In an era where many climbers are using fixed ropes and sport-climbing tactics to free El Cap, climbers like Amity Warme and Brent Barghahn are choosing to keep adventure alive. Going ground up, Amity and Brent pull off a free ascent of the Pineapple Express variation of El Niño (5.13b/c) over eight days, battling variable conditions, friable rock, and, for Amity, a serious finger injury. This documentary captures the tenacity, grit, and performance mindset required to go ground up on a free ascent of El Capitan.
I enjoy religion, I appreciate belief systems and how they offer structure to people's lives. I also appreciate how spirituality manifests itself in Asian cultures as this almost earthbound presence guiding people through every day life and when they need an extra bit of help they need only ask whichever deity holds dominion over their desire. Here is an experimental film I made with videos from my iPhone. Shot across Taiwan and South Korea. An experimental film I made with videos from my iPhone. Shot across Taiwan and Korea. My aim was to explore success in how it pertains to every day life, the satisfaction of small moments, spirituality, superstition, and daily rituals.
The real Alan Bates and other subpostmasters will speak out on ongoing struggle for justice and financial redress following UK miniseries. Former subpostmasters portrayed in the drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office describe its impact while others tell their stories for the first time.
"Inquiry of Shadows" is a documentary that delves into the hidden depths of the Uyghur genocide in China. Through personal accounts, expert insights, and historical analysis, the film unveils the dark nexus of psychological warfare, cultural obliteration, and the silencing of artistic and intellectual voices.
Davaa and Zaya are a young nomadic couple in the vast Bayanhongor region of Mongolia who are in the throes of animal birthing season when a seismic event suddenly changes their lives. They are forced to migrate afar but are haunted by their past lives.
Documentary filmmaker İmre Azem interviewed dozens of Hatay residents for the documentary “Hatay: 17-24 April 2023” in order to understand and tell the story Hatay after the devastating 6 February 2023 earthquakes. Then came the follow-up documentary “Hatay: 1-11 September 2023”. Now Azem continues this series, which acts as an archive as well, with “Hatay: 5-15 February 2024” in which we visit Hatay for the third time on the anniversary of the February 6 earthquakes. The daffodils we hold tightly in our hands is still at Köprübaşı bridge, impatient to reach the Asi River. “The daffodil symbolizes hope and new beginnings,” they say, “it represents the awakening of nature and points to a brand new beginning.” #YouAreNotAloneYouWillHeal
This film reveals the shocking collusion between the government, media, and Big Tech to censor science and silence prominent voices, such as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (the new head of the NIH), who disagreed with COVID policies.
That's Your Lot - A very short film about nothing by Duncan Cowles made in an afternoon in late 2023 (largely with the purpose of testing a new camera.)
Since the start of Operation Iron Sword, provoked by Hamas’ attack on Israel, conditions in Gaza have become apocalyptic. After months of offensive, most of the territory is an uninhabitable field of ruins. 1.5 million people are displaced, forced to constantly relocate by the advancing Israeli army. Barely a third of the hospitals are functioning. According to Unicef estimates, a child is injured or killed every 10 minutes in Gaza.
Katherine Ryan presents a celebration of one of the biggest comedy talents to ever appear on the small screens – the razor-sharp-tongued first lady of laughter, Joan Rivers.
A documentary exploring Lev Parnas' involvement in the Trump-Ukraine scandal that resulted in the former president's impeachment, detailing Parnas' unexpected entanglement with Trump and Giuliani, leading to his incarceration.
An oblique remake of Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground (1951), Ray’s Place follows Ray from his haunts in New York City to Binghamton where, exiled from Hollywood, he taught alongside members of the American avant-garde. Participating in both Hollywood’s golden age and the experimental cinema of the 1970s yet at home in neither, what is Ray’s place?
In childhood, my favorite toy was a typewriter. It seemed so that fate had chosen me for a path leading to great cinema. However, not clear enough expressions of desires can bring about what one wishes for in unexpected forms. Thus, I became a clapper. In an era where cars can drive themselves down the streets, I try to understand: what does a person with a piece of plastic in hand get to do on a film set? And what am I doing with this life? Most importantly, do small actions really lead to something great?
A sensorial approach to a territory that is as close as it is strange: the food-producing farms that surround large cities as La Plata (Arg.). This documentary presents Javier Paniagua and his family inhabiting a network of tasks, problems and choices of special scope. The commitment to produce healthy food for their community, told by the producers themselves. Located in El Pato, Berazategui, Javier’s farm is part of the largest horticultural belt in Argentina. Despite the difficulties in accessing land and technology, this territory is also the setting in which thousands of families choose a life in coexistence with nature.