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In the mid-aughts, Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator drew millions of weekly viewers to watch sting operations: men planning to meet minors for sex would instead be confronted by polished host Chris Hansen, then by the police — all on hidden camera.
Paul McCartney forms new band Wings after Beatles breakup. Archival home footage shows his life with Linda, who influenced his music. The film follows Wings from formation through the 1970s, during which McCartney wrote hit songs.
Solitudes goes from laugh to drama, from musical to documentary, from romantic comedy to mean satire, keeping loneliness focused in all its aspects at all times, in many stories that are linked to each other.
The film is about two brothers; one of them stayed at home in Lviv, and the other is held captive in a hospital in Donetsk after the last battles for Donetsk Airport. They both believe they will meet again.
The film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America, located in the North of Mexico. He presents himself as a polemical figure who takes justice into his own hands in order to "clean" his municipality of the drug cartels' presence. Mauricio is a key character to better understand the present situation in Mexico and through the unusual views of this politician, the audience will be a privileged witnesses of an scenario where political tasks and excessive violence mingle with one another.
The Tupac Amaru neighborhood organization, led by Milagro Sala, carried out impressive construction, cultural, educational, healthcare, and dignified projects for vulnerable sectors of the Jujuy Province. On January 16, 2016, Milagro was arrested because her actions affected the economic and political interests of the Jujuy ruling class. Many cooperative members who participated in this epic plot were gradually arrested. In a trial riddled with irregularities, they were convicted.
The collection of TV series based on Albert Maltsa’s stories. Action happens at the time of the Great depression.
The film studio "Albatros" was founded in 1920 by Russian emigre filmmakers who had left Russia after the 1917 revolution. From 1920 to 1929 the studio "Albatros" and Russian filmmakers will literally upset the French cinema by bringing a specificity of their own. The phenomenal success of the films of the studio "Albatros" will give a second life to the French cinema then in crisis by propelling it to the first world ranking in competition with Hollywood. At the head of this small studio born one evening in February 1920 in Montreuil were two Russian producers: Joseph Ermolaev and Alexandr Kamenka.
The Land Without Evil is the mythology that guides the Guaraní communities. It narrates the search for a lost paradise. From the moment that Europeans crossed the Atlantic, it became the anima of a resistance discourse. How many different weapons does it take for a fight? The solo exhibition of Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy, one of the most engaged women among Brazil’s Indigenous filmmakers combines new works and the archive behind her audiovisual journey over the past 15 years, always in close collaboration with the Mbyá-Guarani Cinema Collective. It presents Indigenous cinematic practice as a tool of resistance and healing showcasing intimate and painful thoughts on the feminine, on spirituality, colonization, and the relationship to land.
This film was shot over the course of one month, on a 10 year old camera, documenting empty construction sites. Through this, the filmmaker explores the beauty in humanity, growing up and the world of architecture.
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.
The film sketches the creative life of the protagonist Kapila. The film’s narrative is structured as one day in the life of a Koodiyattam performer.
Sebastián is a photographer who portrays homosexual men in Santiago de Chile, mainly by revealing their sexual expressions. It doesn't matter who or how many of them are involved, nor is it an issue the fact of their being exposed, as sex and the camera are a escape from their realities.
Featuring exclusive interviews with the leading titans of rock that include: Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slipknot, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Prophets Of Rage, Greta Van Fleet, Halestorm, and many, many more, "Long Live Rock" is a deep dive into the fandom of this often misunderstood but beloved genre of music.
Han pasado 8 años desde que Marco se fue. Carmelita y don Toño, los padres de Marco, viven el día a día añorando el reencuentro con su hijo. Se mantienen en contacto mediante un smartphone que Marco les regaló. It's been 8 years since Marco left. Carmelita and Don Toño, Marco's parents, live life on an everyday basis longing to be reunited with their son. They stay in touch through a smartphone he presented them.
A film based on fragments of the story La Gente Perra by the Colombian writer Gomati D. Wahn (1923 -1993). The story, which takes place 3000 years in the future, tells of the character of The Admiral as he searches for the land of the Dog People and the riches that it hides. However, as is typical of Wahn’s style, the story is assembled out of altered existing texts, in this case, historic accounts of the conquest of what was once known as the New World.
This is a marsh area in the very heart of the protected wetlands in the east of Uruguay, but today it has almost completely disappeared. A message in the Guaraní language, an "India Muerta" prayer, sounds the alarm about the dire consequences for nature of what human beings are doing.
Twenty-two years after the massacre perpetrated by paramilitary groups in complicity with the government, the people of Acteal celebrate their martyrs and persist in their demand for justice.
From the mind of Canadian ripper, Antosh Cimoszko (who brought us Spots) comes yet another montage of quick feet and tight VX1000 filming titled Heat, filmed in the the rugged terrain that is NYC featuring Dylan Fulford and Will Blakley. Antosh and his crew are arguably some of the most productive dudes up in Canada right now and have been hitting the streets like crazy.
