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| At the beginning of the last century nine out of ten people killed in war were soldiers. At the beginning of this century nine out of ten people killed in war are civilians. Most of them are children. A CHILD'S CENTURY OF WAR takes the viewer on a journey through the past century from the perspective of children and told in their voices. |
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| Chris Rohrlach is not your typical Australian sheep farmer. Willing to try anything to make the money needed to keep his quadriplegic wife of 14 years, Rachel, out of long-term hospital care, he decides to open a countryside brothel. |
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| We follow five families -each with a child fighting cancer- over a six year period and see how they navigate the ups and downs of treatment. We see these heroic children, their hopes, fears, enormous strength and bravery and relationships with their families, doctors, nurses, and staff. Some survive and some sadly die. The result is a deeply compassionate, moving story of hope, love, and human resilience. |
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| When the world's most famous East African nature reserves were created in the 50's and 60's, few people know that the indigenous people, who had lived there in harmony with nature for 3000 years, were evicted from these areas. Still today governments, the tourist industry and conservation organizations advance the idea that the native Africans are intruders into what was once their own pristine wilderness. |
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| An exploration of exile, memory, longing and democracy, as seen through the eyes and life experiences of writer, Ariel Dorfman ( "Death and the Maiden") Born in Argentina, growing up in New York and then Chile, Dorfman became cultural advisor to Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende. When the Allende government fell in the military coup of September 11, 1973, Dorfman had to make the most crucial decision in his life. Later he was told that his life was spared because "someone had to live to tell the story". |
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| A shocking story that draws attention to a very urgent but little-known crisis. Top scientists warn that a catastrophe may in fact play out in coming generations unless widespread awareness is raised to stop acidification of the world's oceans. Imagine a world without fish. |
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| For better and for worse, no ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. ADDICTED TO PLASTIC is a global journey to investigate what we really know about the material of a thousand uses and why there's so darn much of it. On the way we discover a toxic legacy, and the men and women dedicated to cleaning it up. |
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| Revealed to the world in the highly acclaimed 2001 Iranian movie Kandahar, David Theodore Belfield - the film's African American "doctor" - is in fact wanted in the U.S. for the 1980 killing of an Iranian diplomat, and now lives in exile in Iran. The story of an unrepentant assassin and an articulate accuser, AMERICAN FUGITVE explores a web of international intrigue and state-sponsored violence. |
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| The History of American Punk Rock 1980 - 1986 There would be no Nirvana, Beastie Boys, or Red Hot Chili Peppers were it not for some hardcore Punk pioneers in the Eighties. Based on Steven Blush's book AMERICAN HARDCORE, we capture the spirit of the bands and a social movement created by Reagan-era misfit kids that said "f-k you" to politicians, music labels, and anyone else who got in their way. |
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| What would you do if you woke up one morning and all your savings had vanished? Argentina went bankrupt in a very short time. Before, the Borroni family's future was bright: He managed an oil company, she studied medicine, the children attended private schools, great house, new car, credit cards etc. But one day it was all over. We follow the Borroni's during 3 years and see how they managed to put their lives back together again. |
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| The utopias of the future will be created online, in digital worlds capable of rendering photo-realistic depictions of whatever the mind can imagine with technologies that allow people from around the world to join in. We now have the chance to build new worlds from scratch. If you were going to do so, on which principles would you establish it? |
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| Chilling... Intelligent... Hilarious. These are the elements of this classic collage documentary. Artfully culled from newsreel footage and government archives of the 1940`s and 50`s, The Atomic Cafe serves up the dark side of Cold War America in all its fear and paranoia, and manages to blend this with a deep black humour. A darkly comic look at a defining period in the 20th century. | |||||
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| There are over 250.000 actors in LA. For every role to be cast, thousands of headshots are sent in and hundreds of actors are called in for auditions. Who makes the decisions? What happens during a casting session? We follow an aspiring young actress and an upcoming casting agent while Hollywood's most famous casting directors finally reveal their hidden secrets. | ||||||
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| Teenage girls Mairéad Mc Ilkenny (Catholic) and Christine Savage (Protestant) are growing up in post-war Belfast, in the same city but cut off from each other by high 'peacewalls' to keep the two communities apart creating divisions as brutal as ever, nearly a decade into the peace process. The legacy to the young generation is clear: You don't mix! But this year their lives will take turns they never in their wildest dreams could imagine... |
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| What moves the Warcraft generation? Behind the scenes and into the minds of the world's most famous Warcraft players. |
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| Well-known Italian American actors, directors, writers and other film artists share what it's like being a 'Hollywood Italian', and, with film clips and insider commentary on Hollywood history, show how they use their background to make art from the alchemy of mob movies, Hollywood politics, and American pop culture. |
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| On March 24th 1989 the Exxon Valdez super-tanker runs aground in Alaska and becomes the biggest environmental catastrophe in North American history. For twenty years Riki Ott and the fishermen of the little town of Cordova, Alaska have waged the longest legal battle in U.S. history against the world's most powerful oil company - Exxon Mobil. |
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| The Burmese Junta in power since 1962, has promised elections in 2010. This new documentary, clandestinely shot in regions where few foreigners have dared to venture, looks at one of Burma's most dangerous zones (the Karen region) and meets people hiding in the jungle in order to resist forced relocation by the military regime, disclosing the secret networks of militants fighting along the Thai border, inside and outside Burma. |
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| The classic, groundbreaking first-of-a-kind documentary BREASTS interviews twenty-two women (many of them topless) - ranging in age from 6 years-old to 84 and explores how breasts play a crucial role in the experiences of puberty, motherhood, sex, health, and aging. The documentary also includes archival footage - ranging from a racy 1920s cartoon to bra commercials to 1950s beauty pageants - that serve as chapter headings throughout the film. |
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| When a Kyrgyz man decides to marry, he often abducts the woman he has chosen. Typically, he takes several friends, hires a car, stakes out his bride-to-be's movements, and snatches her off the street. This first film ever to document the ancient custom of bride-kidnapping which is a common way of marrying in Kyrgyzstan, follows the dramatic stories of four of these non-consensual kidnappings. | ||||||
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| Errol Morris' has the uncanny ability to extract truths from people and his trademark is making private drama public. This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary filmmaking in recent cinema history. This comprehensive overview of Morris' career includes clips of all his important films: among them GATES OF HEAVEN, FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL, and MR. DEATH as well as interviews with collaborators such as Werner Herzog and Phillip Glass. |
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| For the first time, Buffy Sainte-Marie's extraordinary life story is told on screen - from her early days bursting onto the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s to becoming an Oscar winning songwriter, a Sesame Street regular, an international Aboriginal spokesperson and a pioneering digital artist. |
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| The definitive screen bio of Charles "Hank" Bukowski, the late hard drinking novelist, poet and leading cult figure of the '60's. Considered a temperamental crank, the film also captures glimpses of a secret softie and makes a compelling case for Bukowski as one of the great American writers of the late 20th Century. With Linda Bukowski, Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Bono, Taylor Hackford, Barbet Schroeder and many others. | |||||
