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Ham
A group of Montanan hams show the fading but loyal community of amateur radio, explore what it means to be a ham, and how they are trying to keep the hobby alive.
Halcyon Nights (Live At The Troubadour 2012)
In celebration of her multi-platinium acclaimed record "Halcyon" turning 10 years since it's release, Ellie Goulding drops "Halcyon Nights", a re-edition incluiding all the songs released from that era, with a live concert filmed in Troubadour in 2012 of her "Halcyon tour".
Let Us Be Seen
How do feminist and queer identities operate in contemporary Belfast? Let Us Be Seen is a documentary film that presents the work and ideas of individuals on the ground in Belfast, who have campaigned tirelessly for change and continue to do so. On 21st October 2019, abortion was decriminalised and same-sex marriage legalised in Northern Ireland. This important law change however has shed light on more nuanced barriers facing people locally.
Her Scents of Pu Er
Master Tseng, the first woman tea master in China's history, takes us on an aromatic journey steeped in history. We travel though her delicate and timeless world as she unlocks and shares with us the secrets of Pu Er, tea's holy grail.
Quello che conta
A math professor teaches through distance learning. Worried about the growth of his students, he finds a way to break out of loneliness.
Low Art
Hooligan stripes on jeans — is it art? And the murals on the walls of the bar? And the stickers on your skateboard? And if this is art, should an underground artist be hungry? As answers, we offer a sketch about two art punks - Frankenchain from St. Petersburg and Kirill Burygin from Moscow, who are familiar to many from the brazen and colorful design style of the projects of the Moscow Underdog bar team.
Solmatalua
In a dreamlike Afro-Diasporic odyssey, landscapes and alleys meet at the crossroads of time.
Gentleman Jack Changed My Life
This uplifting documentary follows British women of all ages who have taken inspiration from Anne Lister, the 19th-century lesbian at the centre of drama series Gentleman Jack, with dramatic results. That includes coming out to themselves, their children, their parents and grandparents.
Renato Berta, face caméra
Renato Berta, director of photography who won a César in 1988, this time appears in front of the camera under the direction of Paul Lacoste, who retraces the creative process of the Swiss filmmaker. Between archive images and anecdotes about his shoots with the greatest independent directors of his time (Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and even Louis Malle...), Renato Berta confides how, from a script, he imagines the scenes of a film.
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Tim Rogers' longform review of the 2000 video game, Boko No Natsuyasumi
Donbass War: Airport Part 1
The film Donbass War: Airport. Part 1 looks back to the Donetsk region in 2014, when residents refused to recognise the results of “Maidan” and were confronted by a severe reaction from the Ukrainian authorities.
81 Meters
Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super 8mm, opens the locked doors to picture houses during a Covid-19 lockdown, perhaps the most difficult time in the history of physical cinema space.
Joe.
A short documentary about Joe Rivera that covers the bulk of his life story, in his own words. From his beginnings on a ranch in New Mexico, to his work with Grumman, the Air Force, and Atomic Bombs.
The Long Way Home
The Cocodona 250 links together some of the most iconic trails and towns in Arizona for one monumental undertaking of 250 consecutive miles on foot.
Offside
Selena (14) is the only girl on a boys' team. Her teammates see her as one of the boys. The arrival of a new girl begins to change the dynamics within the group. Selena does everything she can to protect her position within the group.Selena (14) is the only girl on a boys' team. Her teammates see her as one of the boys. The arrival of a new girl begins to change the dynamics within the group. Selena does everything she can to protect her position within the group.
The Artist in the Machine
Her “artificial assistant” is what Claudia Larcher calls the AI that digitally analysed her analogue “Baumeister” series of collages and generated this film from them. Creator or servant spirit, the machine makes architectural sketches waft biomorphically and enlivens (i.e. animates) rigid shapes. The Japanese Metabolists who called for the fluid renewal of their buildings, the organic growth, deformation and decay of architecture, would have liked “The Artist in the Machine”.
When Champollion Meets Ramses II
When Champollion, famous for having deciphered the mystery of hieroglyphics, sets foot on the land of Egypt for the first time and finally meets Ramses II in the sumptuous temple of Abu Simbel, his fascination for this civilisation reaches its peak.
Alerte aux astéroïdes
Faced with the risk of collision with the Earth, space agencies are refining their observations on the course of asteroids in our galaxy. A documented state of the art of the current programs.
Black Gold
Jae Lee is an urban farmer at Phoenix Community Garden in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, where she devises an inspiring community composting plan.
