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Explores the sensuous rhythms and movements of the dance style known as the rumba, as demonstrated by the celebrated Havana rumbero PapĂĄ Montero. Blending vintage documentary footage with meticulously staged recreations, the dancer's tragic assassination at Carnival is connected with the passing of a cultural era in Cuban life.
ACCIDENT, MD is a survey of attitudes about America's health care crisis filmed in and around the small town of Accident, Maryland.
Documentary about farming in HavrÄ, outside Bergen. A film from a closed-off small Norwegian rural community.
Dramatization of the life of Puerto Rican poet Luis Palés Matos.
One man's dream of bringing a European cow in his picturesque village in Azerbaijan unsettles the conservative community that wants to keep their secular traditions intact.
The stuff and visitors of one of the state institutions going through their daily routine. This buildings is full of mystery and secrets. Nobody can understand the issues they are trying to solve or to find the final destination of their corridor marathons. We can only trust and wonder how everything is organized here.
"Sister death" explores the tension between the ritual and the everyday through the figure of Ariel, a priest who performs funeral responses in a cemetery of Buenos Aires
With EMBERS, Tamara Stepanyanâs first feature-length documentary, the director seeks to honour the memory of her late grandmother, whom she was named after. Stepanyan visits the elder Tamaraâs hometown in Armenia, where she spends time with her grandmotherâs circle of friends, who discuss their memories of daily life with Tamara, bringing to light their ideological and political viewpoints in the process. As the conversations progress, a dialogue emerges between past and present â between the Tamara of today and the Tamara of two generations ago, whose life was shaped by her experiences during World War II. Despite the absence of the filmâs central subject, her presence is deeply felt through her impact on those who survived her. Stepanyanâs mourning the loss of someone close to her heart is acutely apparent; here, she faces down that sorrow with a bright tribute to a wonderful woman.
Filmmaker Krishita Desai explores AI grief technology that lets people interact with digital versions of their deceased loved ones. Through families and experts, the film asks whether it brings comfort or complicates grief and healing.
Story of psychological pressure which former Soviet Afghan soldiers have to deal with in peaceful life. Through the story of Ruslan we are shown how public indifference often leads to drug usage.
The silence of the rainforest in the Colombian Pacific coast area is broken. A tree over 20 meters tall rips out and tumbles down. It is the first of the more than 100 trees that Robinson and his family, with nothing but axes, are about to chop down, chop up and drag over an improvised path to a nearby stream, and from there to the large AnchicayĂĄ River. There, in the river waters, they tie up all the pieces for form a huge raft, on which they embark on a titanic journey that lasts over forty hours, overcoming the river torrents and the choppy waters of the Pacific Ocean. They finally arrive at the Port of Buenaventura, where after several months of tireless work, they sell the wood and complete a feat that demonstrates the never-ending search of humanity: survival.
An ongoing collection of single static shot, mute, showing a view of the cinema facades where Cinematons have been screened.
Through a look at the life of Envar El Kadri, we go through important moments in the recent history of our people. A reflection from the political legacy that allows us to discover it from another perspective.
The trajectory of Branca, a 3 years old Brazilian, and Marcos. They never met in life before seeing themselves on screen. Branca travels to Cuba, her father homeland, in the anniversary of the revolution.
A disturbing exploration of what it means to be a man Desert Wind unveils the innermost thoughts of 13 men about their lives and male identity, making a clean sweep of clichés. Their revelations -- a glimpse of the hidden side that few men spontaneously reveal -- are of equal interest for women.
In pursuit of the best that the winter of 2012 had to offer, the Absinthe crew employed a dual strategy to both hustle & hunker down waiting. In a year of erratic snowfall, there was no other way to slay. But by splitting up and spreading out across the globe in smaller groups, they stacked the odds in their favor. The strategy worked. Tight, agile crews tuned themselves to local frequencies enabling them to tap into record-breaking dumps in Europe, heavy sessions in the Pacific Northwest, Japan, and ultimately, Alaska. It was a winter with Resonance: new riders came on board, new locations were exposed and as always, the Absinthe cameras captured all the action on film.
A valuable testimony that approaches the essence of Nijinsky who did not leave a video. Boris Kochno, who was at the center of Russian ballet, vividly tells how Nijinsky, who had fallen ill, witnessed his newly choreographed self-made work. Nijinsky's successor machine is a rare record of transferring Nijinsky's appearance in the popular work "Afternoon of a Faun" to two great dancers, Grigorowich and Wasiriev, who carry Bolshoi ballet on their backs.