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| Just imagine that we are able to get in touch with extraterrestrials in our lifetime! A small group of people are taking this unlikely scenario very seriously and make listening to the sky practically their daily job. |
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| Celebration is the town that Disney built in 1995. A real town with real people that takes you back to a safer place where neighbours greeted neighbours. 350 people became the pioneers. Nowadays it is the home of 8000 residents. The film shows six couples in search of utopia. Walt Disney always said that dreams can come true. Is Celebration a dream come true in a world gone wrong? | |||||
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| CHINA BLUE takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where Jasmine and her friends are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable. Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don't want us to see how the clothes we buy are actually made. |
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| Chinese society is going through massive social changes, from 60's style "free love" to spiraling street prostitution and a new female power, driven by a shortage of 30 million wives. This is China's sexual revolution- filmed undercover. A China as you have never imagined it. |
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| This is the story of Coca-Cola - the "sublimated essence" of all that American stands for - and its century-long competition with its rival, Pepsi-Cola. Challenging, irreverent, serious and funny by turns, we explore the delicious paradox at the heart of Coke: How did an innocuous soft drink, more than 99% sweetened water, come to wield such enormous economic and marketing power? What does it say to us about who we are and what we are becoming? |
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| This classic Ron Mann documentary profiles 22 of the most significant artists working in comic books in North America today. With interviews, historical footage and state-of-the-art animation, it traces the creative development of the incredibly popular comic medium. From Jack Kirby's Captain America via the irreverence of Mad Magazine, to the underground movement of the '60s, with it's "anything goes" cartoonists to the comic book explosion of the'80s. | |||||
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| COMRADES IN DREAMS takes us to four corners of the world and portrays 4 individuals all connected by one passion: cinema! Shot in small cinemas in the USA, Burkina Faso, India and North Korea we follow the dedicated cineastes and their efforts to make their audiences dream every night. The film dives into a set of fascinating lives where stories from the everyday and from the silver screen frequently merge into something magical. |
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| Throughout the Islamic world, each year 100's of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they have "dishonored" their families. Losing their virginity, the refusal of an arranged marriage, leaving an abusive husband, or even if a woman is raped, she risks to pay the price as any suggestion of sexual impropriety must be cleansed with her blood. Crimes of Honor documents the terrible reality of "honor killings". | |||||
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| Terry Zwigoff's all time classic CRUMB is a sometimes hilariously funny but often disturbing journey into the mysterious and creepy world of underground artist Robert Crumb. His twisted, violent and at times even outright pornographic cartoons are witnesses of his utter disgust of the American society and culture and made him worldfamous in the 60's when he created Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, the "Keep On Truckin' " cartoons and record sleeves for musicians like Janis Joplin. | |||||
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| Devil's Bargain examines the proliferation of small arms, which kill more than 500,000 people a year worldwide and destabilize entire regions. From the gun markets of Somalia to the Security Council countries selling their wares during commercial trade-shows in Paris. Devil's Bargain examines the ways in which the guns slip from legal to illegal markets via the so-called Grey Zones. When 200,000 AK47's missing from Bosnia stockpiles flown on illegal flights into the netherworld, activists try to push initiatives to the UN. But the call for a treaty similar to the Land Mines Treaty is blocked and- loopholes "large enough for Antonov-12s to fly through" continue to destabilize our world. |
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| A fascinating three-part series looking into the meanings diamonds have for all those part of the diamond pipeline - an international prospector, impoverished miner, child cutter, celebrity jeweler, high-end dealer. |
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| Heddy Honigmann's long awaited return to Peru in a film about poverty and poetry in a country plundered by the powerful. But also a film where the powerless resist being consigned to oblivion ( Awarded Silver Dove/ Fipresci Prize and Oecumenical Award at Leipzig 2008) |
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| She was beautiful, smart, and searching. He was an emerging genius in the world of photography. When they met, they fell instantly in love. Charis Wilson and Edward Weston transformed photography, and each other. | |||||
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| The Ramones were one of the hardest-working, most influential bands of all time. END OF THE CENTURY follows this unlikely quartet through three tumultuous decades of touring, recording and bickering: from the New York City underground music scene to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This seminal documentary depicts every rise, fall and petty squabble they had. With: all the Ramones' . . . plus Debbie Harry, Joe Strummer (in his last interview), Eddie Vedder, Linda Stein and many others. |
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| East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing from pink hotpants into a saree, to meet her husband at the airport. She reluctantly married in a union arranged by her Bangladeshi family. Meanwhile her devout muslim sister Hushnara is being groomed for her own arranged marriage, something that at 19 she doesn't feel at all ready for. A lively, very intimate and surprisingly funny film which gives an absorbing insight into a little known community. |
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| A light-hearted, whimsical look at our relationship with our closest and most romantic neighbor in the sky: The Moon. This year (in July) it is 40 years ago when man set foot on the moon and now in 2009 the relationship is hot again |
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| Wheelchair bound, without a larynx, and diagnosed with a life-threatening aortic aneurysm, Dr. Sharadkumar Dicksheet now lives to travel to India to perform free operations. In contrary to the life in his Brooklyn apartment, in India the eight-time Nobel Prize nominee is treated like a living god. FLYING ON ONE ENGINE shows how this quirky, funny, and sometimes difficult character overcomes his own ailments by helping others. |
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| Forever is a film about the power and vitality of art and a place where love and death go hand in hand and beauty lives on: the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. | ||||||
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| After a seemingly harmless car accident, a 46-year-old man suffers total amnesia. Sixteen years later, his filmmaker son investigates why his father's memory never returned. |
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| In the all-time classic Oscar winning FROM MAO TO MOZART, violinist Isaac Stern says "The best way to learn about another culture,is to and meet practitioners of one's own profession." And so, in 1979, he undertook a trip to China as an official guest of the government to give concerts, travel the countryside, and "say hello with music." Filmmaker Murray Lerner documented the events of this trip on celluloid, and the resulting movie won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Documentary. |
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| FULL BATTLE RATTLE is the story of a real war and a fake town. In California's Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a "movie-set like, Iraqi, small town" - a billion dollar setting for urban warfare simulation - and with hundreds of exiled Iraqis living in the US as role-players. |
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| The story of three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, on the outskirts of Cairo. It is the home to 60,000 Zaballeen, Arabic for "garbage people." Far ahead of any modern "Green" initiatives, the Zaballeen survive by recycling 80 percent of the garbage they collect. |
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| An enigmatic musical poet, Glenn Gould continues to captivate audiences twenty-six years after his early passing. Glenn Gould: The Inner Life casts a new light on a man whose ideas were as controversial, and his private life as passionate, as his music. The film includes personal memories from Gould's most intimate friends and lovers, some of whom have never spoken about him before, plus never-before heard home recordings and excerpts from his private diaries. WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 |