Egypt: The Treasure Of The Sacred Bulls
Through their fieldwork, scientists bring to life a lost and unknown chapter of ancient Egypt, and write the next of the greatest adventures in the history of archaeology.
...- then love is the name
A reflection on education and an ode to the bonds that are formed by students at, (and in spite of,) the institution they are studying within. By weaving together footage from the 2021 anti-racist occupation of the Slade School of Fine Art with scenes from the install of the art school’s class of 2020 degree show, the academy emerges as a site of frustration as much as of achievement. Running over both events - , from the final touches of varnish being put on a painting to protest banners being unfurled across the building, - is text from former Slade student and tutor Christopher Kirubi’s poem ‘… - then love is the name’.
Children of the Caribbean Revolution with Lindsay Johns
In this high-concept visual essay, writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns reframes the history of the Caribbean to tell a new story. Not the traditional narrative of suffering and adversity but a celebratory one of superheroes and epic wars, unceasing resistance and never-ending rebellion, told through the stories of four inspirational leaders and their modern-day spiritual descendants.
Ötzi the Iceman and the Copper Age World
History documentary. Over five thousand years ago in the Tyrolean Alps, a hunter was shot to death in a high mountain pass. His body would be covered by a glacier and preserved until its discovery in 1991. What can this unprecedented level of preservation tell us about not only Ötzi the Tyrolean Iceman… but the Copper Age world that he came from?
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Austrian actress Romy Schneider (1938) and French actor Alain Delon (1935), once fervent lovers in the early sixties, maintained a close friendship and a certain working relationship after their breakup until her death in 1984: a universal and eternal love.
Big Cat Odyssey: Revealed
Following award-winning filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert on their 30-year-long quest to document the behaviour of big cats in Botswana, this film brings together three decades worth of material, including extraordinary footage of hunting lions, scavenging hyenas and stealthy leopards. See firsthand the numerous changes that have led to dramatic decline of the lion population, and what needs to be done in order to ensure their survival
Tango with Balalaika
Sergei Mayorov, a virtuoso balalaika player of the legendary state dance ensemble of Siberia, whose solo numbers were admired by half the world, was one of the first in the Siberian region to start making Russian folk instruments at the beginning of the 2000s. His kitchen in a two-room Khruschev- era apartment has turned into a workshop in which he and his wife have been huddled for more than ten years.
Orange Ball
14-year-old basketball players of the Dynamo-Kursk team became champions of Russia in 2021. We get acquainted with the heroines on the threshold of a new sports season. The coaches of the team are trying to cope with the impending transitional age of young athletes and bring up strength of character in them.
Post-Soviet Symphony
If architecture is "frozen music", then the facades of houses are its score. Exploring the architecture of the post-Soviet space, from wooden architecture to Baroque and classicism, from Art Nouveau to Stalinist and Khrushchev architecture, which continued in modern areas of panel new buildings, we are often called "humanists", we are trying to understand how this centuries-old symphony could sound and look, and most importantly, we find that irreconcilable conflict of personality and mass, unique and a typical one that is reflected even in the "stone".
Her Body and Other Mukbang
Mukbang, Korean for “eating broadcast,” is an online video genre that started in 2010 and has become hugely popular all over the world. The most successful mukbangers have millions of followers, and earn thousands of euros a month from videos showing them consuming sometimes-absurd quantities of food. But why is it that the vast majority of the most successful mukbangers, including in the West, are petite East Asian women?
My Body Is a Place, Just Like Any Other
Set against the stunning American Southwest, this documentary is a poetic meditation on embodiment and the trans experience.
Alaska and Beyond: Big and Small
Alaska is an outpost for adventurers, for naturalists, and it tells a story of the natural world too. The abundance and diversity of Alaskan animal life is awe inspiring. In a place like Alaska there is plenty of room to grow – and hide. From the lowly murderous mosquito to the impressive Bald Eagle, this is the big and the small of Alaskan beasts.
Zebras of the Serengeti
In East Africa, millions of animals are migrating over long distances. Among them is a young zebra who is trying to escape the fearsome predators that are an ever-present danger.
The Dream Is Just In My Mind
Cybernetic memories of jugs, tuned cars and pills kept in a drawer emerge with the anthem of the best time in the history of Spain in terms of having a good time.
mRNA vaccines - Hype or Hope?
In the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, mRNA vaccines are a beacon of hope. Some say these vaccines could open up completely new treatment methods. But is mRNA technology really a game-changer in medicine - or is it just hype?