Explore the spectacular cosmic phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. In April 2024, the Moon’s shadow is sweeping from Texas to Maine, as the U.S. witnesses its last total solar eclipse until 2044. This extraordinary astronomical event is plunging locations in the path of totality into darkness for more than four minutes – nearly twice as long as the last American eclipse in 2017. Learn how to watch an eclipse safely and follow scientists as they work to unlock secrets of our Sun – from why its atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface, to what causes solar storms and how we might one day predict them.
Les EnChantières, an association of women sharing building skills, set about building their own workshop in Montreuil. Initially utopian, this large-scale participatory construction site, open to all, quickly turned into a great emancipatory adventure, nourished by revolts and dreams.
‘How are women doing in Brazil?’. It is this intriguing question, posed by an Italian journalist, that Helena Solberg tries to answer through elements of her films, from the 1960s to the present day. Along the way, encounters with figures such as Heloisa Teixeira, Rita von Hunty and Helena Vieira illuminate some of the cracks in this broad debate.
The oral writer of the April 3 Uprising and a Rwandan who came to Korea to study face each other, have a conversation, and then go on a trip hand in hand. The two people, from different generations, nationalities, and occupations, have something in common: they are the daughters of massacre survivors.
In 1975 French Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Pierre Dominique Gaisseau traveled to Panama to make a film on the indigenous island-dwelling Kuna people. Accompanied by his wife and their daughter, Gaisseau lived with the Kuna for a year, gaining their trust and filming their most intimate ceremonies. He promised to share the resulting film with the community, but that never happened. Fifty years later, the Kunas are still waiting to discover “their” film, now a legend passed down from the elders to the new generation. One day, a hidden copy is found in Paris…While uncovering this fascinating story with humility and warmth, Swiss-Panamanian filmmaker Andrés Peyrot succeeds in capturing a true sense of culture and place. The result is simultaneously a cautionary tale raising questions around how and why documentaries are made and for whom, and a testament to the power of what it means to see yourself on the big screen.
Chiche is an ingenious and creative man who finds a strange rock, which he believes to be a fragment of a meteorite. Despite the little hope his family has in his projects, Chiche decides to bring it to an expert to determine its true origin.
Parisian taxi drivers Ahmed, Jean Jacques, and Madame Tang document La Base - a gigantic transit hub isolated on the outskirts of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport - reappropriated by the drivers to become a rich microcosm of community life, a refuge facing the decline of their trade and the fast-changing world.
Pennsylvania encompasses some of the most diverse habitat types in the country due to varying geography: from the ridge and valley mountains cutting diagonally across the state, to upper Piedmont, wetlands, grassland, riparian areas, and even beaches in the Northwest. The variety here is remarkable and as a result, our state is diverse with wildlife. Habitats here are significant to many wildlife species. Come along on a brief journey that touches on Pennsylvania conservation history, and the many species we are working with today. A healthy habitat is a diverse habitat, and we hope to leave a natural legacy that will endure for generations to come.
The True Story of the Barrymores is the story of 3 generations of actors who, from the birth of cinema to the advent of social networking, left their mark on the entertainment industry. It is also the story of a cursed generation and a legacy that will be saved in the early 80s by the cry of a 7-year-old girl. Her name is Drew Barrymore.
Outside of Sedona, Arizona where the desert's whispers meet the enigmatic hum of the universe, lies a place shrouded in mystery and bathed in beauty. Welcome to Bradshaw Ranch, a paranormal hotspot that has captivated researchers' imagination for decades. This oasis of awe and wonder, where the mystical dance of vortexes and inter-dimensional portals unfold, has beckoned the curious and the brave to unravel its secrets. For six exhilarating months, a team of intrepid explorers, a fusion of paranormal investigators, psychics, and open-minded scientists, delved into the heart of this enigma. Their mission? To capture on film and record on scientific instrumentation the elusive truth behind the high strangeness of Bradshaw Ranch. What they uncovered transcended the boundaries of our understanding, revealing a profound revelation: we are not alone in the universe.
A biographical film about one of the leading documentarians in the history of Kyrgyz cinema. The film tells about the creative path of Bekesh Abdyldaev.
The film portrays the president of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, marine scientist and mathematician Tarmo Soomere. In the film, Tarmo Soomere meets several top Estonian scientists. Our current time and the challenges faced by researchers are made sense of through the resulting dialogues.
For his supporters he is a “figure of light”; for his enemies he is an “agitator” and “Islam hater”. Opinions differ about Ahmad Mansour. Born in Israel to a Palestinian family, the nationally known psychologist Mansour fights against anti-Semitism and extremism in Germany. The devout Muslim warns against political Islam, does preventive work and at the same time criticizes Germany's migration policy. He seeks dialogue and yet, as a highly vulnerable person, he can no longer take a step in public without massive police protection. Journalists from "report München" were able to exclusively accompany Ahmad Mansour for months and in the documentary they show how he continues despite the constant pressure and death threats against himself and his family. Will he be able to talk to his harshest critics or will he, like so many others, give up in frustration?