Karla is 26, the only female heir of a long tradition of Basque farmers and the first to leave the country in search of a different life. But when her mother dies, she has to come back and decide what to do with her future and the family legacy.
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. In 1960, the UN became the stage for a political earthquake as the struggle for independence in the Congo put the world on high alert. The newly independent nation faced its first coup d'état, orchestrated by Western forces and Belgium, which were reluctant to relinquish control over their resource-rich former colony. The US tried to divert attention by sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the African continent. In 1961, Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba was brutally assassinated, silencing a key voice in the fight against colonialism; his death was facilitated by Belgian and CIA operatives. Musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach took action, denouncing imperialism and structural racism. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev intensified his criticism of the US, highlighting the racial barriers that characterized American society.
Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the pleasures and uncertainties of later-life emotional attachment and lesbian identity in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance.
It’s a central premise of the American dream: If you’re willing to work hard, you’ll be able to make a living and build a better life for your children. But what if working hard isn’t enough to get ahead — or even to ensure your family’s basic financial stability? Two American Families: 1991-2024, a special, two-hour documentary filmed over more than 30 years, is a portrait of perseverance from FRONTLINE, Bill Moyers, and filmmakers Tom Casciato and Kathleen Hughes that raises unsettling questions about the changing nature of the American economy and the impact on people struggling to make a living. This is the saga of two families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — one Black, the Stanleys, and one white, the Neumanns — who have spent the past 34 years battling to keep from sliding into poverty, and who refuse to give up despite the economic challenges that their stories reveal.
Two brothers, Lou and Miles, have one last chance to reconnect on the drive home after Miles has been released from a long-term psychiatric care facility.
A friendship between two high-school girls gets progressively more emotionally abusive and co-dependent, until one of them is forced to face the way we let other people cast us in unwanted roles.
A perished world. People have forgotten the song and the singer, but Miracle heads to the collapsed concert hall to convey the hope of life to people with her favorite song, and such Miracle is blocked by her past and partner Sink. You have to take off your gas mask to sing, but the virus is dangerous because it spreads through the air.
Mario, uses his prodigious memory and discourse against technological advances to hide from his upper-middle class friends the poverty in which he lives and which does not allow him to have the same comforts as them. Everything he does creates a drama in which he is immersed and threatens to destroy his image and the group of friends in which he grew up.
Two twin sisters live inside an abandoned soap factory. The sterile, repetitive everyday life is more and more integrated under their human skin. The memories and the expression of emotions fade but are rekindled only when exposed to light. Where they remember themselves again
Fourteen-year-old Naima longs to earn money for her poor Bangladeshi family, but her unrivaled artistic talent is of little use. When her ailing father is at risk of losing his prized bicycle rickshaw to loan sharks, she disguises herself as a boy and attempts to drive the rickshaw herself. Naima crashes the rickshaw, threatening the family's sole livelihood.
Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. That can pose a risk to your privacy – even your safety. But at the same time, big datasets could lead to huge advances in fields like medicine. Host Alok Patel leads a quest to understand what happens to all the data we’re shedding and explores the latest efforts to maximize benefits – without compromising personal privacy.
Martin Scorsese presents this very personal and insightful new feature-length documentary about British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.