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An exploration of the current situation of farmers across all four linguistic regions of Switzerland. They find themselves caught between tradition and structural change, between pride and economic pressure, and face a society that seems to think it knows how farmers should work.
Ghost hunting is the process of investigating locations that are reported to be haunted by ghosts. This documentary examines the incredible history and haunting origins of this practice.
Memory is a ghost. Lucio, a printing press worker, takes one last walk around the machines with whom he shared everything. He remembers when his mechanisms used to move and through that mechanical movement he reflects about his own life.
The definitive look at Betty White's life and career. As the only authorized documentary on Betty ever made, this film is packed with hilarious clips from her long career. Plus comments from friends and co-stars.
More and more goods are being transported on Europe's roads, yet work conditions for truck drivers are getting worse and worse. Exploitative dependency and wage dumping. A broken system! The film relentlessly exposes how disenfranchisement has become the norm.
Tajga was shot after the performance of the same name, performed at the international festival of contemporary arts City of Women in October 1995 in Ljubljana. The viewer enters a dark atmosphere dictated by dramatic vocal-electronic music, passing anthropomorphic and waxy zoomorphic figures, and camera movements. When the author establishes the landscape, she places a wrestler and a drowning woman in it, and with these scenes she further increases the suspension. At the height of the dramaturgy, the set stage collapses. The waxen guard dogs dissolve and the soldiers retreat. Naked female characters appear, announcing the transition to a period of warmth and peace, accompanied by softer music.
A cinematic and introspective look at the residents of a Quebec town—once the site of the world's largest asbestos mine—as they grapple with their community's industrial past. Striving to honour their heritage while reconciling with their history and forging a new path forward, the miners delve into the intricacies of progress and healing.
Brazil's love motels are a sexual haven where fantasy becomes reality. When the filmmaker's own date never shows up, she gets a fresh idea for a film instead. The result is a kaleidoscopic insight into a parallel world of human desire.
A film about a girl who was born and raised in the city and dreamed of becoming a veterinarian to treat pets. But in the process of studying, she realized that she wanted to work in the village, take care of large animals. A fragile girl learns to cope with hard work and make a difficult choice between life and death.
Flora Valverde, a non-binary student of Cinema and Audiovisual at UFPB, recounts in a video letter their experiences to their idol David Bowie, updating him on the events that happened after his death in 2016.
From dawn to dusk, a film crew chased storms from Austria to Montenegro, exploring familiar territory and venturing into the unknown. Their goal? Make a stunning ski film.
A late summer day. In a house near the sea, memories settle in that delicate space between childhood innocence and the transition to adulthood.
Second Skin witnesses 6 artists inhabiting their bodies. Women who go through their own skin to tell us about their existence. In an experimental and poetic way, the film takes a journey from the marked body to the flowing, tentacular and free body.
What does it take to be the fastest? From award-winning filmmaker Mark Neale, comes Fastest, a spectacular maximum-speed, full-length documentary delving deep into the world of MotoGP™. This thrilling documentary, narrated by Ewan McGregor, highlights the thrills, spills and incredible commitment and courage the sport demands of it stars. With unprecedented behind-the-scenes access and never before seen angles, interviews and insight, this truly cinematic experience charts the exhilarating highs, crushing lows, career-threatening crashes and spectacular comebacks, including Rossi’s 41 days turn around to race following a leg shattering crash.
A documentary vignette explores the life of Revolutionary feminist and filmmaker Magda Gonzalez Grau, capturing a pivotal interview moment that reveals her evolving feminist politics during the Cuban Revolution.
Mary is trapped in a toxic friendship. Miriam, with her chain-smoking and vicious tongue, is that toxic friend. Morning tea and vitriol. There is no smoke without fire.
