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Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus
In 2020, the biggest protests against the government to date formed in Belarus. The protesters were met with violence and restrictions, many of them were given draconian prison sentences. A dangerous climate that sought to nip political activism in the bud took hold. For “Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus,” Juliane Tutein filmed and researched for three years in a country that had not seen a change of elites with its supposed independence in 1991. She discovered mainly women at the forefront of the courageous protesters. This portrait is dedicated to three of them: Nina Baginskaya, in her mid-seventies and active in the fight for an open Belarus since the 1980s, Tatsyana “Tanya” Hatsura-Yavorskaya, founder of the human rights film festival “Watch Docs”, and Darya Rublevskaya, the youngest at 22, who works for the “Viasna” human rights centre founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski.
Showhouse
From a distance, the glass greenhouse looks like a spaceship which could have landed decades or only minutes ago. In any case, the Botanical Garden in Berlin seems to belong to another era. A group of young people are exploring, feeling plants, trees, and the building according to their very own criteria. Are they aliens? Are they imitating the expeditions of German explorers from the colonial period?
The Discord Leaks
An investigation into how a young Air National Guardsman allegedly leaked classified documents on the Discord chat platform. With The Washington Post, FRONTLINE examines Jack Teixeira’s alleged leak of national security secrets, why he wasn’t stopped and the role of platforms like Discord.
Where Wolf: The Search for ChiefsAholic
“Where Wolf: The Search for ChiefsAholic,” a new longform documentary from SC Featured, unravels the astonishing tale of a fervent Kansas City Chiefs superfan, Xaviar Babudar. The 40-minute “Where Wolf” takes viewers on a gripping journey through the life of Babudar, a passionate football enthusiast whose alleged actions took a criminal turn, leaving the nation in shock. In his first public comments since his second arrest, Babudar – through his lawyer – responds from jail to extensive questions from ESPN’s Elizabeth Merrill, one of the feature’s reporters.
Cinusp, 3 décadas de cinema
Current and former collaborators of Cinusp — the movie theater inside University of Sao Paulo's main campus — tell some tales of its 30 years history.
Stasi FC
Tracing a decade of East German football, survivors of the Cold War tell a story of betrayal, murder, and manipulation in a revealing insight into how the Stasi secret police saw football as more than a game.
Blue
The sea on whose shore Weronika Szyma has set her film is a dense, pulsating blue. The beach and the family who are staying there, meanwhile, are limited to delicate black and white line drawings. Their minimalism makes the blue stand out all the more enchantingly: Sometimes represented as a horizontal strip that promises freedom but also fuels insecurity. Sometimes sloshing diagonally across the screen, swallowing up the image completely for a brief moment and marking a caesura. And there are quite a number of caesuras, because the seven film minutes span the story of several generations.
Pride of Britain: A Windrush Special
Documentary telling the story of the generation of people who left the Caribbean for a new life in Britain. Members of the Windrush generation will share their stories with well-known figures including Sir Trevor McDonald, Alesha Dixon, Mel B, Judy Love and HRH The Prince of Wales.
Mijn grote broer
A family must come to grips with the suicide of their eldest son. What drove the outwardly relaxed and happy Arie to his deed? For two years we follow his younger brother Gijs, mother Denise and father Arjan while they try to turn despair into meaning.
Dolphins: Is Our Love Too Deep?
A ground-breaking, investigative, environmental film that explores the impact humans are having on wild dolphins through hand feeding tourism programs in Australia.
Vite non calcolate
A former professor finds no more reason to be in the world, so he takes a train to Genoa and arrives on the shore of an icy winter sea. At the end of his journey, he winds up in an ancient abbey of Boschetto where the desperately homeless live. Waiting for the warden to take him in he walks around the cloisters thinking about his life. Is it everything in our lives already written in the stars or it’s all a coincidence? Then he gradually meets the guests of a limbo that welcomes and does not judge them. Each of them tells him their stories: between them there is a carabiniere, a countess, a railroader, a ship's deckhand; a whole humanity in its colorful diversity as in the backstage of the world. At the end of the film, he feels better than before, and he left this place to live his last years.
Hermano caballo
Reknowned Catalan wrangler Santi Serra, developer of a natural training technique based on creating bonds with horses and learning through play.
American Maroon
This film presents the untold history of Foundational Black American rebellions and maroon colonies that existed during the antebellum slavery period in America.
The Legacy of J Dilla
In his short lifetime, J Dilla was a musician, producer and visionary who profoundly influenced rap and hip-hop. Given how prolific he was in his 32 years, why didn't his accolades come sooner?
Michael Barrymore: The Rise And Fall Of Mr Saturday Night
Portrait of 1990s TV icon Michael Barrymore, packed with nostalgic TV moments and candid interviews.