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| A dramatic journey across three continents telling the story of the up and coming baby production industry in the age of globalization. Israeli entrepreneur Doron proposes a new service - Baby production- providing customers with a cost effective solution using outsourcing of the surrogacy element to India as way to lower prices. The customers arrive only at the end of the nine month pregnancy period to pick up their babies. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 <strong>World Premiere Docaviv 2009 - Best film award</strong> |
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| The world of marijuana, reported to be a $10 Billion to $30 billion industry in North America, comes vibrantly alive in this fact-filled and fascinating story of our love-hate relationship with this resilient weed, also known as grass, pot, or dope. GRASS is about the history of a hysteria and the longest-running and most disobeyed prohibition in the history of the USA. It is an epic tale of how Government bureaucrats created a climate which turned and continues to turns literally millions of users, at least technically, into criminals. | |||||
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| The all-time classic Maysles documentary GREY GARDENS is the unbelievable but true story of Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, living in a world of their own in their decaying 28-room East Hampton mansion known as "Grey Gardens," a place so far gone that the local authorities once threatened to evict them for violating sanitation codes. The women bicker and flirt like characters out of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill, a record of the powerful and complex relationship between mother and daughter. | |||||
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| On December 21, 1975, six terrorists led by Carlos 'The Jackal' forced their way into OPEC headquarters in Vienna and took seventy ministers hostage. After a gun battle, three people killed and one terrorist seriously wounded, the terrorists managed to escape to Algiers. The wounded terrorist was HANS-JOACHIM KLEIN. For the first time he retraces his steps and tells his life story. | |||||
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| Just 36, Selznick was already a legend. GONE WITH THE WIND changed the way movies were made in Hollywood. During that production however Selznick made his most lasting contribution to American film making, by bringing Alfred Hitchcock to Hollywood. The relationship exemplified the changing of the guard in Hollywood. David O. Selznick represented the studio system where the producer had complete control. Alfred Hitchcock was to become one of the first directors recognized for the unique authorship and control he commanded over every aspect of his movie making. | |||||
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| Part icon, part iconoclast, Melvin Van Peebles is a filmmaker with a history that's as fascinating as any of his motion pictures. This award-winning documentary (full of rare archival footage and unforgettable backstage stories from Spike Lee, Mario Van Peebles, Gil Scott-Heron, and others) is a carefully crafted tale of how a young black kid from Chicago ended up making one of the most controversial movies in American history, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the film that sparked the Blaxploitation era in Hollywood. |
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| Italian born Laura Huxley, a teenage violin virtuoso, left the concert stage to become a renowned psychotherapist and author. In 1956 Laura married Aldous Huxley, literary giant and prophet of the 20th century. Huxley wrote BRAVE NEW WORLD in 1933. Laura and Aldous maintained a compelling personal and professional union until his death in 1963. Laura Huxley continued writing and giving seminars until her death in 2007 at the age of 96. Laura Huxley's candid recollections offer a compelling glimpse of her life with Aldous. |
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| Jacob Andrén, an ordinary kid going to school in the 80's, was, as at many schools in the western world, involved in fundraising actions to "save the rainforest" Their teachers urged them to help by "buying a tree". Now a grown up young man he is wondering about what happened to all those trees that he and his classmates bought with the money they made by selling stuff on the flea market. He remembers getting a certificate, but that was 20 years ago. Jacob decides to buy a plane ticket to try to find his tree and to find out if their effort did make a difference. |
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| Imaginary Witness tells for the first time the fascinating story of the American film industry's complex and contradictory responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Retracing 60 years of Hollywood filmmaking, utilizing carefully selected excerpts and told through first-hand accounts of directors, actors, writers, and producers, the film covers all of Hollywood's most important movies dealing with the issue. With Steven Spielberg, Sydney Lumet, Dan Curtis, Rod Steiger and many others. | |||||
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| Infinite Space traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create "architecture that has no beginning and no end." It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life - and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century. |
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| From the established players like Vanity Fair, Playboy, Time, to young upstarts like Wallpaper* and Shift, Inside the Great Magazines is a behind-the-gloss look at our favourite magazines. We watch them being created, enjoy their glamour, and weigh-in the price we pay for reading them. The series will reveal the stress and creativity, conflicts and brilliance of the people who make these magazines so appealing to billions of readers worldwide. |
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| Every day large amounts of high-level radioactive waste are placed in interim storage, vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters or changes in society. In Finland, the world's first permanent repository is being cut out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last the entire period the waste remains hazardous: 100,000 years. |
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| Born in 1931 and dead by 1955, it is as if James Dean had a destiny, rather than a life. A cinema figure of huge iconic and mythic dimensions, it is said of Dean that he didn't just change the way people acted, he changed the way people lived. Synonymous with adolescent angst, he redefined the American male ideal, making vulnerable sexy and alienation desirable. Remarkably, there are only three films to his legacy - EAST OF EDEN, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and GIANT. | |||||
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| Director Jonathan Demme's documentary following President Jimmy Carter on his recent promotional tour in support of his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." |
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| When John F. Kennedy launched his bid for the presidency, Robert Drew was there, always a step behind him, catching history on camera as it happened. In the years that followed, Kennedy continued to allow Drew and his team unprecedented access-to his office, to the members of his administration, and to his high level briefings on such signal matters as nuclear disarmament and civil rights. Though much of that footage has been seen before, this new, tightly edited documentary composed from the Drew archives provides a timely "view of a President widely respected by his fellow countrymen and celebrated across the world." |
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| Legendary american blues artist John Lee Hooker's life is described by himself, his closest friends and music colleagues and retraced from his birthplace in Mississippi following the ups and downs of his career to the big successes once Godfather of the Blues and the King of the Boogie. The story of his life is also a story about the Blues and its influence on modern music. With a.o. John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, John Hammond, John Mayall, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana. | |||||
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| Jaume Marquet is an eccentric outsider striving to become famous by streaking in front of the cameras at major televised sporting events under his alter ego "Jimmy Jump". "Jump! follows Jimmy's journey from Barcelona to Madrid where he will attempt to streak at the largest football match in Spain - "El Classico" live in front of 80,000 spectators and 100 million people watching worldwide. But if Jimmy wants to be the best, he has to compete with a handful of streakers who are all competing for the same crown, and his journey to Madrid will open the doors into the eccentric world of professional sports streaking. |
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| Ernest Hemingway, Martin Luther King, Walt Disney, Einstein, Fidel Castro, JFK, Winston Churchill, Picasso, Glen Gould, Audrey Hepburn: we all know that single, most famous picture of every one of them. Behind the camera was the legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh, the ultimate mythmaker. |
