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Hey Hey It’s 100 Years
Daryl Somers takes a walk down 'Hey Hey' lane, reminiscing about the madness and the mayhem of Australia's most successful and longest running variety show.
René – The Prisoner of Freedom
The Czech criminal René is finding it difficult to go straight. Roaming from job to shelter, from woman to woman, he discovers that living honestly is a lot more difficult than just stealing something every once in a while. In 1989, filmmaker Helena Třeštíková started filming the then 18-year-old delinquent, ultimately resulting in the 2008 film René, which follows his life inside and outside prison. This sequel to that film begins with the premiere of René and the ensuing storm of media attention.
Inhospitable
Why are healthcare costs so high in the United States? Part of the problem lies with the business of hospitals, even those running as nonprofits. InHospitable follows patients and activists as they band together to fight a multi-billion dollar nonprofit hospital system in Pittsburgh that limits vital care for vulnerable patients. Filmmaker Sandra Alvarez explores the perspectives of patients, hospital workers, advocates, and politicians to shed light on an overlooked fight for justice.
Auswärtsspiel - Die Toten Hosen in Ost-Berlin
Shortly after their formation in Easter 1982, the Düsseldorf punk band "Die Toten Hosen" lead the Stasi around by the nose: the musicians Campino, Andi, Breiti, Kuddel and Trini give a secret concert in a church, in the middle of what was then East Germany. In "Auswärtsspiel - Die Toten Hosen in Ost-Berlin" this unique event is now comprehensively told for the first time.
I HAVE NOT BEEN AFRAID OF GOING BLIND FOR A LONG TIME
The filmmaker captures his environment with the camera, fearing he might be losing it more and more. Strict rules about using the entire clip length and its original audio track inform the editing process. The tableaus and their insistence in duration create a pull into an increasingly isolated state of perceiving the outside world in its unspectacular yet strangely unfamiliar intensity.
Roland Gori, une époque sans esprit
Today we live in a world where the logic of profitability applies to all fields. The places dedicated to the professions of care, social work, education... are managed by managers or experts for whom only figures count, denying human needs. The psychoanalyst Roland Gori has been fighting for years against the disintegration of our society. This film is a portrait of his thought, of his commitment.
VHS Forever?: Once Upon a Time In Camden
A feature-length documentary following on from the success of the 2014 cult classic fan-favorite 'VHS Forever? Psychotronic People'. Taking the viewer back to the very origins of the Psychotronic shop and this time interviews people who worked there along with the regular customers who visited every week. We also take a look at some of the many varied mad, bad and dangerous psychotronic films which you could purchase from the notorious secret 'back room' of the shop.
Vier Sterne Plus
4 stars plus instead of a dull hospital standard - David-Ruben Thies, Managing Director of the Waldkliniken in Eisenberg, Thuringia, has an ambitious plan. He dreams of the hospital of the future: a comfortable patient hotel, designed by star architects, with organic food and a fireplace - ALSO for patients with health insurance. Every patient, regardless of whether they are legally or privately insured, is treated as a guest. A place where innovative care concepts are combined with medical quality and the best working conditions for the staff. But his goal is actually much larger: he wants to set new standards with his patient hotel and revolutionize healthcare from the inside. To do this, he shakes conventions, habits and political guidelines.
The Unnameable Dance
The Unnameable Dance shows the life and dance of Tanaka Min, an elderly dancer in his 70s, in a multifaceted and dynamic manner.
Man on Earth
Bob has scheduled his own death in eight days. Now he must make peace with his family, the love of his life and himself.
Agua Caliente
In a context with few possibilities of mobility, Diego and his mother are faced with the need to share time and space. Household chores and interviews accompany their routine, suddenly, a malfunctioning boiler interrupts life. Diego's girlfriend's birthday is coming up and with it several decisions to make.
The Road to Manzanar: The Story of an American Internment Camp
Documentary on the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California — one of ten internment camps the Army used to house Japanese-Americans without charge or trial after the bombing of Pearl Harbor during WWII.
Your Friend, Memphis
Memphis, a young man with cerebral palsy, is caught between the world’s expectations and his own ambitions. His story is an odyssey of dogged determination: a search for work, love, and freedom – no matter what.
