexistence, offering a poetic and political look at living together.
2067. A mother tells her daughter about her ancestor’s struggle against a large-scale rare earth mining project in Madagascar, and the resistance of the people in the north of the Great Red Island, faced with the systematic plundering of natural resources in the name of the economic interests of the globalised North.
Fanny, Marie-Dominique, Céline, and Marie, four young women from Valais, share a passion: hunting. Over the course of a year, they juggle work, studies, and exploratory trips to the mountains. In a traditionally male-dominated field, they assert themselves in the face of prejudice while cultivating a deep and sensual connection to nature.
A lonely 55-year-old street artist from Poland lives in London. His parents decide to visit their son after many years of separation. A man wants to take advantage of the chance to resolve an old conflict with his father, not realizing that the real problem is much deeper.
The definitive film on the climb that captured headlines and ignited imaginations worldwide. Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson ascend the hardest big wall of all time: a 19 day ascent of The Dawn Wall, on the 3,000 foot vertical face of El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park. The film travels deeper than the climb, digging into the history of the climbers and painting an intimate portrait of Caldwell's harrowing life experiences that culminated in a single-minded drive to complete this impossible climb. The Dawn Wall is a heart-warming and inspiring movie that celebrates perseverance, camaraderie, and the universal spirit of dreaming big, and never giving up.
A vivid journey into the mysterious subterranean world of mycelium and its fruit— the mushroom. A story that begins 3.5 billion years ago, fungi makes the soil that supports life, connecting vast systems of roots from plants and trees all over the planet, like an underground Internet. Through the eyes of renowned mycologist Paul Stamets, professor of forest ecology Suzanne Simard, best selling author Michael Pollan, food naturalist Eugenia Bone and others, we experience the power, beauty and complexity of the fungi kingdom.
In the middle of the national carnival parade, a devil walks along the Malecón of Santo Domingo, asking participants and spectators what they feel during the carnival. For what purpose?
Ruben has been living in the tourist centre of Paris for several years. He's never managed to make a niche for himself. Instead, he has been living in his little hideaway. August, Ruben is suffocating, and is forced to resurface.
Three women, different for age, ethnicity, background, but whose stories come together in the description of some crucial events that took place in Turkey in the last 5 years. Asli and Sebnem today are free, even though they are still waiting for the final verdict. After 3 years of prison for a watercolor, Zehra has been freed on 24 February 2019. But her fighting has found a way to “escape” before that day, through a clandestine letter she sent from the prison. The letter was delivered through her lawyers and she narrates her story, her fight and the harsh days of her imprisonment.
Mingling identity photos taken by the Portuguese political police during the Salazar dictatorship and testimonies from the children of an assassinated communist activist, Luz Obscura invents a form that recreates as faithfully as possible the feeling of a family's broken identity.
This is the story of Lam Morrison, the Guitar King of Thailand, who is known for his fast fingers, very clean sound and his electrifying Rock n' Roll.
Lucía is a young history teacher in Santa Lucía –a town in the jungle of Tucumán that was occupied by military forces from 1975 to 1983– who is carrying out an investigation to clarify the events that took place during the last military dictatorship.
In Cuba, a Maternity Home is a place for women who have complications during pregnancy. The portrayal of the situations that occur in this shared space invite the viewer into the expectations of a group of adolescents in this unique situation.
A look at the story behind Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all of the Marvel films, the Marvel One-Shots and "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."!
The day of the “Event” has arrived and Dalila, Jano, Daph D, Megan, Putricia, Ciara, Barbara and Zodoma, are here to climb on heels higher than the walls of the genre and the identity. Together they will expand the limits of imagination; the makeup will be their war paint and their dresses the armor.
Myr - a film about Myroslav Hai, an acting teacher in the famous project So You Think You Can Dance, who, during the very first days of Russia's aggression in eastern Ukraine, created a powerful volunteer foundation, and provides the soldiers of the Anti-Terrorist Operation with food, uniforms, night vision devices, and other military equipment.