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| In 1955 Tobias Schneebaum began a journey that brought him to the edge of "civilization" in Peru. With only the scant directions "keep the river on your right," Schneebaum sought out a remote mission and the Amarakaire Indians, rumored to be cannibals. When Schneebaum reemerged from the jungle a year later, naked and covered in body paint, the public was shocked to learn via TV talk shows that he had participated in local tribal war, complete with killing and cannibalism . . . |
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| From early 1970 to the mid-80s, ordinary Japanese citizens disappeared without a trace. KIDNAPPED! tells the extraordinary story of 3 families' dramatic 25-year struggle in search for the truth. In 2002 it was finally revealed that their family members, had been abducted by North Korean spies in a sinister plot of espionage! This is one the most controversial issues in Japan today and unveils a tangled web of political manoeuvrings and international espionage. | |||||
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| If there was one photograph that captured the horrific nature of the Vietnam War it was that of a nine-year-old girl running naked down a road, screaming in agony from napalm burns that had eaten into her flesh. But ironically, the picture that moved millions all over the world to tears, and that played a major part in the success of the anti-Vietnam War movement, ultimately made a victim of Kim Phuc all over again. This is her life's story. |
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| When the story and images of the unspeakable have been heard and shown a thousand times, where do you go from there? Mauthausen today: How does it feel to be a tourist at a former concentration camp? How does it feel to work here as a guide? How does it feel to live here as a local? And what of those who've chosen this town to be their new home? | ||||||
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| The contestants are murderers, guerillas and thieves. The winner will be crowned Queen, but she won't be invited on a press tour as a role model for young girls. Instead, she will be escorted back to her cell. LA CORONA (THE CROWN) is a one-hour documentary that follows four inmates competing for the crown in the annual beauty pageant of the Bogotá Women's Prison. |
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| LA SIERRA, a small neighbourhood in Medellin, Colombia, is ruled by a gang of young men, mostly teenagers, affiliated with Colombia's illegal paramilitary armies. Over the course of a year, the documentary follows the lives of three young people and their experiences of war, death, and love. | ||||||
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| Culture, Nature and Light: These elements provide the structure for the documentary that explores the vision of one of the world's greatest architects, Chinese-American I.M. Pei while chronicling his latest and maybe final creation; the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. For this commission I.M. Pei embarked on an odyssey into the world and history of Islamic architecture. This personal portrait follows him and visits places like Alhambra and Cairo to understand the essence of I.M. Pei's inspiration and vision. |
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| Petr Lom was allowed to follow Iran President Ahmadinejad on his trips around rural Iran where he preaches his domestic populism and anti-US foreign policy. As part of his strategy, Ahmadinejad has set up a Presidential Letter writing center that pretends to solve the many personal problems of ordinary Iranians. The center has received more than 10 million letters. |
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| For over forty years, South Africa was governed by the most notorious form of racial domination since Nazi Germany. When it finally collapsed, those who had enforced apartheid's rule wanted amnesty for their crimes. Their victims wanted justice. As a compromise, the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was formed. As it emerges from its tragedy, this deeply moving OSCAR NOMINATED film shows a South Africa to the rest of the world that proves that even the most bitter of conflicts can be addressed through honesty and communication. | ||||||
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| The motel presents a veneer of everyday normalcy. Chambermaids go about their chores in the hot Miami light. A green gecko poses against pink stucco. A retro neon sign looms over the lazy hum of city traffic. |
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| Amazing and deeply moving stories of first loves who were separated in youth, lost all contact with each other and eventually managed to reunite decades later. Two couples who were torn apart by class, religion, parents and geography, tell us their stories of how they met, why they broke up and most importantly, what drew them back together. |
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| Considered as "one of the most important documentaries ever made" MANUFACTURING CONSENT is as relevant today as it was when it first was released in the early 'nineties, maybe even more important. Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, Manufacturing Consent is an energetic fusion of images and ideas which explores the political life and ideas of the controversial American writer, linguist and social philosopher, Noam Chomsky, the author the N.Y. Times has called "arguably the most important intellectual alive." | ||||||
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| How does Michael Moore create his films? Is it pure fact, propaganda or fiction, or a mixture? While trying to get an interview with Michael Moore, the filmmakers investigate how Moore uses documentary techniques to affect political change. By looking at ROGER AND ME, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and FAHRENHEIT 9/11, the film builds a controversial portrait of him, exposing many revealing background stories.Featuring: a.o. Noam Chomsky, Albert Maysles, Michael Moore, Errol Morris, Ralph Nader. |
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| METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER follows the famous rock band as they undergo group therapy while preparing for the release of their latest studio album St Anger. Aiming significantly higher than a run-of-the-mill, backstage rock-doc about the heavy metal band undergoing a midlife crisis, MONSTER is an intimate portrait of the collective creative process (put together over three years during the making of St-Anger album), stripping bare the band's boisterous macho egos with the assistance of an 24/7 therapist. |
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| Think of a ukulele and you probably imagine grass skirts, slide guitar and kitchy lyrics, but far from being just a Hawaiian novelty instrument, the ukulele has a rich history and has profoundly affected music around the world. |
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| A powerful story about the essential bond between humans and animals told against the backdrop and aftermath of the Katrina disaster, when thousands of pets, forcefully left behind, were transported around the country and adopted even when their displaced owners still desperately were looking for them. When two families love the same pet, conflicts inevitably arise over who is the rightful "owner" and what is right for the animal. |
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| MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT is a cinematic exploration of music through the stories and artistry of the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra. The film follows these musicians as they explore what music means in their lives, both inside and outside the concert hall. The resulting stories-of passion, struggle, perseverance and transcendence-serve to illuminate the role of music in all of our lives. |
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| MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY follows the story of Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate in Iraq's January 2005 elections. As Election Day approaches, MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY reveals the agonizing predicament and gradual descent of one man caught in the tragic contradictions of the US occupation of Iraq and its project to implement democracy in the Middle East. |
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| Multiple award winning documentary, following SUSAN TOM and her 11 adopted special-needs children from holidays to hospital visits , to the unexpected death of a troubled teenage son. Intensely moving film goes deep below the surface of an extraordinary family, in what turns out to be the most difficult year of their lives. |
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| We follow the story a five-month-old baby girl brutally raped in a Johannesburg slum and Claudia Ford, who adopted her and is faced with the immense task of undoing Vyanna's past and introducing love and stability to a life. Through interviews with leading academics, researchers, activists and social commentators, the documentary also critically examines why infant rape occurs so often in South Africa. | ||||||