Voev
A movie dedicated to the legendary Dimitar Voev (1965-1992). One of the symbols of Bulgaria's rebellious generation. He was a poet, founder and singer in the bands: "New Generation", "Kale" and "Votsek and Chugra".
Tara
The Tara is a river on the outskirts of Taranto whose waters are believed to have healing properties; bathing there is a tradition for the inhabitants of the city. Starting from this bucolic place, Volker Sattel and Francesca Bertin take us on a journey through a territory where myths clash with reality and where so-called “progress” has taken a heavy toll on nature and society.
General Hercules
In June 1893, European prospectors unlawfully took claim to ‘The Golden Mile’ on Aboriginal land. In little over a hundred years the natural landscape has been transformed into the industrial hellscape of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. As incumbent Mayor John Bowler starts to campaign for a second term, independent prospector John ‘General Hercules’ Katahanas decides to run against him on an anti-corruption ticket. What starts out as a quirky David-vs-Goliath political battle, unravels into a portrait of a man, a town and a country sent mad by the timeless cycles of exploitation, racism and greed.
Unusually Unusual
Colourful, unpolished portrait of the Rotterdam theatre-maker Paul Röttger, whose work has been all about inclusivity for 30 years. The thread running through the film is rehearsals by Theater Babel Rotterdam, the theatre company of which he is director, that performs some 150 productions a year. Röttger previously headed the Rotterdams Centrum voor Theater and Theater Maatwerk (Rotterdam Centre for Theater and Custom-made Theatre). The documentary shows his ongoing search for equal artistic collaboration between people from a wide variety of genders, cultural backgrounds, physical and mental conditions, and professionalism.
Dynamic Wisdom
Dynamic Wisdom is a housing collective that exists since 2017. It brings together 16 people from Nigeria and 4 people born in Switzerland who have pooled their energy to respond to an emergency situation: sleeping on the street.
Homework
This documentary is centred on the relationship between a film director and her daughter, born when the filmmaker moved to Taiwan, during the first year of college. While fearing breaking the news to her family, the young mother did not give up on her film studies, even as the baby girl grew. Gradually, the director’s work began shifting, resulting in a few short films focusing on subjects like pregnancy, marriage, and women’s anxieties before childbirth.
Ray Jr's Just My Thoughts
Cleveland artist and filmmaker Ray Jr.'s ups and downs on his journey breaking into the music industry.
Mock Week 2: The Finale
A group of young men document their lives and experiences throughout their Mock Examinations. It gets wacky, weird and wild! In 2007 I found a body behind crumbs in the dumpster.
Hekabe's Question
Direct and meticulous observation of interpersonal relations is a classic subject in documentary films. In this film the title of which alludes to “Hamlet”, we will observe the birth of compassion in people. Compassion is something that has to be dealt with in very rigorous terms, something that needs to be stripped of the layers of clichés that this word has amassed over the years. Is it always a true feeling or just an imitation? How does a deep compassion spring forth? Who are the true “masters of compassion” and what are they like?
Beyond Tingri
Swedish adventurer Robin Trygg’s journey to climb Mount Everest, that was covered by media during in 2015-2016. Together with his close friend Chirring dorje Sherpa, Trygg headed out to Himalaya, but they found themselves caught in the middle of a dreadful earthquake changing their lives forever.
Storming Caesars Palace
This inspiring documentary chronicles the extraordinary life of Ruby Duncan, an activist who fights the welfare system and becomes a White House advisor.
In the Eye of the Storm: The Political Odyssey of Yanis Varoufakis
Controversial economist, whistleblower and politician Yanis Varoufakis, who famously resigned from his post as Greece's minister of finance in 2015 rather than sign a fraudulent bail-out deal for his impoverished country, anchors this must-see six-part series. One of the foremost political figures of our time, he reflects on debt, austerity and his battle against the European establishment during Greece's debt crisis. In a master class in economics and oratory, Varoufakis raises urgent questions and contradictions about where our civilization is headed and how power works at the highest levels, and connects economic failure, globalization, democracy, fascism and climate crisis.
No More Everyday Life
Two soul mates meet, they are in love with life, the world and each other, but do not fit into Hitler's racial state. Why was the young refugee Ruth Maier killed, and why is she still remembered?
Mr. Graversen
After years of substance abuse, Michael’s father returns to his life, but an old family trauma continues to haunt the Graversen family. A film with heart and courage about regaining the belief in life and each other.
