The untold story of the halcyon era of women's professional cycling. For six glorious years during the 1980s, the Tour de France held a women's race alongside the men's race. These women raced over the same cobblestones, conquered the same mountains, and were cheered by the same throng of adoring crowds as the men.
In a place of their choosing, Ambre, Méline and Chiara each recount a moment in their lives. It is personal and singular, yet part of a wider phenomenon: the persistence of rape culture, which robs women of their bodies.
In Mumbai, once an island city linked by the sea, modern bridges and land reclamation have reshaped the landscape, disrupting the lives of its original communities.
The high rises on the outskirts of Geneva are his kingdom. Chouaib makes ends meet as a street trader, and nurtures his passion for rap. Both of which draw on his gift for language to win over customers and create poetry. A portrait emerges between moments of work and play, between the daily grind and the need to make it big, as a means of escape.
Don Hardy's (PICK OF THE LITTER, MFF18) latest goes behind the BAR 5-Day course—the world's premiere educational program on distilled spirits and mixology. Two parts competition, one part the camraderie of teachers and learners served over ice with a dash of spiritous history, this film will whet your interest in and appreciation for what goes into serving a great drink well
Strong winds shake the leaves of drought-stricken trees in an ancient olive grove near Delphi, reminding us of the wildfires that are engulfing the country. Here, a family of farmers attempts to restore its land.
Lea is fixated on finding the subject of her documentary. She goes on the hunt, armed with her camera, and comes across an older man who seems different.
Liverpool, a sleeping city, awakens under the glow of a musical revolution. Four boys, known as the Beatles, turn their dream into an odyssey. This documentary is a visual symphony that traces their meteoric rise, the challenges that darken their path, and the eternal mark they leave on the history of music. A moving poem.
In the most personal and unflinching film of his career, historian Simon Schama confronts the enormity of the Holocaust and the catastrophe experienced by its victims. In a journey that ends with his first visit to Auschwitz, Simon travels across the Continent to explore how the Holocaust was far more than a Nazi obsession that played out in gas chambers, but a European-wide crime of complicity. From bullets in the Lithuanian lands of his ancestors to bureaucracy in the Netherlands, he reveals how deep-rooted prejudice was weaponised to turn people against their Jewish neighbours. As a moving interview with a survivor reveals, the story of how ‘evil comes step by step’ remains powerfully relevant today.
Riccardo is fascinated by Jeffrey Dahmer, a famous American serial killer. He recognizes himself in this man, a homosexual like himself, for whom he feels a love that he has never felt in his own life. I travel with him to Milwaukee, the city where Dahmer committed his murders, to film him as his encounter with reality puts his fantasy and our friendship to the test.
Fortune and Kevine, two inseparable friends, play on the same first-division football team in Yaoundé, Cameroon. To achieve their dream of playing for a foreign club, they must fight to gain recognition as female footballers. Kevine signs with the renowned FC Nantes and leaves her country, while Fortune hopes to join her one day.
A mechanic discovers the fossil of a huge carnivorous dinosaur, unleashing a war between scientists, mayors and neighboring towns to keep “the biggest dinosaur in the world.” Among bone thefts, replicas and a mayor obsessed with creating Dinolandia, anything goes when it comes to surviving.
The late 1980s. A young man shoots a film on VHS confronting his landlords, who are trying to kick him out of the house they share. Soon after, in his new apartment, the young man continues the film, this time confronting his ex-girlfriend about an infidelity.
In a village in the Argentinian countryside, the inhabitants lead a life characterised by nature and routine. When a light appears to the elderly farmer Omar one night, he sets off with his grandson Noah on a journey in search of meaning.
After having walked the streets of Mellila, Malik, Mehdi, and Hassan now beat the cobblestones of Paris, discovering its lights and its chimeras, its joys and its violence...
Against a green-screen backdrop, a group of children and adults ask themselves questions about their gender. In a natural space freed from normativity, the possibilities of rewriting the scripts of their lives become infinite. Acclaimed director Manuel Abramovich and his performers invite us into a dazzling new reality of desires and possible futures.