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| Riveting exploration of the friendship between Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller that abruptly came to an end when Kazan testified during the time of the 1950's "blacklist". Collaborators and best friends for many years before, they had even shared a girlfriend in Marilyn Monroe. Kazan and Miller embodied the deep divisions of that era. No one who survived the blacklist emerged unscathed: morals were compromised, friends were turned upon, lives were ruined, and no one was without sin. | |||||
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| Follows a grand concert Steinway piano ( Number L1037) detailing every step in the process of producing this most extraordinary and expensive instrument, and the great passion of those who make them. Famous pianists also speak about its qualities. |
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| This film is about four children living in an orphanage in Xinjiang province, China. The children are Uighurs, China's largest Muslim minority, numbering eight million in Xinjiang. They are learning the ancient Uighur art of tightrope walking. The film follows their dreams, failures, and successes over a year and a half. And it documents - for the first time ever - the official Chinese policy of religious repression in Xinjiang. |
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| When the dreams of a young and charismatic Iraqi film student Muthana are crushed following the bombing of Baghdad's film school, a brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changes his life forever. Seeing the clip, actor Liev Schreiber, feeling guilty about a war he opposes decides to extend to the unknown Iraqi the opportunity of a lifetime - to come to Prague to intern on his new feature film. But in a comedic turn of events, Schreiber's good intentions quickly backfire as the eager student proves to have intentions of his own. |
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| Perfectionist, practical joker, and one of the all-time greatest jazz men, Oscar Peterson is unlike any music legend that ever was or ever will be. Narrated by celebrated actor Christopher Plummer, Oscar Peterson reveals the man behind the legend. His drive to perfection was nurtured early by a determined father who exhorted his son to be 'the best jazz pianist ever'. That drive would take young Oscar from the dancehalls of Montreal to the concert halls of the world. After a long and extraordinary worldwide career Oscar Peterson died on December 23rd 2007 at his home in Toronto. He was 82 years old. With Diana Krall, Herbie Hancock, Phil Nimmons, Bennie Green, Ellis Marsalis and many more. |
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| The story of the rise and fall of the last President of Bolivia, focusing on his American political spin doctors. Clinton's and John Kerry's consultants - the Greenberg Carville Shrum team -, get him elected, counsel him through riots, and ultimately cannot save him from being violently overthrown by the population frustrated by globalisation and fed up with poverty. |
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| OUTFOXED examines how media empires, such as Rupert Murdoch's have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news with stations like Fox News, providing an in-depth look at the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to be correctly informed. Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers reveal the secrets of what it's like to work for Fox News and how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. |
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| Homosexuals were one of the least known groups targeted for persecution by the Nazis, and one of the last to come forward with their stories. Both intimate in its portrayals and sweeping in its narrative PARAGRAPH 175 features elderly homosexual men who vividly describe their experiences during the Nazi era -- and reveal the long-term consequences of this hidden chapter of history. | ||||||
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| In a language tinted with irony and peppered with shocking facts, the film examines the origins and reality and future of the militarization of space and opens a debate that until now has been reserved for the specialists, some of whom maintain that the arms race in space can only lead to apocalypse. |
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| Photographer Nick Karras turns the image of a woman's vulva into high art as the filmmaker confronts deep-seated personal issues and distorted cultural myths brought to light by his work. |
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| People now commonly see their pets as part of the family. Pet spas offer "paw-dicures"; celebrity chefs dish up treats at pet delis; and everything from braces to stem cell transplants to heart surgery is now available for your pet....assuming you can afford it. The newest trend is the most controversial and revealing: psycho-active drugs for dogs and cats. |
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| Internet porn is now bigger than the combined financial turnover of professional sports and live music. In 2008, it was worth $10 billion dollars. |
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| When US company AES purchased the privatized electricity company in Tbilisi, Georgia, manager Piers Lewis must now train the formerly communist population that, in this new world, customers pay for their electricity. The Georgians meanwhile, from meter readers to even the Energy Minister, devise ever more clever ways to get it for free. Amidst hot tempers and high drama, Lewis balances his love for the Georgian people with the hardships his company creates for them, as they struggle to build a nation from the rubble of Soviet collapse. |
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| Wrestling with an unhappy love affair, José Antonio Zuñiga pleaded: "God, please kill me or put me in jail" . A week later, a boy points him out from a police car, Tonio gets arrested then charged with murder. A judge who never heard him speak sentenced him to twenty years on the testimony of a single, shaky, eyewitness. Two unlikely filmmakers, Mexican lawyers, recruited by Tonio's friends, start to follow him with a camera in what seemed a hopeless 3 year quest to get the case re-tried. |
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| Robert Alton Harris finally walked to his execution in San Quentin on April 21st 1992 for murders he committed back in 1978. PROCEDURE 769 (which is the administrative name for the death penalty) makes a major contribution to the topical issue of the death penalty by telling the story through the voices of the variety of the people who were the witnesses to his execution. |
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| PULLING JOHN, a cinema-verite documentary filmed for four years in Japan, Canada, Russia, Poland, The Ukraine, and USA witnesses the spectacular and mythical world of Arm-wrestling; where 2 titans battle in pursuit of a living god. |
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| Cree director Neil Diamond brings a wry and slightly mischievous wit to this insightful and entertaining documentary that traces the evolution of the powerful images of "the Indian" in Hollywood movies - images that have influenced the understanding (and misunderstanding) of North American Natives in almost every corner of the world and have locked the North American natives into powerful stereotypes, from which they only recently started to break loose. WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 |
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| <b>REPORTER</b> is a feature documentary about Nicholas Kristof, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, who almost single-handedly put the crisis in Darfur on the world map. Now Kristof wants to do the same for Congo, a humanitarian disaster zone where 5.4 million have died in the last decade as a result of the unceasing warfare over territory, resources and tribal hatred. But Nick knows that statistics deaden his readers' interest and compassion. So to get the world to care, he goes in search of individuals whose stories will reflect the country's desperate crisis and mobilize readers worldwide. He journeys through ravaged villages and displacement camps, and makes a harrowing visit to one of Congo's reigning rebel warlords at his jungle hideout. |
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| Definitive bio doc on ROBERT CAPA, the world's preeminent documentarian of 20th century war who photographed five epic conflicts on three different continents. A handsome, dashing figure, Capa was a life-long pacifist who wore military uniforms, rode in tanks, jumped out of planes and marched in the front lines. The only photographer who touched land with soldiers at Omaha Beach on D-Day, his shocking pictures inspired Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan more than 50 years later. | |||||
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| Classic Maysles documentary SALESMAN follows door-to-door Bible salesmen as they walk the line between hype and despair. From Boston, where the company is based, then onto Chicago at a sales conference, and finally in the promising new "territory" of Miami, their mission is simple: to convince people to buy what one of them calls "still the best seller in the world." But although their customers are mostly middle- and worker-class Catholics even recommended by the local church, the Bible turns out to be a hard sell. | |||||