Cotton 100%
Yelena is an activist fighting for the rights of cotton pickers. Mukhabbat is a farmer struggling with the hardships of rural life... COTTON 100% is a story of two strong women facing the challenges of a society where forced labor is a norm.
Stinking Dawn
A social experiment-turned-baroque musical in a Vienna exhibition space, where the boundaries between body and world dissolve in a delirious and darkly funny mirror image of civilisation itself.
Ver es un acto
Herminia is 63 years old, and Victor, her partner, is 33. He works as a housekeeper, while she spends her days laughing and sharing cigars with her friend Sole (48), who has had a relationship with Osvaldo since they were children. Together with their other companions at the Putaendo Psychiatric Hospital, they share friendship and life. They dream, form sides, fight and also love each other. They live maintaining the hope of leaving the place that for many decades has made them invisible from everything. Will their love be able to transform the look?
Decay: On Fascism and Breakdown
A feature length Marxist documentary looking at 20th Century fascism, early English settler colonialism in the Americas and the prospects of a contemporary neofascism. The film focuses on the political economy of these forms, drawing on Rajani Palme Dutt's view that fascism represented an organisation of capitalist decay, to illustrate the various different laws of motion which condition the development of reactionary political movements.
La moda del liscio
La Moda del Liscio tells a composite story, articulated around major themes (the dance master, the orchestral players, the singer, the club manager, the TV, the epigones of an era) that constitute the epic of ballroom dancing, its anti-heroic dramaturgy, its somewhat vague and kitsch aesthetic. It is a choral story, populated by great figures but above all by orchestras, because ballroom dancing is not a genre for soloists. And there has never been any talk, with regard to ballroom dancing, of 'concerts', but only of 'shows', also choral, each with its own genre dynamics and costumes in which America is always cited. This documentary, through repertoires and interviews, with a focus on the private dimension of those who were the protagonists, wants to reconstruct not a history but a system of memories, an intimate and at the same time public memorial of a country that was happy.
Remembering Jerry
A tribute celebrating the life of NESN Red Sox analyst, Jerry Remy, including feature stories and memories of Jerry's legendary broadcast and playing careers from teammates, colleagues, and Red Sox legends.
Exquisite Moving Corpse
The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists participated over a two-year period, beginning in March 2020. Each invited artist made a one minute video in response to the last frame of the previous minute.
À mort la sorcière
The film immerses us in the imaginary world of witchcraft crimes. This historical Swiss documentary reveals the workings of a hellish judicial machinery that put thousands of men, women and children at the stake.
The Broken Ground
Based on the book by Ned MacDonald comes this engaging feature documentary that explores the history of the Inverness Coal Mines. After an abundance of quality coal is discovered in a remote settlement on Cape Breton Island, wealthy foreign developers and miners arrive from across the world to extract the black gold from the depths. As the years continue, exploitation of the land and workers challenges the survival of Inverness Town and its people.
Copeland - Your Love is a Slow Song (A Documentary)
Copeland's constantly evolving career has spanned over 20 years and their influence is heard to this day. Through many ups and downs, they have always strived to experiment, innovate, and grow as a band. In this documentary, we take a look at the history of the group and the songs they have made. Created by Kyle Brammer
The Grass is Greener on the Other Side
Thousands of Hongkongers, still living in the shadow of the 2019 protests, are immigrating to the UK to forge a freer future. This film documents their struggle to break free from a homeland that is no longer welcoming, while holding on to the Hongkonger identity in which they find purpose. In exile, can the Hongkonger identity persevere, or is it destined to obscurity? Can they really find a place to call home?
Dekksgutten
Åge Aleksandersen, Gunnar Pedersen and Trondheimsolistene have since 2019 had a close collaboration which so far has resulted in over 60 concerts. This concert documentary follows the project to the legendary Huset on Svalbard and the Opera House in Oslo. The film provides a unique insight into Åge's career. He shares his stories about the music and the collaboration with Gunnar and the Trondheimsolistene. We also meet his daughter, Line-Sofie.
Gaze Ahead
Luiz Antonio Guinski's airplanes pervade the boundaries between image and word, composing a body of work that destabilizes matter to explore drawing, chance, symmetry - the body and the machine.