Black Hole Catchers
The heroine of the film, astronomer Natalia Gorynya, who has been watching the stars for fifty years, goes to the Caucasian Mountain Observatory, talking along the way about life, astronomy and the biggest mystery in the universe…
Reel Rock 17
Three new films featuring the biggest climbing and adventure stories of the year: ADN - SEB BOUIN: 29-year-old French sport climber Seb Bouin quietly climbed the elite ranks, culminating in his attempt to establish a long slope in a cave overhang in the Gorges du Verdon in France / CLIMBING RESISTANCE: In the hills torn by the Palestinian conflict, young Palestinians embrace rock climbing as a necessary respite from the oppression of the occupation Israeli. American writer and climber Andrew Bisharat visits the West Bank to explore his own roots and the power of climbing to transcend existence / BURNING THR FLAME: Big wall free climbing masters Babsi and Jacopo seek their most Biggest challenge so far: a free ascent of "Eternal Flame", a 3,000 foot route on the legendary Nameless Tower in Pakistan's Karakoram Range.
Closing Time
In 1983, my parents immigrated from Hong Kong to the United States seeking a better future for our family. They persevered through the ups and downs and forged their own path in a new country and culture. Having fulfilled their dream of creating a better life for their family and future generations, they retired in 2013. This is their story.
A Love Letter to My Sister
A brother and sister discuss domestic violence that has occurred by looking back at family photo albums.
Shark Below Zero
White sharks have been spotted across Canada as far north as the coast of Newfoundland. After the first suspected white shark attack in Canada for over 150 years, experts Greg Skomal, Heather Bowlby, Megan Winton and Warren Joyce investigate what drives white shark’s journey to the northernmost limit of their range.
Matt Willis: Fighting Addiction
A raw documentary sees Busted’s band member opening up about his struggles with addiction and the pressure it puts on his family, as well as looking into what helps him and others stay clean.
Hongnun Soondan
The Huun-Huur-Tu ensemble works with the Tuvan tradition of throat singing and traditional Tuvan instruments. Since the beginning of the 90s, they have been performing all over the world, not letting old songs fall silent and expanding the field of musical experiment around their roots. But director Mikhail Voropaev shoots musicians not on foreign tours, but on a journey along the roads and steppes where their childhood and youth were spent. Between conversations, the group stops every now and then to sing about their land and home — about the past and the future.
Para Norte
Edgar is going to Lisbon to study this year. He is spending the summer travelling with Diogo, going from festival to festival. Northern Portugal as a landscape.
TOMORROW X TOGETHER 'NUANCE' 2024 SEASON'S GREETINGS
'NUANCE', released December 18, 2023, is the fifth volume of TOMORROW X TOGETHER's annual Season's Greetings releases. The documentary includes behind the scenes footage of the concept photoshoots.
Jailhouse to Milhouse
This is the courageous journey of Pamela Hayden, voice of the plucky, resilient Milhouse on "The Simpsons”: After surviving an abusive boarding school and juvenile jail, as well as other setbacks, Pamela now speaks to teen girls about overcoming obstacles and turning their dreams into reality.
Mieczysław Jahoda. Wizard from Krakow
Mieczysław Jahoda, a cameraman and pioneer of photographic techniques, was a champion of mood creation. The film is a reminiscence about the author of such Polish classics as "Knights of the Teutonic Order", "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa" or "How Far, How Near".
Beyond the Reckoning: The Making of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
An extended behind-the-scenes featurette detailing location shoots in Abu Dhabi, Rome and Venice, alongside the production and stunts of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.
White Balls on Walls
The slogan “Meet the icons of modern art” needs to be scraped off the glass wall of the Stedelijk, Amsterdam’s modern art museum. Because precisely who the icons of modern art are is very much the question. Who gets to decide? And who loses out? In 2019, as director Sarah Vos started shooting her documentary, more than 90 percent of art at the Stedelijk was made by white men. That’s got to change, the museum’s director Rein Wolfs believes. But this is easier said than done—so much becomes clear when Vos follows Wolfs and his team as they strive for greater diversity in the collection, as well as among their staff.
Where Is Baby Gabriel?
Gabriel Johnson has been missing since 2009. Seven months old at the time, his disappearance shook the nation and continues to make headlines today. Was baby Gabriel really murdered, or was he given up for adoption?
Son of the Mullah
In 2019, the multi-awarded filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani (My Stolen Revolution, Prostitution Behind the Veil) filmed the Iranian journalist based in France Roholla Zam, who exposed the Iranian regime money laundering. Months later, Rohollah was lured by moles to Iraq and kidnapped to Iran. After 14 months in prison, he was executed.