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The Snow Calls
Mina is a young woman who has three daughters and now she is 9 months pregnant. She loves her life very much. Her husband would like to have a boy, but she hasn't been able to deliver a baby boy so far. The people of her society believe that a man must have at least one son and they put pressure on her. The relatives and her husband tell her that if the 4th baby is not a boy, she has to allow her husband to marry another woman so that she may give birth to a boy. Mina has decided not to know about her baby's gender till the day of the delivery to overcome all the stress and tensions, so she hasn't taken a Sonography test and she waits until the baby is born.
Shadows in a Landscape
A filmmaker attempts to reconnect with his hometown during a walk to the Clent Hills where he is confronted by more than just picturesque views.
Inside North Korea: The Criminal State
North Korea is a James Bond villain in the form of a brutal dictatorship, self-isolated from the global community as they pick its pockets.
The Art of Sin
After coming to Norway as a refugee, Ahmed Umar has become a renowned artist. Proud of his roots, his art mixes Sudanese and western influences. In 2015, he came out as gay on Facebook, making him the first openly gay man from Sudan, this causes a massive outrage in the Sudanese community.
Der letzte Tag von Pompeji
The last day of Pompeii was completely different to what was previously thought. Even the recorded date of the catastrophe is not correct. A century-long excavation reveals the last secrets.
Sandboy
José, a young indigenous man, is torn between leaving his community to study and get ahead, or staying in his tribe, protecting his culture and dedicating himself to traditional activities, including smuggling, and must make a decision that will mark his destiny.
La española, la de Torres
Documentary film which tells the story of the almost unknown creator of the current guitar, Antonio de Torres Jurado. Humble carpenter born in Almeria, Spain, in 1817, he achieved universal fame in mid 19th Century in Seville, changing the construction model for the national guitar schools and workshops all over the world and perpetuating it until nowadays.
Pandamonium
"Pandamonium" is an ethnographic essay film which explores conceptions of 'the exotic other' through the trope of the giant panda and, in so doing, it interrogates the seemingly distant colonial legacy of today’s Britain with regards to 'the oriental Chinese'.
Bart en de steen die terug naar huis ging
When artist Bart Eysink Smeets decides to bring a hunebed stone from Borger back home (Scandinavia), man's meddlesome towards nature is magnified in a light and humorous way. Are the residents of Borger willing to let go of the stone? Who actually owns the stone and what does the stone itself think?
Buromsky Island
Off the coast of Antarctica, in the southern ocean, there is a small island. No one knows about it, except for polar explorers who winter in Antarctica, and their relatives. On the island, right on the rocks, there are sarcophagi. People who are not written about in geography textbooks are buried here. But without them, it would be impossible to develop Antarctica. More than 60 years have passed since the first burial. During this time, the cemetery has never been completely renovated. Our team of 8 people went to Antarctica to make it for the first time.
Change: Expanding the Concept of Justice in America
The documentary Change: Expanding the Concept of Justice in America, explores the impact of incarceration of minors in the USA.
À nos corps défendants
A sensitive and radical approach to the psychological and physical violence inflicted on the inhabitants of working-class neighborhoods by the police. The stories take place in the France of the last twenty years, that of the post-Sarkozy, and are reported by the first concerned: no sociologist, no historian, no journalists or storytelling. Just the word of those we would like to see silent: Wassil Kraiker and his parents Zohra and Abdelaziz, young people from Argenteuil, Amine Mansouri and his father Moustapha, Ali Alexis and his wife, Ramata Dieng and Farid El Yamni...
Antti Peippo – The Tourist
Peippo’s film rolls from 1974 with “tourist” written on the package lead to a mysterious journey through time and to an homage to his entire career.
Aretha Franklin - L'Histoire Secrète de ses Tubes
World's Deadliest Whale
A fascinating and in-depth investigation into how one of the largest animals on the planet dominates every ocean on Earth.
Thelma
'Thelma' comes from the series 'The Realm of Forgotten Existence' created during Piotr Piasta's residency in Berwick upon Tweed. Piasta has spent time with older people in Berwick, listening to stories about life in the town and using this to inform a series of oral history interviews with older people – many who have lived in Berwick all their life. While the images in the films reveal a landscape that often seems unchanged, the narrative reveals fragments of forgotten stories and traditions, skills and working lives no longer of value in today’s society.
Beyond My Steps
Five dancers explore the concepts of tradition, culture, memory, and identity, questioning the transformation and deconstruction of these themes in their own lives.
Stolbun's Sect
This sect was talked about in the media, and famous Soviet artists sent their children there. Later, she is recognized as a sadist. A documentary about the most popular sect of the Soviet Union - the “collective” of Viktor Stolbun.
The Salt Saga: White Gold of the Alps
The "white gold" brought riches and wealth, technological innovation, migration, cultural exchange and early globalization, as early as 2,500 years ago. This ARTE documentary sheds some fascinating light on the history of the salt mine in Hallstatt. The life of the prehistoric people is resurrected in this documentary with lavish reenactments and animations. Hallstatt in the Salzkammergut in Upper Austria is one of the world's oldest and best documented industrial regions. Today, Hallstatt is a World Heritage Site. Salt has been extracted here in huge dimensions for about 7,000 years. For more than a hundred years, the world renowned archaeological site in Hallstatt, that gave its name to a whole age in European history, the early Iron Age, has been at the center of the research carried out at the Natural History Museum in Vienna.
Salir de aquí
An old man tries to return to the homeland of his childhood torn away by war. A young man tries to reach the Moon. Both impossible routes intertwine to remind us that the journey has no end. Where are we when we travel? Time does not exist.
Einfach zauberhaft - Thommy Ten & Amelie Van Lass
Le traversiadi. Cinque viaggi (più uno) con gli sci al limite delle Orobie
Who Is This Ika Basic?
Stories from life of Ilija Ika Bašić, a Yugoslav film and TV worker.
Ambiancé
Space and time are intertwined into a surreal dream-like journey beyond places that is abstract nonlinear narrative summary of artist Anders Weberg's time spent with the moving image.
Becoming Paul McCarthy
On the influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artist
Quarantined Faith: Rome, Religion and Coronavirus
What happens when religion is suspended in Rome? Romans used creativity and spiritual resilience to celebrate Easter, Passover and Ramadan during two months of national lockdown. This documentary features interviews with Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant and Buddhist religious leaders who explain "virtual religion" during the quarantine of COVID-19.