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Before leaving adolescence behind, a group of students split into fictional characters to film their transition into adulthood. Between cameras, confidences, and a shared journey to the mountains, the film captures the tremor of an ending and the glimpse of another beginning.
The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free divers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate the hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The shocking discoveries were only the tip of the iceberg.
The Pelletier family sets out on an epic journey to see the beauty of the world when three of their four children are diagnosed with an incurable eye condition.
Exploring the history of the 'Power Rangers' franchise, casting, special effects and music.
Majur is a native and gay spokesperson from the village of Pobore, on the countryside of Mato Grosso. His main activity is to be the main common link between the village people and the big town where they fight for their culture and claim for their rights.
Natural focus documents the natural landscape in black and white. By varying the opening of the diaphragm, re-framing with the zoom, changing film speeds, transforming the notion of time and superimposing different shots is a dialogue between fact and technological device it represents.
Tomer Slutzky accompanies Shlomo, his father, in pursuit of Aníbal Gauto, suspected of crimes against humanity in Argentina in the seventies, protected by Israeli authorities for reasons that go back to the close relationship between the two countries during the last dictatorship.
For a book project, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders took photographs of 30 stars of adult movies, each pair of photographs in the same pose, clothed and nude. This film records the photo shoots and includes interviews with the performers and commentary from eight writers (and John Waters). The actors and writers discuss economics, nudity and exhibitionism, careers, and private lives.
Spiders Web is a docu-fiction film that follows Spider, a 56 year old man from Toronto who is yet again facing jail time. His last hope of staying out of prison is finding Cougar, a woman he’s spent more than one drunken night with but can’t seem to find. This journey to find Cougar leads him through Toronto, to friends, family and deep into his dreams. His search stirs up the past and he is forced to face demons he thought he had buried long ago; Love, pain, violence and confusion.
At a rough construction, bricklayers begin their work day calmly and serenely, until they discover the heaviness that lies within them and the physical wear and tear that it involves. This same situation begins to fall on the workers so that everything begins to become encapsulated and become like a limbo.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's social and political institutions faced massive change, including an increasingly corrupt government and crippled infrastructure. A number of the nation's youth wound up homeless and addicted to a lethal cocktail of injected cold medicine and alcohol. In the early 2000s a pastor from Mariupol named Gennadiy Mokhnenko took up the fight against child homelessness by forcibly abducting street kids and bringing them to his Pilgrim Republic rehabilitation center—the largest organization of its kind in the former Soviet Union. Gennadiy's ongoing efforts and unabashedly tough love approach to his city's problems has made him a folk hero for some, and a lawless vigilante to others. Despite criticism, Gennadiy is determined to continue his work.
The Theft traces a set of ancient, treasured artifacts stolen from Afghanistan that have, in some cases, ended up in the hands of Western museums.
The documentary depicts the remarkable phenomenon of the national competition Kalina Krasnaya, organised with a flourish in which the convicts from all over Russia sing their way to victory with songs about longing, war, love and forgiveness.
A lagoon in Cuba suddenly dries up. All that remains of this lost landscape is an old painting with faded contours. This is the starting point for Violeta Mora’s quest: how does one remember a landscape that is no longer there? She then interviews those who do remember it, in an attempt to make the lagoon reappear.
Orin: music for the Orixás is a documentary by Henrique Duarte, supported by the FGM Art Every Day edict. The feature film deals with the importance of candomblé terreiros music, its rhythms, songs, traditions and influence in Brazilian music.
Naoshi is a hale old man of 79 from the Kesen district of Iwate Prefecture who has spent his whole life working as a woodcutter and carpenter. When the tsunami hit in March 2011, the wooden beams of his house didn’t even warp after water reached the second floor, although his son was washed away and drowned in the flood. Naoshi is determined to rebuild his house in the exact same spot, to live out his days in the place he was born and continue to honour his son’s memory.
About a man's fierce battle with the authorities to keep his horses.
Winkowski kicks it off with a footloose first part before Wimer's assault on the streets; the team gets some and Bækkel concludes the showcase with an unbelievable curtain-closing performance.
In Chile, glaciers are melting, forests are burning, inequalities are growing, social revolt is roaring... Between reason and desire, Camila's thoughts waver: can she give birth to a child in this burning world?