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| SAMBA! follows the six month build up to Rio's famous carnival. Beneath the light and glitter, a battle is underway between the carnival's aging founders and the new businessmen with different interest that now run it. Is carnival nowadays still a pure celebration of popular art, or has it become big business and a tough competition? Who really "owns" the biggest party on earth? |
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| Lebanese Rania, Egyptian Fawzia, Palestinian Farah and Saudi Muna run a popular womens TV talk show Kalam Nawaem ('Women Talk'), bringing provoking debate into millions of Arab living rooms. | |||||
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| Powerful Oscar nominated documentary about when fate places people in the wrong place at the wrong time and when fear and suspicion fuel injustice. The once-famous case of the nine Scottsboro Boys is the tale of such a dramatic miscarriage of justice that started in the early 1930s: nine poor young black men, charges of white rape, a fancy New York Jewish defense lawyer, an all-white Alabama jury, sentences of death culminating in a dogged international (Communist inspired) campaign to free the "Scottsboro Boys". | ||||||
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| In this magnificently cinematic film, the acclaimed Alternative Country artist JIM WHITE takes us on a magical journey into the heart of the culture of the southern USA, a culture too poor and marginalized to register as important yet extraordinarily rich in creative spirit. Jim White's own story threads through the film, tracing his search for the meaning of faith in the modern world in the haunting atmosphere of the South which turns to be a remarkably fertile territory for an artist. | ||||||
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| While erotic art is created by the world's best-known artists, only a few experts know where it is hidden. director Peter Woditsch attempts to track down these lost and forgotten treasures. In a world in which erotic images abound in magazines, television, videos and on the Internet, why is this art so forbidding, so powerful? Why does it need to be destroyed, hidden or ignored? |
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| With its riveting footage of a secretive underground railroad, SEOUL TRAIN documents the lives and deaths of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland via China. It exposes this growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis that sits on top of the complex geopolitics around North Korea, a crisis that threatens to undermine the stability of East Asian peace.live death in television history. | ||||||
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| SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK investigates the morality of international companies and the dictatorship of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan. The companies support the dictatorships absurd propaganda book Ruhnama and help hide human rights and free speech abuses - all in the name of corporate greed. |
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| The memories of the extreme violence and his sense of guilt haunt him to this day. This is the emotional journey back to Rwanda of Canadian Lt-General Roméo Dallaire, who commanded the U.N. peacekeeping mission in 1994 during the infamous genocide during which moreas than 800.000 Rwandans were slaughtered, which he was powerless to stop. | ||||||
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| A cinematic journey into the every-day life of the Sjamsuddin family. We follow widow Rumidja, a Christian woman who prays regularly with her grand-daughter, her son Bakti who refuses to participate in Muslim traditions until he decides to marry a Muslim woman and must convert. They live in the outskirts of Jakarta,Indonesia, the largest Islamic community on the globe, in the middle of the growing social chaos and escalating Muslim fundamentalism. | ||||||
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| Classic among its kind, SILVERLAKE LIFE, was one of the first films ever to document living with Aids and death caused by it. An extraordinary video diary told with guts and humor by longtime companions Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, this powerful documentary celebrates the human spirit while capturing the emotional challenges of living with a fatal illness. | ||||||
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| Born in response to the liberal counter-culture of the '60s by the ultra-conservative religious sect, Moral Re-Armament, SMILE TILL IT HURTS explores the clean-cut, smile-drenched singing phenomenon Up With People. Since 1965, this peppy youth group has sung to 20 million people worldwide, performed at four Superbowl halftime shows, and been parodied on The Simpsons and South Park. Talent was not required of its members, just a common enthusiastic vision to change the world one squeaky-clean song at a time. But its cheery façade concealed the more complicated reality of an organization founded on conservative American ideals and cult-like utopian ideology. |
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| One day, Danish artist and pilot Simone buys a little canvas plane. After 50 hours in the air, 33 landings, flying illegally into Afghanistan, Simone finally reaches Kabul after 6000 km, finds 16 year old Afghan girl Fayral to make her dreams of flying come true and lands into the harsh reality of being a woman in a 1000-year old Afghan family clan-society. | ||||||
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| Sounds Like a Revolution is pro-active and energizing documentary about a new generation of activist musicians who are living proof that music is an important and powerful tool in the ongoing struggle for social change. From the Dixie Chicks to Paris, Michael Franti and Anti-Flag, artists across the musical spectrum discuss their motivations and struggles in a post-9/11 environment when dissent was silenced and media outlets either ignored them or forced them into self-censorship before their material was released. Now with the decade gone, the Internet and Obama bring new hope..... |
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| SOUTHERN COMFORT is a true-life love story with a mind-bending twist. Set in rural Georgia, Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual cowboy, is dying from ovarian cancer... and over two dozen doctors refuse to help. Then, when he least expects it, Robert finds the love of his life in Lola, a male-to-female. A story of romance, prejudice and the new frontier of gender. | ||||||
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| Very topical and first time ever, humorous and laconic view of the way billionaires depart our planet earth to travel into outer space for fun. With extra-ordinary access and never before seen images the film investigates the emotional oscillations of an expensive enterprise and questions the meaning and boundaries of the human spirit and our hunger for adventure and discovery. |
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| SPAM: THE DOCUMENTARY is a humorous and insightful look into the global culture of spam - one of the 20th century's most annoying and harmful inventions, a "pest" that touches us all. |
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| With unprecedented access to Davis' vast personal archives, STARDUST illuminates the tempestuous life and career of one of the most gifted actresses to emerge from the Hollywood studio system. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon, STARDUST features original interviews with Bette's son Michael Merrill, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Gena Rowlands and James Woods who make this documentary a complete and entertaining biography. | ||||||
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| A country faces a terrorist threat and in a desperate search for security, transforms its democracy into a state of fear. The country is Peru, but the story is disturbingly familiar in today's world as the current U.S. war on terror unfolds with startling parallels - the terrorist threat, anti-terrorist legislation, an attempted military solution, the roles of intelligence and the media in the use of fear to manipulate public opinion, and the assault on democracy. | ||||||
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| This is the unusual story of a beautiful elegant woman Maria Altmann, and her incredible courage and tenacity to reclaim 5 KLIMT paintings from the Austrian government, which were stolen by the Nazis from her family. A David and Goliath tale that takes her from the glittering world of fin-de-siecle Vienna through Nazi terror in Europe to the United States Supreme Court. And after 60 years of state deception she won! Austria finally returned the paintings to Maria in 2006. |
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| Naked Finnish men in saunas speak straight from the heart about love, death, birth and friendship; about life. In the warmth of rusty stoves they cleanse themselves both physically and mentally in an exceptionally intimate and poetic film with a deeply emotional and unforgettable finale. |
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| Steve James (Hoop Dreams) guided as a volunteer problem child STEVIE Fielding, a traumatized hyperactive kid from a dysfunctional family. 10 years later James returns to Illinois and films STEVIE. As the story of STEVIE's impoverished, trailer-park life is revealed, the filmmaker and the audience get more than they bargained for. | ||||||
