Documentary Movies

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Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Absent

Documentary on the social pandemic of fatherlessness afflicting today's societies.

The Burning Bishop

Archbishop Anton Vovk lived his vocation with strong faith and devotion, conscious of his mission in the then challenging, epochal times. The documentary traces his life and work, portraying the man he truly was: brave, con dent, and at the same time gentle and caring. Using a modern language of cinema combined with original score and unique footage, the film helps the gure of Anton Vovk enter common knowledge and collective memory.

Traveling Fairs

A documentary about traveling fairs in Spain.

Masing's Landscape. Part I

Uku Masing (11.08.1909-25.04.1985, born in Raikküla parish, Lipa village) was a theologian, Orientalist, philosopher, poet, folklorist and ethnologist. The residents of Masing's home village recall their memories about Uku Masing and his family.

Becoming Ema

A young woman defies her parents' wishes and the pressure of society, and moves to the forest to start a family close to nature. But the road to becoming herself is long and difficult.

Batiledhu

Every year, in a remote village in Sardinia, a ritual takes place. A man — Batiledhu (the madman) — is chosen by the villagers to embody Dionysos, the wild God of nature and ecstasy, who dies and is resurrected in the eternal cycle of life.

Merkel Must Go

Their names are René, Sabine and Daniel – three people among thousands of others who go on to the streets of Dresden every Monday as “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West”. They shout “We are the people!” They claim “Merkel must go!” The director Sabine Michel accompanied them for one year – on their demonstrations and in their daily lives. Merkel Must Go is not a film about PEGIDA, it asks for the personal reasons for this patriotic protest, a film about realistic and absurd fears of the present.

Generation Yamakasi

For the Yamakasi the "Art of Displacement" is a way of life. Racing through the new cities that ring Paris, climbing walls, swinging from balconies and leaping across rooftops, they transform the oppressive concrete architecture into places of fantasy, possibility and play. The heart of our documentary is the story of how the Yamakasi are transforming the youth of the suburbs, and themselves, through discipline, will and desire. Now, as the Art of Displacement is being embraced as an extreme sport and urban pastime, will the social message be transmitted as well? What is it for the new generation?

Black Nation

Black Nation is a compelling film that takes a hard, uncompromising look at the state of Black men in America today through the prism of the streets of Detroit and the City's controversial Shrine of the Black Madonna.

Qajaq Man

A British chef paddles 3,000 kilometers along Greenland's west coast, surviving on nature's bounty and discovering the power of community in a country surrounded by geopolitical tensions.

Battleship Berlin

Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital wants to destroy a brutalist icon of the Cold War era: The infamous former animal research laboratory called the Mäusebunker. Meanwhile, a dedicated group of politicians, preservationists, architects, gallerists, and students fight for an adaptive reuse of these magnificent, uncompromisingly unique structures. Who will win? No matter the outcome, you’re left with the impression that preservation can be brutal.

Seekers

In Dulce - New Mexico, Leon Reval loses the tribal elections and his position as councilman. The uncertainty of his future echoes with the one of Jicarillas tribe. Today, they try - in vain - to keep on the fight that began with Geronimo against Mexico and United States, in order to preserve the Native American's rights.

As Quatro Estações

California Stories

Short by Nancy Buchanan.

Gamemaster

A deep dive into the world of the thriving board game industry and the creators behind popular games.

Mauro Wichí

Music is Music/Crazy Girl Crazy

In a poetic composition of song, narration, and images, this film follows Canadian soprano and orchestra conductor Barbara Hannigan, accompanied by the Ludwig Orchestra, as she records her album Crazy Girl Crazy. Why did she choose these three pieces, in essence so different, but which intimately resonate with her: Berio’s Sequenza III, Berg’s Lulu Suite, and Gershwin’s Girl Crazy? With this musical voyage peering into a world of precision and sharing, where a passionate woman brings forth a vocal tour de force, Mathieu Amalric, César winner for Best Actor in 2005 and 2008, shows us once more his talent behind the camera with this new opus that goes beyond a mere artist’s portrait.

A Mandolin in Exile

The Modhurchora Refugee Camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, is the largest of its kind in the world, where millions of Rohingya refugees are confined. In this hopeless land, filled with the extreme despair of existential struggle, a ray of hope is lit by a lone native musician. Mohammad (Ahmed) Hossain, the 'Mandolin man' took refuge here with millions of Rohingya people due to fear, threats and massacres carried out by Myanmar military forces since August 2017. Hossain is a passionate musician. He used to compose songs that combined the everyday realities of his people and expressed their hopes through the voice of the accompanying Mandolin. Among the Rohingya Muslim community, the practice of music is prohibited by religion.

Mein grünes Herz in dunklen Zeiten