The Dutch Black Hole Consortium is closely linked to plans to build a gigantic underground telescope that can measure gravitational waves, the Einstein Telescope.
Documentary about the local team Estrela Mirim, from tiny town Mateus Lemes, trying to be champions of Copa Itatiaia, the main amateur footbal tournament in Minas Gerais.
“Wherever Street Piece” is a found footage piece that describes impersonal and fragmented memories that cannot be directly linked to the life of one particular individual. Simultaneously the film documents the way these past realities – forgotten people in forgotten situations – blend together from the perspective of the present. Obviously not everything can be stored and passed on, but if we neglect the lessons of the past, are we also bound to repeat its mistakes?”
Behind the glitz and glamour of rock 'n' roll royalty is the haunting tale of Elvis Presley. Many question his moral fiber and notorious violent temper. Devilish charm dressed in angelic white had friends and fans fooled for too long.
The film Sexability by MDA Hellas follows the life of Panos, a man with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It focuses on his search for love and the connection between disability and sex. Through stories from patients, parents, experts, and a sexual assistant, it explores the topic with honesty and without taboos.
We all fear being awakened by an unexpected phone call in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, most of us will eventually get that call, during which we learn that a loved one has died. It’s devastating and unmooring. In the blink of an eye, life as you’ve known it is irrevocably and permanently changed. But you’re still here and life goes on, whether you want it to or not. How do you pick up the pieces and move forward? Is it even possible? And what, if anything, can be taken away from sudden loss? Take Away explores the realities of this dreaded universally shared occurrence through the lens of a wide variety of ages, backgrounds, and cultural experiences.
In a village in Melgaço, Adelino Fernandes, better known as Aires, spends his days working in his "tiny" workshop at home. Retired and at 87 years old, he dedicates himself to arranging the most diverse objects at the request of neighbors for whom he is very fond, and he asks them for nothing in return. A poetic portrait of a man who contributes to his community and in return life smiles back at him.
As his Y2K hysteria subsides, Kevin steps out of his DIY bunker, into the unfamiliar surface world. He is confronted with past loves, nostalgia, and curiosity if there's still a place for him in a world that's spun forward without him.
In the rarefied heights of the western Himalayas, an ancient creature that has featured in folklore and fever dreams for centuries, still prowls. The Brown Bear, or Ursus arctos isabellinus, was here before human settlements, villages, or electrified and militarized border fences arrived. Yet, today humans and the bears find themselves caught in an uneasy truce, a hostility over territory that doesn’t bode well for either species. Niazul Hassan Khan is a young wildlife scholar, a local who has known displacement from a troubled home too. He has returned to his community in Drass, Kargil to understand the Brown Bear, and broker peace between the animals and his people. As climate change hastens the glacial melt, and shortens winters, wreaking havoc on mountain communities, Niaz and his guide trek through the mountains searching for answers and a lasting possibility of survival for the land, its people, and the bear.
A young mountain lion’s treacherous odyssey through Northern California. Monitored with a tracking collar and trail cameras, P-36 travels over 1,400 miles in just 16 months, making his way through a mosaic of human-developed land and wild spaces as he searches for a territory of his own.
Marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, journalist Jordan Dunbar meets survivors of the holocaust and travels to visit the camp.
In the shadows of a Cold War Military depot, a colony of pint-sized predators faces an uncertain future as one owl biologist races to save it from extinction. As a young family of burrowing owls learns to grow up wild, will his scientific discoveries be enough to rescue this fragile population in the wake of a changing planet?