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| STILL DOING IT takes an intimate look at the sexuality of women over 65 as well this culture's negative treatment of aging women. Nine women: partnered, single, straight, gay, black and white reveal with startling honesty and humor how they feel about themselves, love and sex in later life, and the realities of aging. | ||||||
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| Errol Flynn remains one of the most fascinating characters ever to work in Hollywood. Remembered as much for his scandals as his acting, there was another side to Errol: writer, war reporter and even devoted family man. |
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| Filmed in his Golden Jubilee year, the documentary tells the story of the Aga Khan and the sect he leads, the Shi'a Muslim Ismailis. The film includes a rare and excusive interview with the Aga Khan. |
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| In the 1970's a new wave of Horror filmmakers changed the genre completely and introduced new visions and styles that influenced the Horror genre until today. With extraordinary clips and archive, this story is told by the giants of the genre, who started out in those days: Romero, Craven, Cronenberg, Carpenter and Hooper talk about terror, their work and the world that inspired it: America in the 70s. |
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| The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale is the unusual story of the rise and fall of a major talent, from the 1980s art world. Though he was extremely talented with a profitable collection of work, Chuck Connelly ended up alienating every collector and gallery owner he worked with. This documentary follows the life of this brilliant yet enigmatic painter, who had great success as a young artist but who now sees his career fading. |
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| Computer and Videogames have become dominant forces in today's popular culture. Sales figures outperform the movie box office worldwide. But what is the social and cultural impact of these games on the players and our society? Using the microcosm of game fans in the USA and Korea and game developers working for Microsoft as a magnifying glass to reflect upon the broad social, moral and political impact of this new medium the film explores to what extent these games have impacted individuals identities and lives today. |
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| How are guerrilla armies formed? Where do they get their money? And how do they get their weapons? One of the driving forces behind Kosovo' s fight for independence: Florin Krasniqi takes us "shopping for weapons " on the open and legal market in the United States. |
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| Pa Drnda was the only Danube King of Caviar. When Drnda had to retire due to illness, his sons, the Rats brothers moved to live by the river, trying to reach their father's golden moments. While the Rats are dreaming of a big catch and easy earnings time is passing and rules are changing. It will take them to their new life. |
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| One of THE classis documentaries of the last decade, THE CELLULOID CLOSET is a riveting and entertaining look at Hollywood and how it has both reflected and defined the way we think about homosexuality. From comic sissies to lesbian vampires, from pathetic queens to sadistic predators, from the good to the bad. With over a hundred film clips of Hollywood classics and many priceless anecdotes by Tom Hanks, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis and Gore Vidal. | ||||||
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| Striking documentary exploring the double life of a undercover Mossad agent in Egypt who poses as an ex-Nazi German millionaire and horse breeder. |
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| THE CORPORATION explores the curious history, inner workings, controversial impacts and potential future of corporations. This provoking, much-needed analysis of global commerce asks: What are the consequences for human beings, the environment, democracy, and the very survival of our planet if we grant immense power to an institution that is structurally amoral and whose prime directive is to create wealth for shareholders? Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, show the corporation's grip on our lives. |
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| A fascinating and funny look behind the scenes of the multi-million dollar B-movie and erotic thriller industry. Actors and actresses bare their soles on camera, and their responses are honest and revealing. They indicate powerful inner conflicts, betrayals of personal values, and degrading states of emotional disarray, which are inter-cut with their personal history and graphic scenes of the movies they now make. THE DARK SIDE OF HOLLYWOOD is a powerful portrait of the fragility of fame and the cost of stardom. |
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| "The Dictator Hunter" is about Human Rights Watch lawyer Reed Brody who has made it his life's work to bring dictators around the world to international justice. We follow him in his quest to bring former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre to justice, revisiting the horrific torture, imprisonment and murder carried out in the 1980s under his regime. |
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| Meet teenager Shelby Knox who sees it as the duty to join a youth group on a campaign for better sex education in Lubbock high schools, where the county's teen pregnancy and STD rates top the chart. Swept into the fight, she starts to question her deeply conservative Southern Baptist upbringing. |
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| This joyful film follows a wildly diverse crew of passionate whistlers including a turkey hauler, an investment banker and a Dutch social worker, competing in the Louisburg, NC 31st International Whistling Competition in the hopes of becoming the worlds best whistler. | ||||||
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| In 2001, the Taliban in Afghanistan issued an edict that all non-Islamic statues be destroyed: The 53 meters high, world famous Bamiyan Buddha's, were blown to bits. International outrage ensued and the hypocrisy of it is one of the subjects of Christian Frei's (Oscar Nomination for WAR PHOTOGRAPHER) beautiful inquiry, a mesmerizing essay about terrorism and tolerance, ignorance and identity, fanaticism and faith. | ||||||
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| On May 26, 2002, filmmakers Hayes and Bruce were in Colombia to document the campaign of controversial presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt. But on Election Day, Ingrid never arrived. Earlier that morning, Ingrid was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This is her story and her family's desperate quest to free her and keep her campaign alive Ingrid Betancourt is still captive and there has been no news from since years. |
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| THE LAST CIGARETTE aims at smokers, ex-smokers, non-smokers, and potential smokers - in short: everyone. One billion people smoke every day. They are not, for the most part, ignorant of the dangers. Why do they do it? Simple physical addiction to nicotine explains why many continue to smoke, but, knowing the dangers, why did they ever start? Hollywood clips, vintage cigarette commercials, anti-smoking scare-films, Congressional battle-footage, and much more address these questions in a lighthearted (but clear!) way. |
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| A film about the passionate struggle of a small Italian community in Siena to win the town's annual event: Il Palio. The honour and respect of the neighbourhood are at stake, as they have not won for years. THE LAST VICTORY tells the moving story of their hopes, their personal convictions and their craving for good fortune. | ||||||
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| Courage, persistence and confidence in his own skills explain how John A. Alonzo went from being the son of a poor Mexican migrant worker to become one of the most acclaimed Hollywood cinematographers. |
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| 1971: America is embroiled in a dirty war based on lies and deceit. A president is abusing the power of his office, ignoring the will of the people, congress and the courts. One man, Daniel Ellsberg, at the center of power leaks the truth about the Vietnam war to the New York Times. Henry Kissinger called him, "the most dangerous man in America" And 3 decades later, he's still at it. WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 |
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| In a world living in fear of climate change, the nuclear industry has put its hand up as the solution. It claims that nuclear power produces zero carbon emission and that it is clean. But is it that simple? |
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| THE ONE PERCENT focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. |
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| Considered one of the best documentaries on the subject, this shocking and thoroughly engrossing documentary about the adult film industry goes onto the sets, behind the scenes and into the private lives of the men and women who have chosen to trade sex for a chance at fame and fortune. Three uncompromising chapters (The Stars, The Industry, and The Consequences) reveal the realities, consequences and ultimately the sacrifices of people in an industry that is often willing to sell fantasy at any price. |
