Documentary Movies

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Invisible Hopes

Reveals the apprehensive life of children born to inmate mothers who are forced to live and become victims shrouded in prison.

A Colônia

Antônio Justa neighborhood, in Maracanaú (CE), arises from a colony founded in 1942 for the isolation of people with leprosy. Today the new residents and the descendants of the first patients live in a territory marked by irregular occupation and real estate speculation, crossed by the stigma of the disease in the past and the precarious current reality.

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Pupá

Pupá lives in Acari, RN, where her vibrant and original presence symbolizes joy and freedom. In her daily life, she juggles domestic work, her job as a lottery ticket seller, and making herbal syrups. On weekends, Pupá sets aside her chores and finds in serenades, forró dances, rivers, and reservoirs the space to reaffirm her right to live her own autonomy.

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Boxing Club

Broken View

A poetic essay film on the colonial gaze and the magic lantern. This early type of image projector was used in Belgian colonial propaganda, showcasing the good works of the Church, State and industry. Lantern projections were an effective way of selling the colonial project to a somewhat reluctant Belgian public.

Becoming Led Zeppelin

The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the 1960s, playing small clubs throughout Britain and performing some of the biggest hits of the era, until their meeting in the summer of 1968 for a rehearsal that changes their lives forever.

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Golpe de Ouro

After the coup of 1964, the media conglomerate Diários Associados organized a campaign called "Gold for Brazil," exhorting the people to donate wealth to the military government. The symbol of the campaign was the wedding ring, sealing the union between the people and the State. The film picks up the trail of the millions collected, but never channeled back into society.

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Will & Harper

When Will Ferrell's good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.

Stories

Fragments of footage featuring a series of people invited to describe a work of art they remember. In these accounts, the descriptions of the different works stem from an emotional connection to what they are trying to recall, as well as a close, intimate reflection on the place of aesthetic experience in everyday life.

The Culprits

After carrying the silence of a teenage abortion for years, filmmaker Marta Duran Lozano gathers the anonymous testimonies of women who have lived through similar experiences. Alongside teenage girls who have recently had abortions, she embarks on a collective creative process, revisiting, embodying, and reimagining these intimate stories.

Enclave

Sugan Yibu lost his father when he was young. He nearly died elsewhere while working outside. His mother, who lost her husband, and he stuck together and helped each other in difficulties in his home town. There are many volunteers come to the village, teach on their own in recent years. Sugan Yibu is pleased to see the children in village take due education. He also has class occasionally in the school. The village electrified in 2012. With TV. Sugan Yibu who looks forward to the outside world, has a new way to knows more about outside world. He watched NEWS everyday through TV. He gets plenty of praise for the policy and strategy. The more he knows about the law, the more he feels disgusted to the local government. The life of Sugan Yibu, substitute teachers public teachers in school. Because of the different perception, they all have different views towards different problems.

One Hundred Years Older

What happens in the eyes of a 100-year-old filmmaker? Rolands Kalniņš, one of the great masters of Latvian cinema, sits down to have his photo taken and looks straight in the lens. Kalniņš’ life has spanned an authoritarian regime, a world war, long years under Soviet occupation and censorship, and retirement in independent Latvia. His films have been censored, destroyed, found and restored. But here, like Herz Frank once did with a child, for ten minutes we shall observe the micro-emotions of a man who has dedicated his life to film. Confronted directly by the tool of his trade, the camera. As we face Kalniņš eye to eye, we hear the sounds of his present, and the memories of his past.

The river people

Ernestina is a small town of 150 people whose peculiar inhabitants are deeply concerned by the acts of vandalism perpetrated by the people who go bathe in the river. They decide to hire private security. What is really going on in Ernestina? A suspenseful, humorous and endearing documentary about the dynamics of these small-town people.

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Our Land

Through organised 'mass trespass' events, the Right to Roam movement sets out to increase public access to nature, but finds itself in conflict with England's landowners.