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| An exceptional and poetic documentary about an ordinary day in an extraordinary swimming pool. Every hour, the category of swimmers changes. The day starts with young, pregnant women, quietly floating and contemplating the miracle inside their bellies. Then young parents and with their children. Later, it is the hour for gays and lesbians. At the end of the day, it is the elderly people's turn, thus reflecting the full cycle of life. |
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| A group of Greenpeace pioneers looks back on their activists' life. Once the crew of the famous ship Rainbow Warrior bombed by French agents in 1985, now they are living together on Waiheke Island in New Zealand. Age causes them to make up the balance: have their ideals proven to be tenable, and what has their activist past achieved for the world and for themselves? |
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| The epic tale of John Peterson, farmer, artist, and revolutionary innovative thinker from rural Illinois. An outcast in his community, he bravely stands amidst a failing economy, vicious rumours, and violence. Through 20 years of personal interviews and 50 years of beautifully textured footage, we share Farmer John's odyssey, turning his traditional family farm into a revolutionary organic agriculture farming community where people and art can thrive alongside organic agriculture. |
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| THE REAL SHAOLIN is a moving, poetic and action-packed documentary feature about two Chinese and two Westerners who journey to the Shaolin Temple in China, inspired by Jet Lis Kung Fu movie The Shaolin Temple. |
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| Festivals: Sundance US Documentary Competition 2009 A David & Goliath battle of titanic proportions unfolds as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo faces down warlords, genocidal dictators and world superpowers in his struggle to tame the Wild West of global conflict zones and bring perpetrators of crimes against humanity to justice. |
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| As populations of tigers in the wilds of Asia and India dwindle dangerously close to extinction, thousands of highly inbred American tigers are being kept and bred by private individuals in the United States. This one-hour, character driven documentary follows the story of one man who has been keeping, breeding, and selling Bengal tigers from his backyard for over fifteen years. |
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| Vividly recalling the tumultuous political and social climate of San Francisco in the 70s, THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK builds a brilliant, gripping portrait of what was really lost when San Francisco City Counsillor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone were brutally murdered by fellow Counsillor Dan White in November 1978. Spellbinding and intensely moving from start to finish, this film is as relevant today as when it won the Academy Award in 1984. | ||||||
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| We trace the evolution of international law and justice from the tribunals of the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, through the arrest of General Pinochet in London, to the opening of the International Criminal Court (ICC). This film also looks at the US, who opposes the new court, and visits Iraq, Kosovo, Northern Uganda, and Darfur. As the perpetrators of unspeakable war crimes largely operate with impunity we are charting a path to international justice. |
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| Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about "troop greeters" - a group of senior citizens who gather day and night at Bangor airport, Maine to thank American soldiers departing for war and greet them when they come back from Afghanistan and Iraq ( and hand them cell phones to call their loves ones!) the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality. A deeply moving film about life and how to live it. |
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| Leni Riefenstahl has secured her place in cinema history, but her story remains a sensitive topic as one of her most ardent admirers was Adolf Hitler. TRIMPH DES WILLENS and OLYMPIA glorified the Nazi Party and later would bring an abrupt end to her filmmaking career. Riefenstahl became an outcast after the war, but tried to pursue her artistic endeavors with characteristic determination and enthusiasm. Leni Riefenstahl died at the age of 101 in 2003. | ||||||
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| Dolkar, a young Buddhist woman from Ladakh in the Himalayas wants to play ice hockey. With her Buddhist friends she joins the Kargil Muslim Team and get equipment and coaching. Together they fight with the men in charge of the regional Ice Hockey competition who do not want them to skate. Dolkar becomes the girls' leader. After chaos, injustice, boycott and wild protests, the girls can finally skate the last hard match for the bronze medal and they win! |
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| THREE OF HEARTS: a postmodern family explores the unique union of Sam, Samantha and Steven as they negotiate their living arrangements, fall in love, decide to have children and grow up together as a "trinogomous" triple over a 13 year period. The viewer will take a journey with these three charismatic people as they take us on a most unusual path of self-discovery. |
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| A first time biography on J.J. Cale, who wrote some of the biggest rock hits ever and helped launch Clapton solo career with After Midnight and Cocaine. When Mojo Magazine asked Eric Clapton which other musician he would most like to be, he answered "Cale", J.J.Cale the musician's musician. We follow him on his recent To Tulsa and Back Tour. | |||||
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| Lars Von Trier is a man of contradictions, a daring and provocative artist who is as enigmatic as private a person, since years continuously refusing contact with press and media. TRANCEFORMER is an exclusive document with many clips of his films, which offers a unique insight into his art and his world of thoughts. | |||||
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| The TWIST changed an entire generation. You moved your hips, you gyrated, you let your partner go and swivel like crazy. Never before had white America played so loose with its body. Coming along right when rock and roll needed a new jolt, the twist fast became an international phenomenon, and signaled the end of America's WASP reserve. In a fast-paced mix of interviews and rare archival footage, TWIST features: Hank Ballard, American Bandstand Dancers, Chubby Checker, Joey Dee, Gladys Horton, Dee Dee Sharp, Mama Lu Parks & The Parkettes. | |||||
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| "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough" said Robert Capa. War photographer James Nachtwey has been close enough for twenty years. Frei followed him for two years. Nachtwey is in Kosovo when the houses are still ablaze; in Indonesia, where a family of beggars lives among the railway lines; and in Palestine in the midst of teargas and the young stone throwers. The spectator gets Nachtwey's unique perspective thanks to the miniature film camera attached to his photo camera, seeing what he sees. | ||||||
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| Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. In the Congo possibly hundreds of thousands of women and girls were brutally raped. In this unique film military perpetrators unveil the hidden motives and strategies of rape as a war crime. Filled with trauma, an ex-rebel rapist attempts to reconcile with his past, by meeting one of his victims. Captain Basima is working as an army priest and confronts soldier/rapists. He urges them to change. Just like he did. |
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| Web Warriors offers an unprecedented glimpse into the world's newest and most vulnerable frontier: cyberspace. Some reports say the cost of worldwide cyber crime is now on par with the illegal drug trade. |
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| In Japan, WWII Kamikaze are still revered as self-sacrificing heroes. Internationally, they remain a potent symbol of fanaticism. Until now, few outsiders knew that many Kamikaze actually survived their suicide missions. The candid, heartbreaking testimony of surviving Kamikaze conveys the true depth of war's travesty. Sixty years later, these humble men tell us about the horrors of the cockpit, their dramatic survival and the survivor's guilt still haunting them. |
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| A documentary musical about the rise and fall of the Revolutionary Model Operas during the Cultural Revolution in China, based on traditional Chinese stories and adapted to the likes of Maos wife. We see these propaganda operas with those who performed in it, and look at their renewed popularity in modern day China. They are performed again by young people and are now also available in Karaoke versions in the Chinese Supermarket. A marvellous mixture of high and low culture. | ||||||
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